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But that's the funny thing SB, everybody hears the DOW number every night on the news and they *do* think it's the economy. Don't ask me why.

LOL - Right from the get go you have to let go of what should be vs what is when it comes to MLB scoring. Seriously, if I had to guess, you get to the no error ruling based on an assumption by the scorer that if Javy had taken the time to stand up and set for a throw (i.e. ordinary effort play), the runner would have been safe. So by attempting the DP he went beyond ordinary effort and it's just a failed FC (and no-one got an extra base on the throw so no error was charged) even though he might have been able to take more time and go to 1st for one. Funny thing is that if had gone to 1st and made a bad throw, for certain the error would have been charged. But that's just another measure of how goofed up scoring is. And of course, the error in judgement to attempt a DP that isn't there isn't an error either. 🤷‍♂️

2/4 so far tonight. Sitting at 1.323 OPS WM wins its opener 7-0. McG 2/4 2 doubles. Clark 1/2 3BB.

It's funny how you can pretty much throw away everything they say about hitting before the season started. The big push for Riley was supposedly to lay off outside pitches. Well of course they are trying to pitch him away and he's doing just fine swinging away and taking them the other way. The whole discussion in the interviews with Hinch was probably 80% a mind game played for the oppositions' analysts.

Money, it's a crime Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie Money, so it's said It's the root of all evil today But if you ask for a rise It's no surprise that they're giving none away

LOL, not quite. Reality? It's money that is real, countries are social constructs.

well the worst actual fielding 'error' was Kreidler breaking in on a ball over his head that he probably catches if he takes the right route. On the IF play, I suppose if the scorer reasons that the runner would have been safe at 2b anyway given 'ordinary' effort, then Javy's decision to try for the DP it and having it fail is just a failed FC. No argument that a ball thrown to a base at the ankles is an error, but Javy didn't get much on it fro his knees so it really shouldn't have been that tough for Keith the have come up with it. Colt hasn't looked all that good in the field at 1st or 2nd. Maybe it's gotten in his head a little now.

first K was definitely on a ball - by almost a full ball width. But the ump gave the pitcher extra on the outside against all the RH batters pretty much all game long.

Not fired, not retired, no announcement of an upward move to a new team?

That's the question the Fed has to struggle with. We had 'stagflation' before monetarism took over at the Fed. From Volker on forward any Fed we've had would first stomp inflation and we'd just have the recession - employment be damned. We don't know what this one will do. Powell talks a lot about 'dual obligation' to inflation and employment. I think that's a canard - the fed needs to control inflation, they don't any tools to push employment beyond where it wants to be without creating inflation so it's something that it was economically foolish for Congress to task the Fed with, but that the ignorance of US politics.

right. In the 8 team league they were playing each team 22 times = 154. When the leagues expanded to 10 in 1962 it went to playing 9 teams 18 times = 162. 9 times 17 would have been 153 but then home/away wouldn't have been balanced.

don't know the breakdown on shot percentage in the corner vs the rest of the arc, but the real key is to get the eFG for the all threes -for at least the big majority of players, to a number closer to the eFG of the midrange jumper. Then the D is no longer biased to any point on the floor. If you can do that by eliminating just the corner, fine, if not the line needs to be moved back all the way around.

This reminds me of Ford taking an interest in Mazda when they were building their US presence. Companies that are primarily competitors still find reasons to work together. One piece you have to count is the international situation for TMSC with China. Increasing their stake in US manufacturing capacity as much as they can widens the escape hatch for them to relocate the company if the Chinese try to take over Taiwan.

Rates will fall if the economy slows because demand for credit will fall. The *right* result but for all the wrong reasons.

sadly true

It wouldn't have to be very big money to be better money that minor league hockey but even if it's not better, if you just assume he's not going to get rich in either place but is going to get enough make student life easy, which is going to be a more fun year?

*he* looks like he's had a nose job.

When the US was the world's leading manufacturer of everything coming out of WWII, we were the indispensable nation in any trade system. But that's long gone. Asia is the manufacturing center of the world. The rest of world can put together a perfectly prosperous trade regime without the US, and now probably will.

Shawn Fain's first win.

well. he's got a -1 WAR to work off now......

pretty much this. I suppose if JB started fining him it might get his attention, but can a coach even do that kind of thing anymore?

Trammell would often go to 1st for the third out even when the short throw to 2nd was available, because there were always fewer things that could go wrong. Of course he had a lot of confidence in his throwing accuracy.

exactly - one of two things is true of everything Trumps says: It's either a lie, or something he will change his mind about in 10 min.

Jake has played 5 years and is now 30. He is what he is - doubtful he will ever clear the Mendoza line again. Dingler isn't particularly young either, but he could still have some improvement possible.

Trump doesn't care. An isolated/isolating America, sort of a 1st world N. Korea, is fine with him.