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this is correct, and TBF I don't think there are many voices criticizing Cabrera for taking his money. This is absolutely on the team for not giving him the DFA - I would guess from the reporting he won't accept being DL'd.

When you consider all the Hall of Famers that got cut by teams back in the day because they would not carry them near the end of their careers even when they were still moderately productive, it's quite the contrast. You can argue that the game today may be of higher quality because the athletes are better, but I'm not sure some of the old time team managements didn't have more competitive drive than today's neo-billionaire owner class. Or just for the thought experiment to a more recent case - can you even dream that George Steinbrenner would carry a Cabrera on one his Yankee teams? He'd have cut DiMaggio if he were performing at Cabrera's level.

When does the heat reach Shanahan?

I really don't know how much is just political reluctance by Biden vs US 3D level chess strategy vs a newly energized Europe, but as long as the right things do happen, then IMO having the US lurking more in the background than in a highly public lead can only have good long term consequences - both for how things play in Russia and future Euro integration of Ukraine.

getting a little more background on this, spiting DeSantis certainly plays a big part, but there are apparently a few additional moving parts here, as you might expect in any big corporate move. One is that this development was not an Iger project, and when he inherited it he was not big on the idea a moving a chunk of the creative management talent away from the studio in CA. Disney is apparently also not thrilled with the increasing prospect of FLA allowing inceased Casino activity near Disney venues. So some additional parallel motivations.

Cold is a downside of all battery powered equip. Every kind of battery performs worse in cold weather. Some chemistries are better than others, but all suffer as the temperature falls. In theory, IC engines get a boost from cold weather as the it increases the cylinder charge density, but that I don't know if in practice that compensates for poorer fuel system performance in the cold.

The umpires may not 'run' the clock, but they are in charge of it. I don't think a home team clock operator would get much leeway from the HP ump before he noticed if the operator were trying to shade it for the home team. Then again, we are talking about these major league umpires......🤮

HaHa. That and $5 gets you Vente at Starbucks.

yup - they may have known they didn't have a shot at being a 100 win team, but they also had to know this division might be winnable with 80.

It was a crappy year to be mid-tier shopping. I wonder if it will turn out to be an outlier or if teams are getting smarter about keeping their mid-level guys locked up?

Also, in her case, being from a city in the ME that was still basically Greek when she grew up in it, she probably had more sense of 'Anarchism' as a politically relevant (and not good!) movement.

Meadows was was going to be back and that would be like a new signing...... (that's not to rag on the guy but issues like his do make hell for roster planning.)

No, I think it had more to do with the conncetion to anarchists. but curiously enough 'A&G' was a favorite expression of my mother, who was her daughter.

because that's what they still are?

try telling that to the A's.

That's a blast from the past. I can remember my immigrant Grandmother using 'Sacco & Vinzetti' to refer to crazy people sort of the way we use 'whackjob' today.

yeah - it's hard to know what chaos in a private life will mean to someone's professional performance. As long as it doesn't lead to blackmail..... External markers of leadership are better.

LOL - I hope you are just being conservative, 'cause if your 1-1 is only worth 3-5 wins over 60 games he's a bust. He better be worth more than that healthy.

not very sublime in the first place but now definitely ridiculous.

LOL - the 'development' loan trap looks pretty much the same whether the banker is the US, the IMF or China. China is going to find out the hard way the same things the West found out the hard way. Your leverage has a limit. Ultimately the clients will default and the only result of that will be Chinese bankers mad at the Chinese government. And poor people on the ground in those countries stay just as poorly off as before the cycle started.

Either last year or the year before Dickerson talked a lot about some test/study work done on how much the wind takes off the travel of a hit to the OF. IIRC, and I probably don't, but someone probably remembers, the number was something like a 10 mph winds shortens a fly by 20 ft. So it would be hard to say it never happened since you might get a 30-40mph wind gust. But the fluid mechanics at the stands will be complex - in fact in a double deck stadium like Tiger Stadium they directly block head winds as the ball gets closer to the fence. Might also sometimes have been that the wind was blowing from the LF corner and a ball the fielder thought was coming down to him got blown laterally further toward the RF corner and so catches the upper deck stands. I think this what was going on that Dickerson had been reading up on - it has been a couple of years: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/10/23/understanding-the-meteorology-of-a-fly-ball-may-help-baseball-teams/?sh=9f651a86a5c2

this is certainly true. To me that is the great weakness conuming your news from a passive device like a TV - it's too self-contained. If I see a by-line about something on the net - if I have any interest - I can easily find some primary source that lays out the facts and/or background with the minimal 'interpretation' that may give me a totally different understanding from that of the blow-dried Bob reading copy on Action News, or worse the arguing marionettes on cable. Not that the net can't be bad. Certainly you get as or more misinformed on Twitter as anywhere, but at least you have to option not to be.

You mean he doesn't support work requirments for whistle blowers too?

bingo

true enough - but it's a big bureaucracy - the ability to make fine level adjustments is probably lacking. Hard rules tend always to err to one extreme or the other. In the absence of rules you need judgment, and the freedom to apply it, which are antithetical to any bureaucratic ediface. Heaven forbid someone with authority goes off the rails or just makes a mistake, you end up in court, and USNews finds out about it before the rankings issue. 😱