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34 minutes ago, romad1 said:

is that a Tommy Franks or a Norm Schwartzkopf reference?  

GHWB and Schwartzkopf

28 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Congresswoman Stopped Clock

Ex-Congresswoman. Tweets are cheap ego massage.  If she had at least hung around she might have done some good voting against him.

16 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Update. This became official today as it hit the news. 3 plants total, all in Ohio, 1,011 total employees. Closing at the end of April. But it gets worse. They have been under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for a while. I wasn't aware of that.

The release states (this is funny); “Company leadership has indicated there has been interest in the facility and they remain optimistic about a potential path forward prior to the April 30 date,”

Of course, but then there is this you have to deal with;

The worker bees tell me the union wouldn't do squat. I don't know why they list maintenance workers when they seem to not do anything, and neither did management. They wouldn't do **** after the girl I know slipped on the oil and got hurt, and didn't do **** for her either. But hey, a fish stinks from the head down. 

What a crooked bunch of dicks. May they rot in a jail cell.

 

the story is on Reuters now and the name are public.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/first-brands-nears-bankruptcy-settlement-tees-up-business-unit-sales-2026-02-27/

Sounds like there might be a chance Ford steps in to straighten it out. That would probably be the best outcome for the employees, but it's not like FoMoCo doesn't have enough problems of it's own either.

36 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

He's getting a max and it's going to cap this team's ceiling. I can't deny he puts up good numbers, but big men aren't good enough at creating for themselves and others to warrant a max in my opinion (except for Joker). And his mediocre defense doesn't make up for it. It's not like Cade can sit and Duren can run the offense, he still needs someone to feed him most of the time.

turn the question around. If they don't keep Duren, who can fill the void he leaves behind that they either have, or can get? Duren's not a perfect player but I always get a sense of 'the grass is greener' going on in the dissatisfaction level over him. Mitchell may not have been playing but Duren was making a guy that had led the league in the past in DWS look like a child.

I get that maxing any player is a tough call, but to me that decision is more about whether the team can afford two maxes in general, less about whether Duren could be one.

7 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Might be a good time to be long crude oil. Some reports claim the Straight of Hormuz is not getting the usual traffic, or even closed. Crude markets are closed for the weekend, but here is the chart from yesterday for reference. 3 month daily.

 

If you believe the current activity will be sustained for sure. However I'm doubtful it will be, but who knows? 

55 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Never get involved in a land war in the Middle East

unless you have at least 2 middles names and German heritage general.

59 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Always a tweet

54 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

There are so many of them out there. 

 

someday there really must be a picture of DJT with the dictionary definition of projection. He is the most transparent individual I can ever remember reaching any kind of political power. Every accusation he has ever made about anyone else has been a predictor/admission of his own conduct.

49 minutes ago, oblong said:

I will admit to my own opinions shifting somewhat but it was also heavily influenced by the turn the party made. I always wonder where I would be today if someone like Rubio had gotten the nomination in ‘16. 

there were lots of turning point for the GOP. If the other Bush brother had pushed his brother aside it would be a whole different history as well.

1 hour ago, Screwball said:

Follow up on this with some data from the ground.

I talked to one of the girls today and she told me the OEM they supply, a big 3 auto company, were there for an inspection. They told them if they didn't fix this mess in the X amount of time (I don't remember what she said was the time frame), they would pull all their orders. 

After they left they told the worker bees if they can't sell the company by the end of March they will be done. Couple hundred worker bees, so probably 30-40 office bees. This is only one plant. They have another about 45 minutes away. That one is bigger. Probably another few hundred.

I know this company. What was going to happen to these people was a flashing sign a long time ago. Nothing got better. This is a perfect example of how piss poor and inept our managerial talent is today.

And it's the self fulfilling death spiral. The way they are operating they aren't making any money, so some vulture like Bain dismembers it all and walks away a little cash but the all the people are SOL. The vulture's ledger books say in the end it was all good, but society gets left with all those 'externalities' like broken towns and broken people that neither the vultures nor the big campaign contributors are obligated to do any accounting for.

41 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The one I hear, invariably, is "have a good one." So irritating. Have a good what, exactly?

good DAY. It's just an idiomatic abbreviation. In modern English "have a nice nice/good day" has gotten to sounding hackneyed, or worse is said satirically so often you risk people taking you wrong. I volunteer accepting donations from people, you do want to send them off with some positive good-bye, I find I tend to use every combination just to avoid sounding stale to myself. And you try to match the audience. "Have a good one" for the guys in the F150's, "Have a nice day" for the 30 something professional women, "Take care" for the oldsters....🤷‍♀️

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Back in the old days, what we call "forearm tightness" would be the precursor to "dead arm".

I think today, a Spring training report of 'dead arm' doesn't send up too many rockets, but 'forearm' anything is never good to hear.

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Now that the DOW is back under 50,000 are we allowed to ask Pam Bondi again why she is covering for pedophiles?

Post of the day.

5 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Texas is the hottest market to relocate to, why? Taxes. Cali, NY and now Virginia have said don't let the door hit ya.....

Spent any time in Houston? I can see why business likes it, but QOL sucks. SIL is near San Antonio, seems to be a more reasonable place to actually live. No experience with the Dallas area.

