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Iranian hackers hit  Stryker HQ in Portage.

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2026/03/iran-linked-hack-suspected-in-disruption-of-global-michigan-based-company.html

Chris Partridge (now with the Seahawks) has filed a wrongful termination suit against UM and Manuel.

https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2026/03/ex-michigan-coach-sues-school-ad-warde-manuel-over-scapegoat-termination.html

Ben Afleck has sold "InterPositive", a company he built that uses AI to edit/retouch movie footage (possibly among other things) to Netflix for a reported $600M (give or take incentives)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-pay-much-600-million-194011342.html

3 hours ago, Screwball said:

Reports of ships getting blown up in the strait earlier today. WTI crude back around $93 as I type this. Brent around $98 and change. Pump price hitting the streets here in Cornhole. I'm sure other places too. The CPI report was not good, and what we are seeing here won't show up in those reports until months down the road.

Nothing will get any cheaper in the near future. That doesn't even account for the supply chain disruptions. That won't end well.

Maybe they need to blow more **** up. A global depression will make things cheap again. 🙂

 

One of these mornings after futures slip overnight and the open is down, I expect the recent pattern of bottom feeders showing up to make a morning rally is going to break and the downside is going to get tested harder.

1 hour ago, Screwball said:

Off topic, kind of. I was doing some research on the oil shock of 1973, which was one of the times things got all ****ed up, and if there might be anything to learn for today. This could probably go in the history thread, but it fits here.

Long article by the LA Times written in Nov. 1993. 20 years after the 73 embargo. Fun to read the narrative from then.

saw this. the interesting thing is how little they figured about the drop in the cost of renewables. In engineering school they taught you how cost scaled with equipment size, but the idea that there was predictable curve for cost of technology vs production scale of that technology wasn't on any one's bingo sheet. Today it's a well developed idea in tech engineering/forecasting with correlated parameter values for various techs.

We always knew it was true at some level - We always knew to build the engine in your Buick as a one-off would cost a hundred times what it cost GM to build a million of them per unit, but the idea that the same idea applied to technological progress as a whole, that innovation was also a function of scale, hadn't really stuck.

15 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Methinks they saw the poll.

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Most Americans believe Trump’s war on Iran is meant to distract from the Epstein files, a new exclusive poll from Zeteo, Drop Site, and Data For Progress finds.

6 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Yeah, I guess his defense, at third last year, appeared decent. I don’t know the advanced stats though. ..

I don't know that it ever gets talked about much but the strongest arm on the Tiger IF is McKinstry's. He'll touch mid 90's.

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That’s OK, because regime collapse is not a stated goal of this war. Nor is nuclear containment. What is the goal? Does anyone know?

maybe payments from future Iranian oil revenue to a numbered Swiss account whose password is "s.u.r.e.i.d.d.a.t.e.m.y.d.a.u.g.h.t.e.r.

in other news:

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By Ernesto Londoño

 

Reporting from St. Paul, Minn.
March 11, 2026Updated 7:37 p.m. ET

Julie T. Le, a former government lawyer whose outburst in court last month over the torrent of litigation generated by the immigration crackdown in Minnesota drew national attention, said she plans to run for Congress.

Ms. Le, 47, was part of a team of government lawyers tasked with responding to numerous lawsuits filed by immigrants challenging the legality of their detentions when she told a judge that she had reached a breaking point.

During a hearing in federal court in St. Paul, Ms. Le said she wished a judge would hold her in contempt and send her to jail “so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.” Breaking with the decorum government litigators generally display in open court, she told the judge: “The system sucks. This job sucks.”

This week, Ms. Le announced that she had left her job and aspired to fix the immigration “system’s failures” as a lawmaker. She is running as a Democrat for the seat held by Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who has served in Congress since 2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/ice-lawyer-congress-julie-t-le.html

1 minute ago, Deleterious said:

That was more me saying oil prices will rise again.  

Monday's Washington happy talk was an attempt to talk down prices without anything on the ground (or water if you prefer) actually changing. Today the Iranians are doing their best to remind everyone about the "nothing has changed" part.

Iran getting real serious about stopping shipping in through the gulf. 

CNN Ticker:

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Here's the latest

• Oil targets: The head of Iraq’s ports company said that 38 crew members of two foreign oil tankers were rescued after an Iranian attack set them ablaze in Iraq’s territorial waters. Separately, a video geolocated by CNN appeared to show an Iranian drone hitting a fuel tank in an Omani port.

• Attacks near strait: Three vessels were hit by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz,

8 minutes ago, oblong said:

No joke. I can see the bakery from my backyard.  Next block over from the old Adray’s if anybody remembers. After they close I get the grilled onions and such from Falls Lounge. 

Remember Adray's fondly

57 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Go touch some grass. So angry all the time. 

 

 

TBH, I could believe (don't say I do at this point) that Trump is the type that is always like a moth to the flame of men who really are libertine, but has always been too much of coward to be one himself (it's certainly not his morality that limits him!) so he talks the part to try and act the part, then disappears when anything is happening. 

Saying I *could* believe that. But I would say at this point there is no credible predonderance of evidence exonerating him opposed to the claims against him. Generally those that have defended him have too much skin in that game themselves. 

For me though - that he is a terrible person is a given, I don't need to know he is any more beyond the pale than I already know him to be from his actions in the public sphere when the light are on. But more to the point he is a terribly incompetent and dangerous Chief Exec and that would be true if his sexual rectitude matched Mother Teresa's. I'm only interested in the case against him if it has potential to get him out of office!

