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I see this as a bit of a gamble. I'm not sure the grid gets to where it can sustain all the plug in cars as fast as the manufacturers want to build them. It for sure is not going to get there all on renewables. But the E car is like god-send to the auto companies. Gets them out from under the EPA, decouples them from fuel standards issues, simplifies the manufacturing tech, reduces parts count, increases reliability. It's all positive from every direction. So their enthusiasm is no mystery. OTOH, they (except Toyota) hate hybrids for almost all the same reasons - but that doesn't mean they may not still be a needed transitional piece of the puzzle.

Do doubt AJ is quite capable of spinning with the best of them.

One of the things that frosts me is that we have this terrible roster but they are protecting 40 man slots like these guys are all Hall of Famers. Sure Clemens didn't do much - so what? It was worth a flyer, it's not like there a pennant pending over whether Willi Castro plays one less game. If anything they waited way too long give him a shot.

The question for Tesla stock is whether the company has any conceivable route to it's earnings growing enough to justify its valuation, and in a market as mature as autos with as many established competitors over which you hold no unique sustainable advantage that's very hard to see for Tesla. I think Tesla's valuation was driven by the idea that they were an Amazon or Google or Apple kind of company, but they are not. They don't have a product or technology that has created an entirely new market that never existed before and whose size ultimate can only be guessed at. They build cars. A car with at the time new design features, but a car that was going to be used exactly as cars before it had. No-one is going to buy a Tesla beyond someone who was already going to buy a car.

cute result. Fed ups the funds rates, and all T bond yields actually go down the next day. Goes to show a) the big hike was already fully anticipated b) Longer term buyers don't expect this inflation to last. https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value_month=202206

The clock has run out for me. If this doesn't look different by over the weekend, Coolbaugh needs to be gone at minimum. If your GM can't pull that trigger, him as well. If the manager wants to go to the wall for his coach, so be it, him too.

I pulled up a clip from earlier today. I see the difference but it looked to me mostly like she was much less studiously made up, less color depth around her eyes, and her hair is parted down the middle, which squeezes her face more - and she is already several years older than when she started at MSNBC.

This is pretty bad. All the life they had last season with AJ constantly putting the other team on the defensive is gone. The hitters are cold, the team is passive, AJ is passive, the team is boring and predictable. A couple guys did get hits tonight before they were down in the count, but it's tiny scraps. They need some new voices talking to them. I'm becoming very skeptical a whole team can slump this long without there being a systemic problem.

use 3 position players to save a BP for 'later' and when 'later' comes in spades he won't use anybody. AJ is reminding me more and more of the kid who wants to have the biggest jar of marbles but just wants to look at them instead of play.

hard to fathom the lack of urgency in the org. Baddoo, who has been on a steady upswing at Toledo, sat tonight. Why? To play Derek Hill? Really? And Grossman 3/18 0BB since his return.

8 hits and a walk but only one run even with 2XBH.

well, Tork didn't make an out.

Relief pitchers that can't throw strikes. SOT

That should take care of that.

I hope to hell he's wearing some shoe armor.

Brieske turning into a bona fide major leaguer before our very eyes. Kewl.

If there might be a knock on Riley, it's that he doesn't seem to do much in his late ABs. I'd like to see his splits on 1st/2nd/3rd time up. My impression so far is Riley's would be heavily biased to the 1st.

the run is good, no doubt. But Robbie took a better pitch for strike one than the one he hit. Schoop also got a good pitch to hit and didn't do much with it.

Brieske got a little tentative there, but managed not to leave any cookies....

I'm serious, this sounds like total bull crap to me. No hitter can divide pitches into 7 zones before deciding to commit. No wonder they are all late all the time. That's a recipe for paralysis. See the ball. Hit the ball. That's hard enough for any major leaguer without extra layers of embellishment..

that it was.

So as per CMo, Coolbaugh has them trying to be aggressive only on pitches in two of seven specific regions of the zone? The futility at the plate seems suddenly perfectly understandable.

Meadows with a HR. W. Perez playing for Erie tonight. I guess he got promoted. Wenceel finishes 2/4 BB. Nice start to a new gig.

Maybe they have already pulled the plug and are playing for another high pick. Hard to understand the lack of action on any other rational grounds.

You say that as though you expect there is a necessary difference.