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This kind of value destruction is so typical of American business and I'm persuaded it is at least as big a factor in the loss of US industrial competitiveness as wages. We've established an M&A regime which feeds the robber baron class and destroys everything else in it's path, and it's all so arcane that it completely escapes awareness in the political process or voter understanding. And comically enough, you've just explained why - in it's fifth or 6th resale - I've lost track of how many times it's been re-placed since its origination - Flagstar had been servicing our mortgage and it ended up someplace called ValuePoint I've never heard of. At this point it's a stupid small amount but at 3.75% I'm not paying it off any earlier than I have to! Hope you find a better gig. I've been in the position of working for a dying company, it's definitely a drag.

Politico reporting that Trump has told people Musk will be 'stepping back' wrt his DOGE activity. Hard to know if this is any more than PR engineered to reverse the slide in Tesla stock this morning after the news of their sales decline. It worked in that regard - for now. https://www.politico.com/

right! I'd bet MSU can't pay him $950K - but doesn't he only sniff that $950K if he makes it to Detroit?

They'd already put Clark on the cover of their web page - it would have been a blow to have him skip completely. But hopefully both he and McGonigle have short stays.

It's going to make his opponents fear him a little, which is a good thing maybe. There is nothing the dissolute fear more than the person who exhibits the level of internal discipline that Booker has demonstrated.

Tesla's absolute sales rate is falling in an expanding market.

MSU sells out their hockey games, sold 111K tickets this season, so they can probably afford to pay a star player at least as much as some AHL guys make. But I don't know anything about what Augustine's existing deal with the Wings might be.

Rivera's talent was his awesome command. He never, ever, threw the ball anywhere but the 4 corners and he generally never threw it to the same corner twice in a row. When you look at his heat maps you can see the big hole in the middle! But the issue with Kahnle is exactly going to be how much you can use him in one series because hitters will figure out anything without enough variation given enough reps.

I guess the cut in the payout from Bally to FanDuel was still less than going with MLB. In an ironic way we end up being punished for being better (more advertising value) fans.

Tesla missed even pessimistic sales forecasts for Q1 by 30K. Their lowest sales rate since Q2 2022.

photoshop would have been sufficient, but it's a great composition concept.

If the WI result means a redistricting plan that nets a couple more seats, I'll take that as progress enough for one special election night. One thing the GOP has been a lot better at is patience for the long slow slog.

Yup. When I've been surveyed by MLB in the past it was via an email with a link - you couldn't volunteer to take it. But I just realized we didn't make it to any games last season so maybe I'm off the list. We did catch a couple games in ST last month but maybe that doesn't count.

Those are just the screening questions to determine if they should circular file the rest of your responses.....

Get the win tomorrow with Skubal and 500 for a West coast road trip is still a win.

And McKinstry made one of the better defensive plays of the game.

Combined 1 hitter. After the BP breakdowns against the Dodgers it never felt in the bag though.

Sorry, I didn't hear that, could your repeat yourself?

always amused when a guy with strong accurate IF arm make a terrible OF throw.

Throwing strikes is a problem for our relief corps so far this season.

yeah - I don't have a lot of confidence this is ending 3-0

My guess is Maroth made himself a political exile.

More winning https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-manufacturing-slips-into-contraction-as-costs-surge-pressured-by-trump-tariffs-144436638.html

Well, Plato's Republic was probably required reading for any educated man of their day.

Cautiously optimistic about that.