Students at OSU want Wexner's name taken off some stuff. I don't see the "U" giving back the money though...🙄

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

all about as easy to have predicted as the Sun rising in the East.

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Was it his arm still recovering from injuries? I seem to remember fans saying he had a weak arm last season. 

IIRC -He hurt his shoulder going into a base while still in the minors so they swapped him and Jung 2nd and third because the shoulder. At the time they said it could take a year or two for it to regain full strength, if it did. So he was tooling along as a 2B then they signed Torres but also figured Tork was toast so he was a 1b, and then when when Tork wasn't, it was  - well share the ABs as best we can, and then finally: "Well how is the arm doing now? Try 3rd again" Last year once they put him back there he seemed to be throwing OK and there were no issues, so he is back where he started. He doesn't have anything like a cannon, but he gets rid of the ball quick and he's accurate.

I'm guessing some people got a little misled looking at statcast data because you just don't try to throw max effort at 2b so his throwing velo looked pretty low, but at third he was  hitting upper 80s, and with regular throwing there who knows he might loosen up and be able to add to that.

17 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Third base is not a position of need?  

Isn't Jung now Torkelson's designated backup? Even if he does it from Toledo?

Trump appears to have lost Joe Rogan on Iran. I take that as a better indicator for the Dem's prospects than some of these low turn-out primaries, though I'll take them too.

Also fun but probably won't come to anything, a Dem got the most votes in the primary for MTG's seat. Big field and the GOP candidates outpolled the Dem candidates overall. It goes to a run-off.

2 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

It wasn't the stats.  It was the chains!😀

12 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I'm getting young Gabe Kapler vibes from him.   Remember when Gabe was a prospect - he had some sort of website (they were new then) calling him a "future Hall Of Fame" player with a shirtless picture of him.    The Tiger strength and conditioning coach had that statement and picture blown up into a big banner at Spring Training to humble him a little.    I certainly hope it goes better going forward, but this guy needs a little ego deflation -- especially in this sport.     I also seem to remember "The Little Unit" Ryan Anderson bragging about striking out Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in practices and those guys giving him a box of baseballs to sign as a way of mocking him.  His ego was out of control too.  Never pitched in the Majors.  Was trending that way when injuries and ignoring advice derailed him.   He's a chef now, I believe. 

maybe the difference is that from all reports, Max is a very likeable kid, that it's more a matter of him trying to have fun with it than the kind of ego trip Kapler was. But time will tell.

I am a lot more concerned about his bat stalling out than that his personality is going to hurt him

27 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

Saying the "the cap is fake" isn't specifically saying the cap isn't real... just that there are way to play around with it to make it feel like it's not as strict as it could (should?) be. I mean the point of the cap is to prevent a handful of teams from just buying up all the talent, but if a team can just buy up all the talent and pay them next year or the year after or the year after... and oh by the way three years down the road that contact that eat up 5% of a teams cap will only count for 3% of the cap then so it's not as much of a hit.

In the end all teams are still playing by the same rules so it's fair. It's not like only 1 or 2 teams know about or can use these tricks. So I'm not complaining that teams are cheating or whatever. Just that it feels like these loop holes make the cap far less of a solid limit and much more of a numbers game that you just need to plug in the right formula rather than actually make sure the contacts stay under a certain limit.

I'd take if from a different angle. In the NFL, you have a negotiated revenue split. It's not really a 'cap' in the sense of a number that protects owners from overspending or limits what any player can be paid- every NFL team must spend the same total on players. If a team's contracts don't total the cap (within 95%) in a given year, all the players on that team get a % surcharge adjustment. If they are over they have to cut players or move spending commitments into the future. It doesn't favor any team, its just the budget number that represents each team's players right to their percentage of league revenues. If some teams do a better job of managing contracts within those rules than others, what else is new?

59 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Next month could be interesting.  You can't move a single good in this country without using gas/diesel.  Oil prices are one of the biggest drivers of inflation.  

 

They are also 'normalizing' the 2.5 number by calling it 'expected' when the target is 2.0 or less. That you are expecting not to make progress doesn't really excuse not making progress.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

Notice, it's not a tanker. If I can send a message without creating an environmental disaster on my coast, that might be what I do.

54 minutes ago, RedRamage said:

And this is why people say the Salary Cap is fake. I mean if you can just so easily adjust a few things and BAM, 32 million (more than 10% of the Salary Cap) is freed up, then I find it hard to argue against those people.

I get the feeling that the Salary Cap rules are as convoluted as the Tax Code is here in the US. It's starting to feel like all the deferrals that are happening in baseball. None of it is real money anymore. It's all just kicking the can down the road and when the road ends? Well, just build more road and kick the can more.

I don't see why people think that because contracts can be restructured, the CAP is fake. If anything, it proves that it's real. The bill still comes due on all those deferrals. If there is a complaint it would be that the CAP keeps going up, which makes deferrals less painful. But that's just because the league keeps making more money (and inflation). But if the league makes more money and today's players that are building that success get to reap some of that benefit, I don't see a problem with that either.

3 hours ago, buddha said:

Hey guess what?

DANIELSON IS HURT TOO!

just put a bullet in them and end it.

Crap. I thought I heard Daniels say something about that but then I couldn't find anything about it after the game.