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So if it's only that nobody actually learns how to play the game before they get there because of one-and-done, then you'd still expect to see good players emerge from later in the draft but a few year's experience. Or is it just impossible to improve enough as player once in the league?

can't see anything happen there.

This one for me also. Who loses a play-off game in which they don't even give up a TD?

It just seems bizarre to me that 300+ Div1 college basketball program don't produce 30 NBA quality players in a year.

this one maybe?

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.

have to say this source would have better credibility if they knew the difference between pneumatic and hydraulic. In any case, the article is dated 2015 and a fix was supposed to be rolled out that year. Now IIRC this airplane was possibly put in service before the date of the article and thus of the fix, but if Air India sat on it for 10 yrs without doing the upgrade and then skipped their service intervals to boot, somebody there needs to take a fall.

bah - I hope Tork gets in this one at some point - I thought he had great ABs yesterday.

Because the whole GOP immigration shtick has always been a joke - red meat to the proles with no intent to ever actually change the status quo and upset the system of cheap labor US business depends on. But now they find themselves with an idiot true believer like Miller having wormed his way into leverage and the real powers that be are starting to let Trump know that he can have all the rhetoric and show deportations he wants, but the actual removal numbers better never get serious.

RE:200 RBI. It would be had to pick two guys that got to the same milestone by more different routes. You can ignore Travis' rookie 1/3 season and he still totalled 284 in his first three full time seasons - partly because he was an iron man - he got into 461 games in those three seasons, and partly because the Tigers were scoring runs as team at a level today's team can only dream of : 800-900 per season. Riley has been a walking med-evac case - halfway though his 4th season and is still short of 400 games played; Riley's teams have been scoring in the 550-650 runs/season range. Another way to break it down is that Travis got his 200th RBI at about career AB 1360. Riley got there at about career AB 1530. If you consider the difference in team scoring levels Riley looks better than Travis on that basis.

different choices are always possible but but cutting his face off works for me. It's like an additional slight. He's being minimized, which of course he hates.