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I think this is driven by the combination of FOMO coupled to a lack of intellectual time/energy to spend the time parsing though complex syntax to see if there is actually anything there. The short version would be - "I don't know if any of that make sense and it's too much work to figure out exactly what if anything it all means, but if I don't get on board I may miss something." The real problem is when the people spewing it believe there is something to what they are saying when there actually isn't, when the concepts fall apart as soon as they are pushed into clear light.

Keith as a RF is definitely "out of left field" 😉

"At this point it’s hard to believe the President isn’t just trying to manipulate markets out of desperation." You don't say?

it would seem there still has to be shoe to drop on cable system fees. If we are still going to get the 25-26 Wings and Piston seasons on Fanduel, and now are going to get the '26 Tigers on DSN, I find it hard to believe we well get both through this June without a pricing increment. I remain pessimistic but willing to be pleasantly surprised.

It's not the player, it's the game. Boras is acting inside the system created by the recent CBAs. I don't like that system because I think it's bad for fans. I don't how much influence Boras has had in the creation of that system as I don't have any way of knowing the degree of his influence on what the union has bargained for over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if his influence was substantial though.

Sure, it's reasonable to assume that he would only consider the subset teams he regarded as competitive. Of course that doesn't mean he wouldn't use an offer from a team he had no intention of going to as leverage!

In the early 2000's they were studying low yield nukes for bunker busting because they had pretty much given up on the idea that any conventional weapon could work on a properly hardened deep target. Eventually that was spiked because you couldn't get the warhead deep enough to contain a massive release of fallout - which was the initial thesis. So they went back to the drawing board on conventionals. According to reports today they are using a new intermediate size GBU72 because GBU109 apparently wasn't enough. The big bertha GBU-72 has limited supply and can only be delivered by the B-2, making it massively expensive to use. Dropping each of those probably costs more than digging the hole it collapses. I'm pretty confident the mass media reporting about these things conflates maximum theoretical potential performance with likely real world outcomes.

I guess those GBU57 "bunker busters" must be much better for making CGI promo videos for the military/industrial complex than making effective holes in the ground.

He's backed down today in another bid to freeze the markets crashing, and the fools have fallen for it every time. The constant "I'm attacking/I'm negotiating" is certainly a pure pump and dump scheme to keep lining his and Jared's pockets.

I agree '84. Which team is not going to be the major driver of the decision - it will be the value of the contract. The Tigers are/will be as much in the running as any other team, A player returning to the same team is not at all at cross purpose to Boras/Skubal establishing a new contract level, only taking less than max value would. So it won't be Skubal putting the Tigers out of consideration, the Tigers will take themselves out if they decide they can't/won't make a competitive offer. I think that latter is inevitably what will happen. While anything is possible, esp since something completely new could conceivably come out of the new CBA that changes things (but note that 'conceivable' does not imply at all likely), I don't see Chris Ilitch walking away from the 'sustainability' mantra he recites at every chance and I don't see how paying Skubal what some team surely will offer would be within Chris I's version of 'sustainability' for the Tigers.. Of course at the end of day, to the fans, whether the player excluded the team from consideration or the team excluded the player from consideration is a distinction without a difference to the outcome.

I have directTV. I have seen unequivocal statements that DirectTV will carry DSN, but they also tell me that it be on the same channel number that currently belongs to fanduel. But the Wings season - as well as the Pistons, remains on fanduel for a few months after the Tiger season starts, so the some total of information I have been able to find appears contradictory. Well, possibly not. There are two fanduel channels on DTV so maybe one of those will convert, in which case the Wings and Pistons will not able to broadcast simultaneously for the rest of the season, which doesn't seem like it can be right. Nor have I yet seen anything about the price tag. Fanduel carried a surcharge of something like $6/mo.

D'OH! good point! I suppose Pittsburgh being Pittsburgh they won't burn the year even if they think he could be a candidate. Sure they lose the year anyway if he won anyway, but a team can always delay a call-up long enough the player doesn't get enough AB to be likely to win, and if your team is not likely challenging for a playoff.....

...is apparently going to have one less competitor for ROY. Konner Griffin re-assigned by Pittsburgh. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48271759/pirates-reassign-heralded-prospect-konnor-griffin-minor-league-camp

It will be interesting to see how easy it will be for pitchers to get a guy out with a lot of breaking stuff who won't swing out of the strike zone. Even in the majors there aren't that many guys who can throw breaking stuff consistently in the zone.

Trump has this animal brilliance at hypnotizing his supporters into simply accepting a retcon of everything that has ever happened in the past each time he speaks. Think about the monumental contradiction in the claims that we and the Israeli's bombed Iran's nuclear capability to smithereens in June, but then we must turn around in March and fight another war because they are "2 weeks away" from 'the bomb'. This is not some trivial difference of opinion on a debating point nicety. It's life and death reality for thousands and chaos for millions. You can't have a mind that functions at anything like post Neanderthal level and still believe anything Trump vomits into his social media sewer, yet here we are.

there is always a tweet.

I think it's quite likely that Keith is going to get better as a hitter, maybe a lot better. I also think he is evolving into a DH. If his power improves I suppose he would be a candidate 1B, but watching him even there, I think his movement has yet to become fluid or natural. So I suppose it depends on how the team sees its offense/defense balance. Will they make room for him on the diamond regardless, give him a lot of AB at DH, or move him and his very attractive contract which could bring back pretty good value? And of course it's always a matter of what the alternatives are. If Tork flames out, 1b is gonna be Keith's. No brainer there.

That's one of the ironies. Trumps idiocy is going to do more than speed the adoption of non-hydrocarbon fuels both here and around the world than any monkey wrench he has thrown in attempting to prevent it. Whatever fever dreams Trump and Hegseth had been imagining, in reality, what they have accomplished so far would be the following: brought a leadership into power in Iran that is more radicalized than ever Left the Iranian people with a worse government and worse economic prospects than they had before. And poorer people do not make better revolutions. increased the risk to US citizens around the world to terrorism vastly weakened the US ability to deter China from attacking Taiwan Slammed his base in the Red US agricultural states again with dramatic increases in the price of fuel and fertilizer. Vastly increased Russia's oil income and thus its potential for mischief. Destroyed whatever semblance remained of a Western security alliance. Guaranteed that every rogue (and for that matter) non-rogue regime redoubles efforts to get into the nuclear club before Trump decides to start another war - this should do wonders for the Pakistani and possibly N. Korean balance of trade as customers line their pockets for nuclear tech. What do we learn, Palmer?

I agree that the decision on whether McGonigle make the team is independent of the decision on Meadow, but I was referring to the linkage being in the outcome about where he plays in the field the most being dependent on whether Parker is on the team. I think he will get more time at 3B if Parker is the regular CF. I may not have been sufficiently clear there, but I will stand by that as more precisely rendered.

If he declines, but he happens to be having a decent Spring, he may or may not turn out to be more productive than any combination of Meadows, Perez, Jones. At any rate, they aren't going to eat his salary if he's playing decently. Of course he could fall apart, anyone on the roster can, or be injured, but I think you cross that bridge when you come to it.

American History repeats itself like a bad record. I'm old enough to remember when it "we have to destroy the village to save it."

Hinges mostly on a decision on Parker.

Of course, just to clarify, in Donald Trump's world, there is only one innocent person to begin with, namely him. So the statement is unchanged on the substitution "He can no longer hurt me." Now that that is clear, carry on.

2025 numbers: 31 starts, 195 IP. That's a 6 1/3 per start average.

well he might as well add war crimes to his list of dubious accomplishments. Where are the Generals that will tell him they aren't sending their guys to do that?