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Could it have been one fan voted and the other player voted? I don't remember when the overall transition to fan voting took place (actually those dates seem too early to me), but at some point they went from player voting to fan voting.

This is absolutely true. If you want fully formed adults fighting in an army effectively the battle better be for their own homes and freedom (a la Ukraine).

the answer will probably turn out to be pretty boring. SS and locals met. Locals said they would secure roofs, SS said, "good." Locals didn't execute (someone's dog probably swallowed a pork chop bone needed an emergency trip to the vet), SS didn't verify. End of story. 🤷‍♀️

My condolences to anyone who hasn't been able to forget all memory of the 2003 team.

This was a much stronger argument when the military draft was still active and was pretty much exactly what motivated the reduction in the voting (and at the time even the drinking age) to 18. Still, given what we know about neurological development any rational governance system should be able to carve out reasonable distinctions like this, just in the same way most states that legalized 18 yr old alcohol consumption have reversed themselves while leaving reduced voting age in place. The founders wrote an *amendable* document. And amend we did for about 150 yrs. But this idea that some in American politics push today that each word written in 1792 must remain the received wisdom of the Universe for all time is pure poppycock.

I'm with you. A multibillion $ org donating $5M? It's a joke. They spent more than that to make and run the commercial.

I believe the story is already out that SS assigns the locals their jobs outside the perimeter, but if they are not following up effectively, then you still have an organizational failure. And sure, it's probably multi-modal, but that's the bar a high performance organization has to meet. It's not like this was an act of nature or an earthquake, fire flood or act of God which no-one foresaw or overwhelmed resources. It was a perp doing exactly what they are supposed to stop a perp from doing and he did it from a pretty obvious place to do it from. I think it's going to be hard for someone not to take a fall on this one whether at the SS or the locals.

Complements the timing for the Biden court reform announcement pretty nicely.

How many planes did Boeing put in the sky before the 737Max? This can happen to any institution no matter how long their record. Maybe they get sclerotic or start misplacing their priorities. Every org that isn't in a constant state of upgrade/renewal is going backward.

I also like the inversion of the risk equation. Why should the risk involved in providing a certain aspect of the job mean you get a pass on doing it? Isn't it obvious that the perp will exactly pick a position he thinks you think will be too much trouble? If putting *your* man in the spot is risky, then you still have to find a way to provide the security for the spot without putting your man at risk, you don't just punt. How hard would it have been to put eyes at two corners of the building so no-one could put a ladder up unseen? It's really amazingly incompetent. And that's not Cheatle, all she is doing is not throwing her people under the bus - she didn't do the local planning.

If one assumed Tiger revenue would increase by probably 30-40% if they actually won something, then at this argues that at a 50% payroll/revenue ration they could carry a 200 million payroll easily. Of course the trick is if you spend the money you best win. Things are probably not real comfortable in the Jays' or Padres' front offices.

Just to veer off topic a little and make a general observation. We see so many of these kinds of institutional failures because people simply have no *imagination* anymore. "Well we didn't think anyone would do that." is the modern excuse de jure. Maybe it's being spoon fed passive video entertainment for a lifetime, maybe it's helicopter parenting, maybe it's fluoridation, IDK, but the inability of people to game out obvious possibilities seems to be getting worse all the time.

so that's some kind of special slope unlike the slope on all the other buildings we've seen sharpshooters on ever since 9/11? Like maybe slopes at angles from non-Euclidean geometry or something? (won't even mention that last time I looked there was pretty much no-place in the US where you couldn't rent a cherry picker,,,,,)

There is one drawback in putting drones up, and this is maintaining FOF ID. There may be a feeling that keeping the sky completely clear is the least ambiguous way to maintain security - anything that is flying can be assumed hostile. That's just a spitball though...

No one will take Baez under any deal scenario with his bat the way it is currently. The only way Javy ever plays for a major league team other than the Tigers is if we cut him, he catches on with another team, maybe on two-way Spring Training invite, and he somehow finds his bat.

The funniest (sadly) comment I saw was from one of the LEO's about why the roof wasn't secured - something to the effect of "well someone would have needed a ladder to access that roof...... No kidding?

This is what Biden has been able to hold in reserve - the fact that he has a policy apparatus that can start making proposals that can drive voter interest and engagement. Let see if he can continue to make good use of it. And what does Trump have? Project 2025 if your taste is autocracy, and a Tax/Tariff proposal guaranteed to hammer the middle class, blow the budget to smithereens AND start an international trade war in one fell swoop.

Hit 'em where they live, Joe! This is a great move both as policy and as politics. I think it will be very popular with independents and will also help with disaffected/wavering progressives unhappy with the pace of change.

this is how you appeal to the female viewer doncha know?

Douthat is as close to being an open theocrat as you can be and still work in American journalism. If he had been born about 6K miles to the east he'd be perfectly happy on the Ayatollah's council of elders.

Index funds are great for the investor. The only knock against them is a technical one, and that is as the % of the market in index funds has grown, it makes the total market a little more volatile, because all the index funds make pretty much the same funds adjustments at the same time since they all use similar algorithms, so I've seem some market insiders opine against them. But as long as they are available, they are a good choice for a lot of investors.

The science just isn't there to get past guess work. Fulmer a good example where those of us that dismissed his injury history were wrong, we should have made a trade. OTOH, Sanchez had a horrible 2x TJ past and pitched for years afterward, though no doubt he didn't throw as hard as Skubal. One thing in Tarik's favor is that he is more a change of speed guy than a pure spin guy, but that bit of conventional wisdom probably isn't really worth much.

fair enough.... it would actually be nice if the Tigers got to a place where we had good players we didn't know what to do with instead of the other kind!

Prospects are prospects until they actually hatch. The percentage of good AA hitters make it in the majors isn't so great. then again, the counterpoint to my usual MiLB hitter skepticism is that Malloy has had a pretty good last 50 PA.

quietly, Colt Keith has moved his OAA to an even zero (statcast), granted Rds still doesn't like him, but given his experience level he's doing OK. It's too big a loss of value to move a good bat who can play a better defensive position out of it until there is no hope and there is still plenty of hope for Keith. Move Keith to 1st and you will just put another bat on the bench who is a worse fielder, and at this point I can already say with confidence that the Tigers will have a worse fielder with a good bat they will have to do something with.