Edman85

I'm willing to occam's razor the cybertruck being a POS until further information comes in.

Honestly, I'm not big on the "don't speak ill of the dead" stuff. If somebody was a bad person, they don't deserve tongues to be held. In the past year or so, we lost Pete Rose, Bob Knight, OJ Simpson... people for different reasons who were pieces of crap and to me it's not wrong to point out as such. Having said that, by all accounts Jimmy Carter was one of the best human beings to hold that office and he's not worthy of partisan scorn at this point, even if he clearly did have shortcomings in the position.

The early episodes, they are (first two seasons at least. That's where I am). I know the Peacock streams of a lot of the 2000's eras are like 20 minutes because of rights issues. I made a spotify playlist to add songs as I come across them in my binge (if available):

12 pack large eggs, $4.49 at Publix this morning. I think I could have gotten them for $3.39 at Target, but I needed them for breakfast this morning and Target opened too late.

In fairness, the schadenfreude enough might make that worthwhile.

Worth noting the Mariners sold off some of the pool money after not getting him and got some useful pieces. I guess this is to say, if a team is trading players for pool money come January 15, it's likely a sign they think they have a chance.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-international-signing-bonus-pools-for-each-mlb-team/ Every team gets a set bonus pool. The top two pool amounts are tied to the opposite of the previous year's competitive balance picks. Teams who picked in the second round of the balance picks get the highest pool the next international pool (this is a relic of the international period starting in July and trying to stagger that benefit). Teams that lose a draft pick (in the 2023-24 offseason) also lose some money as well. The Tigers are in the highest pool. Tigers (and others): $7,550,000 2024 Draft Comp A: $6,908,600 All others: $6,261,600 Astros (Josh Hader), Cardinals (Sonny Gray): $5,646,200 Giants (Blake Snell and Matt Chapman), Dodgers (Shohei Ohtani): $5,146,200 Back in 2012-16, you could go over and pay a tax on that. You cannot do that any more. Contracts under $10,000 do not count. You can acquire up to 60% of that money in trades. The Tigers have an agreement with one of the top pics in this class (Cris Rodriguez), who is likely taking up about half of this. The Angels and Mariners made a bunch of trades leading up to Ohtani's posting to free up space. Those trades aren't always logged as such in the transactions logs. If you are going to move space around, you will either have to reneg on contracts resulting in long term damage, or make some trades to acquire that $4.35M in cap space. Bear in mind the Mariners in 2017. They moved money around, Ohtani didn't sign with them, and they were left holding the bag.

What kind of prospect capital are people willing to part with to acquire the cap space to get Sasaki... assuming a majority of the bonus pool is spoken for between Rodriguez and others.

Take those points and shove them.

LastPass has some breaches no? From wirecutter (which recommends 1password) LastPass Free was once an easy recommendation, but in December 2022, LastPass announced a data breach that exposed encrypted password vaults along with personal details, including names, email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, and some billing information. Account passwords weren’t exposed, but hackers can theoretically access password vaults by guessing master passwords. If a master password is weak, that exposure could happen quickly. The breach was so bad that security experts recommended that anyone who uses LastPass change all their passwords and consider moving to another password manager. In February 2023, the company revealed that an attacker had also gained access to a LastPass employee’s home computer, snagging the employee’s password for a corporate vault in the process. This doesn’t affect the already bad state of customer accounts, but it does make the company look even worse. Since then, the company has changed some policies to improve the security of vault data.

Former Tigers who died this year: Doug Creek (2005) Jimmy Hurst (1997) Billy Bean (1987-1989) Mike Brumley (1989) Gary Sutherland (1974-1976) Chuck Seelbach (1971-1974) Jim Hannan (1971) Don Wert (1963-1970) Whitey Herzog (1963) Rocky Colavito (1960-1963) Charlie Maxwell (1955-1962) Ozzie Virgil (1958, 1960-1961) Hank Foiles (1960) Ray Semproch (1960) Jim Brady (1956) John Baumgartner (1953)

His numbers aren't good, but I've been blown away when I see him pitch. Rangers DFA'ed Grant Anderson, and I would consider kicking the tires there, even if 40 man roster spots are a bit more scarce than they used to be.

I should mention I'm watching the early SNL's and really enjoy the music.

I guess this goes here. This is the first full offseason of the 175 man domestic reserve limit. The reserve lists didn't exist prior to 2021 and has been 190 the last few years. The Tigers are about to run out of space and will need to start cutting players to make room. They are at 170 right now (not including Horn in DFA limbo). Other teams have this crunch too. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of minor league free agents don't sign until after minor league season starts and teams can start stashing injured minor leaguers on the 60-Day and full season IL.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1845-bang-bang-maxwells-sunday-homers/ Effectively Wild episode where they cold called Charlie Maxwell a few years ago.

If you rely solely on teams for info on their own prospects, you have an incomplete picture. I'll have to dig up one of Micro's takes on this topic. I know in his prospect writing days, he had a variety of sources across the league to crosscheck information and has provided good reasons for that. But yes, teams are incentivized not to give the complete picture.

I wish he would have held on til a Sunday.

I got a Jury Duty Summons for Jan 21. Glad to not have phone access for the first full day of this ****show.

Tork to Toledo and if he crushes it, he works his way back and you find a spot. If he flails, you let him do his thing in Toledo until he becomes not worth the roster spot or money or runs out of options.

This! And I will also say you don't set your roster at the end of spring training. It's always fluid.

As an engineer, what good does poetry do me? Anyways, I did have 5 or so required humanities electives in my undergrad, so this exists. I just checked the current program map, and it is still there. This is a current Purdue Mechanical Engineering undergrad map: That is to say if there is too much emphasis on other things, at some point there is an opportunity cost that needs to be weighed. I personally think poetry is a waste of time for me professionally, but things like technical writing, communications, leadership skills, foreign languages, maybe some history are beneficial. I am trying to get heavy into reading books the upcoming year. Primary reason is to increase focus. I have full on brain rot and my focus needs to be restored.

I could see the house flipping in less than two if they go as extreme as they seem to be. Special elections will be a chore if they go as cruel as they seem to be going.

Because they've heard of them.

Glad that's funny to you.

Harris's first move was cleaning house there.