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Noel swings at 3 balls.

Riley should have hit that one at Fenway.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Will Vest.

Jace Jung sighting!

Smith out after 3 pitches. I'll take it.

I'm sure that was 6 more pitches from Vest than Hinch wanted to see that inning, but no damage.

6 to go

so long Sean, we hardly knew ye.

Beau's velo is down today - good place to pull him.

Vogt doesn't want a ball in play here.

Drats! Foiled again.

well, that worked.

Lets see if Malloy can work another BB off the righty. Wait, what, another LHP?

Jeez AJ, stop asking Parker to bunt, he can't, OK?

If an election goes to House, each state gets one vote. An individual House seat only matters if it swings the majority of the delegation of a state from one party to the other - so a house seat in a lopsided delegation like CA would not make any difference.

the SO has become a bit of an Aurora tracker. It's been active on and off most of the month but can't see much during the fuller phases of the moon (or cloudy weather of course!). Monday night there was visible aurora just west of town in Ann Arbor, but at least where we were there was no pattern, it was just sort of uniform background glow so not very exciting. I took a photo and there was decent red/green in it so no question is was aurora.

unfortunately probably mostly this.

Islam does present unique issues. If as an immigrant a Muslim continues to see themselves as Dar al-Islam in the midst of Dar al-Harb, it's going to be a problem for the US body politic just as Christian nationalism has become.

There has always been a theory that Trump's popularity actually falls when people see him more, so maybe it's in his interest to hide from the places where he's going to get his votes. 🤷‍♀️

So one of the factors in play is that eye dominance and handedness do not match one to one. Fewer lefties are left eye dominant than righties are right eye dominant, so indeed your lefties and righties don't necessarily see pitches the same way. On top of that many - maybe most MLB LHH are not left side dominant, they are right handers who learned to hit left handed, so within the group of LH hitters you have two different sub classes. There has also always been conventional wisdom that LH hitters and RH hitters hit better on pitches in different areas of the K zone. With heat maps available today it seems that could be verified or debunked either way if anyone cared to. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15513112/#:~:text=Abstract,handers being left eye dominant.

I would suggest that immigrants from the old world fall into two categories once they come to the US. Ones that continue to be captured by their old lives and history, and those that want nothing more than to leave what they left behind behind. When a reporter goes to do a story like this it is guaranteed he is only going to see people from the 1st group, but politically an important question is what percentage of a given immigrant population is in either group. In the Arab Muslim community it would be interesting to look at what proportion actually attend at the local mosques vs the total population.

the question will be how big a cut from the current rights value Diamond wants vs what Ilitch will accept. With the team on an upswing the Tigers may not be in a mood to rebate much.

so if the court approves Diamond's move to void the Tiger's deal then the Tigers either: a)work a new deal with what's left of Diamond at a lower payout for the Tigers, b) send the rights back to MLB like the teams whose deals were up - if Diamond's offer is worth less than than MLBs, c) go independent if they think they can do better themselves. The complication for Detroit is that both the the Tigers and the Wings (and FTM the Pistons) need homes. If there are advantages to Ilitch to having both teams on the same carrier, that argues against the Tigers going back to MLB.

I've seen estimates that the Clinton increases were about 80B/yr. We can't actually compare the relative scale to Bush's rate increases because the economy went into recession and revenues actually fell at first. Today totally federal taxes as a % of GDP are lower today than under Clinton. They reached ~19% under Clinton, we are sitting somewhere around 16% today. Since the economy boomed under Clinton, you can't very well argue increasing the total take back to closer to 19% would tank the economy, and 3% of GDP today raises an additional raises $750B, so you'd cut the annual deficit growth about in half. Not sure how fast the Biden infrastructure spending will start rolling off the books, but that should reduce another big chunk a few years out. It's not the economics that are broken, just the politics. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

you may get the VR view - I'm willing to bet it will still come with commercials!