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the problem is that CEOs are spineless by design because they will *always* sublimate what they know they should do with the excuse that they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders not to. Don't bother looking to that quarter for anything but leaked stories of self-justifying angst.

Of course, it won't take that many BLS directors fired until the admin gets a number it likes.

It's pretty universal that hitters hate to take a called third more than they hate going down swinging, and to be fair, there is a certain level of logic to that, but I don't believe you can be a good hitter if you will *never* risk taking a called third.

oddly enough, the starting pitching has not been the problem the last couple of games.

Tigers have a lot of young hitters who smash bad pitching and struggle against good pitching - most players do of course but the Tigers seem extra susceptible recently. It could be as simple as teams making more of an effort to pitch against their normal tendencies just because they all know at this point that the Tigers are really big on tracking pitcher tendencies. When you are dealing with human performance, the past is only a reliable indicator of the future until the people responsible for creating the history decide it isn't.

that dot plot is going to drive inflation expectations up. I'm going to guess any mortgage rate relief from this cut will be short lived as the yield curve starts to steepen. Consumers already expect over 4 percent next year - the finance guys will figure it out eventually too. 🙄

IDK, in the end, I don't think anything can save a democracy from stupid voters.

The twist this time is that in the past - or at least since the 1980's - it would be unusual to have an Administration that cared (apparently) so little about inflation and pushed the Fed so hard only on the low interest rate side because politically, inflation hits everyone but unemployment only hits who it hits. Maybe because Trump being a real estate guy is just predisposed to cheap money? Whatever. If they lose control of inflation and are eventually forced to pivot, it will have to be a much harder pivot, and will mean a harder landing. Hopefully it doesn't get to where it did in 1980. Then add in the inflationary effect of removing undocumented workers from the labor pool, which drives up labor costs and just adds more to inflation and it's an even more internally contradictory set of policies.

Is there any reason to believe the ATC actually knew what was distracting the pilot? Seems unlikely unless the pilot had told him and that's not the kind of chatter that should happen over ATC.

the change allows for self-service in addition to full service, but requires full service still be offered.

Generally in America, money talks louder than ideology and insurers know that vaccinated people are going to cost them less.

"Look before you leap" comes to mind.

I guess Hinch would like Vest to be more than he is. Wouldn't we all.

wish I had some remnant of confidence in Holton.

Don't pitch to Ramirez if anyone is on base, even if they are loaded.

exactly - the game is still hitting a round ball with round bat so the statistical noise in a 3 game series can easily end up louder than the quality of play signal, but we want to see the quality of play and a team (and management) that isn't panicking.

yup

well no doubt WCF Sr was about as old-school/old-boy as they came. Just my guess but I don't think Martha had to do any 'pushing' to get WCF Jr out of the picture because I always got the impression he never wanted to be in it with the Lions to being with, but had to humor Pops when he was alive because Sr wanted to groom Jr to take over the team.

that's about my limit as well. We did a long trip like that a couple years ago - across on the north via Montana to CA and back on a more southern route, but my sister is in SoCal so it was almost like having a few 'home' days to unwind in the middle.

LOL - we don't lack for 1st generation Chinese living in town, but you're right in the sense that it's a different profile. We don't get the type of Cantonese refugees via Hong Kong that we would have seen 40 yrs ago who would gravitate to an easier place to afford, we get professionals and academics that are already able to write their own tickets.

Those guys needed a top QB to play with but never got one.

I thought the drive to Portland from the Idaho state line was a fun one. You pass through every kind of environment there is in a couple hundred miles.

I guess it's a generational thing - the fact that Chinese emigres to the US in recent years have been mostly Engineers and Scientists, but I'm depressed about the loss of good Chinese restaurants in A^2. We use to have 5 or 6 places you could get a really fabulous meal, now not only they all gone, but those that remain can't out cook a Panda House.

well congrats - that makes you an upwardly mobile (by) 1%'er.

All that - and even self service gasoline!