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Certainly was live long enough to create hundreds of screenshots to present at the congressional hearings in 2027.

What I’ve learned from this is that the notion of hundreds of Russian nationals at the Internet Research Agency toiling away on fake X accounts in St. Petersburg is almost certainly not accurate, since second world labor demands relatively high second world wages. Instead, the grunt work of creating and maintaining troll social media accounts surely gets farmed out to third world countries for third world wages.

We may or may not be able to time the market, but the time feels right to take some overheated profits from Mag Seven-driven SP 500.

You’re still young enough to do 70/30, at least. I’m around 60/40 equity to fixed and I’m already retired.

The Cyrillic letters were a dead giveaway.

I don‘t know whether it would be so much of a discount this season, since presumably Skubal would be paid much more this year under an extension this winter versus taking the arb award figure. A raise over his arb number this year would probably have to be the sweetener to get him to lock up before he’s an actual free agent, and if I’m not mistaken, that’s not exactly Scott Boras’s jam.

That’s OK, I won’t miss him.

So will continuing to phase out the Avila pickups.

WTAF is going on today

And you'll probably get it if (1) you're not an ass about it and (2) you walk away if you don't get it at first.

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And another lot just sold today!

I've been getting more messages from non-Tigers friends suggesting there must be something to the rumors since they keep seeing articles about it.

This is in part why I have cars custom built for me by the factory instead of driving one off the lot. I have no problem waiting a couple months for a car fresh off the boat with the exact specs I want.

I’m out of reactions, unfortunately, but definite Like.

I am out of reactions, unfortunately, but big Like for this one.

Trump’s highlighting how black/Muslim Mamdani’s middle name sounds, in order to to amp up the fear and loathing.

Update: the first three trailing stop limit sells have triggered, and we’re pretty close to the fourth one, which might happen today. I also have a 6% trailing stop sell on VOO that would sell 10% of my position in it. Given how much the mag seven makes up the index, once that bubble bursts, that’s coming down a bunch, too. Might as well clear some profits up here at the top.

I would love to see how many actual pages were viewed, to see how they scale against each other. I don’t know whether I’m surprised the Phillies have more views than the Braves, given the Braves’ legacy and their hold on an entire region. Cardinals are fifth in the NL Central in page views? My, how the mighty have fallen. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fan base.

I do take Skubal at his word that he would prefer to stay here. I can envision his choosing Detroit in a tiebreaker over Los Angeles or New York. I don’t think he’ll give the Tigers any kind of substantial hometown discount, but I bet what he really wants to see from Detroit is a commitment in years. If we try to lowball him on years, probably anything less than eight, I think he leaves.

I love Dearborn.

You make this sound as though this is a bad thing.

Avila's not responsible for them. He merely acquired them, and over three years ago. Harris is responsible for them. To the degree they are succeeding here, it's because of Harris, the new coaching regime, the improved developmental system, and newly found access to the best of analytical resources. Except Skubal, though. He got himself fixed all by himself.

I don't hate Avila. I'd bet he's a nice man, good husband, fond of his kids and grandkids.

Hiring Hinch is a good move, although I do wonder whether, had Avila known the kind of man he was truly getting, he would still have recommended the hire to Baby Doc. Also, remember: Hinch was not Avila's first choice. Only when Pedro Grifol came off the board did Hinch graduate into Avila's consideration set. All due respect, I don't take your loosey goosey "probably 80%" figure at face value.