gehringer_2

If we are going to re-adjudicate every national boundary since Lenin the world is in even bigger trouble. If Putin really wants to go that route maybe Japan should reclaim all its one time Asian holdings.

People say this, but look at the % of GDP the US Federal Government spends. Other than wars and depression/catastrophe (including the Covid spend spree) spending the drift up has been pretty moderate over 60yrs considering the changes in the world.

Obama was only important because of his bio. That is still saying a lot - a huge amount really. Politically, it's not clear to me if anyone could have done anything more with the GOP opposition he faced, though it's probably safe to assume that at heart a lot of that opposition was also because his bio, so the two things are probably inseparable. In all respects other than his ambitions for health care Obama was a frightfully conventional thinker, and despite his obvious intellectual candlepower he really had no sense of what the US economy needed beyond the need to prevent Wall Street from imploding. But there was really no hope for any meaningful economic progress to come out of the 2008 election. Clinton and Obama were both in thrall to the NY banking establishment and McCain didn't have an economic thought in his head.

opinion on grant seemed to have pinballed all over the place - he was either a useless drunk or a great visionary. Guess you had to be there.... Same with Jackson to some degree. When I was in school opinion on Jackson in History books was pretty positive, today he commonly seems to be considered to have been an idiot.

Or they had him rest his arm for a couple of months after the season and when he restarted conditioning it was no better.

yes, course exactly this. The hitters already have the jacked up ball that is making it advantageous net offense wise for them to pull everything *despite* the shift, then people moan and groan that the balls that don't make it over fence aren't going for singles too. Screw that.

100% don’t mess with the rules because hitters refuse to learn to hit to the opposite field. What’s next? Ban the slider because guys can’t hit it? It would be exactly the same stupid logic.

And all she wants to do is dance.

Figures something coming from Saudi would be half-baked.

In the final analysis, as big money sports have evolved they have become more a mismatch to the core mission at a school like UM than ever, but that won't make any difference to them. I'm perfectly happy to be entertained as fan, but the truth is that as someone with almost 50 yrs of skin in the game with the University community here, if it all went away tomorrow the truth is I wouldn't shed a tear over it.

yup. Sort of a conflict between it being in the interest of MiLB players that it be easy to bring up minor leaguers and easy to cut older players at the end of their run, while it's the opposite for the current players, who want it to be costly to bring up minor leaguers and hard to cut or reduce the salaries of older players.

well, yes and no. By '78 there the rumblings had begun. There were some that wanted to be rid of Hayes by that point (2 yrs with more than 2 losses and 4 losses in 78 was too much for some) but he was going to be very hard to fire, the incident gave them the cover to do what some were hoping for.

I don't know if they have to fire him, but they should at least hit him with a hard suspension. - IDK - maybe something like 30 days?

if Berggren, Edvinsson and Soderblom make the team next season, that will be 6 rookie adds (I suppose Veleno still has rookie status but I'm not counting him) in 2 seasons which would be pretty impressive. Still probably a need to sign a FA Dman for next season, not sure how much more Staal has in the tank.

the internet needs a "Tucker Carlson is a Moron" meme.

LOL, running with your head down is always a good way to make an out. Actually it sort of looked like the batter didn't know/understand the interference rules - it almost looks like he's asking for 2nd because the 1B was in the run out lane.

speaking of which, if Xi has leaned on Putin to be good until the game are over, that would make maybe next wed to thurs as Putin's 'go' days. Rain Mon/Tues with weather in the 50s though so the talk of the middle of Feb being the hardest ground is a miss.

So, do you really want to park that electric car in your attached garage? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/18/cargo-ship-fire-porsche-bentley-ocean/

As a person that has training in some level of safety practice, I would say putting a TV over a table is pretty stupid. And there are certainly a lot people that could have told the restaurant owner that. The problem is that none of them worked for him. That is really the biggest problem in the way American business operates, they won't pay to keep the expertise they need in their own house - instead they contract everything out at the lowest $$ amount and because of their own ignorance about what they are doing, don't know if their contractors know what they should either. As bad as the product liability system it, it's about the only thing that pushes back against American business losing the last shred of accountability they have left. I mean - go right back the thing with Stafford - did they put up a stage without a railing or curbing? That would absolutely an accident waiting to happen, which really means it would be no accident at all. But the dirty little secret is that despite the ridiculous payouts when someone hits at the judicial lottery, the fact is that business knows those payouts still cost them far less than doing things right - and that is the real scandal, which is another reason the system doesn't change.

no guns, just some industrial scale crime.... https://news.yahoo.com/u-coast-guard-offloads-1-210603507.html

you've got that right.

plus it's a purely symbolic act today. You can't actually suppress anything that can be digitized anymore. I can put the text of every book that has ever been banned on one 1/2" SD card and duplicate them to my hearts content or even leave encrypted copies all over the cloud. Talk of "Banning" or "burning" books is dramatic and hyperbolic but the real issues are quiet curriculum choices and there is no need to ban or burn a book to drop it from (or add it to) a curriculum.

yeah - any Turkish leader has to prefer a non-aligned Ukraine running Sevastopol to the Russians but regardless of what happens in Ukraine or Donbass, it's hard to imagine the Russians leaving Crimea again any time soon.

Now you're thinking!

the prospect of interest rates rising and P/E ratios coming down to meet them, is going to drive a lot of investors hooked on high returns into investments of questionable wisdom. Houses are expensive to carry, depreciate fast if not cared for, involve risk and overhead to rent. It's like every other investment - if you know the landscape, the local economics, the schools, stay lucky with your tenants..... And if the Chinese are buying run for your life, as every US investment boom by the Chinese for the last 30 yrs has ended badly.