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Not exactly a bunt to break up a no-hitter.😱

JB looks looks like he's comfortable doing more mixing and matching instead of playing fixed rotations, which is as it should be since every team you play presents different match-up issues.

Blower

Wha? Ryan Helsley? Have I got the wrong guy? 31 yrs old, has never started, sort of fell apart as reliever after trade to the Mets last season. In what universe is that a potential starter?

The SO and I went round all the options on the boat. For a boat big enough to live on, she didn't want to risk having to handle a sail boat if I went over, I'm not sure I could alone either. OTOH, 35' foot (or more) twin screw power boat is going to burn a little less than 20gal/hr of gas, less if it's diesel - but owning diesels is a whole added level of frustrations. It becomes one of those things where you'd like be there, but you don't necessarily want to live there. 🙄

I love Superior. I half-wish I had spent the money a few years ago and bought a boat up there when the SO and I were still in condition to manage one. Not that we aren't healthy enough (knock knock) but I don't have the energy/ambition anymore for the amount of work maintaining a boat big enough for Superior is. At the time I enjoyed my work and didn't really want to quit. And TBH, I could never quite wrap my head around spending a grand to fill the gas tank! C'est la vie 🤷‍♂️

here are all Goldberg's quotes pulled from Petzold's column in the Freep:

they won't come close to 60 seats, but it would be nice if they at least retake the majority.

It is a little interesting that they had Goldberg throw the cold water on him last week rather than it being Harris. Easier walk back if it wasn't the boss? 😉

When Foley was good he threw harder, which gives a pitcher a little more leeway to make mistakes and get a away with it.

too bad Greenberg was firehosing cold water on the idea McGonigle would be anywhere but Toledo come April.

Hey, wrt Green, if Trump thinks that blowing up his own allies for the sake of confusing his opponents is a winning strategy, I'm going to guess his opponents will be glad to take the wins. The Mamdami it is more interesting to me. Did Mamdami just charm him into it or was Trump feeling he needed to tack back a little after getting some blowback on the 'Hang them' rhetoric?

what cracks me up is that if you read the whole letter, her clearly identified bette noir is the 'political-industrial' complex, but it never seems to dawn on her that if that's the case, the *only* answer is getting corporate money out of politics, but that concept isn't even a glimmer in her consciousness. Even when they claim to be trying to wake up, they are deeply asleep. The 'real' is still too many layers away from anything they can reach.

it's sort of funny how much 65-75 looks like 2000-2009 -- same bactrian camel over almost the same time span.

first part of that could have been right out of an AOC mailing. Tells you something.

Beck posted a correction - Foley DFA'd is correct. In any case, that's too bad. Would have liked to see him make it back.

well, I'm confused. We will need Ed to sort this out because from anything I've read, you can't tender a player you have DFA'd, so maybe one or the other of the reports are wrong.

If you are 40 you can probably always hold and wait out wait the downturns, and in recent decades the downturns have been sharp but short, so holding on through those wasn't terrible either, but if we were to get into a period of sustained upward creep in inflation, an older investor might not out live the kind of long downturn we had in the late 60's-70's when for years inflation creep just keep hammering down stocks. So there is never a one-size fits all answer. If there is one piece of wisdom, it's that the herd tends to be driven by the (relatively) young who haven't lived through any history and there is always a (too) wide belief in the broad market that everything always was and always will be the way it has been for less than the last ten years. 🤔

classic short arc career. Didn't make it until 28, If he manages to catch on for another year of platoon duty he could get to 500 games playes and be done at 33. That's not a bad career for guy that broke in that late.

well, they will be if they don't end up 2-4 in those matchups.... more seriously, that was the question of some posts upthread: Is it the schools that matter or the quality of play, or is it more complex than that? Schools build an audience based on a consistently high level of play - the momentum from that can probably sustain them throough multiple poor years before their audience base would fall away, but the flip side of that is nobody cares about Indiana. If they win the conference enough times we assume that changes? But how long does that shift take? Michigan, USC and OSU have decades behind them.

It's going to be a fine line for Mac to walk. Talbot has been playing well but at 38 you just can't go to that well too often or he will either end up hurt or even just out of gas long before the end of the season.

If it's 'just' a process fracture, the recovery prognosis from that is about as good as anything could be. IF

that's not too bad at first glance. You have to look close to see the right hand has fingernails and the left hand doesn't. The lighting on Usha is also to the left of the lighting on Davidson.

that game is a bit rigged. If you sell out of equities and go into bonds you will do better than 1%. Nobody has to leave their stock sales proceeds sitting at 1% yield. That said, I wouldn't advise anyone to try and out-anticipate the market as a short term investment strategy, but that's not quite the same thing as deciding that longer term you are overall over (or under) exposed to stocks at a point in history.

I was thinking about this one a little. From on stand point, the huge depreciation hit a car takes the minute it's driven off a lot seems silly. A thousand miles on a vehicle built to go 150K+ isn't mechanically significant, but that's not what the discount is about - the discount is about uncertainty. You don't know what has happened to a car used as loaner, how it was driven, if the kid threw up in the back seat or a dog crapped in the back or someone spilled coffee with cream under the front seat, or some other hidden interior damage that you'll end up smelling on hot days forever unless you have a detailer take the interior apart, or some nut just over rev'd it or internally parted a tire belt in a couple of panic stops. It's the certainly that you aren't dealing with any of that crap that is why you should demand, and get, a steep discount on any loaner or demo that's been off the lot.