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Seems a lot of variation in how people react to Shringrix, both in terms of how much discomfort you have at the injection site and in how much general reaction you have. I don't remember reacting to the 1st dose at all. The 2nd one I felt pretty lousy the 2nd day. Various friends have had reactions all over the map. But I don't know anyone who's had shingles who didn't describe it as totally horrible.

I'm looking at it pretty much as having passed into the same category as the flu. It's always going to be around, it will keep morphing marginally as time goes by, I'm not particularly worried about getting it (have had mild cases at least once, possibly twice ) so at this point have both natural and vax based immune response. But if a 10 sec shot saves me even two days of sniffles and a cough, I'm not passing up that trade.

And why would you? Your best hedge is to wait until at least the end of ST to see what work he may have done on the off-season and how well he does. I think Javy knows full well he has to get shorter to the ball, but that kind of adjustment is not easy for anyone to do on the fly. Assuming he's not opting out, the Tigers have nothing to lose by not burning any bridges that would preclude him making some level of comeback, regardless of what the probability of that looks like now. There is certainly a chance you could persuade him to opt out, but it could as easily blow up in your face as a high profile and (likely successful) MLBPA grievance. Not to mention it sounds very un-Ilitch-like.

Why does Elon assume the people that run propaganda bots aren't willing to invest $ in their activity? Will small fees stop state sponsored Russian disinformation efforts? I doubt it, they are already investing big money in the hardware and manpower behind these programs, why would a few more bucks stop them?

yeah - I don't see any downside to just riding it out in this case.

Iggy lost a season to stress fractures. Addressed it in his training and it never recurred. Lower leg stress fractures can happen in younger players who over train and don't have sense enough to stop when they start to feel the first warning signs, so I'm not so alarmed by that as long as the training staff stays on top of him in the future. Definitely agree Riley has to stop playing such a reckless style. No one can keep playing like that and stay healthy. Just moderate things. You don't have to stop diving, but keep it to low dives more along the ground. If you are going to have to leap up and across like on the play where he hurt the arm, just play it off the wall. Hopefully playing next to Meadows (if he can stick) will help as an example as it's pretty clear Parker plays a more under control style - maybe it will rub off a little on Riley.

EROD was going to LA, Rogers was going somewhere - probably LA, but I don't know if that was established. Still, I'm not sure if I'd be unhappier on a top team in a top city playing backup to a guy I can at least respect than sitting on a bad team when the guys my manager is playing in front of me are clearly worse.

Playing the best players is so yesterdays tech. Jake is going to keep smiling and being a good teammate, because he's tied to the Tigers until 2027, but I'd guess he was not the happiest person the Dodger deal fell apart.

The degree to which a bunch of people who are lawyers decide it is or isn't is probably proportional to how much money he walks away with. 💰

IDK - economics of the game have changed so much in 20 yrs it's hard to compare. There may be enough revenue sharing today that teams can more easily flounder for a long time without being in danger of actually going under. It must have been pretty dire in 2001 in comparison for them to actually take a vote on contraction. Those were some bad years for baseball in Detroit so I wasn't paying enough attention to remember it well.

LOL, I was talking about Musk but if the shoe fits...... Probably on an ethical/world view level there isn't much to separate the two of them. The difference is that Elon hasn't gone bankrupt, yet.

Loria was only a 24% owner when he bought in so if he had plans to kill the team at that point he'd have had to persuade the rest of his partners. He tried to get a new ball park. He put in more of his money when the other owners wouldn't until he ended up almost sole owner. When it was clear there would be no new ball park, he bailed. He only owned the team for 3 yrs. They were failing before he got there and but true enough he basically took anyone and anything he could carry when he sold the team to the league. It's probably true he soured on owning the team pretty quickly after he bought it and found he couldn't do much with it - but remember he couldn't find any sources to work with. The province turned him down, local business wouldn't ante up and the the league even voted to contract his team out from under him, so at that point I would have some sympathy with him saying 'screw it'. And in the end the MLB could have tried to save the franchise once they ran it and didn't either so they weren't seeing any future either. I don't mean to defend Loria per se, I don't know him from Adam, but I don't know if it's fair to lay the failure of the Expos at his feet in particular. He seemed to be a relatively bit player in their overall history. He was just the guy holding the bag at the end. I don't think one guy can kill a franchise's fan base and its regional market goodwill value in only 3 yrs. That failure had to have had a lot of contributors. I would guess the Montreal fans who blame Luria are a little like the people who never forgave the Tigers for leaving the old ballpark. They were a group that were loyal but too small to make what they wanted to preserve economically viable. Owners don't owe vestigial fan bases permanent economic subsidy.

Documents case is a slam dunk. Even Marcia Clark and Chris Darden couldn't lose this case. Trump knows his only chance is to keep it from ever coming to trial.

I beg to differ. It is perfectly clear what he meant by that.

LOL - Problems of the 1%ers. I imagine if Schlissel were just a middle class schmuck he and his wife would probably already be divorced and he could just have married his girlfriend, but probably too much money at play for such a simple solution.

That's cold. Very cold.

Well, notifies him that they are going to try to fire him. Now he has to hope his lawyers win more than his football team. 🤣

I liked this line from Haller's statement though: "The unprofessional and unethical behavior is particularly egregious given that the Vendor at issue was contracted by the University for the sole purpose of educating student-athletes on, and preventing instances of, inappropriate sexual misconduct" I guess Tuck would have been fine if he had managed to engage in some appropriate misconduct. 🤷‍♀️

I don't even think it's only his ego, it's his shallowness. All he cares about is the world of money - since he has no principles or interests beyond that, he has no concept that outside his privileged bubble, millions of other people live lives where freedom, justice, morality and human rights matter.

And what do I do now if I really do need to get in touch with customer service for my security products?

But wasn't it because Luria continued to put capital into the team when the other minority holders wouldn't that left him in complete control of the team? Yes, no doubt by the end he just wanted out of Montreal, but how much of that was because he had already gotten to the end of his rope with what he was dealing with there? Bronfman - probably a smarter financier than the rest of them, had already given up his hope of making it work and bailed. Most people (at least not named Musk) don't invest a lot of money on an asset with an initial intention to trash it.

I also wonder if the creation of the Blue Jays wasn't a death knell for the Expos. A francophone baseball team wasn't going to maintain enough market interest in Canada unless it was exclusive. Once they lost the overflow into the anglo Ontario market where most of the baseball interest in Canada probably existed, they were likely doomed long term no matter what they did.

and it's also an argument to let a player concentrate on mastering the details of one position. Now to be fair, I don't see most of the Tiger 'wanderers' as candidates to be full time players anyway - with the possible exception of Vierling. If it had been me, once I saw that he could play a little 3rd I'd have let him concentrate on that as that is where he can ultimately be the best fit if he mastered it. He has enough arm, his platoon split is small. He's maybe a little long in the tooth, but OTOH, 3rd is not a completely new position for him.

Well, the good news is that I just happened across a story about Adrian Beltre, and he led the league in errors at least once early in his career. Some guys do get better.

From Scott Pelley's 60 minutes piece with Zelenskyy: