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I would guess it's more about a desire to stay in Houston than the particulars of the other place. In that regard all the southern tier states have that marginal advantage over all the northern states - mostly because a lot of players who do sign in the north won't move north because they all use all year training venues in the South -either FLA or ARI or CA. As chas notes, not much teams can do but make it up with cash and attention to detail on making sure the playing experience is 1st rate - coaching, facilities, travel, etc.

also true.

There isn't any election speculation in it, it's almost all just a recap of Peter's career.

which sets up a classic negotiation. Houston knows he wants to stay so they want the hometown discount, Bregman wants to stay without giving them the home town discount. I think in most cases, if the difference wasn't too large the player would realize that the marginal dollars are not the most important thing to him and stay with his team, but the other factor here is Boras, who will does like to see any result at anything less than max $$.

so to pick up where Rob left off - even a short stop only averages 4 chances and most are routine. 2 chances per game is more typical for other fielders.

Kasper and Soderblom should easily be ahead of Fischer, Veleno, Motte or Rassmussen on the depth chart and Johanssen is easily the #4 D man. Tonight they said Petry has started skating. Clearly they are not being cautious enough with his recovery.

so back to the question of why DeepSeeks release hit NVidia so hard if the system still uses NVidia HW - according to the report below, DeepSeek is achieving their results with about 10% of the HW for training that previous systems have used. DeepSeek is "only" 2,000 GPUs. So one interpretation is that they have demonstrated that prior estimates of the HW investment to meet whatever the assumed market was can be scaled back by close to an order of magnitude. And of course this wll also ripple out the energy forecasts and that planning as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/technology/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html

It looked to me like Seider's and Talbot's sticks hit each other as Seider was starting to make the play and that may have thrown things off kilter a bit. Another nice win though!

Nothing on Kucherov, but Lillebirg has drawn a 2 game suspension for the hit on Compher. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/43589171/tampa-bay-lightning-emil-lilleberg-suspended-two-games

But a starting pitcher has a lot more impact in the games he is in than any position players does in any single game. I think the WAR guys probably have hit it fairly close. By WAR, Skubal was the most valuable player for the Tigers in 2024 (6.3) and Riley was behind him (5.4) despite having appeared in 4.5x more games. I would judge reluctance to offer pitchers the same kinds of contracts a position players related more to the injury risk than to belief they don't have as much impact.

thank you michigan for having shelf pricing.

all regimes with a taste for dictatorial power are. It follows from the need to control information. Intelligent people are the sources of information/narratives contrary to the regime's narratives. Exactly why Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Putin, all killed intellectuals with such vigor. Trumps proclivities are exactly the same even if his power to do anything about it is more limited, for the time being.

sure - in the end it becomes a tactical decision. Earlier in this off season it was looking like the value proposition on pitchers was going to be better than on position players, if Bregman ends up not scoring all that big that may turn out not to be true.

I don't know if it would work, but I'd like to see the some of the minor penalties extended to 3 min when they have obvious intention. Most high sticks, slashes, trips, are accidental, and interference is basically a flow violation, but cross checks, charges, high hits and trips from behind are almost always intentional and I like to see penalties made stiffer on those.

And at three years older, Bregman isn't really as good a fit for taking a reset deal and trying again like Correa did.

Color of Money was more of a romp. The Hustler was one the last of the great US film noir movies. I can't think of a film with more perfect casting, top to bottom.

Watching this morning, the other thing that is a little frightening is how easy a state actor like China could be running a hoax. What if DeepSeek doesn't actually exist or whatever it is isn't what China is claiming its. with the markets as volatile as they are on the least news, if the PRC had been selling short on tech and then dropped DeepSeek, they've have made their trillion before anyone figured it out. EDIT: HAHA - I see SB is already thinking along the same lines!

Although it makes perfect sense that a man without friends would not understand friendship at any level.

I understand. I was just commenting on not taking the scale of the particular Mx number too seriously since it led the chart.

It may also mean that if you are already sitting on a hot video card you don't have to pay some one else at all. If a centralized compute model can give you an answer in 10msec with 100K chips, then can I get my answer in a minute with a hot video card, of which there are already millions out there? There is a constant push and pull in computer tech between centralized and distributed computing models, and it's always cost that decides where the division ends up. We see a lot simple applications types like word processing moving increasingly to cloud models, but other more compute intensive apps like cad and math (e.g. solidwork and MatLab) still run mostly on local dedicated processing power. While yet other tasks like protein folding run on distributed computing models. It seems each compute type has an optimum and possibly unique solution model. So I agree, the implications are not that bad for NVidia, because the processing is still going to be done, but before this week the projections might have been over optimistic to the degree that some part of AI gets done with chips that are already being sold into their established console computing market. The bad news is for MS/Amazon/Google etc who thought that only they would have the scale to exploit the potential market.

I'm sure he's trying, but I wonder how effective the old ploys are? I think teams are coming around to realize that with expanded playoffs, you only need to get into the 85 win range to have a competitive season and reasonable playoff hopes for your fans, and once in the playoffs, anything can happen. OTOH, you only have a very few teams like the Dodgers that are so stacked they are looking for that last increment to improve their odds once in the playoffs and make a WS win more than a crapshoot. Those are the teams more willing to ante up for the one player they think might get them to the top of the mountain. So with two tiers operating like that, if you are a FA and you don't happen to fit that the Dodgers (or maybe Yankees etc.) are looking for, then suddenly it's a big drop to what the rest of the league is willing spend.

Stock twit doesn't understand the real implication. It's not the HW, it's the open source SW. If it was on GitHub, there are probably already hundreds of thousands of downloads.

right. Paredes isn't much an IF either but at least he is younger and might get worse less fast than Altuve. 🤷‍♂️

The thing that is so stupid is that it was pointless. In that situation, even if the trip had prevented the goal, by rule it would have been awarded anyway - we just had one of those the other night. A penalty shot foul committed on an empty net becomes an awarded goal.

But he hasn't been any worse recently than he always was (at least by Rdrs). I guess a couple of Houston's top prospects are IF's.