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I don't imagine RFK has taken the time to read this (Medscape 2/17/2026): "As the US measles cases soar following 2025’s record-shattering outbreaks, experts warn that healthcare practitioners and parents may be unprepared for the virus’s hidden threat: immune amnesia. The condition is pretty much what it sounds like. The virus destroys immune memory, wiping out memory B cells and T cells and forcing the immune system to rebuild its defenses from scratch. “Nearly every unvaccinated child who gets measles can be impacted,” said Patricia Stinchfield, CPNP, past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Rebuilding immune memory leaves patients vulnerable to new exposures, and infections, hospitalizations, and missed work and school can linger for up to 5 years, casting a long shadow after recovery. Immune amnesia was officially recognized in 2015, but clues emerged before that. Scottish scientists in the 1700s described waves of infections and deaths in measles’ wake. When measles vaccines arrived in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, researchers noticed unexpected drops in seemingly unrelated health problems. And looking back at prevaccination records, they documented higher rates of infections and deaths in kids for several years after they had this highly-contagious childhood illness. Lots of deaths. “Half of all childhood infectious-disease deaths were related to immune amnesia caused by measles,” said Michael J. Mina, MD, PhD, an infectious disease expert and former assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Mina’s landmark research, published from 2015 to 2019, helped illuminate the measles-immune amnesia link. “Before vaccines, it was difficult to see the connection because virtually everyone got measles. There was no one to compare them to.”

Yeah - I think Axel has been improving. Seems to be having more success using his speed to avoid being hit, and when he's not on his butt, his skills are OK.

so who Is now the 7th D man? ASP or JBD, or do they both become 6 1/2?

The last President that told Americans they needed to sacrifice over bad economics was Jimmy Carter. Didn't end well for him. And the joke is that at least Carter's economic issues were not ones he engineered himself.

Pre-open futures just fell through that.

Diesel fuel up $0.41/gal. Which gets added to just about every single thing you buy.

Oil at $85 and Market futures down another 1%. So much winning.

the analysis makes all kinds of sense, but a team that is as dedicated to handedness as the Tigers is going to give a SW every benefit of the doubt in the choice.

6 hrs. Tick..tick...tick.

Perez's can make good plays, but the consistency of his concentration level as a fielder has left something to be desired. Vierling has not graded particularly well as a CF. If neither Javy or Meadows can hit enough to stay in the lineup the team is going to suffer it.

Does give them another RH shot. Don't how much one can expect from a 37yr old journeyman though 17 1/2 hours of hope left, dwindling fast.

I think one of them is going to get a lot PA though because I don't really see a reasonable CF choice for that ballpark beyond those two unless Clark shows up early in the season. BTW - what are we calling it now that Comerica is in the corporate dustbin? Are they really going with the completely non-sensical '5th/3rd' moniker? There won't be an out of town announcer that recites that with a straight face.

back in the day there was a word for that that has pretty much disappeared : Stalking Horse.

Or you can look at the most recent indicator - last season when Baez was 60 pts better. It comes down to including the year Baez was injured vs including the year Parker was injured so it can be sliced and diced anyway as desired. Why I am less optimistic about Parker is that he came back and had no discernible upward trend as he moved away from the injury (one 5 hit series against the Yankees in Sept was about it) and he has followed that up with an ice cold spring that he can't afford to be having.

going to be interesting to see if the S&P closes below ~6800 tomorrow. Trend says yes, but that's been a support point for all of the dips in '26 so far.

"The myth that digital civilization floats above heavy industry is, in this scenario, extinguished. Compute is shown to rest on copper, transformers, stable voltage, LNG, and ships" Best quote in the piece. Civilization is not linear, it's cumulative. The things that were before don't go away, they continue to underpin what is now.

I think Perez is sort of erratic as an OF, but maybe the Tigers don't agree. Javy could certainly hit (or fail to hit) himself out of regular playing time, and a platoon is always possible, but my original post was premised on Meadows showing so little stick the decision to send him down is unambiguous.

35K registered voters in the county, so basically nobody cared about this election - or Dems didn't care marginally less than Repubs.

Thinkpads have a shutters on their cameras, desktops don't have cameras built in. Tape is handy otherwise.

Parker is screwed anyway because when McGonigle makes the team, Javy goes to CF.

Houston was a company town for all of its early years. The oil biz still has a big presence there, and that's a lot of professional, engineering and scientific types who should be the ones telling their neighbors the truth who have made the deal to self-censor (or self-delude) themselves for their paychecks.

be hard for it not to be.

right. NYC will always be the center of the world to him and he will always crave approval there.

the guy who just stepped down as University Pres at U Montana also filed as an independent - apparently with Jon Tester's backing.