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LOL - AP report said the aircraft "sustained significant damage." I guess that's one way to describe 'totally destroyed'

LOL - I remember when Verlander has having his abdominal issues it was the early day of Brook's Baseball pitch tracking and his 'change-up' numbers would be way up during the game because the system didn't believe 90mph was JV's fastball - though it was! They'd often correct the reports a day or two later.

this is true

IIRC - (and I'm pretty sure this was Bonderman and not one of the other pitchers that had thoracic outlet surgery) but was not very widely reported that there was some nerve damage done during the outlet surgery, so he had numbness in his fingers afterward, and that makes it very hard to command any 'feel' type pitches. Since damaged long nerves grow back very slowly, something like about 6" per year, the best case was it was going to be 2-3yrs before he would even know if he was going to get back full feeling in his fingers.

This will end up in court of course. The exec has broad powers over immigration policy but selective enforcement based on exercise of free speech under the 1st amendment still might not pass even this SCOTUS.

The thing with Trump is that at his core, he craves approval. He basks in MAGA approval but anytime he does something that evokes a big enough backlash in the general population (beyond what he can chalk up to just the woke libs) he backs off.

He was a fireballer a few years ago, not so much now.

yeah - that's the short form version! 🎱

they're too busy watching the game data on their phones or texting to get rowdy.

I think that just because the Mets haven't settled at 1b and they are always willing to spend stupid to get what they want. I don't know that there has been anything on our side though.

You have to be a little bit fair though. Clinton would never have been elected if he had campaigned on the above. Reagan's policies were wildly popular because the long term effects hadn't shown up yet, so the Dems either had to get on the bus or continue to lose elections. The only reason GHWB lost is that by acceding to tax increases he was considered less Reaganite on the economy that where Clinton was able to triangulate himself. BTW 'Triangulation' was exactly the buzzword of Clinton's "New Democrats". Sometime society is just at fault for getting what it wants. I suppose you can always come back to society making bad decisions because of a flawed media system or a lousy education system, but those aren't problems a candidate can solve in the election cycle in front of him, he has to play it as it lays. I think the bigger problem is that at the time, not many people understood that there is an economic hierarchy in employment and you have to have wealth generating productive capacity to generate the income for productive workers to spend to support service workers (and 'knowledge' workers are in the final analysis, service workers). I think the lawyers and executives all figured they were 'service' workers and they were well paid, why can't everyone be a service worker and be well paid. But it doesn't work that way because law and executive positions limit free entry - they aren't really in an open market the way other workers are. It's taken basically until Biden for any American president to admit that globalism and 'competitive advantage' are a bill of goods and he's done a poor job of explaining it. If you want broad based high wage employment, you have to have businesses that generate primary wealth, that is that make something tangible out of nothing, for instance cars out of iron ore, sand, copper, or microchips out of sand and other chemicals, or batteries out of crude oil (plastic) and lithium, etc., etc. It means industrial production. That tangible wealth (real stuff) creation is where the income comes from to create a middle class. I don't think most of them in DC understand it even now. The other thing they didn't understand that that technology is the easiest commodity to export. You can't assume your IT tech workers are protected from overseas competition. Any country can educate and many of them have.

The thing about political reversals is that they are always perfectly obvious - in hindsight. The GOP thought that the NewDeal era was ripe for reversal from about 1952 onwards but it didn't happen until 1980. Before that the pressure for economic reform had been building from the 1890s and some got done under TR but it wasn't until the Great crash that FDR had a strong enough coalition to reverse the status quo and pass the New Deal.

Rangers decide to create their own RSN in wake of Bally bankruptcy. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43589961/rangers-make-network-produce-distribute-game-broadcasts

I'm waiting to see how much rope McLellan is going to give Tarasenko. He's played him on the 1st PP unit and otherwise giving him every chance to get it in gear but I'm still not seeing much. Still looks like he's trying to play no-touch hockey most of the time.

If he was paying no attention, he would have hit the back of the line of cars stopped at the gate. He went around them, so either he looked up and swerved around them at the last minute without realizing those cars were stopped for a train, or he just tried to beat the train.

Back in the day when guys made a lot of money but not such stupid money, Det and maybe Cle had some advantage because of the greater water side recreational potential - if you think of a guy like Gibson - he really loved it here even after having been in LA. But for a higher level FA today, the money is going to be so stupid large that they can charter a lear jet anytime they feel like a fishing trip.

this is another example of the pennywise poundfoolish result you get when your outlook is punitive instead of constructive. Tim Walz would be happy to explain to these wahoos that school lunch is a place where it is simply cheaper to feed everyone than spend the money on a means testing bureaucracy.

Well, regardless of whether the org has been too slow or have been absolute geniuses bringing these guys along, it sure broke well for McLellan to get this infusion of young talent.

The West side (meaning say Schafer west to the city limits) of Detroit collapsed pretty completely due to white flight triggered by fears about busing and block busting practices beginning roughly in 1970 and accelerating throughout that decade. But even before that, the lower west side was already considered a 'rougher' part of town and we knew any number of families trying to figure out how to avoid sending their kids to Cody HS

I think it's true enough that for *some* players salary is just as competitive to them as the games are - so sure, they are out to get every dollar to prove how good they are, but I don't think every player is like that by any means. Some will give up dollars to play on a better team, some will give up dollars for term, some will give up dollars over family issues, and absolutely, there are some guys who do or don't want to play in particular places - but the bottom line is I don't think you can generalize about any of it.

yup - they are about to learn that nothing is that simple, and that there are people at the end of all these line items that they have persuaded themselves just disappear into the ether.

going for the big ring.

Really - what's a bit of pond scum when the whole system is one big swamp!

His swing rates both in and out of the zone were pretty much career highs for him last season. Increased swing rate out of zone could be loss of pitch recognition, increase swing rate in the zone just sounds like taking a more aggressive approach. So why? If he's trying to hit more HRs, you'd think he'd be more selective looking for pitches to drive. I would hope that if a team is putting over $100M on the table they have looked at the film and statcast data of every AB for his last couple of years trying to answer those exact questions. This is the other half of what all the analytics capability is supposed to work for. And then, even if you think you know what he isn't or isn't doing differently, you have to project what that may mean in terms of his future value and what you are willing pay for it. There are some places in the game that I think the value of analytics may be oversold a bit, but not this one. Saving a $100M mistake is worth a lot of analyst salaries!

On a directly related note - Monarezz with a column in the Det lamenting that Lalonde hadn't been let go sooner. I have no doubt that McLellan has been a big boost, but so has been getting those younger, faster, players brought up. And how much of that was McLellan's doing is a good question as well.