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Right - a corporate NDA can only lead at most to a civil suit. If you are dealing with classified information you are subject to criminal sanctions under various Federal Statutes. FTM even if you never signed anything!

I imagine you might play 3rd with a slightly larger glove than SS but I have to wonder if switching gloves for that small a difference is even a good idea if you are playing both position a lot. The human brain is really good at learning things like how long the fingers of a glove are if you give it a lot of reps. You are giving something up to not take advantage of that spatial learning. Is that more or less advantage than the other glove can give you? I'd like to believe teams/players really know the correct answer to that, but baseball has been based on so much incorrect lore/conventional wisdom in the past for so long it's enough to give you doubts.

What's worse, they have yet to a single player to the roster who is as good a forechecker as Luke was. Again, where is the overall concept behind what players they add vs let go?

Tackiest lectern in the Western Hemisphere there.

it's coming down to the question of 'do you know how to build a winning team?' Does wings management AKA SY, actually have a plan for what properties he needs in what proportions to build a team that doesn't collapse in March, of has he just been going along collecting as much talent as he could without having a plan how the various pieces need to fit together? Sort of like Randy Smith, or generations of Lions GMS who collected players but never built a team.

is it just HR hitting or is it the more elusive capability to hang tough against good pitching as opposed to feasting periodically on bad pitching? The two things are probably correlates of one another, but I don't know they are the completely the same thing.

Back in the day you still had some huge ball parks, Cleveland, Polo grounds in center, Tigers in CF, the original LF at Yankee stadium, Fenway in RC, There was a lot more opportunity to hit balls a long way that were going to stay in play, and for those teams in those parks big OF arms were more important. And I think it's also true that guys did a lot less power training. I think the rise of cookie cutter short OF ballparks and the change in training toward pure power lifting for HR hitting just eliminated throwing as skill for most OFs for a long period. I think today with much more sophisticated training, we again see more guys who train for HR strength but maintain the elasticity needed to keep their throwing arms. And my very casual impression is that there has almost been a renaissance in the number of guys out there today who do throw well from the OF. The Tigers just don't have any of them - beyond maybe Kerry or when we put a regular SS/3B out there, and even then its not quite the same kind of throw.

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same as it ever was

Oddly enough, I think the bad reaction in the oil and stock markets is going to bedevil him more than anything else, at least if the reaction carries through when it opens in the morning. He's been able to talk the market back up several times via social media since this started, but to have his formal statements fall flat with 'his people' (i.e. investors) is going to hit him where his pride lives.

didn’t the Spurs go from 1st to worst when they lost Robinson? I think that was a default assumption of what might happen when Cade went down.

I think they are showing that the Pistons are more than Cade and the 11 Dwarves. Ausar, Duren and Tobias aren't half bad, and Daniss manages to hold his own.

'Limping away' would be more accurate.

Agree the bats have been underwhelming, yet they put up 11 runs in the last two games. But we've already had 4 different pitchers on the staff suffer melt downs, and some sloppy D. The sloppy D will probably continue because it is at least in part the downside of moving guys all around the diamond every day. There is no free lunch. Every strategy that has an upside has some downside.

I have no idea what the kind of income AI is going to generate in the end, but I can pretty much guarantee you that half of the companies extending themselves with these massive capital build outs are going to end up in the toilet, unable to get a slice of the market from whichever turn out to be the most successful players. It's the chip makers like Nvidia that are still in the catbird seat, they are going to book the sales whether the data center the HW goes in makes any money or not. In fact sentiment seems to be growing that the downturn since the war has left NVidia oversold.