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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/

2 minutes ago, romad1 said:

That worked well!  McGonigle gets to 2nd on a single because Jake was a devious sob. 

Shades of Javy against Will Craig.

5 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Interesting chart. 

 

and how many plus players has Yzerman scored by trade? Debrincat, Gibson....Faulk maybe..?

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Makes me think that Torres is actually injured bad enough to get on the DL and they will use McGonigle at 2B when McKinstry is back and Short will back him up—-and then platoon Keith and Lee at 3B

IDK - FWIW, press reports today were still that Torres was day to day.

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

I suspect it's because Short plays superior defense around the infield.  

IIRC, when they drafted him Workman was rated a plus defender, but maybe he never lived up to that.

the swing of this series was probably about Cade getting 100% back into NBA playing mode after the pneumothorax.

Freep report says MRI on Vest showed no damage. Still when a guy goes the DL with pitching forearm issues, you can't help but brace for the worst.

2 minutes ago, theroundsquare said:

zack short is up; jace jung is southbound

I hope mom had tickets to yesterday's game.