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Yep. All the vice signaling from the usual suspects may be as much about future cases centered around the propagation of vicious conspiracy theories. Including involving one of the largest media outlets in the country.

Just a reminder from Gen Washington....

Drumpf to be subpoenaed by the committee.

This stuff that Raskin is highlighting with the Congressional leadership is blood boiling stuff. I'm so pissed at Mcconnell

yeah, I am not a fan of Rodriguez. He is on my list of least favorite Tigers - right up there with Juan Gonzalez.

Who knew inflation was so good for the market.

On Twitter there seem to be no end of experts with pretty good explanations of why whatever method the Ukrainians used to hit the Kerch bridge could not possibly have been the way it was done. I guess it must never have happened.....

Peace in our time ...

only the base amount—bankruptcy can't be used to discharge punitive damages.

Thinking later about this. A few pages ago Del brought up the "Flash Boys" book, which is about HFT (high frequency trading). The price of servers close to the exchange. Millions spent running fiber optic across oceans. All to save milliseconds. The couple "impulse" trades I just documented happen each and every day by retail traders, or those who run their own money. Just not quite as fast. But that is how trading works - millions of times a day - for billions and billions of dollars. While we can trade billions of dollars of stocks in milliseconds, it takes 3 days to settle those trades (tracked by CUSIP #). How fucked up is that? It gets better. When our trade clears, and we get our confirmation, the $357.04 buy price is $357.04XX. Apparently scalping XX part of a penny millions and millions of times a day makes Wall Street money. Of course it does. And somehow legal.

I had a chance to look this over. Chart porn incoming. I'll start with this one from before. I have now done the math. If you were looking to get into this trade on Tuesday, what price will you get? The first issue is we are looking at the S&P 500 and not the SPY ETF as the means to make the trade. We can't buy the S&P. I'm looking to trade off the 3588.11 level, to the lower end of the gap at 3739.22. Around a 4% yield if you get the breaks. That in and of itself isn't very tempting. We are looking at the S&P to give us buy/sell points, which would look like this if we bought out of the gate on Tuesday; The problem is - we are not, and can't, buy the S&P, so we have to use an ETF. In this case, SPY. A derivative of the index. Below is a chart with the same buy/sell point except it is a chart of the ETF. I based the values on a buy in point on Tuesday, and the low of the day the gap would close on 10/6. Buy at $357.04 with a gap close of $371 ish. So you might make $400 bucks on a 10 grand trade. The SPY chart; Hard to see anything here, which is why I prefer to use the index for timing instead of the ETF. We knew enough on Monday to not make this trade. Some of the best trades ever, are the ones you don't make.

no, no, there's a special font for that

the nfl is weird. one day youre the best offense in football and the next day someone figures you out and youre back to the drawing board. the lions got figured out by the pats. they are also missing their best playmaker in the backfield and two of their best receivers. injuries play a role, especially with a rebuilding team like detroit. let's see how they adjust after the bye. i'm not optimistic, but they finished strong last year. i think they need to do so again or else you might start to lose the locker room.

theo fleury? give me a break. yzerman had 5 straight years scoring over 100 points and five seasons of more than 50 goals, and two of those were over 60 goals. fleury never scored 50 and had 2 100 point seasons in his career. federov was more talented than yzerman, but i'll take yzerman over sergei just for the "want to". yzerman had a much betger career than forsberg, equal to sakic, and different than messier. i think youre really underrating yzerman. youre right, i put in generational when i was talking about a superstar. consider your nit picked.

FWIW, I don’t think Harris has confirmed that Miggy is a lock to make next year’s team. What he said was it “is not time to move on from Miguel Cabrera … he's committed to doing the work to make sure that he stays a productive player … he has earned that.” I read that as, at least as of September 30 of this year, we are not committed to either releasing Miggy nor guaranteeing him a spot next year, and it is up to him to show us that he both is willing and ready to make positive contributions to this team in 2023. I think there’s at least half a chance Harris and A.J. spend the winter massaging the idea into Miggy’s head that it really is time to go, and even though he may show up in Lakeland next February, by the time March 30 rolls around, I think there’s a good chance he will not be on the active roster, and a decent chance he may not even be on the 40-man. Miggy may spend practically the entire year on the 60-day IL, traveling around with the team on his league-wide retirement tour and being our Hall-of-Fame cheerleader in the dugout and clubhouse, and perhaps coming off the list only to have his final ABs in front of the home crowd.

I do think that if the Tigers preach 'gap hitting' to the team because of the park - the error is theirs and not the ball park. You want to hit the gaps at a park like Kaufmann where the mid-line distances are long. But there are NOT at CoPa. The HR distances mid-field to the lines at CoPa are completely average, you don't want to give up pulling the ball at CoPa for the benefit of a few XBH into the CF gaps because hitting to CF *is* death for flyballs. Now I would think with all the supposed stat nerds on the staff they would understand that, but I still hear them talking about the need for 'gap' hitters and I really don't think it makes any sense when 360 in the air is HR anywhere near either line. It's a pull hitter's ballpark all the way.

We ended up dropping the final three games of the season, and still, this was in one of my newsletters this morning.

I don't know how that park factor is calculated. Out of curiosity, if the park was neutral 10 years ago, and now it isn't, does that have anything to do with Cabrera being able to hit 20 home runs per year there 10 years ago, and now he can't?

I'm not saying move the fences in to make the team better. I'm saying move it in because I think the product on the field is degraded because of them. The game itself. As a fan I like success rewarded. Someone mashes the ball correctly and is denied b/c he's in 1 of 30 parks... that makes me feel cheated. I like quality baseball. I like when players are out at the plate because of two strong and well executed relay throws. I like to see excellence in action. If someone does their job they should be rewarded. also maybe in 2017 the Tigers would have been way above average in HR.

They’ll probably move the walls in, and I won’t be terribly opposed to it if it’s not too drastic, but it is worth noting again that Comerica played like an average park for home runs with this same fence configuration just a decade ago.