gehringer_2

we might make a ST trip but probably drive!

I've driven one EV to date, which was a BMW I spent a day with in LA, but I didn't spend a lot of time with it to learn all the bells and whistles so I didn't know how to kill the regen braking on the fly like that, but it's certainly a feature I would want. With that Beemer it was quite irritating that if you killed the cruise control, instead of going into a coast, you were immediately slowing down fairly hard - not at all what you normally wanted on the 405 in that situation! So you had to be ready to hunt for the neutral throttle position when disengaging the cruise. I'm sure there was a better way but I just didn't know it - or at least hope there was! I have one acquaintance with a Tesla but he is so non-tech I don't know if I'd get much out of him to ask him about it. Worth a try next time I see him though. ...

you would think that would be subject to electrical control - if you open the windings circuit on the armature then you wouldn't get regen breaking. If you think about it, it would seem the vehicle has to be able to waste regen breaking energy because you can't use the power if the battery happens to be fully charged. Obviously has to do with the way the motors are wired but off hand I can't say what the advantage/requirement is in a configuration that can't coast. One more thing to learn about before I buy one....

The media machine drives everything to over-exposure. All the things that the reporting is casting in stone are all actually still completely fluid. No-one knows who is going to hit or pitch well, or who will have the misfortune of finding that it's back to the drawing board because for whatever reasons, the off season tweaks they worked on don't work against live opposition. So now every normal decision they have to make will be reported like some kind of big reversal of plans.

OK, that seems weird for an electric. Doesn't seem like it should bother an electric drive train to be over-coasted. I know you pretty much can't tow any vehicle with a 4 way differential like my Subaru. On the older chevy 4WD you could electronically uncouple the transfer case but that fact seemed to be kept like a state secret.

I can give the vehicle a little bit of a break because the driver doesn't have sense enough to pull straight out instead of pushing a front end with the steering at lock harder into the snow. And the huge windshield wiper is doing a crappy job on the window.

Well I suppose if he doesn't go to his left well he should benefit from having an ex-2b on that side, who should have more than average range for a 1B. Hope Tiger pitchers stay ready to cover 1st.

Mike Trout had 3078 PA from 2015-2019, he's had 1374 since.

Baez may be in the best shape of his life, but if he still can't hit they'll have to work out some kind of deal to get him off the roster. I suppose if that turns out to be the case but it's not a proven case by the end of ST, they could option Sweeney out, but even if Javy hits in ST I would have a hard time starting the season with Baez and McKinstry as my SS depth. McKinstry just isn't a very good SS and this team thinks it's after the playoffs again and the right right of the ID is already questionable. Of course the fact that I would have a hard time doesn't mean Harris will! Unless the team ends up way more optimistic about Baez playing 140 games and being a plus player than we all are!

Has to be an incredibly rare circumstance for a fuselage to end up upside down but still intact. Appears to be a Boeing 717, make that a CRJ900. (Bombardier)

I'm a little sympathetic to the people on the other end, they probably get paid based on what they sell you, and that really is the problem - it's the perverse incentive to put sales pressure on people from whom the customer only wants service. I've sometimes just said to them, "I know you have a job to do but I'm not buying today" and they will just drop to a pro forma recitation of their required script and then we can move on. Oddly enough, I've had a couple of pretty decent interactions recently with people at AT&T, who used to be as bad as bad could be. One day an obviously Asian fellow I talked to would at every setback tell me that "we shall most assuredly solve your problem for you!" and he eventually did.

0.7 WAR in 120 PA is probably not a production rate we should put any money on him sustaining, but he's been a nice player so far. It's a little odd that for his short stint BR rates him 0.4 oWAR on only a 91 OPS+. Maybe fewer good hitting SS now than there were a few years ago? Rdrs likes him, though the sample size is still too small to take seriously. He doesn't look like he's doing all that much out there with the glove, but if you have a good 1st step it can deceive the eye test compared to a guy who makes an acrobatic finish on the same play because he started later a tick later.....

You needn't wonder.

I don’t question the existence the malificent, but I’ve also met a lot of what I really would consider ‘salt of the earth’ people who just so misunderstand the world and who have been fed such a stream of nonsense for so much of their lives that they just believe too many things that are not true.

Yes - and they will do it and all you can do is shake your head at the arguments you will hear and you think to yourself, "How do you change a fully formed adult's entire intellectual framework to one that's connected to reality?"

I happened across one of these in the flesh not to long ago. It's a pretty well done deception.

You give us too much credit. The Ukrainians are not fighting the Russians because we are 'letting them'. They've made their decision that freedom from an oppressive Russian imperialist kelptocracy is worth it to them, much like a bunch of colonists did a couple of hundred years ago against a British crown that was objectively nowhere nearly as brutally uncivilized. The colonists didn't ask another great power, the French, to fight for them, though they did seek material support there. Of course a few soldiers of fortune did show up in the colonies, much like I'm sure you can find Americans and Canadians and poles in Ukraine today working in that war effort without any official sanction from their governments.

The question is non-sequitor. Ours is the support that can make it unnecessary for us or others to send troops to Ukraine.

Not too many mistakes in there if any really. But I probably don't recognize someone who did something somewhere else. Krueter managed to hang around the majors for 9 yrs after Detroit but was barely replacement. McCann flashed for one season in Chicago. Maybe Willi Castro has the best post Tiger career going from the list?

FIFY

and people have to understand the reality of the 5% rule, which is that wringing the last segment of inefficiency out of any org or process invariable costs more money and effort than the cost of that last segment of inefficiency. When you mix that truth with the law of large numbers (i.e. when given huge budgets, even tiny pieces sound like a big deal) it's a recipe for political grandstanding and counter productive outcomes.

Pretty close anyway. Nominative singular is Deus. DEI is actually the plural "gods." No doubt some smart a*s detractor will accuse Warnock of polytheism. 🤣`

TBH, these words even when fully sounded have meanings to RW'ers/nativists/victorian moralists, that are still negative and that they are quite willing to defend. It's a place were the argument may be sound but based on premises on which there is enough deeper disagreement so there is no persuasive value with the other side.

IDK, that may not work out the way he thinks it would. Maybe refs will be more reticent to overrule each other when the guy who made the original call isn't there to defend it vs having the guy who made the call look at the film with his co-workers and agree he didn't get it right. I'm not saying it would go one way or the other more often, just that I don't think it's nearly as obvious a fix as Cade may be thinking.

Concept isn't bad but it needed to be one week max.