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so either Meadows has flipped, or alternately any continued contact would just be additional evidence of a continuing criminal enterprise......

Maybe too many hard breaking balls? Of course no-one in baseball management anywhere really wants to know. The Tigers generally don't want guys throwing more than 50% fastballs. But just a couple of high profile anecdotal cases, Max, a guy supposedly headed for arm trouble from the time he broke in, pretty much never throws more than 20% sliders. Justin Verlander never threw more than 22% sliders until 2019. The most sliders he threw was over 35% starting out 2021 and we know where that ended.

solid take

Silly column about Soto by McCosky yesterday. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. There is only one issue with Soto - can he find his slider? If he can't, he's not going to be successful and of course will fall out of the closer role. If he does, none of the statistical fall off litany McCosky catalogs means anything, because it is all because he can't throw his slider consistently this season. But I suppose if you get paid by the word, then: "Soto is toast if he can't find his breaking pitch consistently" isn't going to pay the bills even if it's all that need be said.

As much as we talk about development failure, I'm more struck by their inability to correctly evaluate their own everyday players. They had money to spend last season and could have done any number of things differently, but their internal intelligence told them that Candelario, Willi Castro, Schoop, Barnhart, Grossman were players that could form the core of a decent team that rookies like Greene and Torkelson could add into. But in 6 of 6 cases their internal evaluation of the player was wrong.

The Ukrainians say the weapon used at the airfield in Crimea was there own, but none the less this: Can't vouch for Rogoway sources other than that he he's been around defense journalism for a while. Runs an e-mag called 'The War Zone'

interesting. Earlier today I could not get to twitter via cellular, but my hard wire I-net hasn't had an issue.

next year just meaning at least next year as nobody other than Kreilder even has 200 AB at AAA in support of their potential ceilings. So maybe just say 'in the semi-immediate out years'

of course you can have a perfect bat path and still be too late with it....

Pence is pretty much a worm. I can't really come up with a better fit. That would be a guy that blindly follows his nose in the dark, eating whatever dirt has been shoveled on him, and in the end just ends up a someone else's bait.

TBF, we do have a couple of guys who have put up some pretty nice MiLB numbers at least recently. If they don't flame out after 100-150 AB maybe one or two of them may be better hitters than Stewart was. That's the best we can hope for now. But heck, even if we assume Tork and Greene are both going to be + MLB hitters (and that is still an open question) you look at the rest of the bats on the team and after Javy - who even if he has disappointed is a reasonable bat for a SS - and you have basically nothing. So assuming you need at least 6 decent hitters in a lineup to score runs, we are still at least 3 short. If in the next year we need to count on an MLB breakout by at least three out of say - Kreidler, Couch, Rogers, Perez, Carpenter - that's asking an awful lot.

but if you put in the context of people who have always been able to claim favored status with respect to law enforcement, i.e. white privilege and the rest, it makes more sense.

Sad thing is that conviction under the law prohibiting the removal of documents contains a bar against holding future federal office, but it's probably not enforceable on the Presidency since the qualifications for Prez are set in the Constitution and Congress has no explicit authority to override them, and given the current Supreme Court..... OTOH, if they could get him convicted and sentenced, say by early 2024, it might be pretty tough to campaign from Leavenworth. 🔒⚖️

that's a bit revisionist. Stewart's best BA at AAA was 260, so having him come up and not be able to break 220 shouldn't have been a big surprise. He hit for good power in the minors, but was never the kind of hitter in the minors that would make you think he would be a good hitter in the majors - you could only hope at best he would be a Rob Deer type, low OBP, maybe good power, but he wasn't even that.

A significant capability for the Ukr air force.

4 IP for Norris without a walk. We'll how long that lasts.

I think I am too. Go the Lions route. Don't just turn the page, get a new book. (now watch the Lions go down the tubes again.......)

no, just putting out there that concerns about lithium are overblown. Yes, there will be a lift to increase production. But Lithium is about as common in the earth's crust as Cu, Zn or Cr. You don't get a dozen or so large multinational manufacturers going full tilt for a set of technologies based on a non-existent resource base. Lithium suppliers are committing to battery manufactures based on their projections of how much they've determined they can expand production and it seems to be enough for the anticipated market. I think a good counter example would be hydrogen. For years we have heard talk about the hydrogen economy being just around the corner, but of course we never see it, and the reason is that because even though every water molecule contains two hydrogen atoms, there actually is no source of large scale molecular hydrogen (the form needed to 'burn') available currently or in the foreseeable future. Thus while you hear 'people' carry on about it constantly - touting its supposed availability, you don't see any actual commercialization attempts anywhere, and it's because when industrial people look at commercializing a hydrogen application for a real world application they quickly learn there isn't any. OTOH, 'people' carry on a lot about Li, but you don't see the talk bothering the people already adopting it commercially. They've done the due diligence and aren't too worried about it.

The burning mystery of Jacob Robson's disappearance without a trace has been resolved. He has hooked on with the Kansas City Monarchs - and indie league team. Still has never been any transaction posted for him by the Tigers....

Deja vu all over again

So you thought it was funny unintentionally or it is supposed to be funny? I can't say I would have expected funny from the trailer but trailers often miss, and if course sometimes they haven't decided quite how to pitch a film when the 1st trailers come out.....

Even Soto’s meltdown isn’t the worst aspect of the story. Every pitcher comes out flat sometime, and Hinch could have gone and gotten him sooner. But he could have had 3Ks and given up a solo HR on 100 low on the black and they still lose the game. They were shutout in their own house again

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yeah - "Blonde John Wick" was my exact thought when I saw the trailer for this.

Ok - let's do the math. A 100 kWhr car battery would contain - very roughly 10 kg of lithium. If you want to build 200 million batteries, that's 2 million tonnes of lithium. Known deposits per USGS are 21 million tonnes, and no-one has really started looking for it seriously until recently so I would expect reserves to ultimately increase by an order of magnitude (as does USGS). Just for a scale, the ocean contain 230 billion tonnes of dissolved Li. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-lithium.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#cite_note-uslit-49