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Trump says he's 'signing an order' to move funds to pay TSA. I guess this counts as a TACO as TSA is going to get paid which relieves the pressure but the Dems haven't given him anything on the DHS budget. Of course it isn't clear he will have any legal authority for how he gets the money there, but I doubt anyone is going to challenge it.

Broadcast disclaimer by Bob Costas.

PTBDNS!

Holton not finishing his pitches

If he hasn't been sent down by June 1 it's already a massive success.

yeah - punished for making the attempt. if Javy just eats it and makes no throw it's a hit all the way.

This telecast is so much better than Sinclair. Higher res, way less crap on the screen. Better camera work. They should have make the move away from Sinclair the last time.

if he doesn't challenge that one he gets another one even further away.

Beckman, ugh.

however while I can watch the stream, it will not record it. Odd.

yup, anything which uses superconductor magnets needs helium. For the heat transfer applications, the only other gas that gives you the heat transfer coefficients Helium does is Hydrogen, but of course the fire hazard of H2 would complicate things immensely. You just can't plug it into a system set-up for Helium without likely blowing yourself up - not to mention it may react with the substrates and ruin them. But we've just been told the US 'doesn't need' the Strait of Hormuz. Market searching for a bottom today and not finding one so far....

Wait until US manufacturing comes to a halt because we can't get microchips because Helium for chip production from Qatar is stranded there. That should actually hit before the fertilizer shortage, which will be even worse. But the real tell in that statement is that somebody finally got through to him with the fact we cannot open it. We will simply fail if we try to open it by force. So just like a 3 year old told he can't have the toy --- "Don't want bad toy anyway!"

Yup, start here and see how it plays out.

a new channel has just appeared on my DirectTV - 663 - DSN

It looks like the next big ripple effect from the Iran war (other than oil prices) after fertilizer production is going to the semi-conductor production. What does the ME have to do with semiconductor production you ask? You need helium to run high tech fabrication processes. A third of the world's Helium comes from Qatari natural gas fields and those fields are effectively shut down. https://apnews.com/article/iran-chips-semiconductor-helium-exports-war-fe934332f7c83bb722ca87db22cd57d0

The long ball only gets you so far.....

the other aspect would he to have the cap space to make a big move when one was available, which in general they haven't had as they've burned their cap on guys who weren't going to get them over the line anyway.

I guess. Looks like the guy she left for George Clooney.

Has Yzerman forced any significant staff turnover since he's been here? I get the feeling he is too comfortable with with the staff status quo.

His best full season OPS+ has been 106. He should make them better agains LHP but 'impact' might be an optimistic take.

I was an early skeptic of Zach at short when they 1st played him there in '23, but since what I'd call a rocky start, by the numbers he has graded out well there in '24 and '25 and he has the strongest arm on the team. So I'm a little more on his SS bandwagon than I used to be. Where there is a big a difference is in taking throws on steal attempts and other kinds of tag plays - Baez is just a class by himself there, but no-one else is likely to come close to Javy there, it's just a unicorn skill he has. McKinstry certainly doesn't and I doubt McGonigle will either.

Since Yzerman has been GM, I would say the only impact players has brought in outside the draft (i.e. trades and FA) have been DeBrincat and Gibson, and maybe now Faulk. Not going to give him much credit for Kane because it didn't look like there was much competition to land him at the time. In 7/8 years that's not much. Maybe count Chairot if you want to be generous.

The question remaining in my mind is whether they have the pitching depth to survive Verlander, Mize and Flaherty all failing to perform, an outcome that I think still has too high a probability to be happy.

If he gets off to a start like he did last season they'll make a path! That's the thing, you just don't know about this stuff until it happens. I don't think he'll do what he did last season, but I can't say I know he won't. In the end, that's really the whole point of having all these multiple position capabilities, it's to be able to put the bats that are hitting into the lineup and still cover all the positions. Or conversely, it means you don't need to stay with a guy who is not hitting because you don't have another player at his position.

Javy sat against a fair number of RHP last season so that's more or less a given, it's just a matter of how much.