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so we've mostly been traveling - and I don't watch much TV anyway - but what's with the story I'm hearing that CBS helped put together a concert by minority candidates and retirees from the Marine Corp band after Trump spiked the program that had recruited them to give a concert with USMC band? Do we have one network left that isn't rolling over for Trump? NBC and ABC have been pretty useless.

exactly. The first thing to understand when dealing with an unprincipled opponent is that you are dealing with an unprincipled opponent. You wouldn't think that would be a hard understanding to achieve at this point, would you?

whichever way he went, he should not have changed course. I think the right thing to have done was make no *public* commitment at all while the CR was in the House. All Jeffries needed was the threat/uncertainty to get whatever he was going to get (which in the end was nothing) - I really doubt Schumer making the public commitment made any difference in the House at all. That was the real tactical error. He could have done all the under the table/cloak room signalling he wanted to help Jeffries, then once the CR got to the Senate announced that a shutdown only served Trump and I think he's fine. But you don't get the troops all lined up just to retreat. That fact that he didn't game those scenarios out to the obviously necessary course of action doesn't say much for his ability to be a tactically effective leader. If he can't see around the 1st corner he's going to lose every time.

If Javy doesn't work out there, I wouldn't be surprised if things move in that direction - of course assuming Tork is actually fixed. And I suppose that's probably the key. They aren't going to approach Torres until they are sure about Tork and Gleyber can see the advantage to the team himself (much like they weren't going to bother asking Tork to practice in RF until they saw if he had accomplished something on the hitting side). From what I read about the episode with the Yankees, it may not even have been the idea of playing third as much as they wanted him to do it with zero notice and no prep/practice - so we'll see.

Indeed - Maybe he was fine with it, but I don't think it was working as game coverage. Sort of TMI

You will always be important to us

Not to mention that Benetti + Gibson wasn't working for some reason. Gibby constantly needled him and Jason would end up not knowing where to go with it or having to avoid the direction Gibson was pushing (i.e talking about Jason's own disabilities) I thought it was getting pretty strained sometimes.

The Caps are always a tough matchup for the Wings, but stay in it for 40 min then lose it is still disheartening.

I've lost who you are referring to here(?) But who-ever it is I agree he's dead wrong. The old GOP took it's cyanide capsule a long time ago as they swallowed hard on it and took the short term win while destroying the system by refusing to impeach Trump the first time. Everything since has just been one long denouement for any remnant of the 'old guard.'

I would emphasize the point though, that attendance revenue is not the same as trying to serve the most fans in person. The teams have learned that you can generate more revenue by restricting the availability of tickets (small parks) and loading up on lux box sales. So to me the distinction matters that maximizing ticket revenue should not be understood to mean wanting to get the most participation of the public in person at the games.

Javy throwing to Keith is going to be scary for sure. Obviously it's way early on the learning curve, but at best, it would be hard to say he looks like a natural there, much more a work in progress and we have to hope the progress part comes fast enough it doesn't cost games.

I have no particular sympathy for Shep. As a broadcaster he made a very conscious decision about how to do his broadcast and it was the wrong one and he never adjusted - his fate was in his own hands to get better/fix what was wrong - and he never moved off his initial stance/style. People don't want the PBP to act like a sycophant with the player - they like the idea of the player as a regular guy, and the PBP needs to stand in for the listeners as a regular guy having a regular back and forth with the player, just like you would want to do yourself if you were there. Shep never went there, and to to me that's what was always wrong with his work. His approach was "nobody wants to hear what I think when there is a ball player next to me" but that is exactly wrong. Look at all the popular sports broadcasting/podcasting etc. Your job is to be an interesting equal - not just lap up whatever the other guy says. If you aren't bringing anything yourself, there is no reason for you to be there - get someone who believes he knows something about the game and is willing express himself and maybe go back and forth with the player - etc. It was especially dumb when Shep would ask the player some question that was so trivially basic that any baseball fan could answer it but he still refused to speak for himself. Those kinds or interchanges were always too obsequious and stagey to be any kind of good game coverage. The idea that you had to have played the game to know the game is nonsense - had he never heard of Patrick, Ernie, Vin, Red, Dickerson, even Costas? Do dumb ****, get bad results.

Two things have to happen and they will be OK: Sweeney has to hit as well as last season, and Javy needs to play 3b and hit as well as '22. The first one is fairly likely, the second is as much hope as anything else, but as long as the possibility is still in play, the lineup can work. If it ends up 3B (or worse SS) by committee it will be a lot more ugly. I don't see a problem on the other side with Tork, Keith, and Torres. There are enough AB to go around if they all hit and if someone doesn't it's that much simpler. Well, the other thing that needs to happen is Meadows has to get back. I guess that's more ordinary injury issue than line-up issue but it's still a hole they can't adequately fill as it stands.

If attendance volume was that important, teams would still be building 50k+ ball parks instead of 30-35k ball parks. You can extract more revenue getting fewer fans to pay more than by having more fans some to the park in total.

this today on Yahoo Finance news: it's not going to be long before the Chinese have more to lose from working with us then we do from working with them. To not believe that is to be kidding yourself. If BYD has achieved those kind of charge rates, they have a battery chemistry with a better thermodynamic profile than anything being use by Tesla.

I would think you have to be a little careful if your are Elmer's size that you are going to draw penalties on the same plays other guys won't. It's interesting to watch Edvinsson - he seems to practice what I'd call 'low key physicality'. Several times in the Vegas game he just pushed a puck handler sort of firmly down unto the ice. not very high impact, kind of funny really - but still effective.

if this is true, the backlash in Fla (and a lot other places) should be huge.

If they find the right guys for him to play with it can probably work for him. Just watching guys bounce off him when they try to check him is worth having him on the team.

I keep trying to get the SO off google web mail, but she's too change averse even though she's constantly complaining about it to me. I use thunderbird as it goes mutiplatform (and multi-account) so well and I'm on Linux 90% of the time - but I think any standalone mail client has to be better than web mail -even if it's from MS.

The want people that have to work for 3rd world wages. That's how Trump gets his reshoring.

This team can do anything but beat Izzo.

names are the first thing to go. I could not come up with 'Aaron' Boone during the Yankee game Wed - got Bob and Ray then NADA, finally googled "Yankees Manager" when I got to a connection.....

all granted - and of course today just to prove the exception to the rule, Tork, Greene and Ibanez were the only guys on base twice, two of whom are locks and the third is getting pretty close.

I sense things are shifting though. Pitchers are coming to camp already throwing at full velo, and it at least seems to me that the arrangement where our starters play your starters for 5 innings or 3 AB is becoming more the rule, so there are fewer AB by established vets against scrub pitchers or top pitchers against AA scrubs - at least trend wise.

Ray Lane was another guy who could do pretty much anything at any kind of game pretty well. He was one of the group of ne'er do-wells my uncle ran with at MacKenzie HS in the late '40. I remember the two of them running into one another and having a laugh at a Red Wings game at Olympia. Seemed like a totally regular guy. Speaking of Olympia, there's another funny thing - Olympia was built by a bunch of Detroit guys with no particular Greek connection that I know of, and the Wings were already at Joe Louis when Ilitch bought them from Norris, but Mike Ilitch went for the obvious Greek connection to Olympia and adopted it as his Corporate entertainment signature, which now all seems like it was completely inevitable.