gehringer_2

Kids nowadays......

really, what's more boring that another post about how boring this off-season has been. ...what?..wait....nevermind.

tell you what, if in this environment, Hakim Jeffries isn't clever enough to find a way to peel one rep off the other side, it will go down in history as a real fail of democratic party leadership.

It's more than that though. There is internal pressure from other owners. Owners don't want any of their brethren to operate at a loss even if they could afford to because it undermines franchise values across the board, and the loss of a franchise to financial failure is at this point is considered too traumatic to allow. The ownership club would much rather have franchises like the Athletics just limp along as 2nd class citizens than let them get over-extended and have to shut them down or worse, take on their liabilities.

It was Adelson's candidate with a big bankroll that didn't make it out of the 1st round in Tx Senate 9.

no - that's why the laugh as the premise. I just always found the experience using them to be unnerving because it feels like when you are done and you open the curtain the machine is undoing your vote. It doesn't of course, but it's easy to watch all those levers you flipped down pop back up and wonder if they actually got counted, because the machine gives you no clue or confirmation that it's tabulating the votes, all you see is the levers go back up.

That's the other thing. I'm sure all Trump has done with this screed is tick off more Texans by accusing them of not running an honest election. Texans are nothing if not proud.

backlog of US gov purchasing from the shutdown?

IDK, if a guy can shoot but isn't an athlete, can he ever become one? Nope. If a guy is an athlete and is still only 19, might he develop a shot? Well...maaaaybe. It almost never works out but I think that's the logic behind the popularity of that kind of pick.

LOL - I always distrusted these 'closet on wheels' machines with all the levers because you never got any kind of confirmation that it tallied. You would pull back the big red handle to open the curtain and all the levers you flipped down would flip back up and your votes were just gone - weren't they? (sort of like the Simpson banker clip?). These guys started showing up in the late 50's. The first election after I was in grade school was 1960 and I remember these bad boys lined up in the hallways prior the Nixon/Kennedy election.

I don't think Trump will get any GOP support on this - as noted, forcing people to vote in person hits GOP constituencies - the old and working class workers, the hardest.

Bloomberg reporting that Elon wants to combine SpaceX and xAI - purportedly to tap SpaceX's equity value to fund development costs at xAI. Not what I would want to hear if I were running NASA. 🤔 Oii, gold, silver, bitcoin all down. Warsh honeymoon is underway.

I don't really care if he is biased in the booth because mostly it's nothing different. Analysts obviously already have favorite players and teams they think more or less of. He either provides insightful analysis or he doesn't. If he's so biased he doesn't call it like it is, Fox won't want him in the booth. And to me, that's the only real issue, that they will be reluctant to fire him if he's a bad analyst because as a part owner he could try to poison the well in a future negotiation between the league and the Fox. And I don't care a whit about that either as it will have been a dilemma that Fox created for itself with its eyes wide open.

rate of improvement becomes the key. Andre improved, but it was so marginal each year he was never going to get there. Duren is doing better, but is it better fast enough? Ausar's non-progress on his shot is the biggest disappointment to me other than Ivey. It's not like there was ever that much hope, but whatever there was he's put to rest. If you can't hit FT's you are still miles from hitting jumpers in competition. With Ivey, I wonder if the team has knowledge that he's not fully recovered but still could be or will be, or has concluded at this point that is he is just damaged good to write off.

You can add all the money you want, with Trump there is no getting the trash out of the white-trash

He also should have gone to DH the last couple of years at least. He may only have ever been an adequate SS to begin with, but fielding a 40yr at SS is not the signature of a serious team, and indeed the Yankees were out of the playoffs his last couple years.

it's *always* projection with these guys - ALWAYS.

That is what we are hoping for!

it's a demonstration that turnout is more important than any other factor. Americans are not reliable voters, so any kind of extrapolation of voting results suffers from the same reliability issues. You may know what the people that showed up for election A think, but that doesn't get you diddly when a different cross section of voters shows up in election B. As long as turn out in US elections tends to be only 1/2 of the electorate you can't take too much from results when less than half of that half shows up. It's great, but it's delusional to think it means anything bankable.

this. With the lane maintenance being all mechanized, controllable, reproducible, high scores are more common. Plus customized drillings etc. I have a younger cousin married to pretty athletic guy who loves to bowl and golf and he's rolled multiple 300s. When we where growing up everybody's parents were in leagues and we never heard of anyone bowling a perfect game.

The Dems over performed in a lot of specials before 2024 as well, what did it get them?. In the US it is all about turnout, so when turnout is low you know nothing - that's not the same as being hopeless, it's just being realistic. Look at the NYC mayoral elections. Coumo got more than enough votes to win that race in something like 10 of the last 11 elections, but Mamdani generated enough enthusiasm to swamp Coumo's total anyway. But that means he's on a fragile mandate because if that enthusiasm flags, and his voters lose motivation, there is still a huge mass of people that were willing to vote against him. It's very unlikely the next NYC mayor's race will have another record turnout. So what do we really know? Trump voters may have largely gone silent in a lot of places because they know they can't defend what he is doing, but that doesn't mean they don't still *like* what he is doing - so best not to underestimate them at any turn.

their successes will be successes when they win control. Until then it's all hopium. Virginia is real. Trends in PA is good. Nothing has been proven yet in Tx or Fla or Ohio.

that may all be true, and moving independents is the good first step, but there is still a limit to how much you an extrapolate when less than half the normal electorate shows up. It make sense that independents unhappy about the current trends showed up to register their displeasure, but that doesn't resolve whether you've moved enough the 200k that stayed home. And to be honest, it will be fine if Dems to win in 26 because of low GOP turnout. That's exactly how I expect them to win if they do. It seems to be the case in US politics that no-one ever changes their mind, they just gain or lose enthusiasm for their side and so either do or don't vote.

The Wings roster is what it is, but how many teams have a barely NHL guy like Finnie playing on what is supposed to be their top line with their top center? McLellan hasn't been giving Larkin and Raymond much to work with on the other side. That said, I agree that other than on the PP, Larkin doesn't really look like himself too many nights this season.

but at least she has exhibited some concern for the people that should be the objects of concern for leaders in this episode, which is more than Trump has ever done.