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then again, we see why he didn't want to go to the bullpen....

he's got a good fastball but no confidence yet to through it up and in, which is where he could have gotten Machado since he had him leaning out over the plate. He almost made the pitch he needed with the change-up in but missed.

you could see he was already struggling in the 4th. AJ got just a little bit greedy there.

trying to get Montero through this inning will have been a mistake.

That's exactly the kind lapse that led the Dems to force Biden out. He was 100% running against Biden in his mind there.

I think if it comes from a 30 ish with "'sup" it's probably just hello. It was already getting common with my kids' cohort. "Boss" does definitely depend on what comes with it and tone always matters, but I would say with "'sup" I'd just take it as generational patois.

For a society that is so sports crazy how can so many people, including so many players, have no understanding about how it works. It's very simple to explain: you root for YOUR team you root against the OTHER team No athlete - including Stafford, would appreciate playing in a city where the fans rooted for the players on the other team.

exactly. It's the fallacy of initiative. A responder will never stop anything from happening, only get there after it's started happening, maybe end it after damage is already done.

Water vapor is less dense than air, the density of air goes down as it gets more humid (and of course as it get warmer) and so the aerodynamic resistance also goes down. Humid air "feels heavy" but that's just a perceptual misdirection. However the larger effect is probably on the ball, and a damper ball is heavier and generally less elastic - so in desert climates the balls are now all stored in a humidor to keep them from drying out and getting too lively. If you assume the humidor is keeping the balls uniform (probably a lousy assumption!) then you can say more humidity in the air at the park helps the ball travel.

waiting for the Elon tweet that DOJ is suppressing free speech.

If you want a slightly more straightforward version than bits and pieces of tweets: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands

This one is bizarre. Chicago 7 news reports the perp has been arrested before for carrying on the trains but charges were always dropped because he had a permit and even worked as a security guard - but things are still a little murky because he has changed his name and they haven't confirmed everything they found applies to the right guy....

Yzerman has stated often that his objective when possible is to sign younger players that can stay around a while . Of course he's already made exceptions with Petry and Kane,

Tucker is a man who had big ambitions who realizes that the cynical choices he has made to get ahead have already foreclosed any possibility that his future can be brighter than his past. What he has left is resentment against a world that has wronged him and the resulting sociopathy. A perfectly formed pilot fish for swimming in the wake of a Donald Trump.

We saw protests like this before the last Israeli election but Netanyahu still emerged in control of the government when all was said and done. It's a lot like the US. There a lot of people in Israel willing to vote for bad people.

Thomas Edsall's NYT column today was feedback from a lot of political observers all to the effect that no-one's mind is changing and that the election will be won on turnout. Per his reporting, Harris' poll increases have all been recovery of 2020 Biden voters or in groups already disposed to the Dems side. So to the degree that that is true, anything that drives disillusionment or cynicism on the red side is good for the blue even in the absence of anyone changing sides.

Reuters reporting that the White House will block the Nippon Steel purchase of USSteel. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/biden-preparing-block-nippons-us-steel-takeover-washington-post-reports-2024-09-04/

Investors getting wary of anyone selling chips...

I don't think they will vote blue but this could de-motivate a lot them from voting.

That's an Achilles heel for all EVs. Fuel economy goes to pot when you tow with an IC vehicle as well, but 35gal gas tanks for your pick-up come cheap and the difference in refueling time is a pretty trivial. I think we are still a generation of battery tech away from practical EVs for consumer towing.

Loonspudery. Hilter wanted to fight, he just want to pick his targets at his own convenience. So he certainly did not want to fight England, and certainly not the US, at least until all those sub-human Slavs to the east could be subjected and eradicated as needed to make room for German lebensraum. So you can certainly look at the record in from '36 to '39 and see Hilter trying to avoid war with England and the US. For the Nazis war with England was a future project to be undertaken by a stronger expanded Germany when it was ready. If Hitler could have keep England out of the war until Germany was ready to turn it's full attention on it, he might have been able to secure the British Isles sufficiently to deny easy US re-enforcement. Churchill knew England could not wait around for that to happen.

Yeah - I don't even know if the anti-abortion voter cares what Trump thinks personally, they already knew that abortion wasn't his issue. What they do know is that he is captive to their side on court appointments. They know he will roll over for them both on appointments and any anti-abortion legislation sent to him by a GOP Congress so I don't see him losing their votes. OTOH, you are correct, he isn't persuading and pro-choice voter he can be trusted on the issue for all the same reasons plus Dodd. Where he hurts himself doing stuff like this is with uncommitted voters with low motivations on abortion either way. It just shows him to be playing politics, being calculating and convictionless - all things that make a negative impression on voters.

There are two issues with EVs in the winter. The first is the battery itself - low temperature slows down chemistry - that's a matter of physics so while better engineering will improve things over time, it's unlikely they will ever be able to eliminate the performance difference between hot and cold completely. If you pay attention your gasoline car gets worse fuel economy in the winter as well though the effect in an IC engine is small by comparison. The other difference in an EV is lack of waste engine heat available to heat the vehicle interior, and a car going down the road fast loses a lot of heat on a cold day and that has to be made up from the battery. You can do that more efficiently with a heat pump than with low tech resistance heaters, but that adds cost and complexity to the vehicle. Some EVs have them, IIRC Ford decided they weren't worth it on the E-Mustang. In any case there is no way around the need to heat the vehicle interior somehow (and cool it in the summer but that is a smaller task) and that will cost part of the battery charge. They can make the heating system more efficient but that extra requirement won't go away. I can imagine we will see some new types of insulating windshield glass.

Well, 76 WAR from Knebel, Adames, Granderson (after the trade) and Suarez say "Hi" Cabrera was a steal, but mostly because the Marlins weren't going to pay him. Letting Granderson go would still have been a brilliant trade if they hadn't been fool enough to lose Scherzer and Jackson hadn't gotten old fast.

LOL - My BIL was an engineer who should have known better, but he bought a Pacer - it turned out pretty badly and we rode him about it mercilessly. My dad bought a couple of AMCs also - mostly he didn't care about driving and wasn't willing to spend much on a vehicle for himself - mom got the nicer cars. But there was a terrible straight 6 Hornet (basically a Gremlin with a trunk) with manual steering that had to be about 10 turns lock-to-lock, and before that an Ambassador, which actually was pretty nice as long as you drove it like someone's grandmother.