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4 hours ago, buddha said:

nc$$ tournament expanding to $eventy-$ix teams.

ridiculou$

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Does this mean Max gets his call up? Because we are fresh out of at least halfway decent center fielders.

it would be a little comical since Harris was just on ESPN saying more or less that Max wasn't going anywhere for a while as they had plans for what they wanted him to work on. Well, the best laid plans and all that....

9 minutes ago, kdog said:

I'd guess a multiple month injury.

Mize gonna be at least a month as well no doubt.

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Workman is batting .333 with a .948 OPS.  He's getting the call. 

for sure if not now, probably never.

13 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

 

yeah - but can he pitch?

Torkelson needs to stop that one

3 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

yeah, but that apparent fact that his leg is bad enough that they didn't want him stressing it with a warmup pitch is kinda yikes.

whatever it was, Casey knew he was done.

3 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Not an arm issue, looks like he tweaked a leg running down that weak grounder.  

as Benetti noted, Casey is a guy who once pulled a hamstring walking down off the mound.

you never know when it will end, but so far Casey is dealing. Braves' hitters had no chance that inning.

12 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

That 'arrogant ass' being another great character portrayal by Stellan Skarsgard, BTW.

5 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

This would be the biggest self own in history. By far the highest % of passport holders are the highest educated demo and that demo is about as strongly Dem as any.

2 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

glad mine is good for another 9 yrs.

11 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Gasoline prices loom large IMO.... people previously associated, rightly or wrongly, Trump with low gasoline prices. The whole "I'll take the cheap gas and the mean tweets" sentiment was very prevalent in 2024.

That narrative of Trump has been blown to smithereens at this point. It's gone.

I suppose there comes a time in every 'denialist' movement when the fantasy finally becomes unsustainable - at least for the majority. 'holic has a place in his heart for Babe the Blue Ox and maybe would love the world that truck represents to somehow keep going, and for all those hoping it could, Trump was probably their big hope, and when the real world has been shown to chew Trump up and spit him out, maybe that will finally break the illusion for some folks. And the thing is, I was there, that wasn't actually such a great world compared to this one anyway, it's a bill of goods.

21 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Somebody's delusional, or reading too much green BS.

What looks true here is the illusion. The US aint the world anymore - we are making ourselves irrelevant. The world is moving on, even if we aren't. More than 50% of new cars sold in China are EVs, 98% in Norway, 75% in freaking Nepal of all places. The EU and China together are much more of the real world than we are. And even here, gasoline consumption peaked in 2018.

5 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Plumbing new depths...

a lot of things have happened that we've speculated would dent Trump's base that haven't, but Iran is the one that's doing it. I don't know if it's actually the war or maybe just gasoline prices.  Hard to believe there were a lot of voters that believed Trump would actually be a peace president, but as long as they figure it out and take it out on his party in Nov I'll take it.

23 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

More proof MAGA's a such snowflakes. Especially the Guy who recently stated "I am not a rapist" "I am not a pedophile"

There were two attempts on Gerald Ford within 2 weeks. He didn't wine about needing a ballroom either.

And Ford would even have had an excuse to be a Squeaky wheel about it.

4 hours ago, Deleterious said:

They were a member for 59 years

 

This is about getting out of production quotas.

At some point I suppose we may start seeing a race to the bottom by oil producers who  see the end of an oil based economy staring them in the face and are deciding better to cash out now than try to keep the price high and see the market shrink even faster. I tend to think that when countries look out and see the US, the supposed guarantor of stability being the one screwing up the oil markets, it's sort of the last straw in the decision matrix to just get off oil as fast as possible. Nuclear is coming back, renewables are the vast majority of new utility capacity going in around the world, and the Chinese are ready and able to supply the world with cheap EVs. 

Now that said, a pipeline or three built to get around Hormuz and Trump off the stage, the pendulum may swing back, but for now, other than the US, the developed world is heading for the exits on oil & gas as fast as they can. And even here, Trump may keep the odd coal plant running here and there, but utilities are voting in the other direction with their investment dollars anyway.

23 minutes ago, chasfh said:

What if Disney simply refuses to file two years early?

Disney goes to court, the court quashes the order. It's more harassment.

