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LOL - this. It's like one thing AI is doing out at the public level is working for people who never figured out how to frame successful queries to the existing search engines. There is value in that - it does take a certain level of experience with digital data to have a sense of how to narrow a search to get to what you actually want. If AI does that for people that's something.

It doesn't matter how many times the Trump WH bludgeons the CIA into re-releasing the same warmed over hash of speculation, if anyone knows anything, it's the Chinese - and they aren't saying.

I've seen other guys think there were 3 outs when there weren't, but John B is the only one I've seen roll the ball toward the mound and get halfway to the dugout before he realized there weren't.

But LeDuff is a very serious journalist.

more sloppy English syntax. Article says the raccoon was guilty of breaking and entering, when it was clearly a case of entering and breaking.

are they repped by a young bleach blonde that wears leather pants?

8000 times would be once a day, everyday for 21 yrs. Not sure that number passes any kind of reality check. Now I will grant, once you are on a mailing list at either party you could easily get a new solicitation or two every single day, but I think a donor would need a professional personal staff to respond to all of them! 🤷‍♀️

I think I'm starting to come off this belief a little bit (i.e. that the big swing is a matter of choice). I'm thinking the increase in average velo doesn't leave hitters any choice but to swing hard - you can't get the bat there soon enough any other way.

It was always the hitters more than the pitchers. There were maybe a handful of pitchers that worked slow, there were hundreds of hitters stepping out after every pitch. The other growing delay problem was that you couldn't use simple signs from catcher to pitcher any more and the incidences of mulitple sign sets and mound trips to adjust signs was also getting out of hand - pitch.com has been a really good thing for game flow.

I think the long term epidemiology on this goes the other way in that while the games got longer and longer, pitcher health never improved a whit. There is something to be said for the overall temporal aspect. Getting your work in and getting off the field and in to a recover state before you spend extended time clock in a depleted state could work the other way.

If you are mid market I think the last thing you can afford to do is over pay either in dollars or prospect. The idea always has to be the keep the strongest system at the most reasonable cost. Never move assets at a loss. As soon as you deviate from the that line you are setting yourself up to start downhill.

Funny you mention it, ESPN already has the 1st exhibition games showing on the 'scores' header of the MLB page instead of leaving up the score of the last WS game until Feb.

Every system can be gamed - it's just a matter of deciding if the effort is worth it. 😉

Yup. Number one tactic of someone selling something that isn't necessarily what it's cracked up to be is reduce the available evaluation/decision time.

forget about OSU!

Michigan 'self-insures' for a lot of things - nowhere in any of the reporting on the Anderson did I ever hear mention of any other financial entity - Not that means spit given the generally poor quality of press coverage!

still a reach

It still comes down to what we said all off season - it's just that they have managed to won a bunch in spite of it - more guys need to shoot better to space better. They were leaving Ausar alone on the baselne - Cade finally tossed it to him unguarded - he missed the shot -- and Duren can't back out of traffic and hit a floater. Doesn't help that Cade's 3pt% is down to .301 either. Without Robinson no-one could make a trey but Tobias. speaking of which - JB ought to suggest to Lavert that when he gets to 1 for 6 or so he give it a rest for a while. When you end up 1 for 10 you might as well have been passing the ball to the other team.

that part that caught my eye was $400M in income but losing money because it doesn't cover his hosting costs. It seem like this is an era of trying to deny limits - whether it's Tesla, Nvidia or NCAA football or this guy hawking utubes, no-one wants to hear that there is a limit of how much of anything you can sell. But there always is, no matter how big or long the party runs before the end.

haven't heard anything about Jobe, but at the time of his surgery it was reported he had the newer less disruptive procedure that SGL uderwent. SGL's recovery from the TJ was pretty fast but his other injury problems effectively distracted from noticing that.

it's pretty funny/sad when we can say 'only $9M' wasted by an athletic department and have it mean a good thing. Of course we shouldn't forget that PSU, MSU and UM have all suffered 9 digit $$ settlements of sports doctor/coach abuse scandals, none of which has helped any of them be on a stronger footing.

the people in this country are so f'ing asleep. The good people of 18th century New England would have a man in the stocks on Boston Common for that kind of crap. Talk about a fallen society.

To this this day it never fails to make me laugh when I pop the hood on my 2.4 L *4* cylinder powered car and can't see the ground anywhere, when I had 300 horses sitting under the hood of my '66 SS and almost had room to stand inside the engine compartment with the engine.

although the pitch clock was only needed to force a return to what used to be. Making guys play faster was actually retro.

LOL - yeah I remember 'desert only' on early car ACs. I had only had my license a few months and was driving in FLA mid summer with the air on 'desert only' (which was full blast) when the whole damn car fogged up. PANIC! We were trying to wipe the front windshield while not crashing into anything and finally realized the condensate was on the outside of the window - turn on the wipers dummy! I think modern cars are set up so they never blow ice cold air on the windshield like some of those early ones (1968 IIRC) could.