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In a long past life I remember sticking tanks with water visualizer applied at the end to check for leaks. Water would turn the treated stick purple. If it was over 1" we were supposed to pump the water out. Who ever thought putting thin wall steel tanks in the ground was a good idea.......

Curious report about a strike at a Saudi refinery. The Iranians said they called the Saudis to deny it was them. So that then, the Houthi's just doing their buddies a favor unbidden?

Marco word salad is still in the spinner.

LOL - do you think big oil paid half a billion to elect this Prez just to sit by and pass on collecting a windfall from the rise in world prices? Of course it would be cosmic justice if there is some kind of emergency order freezing gasoline prices. Then big oil can join the that long queue of people that have been used and discarded.

I think we've been down this road so many times before without the worst case happening that there is a lot resistance to believing this time will be any different, esp given the current admin's past history of making a lot of noise only to fold their tents. However, if Iran makes good on closing the Strait of Hormuz it won't take that long for La merde a frappé le ventilateur.

Metaphorically, they go to the IL, they are dead to us. 🤷‍♂️

It strikes me that is he is still playing a strong defensive game but has disappeared on offense it's because there is still too much ill will with his teammates. Your defensive assignments are more individual, less need to trust and be trusted by line mates or want them to succeed or them wanting you to succeed. Just more confirmation of what is already known; he is on the roster but not the team.

The EV in the drive is looking really good.

what it happening on MLB TV is individual team subscriptions for in market games that are separate from the out of market MLB TV package. Most the teams that have gone off Diamond already had their team subscription offers up, but the Tiger one only appeared very recently - maybe today. BUT, before you buy that for $189 for the year, the other half was that they are still trying to get the games on various cable services - TBD. So if you have a Comcast or DirectTV etc, subscription, I think you should hang tight and see if an announcement comes they will be on your system before that March 26 offer deadline to subscribe to MLB directly. For me, we get so little value out of Direct TV I'm thinking it's likely I'd go with the MLB offer and drop DirectTV for something a lot cheaper

and Copp had turned back up ice thinking Moritz is going to make the outlet pass, ends up leaving his man wide open at the net. Not a lot Talbot could have done on that one.

Makes you wonder if McLellan's message the other day about 'Jerseys' might have been directed at Yzerman too - as "why are these guys still here?"

it's what happens when you haven't been able to build enough depth. The difference now is that if Gibson is down, at least there is a chance Cossa is good.

he's still -1 for this hockey game.

From ISM this month: "The Manufacturing PMI® registered 52.4 percent in February, a 0.2-percentage point decrease compared to the reading of 52.6 in January. The overall economy continued in expansion for the 16th month. (A Manufacturing PMI® above 47.5 percent, over a period of time, generally indicates an expansion of the overall economy.) The New Orders Index expanded for the second straight month after four straight readings in contraction, registering 55.8 percent, down 1.3 percentage points compared to January’s figure of 57.1 percent. The February reading of the Production Index (53.5 percent) is 2.4 percentage points lower than January’s reading of 55.9 percent. The Prices Index remained in expansion (or ‘increasing’ territory), registering 70.5 percent, an 11.5-percentage point jump from January’s reading of 59 percent and its highest reading since June 2022 (78.5 percent). The Backlog of Orders Index registered 56.6 percent, up 5 percentage points compared to the 51.6 percent recorded in January and its highest reading since May 2022 (58.7 percent). The Employment Index registered 48.8 percent, up 0.7 percentage point from January’s figure of 48.1 percent."

"Can" is not the problem!

those lines spoken in the movie by one ex-senator ex-watergate Senate minority council and "Law and Order" regular to be Fred Thompson, a Republican of the kind the US would be better off with more of.

they were never meant to withstand challenge, they were just meant to abuse and dissuade.

you hadn't seen Max Anderson

maybe third time's the charm.

yeah - a lot of money needs to be spent to get VZ back in the game

we are near the point of the year when refiners have to stop blending so much cheap light ends into gasoline headed to the north because the weather is getting warmer. That puts upward pressure on gasoline prices in addition to whatever increases in crude come down the line because of the fighting.

Not only the soul, also bigger than the brain.

there is certainly a complex interaction between the frequency of repetitive stress, the intensity, the max stress and the recovery interval and they are probably all non-linear. Superimpose that on the genetic diversity of the population and the relatively small sample size of pitchers to study and you have really tough epidemiology to solve. OTOH, there is a stupendous amount of money at risk that should be motivating people to solve it.

Market opens down but orderly. Exxon and defense up, cruise lines getting hammered (=slow moving floating terrorist targets I guess)

I still pull up DSOTM once in a while. I think it's held up pretty well.