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LOL - took me way too long to get it and I was trained to be a chemist who does plumbing (i.e. Chemical Engineer, )

that one and the paypal phishing e-mails are getting crazy.

I just wish the interface weren't getting progressively worse.

hard to justify anything going on with the Wings unless we are looking at a stealth tank.

I went to one Lions' game at Tiger Stadium on a wintry day - absolutely terrible. And to my thinking, you may not even want a half roof on an outdoor football stadium if it's just going to make the wind whip around on the inside more - getting the design right is critical. At Michigan stadium at least you might get the sun shinning on you on a cold day (the one nice thing about the student section being the north end zone!).

Purdy not looking too pretty.

probably why Goff loves playing for Campbell.

I want to know more about how Savant does IF arms - esp the avg velo number. They seem to just take all throws, but if so that's a pretty meaningless number. A good fielder that comes up with the ball quickly shouldn't have to throw hard all the time, all that matters is how well can he get it there when he has to. I mean most guys don't play like Aurelio Rodriguez, who might just wait until the guy was half-way to 1st to uncork a 95mph throw over.

old men ending up like children in the end. I can't wait to see what things will look like four years from now.....

LOL - I seem to remember one season Porcello came out of ST with like a 0.00 ERA and still proceeded to be his usual <100 ERA+ pitcher for the season....

and expansion of credit increases the money supply -> inflationary.

I guess it's one more thing where the US media does such a disservice to the public. The national news is always full of reporting on the stock market indexes, GDP, employment numbers, but very little of that ever reflects the reality of where the majority of the country lives. It's not like more representative data isn't out there, but reporters are either too lazy or economically illiterate to present it. Instead, they fall back on doing 'human interest' bits, anecdotal pieces about how this person or that person is struggling. Makes everyone feel bad but tells you nothing useful or actionable. Politically, you have to have numbers where you can hold people to performance. If Americans all knew the % of national income earned by the lower 50% of the population from year to year as well as they knew the unemployment numbers or interest rates, then maybe voters might start holding administrations responsible for doing a better job. As it is, all they know is that they are getting screwed, so they make terrible decisions at the polls because they are just guessing or hoping that anything they hear about the economy is the truth.

If Bird flu keeps taking out chicken flocks volatility in egg prices could be around for a while.

car sales likely to end at 16M. Retailers mostly showing gains. Travel is pedal to the metal. You couldn't get into a national park this year and Americans traveling to Europe this summer had the Italians and Greeks looking at quotas to manage the overflows at the popular sites. the thing is, it's uneven; too much of the country is either struggling or feels like it is and the other half is buying Faberge collars for their Poms. When you look at aggregates, everything looks hunky-dory. But as the averages increase, the medians keep falling behind.

He'd be joining a team that is already a lot better than the Tiger team Pudge joined - plus it has a manager and coaching staff in more control.

that's the double edge sword of inflation and interest rates. Drive rates down, the debt is cheaper to finance, and if low rates cause more inflation, the real value of the debt falls - win/win, amirite? There are so many incentives to bad management. Don't seem to be many to good -- well there is always avoiding potential disaster, but as long as it doesn't happen until someone else's watch.....

precisely

This probably true for most of the team. This is a team made up of a lot of guys with short track records. Beside Riley, Jake and maybe Vierling I'm not sure anyone is enough of a lock to survive a really terrible ST. But as Hinch is always quick to point out, what they are looking for isn't necessarily reflected in the stat sheet.

meh - real stuff that people use is what the gov should spend money one. Not to mention that the bulk of the IRA infrastructure spending ends up in the pockets of middle class construction workers. But in terms fiscal impact, IRA spending will start trending downward further out and be a decreasing economic effect. FTM, a lot of defense spending also ends up with middle class workers also, but a bridge or internet backbone project leaves something more useful behind that a weapon system that hopefully ends up someplace like that Arizona airplane graveyard (I say 'hopefully' because that means it didn't have to be used in a war....)

We are in a weird place. Everyone complaining about the economy being so terrible but as a whole the American Consumer is spending like a drunken sailor - that's going to make it harder to push inflation lower - and just more so if the Fed keeps easing. I think the Fed is still taking some money out of circulation with 'QT'

Easter Egg?

I don't, and I desperately don't want to.

Spencer and Jace approve (so far).

Mohammed al_Bashar, who for what it's worth (and it's probably very little in the end) has been appearing in public in western dress - which is at least a nod in the hopeful direction.

Cossa back to GR. 😡