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at about the 5 minute mark they were already starting to be back on their heels and the Krakon hadn't even put the extra man out yet and it was looking like another goal would be given up late, but they managed to pick it up. Talbot almost gave away with a sloppy play where he turned his back thinking he was leaving it for ASP behind the net but a Krakon got there first.

sounds like another one the where the injury deficit is looking permanent. Or at least the Tigers feel the news has been bad enough no-one will pick him up.

and they probably knew M would be a point of resistance so they sweetened that pot a much as they dared. But the real answer was further down the thread. M's revenue for a single year is estimated at $142M, which sounds pretty close to me. You're being asked to give away a 10% interest for a third more than one year's rev? Just not a good deal anyway.. Perception fallacy of large numbers. $2B doesn't go that far when you divide it 18 ways and then put it up against current budgets.

'Sealed Beam' headlights. DOT mandated them for decades. They had the one great advantage that they were all glass, so they did yellow or go opaque. And because there were only half a dozen standard designs, they were cheap. Of course they didn't light the road for **** either....

I can't tell you what particular properties make for good paving asphalt, but I can tell you that the asphalt available on the market for pavers has changed a lot in recent years. The drive to recover more from every barrel of crude, and the pumping of lower and lower quality crudes, plus products like Canadian tar sands, have resulted in big changes in the composition of the 'bottoms' product from crude stills that used to be the traditional source of asphalt, And increasingly refineries have installed cokers - which consume the steams that would beome asphalt within the refinery, so little or no asphalt is produced at all. Since there is less around, you are perforce going to get less choice of quality. I suppose if and when the EV reigns supreme and oil production drops by large percentages, paving with asphalt may become a rarity altogether.

I know people are generally pretty irrational, but I don't get why they would call the boyfriend over to witness this scene.

I can't tell exactly where the red ends going south toward LA, but for as often as I have been out there, I still can't get used to the warn days tuning so cold after dark. I just don't acclimate to remembering to take a jacket with me when I leave the house at 3pm in 80 degrees.

he was a 3 WAR ( and I will bravely use this term fully cognizant of all that has gone on above!) even with a bad lower half for half a season. I think any GM would be crazy to be disappointed that was coming back.

And just to add on the topic of 'getting IDs to folks'. You come here speaking as an honest agent that if the poor had IDs it would be easier for them to vote and access services. The problem is that GOP elected officials who you advise the Dems to work with have no interest in either of those things happening, and are not going to create anything like the kind of programs you envision without being forced by a counterweighting political force, which in the end is only going to be Dems winning more elections/seats. This is just a true about getting rollbacks of excess dumb idea liberal politics in blue states. Not going to happen until the Blue side loses seats over it if it's stuff they believe in, and the sad truth is that much of the current GOP believes just as deeply in suppression of the other side's voters.

well, that raises the bar for Keith.

can't even imagine how empty NA was with 4M total inhabitants.

IDK, In the abstract this is true, but I think in reality the ability to match does in general depress offers, though of course it won't in every case, and it does save teams risking bidding against themselves at the front end of the process.

He's got a real gift for deciding who we need to be polite to, doesn't he?

You are basically talking about run or RBI opportunity here, and that is a function of team OBP, or even more specifically the OBP/OPS of players immediately around a player in the lineup, and that's still going to be a variable thing depending on the quality of the team isn't it? At the limits, you can double every time at bat and contribute zero runs if the 3 guys behind you in the lineup bat zero. You can single every time up and produce a run every time if one guy behind you always doubles before the 3rd out, etc. So the question is how much better is the correlation of procution to runs than wins? I would think you just look at the correlation between runs and wins for that answer - because production to wins should be the product of production to runs times runs to wins?

My point being that politically - its a perfectly valid strategy to put your effort into electing people who will do what you think is right elected as opposed to trying to accommodate people who won't. It's not being 'useless' at all, it's working the process as it was meant to be worked. There is nothing wrong with trying to take the edge of policies from other side when you can, but I'd submit the opportunities to do that in the current environment could as easily be called 'useless'. Whitmer had gotten things from the GOP because she won the governorship and she had leverage. If she hadn't, the Dems would not have gotten those things in the legislature by saying pretty please.

I'd guess part of thing is that an owner in Pittsburgh or KC can't commit to long term contract based on LT transfer payments because you have no idea from year to year how much, if any, it's going to be. There is nothing that says tomorrow Cohen decides he's going to try to build through his farm system and stop splurging on FA's and suddenly LT payments start shrinking across the league. Not to mention that the $ being moved still aren't enough to make a big impact once they are divided up by the number of recipients.

I'd never even noticed the arrows. They say "Toggle this category".

so why do wins and loses mean less than they used to? Nobody cares about home field? Or there are enough openly avowed tankers now that the rest of league knows they won't need 50 wins to make the playoffs?

actually, I do see another solution here......

Semi-Serious question: If you institute a salary cap without normalizing team revenue across the league (which ain't gonna happen), what will be the outcome of the Yankess and the Dodgers etc having hundreds of millions of dollars in excess profits compared to the other teams? I'm not sure what it is, but I'm sure some of the outcomes will be in some way bad (e.g. complete domination of scouting and development tech, filching and stashing every good executive - sort of like the Yankees did with players in the reserve era, financial distress of the poor teams as their capital appreciation potential collapsed.....). Would/could any of these things happen? Would it be worse than allowing the rich teams to keep spending more on players or not? That is the question.

MLPBA is a very weird union. It seems the dynamic is that every player's ego keeps telling him that next year he's going to break through as the next Ohtani, so they keep accepting deals that only protect the prerogatives of the superstars while 80% of them toil at the league minimum.

the people left out in the calculation are the fans. I'm 100% for a system that pays players more when they are actually producing, but the one thing I want even more than that is some kind of 1st refusal system that allows teams a better chance at retaining their players and building fan bases and brings back a higher proportion of one-team careers among the best players.

in earlier times, the idea of a public person, or even a party elected official doing a 180 deg reversal in their politics and bolting to the other side, wasn't a totally out of bounds idea. For instance, there were Reps/Sens that changed parties over Vietnam and Watergate, but politics has become so much a matter or culture and identity - a situation which has been mined especially deeply by the right, that I think we may now see people throw up their hands and quit, but the incidence of people changing sides is going to be really, really rare. And the flip side of that is that today the other side is never going to welcome you or trust you or forgive who you were if you did consider crossing over.

somewhere upthread I think I posted the number reported by the URecord for the amount the Regents approved to transfer from the general fund to the AD and IIRC it was $16M or $20M - in that vicinity anyway. That may actually represent a bigger one year drop off. Prior to all this upheaval, the AD generally returned money - maybe $10M/yr, to the general fund, but I couldn't tell you if that has still been true recently.

That loss total may also include the fine they paid. $20M IIRC.