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Going to the other extreme, do you think Koufax would be elected if he had finished the same career in 2019? I have to doubt it given how short his career was and what we know about Dodger Stadium park factors. I think there would at least be a lot of grumbling.

as long as the media money keeps growing. Given the Diamond bankruptcy it's less clear to me that it is still growing, but then again, It wouldn't bother me if a few teams went under -- as long as mine isn't one of them....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like Carpenter enough as a player, my bigger concern is that like Riely, he needs to stay on the field. Shoulder and back issues in successive years are not what you like to see in a player's CV.

True, but as I understand it, the league doesn't let owners subsidize their teams by just throwing in cash because a team running at an operating loss would lose market value, which would hurt all the other owners, and they don't like that. The Mets will have to cover those costs out of their own revenue and in NYC they certainly should be able to do that.

LOL - I have no idea why at this point - it's lost in the past, but I have a residual memory of intensely disliking John for some reason (probably just because he played for the Yankees for a while!) - so assuming whatever I can't remember was actually a good reason, he can go pound sand. 🤷‍♂️

Tiant just because he was such a presence/personality in the game. I don't mind giving guys credit when they end up being a big part of what makes the game what it is. Sure, it's not quantitative, but you know it when you see it....😉

LOL - so they are going to have 5, maybe 6 yrs of a rougly replacement level player that costs them $50M/yr. Kewl.

I'm OK with both. Sure, Parker was mostly a beast early on, but I'll give him some credit for leading the league in total bases at 34 and 35, so his 30's weren't as complete a flameout as some.

absolutely - an injury with a repair that doesn't have a slam dunk outcome. Without proof he will still have a SS arm, you basically have to hedge on the possibility you are looking at adding a RH LF/DH. Tigers have taken on rehabs, but more like Flahery, where things were further along. His performance may have still had some way to go, but there was a pretty fair indication his was physically sound. OTOH, they dumped Boyd when he wasn't going to be ready to evaluate in ST.

It's always struck me that if you are going to kill someone in retribution, you want them to know it, and this guy was shot in the back, but the other take on that would be that in the end the killer decided he would lose his nerve if he faced him.

agree they are two players in very similar circumstances - I'd give the nod to Sweeney as being in a little stronger position just because I think he held down his fielding position better.

Supposedly Russia has gone as deep as pulling T34 rust buckets out of storage to send against Ukraine. But Airplanes are a different animal. You can get some utility out of a tank with half a dozen things wrong with it. The possibility of getting any of the older mothballed airplanes in the air again seems pretty low. But it also becomes a systemic bureaucratic issue. No-one want to take responsibility to a decision to get rid of the stuff because while the risk that it was the wrong decision may be incredibly low, the credit in the org for it being the right decision is zero.

well, the good news with Sweeney is that in his 1st 55 PA, he OPS'd 540, in his final 65, he OPS'd 725. That's too small a sample size for much of anything except to say he did show some adaptation and that the first couple of weeks of scouting didn't immediately find some hole in his approach to exploit. From what I saw in the way of prospect reports about him, the early thinking was the bat would play, but there were doubts about his defense. In his short audition I thought the D looked OK, so if the Tigers also believe in the bat, I won't be surprised to see him start next season as the regular SS.

he should have been able to ramp up to fairly high training level if he is getting close to being cleared to play. But along the way you are thinking you hope they don't him play without having been through contact drills in practice - etc...

once healed there isn't much residual risk with a long bone fracture. One would think xray would give them a pretty good idea of where things stand with the bone....

what odd here is not so much that stuff becomes obsolete, but that they don't go ahead and just scrap it out. The record of ever bringing anything out of these dead storage facilities is so thin it seems silly to keep them up.

Probably true for Trump himself and maybe Elon. But the larger class of people that pay the $$ to support the GOP - people like the Koch's for example - need a system that works.

last thing I saw was the LCS were simply being decom'd. Hopefully they do find some kind of value recovery.

It will be interesting in the end (if it is solved) if this was really a revenge killing based on someone mad at UHC, or a professional job with a more esoteric motive (i.e. likely financial) set up to look just enough like a revenge job to generate that kind of assumption in the media coverage.

but apparently not. Assad reported on the ground in Moscow and granted asylum.

If the laser stuff proves out at scale, it will change the equation for drones - at least wrt ships that can carry the electrical generating capacity to power them - so that will be interesting to watch over the next few years.

There are various factions but being the most murderous, the Jihadis tend to be the favorites to emerge in control.

now who or what do the Syrians get in his place?

Russian S-300 but operated by whom? I can see the logic in the Russians deciding Assad had become unwanted baggage, but killing allies without the distance of at least a formal breakup tend to make the remaining ones rather nervous.

and the difference in the game is a PP goal given up. I'm feeling like we are on a death watch for Lalonde at this point. Wings are a team in a rut.