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5 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

 

Of course, just to clarify, in Donald Trump's world, there is only one innocent person to begin with, namely him. So the statement is unchanged on the substitution "He can no longer hurt me."

Now that that is clear, carry on.

47 minutes ago, TigerNation said:

Skubal doesn't go beyond 5 much?

2025 numbers: 31 starts, 195 IP. That's a 6 1/3 per start average.

43 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

 

well he might as well add war crimes to his list of dubious accomplishments. Where are the Generals that will tell him they aren't sending their guys to do that?

58 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

A nice summary. Pretty much the same could have been provided - and maybe was - to Trump before he started this escapade - if he had bothered to actually talk to anyone who knew what they were talking about.

4 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Javy doubles and Matty hits a ground rule double to make it 3-1 in the 7th. 

always a little worried each spring about guys on the wrong side of 30 but Javy looks OK so far.

11 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

In the country's entire history, has there ever been a smaller, more venal man in public life? And for 70 million people that alone wasn't enough disqualification? We have a gotten to where we have a seriously retrograde social culture to fix in this country.

is already a better 3B than any one even hopes Colt can be.  

(and I'm a fan of Keith's)

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

They still have 43 players in camp?

40 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Austin Slater exercises his option.  He will look elsewhere.  

42

(which just happens to be THE answer)

19 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

They still have 43 players in camp.  There can't be 17 players on the bubble!  Perhaps, they want some players to play in Arizona, so their regulars can be rested prior to opening day. 

"Load Management' comes to MLB!

14 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

If you read lips, it was "WTF!"

Kevin McGonigle is:

Slumping and down to 50/50 to make the team (as per Petzold today).

it dipped to ~6250 on 'Tariff Day' (Aug 1 last year). Hit that and it would just about be down 10% = "a correction"

Lequerica's some work to do.

13 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The announcers are gushing about how well Max Clark handles the media. The Pirates minor league guys have allowed four runs with bad pitching and bad fielding contributing to it all. Still only one out in the top of the second the bases loaded. DP ends the inning. 

then Max flattens the poor Pirates’ 1b, who decided to wander across the baseline without bothering to look. 

all the statements coming from the admin since this began have primarily been aimed at talking down the oil market and reducing the downward drift of the stock market, but as usual with Trump, any correlation between what is said and reality is purely coincidental. 

42 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Agreed. I have noticed it has recently gotten worse. I use a fake name instead of my own just for privacy and it allows me to read the local stuff, which is usually a real hoot. I think I read somewhere recently they are laying off more people. That will certainly make it better. /s

They announced pulling the plug on the 'metaverse' effort after sinking $80B into it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html

7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

In other words, the U.S. is insulated from the global natty gas market due to home cooking.  

and this war is costing us a lot more than what we may save in nat gas prices.

19 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

that's fine. The S&P has also lost $3 Trillion dollars in equity since this escapade started. A good chunk of that has disappeared from American's pension and retirement accounts. Paying a higher price for methane would be the better deal if you could get it.

I'd also note that the only reason nat gas prices in the US are not up is because we don't have the export capacity to move more gas to where the price is better. You can bet that if we did, you would not be getting much discount from world prices out any patriotic bleeding heart of US producers. And you can bet producers are doing everything they can to get to where they have the infrastructure to export more.

37 minutes ago, romad1 said:

except Fetterman and the AIPAC caucus will stumble over themselves to vote for it. 

he was the vote to get Mullin out of committee.

I guess anyone had to be better than Noem, but as on the of Dems on the committee said "what a low bar".

Just now, Edman85 said:

Friend left Florida for a ski trip in Colorado, where it topped out in the 90's the day he arrived. Meanwhile, we played beach vball in low 40's wind chills last night.

LOL - I've Spring Skied in Co when it was 70s at the bottom of the mountain and maybe 30 at the top. It still fun but you have to be off the mountain by about noon when the upper slopes turn into ice and the lower ones into lakes......

21 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Tech bros don’t care about college sports like they do in Texas.    Texas Tech has thrown down the gauntlet already and it’s only going to get bigger and more competitive in the Lone Star state 

then there is Phil Knight at Oregon. I guess he's not tech but he sure bleeds "green". (tee-hee)

29 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Murkowski for Fetterman.   

she's not much a prize to win.

3 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Tech bros don’t care about college sports like they do in Texas.    Texas Tech has thrown down the gauntlet already and it’s only going to get bigger and more competitive in the Lone Star state 

The best outcome of this kind of thing would be for about half of D-1 to just opt out of the whole thing and go back to a completely non-profit model, club based sports,  free student tickets etc. Games where nothing is on the line but school pride and a good time. Of course it won't happen, but it should. 

7 minutes ago, Screwball said:

The history of the Great Lakes (on edit; shipping), which Toledo was a large part of, is really neat stuff. Not far from the Spicer plant on Bennett, on Phillips Ave, is the famous Mancy's Steakhouse. Captain McSorley of the Edmund Fitzgerald lived in Toledo in the off season and was a regular there as it was told.

But a pain in the ass at times. 

Glad to hear it's still there. Our refinery group would do Mancy's when bonuses were paid.

5 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Cat has become our best fwd...he plays a much more complete game than he did a few years ago

Yup. And I like Faulk. He skates well enough he's hard for opponents to forecheck or tie up. That's a nice add.