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Bonds was a nut but he could write copy.

11 pitchers in history have 3 or more Cy Youngs. The odds of Skubal not regressing are not good, but not impossible.

ETTD

yeah - planned roll outs should not be that hard. Either they aren't in the play book, Goff just doesn't like to do it, or the thought is that with the turnover on the 0-line and TE it's an added level of complexity they think might lead to more breakdowns.

But Goffs problem isn't straight line speed, it's manueverability. 🦛

the GOP could have, but you know they wouldn't have. So what? If the Trump admin had another billion to spend the only people that would have benefited were more of his cronies - you know it as well as I do. And what could help those vets are all the VA, drug treatment and social services Trump and the GOP have been cutting and trying to cut, So my blood isn't boiling over the scam in MN at all, at least not compared to how much it already boils over the much, much bigger scam in DC.

It's all relative. You can probably see more on a galaxy Z-fold than on this guy - which is what I watched my 1st Tiger games on.....👀

Not exactly a bunt to break up a no-hitter.😱

JB looks looks like he's comfortable doing more mixing and matching instead of playing fixed rotations, which is as it should be since every team you play presents different match-up issues.

Blower

Wha? Ryan Helsley? Have I got the wrong guy? 31 yrs old, has never started, sort of fell apart as reliever after trade to the Mets last season. In what universe is that a potential starter?

The SO and I went round all the options on the boat. For a boat big enough to live on, she didn't want to risk having to handle a sail boat if I went over, I'm not sure I could alone either. OTOH, 35' foot (or more) twin screw power boat is going to burn a little less than 20gal/hr of gas, less if it's diesel - but owning diesels is a whole added level of frustrations. It becomes one of those things where you'd like be there, but you don't necessarily want to live there. 🙄

I love Superior. I half-wish I had spent the money a few years ago and bought a boat up there when the SO and I were still in condition to manage one. Not that we aren't healthy enough (knock knock) but I don't have the energy/ambition anymore for the amount of work maintaining a boat big enough for Superior is. At the time I enjoyed my work and didn't really want to quit. And TBH, I could never quite wrap my head around spending a grand to fill the gas tank! C'est la vie 🤷‍♂️

here are all Goldberg's quotes pulled from Petzold's column in the Freep:

they won't come close to 60 seats, but it would be nice if they at least retake the majority.

It is a little interesting that they had Goldberg throw the cold water on him last week rather than it being Harris. Easier walk back if it wasn't the boss? 😉

When Foley was good he threw harder, which gives a pitcher a little more leeway to make mistakes and get a away with it.

too bad Greenberg was firehosing cold water on the idea McGonigle would be anywhere but Toledo come April.

Hey, wrt Green, if Trump thinks that blowing up his own allies for the sake of confusing his opponents is a winning strategy, I'm going to guess his opponents will be glad to take the wins. The Mamdami it is more interesting to me. Did Mamdami just charm him into it or was Trump feeling he needed to tack back a little after getting some blowback on the 'Hang them' rhetoric?

what cracks me up is that if you read the whole letter, her clearly identified bette noir is the 'political-industrial' complex, but it never seems to dawn on her that if that's the case, the *only* answer is getting corporate money out of politics, but that concept isn't even a glimmer in her consciousness. Even when they claim to be trying to wake up, they are deeply asleep. The 'real' is still too many layers away from anything they can reach.

it's sort of funny how much 65-75 looks like 2000-2009 -- same bactrian camel over almost the same time span.

first part of that could have been right out of an AOC mailing. Tells you something.

Beck posted a correction - Foley DFA'd is correct. In any case, that's too bad. Would have liked to see him make it back.

well, I'm confused. We will need Ed to sort this out because from anything I've read, you can't tender a player you have DFA'd, so maybe one or the other of the reports are wrong.

If you are 40 you can probably always hold and wait out wait the downturns, and in recent decades the downturns have been sharp but short, so holding on through those wasn't terrible either, but if we were to get into a period of sustained upward creep in inflation, an older investor might not out live the kind of long downturn we had in the late 60's-70's when for years inflation creep just keep hammering down stocks. So there is never a one-size fits all answer. If there is one piece of wisdom, it's that the herd tends to be driven by the (relatively) young who haven't lived through any history and there is always a (too) wide belief in the broad market that everything always was and always will be the way it has been for less than the last ten years. 🤔