gehringer_2

I remember driving to Pittsburgh. As late as the early 70's as you got near town everything got black. FIrst time we flew into LA was about 1974(?). They didn't have jetways at LAX yet. It was SoCal, you just disembarked to the Tarmac. The door of plane opened on the LA air and the ozone and NOx stung your eyes immediately.

the river in question was probably the Cuyahoga in Cleveland, which did famously catch fire a number of times in the '60's prior to the passage of the clean water act. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head who the major industrial operators were. Republic Steel was there but there were many others. I have no idea how AOC would have gotten to Deloitte - clearly misinformed or typoed or a sloppy research. That bit aside, 'burning rivers' in the pre EPA days is truthy. If you missed the 60's you really don't have any idea how bad the environment was before the clean-up started. You could see the smog hanging over ever major city, smell the stink walking near any highly trafficked road, crappy dead inland water everywhere. It was real and it was bad.

I follow the logic, but I'd be amazed if the NFL could get the dots connected fast enough to call for the play to be overturned in real time.

LOL; Bill Gates, about as button down a nose to the grindstoner as ever was, blew more on his involvement with a woman than Ilitch even dreams about. It can happen. That said, I have no reason at all to believe it will, but there are no certainties when it comes to older men and younger women.

Elmer occasionally uses his size well to pinch off rushers and he came up with a few take aways. Edvinsson has really upped his game though. There was one almost comical play where Edvinsson and a Panther were tied up fighting for possession at about mid-board in the Det end. Simon just sort of surrounded him and bulled the Panther player and the puck along the boards all the way to the mid line then politely disengaged. That was one way to clear the zone. Panthers did well attacking the one man high on the Det PPs

Gardenhire loved him too when he was in MN.

Mine ended with Tom Baker (who is apparently still kicking in his 90's)

and the Yankees and Dodgers out-draw everyone even when they lose. Nothing new about teams having brand ID.

This was season for Wenceel to improve on his 1st season and cement his future. Instead he treaded water - ended up with almost zero net improvement. Pretty much mush rather than cement.

True of course - but he was pretty decent over a couple of years. You can't expect quality for nothing. Arb can be expensive but is it really any worse than what you would pay in FA for equivalent production? Assuming the Tigers believe he can produce again.

I think the other thing that is true is that this is not like the Scherzer episode. To me Scherzer was an unforced error because we offered competitive money ( once the amortizations were figured in) and Max knew that full well, but he wanted to leave. I think all things being equal Tarik would be happy to remain a Tiger, but the economics have shifted so much in terms of the rich teams having stupid high incomes to throw around now that the Tigers cannot reasonable offer what he will likely be offered.

yeah - it can't be discounted. If he buys something more than 150 ft at the waterline for her the Tigers could be in trouble.

The only one I'd maybe differ is Foley. I would think given the need and the pre-injury track record, if Foley is going to be reasonably healthy he'd be a lock.

which he probably fabricated anyway.

Now watch them re-elect Begich and Sullivan. Better to be on the roof stranded in the cold than be defended by a gay soldier, because ......'Murica!

Also - with Campbell there is going to be a basic conflict between his creativity and the officials being predisposed to not liking and looking to flag anything they haven't seen before or that they have to think about.

Yeah - Malloy has great zone discipline, but I haven't seen enough evidence Malloy can hit the ball when it's in the zone - at least so far. The former by itself isn't enough to stay in the majors.

and Kirk's fans on the forum didn't like what they thought was dis-repect to his memory here, in a place were not more than few people saw it? Jeez Louise.

The other extreme end way to look at the argument is that your one year of your superstar may be worth 6-8 WAR plus the economic value of a playoff run, and you get a high comp pick, which gives you a shot at a guy with as good a set of odds of success as a prospect you get in trade; compared against getting a prospect or two in a trade, from the team that knows them best and is still willing to part with them, who have a good chance of having less career WAR than your star produced in that one year you kept him. And I think for Harris the high pick has a lot of appeal because he knows what he wants in a pick and it's probably not what a lot of teams draft for.

You're kidding, right?

Harris alluded to this talking about the Tiger approach would change as the line up changed, and to large degree this is probably the ultimate truth. Once a guy gets to the majors, very few ever change their profile much. Not saying none, but few. Now in the Tigers case, since the K's are a recent thing for Greene, it seems reasonable to expect he can move back along a path he has already been on. With Torkelson it's all about his willingness to go to RF, and I'm still not sure Hinch has his heart in encouraging him to do that. Even in the presser, Hinch pushed back a little on the idea that he's willing to see the power hitters back off on power for contact. It's an interesting clue of a bit of daylight between him and Harris that they live with. Which is fine, no two people in an org do or should agree 100% on everything.

Nuclear power is a good base load match for renewables. The question is whether US society can still produce the kind of competence and discipline required to be a safe nuclear operator. At one end, the US Navy does very well - at the other end we saw the outcome of a sloppy and poorly disciplined society running Nuke plants in Chernobyl. I've have no qualms about the science and engineering of nuclear power. But accountability is such foreign word in US business management today that I do worry about nuclear power in the hands of quarterly profit driven/unaccountable management US business.

but probably not the liquid sodium cooled concept this outfit is pushing. Liquid metal cooling is one of those bad ideas like Hydrogen powered cars that sounds good so it just won't die. TBF, I think what is at work here is the divergence between science and engineering. There are some things which are elegant Science or elegant logic, that simply can't be adequately engineered in the real world. So these ideas just keep getting life and investment, and then ultimately fail the test of ever actually being executed in the mundane real world of what is practically possible.

Bridge is done, apparently they can't get the customs houses into operation - construction/staffing/training, whatever. Some reports the Canadian side lost a ton of workers to the nearby Stellantis plant project and accusations that US gov is dragging its feet.

Yes. I think he has posted a link to it here before but I won't presume to - just PM him for it.