Screwball

If you ever worked for a large multi-national and been a part of their research development engineering process cost & quality departments you would wonder how in the flying **** they make anything that works. Massive amounts of inept people Cost & quality department only cares about cost at the expense of quality If it can't pass the test, change the test We want to do X but X won't fit and will cause problems. It will fit - my raise and promotion depends on it. A year and millions of dollars later; hey, we have a problem, this doesn't fit. **** up move up Let's hire the guy with the highest GPA. No, you can tell from the interview the guy is an idiot. Cool, let's hire two of them. Corporate America is so many times a giant cluster **** ran by clueless arrogant corporate worms who care little about anything but themselves and their ego. The only thing good about the experience was making money and ****ing with all the idiots who deserved it. So many dickheads and so little time - they were highly entertaining though - especially when they had to squirm.

Skubal is one of the reasons I started watching the Tigers/baseball again. I love pitching, especially like this. Special. If I were a left handed batter I would tell coach to play the bat boy, he will have a better chance than me. I batted left handed and I can't imagine facing him. Unreal stuff.

The CHIPS act alone sent around 8 billion to INTC, not counting the many more billions of .gov contracts via office, military, and defense contracts (the 17 spook agencies). All under some type of MIL spec to satisfy and protect our needs. We already control them in many ways. .gov owning - assuming this 10% is publicly traded common stock - is probably not a good idea. The pigmen are quite creative though, we must give them that. One of those political cartoon artist should do one with Trump as a young shoe shine boy telling his client it was the best time ever to buy stocks. That's an old market thing for those who don't follow. It's almost like the very same pigmen need someone to sell to. Giggle.

And their off....

You ain't old enough. 🙂

Just for fun, thinking about the game today vs. the way it was, say 1984. How would our boys of those days do against the 2024 WS champs. Let's ask our AI buddies, just for fun. The stat guys will love this. I used GROK just cause I had Twitter open. Question; Who would win the world series if the 1984 Tigers played the 2024 mlb champions? It will give us extensive data we already know, so I'll only post the conclusion. Interesting to be honest.

Nicely said. I'm old, so a traditionalist. We always respected the game. When you walked between the white lines you entered hallow grounds. Same place as our hero's played. And it was played a certain way. Period. More gimmicks - like gambling - yea, that's the ticket. <SPIT>

I'm old, and used to be a baseball fanatic. I played for around 15 years until my body wouldn't allow me to play anymore. Then I got into coaching. From little league to high school. Because I loved the game. Finally got out in 1995 after I started playing around 1965. So maybe 30 years of my life was baseball. During this time the game changed. Strikes, lock-outs, the roid era, the rule changes, the ups and downs. One thing that was always a constant was gambling. Anyone that played understood. It wasn't questioned - it was evil and not in any way should be part of the game. I slowly got away from the game due to all the crap, and eventually turned it off altogether. I didn't miss it one bit. Once in a while I would watch a game and not get through it. Made me mad. Great athletes for sure. Great baseball players, I'm not so sure. Different game, played different, rules different. So much has changed, and so much I didn't like. Then last year I was rejuvenated. My beloved Tigers had a chance to make the playoffs - a shocking development to me at the time - so I started watching again. Finished the last part of last season, and then a month or so ago I got on the bandwagon again. But it's tough. It's no longer the game I knew and loved. Too much has changed. And now this gambling ****. Want to watch? Buy though a gambling site. Get peppered (pepper used to be a baseball drill) with gambling adds all game long. No thanks. Hear about guys getting suspended for gambling violations. Really? What's next? What have they done to what was once the greatest game on planet earth? And most of all WHY? A truly sad affair. <SPIT>

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I wouldn't trust any of them either.

The bold is the key. Coming from someone who started making engineering drawings with paper, pencil, a mechanical arm, and a cheap calculator, to the highest 3D CAD systems in the world. Thanks to computers, the transition from paper to CAD changed the world. The days of football field size drafting rooms with hundreds of tables (and people) were replaced with AutoCad (went DOS 1992) at first, then the 3D stuff. Once it went digital, many jobs and support systems were lost. This will continue with AI. We have the great things we have today due to the progression in this technology - we could draw some complex parts years ago with a pencil and mechanical arm (had to scale as well) - but nobody could make it. Today, with our CAD/CAM machines we can do incredible things. All about cost. I bolded we. We isn't AI. That is the scary part. What should scare the living **** out of all of us is what these inept corporate worms are cooking up to convince their corporate worm bosses this AI horse**** is going to make record profits for years to come and they will suck it up like a Hoover vacuum cleaner. Hey - look at the stock price and all the bonuses and these dickhead getting rich. What's not to like? Then the whole ****house blows up because it was a scam from the start. Dot-com mania on roids (when it comes to the market). All driven by technical BS by arrogant greedy clueless assholes and an ignorant populous. AI can't replace people, and never will. Crazy Teddy Kaczynski is laughing in his grave.

