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Estimates between 5K and 7K for the rally in A^2. Police had closed a bunch of streets downtown.

maybe I missed it but one thing I didn't see in the WaPo story was a crowd size estimate...... TBF, the coverage on DC parade was below the coverage of the protests and both were below the ME news.

LOL - I knew there are a lot of statics around, but keeping obsolete tanks in condition to run down the street on the Mall takes a second level of obsession (or some Russians - 🤣). Am I correct that Shermans were usually gasoline fueled? - That's at least less expensive engine up-keep than keeping old diesels running.

who the heck keeps a piece of WW2 ordinance running? Is there some group out there that reconditions old tanks like the Yankee Airforce had once refurbed a B17?

It does appears to be WWII vintage - some variant of a Sherman maybe

My wife says no-one ever heard any the lyrics to R&R songs. Maybe she's right. I remember GM once ran a series of commercials, for Cadillac I think, over the Who's "Eminence Front" they cut it off before the got to the lyric, the chorus of which is "It's a put on", which is of course the perfect sentiment for any advertising! But yeah - total oblivion sometimes.

I've been watching baseball all my life, and if there is one consistent myth about pitching, it's that you can take a guy who runs out of gas in 5 innings and leave him out there to be hammered in the 6th and somehow if you do that repeatedly he will magically develop 'endurance'. Your endurance doesn't come from pitching, it come from all the conditioning done the rest of the time, the act of pitching at the MLB level is demonstrably destructive to the health of the human body, not productive. If the player's overall program isn't cutting it, repeatedly pitching him to exhaustion once a week isn't going to help, despite the habit that every manager in the the majors seems to fall into. If you have 5 inning pitcher, you have a 5 inning pitcher. You aren't going to do anything about it mid-season.

A Chicken-Hawk no doubt.

something going on between AJ and Flaherty? This is not your father's game management. When a guy has lost 4 mph off his FB and the radar is on the scoreboard, just what are you looking for to know he's gassed?

Jack seems to be the one pitcher that AJ is always just a little too reluctant to pull when he should.

If Elly was 150ft away, the difference between that 98mph throw and the 'normal' 80mph throw is about 250msec. That about 8 ft for the runner. Plus he put it dead on line. Elly is a beast but how often can he reproduce that throw. I say it was a maybe but not a not a terrible send.

they'll need a whole lot of eyeballs if they are going to afford Skubal.

It's pretty hard to design any complex system with total redundancy and at some point the law of decreasing returns will set in and the complexity will start driving reliability the other way. I'm not sure the 'single point of failure' paradigm is quite exactly applicable to software code itself as it is to mechanical systems. Code can have bugs, but once verified code can't fail or fatigue of suffer post manufacture defect etc., per se. You may utilitize redundancy in the machines running the code (Space shuttle was the a classic, 5 computers, took a 'vote' of 3 to proceed with an instruction). I suppose you could take the Space shuttle paradigm and actually be running 5 different code bases! Machine control programming is an art of its own. As the number of input variables go up the number of possible corner cases explodes exponentially and in the real world, you can get highly non-linear and sometimes even inverse responses to your control outputs, and it all has to work in real time because lag introduces instabilities of its own. I've done some very simple microcomputer control programming and all I can say is I wouldn't want to put my life in the hands of any of my code!

it would be nice if those were only old numbers, but he did pretty well against us last season too - 604 OPS against. He probably likes the ball park - what pitcher wouldn't, and I've always wondered if he doesn't bring a little extra against the Tigers just because they picked first and took Mize, and even though Brady's stock had clearly fallen from the year before when he was widely projected to go 1/1 in his class, it was the Tigers' pick that made it official he wouldn't.

Singer has done relatively well against the Tigers. Of the teams he has at least 10 starts against, the Tigers have the lowest OPS+ relative to other teams against him; 84. Tigers raw OPS against = 673.