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He did seem to like family legacies but off the top of my head I think children of past players have fared better than siblings (e.g. Fielder/Boone(s)/Ripkens/Guererro) but then again Al still missed with Daz Cameron.

weird, they apparently are assuming a huge defensive regression for Torkelson. He was a measely -1 OAA net at statcast and 0 Rdrs. Not GG but OTOH but they are projecting him -12(!) dWAR. Where does that come from?

and it's gotten a lot more uneven, Everyone seems to want to live in the same places, and they tend to be places where no-one is, or can, build enough new housing. Of course it's not so much people have fixations about living where it's expensive as that you have to go where work is, that's become very uneven.

Have any recent Tiger minor leaguer's career prospects gone 60 to zero as fast as Jace Jung's?

he makes a fair number of those little floaters from around 10ft that also argue he has some touch that could be developed. All a matter of how much he wants it I suppose. I guy can probably get pretty satisfied - and pretty well paid, with a nightly double double of put backs and dunks and may not regret it until much later... (see. Drummond, Andre.....)

actually when Tork came back from Toledo he said trying to hit more pitchers where he saw them was part of what he was trying to get back to, that he had become too focused on the 'perfect swing' on the perfect pitch. The way McGonigle talks about aiming for center- to oppo against the FB and pulling the off-speed when he recognizes it is pretty much the same thing Tork says now. I do think Tork continues have trouble sticking with it though! I'm also think guys need to be careful chasing bat speed. Chasing bat speed is OK, but only up the point that it starts costing accuracy with the swing. There is already plenty of energy in most of these guys' swing, and some of the guys with great bat speed don't hit all that well. I believe at one point it was reported that Trey Sweeney had the best bat speed on the team!

Bingo. Trump still has no plan, no understanding of what a plan would be. You can't "give the money back to the people" because we know they won't buy health insurance with it and we'll end up with public care going back into the emergency wards where it costs multiple time more than properly managed care. This stuff isn't rocket science, it's all been worked out time and time again all over the world. It's only idiot conservative Americans who could look and see the way the world works everywhere but would rather close their eyes than have their ideological fantasies punctured. Even as dyed in the wool a conservative as Romney saw there is basically one way to do it. Trump is just ignorant and isn't interested in knowing how and why he is wrong.

they absolutely can if they want to. It's a very straightforward argument that gerrymandering is a direct violation of "one-man, one-vote" which is otherwise a core constitutional principle; and constitutional principle, when applied, always trumps any argument for states' rights. The issue is the SCOTUS refuses to acknowledge the obvious reality and therefore does not apply the principle. In their previous passe at redistricting Robert threw up his hands with a claim that SCOTUS can't do anything because they don't know how to mandate "good" redistricting, but again, that is head in the sand nonsense . Just look around at the states that have instituted unbiased redistricting and there are lots of real world examples of how it can be done. Another classic example of the court being willfully ignorant of the real world because it would conflict with their preferred political outcomes. (and BTW - it would be nice if the RW actually understood the Constitution they purport to love so much?)

who ever's willing to write that check, baby.

It was interesting - also very notable that he said the Tigers pretty much wait for hitters to come to them. I suppose with all these guy having private coaching that all you can do without risking the infamous "too many voices in his ears" that Hinch mentioned in '24 when Tork was struggling. It was also interesting to here him say he was basically a 'see ball, hit ball' guy even though you hear a lot of people say you can't hit that way.

We have a stand of several large Red Oaks. They usually don't drop their leaves until after some of the neighors have already done their pickup. In fact our clean up guy often ends up doing our leaves in the Spring because so many are still on the trees after the ground starts to freeze. So we are prime offenders in terms of leafing up the area after everyone has tried to clean up. Sorry folks....

I wonder if Anderson is one of those cases - sort of like Christin Stewart, where the org know/feels he has a bottom line weakness that MLB pitchers are going to exploit not matter what he shows against lower level pitching. They did ultimately give Stewart a shot, and of course as Microline and others had warned, he wasn't an MLB caliber bat despite his MiLB success. A more hopeful take would be that they think his bat to ball skill is there but until he shows better power he can't be productive enough. At least under that reading there is a level of reasonable hope some power can develop.

Bar? What Bar? When it comes to Trump there isn't even a seam in the carpet.

When the gerrymandering cases got to the court a few years a ago and they basically punted the issue, the inevitability of the current mess was obvious to anyone with a brain - apparently except JR.

42K is actually a pretty sucky number.

I think they may be right.

If people start feeling insecure about their employment things could really get ugly. Every cohort since the boomers (now most of the electorate) feels they have gotten continually shorter ends of the jobs stick. The pandemic was a black swan so people accepted that dislocation, but if the UE numbers start going up, and even more if people just start feeling nervous, there will be hell to pay for the incumbent party. (BTW, why do we still use 'black swan' to mean an outlier? Australia is not exactly a secret anymore and the ordinary swans there are.....black.!)

HaHa - I saw this same response on the same question not too long ago (though I didn't chat with the bot!) because I had forgetten how I had done it before on 11 and was setting up another windows VM (and I really hate being bugged to login to a VM), but I remembered this answer was not what I had done, so I dug a little harder and found the method I remembered using - which is more general. There is a registry entry that just re-enables [netplwiz] so you can reset autologin for any user the way you used to. So just FYI if you need to do this again......: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device 3. In the keys list on the right, double-click on DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion; 4. In Value data, type 0 and click Ok; 5. Reboot your computer. netplwiz will work again and you can set a user to autologin. And if you talk to your buddy again soon you can bring him(her/it?) up to speed!

right. Ignoring turnover percentage, a good NBA shooter hit's close to 40% on 3s, which is 1.2 points per possession. If you are going to shoot a 2, it has to be 60% shot to equal the same 1.2 PPP. When the trey came into the league, the better shooters hit them at about 30%, which is more like 1 PPP, which wasn't that much different from their team's regular offense. So the increase from 30% to 40% success rate on threes becoming common has completely remade the game. I'll tell you what might be fun though, take the line off the court. Then the players would just have to judge where they are on the shot (of course that's still easy on the baseline....). Let a computerized scoring system instantly credit the point if the shot was actually long enough. I would guess that one of the things that has allowed the 3 point make percentage to climb over the years is that the line eliminates the need for the player to judge his distance to the hoop all that well, he just has to develop muscle memory shooting from the line. Take away the line and that would add back a layer of added mental difficulty. 🏀

I think you made the correct argument - the answer it going to be 'nothing'

Your scale of reference is a little tough. Even a 40% 3pt shooter is going to miss two in a row 36% of the time.

and a photographer about to lose his credential.

he best stay on the ground floor of any tall building he enters.

Roundworm! this probably happens a LOT more than anyone dreams. The temptation to toss a lab sample into your luggage instead of doing reams of paper work can be pretty strong - seems to be a particular issue for the Chinese - either because they aren't used to the level of formal control at home or because they can be under so much pressure to succeed by the people at home - or maybe both.

The Mets are reaching irresistible force vs immovable object level between Cohen's ambition and the team liabilities. I'm not going to guess which gives first or when but at some point down the road that franchise is going to be a real mess.