8 minutes ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

I have very little confidence in Parker Meadows as a contributor on offense. (I almost used Offensive Contributor, but that could be interpreted either way... LOL)  I hope I'm wrong about that, but I just haven't seen it from him on a consistent basis. You can blame injuries if you want, but it still remains that he has been largely a disappointment at the plate when he's been out there. He's certainly still young enough to get back to the stretch where he was a fantastic looking leadoff hitter, but for me that leash is getting pretty short.

I'm waiting to see if he has changed his stance at all. He could not get to strikes at the bottom of the zone last season so I'll be less pessimistic if we see an attempt at a setup change.

37 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

So Giancarlo Stanton says he can't open a bottle or a bag of chips. 

 

Dude,  just retire.    Do the Yankees one solid and let them take the insurance money. 

 

You're done.    

 

I usually don't care about the Yankees, but this guy's just ripping them off at this point.  

Yankees only on the hook for $64M.  🙄

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Watching my first Tigers game of the season, at the Orioles, on MLBN. They’re wearing those new blue alternates. They are ugly and cheap-looking. They look like the kind of uniform you get playing for a team in amateur men’s hardball.

when they played Atlanta you virtually couldn't tell the teams apart. I assume they won't do anything that dumb in the regular season but who can be sure anymore?

Talk about a play were it looked like there was nothing there. Face off was not a clean win, Raymond wasn't really open for the pass, then Lucas with a pass into empty space with his best guess to where Larkin could get and finally Larks having to execute with hardly a millisecond to spare before he was going to be in too far. 

Not too shabby.

2 hours ago, Dan Gilmore said:

The story I read about Myers emphasized that he has deep roots in BC, including the care for his special needs kid,

One the plus side, this is kind of thing the Ilitch org is generally really good at making right for guys. 

16 minutes ago, Screwball said:

People who makes parts for the big three are walking on towels on the floor soaked with hydraulic fluid leaking from the machines they have to run. That's nuts - but a sure sign of a company that is very poorly ran - and about to go broke - or sued into oblivion

Deferred maintenance because margins are too thin? One step from there to injuries and shutdowns. 

I don't know how many times I had the conversation with a suit. "You are telling me it's going to fail - will it be tomorrow?" If I couldn't given him a statistically derived proof that it was he didn't care, and when most of the specialized equipment in the plant are "One-of" being run in ways they were never run before, there is no such thing as those kinds of statistics. So they run till they don't, and for want a day or two to do maintenance, you lose the whole operation for who knows how long. The maintenance guys go to 12hr shifts and everyone else goes home.

....And the tech staff gets blamed anyway!

6 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

My cousin in Boston retired from the insurance industry in his 40s and went in with two friends on a boat and they do charter fishing trips (Mass in the Summer, Florida in the Winter).   One of the two other guys ALWAYS gets seasick when it gets dark........every single day and he's been around boats his whole life.  

Darkness is the thing because you can't see the horizon. When we spent time on the lake, you always wanted to see the horizon when the boat was pitching because if what your eyes see matches what your ears (otoliths) say you have half a chance. Same thing with reading in a car. Look out the window while driving, most people are fine. Give you kids a book or game for the back seat which has them looking down and they are tossing their cookies in no time. I'm usually pretty resistant to motion sickness at sea but I never try to read while riding in a moving car for more than a minute or two. Oddly, the SO can read in the car but doesn't do too well in boats.

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

a piece of toast with little bit of butter stopped my nausea/vertigo the other morning

This reminds me that when we spent time on lake superior on a boat, the soda crackers were always on hand to help with seasickness. Bland starches are the thing I guess. 

16 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I hope they have a plan to get Cade some rest down the stretch.  Home court is very overrated.  If they can secure it naturally, cool.  But it's not worth fighting the Thunder/Spurs for it if it burns Cade out.  He plays heavy minutes and has a heavy workload during those minutes.  Plus, he doesn't use the defensive side of the ball to rest like a lot of other stars do.  

Great. They'll rest Cade and watch the league decide the Pistons are the team they are going to hammer for it to make an example...

17 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I mean, their CEO said in an earnings call that their rollback of DEI contributed to their losses. Many economists have noted that their reversal on DEI has contributed to their losses. 

But they haven't reversed the rollback? Seems if they really believed what they were saying that would be their fiduciary responsibility. Or management just isn't as lefty as their customers and they don't care. 🤷‍♀️

US corp management is a weird mish-mash. At half of US corps, you miss a quarterly guidance and you are turning in your key to the exec washroom, in the other half you control the board and all the proxies and you can run the org right into the ground without anyone on the inside saying 'boo'.

2 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Target's decline coincided with them grabbing their ankles in front of Trump and ending DEI. Target's customer base was left leaning. If Target is going to bend the knee to Trump and give the finger to their customers, why shop there when they are no different now than Walmart or Amazon?

It's also worth noting that Costco told Trump to **** off and they are doing better than ever. 

could be, but that's easier to assert than prove. Frankly, I think the number of people who decide where to shop based on politics is a pretty small number, but OTOH, margins in retail are small so maybe that's enough.

6 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

What's funny is Target's decline started when they ended DEI and liberals started boycotting Target so technically the forum Nazi is correct and liberals have caused the downfall of Target but not in the way he thinks. 

Target and Walmart overlap a lot and Walmart is doing really well, basically pulling folks from other retailers again. TBH, I don't know how much is politics and how much is that Walmart is doing a better job, esp in e-commerce.