I think it was a Sunday game with the Phillies when they were interviewing the first basemen. While the game is going on, and if I remember right, a left handed batter at the plate. Don't remember where he was playing, but adding a fudge factor, let's say 110 feet from the plate. Ball gets ripped toward said player with an exit speed of 110 and he has about 3/4 of a second to react. WTF? Not to mention how utterly stupid this is since there is a baseball game going on. And this dude's basically on the phone. It could get someone killed and that is a hill I will die on.

We used to stand by where the players came in (of course it was the old Tiger Stadium) and the Mick came in on a motorcycle. I think it was a Kawasaki. He was wearing a green outfit that matched the bike. We heard the club wasn't happy about him riding the bike. I couldn't get through 13 innings today. They piss me off and I'm usually done by 7 or 8. If they interview a guy who is playing a base while the game is in progress I run it off immediately. One of the dumbest things I have ever seen. <spit> And I've seen a lot of dumb **** over the last 70 years.

Without a doubt. Here is a stat sheet for that year, game by game. Too bad it doesn't include pitch counts for each game (which I consider more important than innings). I was at one of them but don't remember when. Mickey Lolich 1971 Pitching Logs - Baseball Almanac

I'm not worried about that, and I'm on it. Money is fungible and we have a printing press. There is no trust fund, and we are what (have to look) 37 with the big T trillion in debt. It all went to the people in the big club.

And thinking further - think of the private equity derivatives the wizards of Wall Street can come up with. Wankin' ****in bankers.

Pox doesn't come close to describing how stupid this is. The first obvious problem is private equity has no transparency - they are private - DUH! From Vanguard; Private Equity [bold mine] Footnote 2; Ain't that great? Giggle. They keep finding ways to fleece us. To your second paragraph, I couldn't agree more, but it is in conflict with the first one. They still wouldn't know how to manage it. To be honest, the ones I dealt with while employed didn't give me a bunch of choices as far as timing and choice anyway. In other words - run and hide. The whole ****ing thing is a giant scam.

Thank you, I had no idea. I honestly can't believe this. This seems like baseball 101. I almost had my head taken off by a batted ball and I WAS paying attention - and it wasn't hit by some guy on ESPN Sunday Night baseball - it was just little Ralph from down the street. I'm old and a traditionalist. What have they done to the game I once loved? When I think they can't find new lows... And don't get me started on how if I chose to watch these games I have to buy them through a gambling site so I can hear and read gambling stuff all game while they mention the available pitching staff who are not suspended for potential gambling violations. Carlin would have a ball with this stuff. WTF?

This could/should go into today's game thread but I felt it was better here. I don't pay to watch games but today I got what I call a "freebie" due to it was on ESPN or something I get with my package. Point being, I don't watch many games, just follow the scores. Maybe I had too many beers, or I was hallucinating today, but I thought I was watching a split screen with the normal camera in one window, and a close up of the Philly first basement in a smaller window, and they were talking to him... You could see he was wearing a mike. They talked to him through an entire at bat while he was playing first base. What? What if they hit a smoking hot one at his noggin? Is this normal? If I really did see what. That's fricken off the charts nuts.

Not really.

If it was only about the price of the whore...

RE: Epstein Somebody has to wear a tin-foil hat so I will do so. It should come as no surprise they will not release the Epstein stuff. Why? It's complicated. I link to the below books you can get on Amazon. Well documented and cited. Two Volumes. Incredible reading. One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Vol. 2 (2) Over 1000 pages between the two. There is plenty of there there. Your beloved government is crooked as **** - all of them. News at 11.

It depends on how you are positioned. I wouldn't want to be short crude oil. Nevertheless, funny this happens on a Saturday, about 18-20 hrs before the futures markets open tomorrow. The insiders are lined up at the checkout counter as we speak. Cha-ching! It's good to be in the big club.

In Powell's presser yesterday he said "“We expect a meaningful rise in inflation in the coming months,” said Powell." So let's cut rates. Outstanding! There is no sane people running anything in this country. Blithering idiots all.