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It's pretty hard seeing the Twitter deal coming to any good conclusion at this point. Seems like the players on both sides want to break the china, which means the broken bits won't end up doing anyone any good except the floor sweepers (i.e. lawyers....)

are you allowed to carry only 8 players?

People in NYC are geometrically challenged, that building is clearly round.

How mnay go right back onto the 60 before the season? Mize certainly, Skubal probably till mid season -- is Faedo supposed to be ready?

Pretty much.....except for maybe Bradley Dartmouth

He could just bulldoze $40 billion in cash into a big pile on Market Street and set it on fire.....would achieve the same effect much faster. Plus it would save us all the need to find a new quicky news updating service.... And also: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-weighs-security-review-musks-ventures-including-twitter-deal-bloomberg-news-2022-10-21/

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/ DETROIT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday. A Reuters investigative report in July documented children, including a 12-year-old, working at a Hyundai-controlled metal stamping plant in rural Luverne, Alabama, called SMART Alabama, LLC.

Yankee's lose both games in Houston but the 2nd game could easily have gone either way. I'd take the over on 5 games.

Hinch is so smooth in conversation and with the media it's hard to know if he is real or just presents really well. I've thought he's been mostly OK with the reservation that we don't really have any way to know - and probably never will, if something in Hinch's 'system' has been part of the issue wth Tigers hitters. OTOH, I don't think Dusty Baker is any kind of genius as a manager , just your regular mainstream kind of guy; so the fact that the Astros haven't missed a beat with him at the helm argues that Hinch wasn't a particularly critical piece of that success, but clearly hadn't been an impediment to it either.

Ed counted two, Cisnero would be three. To pare more pitchers maybe Bryan Garcia depending on what they thought about his move to a starting position. I could seem them cutting bait on Funkhouser as well. I could also see them being conservative about keeping arms around because so many pitchers coming back from injury are perforce question marks.

+Cameron, W. Castro, Short, Candelario, Cisnero makes 9. Plus Reyes and you have a spot to add.

In his sit down with Dickerson, he pretty much talked about all the same kinds of things Avila used to - building a productive organization from the inside out. So I get the idea that that part is coming from Ilitch, which would make sense as that is what he says in public as well. So that would lead one to believe that the big part of the early effort is going to be organizational overhaul and that if a big signing comes it will have to be more a matter of luck than the focus of immediate strategy.

Ironically, I would argue Cabrera was the kind of hitter that signing to that age was more seasonable, and the truth is, he still has hitting skills - witness a 300 BA through half this season. Cabrera has been done in by injury to a much larger degree than 'aging out'. So in Cabrera's case, it wasn't to much that he was already 30, it's that *any* long term deal can go bad given injury. And the other weird thing with Miguel is that while he had the arm and ankle injuries put him on the dl, as far as I can remember, he's never even suffered an explicit acute injury to the knee that put him on the dl at the time. I guess it's more a degeneration issue.

so the context to this tweet is that when Truss first started getting into hot water, a Brit tabloid started a live stream of a head of lettuce, asking whether it or the Gov would last longer. Today someone tweeted this:

LOL - I saw one conspiratorial take to the effect that Johnson pushed hard for Truss, expecting her to fail, so that he would have a better chance of regaining party leadership. Even if true I doubt having it blow up this quickly would have been the plan!

this would be my guess as well.

Krugman wrote a column the other day where he raised the interesting question about why what he calls 'zombie economics' - meaning economic policy that has been shown to be a thoroughgoing failure but which refuses to die, was so thoroughly rejected by the British body politic, yet is still the holy grail of the US right. I would offer the suggestion that the difference is publicly funded elections, but what do I know? The other aspect of Truss' crash is that it's seems to have given some oxygen to British EU advocates. You're starting to see calls for Britain to try to rejoin. I don't know how far that would actually go to solve any of their problems but something to watch if the sentiment grows.

this is why they will risk running morons like H. Walker, Dr. Oz and Tubberville even if it increases the chance of losses - it's because they need people who don't have the brains or will to do anything but just get with the program when they are told at times like that. Loeffler wasn't a completely empty (pant)suit.

Verlander with a shaky start, settles down, gives up 1 in 6, leaves the game and his mates hit him a couple of dingers to put him up 3-1

A tale of 2 quarters.

LOL - Ivey a bit too quick on the missed lay up.

There running around Ivey like he's a pylon. Where's his quicks?

the problem may be that more women buy groceries than men.

that trade turning out not to be quite as one sided as it appeared at the time.