gehringer_2

There is an obvious symmetry staring us in the face that we Americans simply refuse to acknowledge, which is that in the 17th and 18th centuries we solved the problem of supplying labor to industries that did not want to pay fair wages by simply enslaving people, which from an economic standpoint is only a step or two different from exactly what we are doing today - bringing people into the economy without legal rights so they can be paid less than citizen rate wages. Illegal immigration is providing the same economic benefit to the economy that slavery did and for the same reasons. We now give the person individual freedom which is certain the first step in the right direction, but maintain a depressing similar system of economic exploitation. How is "But food will cost more!" any better moral justification for living better at the expense of someone else's human rights than it was in 1860?

QFT. The situation in American immigration has been created by American Business interests, just as the dissension over immigration in Germany was created by business interests there. We could have an orderly immigration and naturalization system but for the greed of American Business that doesn't want to pay the wages that people with rights would command. This truth cannot be shouted enough times from enough rooftops. It is, was, and continues to be a foundational lie of GOP politics.

you could hope for a turn as a giant tortoise. Spend your whole long life taking your time....

I think temper tantrum is exactly the paradigm for analyzing Trump in general.

Notice the friend suspects this was triggered by unemployment desperation - which is a symtom of a society with insufficient social support structures. Despite the prevalent American myth, the human organism is not constructed to thrive in a dog-eat-dog society. We evolved as a cooperative species, and when a society forgets that, or tries to, as ours has, you can expect the mental health of its members to suffer for it.

Zadina used to have the occasional game where he was active enough that you knew he was one the ice. Just not many.

So if it's only that nobody actually learns how to play the game before they get there because of one-and-done, then you'd still expect to see good players emerge from later in the draft but a few year's experience. Or is it just impossible to improve enough as player once in the league?

can't see anything happen there.

This one for me also. Who loses a play-off game in which they don't even give up a TD?

It just seems bizarre to me that 300+ Div1 college basketball program don't produce 30 NBA quality players in a year.

this one maybe?

Estimates between 5K and 7K for the rally in A^2. Police had closed a bunch of streets downtown.

maybe I missed it but one thing I didn't see in the WaPo story was a crowd size estimate...... TBF, the coverage on DC parade was below the coverage of the protests and both were below the ME news.

LOL - I knew there are a lot of statics around, but keeping obsolete tanks in condition to run down the street on the Mall takes a second level of obsession (or some Russians - 🤣). Am I correct that Shermans were usually gasoline fueled? - That's at least less expensive engine up-keep than keeping old diesels running.

who the heck keeps a piece of WW2 ordinance running? Is there some group out there that reconditions old tanks like the Yankee Airforce had once refurbed a B17?

It does appears to be WWII vintage - some variant of a Sherman maybe

My wife says no-one ever heard any the lyrics to R&R songs. Maybe she's right. I remember GM once ran a series of commercials, for Cadillac I think, over the Who's "Eminence Front" they cut it off before the got to the lyric, the chorus of which is "It's a put on", which is of course the perfect sentiment for any advertising! But yeah - total oblivion sometimes.

I've been watching baseball all my life, and if there is one consistent myth about pitching, it's that you can take a guy who runs out of gas in 5 innings and leave him out there to be hammered in the 6th and somehow if you do that repeatedly he will magically develop 'endurance'. Your endurance doesn't come from pitching, it come from all the conditioning done the rest of the time, the act of pitching at the MLB level is demonstrably destructive to the health of the human body, not productive. If the player's overall program isn't cutting it, repeatedly pitching him to exhaustion once a week isn't going to help, despite the habit that every manager in the the majors seems to fall into. If you have 5 inning pitcher, you have a 5 inning pitcher. You aren't going to do anything about it mid-season.

A Chicken-Hawk no doubt.

something going on between AJ and Flaherty? This is not your father's game management. When a guy has lost 4 mph off his FB and the radar is on the scoreboard, just what are you looking for to know he's gassed?

Jack seems to be the one pitcher that AJ is always just a little too reluctant to pull when he should.

If Elly was 150ft away, the difference between that 98mph throw and the 'normal' 80mph throw is about 250msec. That about 8 ft for the runner. Plus he put it dead on line. Elly is a beast but how often can he reproduce that throw. I say it was a maybe but not a not a terrible send.

they'll need a whole lot of eyeballs if they are going to afford Skubal.

It's pretty hard to design any complex system with total redundancy and at some point the law of decreasing returns will set in and the complexity will start driving reliability the other way. I'm not sure the 'single point of failure' paradigm is quite exactly applicable to software code itself as it is to mechanical systems. Code can have bugs, but once verified code can't fail or fatigue of suffer post manufacture defect etc., per se. You may utilitize redundancy in the machines running the code (Space shuttle was the a classic, 5 computers, took a 'vote' of 3 to proceed with an instruction). I suppose you could take the Space shuttle paradigm and actually be running 5 different code bases! Machine control programming is an art of its own. As the number of input variables go up the number of possible corner cases explodes exponentially and in the real world, you can get highly non-linear and sometimes even inverse responses to your control outputs, and it all has to work in real time because lag introduces instabilities of its own. I've done some very simple microcomputer control programming and all I can say is I wouldn't want to put my life in the hands of any of my code!

it would be nice if those were only old numbers, but he did pretty well against us last season too - 604 OPS against. He probably likes the ball park - what pitcher wouldn't, and I've always wondered if he doesn't bring a little extra against the Tigers just because they picked first and took Mize, and even though Brady's stock had clearly fallen from the year before when he was widely projected to go 1/1 in his class, it was the Tigers' pick that made it official he wouldn't.