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What would make it a lot more likely to succeed would be if MDOT put "Use Zipper Merge" signs up at the sites, but if they ever do I can't remember the last time I saw one.

but that is exactly what zipper merging does away with. That person trying to jump everyone has no way to do that if both lanes run full right to the merge. I think that is one of the main reasons authorities recommend its use.

HooBoy. That's a lot worse take than the early 'adminstrative screwup' reporting on this.

it's actually the combination of having people doing two different things. When half the people are trying to zipper merge and half hate zipper merge, what you get it people trying to cut each other or denying them merge opportunity - It's then those bad behaviors that causes the bottlenecks. If everyone would do one of the other it would always go better. The MSP say zipper merge and that's good enough for me.

except that this is not true. The field may be big, but overall through its history it has played average for HRs, has ever since they moved LF. The reason the park HAS to be big is because they rotated it (wrt Tiger stadium) such that the prevailing summer west wind blows OUT. Tiger Stadium rotated around to where COPA would be a complete joke. They've did just fine getting to two WS in the 1st 10 yrs playing in COPA in the current configuration, which was a higher incidence rate of getting there than they ever had at Tiger Stadium. Guys hit the ball over the CF often enough. Granted the corners were the CF wall meets the R and L field wall are a bit much but that is a tiny proportion of the whole field. Parks factors look bad for the last couple of years but they always follow the home team performance (even though they shouldn't -if you watch them over time they always do....) because the team is crappy. Tigers have hit 47 HR on the road, 42 at home, while scoring 28 more runs at home than on the road. The ball park is not the problem, the roster is.

hard to figure at only 30 yrs old. Most guys make it to a couple of years older before falling off a cliff like Schoop has.

Usually guys have bad years because they slump for some period but at least in some other period still show their normal output- but their annual numbers are depressed by the slump period. Schoop hasn't had a single decent stretch all season - I'm afraid he is done. You look at Javy's game logs and he's had some decent runs, and has been near 800 OPS recently. Schoop has done nothing - not one good stretch sufficient to give him even one month at 700 OPS and he has 3 months under 500.

Pechorin 'falls' off his boat.... https://news.yahoo.com/putin-ally-falls-sea-adding-111159933.html

I'm not big on hitters worrying too much about launch angle, but Tork is one guy that could use a tad more loft in his swing.

Larry Kudlow would be a trivial case. You could throw Bartiromo and Paul Gigot in the pot also. They're out there.

food is probably a place where workers' wages have been falling behind the rest of the economy. No way they can catch up without prices going up.

Finance page journalists lean right. I take some of that as agenda reporting.

all you had to do was lime treat the water to raise the pH and you have no problem - heck they could have installed a simple pH monitor and dribbled a tiny amount of NaOH into the water. Get the pH to ~9, which is where most municipal systems that soften their water operate, and lead will not go anywhere.

truth be told it was the Money's fault. When money is on the table for the implementation of a bad idea, it's the responsibility of technical people to push back as hard as is necessary to stop it. The Truth is, Snyder was a jerk through all this, but if someone had actually gotten to him with the science of what was going to happen, which is/was well known, I don't believe even he would not have stopped it. A few people pushed back a little, but nobody pushed back hard enough. But engineers are just as flawed as anyone else. Easy to say "well, they don't want my input, it's their responsibility now." But it isn't, because 'they' are ignorant of what you understand. I have no sympathy for any of the pols in the case because none of them wanted to know, but I have zero sympathy for the supposed "peons they tried to railroad when it was the higher up's fault". That arg doesn't wash either.

Greene out at home? Contact play?

"It raises the possibility that the apparent Democratic strength in Wisconsin and elsewhere is a mirage — an artifact of persistent and unaddressed biases in survey research. If the polls are wrong yet again, it will not be hard to explain. Most pollsters haven’t made significant methodological changes since the last election. The major polling community post-mortem declared that it was “impossible” to definitively ascertain what went wrong in the 2020 election. The pattern of Democratic strength isn’t the only sign that the polls might still be off in similar ways. Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on abortion, some pollsters have said they’re seeing the familiar signs of nonresponse bias — when people who don’t respond to a poll are meaningfully different from those who participate — creeping back into their surveys." ---from the article

BR has Wentz at 66 IP for the season. I had thought it was significantly more

Wentz seems past the AFL at this point.

Well, 'Welcome to the Show" *was* Circus music!

KC using a 5 men on the IF shift to get Reyes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brady Singer: The healthy guy we passed on to take Mize. /....sigh..../

I know this horse is beaten, dead, buried, and forgotten, but I would still be giving Alexander's starts to Norris. Of course they've made sure it's too late to do that now by not keeping Daniel stretched out. You can try 16 ways to Sunday to persuade yourself it's not, but it will remain true that Tyler Alexander does not have MLB starting stuff.

2nd and 20. No problem. Now,, can they stop anyone?

I was less than impressed with the accuracy of some of his throws - of the 1st two TD's (don't remember the order), one was thrown over his receivers wrong shoulder, which didn't matter because he was 15 yds open, and the other did not lead enough away from the defender. Against a better secondary both of those plays might have failed. But those nits picked, JJ plays *fast*, and you can't teach that. The one 10yd TD on the pass over the middle in traffic was a thing of beauty - a Matthew Staffordesque delivery.

He spent half his life playing at the fool, but Al Franken is the smartest guy in a lot of the rooms he finds himself in.