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9 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

This admin is wearing out the old cliche that it would be comic if it weren't so tragic.

in retrospect it was pretty silly to deal for a player for 3AB.

49 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Already at $7.09 for premium here in Big Shoulders.

No good info on how much of the refinery Whiting has back up and running and they still have the employees locked out so management/engineering staff is doing operations. That might mean no maintenance is being done because even if the engineers know how to operate the plant, they don't have the skills to fix stuff that breaks, not to mention no engineering work is getting done. They are probably also double shifted so the question is how long they go before they start making mistakes. OTOH, they might already have a non-union maintenance staff. Not uncommon for operators to have gotten operations and maintenance split into union/non-union.

37 minutes ago, casimir said:

Or maybe Flaherty starts pitching rather than throwing?

You look at Flaherty's pitch charts and not much jumps out, velo and break on his pitches are all similar to last season, but the pitch value of his FB is way down. The only thing I noticed is that he is throwing the curve less, probably because he's landing it for strikes less, which I suppose reduces the amount of change of speed that batters are seeing. It is the only pitch he throws that gets him to a 10mph delta from his FB. Without good change of speed life is gonna be harder.

8 hours ago, TigerNation said:

but nobody was projecting he'd hit for the power he has because he's 5'8.

speaking of 5' 8", McGonigle's load up is pretty similar (mirror image of course) to Altuve's. He doesn't pick up his front foot quite to the same extreme but overall the step is pretty similar, maybe even a bit longer.

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Yes, every case is different and it's impossible for us to make a timeline.  I am just always pessimistic about pitching injuries.  If something can go wrong, it will.  

If they manage to hang on and get to the playoffs this season after these pitching losses it should go down as one of the most unlikely seasons ever. The starting staff that won 87 games last season has now had injuries to Jobe, Skubal, Mize, Olson and a potential starter in Melton while adding Valdez and Verlander, with the latter being a non-factor. To that add that Flaherty has been bad. Valdez was a great add but it's still +1 against -5, which isn't good math.

50 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

But does it feel like that to you ? I mean it seems far worse. Do those stats apply to close games or all games . It could be padded in blowout games or early in games which of course is still important but not like one or two run games 7th inning and later which seems real bad. But I do not have the facts like Joe Friday. 

The offense always feels worse when you are behind and/or especially when you don't trust your bullpen so failure to add runs feels like it's courting impending doom.

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

The report is that Iran hit the terminus of UAE's pipeline bypassing Hormuz - if true that's maybe another million BBL/day taken off the market.

if Melton is back quick and is good, and Flaherty straightens out, they *might* stay in it, but this is pretty much turning out to be a season from HeII

2 hours ago, buddha said:

"calf strain" might be detroit's secret weapon in the playoffs.

i wouldnt be surprised to see harden or mitchell suddenly come down with a case of the "franz's" if it goes 6 or 7 games.

I wouldn't bet against the explanation of the epidemic of achilles raptures in the NBA being drug induced tendinopathy.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This plus a media that isn't 1000% hostile would do wonders for restoring some semblance of the rule of law. 

 

the other thing is that the single biggest reform that could be made, which is to stop corporate campaign funding, will 100% hit the television industry-since that is where 95% of those $ are spent. So the video press, who all work for the entertainment industry,  and who might otherwise be at least somewhat positively disposed to reform, stay away from this issue like it's the plague.

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This plus a media that isn't 1000% hostile would do wonders for restoring some semblance of the rule of law. 

 

maybe the Dems are learning that if you are going to be a 'reform' party, you actually have to be in favor of reform.

In anticipation of meeting with Trump later this month, the Chinese have promulgated a series of rules  aiming to nullify US sanctions on Chinese refiners.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-rare-defiance-of-us-sanctions-sparks-showdown-over-banks-021410787.html

a number of conflicting reports about doings in the Persian Gulf this AM. The USN may or may not be trying to get ships past Hormuz. Of course the Navy doesn't have nearly enough ship to escort all the traffic waiting in the gulf even if they wanted to, and I doubt they want to.

9 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I remember when JFK was shot there was this strange hubub in the halls as all the teachers left their classrooms and they were hugging each other and crying and then our teacher Mrs. Vaughn returned from the hallway choking back the tears and told us all to leave and that the President had been shot dead and school was canceled for a few days. 