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I know there is not much that’s convenient that I can do about this, but I hate how my car hijacks my phone for the purpose of connecting it for use with Apple CarPlay. Anytime I just have the radio on, and I happen to look up something online that has a video attached to it, the car hijacks the phone, and the video plays over the speakers. Right now I’m in a car wash, and I want to watch YouTube videos in the lobby while I’m waiting, but because the car is on, it keeps hijacking and re-hijacking the phone over and over, so I can’t use it unless I forget the car’s WiFi network entirely. A first world pain of the first order. 

yeah - I think there is a way to turn off car play in my car but I would not be able to find it without hunting through a lot of menus. I just turn off BT on the phone if I want it disconnected because I can find that. I generally don't connect my phone to the car's wifi at all - it's a redundancy I haven't needed for anything yet.

24 minutes ago, buddha said:

its funny because its osu, but it goes on everywhere.  the idea that most bball or football players go to michigan for the academics is silly.

osu has so many university wide scandals right now theyre beginning to rival michigan!  

TBF, schools do make a huge effort in recent years to help athletes go to school if they want to, I'm sure that is as true at OSU as at UM. But while you can lead a horse to water....

11 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Rumor was that Weaver wanted to take JD at pick #5 and he got overruled so he traded up to get him. I realize JD's value just dropped across the league, but maybe a sign and trade involving Trey Murphy could be worked out with our former GM.

It would be nice to have 3pt shooting center, but that discussion has been had before and there aren't that many out there. Maybe if you had a team that was less shooting handicapped across the board, teams would not be able to so easily take away what Duren could be doing. When you put together a team the pieces have to complement  each other - the pistons' shooting so far is deficient enough that it's skewing everything else and a part of that right now is Cade isn't playing like he's at 100%

Then there's the turnovers......

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

I had an argument with my then pulmonary doctor over this a few years ago. At an appointment he asked how I was doing under a certain medication. I told him I hadn't heard from anyone.

"Do you answer your phone when it's an unknown caller?' No

"You should aways answer your phone". If it was important they should leave a voicemail.

We went round about this for several minutes. Then he said "you'll enjoy Dr. XXX" and walks out. 

It turns out his "assistant never sent the prescription in (the prescription comes from s speciality pharmacy). And never contacted the specialist to set up an appointment, until I called his office the second time.

I stll don't answer my phone on unknowns. I figure if they needed to call me they'd leave a message. If it's not in my directory...

UofM system always leaves voice mails and usually sends texts/emails as well. Nobody should be relying on a live telephone connection to communicate in the 21st century, it's been a debased system for a long time. Another thing that shouldn't be the way it is but we have a government that doesn't work.

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Now Little Donnie, you need to practice reading out loud more. And no playing in your new basement play room until you finish ALL your homework

and Melania has another 'Mask' outfit going!

18 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

It is so funny how this is being spun. Also, OSU aside, why is everyone attacking Arvell Reese, suddenly? Like every post on r/NFL and r/CFB is dragging this guy. I have never seen him get in trouble, talk trash, being a diva, a-hole, etc - Dude barely talked during his time at OSU. 

I had a 2.5 GPA in high school but turned it around in college and graduated with honors on the dean's list. Does that mean my college sucked or does it mean I actually applied myself in college? Weird thing to rip on a person for. Dude bettered himself and people are using it tear him and OSU down. Weird. 

you're right, but OTOH, the NCAA and B1G are at least as full of academic cheating stories as academic success stories so a casual reader is just going to see it fitting into the assumed narrative. And just to beat an old point into the ground, it's the problem of social media factoids being out there with no context. Was he talking about graduating from an accredited program or about just skating by? You can't tell that from the one line post.

11 minutes ago, oblong said:

Maybe this is a repeat but if you are repairing a dryer yourself, just go ahead and get all the potential parts.  If you have a simply dryer they are easy to repair and the parts are not tha....

Good work. 

The other thing is that a lot of newer appliances have a single PCB controller board. 99% of the non-mechanical things that go wrong are failures in that board. It's usually about 10 minutes to replace the board and you can find them on the internet, so that's another 'go to' for maybe $150 tops before you run up a service bill or buy a replacement.

One of the funnier things I've witnessed was a service tech who came out look at our dishwasher (under warranty at the time) and just thew up his hands because he couldn't diagnose the problem. Just replacing the board before he checked anything else would have rung up less charge to his employer than half the labor time he spent poking around. In the end, the warranty service co never did fix it. But it's still in my kitchen running with the new board I put in it....