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14 hours ago, monkeytargets39 said:

If you read lips, it was "WTF!"

Kevin McGonigle is:

Slumping and down to 50/50 to make the team (as per Petzold today).

it dipped to ~6250 on 'Tariff Day' (Aug 1 last year). Hit that and it would just about be down 10% = "a correction"

Lequerica's some work to do.

13 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

The announcers are gushing about how well Max Clark handles the media. The Pirates minor league guys have allowed four runs with bad pitching and bad fielding contributing to it all. Still only one out in the top of the second the bases loaded. DP ends the inning. 

then Max flattens the poor Pirates’ 1b, who decided to wander across the baseline without bothering to look. 

all the statements coming from the admin since this began have primarily been aimed at talking down the oil market and reducing the downward drift of the stock market, but as usual with Trump, any correlation between what is said and reality is purely coincidental. 

42 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Agreed. I have noticed it has recently gotten worse. I use a fake name instead of my own just for privacy and it allows me to read the local stuff, which is usually a real hoot. I think I read somewhere recently they are laying off more people. That will certainly make it better. /s

They announced pulling the plug on the 'metaverse' effort after sinking $80B into it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html

7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

In other words, the U.S. is insulated from the global natty gas market due to home cooking.  

and this war is costing us a lot more than what we may save in nat gas prices.

19 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

that's fine. The S&P has also lost $3 Trillion dollars in equity since this escapade started. A good chunk of that has disappeared from American's pension and retirement accounts. Paying a higher price for methane would be the better deal if you could get it.

I'd also note that the only reason nat gas prices in the US are not up is because we don't have the export capacity to move more gas to where the price is better. You can bet that if we did, you would not be getting much discount from world prices out any patriotic bleeding heart of US producers. And you can bet producers are doing everything they can to get to where they have the infrastructure to export more.

37 minutes ago, romad1 said:

except Fetterman and the AIPAC caucus will stumble over themselves to vote for it. 

he was the vote to get Mullin out of committee.

I guess anyone had to be better than Noem, but as on the of Dems on the committee said "what a low bar".

Just now, Edman85 said:

Friend left Florida for a ski trip in Colorado, where it topped out in the 90's the day he arrived. Meanwhile, we played beach vball in low 40's wind chills last night.

LOL - I've Spring Skied in Co when it was 70s at the bottom of the mountain and maybe 30 at the top. It still fun but you have to be off the mountain by about noon when the upper slopes turn into ice and the lower ones into lakes......

21 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Tech bros don’t care about college sports like they do in Texas.    Texas Tech has thrown down the gauntlet already and it’s only going to get bigger and more competitive in the Lone Star state 

then there is Phil Knight at Oregon. I guess he's not tech but he sure bleeds "green". (tee-hee)

29 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Murkowski for Fetterman.   

she's not much a prize to win.

3 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Tech bros don’t care about college sports like they do in Texas.    Texas Tech has thrown down the gauntlet already and it’s only going to get bigger and more competitive in the Lone Star state 

The best outcome of this kind of thing would be for about half of D-1 to just opt out of the whole thing and go back to a completely non-profit model, club based sports,  free student tickets etc. Games where nothing is on the line but school pride and a good time. Of course it won't happen, but it should. 

7 minutes ago, Screwball said:

The history of the Great Lakes (on edit; shipping), which Toledo was a large part of, is really neat stuff. Not far from the Spicer plant on Bennett, on Phillips Ave, is the famous Mancy's Steakhouse. Captain McSorley of the Edmund Fitzgerald lived in Toledo in the off season and was a regular there as it was told.

But a pain in the ass at times. 

Glad to hear it's still there. Our refinery group would do Mancy's when bonuses were paid.

5 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Cat has become our best fwd...he plays a much more complete game than he did a few years ago

Yup. And I like Faulk. He skates well enough he's hard for opponents to forecheck or tie up. That's a nice add.

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Ludicrous Texas oil money in the NIL era means every year the Final Four and CFP will become some combination of Texas, Texas Tech, SMU, Baylor, Houston, or TCU.  

LOL - I suppose, but don't forget there are a couple of schools adopted by Tech Bros to broaden the field. 🙄

I seem to be done with college sports anyway. I'm not finding the rent-a-teams interesting at all. We have a group of close close friends, we're all UM alums, and they are all excited about the Tourney now - it just leaves me cold, and that's never been true before.

19 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Sweeney's 40-man spot is in danger...

I've been assuming for some time now that Sweeney is out of any immediate plans for the 25 but particularly if McGonigle comes north, they'll want another SS at Toledo anyway.

ST is still a small and questionable sample to look at, I'd rather we had seen what he did in 300 AB at AAA, but BB/K and OBP sure seem to be holding up so far, and where ever his D settles out, he has shown that his arm is fine and the glove is reasonable.

Fitting him in is going to be tricky. It would certainly easier to send him to Toledo and bring him up when someone is inevitably hurt so that it wouldn't be so much of a line-up juggle, but that's what they pay Hinch the big bucks for.

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

College sports are dead if oil and gas prices continue to go up.  
 

IDK about 'dead', but for sure there is going to be some buyer's remorse over setting up conferences with a lot of 4+ hr by jet trips.

11 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Yep G we are just like Iran.

Would you rather that US justice be moving toward or away from being like Iran?

And if you are sitting on death row in Arkansas or Tx you might might be forgiven for not being aware of the difference.

7 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Your sympathetic bros....

 

 

 

He was tried and convicted of murder. Was it trumped up? Probably. But we have a Supreme Court here in the US that says you can't reconsider our cases of capital punishment even given evidence of innocence because outcomes 'must have finality'. It's fine to call out Iran's practices of state murder as barbarous, but consistency would at least require we do the same for ourselves.

21 minutes ago, TJ Rollercoaster said:

From BBC reporting

If he's speaking in English you can pretty much ignore what he's saying, much like the same is true when Arab leaders speak in English. What they say in English is what they want us to hear, what they say to the listeners at home in Hebrew or Arabic is what they mean.

Things have climbed down a little this afternoon. The Admin put it out that the Israeli strike on Pars was against US wishes. That's proabably 100% backfill fabrication but at any rate prices are back down to Brent at $101 and WTI at $93.

You can't make this up: Bissent says they are considering lifting sanctions on *IRANIAN* oil already at sea.