gehringer_2

your arg is unserious. Dems moved toward reform in multiple jurisdictions, GOP moved toward abuse, Dems forced to react. There is no ethical culpability on the part of the left for playing self defense nor even a fundamental change in the preferences of the left to do away with all of it.

Maybe not so funny. McKenna has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

wishful thinking but I believe the best strategy for the Dems would be for no-one to declare for '28 until the midterms are over.

Right now the AI race is a spending black hole across the M7. Maybe one or two of them will eventually make money at it, the rest will likely never recoup their losses. Which is fine, they can afford them, but a lot of investors will likely be hurt.

Basic game theory. When your opponent won't play fair you may absorb the 1st hit. After that the optimal stratagem is to hammer back harder to show them their decision was counter-productive. It's just being practical.

Where does the Federal gov get the authority to pass a redistricting bill? Plus this SC would invalidate it. I'm afraid the best solution is a Supreme Court that will outlaw both Gerrymanders and overturn CU. The next Dem admin must increase the numbers on the court to make the current Conservative axis irrelevant. It's a terrible solution but probably still better than any other.

is that with or without Skubal’s 20 or 32 M$!

"Headquarters"? That sure rings of Gen Z doesn't it?

agree they are still too left handed, esp if McGonigle makes the team.

It's been pointed out here already by multiple posters, this case has morphed beyond being about about Skubal and the Tigers in particular, it's about Boras and the Union wanting the arb scales reset and ownership wanting the status quo system of arbitration escalation 'rules'. And as has been pointed out, the Tigers didn't particularly 'low ball' Skubal, they made an offer than pretty much followed arbitration precedent. For Boras, repping clients that score bigger in arbitration is probably the area of biggest potential income growth for his business if he can get 'market value' established as a significant factor in future arb awards. Skubal, as a player rep, can contribute to something that will benefit a lot more players than the deal he signs next year. OTOH, to mid market and below teams, a big escalation in arb costs would be the last straw in making them all 2nd class citizens to NY and LA as they will end up having to cut lose a lot of competitive players they would otherwise have kept.

OTOH, if the Tigers are not willing to dig into the couch cushions to find $10M for one year to keep together a potential WS staff, then what are we all here for?

Olson is going to win a rotation spot based on being able to get guys out better than anyone other than Skubal. The question is can he keep it.

The fact that they just committed 38.5AAV to Valdez means an extra $10M could become more significant. But who knows?

at one point she announced she would not run for Gov of CA but I sure hope she does and doesn't declare for the White House. IMHO, any Dem who has managed to lose to Trump should not be trying again.

SGL has to prove he can get out big league hitters.

I could see this. I think the real argument is going to be between the two sets of owners, the players union is just going to be along for the ride.

idle talk this afternoon on radio that losing the arb case would motivate the Tiger to move Skubal to they would have the money to add enough to counter his loss. I'm just the messenger here.....

Trump isn't stupid, but he is ignorant. We tend to assume the later always implies the former, but not with Trump. Trump is ignorant because not because he is stupid but because he has a closed mind. Snapped shut somewhere around 1972 and he's still there.

this was the only decision the court could reach after Tx, but it's still both tragic and a tribute to the ability of lawyers to lose the forest for the trees that we have a Supreme court that thinks redistricting is OK if it's purely to manipulate election results instead of seeing it as the clear violation of one-man/one-vote that it is.

Bezos is making the same mistake at the Post that he is making at Blue Origin, which is trying to run them like Amazon. At Amazon - the bulk of the workforce are commodity. Amazon doesn't need them for who they are, it really does only need their bodies. While that management system - as bad as it is, may work there, isn't going to work for journalism or high tech manufacturing, because those are places where you do need people exactly for who they are - which means that while you can can get away with pitting workers against each other in a warehouse, you cannot in a fundamentally collegial place like a newsroom or a necessarily deeply cooperative one like cutting edge engineering (he has a forced attrition program in place at Blue Origin). Your develop process is going to grind to a halt when every engineer is trying to steal every other guys glory and no-one trusts or will share anything with anyone. Jacques Nasser pretty well proved this at FoMoCo years ago, but the guys like Bezos just don't want to believe it because their ego doesn't let them admit they don't have the only brain that matters.

and why should we even take any of this lying-whenever-their-lips-are-moving admin's numbers at face value?

The conventional wisdom on this has run a bit past the actual numbers. The East is a grand total of 9 games under 500 to the west after about 300 interdivisional games. That's a little more than 1/2 loss per team or about a 48/52 winning percentage split.

I don't know if it's still possible to vote our way out, but for damn sure we voted our way in.

Ausar ended up on Jokic on the Nuggets 2nd to last possession and he just took it to the hoop like Ausar wasn't even there. Good Peter Principle example.

how many hundred years ago did Adam Smith describe the "tragedy of the commons"?