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well that would be quite the course shift for the org.

If I had to guess, it would be that if there is anything interesting in there it will be stuff that relates to US covert activity in Cuba or related to the Bay of Pigs. Stuff that got pulled up in the investigation but turned out not to relate to the assassination directly but was generally embarrassing to the US or people possibly still alive in the US or Cuba at the time or since. Or alternately info that the FBI had be watching Oswald but then lost track of him.

Odds say Jeimer is probably due for another good year after a poor one. His career average OPS+ is sitting at exactly 100, with a low of 70 and high of 137 in his full seasons. So a net cost of $15M to be rid of Maeda, have a base level of insurance or 3rd, and 1st. I'd think pretty hard about it. You aren't getting much, if any, better for the money, but some depth that's likely to be useful.

I wouldn't paint Duren with the Drummond brush though - at least not yet. Duren seems to have a better motor than Drummond ever did - so that gives him better odds to keep improving than Andre ever had.

Torres had a great second half and finished last season really strong with the bat. If that's who he is this season, everyone will love him well enough. Torres isn't quite in a class with Candelario in this regard, but there is a little bit of the same "Was it a streak or is it real" or "Which guy do you get" with him as we had with Jeimer.

I have to say the FCPA is pretty weird to work under. I was working for an oil industry services company and we had to drill on FCPA all the time, and in fact one of our divisions got nailed by it once which put the whole company under extra oversight. It's been a number of years and I probably have the details wrong at this point, but IIRC the weird thing is that FCPA doesn't (at least the state of the law then) actually prohibit bribery in general, only the very specific act of giving a government official money for doing something that is part of his official duties. It's very narrow in that regard. So under FCPA you can still toss money around in a developing country like crazy. You can pay off the president, as long as you don't pay off the official who is supposed to approve your permits. I get the idea, and I suppose some FCPA is better than no law at all on this end, but I don't believe it drove any stakes through the heart of overseas business bribery and so the general objection from US business was that it didn't do enough good to justify the compliance cost. Now of course they *would* say that even if it weren't true - and I was never high enough on the food chain to evaluate the claim one way or the other. 🙈🙉🙊

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Of course if you manage to stay in the major for 10yr you probably won't need that pension much.... The one that isn't on there is the education benefit for draftees - but I don't know if you even need to get to the majors for that.

Should note that WCF's role at FoMoCo was never comparable to Musk's at Tesla. The operation at Ford was in Henry II's hands in the Pinto era. In fact Lee Iacocca was running Ford division during Pinto development, and was the main force pushing Ford to build smaller more efficient cars.

yup. Shooting the key for him. That's really the story across the league for all these athletic kids coming in from one and done only half cooked. The ones that develop some shooting skills can go a long way.

the 1st half was fun just to see KC get their hat handed to them after escaping so many games they could/should have lost this season. The 2nd half was definitely a snooze fest other than the Mahomes bombs at the end. I was at least a bit surprised/disappointed in Andy Reid though. He has one of the most escapable QBs in the NFL and hardly rolled him out or reversed or screened, or basically did anything to try to freeze the Philly D-line penetration. Maybe he decided they were too over matched for anything to work.

Ha! But you can survive almost anything with the right genes. I had one grandparent that smoked unfiltereds until a death at 93 unrelated to smoking. The other side of the family lung cancer killed about 75% of the men long before 90!

Do all the unpopular stuff you think need to do right up front and people will be made but will forget about it quickly enough. Advice that goes all the way back to Machiavelli.

It's time to just move the decimal point over. One 'new dollar' to 10 old ones. Then the change in your pocket might be useful for something again. Short of that none of the current coins are worth the effort to carry them

The ascendancy of football over baseball as the nation's primary sports obsession generally parallels the general collapse of civility in American society. Just sayin'........... That said, I'll be watching with some friends tonight....🤷‍♀️

I'm sure the Wings wouldn't mind moving him, but I'd be surprised to get a useful starter back - more likely some kind of pick.

Strange story.

Of course, at the rate the NFL is going, soon Spring Training will be starting before the Super Bowl gets played.....

IDK, if has been reported, Miller was the guy who was bent on making like difficult for Pettersson, wouldn't it make sense that you want to see if Pettersson plays better (or at least shows some sign of rebuilding his trade value) with Miller gone? Or I suppose the other possibility is that if Miller was so much the leader of that locker room, that the rest of team is going to hold his trade against Pettersson and his situation in Vancouver just goes from bad to worse? In any case, if he's now made a reputation for himself as not being mentally tough enough, his trade value might be pretty depressed as I can't think of a worse rep to have in the NHL.

The other funny thing is that the Yankees didn't even want Gleyber to go to 1st, they asked him to try 3rd, but now he's out to prove to the world (read "NYC") he's a better 2B than Chisholm. That could work to the Tigers advantage if he can actually raise his game. Hopefully Chilsholm plays well.

This. To paraphrase - the best laid plans last until they get punched in the nose by a budget.

The game was on in the background while I was in a group and someone noted they looked like they were getting tired in the 4th, - the rest of them weren't use to playing that much.

they wanted a 1b could only sign a 2b. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

I'm sure they thought of it but Gleyber literarally won't play ball. ().

Torres is the established hitter with a glove that really doesn't play at middle IF. If Keith's natural progression will be to 1st base 'eventually' say in his middle or late 20's, than Gleyber's progression would be to be moving to 1b now.