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Tracewski and Freehan on the outside. 2 should be Al but the shadow leaves it uncertain. Can't see 3's face well either but the body looks like Gates.

bottom three get the same number of ping pong balls, right? If they can't 'catch' Charlotte they could actually go out and play a game.

what you often don't see on a C-SPan feed is that a hearing room or chamber may be virtually empty when something like this is happening. Members often don't stick around to listen to what happens when they are not on camera - so that limits the opportunity somewhat. Look for whether the camera is taking any wide shots. If not, I'd make the odds the room is empty as pretty high.

Or else they have someone one their board at 6 or higher that other people don't.

Well, that's the thing isn't it? There is a lot of noise that he won't be able to play tackle in the NFL. A little unusul for there not to be a consensus top end OT in this draft but what can you do?

Cabrera 2 for 3, hit a ball off the wall - for a single.

Parker Brothers hit doubles. (sounds like a report from the Monopoly game in the den.....)

LOL - they got their 1/1 and got the guy who can't get on the court.

He's slowly spiralling out of control. His inhibition level just keeps dropping. The only question is whether he gets to 'crash and burn' before he runs out of rope with the legal system or creates some other catastrophe first.

you should not be able to tear your ACL doing what did.

He's looked better charging one-hoppers in the OF - no doubt

Games ends tied at 8 apiece. HR by Maton and Baddoo. Hit and a walk for Greene. Hit for Tork, 2B for Haase. Lots of runs given up by the MiLB arms

Miggy gets paid almost no matter what. In fact I'm going to guess the ONLY way he doesn't get paid is to announce he is retired, which would be a renouncement of this contract. The two practical routes to get him out of the lineup are a DL or for for them to DFA him. Now the last could be messed up because I suppose the really weird thing would be that Miguel agrees it's time to hang them up but then when they waive him some team picks him up off the waiver wire. I guess he would have to go play. Of course given the condition of the knee they can easily attest that he can no longer play for medical reasons and he just retires off the 60dl. Of course he'd have to agree to the latter, he doesn't have to agree with a decision to waive him.

OTOH, your more competitive players could well come to resent him taking that spot and underperforming if the team were to start playing any competitive ball. I'd guess you get a generation gap among the players with regard to how shabby it feels to cut a non-performing player who has been stubborn about sticking around past his sell date.

Wentz was having a good outing (1R 4IP 1BB 5K) until he hit a wall staring the 5th.

I guess that's where you have to decide how much you can help yourself in the draft. If I have enough DT on my board I like that I judge are going to be there when I pick, than that is the most important driver of what I'm will to pay for FA at that position.

In CF their will be new curved wall inside the old straight one, but I think off at the side they are just repainting the HR line on part of the RF wall but I'm not sure exactly where.

LOL - basic ignorance here. Ford divided the business and is making large investments on the 'e' side to build a sales capacity. You will lose money on your balance sheet when you are investing to build new capacity to make money later. Anyone who takes this as an indictment of weakness at Ford is ignorant of how you actually make money in the world. And notice that their legacy profits more than support their 'e' side investment level so they have maintained their overall financial health. This is economically ignorant trolling. I would note that investors don't seem to be much worried, overall F has pretty much tracked the S&P over the last couple of years.

lack of self-awareness is strong in this one.

yeah - the parking around the Stadia is probably not the next logical develop area. First you have to finish the commerical occupancy refill south of Grand Circus park. Maybe not everyone is coming back to on-site work but most will be - but the DT is still not full enough to force more develop need north. Just for example - Hudson's has to be filled once complete, Penobscot is underutilized and BookTower needs to be filled. And after that the next target may actually be the near east 375 corridor once the Frwy is gone. The parking lots keep things cleaned up and generating income. They will be replaced by a smaller footprint of parking structures when property values make surface lots uneconomic.

Don't disagree that there is a commitment there - I'm just hoping it's justified. If he hits it won't matter but but I was dismayed by what I have seen of his fielding - hopefully new team jitters or something.

they believe that if they got money, they would be different, but in truth they wouldn't!

the first sentence needs rebalancing - modern wars are almost 100% a test of industrial capacity, the balance being motivation, and Russia fails both by orders of magnitude. A Russia at full industrial mobilization is losing the balance of mechanized capacity on the battlefield daily to a West that is hardly spending its extra pocket change and it's young men have largely fled. Population is immaterial if all you can send bodies out there to do is become cannon fodder. The west has so far had Ukraine fighting this war with two hands tied behind its back - no fixed wing air resources or long range rocketry -- against a 100% resource deployed Russian force and the Russian is still dead in the water ( and the fields, and the trenches......). If Nato changes it mind about either (and it appears to be about to on the 1st) what chance will Russia have but to lose more ground? Russia's singular hope is on the political side, with voices like yours. But carry on.

I've been underwhelmed with Vierling. Hopefully I'm wrong.

LOL - I'd refine it to say that with him and Faedo there is more question whether they will ever be MLB starter material than that more time at AAA changes much for either.