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Who knows, maybe the Tigers make him a decent offer and he decides playing for a good team in a mid market is more fun than NYC/LA. OK - not likely, but you never know. Could also depend on what Keith looks like in another couple of months.

It's the old line about managing the US economy is like steering an oil tanker while only looking in the rear view mirror. One thing for sure though, if an administration actually gets a hold on an ability to manipulate the numbers, I can't think of a clearer signal we are done as a functioning democracy.

IDK, if they give him a few 12 day breaks like the last one, or maybe an even longer one at the ASB, maybe he can go further than we expect without harm.

True, the counterpoint would be that for April, the number the FED appears to watch - the PCEI was up 2.8 core 2.7 overall

More illusion of large numbers, TBH, a billion a month is pretty much war on the cheap today. At 12 billion a year it would take a century to spend what we did in Iraq, and it represents only 1 1/2% of the regular DOD budget, so I don't really think that level of expenditure was a serious driver. Of course with Trump, it's hard to say what he's going to latch on to as important.

That's one score on which it's unfortunate that the movie and video markets are so balkanized. A movie like Mr. Smith goes to Washington or "12 Angry Men" or a TV series like "The Defenders" could actually reach a significant % of the population the writers wanted to reach. In this media environment the best you are likely to do is reach a small percentage of people who probably already think like the writers.

So many ironies. On the one hand, "The Truth will set you free" is one of most salient lines in all of Christian teaching (with a big thank-you to the Greeks). Only commitment to Truth can break tribal and clan loyalties and create the bond that can tie together people that would other wise have no reason to be allied. That outlook is what provided the permission for the intellectual revolutions of the Renaissance and Enlightenment to happen in Europe - to create the modern world. While here in the US we have this huge base of self described Christians, simultaneously lamenting the loss the Christian dominance in the US, while having become the single largest deniers of truth, whether moral, scientific, or political, in the society. Go figure

of course they say winnng is the best team chemistry, so by that axiom, this underlying character if this year's team hasn't been tested very hard. Apropos of that, I did notice that Devers didn't play any 1B last night...

I'd be curious to know the age profile of RSA emigres to the US. It's usually young people that pick up and leave home. But in the RSA case young people would have been born post Apartheid - so that would be one narrative. If it's older people (>40), that gives a different narrative.

That's actually a better sign when looked at with the retail sales figures. Retails sales are up - the theory is that people are trying to beat tariff price increases, but that should have given retailers some pricing leverage - but if it did they didn't use it.

Maybe he did when he came up, but I don't think Torres has the arm to play the left side any more, so maybe no loss that he's staying put. If Javy's bat doesn't fall off a cliff, I'll predict he's likely to get the largest slice of the shared reps at 3B after Parker is back.

Most guys with as few IP as Jobe need reps, so the question is: has he crossed the boundary where getting the reps with the MLB team isn't costing you wins. So far, so good. The only other thing with Jobe is that he appears to be a 'young' 22 in that his manner and composure on the mound still appear somewhat immature - maybe nothing going to help that except getting older - so again, as long as that doesn't cost wins....

On one hand, people are stupid, on the other hand, you go into the park and they have all these warnings about staying away from them and then you get to somewhere like the geyser fields and they are just standing around - everywhere. Good luck staying 75' away. Then again, at one point while we were there we turned into a parking area/trail head and a guy was looking at the front of his pickup at what as left of his grill. A a bison walking by had head butted it for amusement while he was stopped on the road waiting for some to pass.

Tons of talent, but not really ready - not as ready as JV was, or Skenes was last season,, but as long as he's good enough around the walks and mistakes to keep them in games, taking the shot at the draft reward not a bad play - I have to think that's most of the reason he is here.

Why is he throwing a slider on 3-2 when he’s been missing it most of the night and wind is blowing in?

Breeze is starting to pick up straight in from CF.

Ok kid- now throw strikes!

Did they give javy a hit?

He going miss until they go get him

Rightcall

Kid needs to throw strikes

The other question is does he come back before he plays 3B? If so, he's probably off the table for 3B with the Tigers as well for any immediate future. Maybe a reason they want to give Jung the longest look they can stand despite the lack of any sign of life in the bat.

He is such a weird character. It's not exactly that he's lazy, it's not exactly that he has no stamina, it's not exactly that he has no tenacity, it's that the only things he reserves those qualities for - the ones you need to get things done - are his personal perqs and getting revenge. So any economic or political policy, no matter how deeply you think he is dedicated to it, turns out to be not so much. As soon at it become the long hard slog that doing any real policy work requires, he shrugs, takes his half a loaf (or less) and goes back to nursing his grudges full time.

I hope the kid makes it but a team that scored a total of 6 runs in the last 3 games doesn't need a 330 OPS hitter right now.

and the joke was that UM's DEI program hardly moved the needle for Black enrolment. The factors that matter there are largely outside the University and no amount of training, programming, or navel gazing taking place by people sitting in A^2 (good or bad) has any impact on that at all. I often though the best thing the U could have done to improve minority enrolment was take all that DEI money and use it to open it's own charter schools in Det, Pontiac, Flint.