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Nice bat, but it's been years since he's spent any significant time anywhere but 2b. Last time he played CF was 5 yrs ago and his DRS was terrible over ~70 games. Hasn't played SS in something like 8 yrs, I think it would take a leap of faith to pencil him in anywhere but 2b/DH.

It's a scam, but a very successful one. There were only ever two justifications for crypto - to hide transactions from legal oversight, and to create a currency 'free' from central bank 'manipulation. Turns out crypto fails on both counts. Forensic accountants have demonstrated that with a little effort, bit-coin transactions can be traced and reconstructed, the 2nd concept was nonsense to begin with. The only value of a fiat currency in the first place (and the reason they have replaced "hard" money like gold) is that some central bank does 'manipulate' it to try and hold its value constant so it can be useful as an exchange medium over reasonable time scale (and not inflate or deflate the economy just because someone opened or closed a mine somewhere.) You can argue central banks don't always do a good job of it, or do it wrong, but the value of a dollar holds well enough for markets to function - this was never going to be true of a cryptocurrency exactly because there is no 'manipulation' for keeping it's value constant - thus it is totally useless as a pricing/exchange medium. As you note - at every moment in time the value of a bit-coin *in dollars* has to be found in order for any transaction to be possible. OTOH, as a 'greater fool' investment scam, it's outperformed anyone's wildest dreams.

Correct. When there is a clear choice Hinch has no issue giving one guy all the save opportunities e.g. Soto in '22. Nobody reached that success level in '25. Lange and Foley probably would have gotten the role just as exclusively in 23/24 if they hadn't continued to be inconsistent.

On a related note, in places where mailin voting is taking hold, things are going to get even harder to predict as mail in ballot procedures upset traditional turnout patterns. In Ann Arbor, the vast majority of voters got themselves on the permanent absentee list, and as a result, they now vote in virtually every election, regardless of whether what's on the ballot are things that used draw turn-out or not. It used to be SOP for the pols to put low interest items on the ballot in odd year elections where turnouts would be 10% or much less. There was a tiny milleage millage alone on this Novembers ballot and more than 60K votes were cast on it, many times what would have been expected in the pre-absentee days. One Ann Arbor Council member lamented that the days of 'slipping things past the voters' were over.

what kind of pick would he cost?

No doubt, Underwood has not learned anything about touch. It makes you wonder if he actually has any feel for the game. I remember years ago the Lions had a QB named Bill Munson - he was a contemporary of Greg Landry, Same thing, threw everything like a Nolan Ryan heater - even pro receivers couldn't handle it.

well, Google tells that the estimate for undocumenteds is: CA 2.3M TX 2.1M FLA 1.6M NY 0.825 IL 0.55M So calculator says that's 3,67 for Blue states and 3.7 for Red states. Pretty much a wash. I suppose if the theory is that the losers are all big states then the winners would be disproportionally small states and maybe they run more red, but if you have to reach down to 2nd tier effects the whole effort is probably a waste of everyone's time - particularly the courts -- who have already ruled on this haven't they? This is a Chuck Edwards bill, and he introduced the same bill in 2024 also.

but they are really after CA.

And we will never know how much Trump pocketed on the exchange. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

like all guys over 30, you are just waiting for the bat to drop off a cliff, but since it's almost impossible to guess whether that will be this season or few more seasons into the future, hope for best and have a fall back plan for the worst.

The masters of corporate media are so paranoid that when Maga is finally deposed their taxes are going to go up that they are going to accept any kind of compromise of sanity to put that day off. And of course, fools that they are, they don't realize that the harder they keep pushing back the more drastic the reaction against them will be when it comes. They should study the 1st French revolution.

Whenever I hear that tune now it makes me think of Al Avila. 🤷‍♂️

This and that blacks were the descendents of Noah's cursed son Canaan - Gen 9:25 fit the Slaver's narrative so well there could only be one way to read it couldn't there? So they created the condition that matched their reading then used the reading to justify the condition. Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” 🚫

LOL - When they tell you who they are, you can believe them the 1st time.

LOL - one more point in the 3rd and they would have played 4 exactly 25 point quarters on the nose.

I has a sad. Turning out not to be the Lions year on the unjury front again.

I think I would put it a little differently - it's not a matter of being 'worried about Colt' for Colt's sake, I think it's more a matter of how the team sees how much marginal value there is to spending money on a position, and that depends directly on how good they project themselves to be at the position. So I think a good GM is and should always be looking at not just what do I get for my dollars signing guy 'X' (which is the piece the fans focus mostly on - will his production be worth the dollars on an absolute scale) but how much more do I get than I already had. So there are two sides that evaluation of any FA decision. The fastest way to get better is addressing the weakest part of your team. Do they think 3B with Keith is going to be weaker than SS with Javy or CF with Meadows/Vierling? They brought Torres in because they thought the biggest hole was going to be a 2B. Tork crossed them up on that plan but I don't think their approach will have changed for that.

IIRC He never got below 40-42% in he first term, so something real may be happening. Of course a large number of old voters from his 1st term are now deceased.

Without knowing what a school has been willing to spend on NIL I wouldn't even try to rate a coach over that last few seasons, because coaching hardly matters when there are schools out there buying all the best players. Sure some guys can turn more three stars into 4 stars than others, but that only gets you so far in the era of 8 figure NIL deals and the revolving door portal. Wisconsin is an old line school in a pretty conservative state, I wouldn't be surprised if like UM (prior to Corum and Underwood), they were trying to refuse to play the game as much as they could hoping the worst would blow over, and now that the worst is actually going to be the status quo, the fact that they are publicly announcing an increase in recruiting spending - as disgusting as it is to read that about any university - sort of makes the case.

😇 Think about how big a jerk Steinbrenner had to have been to not be able to get along with Yogi.

Mace is one the people trying to get a discharge petition out to ban congressional stock ownership. I don't know where that puts her with Trump but it's put her in Dutch with the leadership grifters on both sides of the aisle.

What always makes be laugh about creationists is that however creation came into being, if someone who was there and understood it had actually tried to explain it to a bunch of bronze age nomads, in the end they probably couldn't have done all that much better than Genesis. I mean, have these people ever given serious consideration to what would have happened if Moses had come down from Sinai with Quantum Theory and General Relativity on the tablets? It's just a complete lack of understanding of both the context and purpose of a creation narrative.

sick puppies.

in a gallery of Trump's terrible people she manages to stand out as one of the terriblest - or maybe make that terroriblest

Yeah - I don't where the lower limit is for what a team will carry. Seems that if you get much below maybe ~500 OPS it's not going to matter what you can catch - but for sure Meadows will get as much leeway as anyone would. At one point last season I scanned through a bunch of Meadow's hitting data and convinced myself he wasn't a hopeless case if they could just work on his stance so he could cover the low pitch better. Probably easier said than done for a guy that tall - but there have been a lot of good tall hitters (Judge!) so it's not impossible.