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And I don't have much confidence in Mize. Jobe didn't seem ready to me. Gipson-Long should get a look if he's healthy but- yeah - they'd look a lot better with Flaherty. Sadly, most recent speculation has him going Giants.

Lee still has to get through AAA and Torres is a transient - I don't see a lot of potential collision there. Jung maybe is more in his way. - esp if they manage to land Bregman.

right - so many variables, esp with a young team. We may be in August and he's the only hitter we can rely on, or the offense might be the least of our problems and he's got 25 errors. Still, better to manage by having a plan and changing it as needed than just coast along making random moves....

Late in the 2nd Q, Bo Nix 17/17 and a 151 rating going against KC's 2nd stringers. And old UM friend Joe Milton gets in his 1st pro game for the Pats at age 25.

That's the thing though - a team can bring extra energy for a stretch, or especially in the playoffs, but over the long regular season talent eventually makes the difference. I'm also old enough to remember that when Lalonde got here they initially looked a lot better than they had under Blashill. Now all that said, maybe Yzerman has put together a better roster than than we thought while watching Lalonde coach it. That's what we really have to hope. I think the key guys for McLellan are Seider, Edvinsson, Rasmussen, Veleno, Debrincat. I've thought Lalonde underutilized Seider, Edvinsson is going to get a chance to show how much impact he can have without Seider, and Veleno, Rasmussen and Debrincat are three guys who I think could be better than they were showing under Lalonde so far this season, so if McLellan has the right keys you have talent output improvement possible at least with those three. Maybe add Tarasenko who hasn't seemed to find his game here in Detroit so far at all. OTOH, if a few of those guys can't raise their game, I'd expect this initial surge to fade quickly.

If I'm the Tigers, I don't think I want to give him a QO, I really don't want to give him one and risk him taking it. So better to move him at the deadline for whatever value you can and let his new team worry about the year after. Who know what the exact circumstances might be next August that might chance the perspective - he might all in love with Detroit (as unlikely as that seems) but at least right now, I think he's a candidate to finish the season somewhere else.

thing about a broken arm is you can do all of your leg work and a bunch of your torso work so he shouldn't have as far to be ready as a leg injury.

10~11 hours to Ann Arbor so add another 35min to Det, then more if you hit issues in Chicago. Drove it more times than I ever wanted to.

yup - Livelsberger sounds very much like CTE. Memory fog, then personality deconstruction and paranoia. The Army doesn't like to hear about it any more than the NFL or NHL.

the 'arty' (and some biomedical) stuff is done mostly with SLA(Stereolithograpy) printers. They achieve better accuracy and stunning intricacy, but material choices are limited, and more expensive. They were initially a little pricey for hobbyists but have come down a long way. FDMs (Filament/Fused deposition modeling) are the workhorses, lot of materials available and with higher end machines that can handle the temps you can use higher performance materials to get reasonably well engineered mechanical parts. (nylon, ABS, polycarb, PEEK etc). And there is a bit of an art to designing parts for FDM since it's best to deposit material where you already have material, it's generally not optimal to just print out into space, though it can be done to some degree.

every time Elon says the word "algorithm" it just increases my certainty about having no desire to go back.

It would be nice if Jung could get the PA for them to tell what they have, but that kind of thing is going to be less a priority than it used to be. But even given that, I agree with Casimir that Torres certainly lines up as a likely deadline deal - esp if some combination of Jung/Tork/Meadows/Keith are hitting enough to make his bat expendable and depending where they are in the race.

I've done a fair amount of 3d printing - about to buy my 2nd gen printer. Haven't done any laser cutting though.

sometimes freedom to ice the puck actually helps a team that's been under pressure - seemed to there. One really poor play by Johanssen late but other than that solid by pretty much everyone - except maybe Motte - who needed to close on his man more aggressively - leaving too much space.

I guess I don't see the point. The VA is a hospital system paid for by the gov. Medicare is a hospital system paid for by the gov. Both systems are large enough there is probably minimal economy of scale savings to combine them, and each is tailored to the constituency it serves. So what do you get by throwing the vets into the general public pool? If you close all the VA hospitals you are pushing an already limited national hospital capacity. If you convert them into the private system that has a lot of administrative transition cost associated. So just where is the beef here? This reminds me of the horror story I posted not too long ago about venture capitalists who bought a hospital system just to bleed it dry and take the profits on the real estate - IOW someone behind this push is looking at an ulterior profit motive they hope to cash in on and damn the public interest.

Verily, he hath borne false witness.

very kewl.

The last time we put in new smoke detectors I switched from ionization to optical (supposedly more sensitive) and they are definitely prone to dust issues even on the ceiling.

that's what the SO has been seeing.

It would cost a little money but if they wanted to stay just re-model the outside of the house so it doesn't look like it did in the series and at least most of the problem probably goes away. OTOH, *if* I could get that kind of premium for the house's fame I'd sell it too. It's just a house.

and just want to point out again that despite the confluence of these events, it's pretty clear Livelsberger wasn't trying to kill anyone but himself, because he certainly could have if he had wanted to instead of just creating a noisy show.

Interesting. Do Bleacher Report guys actually have any contacts?

Hey folks: Any recommendations on accommodations in Lakeland? We're thinking about doing a week at ST.

No, just making the point that you can't actually remove *any* kind of ideology or religion from the infosphere, the comparison being that removing one would be just as difficult as removing the other. Thus you need to figure out how to live with it being there - ergo, pointless to blame Jabbar on ISIS. His outcome is our problem.

If it was somebody in the system that helped Workman make the big reduction in his Ks, that would be the person to send Cartaya to.