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NPR inteviewed a Mississippi farmer about his prospects for this season with higher fertilizer prices. He's having to queue up for a gov bailout. He can't afford the fertilizer for Corn, he's hoping he can make some money on sweet potatoes but the market is a gamble. He can maybe plant cotton (left unsaid was that that will require more labor) - so after this long litany of woes Trump has brought him came the question - well, then do you support this war? "Well I guess so..."

GMAFB. Some people can fall out of the boat and still miss water.

not dead yet!

15 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't think Trump has dementia.  

His main problem is extreme narcissism.  His second problem is lack of intellect.  He is probably getting a little senile as he ages and his baseline was pretty low from the start.  

His disinhibition is growing by leaps and bounds. Maybe it's become learned behavior because the people around him normalize it for him, but under normal circumstances that's a marker of frontal lobe decommissioning, whether it's Alzheimers, or just vascular senescence or whatever. It's a sign you have someone in a powerful office rapidly losing the ability to process consequence or make any kind of subtle judgement. And of course it's not like there is any evidence of that in his recent actions...

1 hour ago, buddha said:

given your criteria, amir makled would not be on your list of favorites. 

 

Tater's post is the first I've seen his name so I can easily believe I would find that to be the case.

It's not like I follow all three independent school's regents issues, but what I'm afraid is happening at UM is what started happening long ago at MSU, which is the Board (I think they are called trustees at MSU) has become a tail on the dog of state capital politics. In UM's case more on the tail of state DEM politics. We really are losing the guys like Phil Power and Paul Brown who were only there because they honestly loved the institution.

51 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

shouldn't we trade Tork for a starting pitcher? Food for thought...

Does anyone trade starting pitchers that are any good other than rentals? Seems you mostly have to breed them or buy them outright. I guess the WhiteSox did with Sale, and didn't work out all that well for them.

4 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

All I'm saying is that I agree with point that the UofM Board of Regents has largely been feckless. Paul Brown has been the best of the bunch IMO. Almost none of them, on either side of the aisle, have adequately shepherded the university through it's sports scandals or leadership searches. Re-electing the same people, Democrat or Republican as a Regent, isn't going to work. The University needs a leadership change top to bottom to clean itself up institutionally. A new regent like Amir is presenting the best change out there to make significant changes from the status quo.

There are several things I look for in Regents elections. A few would be:

1-Does the person have a history with the University. I think you should have a relationship/history inside experience with the institution and it's traditions if you want a role in leading it.

2-Is the person there because their political agenda is primarily one that is beyond the University. IOW is their primarly focus on how external political issues are playing in A^2. Those are valid concerns, but should not a regent's primary focus - which needs to be service to the University, not trying to use the University to further or reflect their personal external political agenda.

2-Is the person fundamentally a bomb thrower. A University runs on collegiality. If person is too strident to work with the rest of the board and admin - esp across political reflexes, they will not be of service in the end.

3-at at this point - no more liability lawyers - have enough of that world view with Acker and Bernstein, let's broaden the overall experience/perspective going forward.

Apparently the competition was much but at least Parker handled it well today.

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

They traded him for Al Cowens who didn't do much for them.  

Right - it wasn't that Thompson was such a great player, but he was a lot better than what they got for him. Trading down in value is a quick way to make yourself into a bad team.

42 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

I am a stickler for grammar..

I never would have guessed..

7 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

No...

Do NOT want to keep on an expensive contract. That's not even a consideration, IMO. He's on the roster until we find better...

And Harris WANTS better... IMO.

Cost is always a consideration, but we don't how expensive he will or won't be at this point.

1 minute ago, RatkoVarda said:

Orange pedo turd not only f**** children, he also f**** MAGA - and they don't care

 

again, as predictable as the Sun in the East. Did all those fools who wanted a white only America actually think the country could function without all the workers it had imported? Did they think they were all here just for fun?

It's so much ignorance. Ignorance about how the world really works vs what their self chosen media prates at them and their Maga leaders promise them.

I don't know who wrote those lines for Chernobyl, but "every lie incurs a debt to the truth" needs to be tatooed on the foreheads of about 77 million Americans.

1 minute ago, 1984Echoes said:

The Tigers have been pushing an awful lot of guys over to 1B to see if they can handle it.

I don't think Tork sees a contract past his arb days with the Tigers.

And if someone pushes him out the door before then, it'll be because they're proving the better option...

I think the only one who might scream a little bit will be his best bud Greene.

he sort of right at the edge of being a player you want to keep. His career goes either way depending mostly on whether this year is progress, regression, or even stasis.

48 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

MAGA is too ****ing braindead, even right now, to believe this is a **** show.

Sad.

yeah, you may think war, death, and the world on fire is bad, but what if a trans person wants me to call them 'ze'?

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

He’s basically said before that his problems have been “overthinking“ what’s going on at the plate. It sounds like he’s an “intuitive“ hitter. Now he’s trying to sneak a little bit of “thinking“ back into his approach at the plate.

