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He's still got to learn to finish ABs better. Too many 0-2s that went to 2-2 and 3-2, but can't argue with the results.

We have one, he's playing center.

Miller is pretty useless in any kind of leverage at this point. He will do just enough to lose.

Yes - and we have to hope we don't end up with more corrupted legislatures neutering them.

I was pretty much hooked at birth. The first article of clothing I have any recollection of owning was a complete wool toddler Tiger Uniform, with stirrups. Funny thing is that my father was not a big baseball fan, but everyone else around growing up was. The first season I remember as a season was '61 - winning 101 and coming up 8 games short of the damn Yankees. I was just a little squirt but understood that winning 100 was supposed to be enough to get a pennant. The other funny thing was how few people went to the games. The population of the city was nearly 2 million in the early 60's and Baseball was still king, but the '61 team drew only 1.6M, and '68 team just barely 2M. Even with the exodus from Det, get anywhere near 1st place now and you can expect 3M for a season.

rent seeking is bad news, but I take that as more a function of the regulatory state, which to me is a separate issue from economics. Technology requires the regulatory state exist, because it is too dangerous and too arcane for any public to deal with without dedicated professionals in public service. A malfunctioning regulatory state can certainly lead to bad economic outcomes - witness the affordable housing shortage crisis in CA, but those are often as not unintended consequences of bad policy making. I don't know any good way of to deal with rent seeking other than electing good people to do the legislative oversight of the regulatory system, and so full circle we are back to a malfunctioning election funding system as the root of another evil.

This is true, and the big mistake that the guys like Hayak fans and the Austrian school make in seeing the US as on the road to that kind of socialism is mistaking government expenditure for government management of the economy. In Hayak's theory, government spending as % of GDP is the indicator variable for Government or political management/intrusion into markets and production, economic ossification and a concomitant lose of personal liberties. But this completely misses that in a modern state like the US, the *majority* of government spending is transfer payment to individuals, who then use that money to make free decisions in a market economy. Ergo - the modern transfer payment based welfare state is not Socialism as government control of the means of production (the road Britain certainly had traveled down too far) despite high percentages of GDP government spending.

Your presentation is exactly the argument why corporations should never be seen to have fundamental rights under the constitution. As long Thurgood has exactly one vote, we don't have to care too much about which side he sees his bread as buttered on, but if you let him marshal all the resources of Widget AI as a direct player in the political process, you are one big step on the road to perdition. There is a fundamental conflict of interest at work. An easy majority of individuals have some sense that there are linkages between their liberty and welfare that of others. The only way around that is by defining some souls as non-human, which always has to be combated but is a battle we know the process can win. But a corporation has no shared interest in anyone's liberty or welfare. They are purely nihilistic players at the table.

and probably regularly burn a couple of gallons of gasoline to save a nickel finding those imported products at the lowest price.

It's been a ridiculously long construction. and it's not even that far behind schedule. The long build was mostly waiting for each section of concrete to harden as the towers went up. They probably could have built a conventional suspension bridge faster, but cable stayed design costs less and this is not a project where time was money to any great degree.

I would guess temperature - and for sure low wind load. These huge structures have to be designed to expand and contract around some neutral temperature - again a guess, but I think they would want to lock the ends in place on a day when the whole structure was as near as possible to the neutral point design temp.

The Wings are already too small/lack physicality up front for Berggren to be a good fit on the current roster, and when he was up he did not defend, which wouldn't have endeared him to SY.

the connection they made the other day is interesting construction tech. From what I could gather, they couldn't predict the exact distance for closure working the two ends from so far away(the main beams bolt together, the holes have to line up exactly), so they installed temporary adjustable beams to lock the ends in place while they customize the last primary beams to fit exactly.

I think there is some truth to this generally but you can't say it categorically since you have the recent examples of Stafford and Brady winning Championships in their first year on a new team as counter cases.

Flying Tigers sweep a DH. Clark 3/4 and McGonigle with a HR in the 1st. Clark with the HR and McGonigle 2/4 in the second.

Best case scenario Carpenter and Torkelson come back after the ASB as effective players and they manage to play >500 ball in the 2nd half. The $64 dollar question is will they fall too far out of it before then, and the answer to that is looking like yes. They don't hit and they are down to 2 effective starters. Manning isn't doing anything much at Toledo. Oslen maybe finds his grove again, maybe Mize's command keeps improving with more IP. A lot of things will have to go right, and when have they ever for this team? You'd have to go back to 2006. I guess they must have burned a couple of generations worth of good Karma that year.

Well, it would be cooler if I knew the pitcher was doing something extraordinary, but if you no-hit this team the way its playing now it should go in the books with an asterisk.

Maybe, hopefully -- it's because they have told him to swing at more pitches in the zone and learn to reach more of them and this is the beginning of an adjustment period. The last couple games he does seem to be taking a lot fewer pitches in the zone.

A waste to have used Holton and Foley today.

And the Michigan GOP (other than Snyder) fought it tooth and nail right along with Matty Maroun. Too bad they aren't yet as dead as he is (at least metaphorically speaking.....)

But if you want to off yourself, do you really have to take a bunch of bystanders with you?

Yes, there is that....🙄

True - Baez is having a weird season.

Here's another theory - they are above average at hitting below average pitching. Thus you get feast or famine. Beat up on guys who throw too many cookies, struggle to hit against even moderately good command when they have to adjust to hitting pitches where they are thrown. Since run scoring is an asymmetric distribution, you get more boost to your average on the high end than you can lose on the low end (since you can't score less than zero).

No doubt they depended too much on the power play - which is partly because it's such a thin roster that getting the few good players out there together at the same time makes a huge difference. 🙄 Shooting percentage is partly just the style they play. The Wings don't take nearly as many low percentage shots as most teams, and I'm fine with a style that works for fewer but higher quality chances. So they should have/maintain a higher shooting percentage than average. But yeah - they really can't afford to 'give up' anything.