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who ever's willing to write that check, baby.

It was interesting - also very notable that he said the Tigers pretty much wait for hitters to come to them. I suppose with all these guy having private coaching that all you can do without risking the infamous "too many voices in his ears" that Hinch mentioned in '24 when Tork was struggling. It was also interesting to here him say he was basically a 'see ball, hit ball' guy even though you hear a lot of people say you can't hit that way.

We have a stand of several large Red Oaks. They usually don't drop their leaves until after some of the neighors have already done their pickup. In fact our clean up guy often ends up doing our leaves in the Spring because so many are still on the trees after the ground starts to freeze. So we are prime offenders in terms of leafing up the area after everyone has tried to clean up. Sorry folks....

I wonder if Anderson is one of those cases - sort of like Christin Stewart, where the org know/feels he has a bottom line weakness that MLB pitchers are going to exploit not matter what he shows against lower level pitching. They did ultimately give Stewart a shot, and of course as Microline and others had warned, he wasn't an MLB caliber bat despite his MiLB success. A more hopeful take would be that they think his bat to ball skill is there but until he shows better power he can't be productive enough. At least under that reading there is a level of reasonable hope some power can develop.

Bar? What Bar? When it comes to Trump there isn't even a seam in the carpet.

When the gerrymandering cases got to the court a few years a ago and they basically punted the issue, the inevitability of the current mess was obvious to anyone with a brain - apparently except JR.

42K is actually a pretty sucky number.

I think they may be right.

If people start feeling insecure about their employment things could really get ugly. Every cohort since the boomers (now most of the electorate) feels they have gotten continually shorter ends of the jobs stick. The pandemic was a black swan so people accepted that dislocation, but if the UE numbers start going up, and even more if people just start feeling nervous, there will be hell to pay for the incumbent party. (BTW, why do we still use 'black swan' to mean an outlier? Australia is not exactly a secret anymore and the ordinary swans there are.....black.!)

HaHa - I saw this same response on the same question not too long ago (though I didn't chat with the bot!) because I had forgetten how I had done it before on 11 and was setting up another windows VM (and I really hate being bugged to login to a VM), but I remembered this answer was not what I had done, so I dug a little harder and found the method I remembered using - which is more general. There is a registry entry that just re-enables [netplwiz] so you can reset autologin for any user the way you used to. So just FYI if you need to do this again......: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device 3. In the keys list on the right, double-click on DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion; 4. In Value data, type 0 and click Ok; 5. Reboot your computer. netplwiz will work again and you can set a user to autologin. And if you talk to your buddy again soon you can bring him(her/it?) up to speed!

right. Ignoring turnover percentage, a good NBA shooter hit's close to 40% on 3s, which is 1.2 points per possession. If you are going to shoot a 2, it has to be 60% shot to equal the same 1.2 PPP. When the trey came into the league, the better shooters hit them at about 30%, which is more like 1 PPP, which wasn't that much different from their team's regular offense. So the increase from 30% to 40% success rate on threes becoming common has completely remade the game. I'll tell you what might be fun though, take the line off the court. Then the players would just have to judge where they are on the shot (of course that's still easy on the baseline....). Let a computerized scoring system instantly credit the point if the shot was actually long enough. I would guess that one of the things that has allowed the 3 point make percentage to climb over the years is that the line eliminates the need for the player to judge his distance to the hoop all that well, he just has to develop muscle memory shooting from the line. Take away the line and that would add back a layer of added mental difficulty. 🏀

I think you made the correct argument - the answer it going to be 'nothing'

Your scale of reference is a little tough. Even a 40% 3pt shooter is going to miss two in a row 36% of the time.

and a photographer about to lose his credential.

he best stay on the ground floor of any tall building he enters.

Roundworm! this probably happens a LOT more than anyone dreams. The temptation to toss a lab sample into your luggage instead of doing reams of paper work can be pretty strong - seems to be a particular issue for the Chinese - either because they aren't used to the level of formal control at home or because they can be under so much pressure to succeed by the people at home - or maybe both.

The Mets are reaching irresistible force vs immovable object level between Cohen's ambition and the team liabilities. I'm not going to guess which gives first or when but at some point down the road that franchise is going to be a real mess.

I'm not going to get too excited. They have certainly become a fun team but they are still too unbalanced, the lack of shooting is still likely going to be their downfall against teams that can play better interior defense.

I think it's part of a larger social dynamic. I guess the metaphor might be that it's easy to never have to restrain a dog when all you have is golden retriever puppies, when you have room full of dobermans it becomes a different story. A lot of our idealized thinking about liberty, freedom, and sanctions at the institutional political and legal level was developed in a society where social and religious constraints on behavior were very powerful. IOW, it's easy to over idealize how committed you are to things like free speech and action legally in a society where no-one will ever say the most destructive things anyway because of other levels of deep social constraint. As we find ourselves in a society where behavior has fewer and fewer sources of control outside formal institutional rule/legal structures, we are finding out that those don't work so well all by themselves.

it says this on the NHL.com site:

NBA already caps contract length (5yrs). Once agreed to, collective bargaining agreements are exempt from a lot of those legal niceties, plus you still have the infamous baseball AT exemption still in play. I guess by definition I'm talking about something that comes out of a new CBA since I'm assuming without a new CBA no-one is playing.

Come to think of it, I bought a car from LaFontaine in Dexter once, but that was long time ago. No issues but it was a much a smaller operation then than now - new bldg/new site since.

What should be easier to QC than the actual length of measuring device? Of course just because he hooked up the the ends uniformly doesn't mean he checked that the inside/outside slide at the end wasn't stuck or binding on some, I've seen that often enough on cheap tapes. That could be 3/32" One would assume he would check that, but it's the internet so who knows?

One would think that just the decade+ terms on the Yamamoto, Ohtani and Soto deals have to have the majority of the owners ready to dig in and force a major change in things - particularly some hard limit on lengths. So does that mean if you are Skubal you should take what you can get today from the Tigers with a 2 or 3 yr opt out to give you safe haven to the other side of the chaos? I guess it depends on which side you thinks ultimately 'wins' the stoppage.

The huge turnout make comparisons to any recent history tricky. Mamdani got more votes (1036K) than any mayor since 1965, but Coumo also got more votes (854K) than any *winner* since Guliani. Looks like this was the largest turnout since 1969! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_mayoral_elections