gehringer_2

Has to be an incredibly rare circumstance for a fuselage to end up upside down but still intact. Appears to be a Boeing 717, make that a CRJ900. (Bombardier)

I'm a little sympathetic to the people on the other end, they probably get paid based on what they sell you, and that really is the problem - it's the perverse incentive to put sales pressure on people from whom the customer only wants service. I've sometimes just said to them, "I know you have a job to do but I'm not buying today" and they will just drop to a pro forma recitation of their required script and then we can move on. Oddly enough, I've had a couple of pretty decent interactions recently with people at AT&T, who used to be as bad as bad could be. One day an obviously Asian fellow I talked to would at every setback tell me that "we shall most assuredly solve your problem for you!" and he eventually did.

0.7 WAR in 120 PA is probably not a production rate we should put any money on him sustaining, but he's been a nice player so far. It's a little odd that for his short stint BR rates him 0.4 oWAR on only a 91 OPS+. Maybe fewer good hitting SS now than there were a few years ago? Rdrs likes him, though the sample size is still too small to take seriously. He doesn't look like he's doing all that much out there with the glove, but if you have a good 1st step it can deceive the eye test compared to a guy who makes an acrobatic finish on the same play because he started later a tick later.....

You needn't wonder.

I don’t question the existence the malificent, but I’ve also met a lot of what I really would consider ‘salt of the earth’ people who just so misunderstand the world and who have been fed such a stream of nonsense for so much of their lives that they just believe too many things that are not true.

Yes - and they will do it and all you can do is shake your head at the arguments you will hear and you think to yourself, "How do you change a fully formed adult's entire intellectual framework to one that's connected to reality?"

I happened across one of these in the flesh not to long ago. It's a pretty well done deception.

You give us too much credit. The Ukrainians are not fighting the Russians because we are 'letting them'. They've made their decision that freedom from an oppressive Russian imperialist kelptocracy is worth it to them, much like a bunch of colonists did a couple of hundred years ago against a British crown that was objectively nowhere nearly as brutally uncivilized. The colonists didn't ask another great power, the French, to fight for them, though they did seek material support there. Of course a few soldiers of fortune did show up in the colonies, much like I'm sure you can find Americans and Canadians and poles in Ukraine today working in that war effort without any official sanction from their governments.

The question is non-sequitor. Ours is the support that can make it unnecessary for us or others to send troops to Ukraine.

Not too many mistakes in there if any really. But I probably don't recognize someone who did something somewhere else. Krueter managed to hang around the majors for 9 yrs after Detroit but was barely replacement. McCann flashed for one season in Chicago. Maybe Willi Castro has the best post Tiger career going from the list?

FIFY

and people have to understand the reality of the 5% rule, which is that wringing the last segment of inefficiency out of any org or process invariable costs more money and effort than the cost of that last segment of inefficiency. When you mix that truth with the law of large numbers (i.e. when given huge budgets, even tiny pieces sound like a big deal) it's a recipe for political grandstanding and counter productive outcomes.

Pretty close anyway. Nominative singular is Deus. DEI is actually the plural "gods." No doubt some smart a*s detractor will accuse Warnock of polytheism. 🤣`

TBH, these words even when fully sounded have meanings to RW'ers/nativists/victorian moralists, that are still negative and that they are quite willing to defend. It's a place were the argument may be sound but based on premises on which there is enough deeper disagreement so there is no persuasive value with the other side.

IDK, that may not work out the way he thinks it would. Maybe refs will be more reticent to overrule each other when the guy who made the original call isn't there to defend it vs having the guy who made the call look at the film with his co-workers and agree he didn't get it right. I'm not saying it would go one way or the other more often, just that I don't think it's nearly as obvious a fix as Cade may be thinking.

Concept isn't bad but it needed to be one week max.

I assume in the 2nd you meant 'indirect'. Indirect cost are generally allowed for administrative and overhead. For instance you can put the salary of your research in direct costs, but not the cost of paying his salary (office overhead) or providing his supervision. Those costs are all quite real and no org can function without them. I've never worked under an NIH grant but the one firm I worked for that did do work on government grants (mostly DOEnergy), the amount of G&A chargeable was already strictly limited as a percentage of direct expenses. IIRC we could put equipment purchases in direct costs but the equip reverted to the government at the end of the program. Then the dumb thing was that the government would maybe try to sell it or surplus and usually fail because the grantee was the one party prohibited from buying it back from the gov. One can see that they set it up that way to prevent feather-bedding, but it was still frustrating to see equipment you were will to pay a fair price for go to scrap because the law often didn't allow the only people that wanted it to buy it.

When Intel was more dominant, having design and manufacturing under one roof was fine, but the argument now is that if Intel really commits to being a major player in the foundry business, they are going to have trouble persuading their competitors in the processor design space to use them as fabricators and they will need those outside fab customers to pay the rent. Most of these re-org merger/split possibilities got some reportage last fall, but Gelsinger didn't want to split the business. But Gelsinger's out, so.....

LOL - I don't know if you are yet old enough or unlucky enough that you or your cohort is beginning to experience this, but the level of confusion and contradiction you get from the medical and rehab establishment about the kinetics and physical function of the human body as one's begins to get less reliable is pretty damn disappointing! And not bearing on Torkelson in particular but I sure hope athletes don't have to suffer through anything like the state of mixed messages the rest of us get.

Sure - that could be well be true but it's still a primary task of the coaching staff to do the screening. I would guess a lot of guys would not get much from looking at their own video or their own kinsesiology metrics - you have to be trained in the latter and develop a trained eye to pick up subtle shifts in the former even if you have side by side view. It's not a skill I would worry about my players spending their time on when I can put specialists on my staff to do it. Now if he doesn't cooperate with the staff when they want to get baselines and metrics on him, that's another matter, but that was not said or implied.

50% the first time! It was left unsaid but I imagine that's as much as he could afford without leveraging the company, and the profits in the news business probably wouldn't sustain getting to that high a leverage - he'd end up losing control to his bankers anyway.

Yes, I remember Tork's college coach saying he would have played 3rd if not for Workman, but the bar for NCAA infield play isn't that high by MLB standards! IDK, Torkelson's hands are relatively soft, but he hasn't shown great range and while he throws well enough to turn the 3-6-3 DP nicely we've never seen him try to throw from 3rd. OTOH, in the 2nd half Keith's throws on DP had a ton of zip and very accurate, but I guess the medicos must not want to see him push the arm otherwise the refusal to give him a try at 3b would seem pretty dumb.

If you have access to the NYT there is a long from story about Murdoch's (apparently failed - so far) attempts to cut three of his four children who will control the family trust when he's gone out of control so Lachan can keep running Fox in the manner it is now. Of course if you were a fan of "Succession" it's basically a *very* thinly veiled take on the Murdochs so you already have the flavor, but still tragically comedic the degree to which Art imitates life and life has returned the favor. So far Rupert and Lachan have not been able to win in court with the changes in the trust they want, but the old man is going to keep trying until he reaches room temperature. The break between Lachan and Rupert and the other three siblings is going to take a LOT of money to paper over if Lachan does eventually succeedin buying them out.

Always Be Closing!

Bottom line is that Tork will either hit or he won't, and if he hits no-one will care how he got there and if he doesn't he'll join the ranks of the barely remembered Brennan Boesches of the world.