Deleterious

She doesn't share my politics. But I'm going to have a smile on my face Tuesday night when a woman raised in my little hometown of Holly gives the Dems SOTU response.

7th is the back of a rotation, even more so when the playoffs start.

The only thing I'm 100% sure on with Beasley is I'm not pulling into his driveway. Other than that, I'm going off of his career 550+ games and not the 10% sample size we have going now. I'm going off teams passing him around like he is the prom queen. I'm going off him being a free agent two times the past two seasons and nobody wanting him either time. A rotation player on a good team and nobody wanted him twice? The Bucks gave him a veterans minimum two years ago. Vet min guys are rarely mentioned as rotation guys on good teams. Speaking of the Bucks. Lets go ask their fans about Beasley. Damn near started every game last year for them. Shot 41% from three on 7 attempts per game. His shooting got even better in the playoffs when he upped it to 44% from three. But why did they stop starting him and drastically cut his minutes then? Oh yeah, he's a civ on defense. The opted for 35 year old Pat Bev instead, a guy not even in the league this year. Why do we all have to be mouth breathers? Every single year we see guys perform in the regular season that can't do it in the playoffs. Every single year we see guys go on heaters and have a good year with no ability to recreate it in the future. I have said the entire season how good Beasley is playing. I think you could argue he was the best FA move of the summer for any team. I have said I want to bring him back at the most money the Pistons can give him (minus roster moves). But I'm wrong for judging him based on 90% of his career instead of the 10% that fits your narrative. If he strings together a few seasons like this, with playoff results, then things change. But until then I will keep judging the entire body of work.

But you said AD was always the target.

0 drug tests

Oh man.

I appreciate you not outing me.

Maybe poorly worded and lazy on my part. I just mean good teams have Beasley at the back of their rotation. For the Pistons to improve they have to bring in players that move Beasley there. I have absolutely no issues giving him the full $14 million this summer and hope they do. But I don't have much desire for anything long term with him.

Might see some players cut and/or bought out before end of day Friday. Players must be cut by March 1st to be eligible for another teams playoff roster.

Pistons are in it with Indiana and Milwaukee right now. We don't play Indiana again in the regular season. We play a home and home with Milwaukee the final two games of the year. I kinda sorta feel Milwaukee will be the team of those three that fades so maybe those games won't mean much.

That dude is having an odd year.

He's an 8th/9th man at best on a good/contending team. Nothing I said was a knock on Beasley, he has been great here.

This might be interesting. Gene Hackman and his wife were both found dead in their home.

We all know they are depending on Uncle Sam to take care of those problems. They will lean hard on American companies to use Intel if they ever get their stuff together. And they should because it does become a national defense issue.

This is that play I said I wish he had scored.

They are 10-1 so far this year with 0 days rest. 3 in 4 days might be a bigger issue. Might see them rest some people since this will be their middle game.

I posted this in a different area of the board a few months ago. But it fits here pretty well. WSJ article about the only company on earth that makes the equipment that TSMC, Intel, etc. use to make semiconductors. It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman A few things about the process that just make me shake my head.

I do not have a tough time believing the 20%-30% yield numbers. But some might overreact reading them. That podcast I linked to a few weeks ago about Morris Chang told an interesting story from his days (late 60's) as the guy running fabs for Texas Instrument. TI was cutting edge back then and they would expend massive amounts of capital to set up these new fabs. They wanted an ROI on that capital so they would charge a premium price for the newest toy on the market. That limited the number of orders and meant they were not running at full capacity. Chang had big problems with this and went to his bosses. He said we are going about this all wrong. We will never work out the kinks if we only run sporadically. It is essential that we operate at maximum capacity to achieve the necessary yields. We must run waste to figure out what the actual problems are and if our attempts at fixing them worked or not. You cannot do that with an idle line. It appears that this is occurring with Intel. They only ran 30,000 wafers in this testing period. TSMC claims its new plant in Arizona can run over 20,000 wafers a month. So, Intel only has one and a half months of running time to go from. This amount appears modest given the complexity of the process.

You mean good thing. Stops us from doing something stupid.

Thankfully they can only pay him $14M per. Now we just have to hope it isn't longer than 2 years.

Yeah, Thompson down.