I think he’s saying he doesn’t want to undermine his raw instincts, but he realizes he can’t entirely rely upon them. He’s trying to find the right groove. I can’t imagine that he or any player is an unchanging finished product that never has to reassess their approach. I’ve never expected him be anything more than a 32 homer lower average hitter. Dave Kingman Lite.

He was stuck at first base at ASU for a reason. He has never been a shortstop that ends up being groomed for another position. He has raw power not raw athleticism. 

While it doesn't mean anything if you don't hit the ball a lot, he's still got one of the prettiest classic swings you will ever see. 

1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said:

considering how acceptable he has looked at SS, more likely he makes OD roster and they set themselves up for a possible PPI pick if he wins ROY

he throws better than I expected to see given the all the early doom and gloom about his D.

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

I think Newman is the only real fit, really. Even thought he was already 36 that year, he could still came off as young and swaggering, like Tom Cruise was in the role. I don't think of Jason Robards that way. He may not have been that much older than Newman, but he seemed a lot older, more introspective and melancholy. The role needs a cocky, boyish energy, fast-talking, charming, glib. Kaffee is an immature nepo baby and I think Newman can pull that off.

Now, Robards for Markinson? That I could see.

That works. If you ever get a chance to see Robards in 'Long Days Journey into Night' with Hepburn, Richardson and Montgomery Clift you'd see him do a brasher persona pretty well. If the movie had actually been made in '62 Tony Curtis would absolutely have been up for Caffee. Would have been a different movie, but it's what Hollywood likely would have made!

34 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Burt Lancaster.

Burt could do Jessup, heck Burt could do Caffee. Burt was pretty good.

3 hours ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

 

 

It's all downhill from here. He will never have an OPS of 5000 again.

1 minute ago, buddha said:

offensive tackles will go higher than that.  they always do.

And Alabama ain't what it used to be.

27 minutes ago, chasfh said:

So: who do you cast in it?

I think it starts with Paul Newman as Lt. Daniel Kaffee (aka the Tom Cruise part.)

What do you think?

yeah - Newman is a good fit for the hotshot, also Kirk Douglas - or Jason Robards, Laughton was probably already too old for Jessup, Ed Begley Sr maybe, Lee.J. Cobb or Robert Ryan, Trevor Howard could do that personality but he couldn't play American. The female lead would be really tough in 62. Fonda probably could have done it, but only an older Jane than in 62. Anne Francis maybe. I can think of some Brit females for it, Sean Philips, Judy Dench.

1 hour ago, casimir said:

This is on the newer 280 bridge that extends high into air.  The inside lanes re sometimes shut down if ice is falling from the support cables.  I don’t think there was a ban on certain vehicles on the Ohio turnpike Friday.  That’s when you know the winds be fierce.  That might be in place for tonight.

I know it well. I was commuting that route when it was built.

On a bridge like the Mac, since the entry portals are controlled, the State Police easily organize low speed caravans when the winds get dangerous. The 280 bridge is too unimpeded for that to be easy to do and of course it's a rarer situation. Still you need some outside help from the authorities on this kind of thing since as a driver it's hard to know accurately what the wind is doing in any detail as you tool down the Hwy. Interestingly, my Subaru's nav system will wake up and give me severe weather warnings even when it isn't on. I have no idea how common that is in other makes/systems.

8 minutes ago, Screwball said:

From the high winds on Friday in your neck of the woods;

CAUGHT ON CAM: Semi overturns on Toledo bridge

Yikes. I've seen that happen out in the plains (e.g. Nebraska) but not in Toledo before!

40 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

There were a lot of older people, me included, who remembered when games moved faster because hitters and pitchers were not taking forever to get ready.  Enforcing the time rules was the best thing they have done in years.  

It's funny how custom can end up changing the rules without anyone ever actually changing the rules. Umpires always had the authority to move the game faster, but it became custom to give players all the time they wanted. So to get back to the intent of the original rules they had to make a new set of rules to reverse custom where the rule was kept by an impassive clock instead of a malleable umpire. 

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

In other words... Trump is full of ****.

In other words, Trump is full of ****.

How come every time Trump opens his mouth...

Nothing but **** comes out?

Does he have two assholes instead of one asshole and a mouth?

(Rhetorical question)

correct. When you spend a lifetime proving you don't care about truth,  that you only create your facts to suit your purposes, you've bought yourself the reality that no-one has any reason whatsoever to believe when you think you do have something important to say. For me, nothing Trump says is any more useful to hear than white noise. Well I take that back, his accusations are always good predictors of his own conduct. So beyond recognizing the projections, the rest of what he says generally has negative information value.

47 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don’t see where the NY Times says anything about operating in waters deeper than 56,000 feet. I do see where the Democratic Underground website says that.

 

NYT quoted a bad number and then fixed their typo apparently because the earlier web edition was not corrected to 5600 ft. The lift in my orginal post was directly from the NYT website but of course they probably heard about it a zillion times and fixed it.

I was trying to guess whether BP wanted to operate on the Sisgbee(sp?) trench (over 14k feet) and somebody coverted meters to feet twice, or if they just didn't bother to check the quote they took. In any case, even if you're quoting someone else's number that is off by an order of magnitude and don't note it, you've given it your imprimatur.