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he needs to show up throwing hard - as in 95+. That's where the value in the athletic profile need to come.

and your 10% was Hillary. She almost certainly wins if the election comes the day after the 1st debate. She lost a lot of ground late.

mostly because it was throw back tech. Border control had been moving toward surveillance based detection in place of harder barriers because it's more cost effective. The barriers don't stop people for long, it's agents that stop people, and to stop them you have to find them so you need agents and vision, and such an expensive yet still permeable barrier just diverts dollars better spent on the vision and apprehension side. That's why people closer to the problem though it was a bad idea.

unless you are the couple whose plane is an hour late on a connection that was scheduled for a 1:20 hr layover two terminals over....

a couple of thing on this. 1st - a car battery is going to have a lot of useful cycles left in it once it's too run down to be a good car battery (i.e. capable of at least 75% of original capacity), so after markets are pretty sure to emerge for them - start up/shut down cycling for wind turbines would be an example. The other is that engineering depts at universities all over the country are falling over each other lining up research funds for development of car battery standardization and recycling tech. This will take some development time, but it's not the kind of thing where there are big inherent scientific hurdles to overcome - it's mostly nuts and bolts engineering process development - takes time and money.

Being a HS draftee Konerko also got several hundred more AB at multiple levels so its a bit apples and oranges. They pushed Torkelson as hard as they could to try to make up for lost time so it's hard to say what he might have done in the minors on a more leisurely pace - it's just an unknown. You can just as easily turn it around and say Tork put up college numbers like few ever have. Whatever - he need's more nights like last night!

If Tork ends up hitting like Konerko, he will be more valuable than Paulie because he is a better defender. I think that would make him a min 3 WAR/yr player and I'll take that for 10yrs anytime

IIRC, the evaluators knock on Paredes was that even if he hit, it was going to be empty BA because there there was no power projection. Since we have lost the board's history I can't look back to check that recollection. But, if that was the case, they appear to have been wrong. Even in his slumping July Paredes has hit three more HRs. But that would go more to why they never gave him the opportunity they gave others, and again, if that was the case, they were wrong. Given that he had accomplished nothing at MLB and that Meadows' weird year was unforeseeable, the trade was fine. If the Tigers made a mistake with Paredes it was in their evaluations long before the trade.

On on hand there is no excuse, on the other hand, it's also inevitable when guys haven't played with each other much.

well, TBH, I don't think this kind of polling means squat. It's a lot easier to poll people on what they think than what they will actually do because 1) you are usually asking them before they have actually thought about what they are going to do. 2) there is always a lot of space between what people say they are going to do and what they end up doing. It's why polling for turnout has never been much use either.

KeystoneXL was to get *more* Canadian sourced fuels into the US. But we were already getting a fair amount of tar sands sourced product into the Mid-west through exiting pipelines before KeystoneXL was proposed and I assume that continues, though I'm no longer in that industry. For instance, when I was working in refining tar sands product was a good chunk of the feedstock to refineries in Toledo.

The graphite is, but the process to make it can be dirty. I would guess production moved mostly to Asia to dodge environmental regs. Which goes back to our economic system not being capable of capturing externalities costs accurately. If we had accounting systems that could capture the unrecovered cost of environmental damage done by imported product production, a lot of things would still be done in the US that are not anymore.

I think the thing that many people haven't processed yet about EVs their that their cost of operation is already lower. We sort of know intuitively that electricity cost more than fossil fuel per BTU, but IC cars are really inefficient! At $4/gallon a car that gets 25mpg has a fuel cost of $0.16/mile. To compare, Ford claims an EMustang goes 2.4 miles/kWh* and in MI a kWhr costs $0.18, so that is $0.075/mile. That's a $8500 fuel cost savings in 100K miles. If the Fed gives you $7500 back on the purchase, that puts you $16k to the good assuming the cars are roughly equal production cost. (The battery in an EV probably costs a bit more than a bare IC engine, but taking an IC power train as a whole, they are in the same ballpark). Now all that said, if the batteries don't last >>100K miles the economics go down the tubes. *Ford says you get 28 miles of range for 1 hr of charge at 240V x 48A. That's 28mile/11.5kWr = 2.4 mile/kWh

it will be interesting to see him pitch, but his numbers indicate his problem is the same as ever - way too many walks (6.3/9), i.e., bad mechanics. As usual, the stuff was OK - low hits and high Ks.

Great photo of John Foster Dulles.

Signifies that his is working on his 1st level outfielding. If he is studious, he should reach "paint the fence" soon.

Dingler and Lipcius homer in 8-3 Erie win.

Torkelson walks on 4 close pitches leading off the bottom of the 9th with the Hens down one. I like that. EDIT: Carpenter reaches on a two base error, Davis drives them both in for the walk-off.

yup. I'm really beginning to wonder if Avila and Hinch are even on the same page together at this point. Bringing Baddoo up to sit is just making no sense at all.

OK - just checking....

Are we really debating whether Willi is a good OF? 🤔

Miggy should have swung at that 3-0

yeah - I don't remember "Javy needs a great 1B" being in the scouting reports we read before he came here. Serious omission!

LOL- if the wind blew it back at him or it knuckled, it was a great catch, if he had to reach back because he just overran it, not so much!

I don't think that many young players ever want to be traded. Sure, you absolutely do see it in vets who see the end and want a shot at a championship, but I think the ideal of most young players is to be part of team that grows into winning a championship together.