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He asked a question, he got an answer. Case closed.

You never know - some guys are big and yet have pretty 'normal' physiology - thinking about Chamberlain for example, who was a track and field star even at his size in HS. You are talking real super outliers in the population to find that though.

her star is fading with Trump's? (hoping anyway!)

Maybe I just saw an outlier sample but didn't Hayes have a couple decent performances in the pre-season? Guess that goes to show what that's worth!

I didn't know they were selling cars that did not allow you to disable it. Ick. Then again, we rented a kia recently with start/stop and it tuned out all you had to do was have the AC turned on and it was disabled. Go figure.

and ours is gnerally lower than most places.

good point. And I would guess there is a difference between pitchers and hitters in this regard. A hitter's performance on almost any hitting metric (except maybe RBI) is not very much limited by the quality of his team. A pitcher's is. Even something like FIP does not exist in a vaccuum to team performance because there are real effects of longer innings, extra outs given up, more time in the stretch, contstantly being under the pressure of being behind, that are very real for pitchers and don't really show up in any metric. It is harder for a pitcher to excel on a bad team - Steve Carlton being the exception I suppose!

There are three things actually - immunity, vax, and the removal from the population of the most susceptible individuals. Crass way to put it but it's the cold scientific truth. And it's not really so much 'herd' immunity now as individual immunity. The first exposure is going to be most severe, once that has happened and you have survived, your individual immunity is boosted (same effect as being vaxxed of course) regardless of whether immunity in the community is high enough to stop transmission or not (i.e. herd immunity). We will probably learn that any of the various coronaviruses that already circulate in the population might also be far more dangerous to adults or older adults if we hadn't all had them many times as children when they weren't dangerous to us. and of coure it hasn't really been 'stopped' in any sense of disappearing (as noted above!), it's simply dropped into 'endemic' status. If it had emerged 200 years ago, the net result would have been the same in form, high early fatalities and a drop off to endemic status. The difference would have been that the number of fatalities before 'endemic' was reached would have been orders of magnitude higher. The difference is general medical tech, the vaccines plus the emergence of some effective therapuetics like monoclonals and paxlovid. There is still a LOT of COVID out there. In places were we are still testing a lot, like at UM, there are still plenty of cases, but very few are getting very sick. I'm certain we are at the point today were only a small percentage of cases are even being reported anymore because they are trivial or people don't even bother testing themselves.

I don't know how polished Correa is so this may not apply, and you can't generalize with much accuracy, but I think it is more true for Latin players who are transplanted to the US to play ball, that they see their careers in workman like terms and are less 'romantic' about their teams. They are less likely to get endorsement and media gigs in the US post career so going for money and security can rank higher for them than a slick anglo like say - Verlander who probably figures after retirement he will make as much out of baseball as he has in.

you can't seriously make this statement about anyone or anything related to the GOP can you? You can debate what motivations may or may not be at work, but desire for veracity certainly isn't one.

I hope two or three months of severence in today's tech market end's up being good deal for a lot of those folks.

again, so many people have no idea how interdisciplinary high level tech is. You can provide a critical piece of some development without having any idea at all about how other parts of it work. The analogy might be that you can be the world's formost authority on internal combustion engine piston design, doesn't require that you even know how to drive a car or even what a 'car' is. Malone is not an immunologist. and of course, even if he was, people go off the deep end all the time regardless of theoretically 'knowing better.' It's a weird psychological phenomenon but we all know it happens all the time. Humans often reach a point in life there is some kind of need to reject things associated with their earlier experiences and when that happens, psychologically it really makes no difference whether the parts being rejected were things that do or don't represent objective realities. And sure sometimes it's just for the grift.

Musk had one idea I think could might help him successfully build Twitter into a subscription based service, and that is to make Twitter a sort of one stop destination for people looking for one off news from paywalled sites that they aren't interested in enough to subscribe to on a regular basis. The idea, as I understood it, was that Twitter negotiates some limited access rights for its uses to access otherwise paywalled sources such as local newspapers etc. It's a theoretical win/win if the originating site can get some revenue from Twitter for the single hits they just otherwise woudn't get, and it would provide twitter with something of sufficient and unique enough value to offer uses that they would pay for it. Of course the problem is that negotiating access rights to enough sites for it to get off the ground could be a herculean taks, and there is no guarantee the content originators share the belief that it would be good enough for their business to be interested. But it is at least an idea that might be attractive to a fairly large customer base. meanwhile, he seems to have forgotten that both Ca and the US have layoff notice requirements (60 daya) for enterprises of Twitter's size, which Twitter has pretty obviously violated. Class action suit has already been filed

I don't know if Musk was ever clever on his own or just had a big enough birthright bundle to buy his way to success initially, it doesn't really matter, the fact remains that for any person, no matter how smart, if they aren't careful they will find themselves having to deal with something none of their previous expertise prepared them for. Sure looks like Musk has found his.

Interesting, When I saw it I just assumed it was was supposed to be in the feed to the Philly region and my streaming/cable operator hadn't managed to overlay their local spot in a planned slot, but if everyone got it that would kill that theory.

And sadly, Biden and the Dem still couldn't hold their ground on repeal of Carried Interest, without which Bain probably wouldn't exist - at least in is current formulation.

well, he can't very well admit in public that his advertisers are holding back because *his* pronouncements about his plans for the service have been the loose cannon for the last several months. 🤷‍♀️

Loved Andersons. By the time I stopped working in Toledo a lot of retail East of the river along Woodville Rd had collapsed

Yeah, it does seem like every off season there have been lots of guys signed as roster filler for Toledo/Erie.

it makes sense that there is a balance. If you don't give guys enough time you are occasionally going to move on from the next JD Martinez before he hits. If you give them too much time, there is an opportunity cost because that means you have a chance to look at far fewer guys. My take would be the Tigers were way too far over on the 'stick with the guy' side - and individual cases like Niko Goodrum and Buck Farmer are poster examples, as will be the Castros when they are gone......

can't tell the inmates without a diagnostics manual.

this.

yup. Also - bench discipline in the NBA is a joke. Westbrook pretty much had his toe in play on the court in the corner the pass was thrown to. Would have served LA right if the officials had waived off the bucket.

when you get down to two games, and in fact once you get to the end of Verlander's start tonight - however many innings it goes, from that point on there is no bullpen/starters - it should be every pitcher all hands on deck at any point for the remaining innings.

except Rolling Stone. No one should ever try to cover that.