It was such a different era. Today it would be like: "Oh- someone shot the President? Hmmm. Well, on to lesson II" 

The other funny thing to contemplate is whether anyone would be crying in the hall if it had been Nixon. Even if you had voted for RMN, it's hard to imagine having much emotional investment in him! 🤷‍♂️

58 minutes ago, chasfh said:

We have heard this here and there in bits and pieces, but to hear it all at one time is pretty remarkable.

https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/2050989308815818823/video/1?s=61

 

The only problem (OK - not the *only* problem) with MTGs epiphany is that if she were a more serious person she would have stayed in the House and kept up the opposition. But it points up  how hard it is for the blue side to actually move these people to their side. Trump is losing support among people like Green who have come to oppose him on an issue, e.g. Green on Epstein, Carlson on Iran, but who still support too much of the remaining RW agenda to ever actually vote on the blue side. A couple of generations ago, when political difference weren't so culturally conditioned, it was a lot easier to get people to change parties over policy issues. Today getting a person across the divide is tied up in personal identity issues as well as policy preferences.

29 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

 

Was listening to this game and was wondering how McGonigle got to 2nd. Dan and Dirks talked about Rogers sort of fooling the Rangers about which way he was going, but the key for McGonigle was that Burger just completely abandoned 1st base to run at Rogers instead of throwing the ball. Burger had gone so far across the diamond that KM could go most the way to 2nd safe in the knowledge he could beat Burger back to 1st if a throw did go to 2nd. Bad play for the Rangers all around.

9 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Brogna was traded for Alan Zinter.  I remember having an argument on the AOL board with one of the dumbest baseball fans on the internet.  He said that Tony Clark was going to be another Alan Zinter.  I told him that Zinter was never a good prospect and was nothing like Clark.  He got really upset telling me I knew nothing about baseball and to get my head out of the spreadsheets. He assured me that Zinter was a stud prospect who flamed out.  The same guy once told me that Brookens was a good hitter because he was clutch.  That pretty much summed up my early days on social media. 

This guy was a high school teacher from Ohio.  😀

    

Rico played 848 games over 9 seasons and managed to amass a whopping -1.1 WAR. Much like left handed relief pitchers, if you can hit 20 hr you keep getting chances. Zinter spent 13 yrs in AAA with an overall 838 OPS. A worthy nominee for the Mike Hessman association.

1 hour ago, oblong said:

The guy next to Ted is like "Can you ****ing believe this?"

summer of 46 he would have been a returning war hero campaigning for his 1st House seat in Boston.

27 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Plus, I know some guys are using BSER bats

That's crappy. It ought to be a DQ when a team brings an illegal bat.

23 minutes ago, holygoat said:

If you go this rout, make sure to get the more stable LTS release as opposed to the newer one. I made that mistake, and have since changed to Linux Mint, which is another solid choice for those looking to ditch MS.

I've been using Fedora for more than 15 yrs. It's the opposite of an LTS, releases come 2'ce/yr and updates every day. But Linux updates so painlessly, even the full release updates take less than maybe 1/2 hr. 

TBH, I probably still wouldn't advise someone to use linux if they are not open to learning how to maintain it. It's not particularly hard but you have be willing to do a searching when you have an issue and a little typing to fix it. OTOH, when stuff is broke, linux developers fix it FAST - usually a day or two.

Just now, chasfh said:

I will tell you this about playing softball now: the guys are a lot bigger, the girls are a lot better, and the ball is a lot livelier. At least here in Big Shoulders, it is. Personally, I don’t think a softball should be allowed to travel 350 feet in the air. But everyone digs the long ball now, ad spot and social clubs need to stay in business, so … 🤷🏻

Before I even gave up playing, our league had gone to the lower flight ball  - the diamonds we played on weren't big enough the high travel balls.

Pitching Kaos for the win.

7 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Is this lead Kenley-proof?

Burch Smith will be trying to leaf the Rangers behind.

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I'm just not sure this McGonigle kid is ready for the Show.   I need more evidence. 

 

And I need Microsoft to end this ****ing Efficiency Mode, which is anything but.   What a disaster.    Chrome is frustratingly slow now.  Like  Dial-Up slow

https://kubuntu.org/download/