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The CF projection for Javy is interesting. I think the probability he get 35PA out there is almost zero - I think he is either going to get put out there for an extended run or not at all, so I guess I take I'd that number as the average of a dumbbell distribution.

so the downside could be the typical American vandalism imperative to try to sabotage the device by feeding it some material deliberately compounded to screw it up.

Thank-you Jimmy P from where ever you are.

If each team sends 40 players to the plate in a game, 80 PA, maybe 20 are K's so 60 balls in play, most of which are completely routine outs where only one or two players even have to move. There are a lot pitches thrown, but nothing happens on most pitches. A football game may have >120 plays from scrimmage, plus a dozen kick offs in which 22 players are all going every which way in an incredibly complex scripted dance. Most plays involve some one running for their life, or leaping in the air, and then someone getting brutally tackled. I can understand people not finding the action appealing, but to me the visual input level from the field much higher than baseball. But agree that dead time is an increasing problem in football. The game takes too long to play the hour and there are too many commercial breaks that are too long - IOW -the same problem that baseball moved to address recently. The only thing that keeps me watching football anymore is that I can DVR a game and watch it in half an hour without missing a single play.

I've said this before, (but not recently so I'll repeat myself 😉) a baseball game does generate a certain amount of situational dramatic tension, but as you note, on a baseball diamond people are mostly standing around, so it's basically not particularly visually interesting to watch for the action in the way football or hockey or even tennis is. Which is why it's my contention that its popularity as a spectator sport has always been tied to the fact that playing baseball at some level has been a common experience for a larger part of the population than any other sport. Golf is similar in this regard but even more so. Do you know any non-golfer that watches golf tournaments on TV? Compare mentally to how many football fans ever played any football. In the past, growing up *everybody* played some baseball. That makes it the sport where the most fans have the highest degree of vicarious identification with what the players on the field are doing. Thus if the popularity of baseball falls as the older fans die off, it will be because fewer people in the population left played the game in their youth (or still play it as softball). And to the degree greed reduces relatively free media access, the rate at which its popularity may fall can only increase.

I think the biggest thing is that fish does not keep, and Americans are used to meat meaning beef, which you can leave thawed in a fridge for a week and still be perfectly fine. Once a piece of frozen fish thaws you literally have minutes to start cooking it if you want to preserve its quality. And then you have the insane practice of American grocers that receive their fish frozen (as virtually all fish is shipped frozen) and then thaw it out to sell it to buyers that take it home and freeze it again. By the second thaw you might as well toss it as it probably already stinks.

Ok - didn't pick that up - I thought maybe there was a head butt by one of them.

I couldn't see what Duren did, I only saw him back out of the confrontation. Stu definitely in trouble though.

I'll give people a lot leeway on seafood because it's hard to buy right and harder to cook right. You normally can't get much of anything that's edible from any chain grocer like a Kroger.

I don't think you get in the door for less than $100/month at DirectTV, certainly not on a plan that you can add Fanduel to, so call it $106/mo minimum. The question is how much value do we get out of the rest of what is on DirectTV, and to me that answer is precious little. The SO would not be in complete agreement there however.......

it's currently $72/yr to get Fanduel added to DirectTV. ($6/mo)

I hope the Canadians tell him to pound sand. The bridge is will still be there long after Trump assumes room temperature.

thanks for the heads up. I have a hip roof all the way around and I'm thinking about a couple of cameras under the soffits, but one of the best spots would only be reachable by ladder so it's either something with a really good battery life or get a cat6 out there through the attic and use POE, but I've been to lazy to get 'er done.

of course there is an alternate view that both parties are walking dead, that 'political party' as a basic paradigm is dying and is not revivable exactly because the very people you need to be in them (the sane middle) won't go near them anymore. While I keep seeing this talked about, my question is what does it look like in practice? OK - so for starters you run ranked choice primaries and every candidate is a free agent, but how does a legislature function? Firstly, how to have stable leadership to manage an agenda if every leadership vote is an ad hoc exercise among a couple of hundred free agents? Sound like a recipe for getting even less done than the broken legislative processes we have now.

yeah - "I'm here now to tell you that anything you actually need to know you'll find out later."

Buried under other SuperSunday news, Elon with a 'nevermind' about getting SpaceX to Mars. Well maybe in 20 yrs.

but the Tigers collapsed and the Dodgers didn't. The Dodgers were deeper, were able to get to that record using more experience players (4 yrs older by weighted ave than Det) who were able to maintain their consistency but who cost more.

that's a low bar, even for curling.

SB - how did you power your set up (other than the solar one)?

maybe or maybe not. GOP deregulation was always was around denial of the premise "we aren't hurting the environment or people - at least not enough to matter and anyway it's profits that make the rest of society function so bug off" Ezra's big thing is that we are so tied in knots we can't get things done for ordinary people in the public sector (like build transit) and that a lot of regulation like building codes have become captured by their industries, again driving up costs to consumers at very small or non-existent benefits to public safety and that we have gone overboard protecting private rights over the public interest. He's more about "we've let the perfect be the enemy of the good." Now whether taking that as a starting point gets you some place positive or not is always anyone's guess. There is a certain parallel to the 70's-80's Right wing critiques of welfare systems that motivated the break up of families, made work counter-productive etc. And some of those critiques were good ones and some reforms were improvements, but there were only ever a few GOP leaders who were serious about reform as help for the poor instead of punishment of them. Jack Kemp maybe being the leader of that school back in the day.

Everyone In Japan is and has always been a culture hawk. it's all about China.

Al had a good eye for talent and understood scouting and how to use and deploy scouting. But along with that other big failings - he had insufficient sense of urgency in making the changes that needed to me made because he wanted too much to 'bring the old-school guys along' instead being more cold hearted (again, you can like him more a person than as a GM for that), and secondly he was just a terrible, terrible trade designer/negotiator - probably lacked the creativity for it. So I believe Al when he says *he* couldn't find the deal, I'd wager that plenty of other GMs could have. Lastly, Al recognized the need for the tech, but was always going to be too dependent on the people around him because he was not going to master any of it himself. Always better to have enough command yourself to be better able to process what the people you hired are giving you (even if you are making good hires). Al had enough connections to stay in the game if he had wanted to so I tend to think he probably recognized he was a bit of an anachronism and it was going to be easier to retire.

one problem for older people is that we keep expecting 'music'. There is a lot of audio art out there these days and that is what is dominating the entertainment market, but to take up the old man yelling at cloud mantle, it's not music by any conventional definition. To say that is not to say what is being presented isn't or can't be entertaining but it won't be if you can't get past the expectation that it will be music, because it isn't. It's something else - it's fundamentally a different set of aural forms with totally different skill sets needed to create them. It borrows rhythm and voice from music, but the rhythm is not in service of theme and the voices does not sing (mostly) and on that basis the industry continues to tell us it's music and market it through music distribution channels because that what already exists for distribution of recorded sound - (and some artists do cross over/blend the genera) If you drop the expectation and take it on it's own terms for what it is rather than your expectation of a 'musical' show, you won't be bothered that there is no legacy to western Canon (e,g. Bach) which did remain solidly there even in the adjacently previous genres of Jazz and Rock and Roll.

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