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Despite the public "we like where we are with our pitching", they are apparently still paranoid about having enough depth.

that would be interesting to see.

no, it was more than that. You don't get very far telling people they are bad people, especially ordinary people who know perfectly well that they don't harbor any animus toward the minority people they meet on the street and workplace. I think the 'micro-aggression' fixation I saw a lot of that a the 'U' was misdirected - micro-aggression is not the reason there are structural poverty issues in the minority community - and the fixation on that creates a pass for fixing the bigger economic resource issues that don't get addressed because they are harder to address and demand a re-examination of the way we do representative government in a segregated society. That's what is hard to change and why nothing has much changed 70yrs after Brown v BOE. The other is that objectively there was no accountability. DEI had become a cottage industry for a group of singularly unproductive professionals. Ten of millions spent and no actual increase in diversity. If you took the money UM spent on DEI and just gave free rides to a bunch of minority students and even hired each one a personal tutor to deal with the remediation issues, it would have a much bigger impact on actually achieving diversity than any of the constant navel gazing by white people about white people that was going on.

I guess Donnie's genius uncle didn't tell people who go to MIT aren't people particularly interested in working for ATC, and MIT grad sbetter offers than that anyway. But again - it points out the man's basic ignorance about sooo many things. Such a stupid statement wouldn't even have come into the head of anyone who knew anything breadth of knowledge of life in the US.

true - although another issue with Jobe compared to Skenes is that Jobe is probably on an innings limit - he still hasn't pitched even a 100 innings in a season. If you want him to be able to pitch in the fall you might have to skip starts and give him short outings early in the season, which is easier to manage in an MiLB setting. It's early though - it may sort itself out before opening day. With pitchers odds are someone is injured before then. 🫤

I just see Jobe winning ROY. I think he is going to continue to have on and off command days for a awhile, but time will tell.

At this point a likely scenario is Maeda, Mize, Jobe all keep pitching well, in which case you have to think they just start Jobe in the minors - really nothing to lose there as long as the guy who comes north is legitimately pitching well. Jobe would then 1st call back when someone -again likely Mize or Maeda, eventually stumbles.

Tork hit safely on a pitch middle-middle, a pitch up and away, and a pitch down and in. I don't think you would have seen that watching him early last year. ST pitching requires a big a grain of salt, but at least today he wasn't waiting for perfect pitches in the zone.

off to a great start.

it's a weird deal. Nobel set it up so most of committees were Swedish, but not for the Peace prize. That committee is chosen the by the Norwegian Parliament. -wiki

Norwegians choose the Peace Prize - the folks that already announced they weren't refueling USN ships.

I use gmail but with a third party mail app (Thunderbird) on my computers so I haven't been affected there, but but the presorting did come through on the iphone mail client and I had to turn it all off there.

yup - the problem in housing is on the supply side. The intention to increase housing starts was a good one, but there was not much 'there' there about how to do it. There has to some relief on code and yes -even ADA req's. US building codes have gotten pretty ridiculous - they have become largely a rent seek for specialty contractors, and it's a big reason it's not profitable to build less expensive housing. Newsom has talked a lot about this in CA, but not too many others.

Do you remember Bill Clinton and the so called 'Sister Souljah' moment during his campaign? Likewise Obama as a candidate waffling on Gay Rights? It seems every Democratic candidate is expected to explicitly disown part of the left wing in order to inoculate themselves with the larger electorate. GOP doesn't seem to have that problem.

TBH, I was unimpressed on the housing rhetoric - sounded like mostly fantasy to me. It was all intention but thin on how to actual do the job.

It is strange that Manfred and MLB are getting such a pass on having two orphan teams, That is such an unprecedented failure. I guess it just means that it's official that no-one really cares about the fan in the stands. As long as there is a TV contract the owners would be happy to play their games in a shoebox. I look for the next generation of stadia to have even fewer seats then this current generation, which had fewer seats than the ballparks they replaced, and the generation after this is like to be just a couple of rings of luxury boxes with AI crowd noise. As per the story above they are planning the ballpark in Vegas with essentially no parking. And did it say the site was 7 acres? A baseball field is 4 before you even get to the stands.

My only joy in this is that Tesla is leading the way down.

for the coaches?

With Biden I don't know if he was done in more by his own policies than by his inability to be out there as an energetic advocate and explainer. He left the stage too open and it was was easy for the opposition to focus on democrats whose priorities are less attractive than Biden's.

If you take this a true, what would still be bizarre is the magnification factor involved. Vietnam was a 1000x more significant issue to American than Gaza, the CRA's impact was objectively seismic compared to anything Biden accomplished. Do we blame information technology that a country amplifies everything out of proportion now?

which is also bizarre since Biden's economy was gangbusters for them all. Greed knows no bounds apparently.

and maybe another aspect of this that back in the day, when the economy got bad, unemployment was a more immediate effect, you were either working or you weren't or at least worried about you job or not. But today we get a lot more underemployment, so administrations come go and GDP waxes and wanes, but maybe your is relatively secure, but it's just a ****ty one so nothing changes for you.

If Trump is still president after 2028, it will not be because they repealed the 22nd amendment, it will be because the Constitution has been abandoned.

this is tough for me to gauge. The fact that Biden objectively had the best economy going in a long time still runs into the fact that that still isn't lifting large swaths of the population the way it used to. It's in large part de-industrialization/de-unionization, it's partly technology, it's just change in general that has shifted the economic landscape in ways no-one on either side paid enough attention to for too long. But the bottom line is that if you had 4 working limbs and an 8th grade education between 1946 and ~1980, you could go get a unionized industrial job somewhere, and bingo - you were in the middle class. So that became the expectation. Maybe that period was just the historical anomaly, though Europe's experience seems to argue it is primarily an American problem. At any rate, it's easy to argue too many Americans don't vote in their best economic interests anymore, but maybe too many Americans can't see the difference when it comes to their day to day lives.

there is, unfortunately, probably too much truth to this.