gehringer_2

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

🙊🙉🙈

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

Weird but oddly amusing. I'd never seen this although I've had a copy of Graceland since its release.

Yup. I left this one in the 7th as I had thing to do and could only laugh at Soto self-destructing - I guess it was his turn after Vest and Jimenez. *IF* Skubal doesn't have anything serious wrong, and Manning is stable and ERod is on his way back. That's three plus Turnbull and Brieske (if he doesn't turn into a pumpkin) as a presumptive starting rotation next season. That wouldn't be a half bad place to be if there were any hope by then that they could score runs.

It looks confusing now because which solutions are best are not yet obvious. But if you look at the growth of renewables generating capacity on the grid, things are already moving faster than people appreciate. There are a lot ways things can shake out - more solar generation and local overnight battery storage - (BTW - an ideal use for that car battery that is no longer giving you 300 mile range but still has lots of cycles left) or maybe the storage stays on the grid, or maybe we get past the politics on nukes and it supplies the night time base load, and of course wind still blows some at night. In any case, all these things are already possible, the but economics of the choices can't shake out until people start trying them out at larger scale.

apparently show up in the clubhouse in a red cap and and fill when the team X-ray machine is on the blink.

Exactly what worries me. If an org can’t identify good talent, what confidence can we have that there aren’t players in the org with more potential than they recognize and so they don’t get the focus they should have?

The mistake with Tork was not giving him the shot, it was not recognizing when it was time to let him back down to catch his stride again. His time at AAA now can/should be more productive for him having had his weaknesses highlighted for him.

No, the point is there is no seeming rational process behind them dragging out the inevitable with guys like short while denying opportunities to other guys even if only the opportunity is to fail. Again, it looks like they are wed to managing AAA as though they were a playoff team, which is ridiculous.

But Hinch needs Zach Short so he’s there to call up so Hinch can play 7 level chess during a game he is already hopelessly behind in and won’t makes any moves anyway. 🤬

I get it - they think he is going to fail against better pitching, and maybe he will. But I think if my player evaluation system were generating the kind of monumental failure that the Tigers' is, I'd be a little more modest about the level of credence I continued to give it.

If they wanted they could probably get the size and shape of your living room by audio analysis from an Alexa/Echo. Just sayin' 🙉 Of course it might be fun to watch a Roomba generate a floorplan for a room out of random walk segments.

I think I'd tend to call it "development control"

yeah - I'm not sure how a Roomba gives anyone any more information about what's going on in your house than a smart speaker already does. I don't see the increment. I mean if you put a portable mass spectrometer in it to analyze what it was finding on your floor maybe, but who would buy a Roomba for $20,000? 🤔

Seriously, I don't know what they think their scouting intelligence is telling them, but when you call up a 25yr OF with a sub 650 MiLB OPS who's already posted a sub 600 OPS in 220 major league AB, while the guy playing next him has 27HR and a >1000 OPS and still hasn't been given a shot, I say you are thinking way too much for your own good.

Kerry Carpenter with another HR, his 5768th. (actually his 7th at Toledo to add to 22 at Erie)

I think is was more than his glove that Sparky didn't like about HoJo....

Why Bernie is who he is - i.e. not someone who can effectively lead, only be a solo voice.