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LOL, wouldn't be surprised!

"English Sh*t"

this is an interesting point, because it highlights the difference in the two aspects of intelligence analysis. One one hand, they were probably accurate in their quantitative measurements of the Afghan army's resources and capabilities, but the strategic analysis of the human factors failed, just like it did in Vietnam. Just because an army can fight, doesn't mean they will. In both 'Nam and Afghanistan, the situation was that the army we left behind realized that without us, they could not win in the end, so there was no point in prolonging the conflict. And that is the perfectly rational analysis of the situation. The US top level strategic analysis simply assumed those armies would fight because if would be convenient for *us* and our domestic politics if they did, and that was the major failure of intelligence vision.

I would guess that varies from player to player. What does or doesn't put a hitter off his feed is probably as individual as each player.

That an easy one. Same reason Afghanistan was Joe Bidden's fault.

It seems like more than one baseball management around the league has stumbled - getting stuck in 'rebuild' mode - unable to make the transition out of planning to be better to actually being better.

Ukraine attempting drone attacks on Rostov-on-Don last night, Russian Southern Military HQ. Maybe too well defended to hit but that's probably the point; keep some Russian air defense capabilities tied down there.

can somebody please get the kid some shoes made from hockey skate uppers before he pitches again?

Leyland is the kind of guy who would do that. Hinch, I doubt it.

Zwieback maybe.

Yankee's had enough luck early to win two games. But down to two hitters again, the Tigers will be playing for lottery balls.

I'll believe he sits when he's actually sitting...🤕

probably set off by school starting. Definitely a lot of it about.

there is sure a lot of love for the Lions out there for KC to only be favored by 4.5 at home.

the one big difference is that BH draws its water from a lead free source and never made any systemic changes that would have ld anyone to think anything in the system could be driving lead levels. (and one of the things that is irritating in these stories is that there is always companion talk about smelly, yellow water, and those things have absolutely zero to do with lead contamination. Lead in water doesn't smell and has no color.) What is probably true in BH is that there are local service lines that contain sections of old lead pipes and those have to be found and replaced, and there is a large program in place to do exactly that. It's not a matter of a political policy issue like switching water sources was in flint, it's a matter of relatively micro level system maintenance/repair. Like almost everywhere in older American cities, BH is decades behind on their infrastructure upkeep.

Interesting question, especially for players in the reserve clause days who had virtually no freedom of mobility. But on the other hand, if you were an athlete you probably had to learn to deal with or make your peace with that stuff long before you reached the majors. And even a guy like Gibson is just a guy, doesn't mean another teammate won't/can't lay him out if he pushes too hard. I suppose a lot of what guys like Gibson did was just sophomoric stuff, which other guys could just ignore. And of course doubly ironic that by the time Gibson got to LA it was the Dodgers' lack of seriousness that T'd *him* off.

If you want to do a little alternative history exercise on the Detroit metro area - imagine what would/could have happened if cross-district bussing had been the decision. White Detroit may have sighed in relief when the decision came down, but it was the death knell for their town. I would argue the level to which Detroit fell would not have been nearly as severe if it had gone the other way. All cities did badly in the last decades of the 20th cent, but it didn't need to be as bad in Detroit as it was if people hadn't been given such an easy choice to flee.

that concept was trotted out wrt Riley at one point as well. You can call it cocky and in some cases that's probably true, but in some cases it's just not understanding what you don't know yet. Think about JV coming up for those two starts in 2005 and getting hammered. He had to experience that a FB good enough to put away any MiLB hitter still needed secondary pitch support in the Majors so he went back and learned what he had to. But it's not like the confidence he had wasn't justified based on his experience to that point.

having lived in Detroit at 'ground zero', which is to say a neighborhood about to go through 'white flight' in the late 60's 70's I would say you are no under no obligation to call this a theory, it was fact. There were two good sized Catholic parishes in our area of NW Det that both operated schools, St. Mary's of Redford and St. Scholastica/Benedictine and I knew any number of kids that moved back and forth between the public and parochial system. There were three primary reasons a family sent their kids to a parochial school. 1) the family was devout 2) the student had worn out their welcome at Public School and it was suggested to the parents that their child (well OK, mostly 'he' ) would do better in an environment where discipline was meted out somewhat more sternly. 3) the fact that Detroit was making even modest efforts to integrate our public school and that a bigger busing case was moving through the courts was more than many families could take.

Pretty much

In a 6 across coach std body, Delta 1st class would normally be 4 across? 1st class in a wide body is variable. I wonder if It's possible that with air travel picking back up to record levels after the pandemic slowdown, airlines/air leasing companies are having to pull air frames that went into storage in 2019-20 back into service and some airlines are settling for less than what they would have in their new orders. Air travel today is running just about at Dante's 8th circle of Hell. I spent a few years flying ~3 x month when it was a relatively civil experience. You couldn't pay me enough to do it now.

He's ordered 200K more conscripts be called up. Dream scenario is the he depletes his army to the point where the provinces tell him to sod off and he finds he can't do much about it. Prolly not likely but we can always hope. Then again, it might only take one to start something....

maybe. Then again, as you get older you are sort of forced to get used to the idea you are on your way out, at least for some.

People assume this is going to be a problem, but in our experience it has not. The stores know they are in instant trouble if they pick bad stuff for the order ahead customers and that grocery store loyalty isn't very strong, so that have plenty of motivation to have the staff put good stuff in the bags.

as an example, Torkelson's OPS ahead of the count is 1100, behind its 505. The cost of taking a strike early in the count looking for something better is quite high for him - although ironically in his case his OPS swinging at 1st pitchers is poor also (500 again), which could indicate he's over-swinging at the pitches he does like early - which is what the eye test tends to.