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I don't know how much the type of hitter per se that matters - when you start losing vision and processing speed it's going to get harder. What I think matters more is how good you were at your peak - it's how much loss of function you can sustain and still be a positive contributor. If your career best is 230/290/400 you're likely cut if you fall off 10%. If you were capable of 310/380/570 you may have a number of years of moderate decline when someone will still want you on their team.

I suppose there isn't a simple answer to the question because it depends on what is an acceptable level of communication for each purpose. For instance if you were doing file transfers, you wouldn't care how many drop outs you had as long as the total rate of confirmed IP package reassembly was reasonable. So for that purpose maybe you are 'in range', but to watch a sporting event with a bunch of stops and pixelations with the same rate of good data transfer might be unacceptable. I should have specified I'm interested in hearing what kind of actual experience people have had with over the air digital TV broadcast.

sure - that's the other side of the coin. If teams have done their due diligence studying his last few years in detail and they don't like the direction they see, then he may well be sitting on opening day. It would be fun to have a sit down with whoever the Tigers put on that job and find out what they really think. That's the crazy thing about hitting, you really can be lucky enough to skew a whole season without there being anything real there, and conversely you can get enough bad bounces in one summer to have a crappy season while being the same player.

so if the Tigers or some other team, have the best short term deal on the table, that could work to their advantage if no-one is willing to give him 6 or 7. I figure if he has two 6 yr deals on the table but wants seven, it's easier on his pride to reject both and take the interim deal than take either of the offers he deems insufficient. Basically do what Correa did. The counter argument is that Correa was still young enough to get the long term deal after a successful 'prove it' season. Even if Bregman has a good '25, the added year will be one more strike against getting the long term deal in '26.

Hard to compare whether pixelation and freezing is better or worse than snow and ghosting. I think it may be easier to acclimate to a poor but consistent image than a better one that is in and out, but that could just be me, because that's what I'd known for years and am already conditioned to.

for now the rout seems to have hit support at 334. That's still a 5% drop on the day and 15% in 5 days. >Tesla has been the ultimate short killer. yeah - I'm waiting for the announcement that both the postal service and DOD will by buying Tesla exclusively going forward.

Of course we don't really know what goes on in his head, and a player's mien at the plate is usually carefully cultivated, but all that said, to me it all comes down to aggressiveness early in the count. You can't let yourself get behind taking called strikes. I don't know in Tork's case if it's because he can't put the bat on those strikes, or because he's intent on hunting better pitches to drive. You hope it's the latter because that's something he can change of his own accord. If his problem is he can't hit anything that isn't down the middle, then he's got a the bigger problem. I looked at a lot of his AB's when he was at Toledo and I think you could make an argument that he was trying to swing at more strikes, and when he came back up he was pretty hot, though it tailed off again but the end of the season. He's got a nice swing and huge power and he can hit a breaking ball. There's a ton of potential there if he can/will just cover more of the zone. So we'll see.

they seem to have factored him out - at this point if he turns it around it will count as upside surprise. Petzold wrote the other day he thought he would spend the season in Toledo possibly working his way back for '26 when Torres departs. I tend to think the more likely scenario is that if he's going to make the breakthrough it's going to come quickly and he is either going to force his way back this season or we won't see him in the English D again.

Jan Tesla sales down 33% from Dec in China, down 33% year over year in Australia. Stock hanging around the 100 day running average as of this posting.

Back in the day I had a roof mount max size array with an RF amplifier and could get enough signal but always had a lot of ghosting. I have to assume with digital you can't get ghosting from multi-path reception issues- but it can still buffer or drop out.

Seriously, since the conversion to digital, I don't think I've talked to anyone this far away (A^2) who is using over the air. On the west side of A^2 we never got analog over the air very well from Det even with pretty large antennae - Toledo was as good and then you needed a rotor to get back and forth. Is the range for broadcast digital supposed to be worse, better, comparable?

IDK, are new GM's a reality for Boras to adjust to or is Boras a reality new GM's have to learn to accept? Immovable object meets irresistible force!

I could make an 'old man yells at cloud' lament about RAP in general but I just let you all assume one from me....

Yeah - I doubt Boras would keep any client that didn't.

LOL, Remember not so long ago when the lament about the Pistons was how un-athletic they were? That's one they've put in the rear-view mirror.

Boras was unable to get Correa a long term deal in 2022, but that was more about his health than his age, so getting one for Bregman may be even lower probability. Just a fun note. It's the 'Boras Corporation', not the 'Boras Agency.' At least Boras is open about his priorities!

At this point best offers are on the table - I imagine the teams are at the point of "If you can get a better offer, take it, goodbye and good luck" but Bregman still thinks he can wring out something more so 'game of chicken' as someone described it, is probably the apt description. I'd say that the one piece of real evidence that isn't getting much play is the mode of the Flaherty signing. Note that what the Tigers put on the table to Jack was a 'fall-back' offer; the deal to pick up when negotiations with other teams on a long term deal fell through. Taking that precedent as a guide, you might guess that if they are 'in' on Bregman it's along the same lines - they've made a fair but short term offer. But that's just one more guess.

Yup. What we have is a President who is in open opposition to the 'Establishment' clause, and his opposition is in support of a part of the 'Christian' church that is functioning in open opposition to their 'establisher'.

Everyone in the NHL loves JT - even one of the Elias Petterssons, just not both.....

it's unfortunate that the year under Monty was probably a wasted development year for all of them.

I get the frustration, the regular system is broken, almost 100% because of the way it is funded, which at this point is 100% because of the Supreme Court. Unfortunately that takes time and vision and persistence to change, and the public doesn't have it. Even the Democratic party, who should not have spent more than 10 minutes since it was decided without keeping Citizen's United in voter consciousness has failed utterly to keep doing the long slow work to bring campaign finance to public awareness and consensus. So Trump is the 'short cut'. Unfortunately there isn't going to be any bread crumb trail left to get back home after we lose our republic in the Trump woods.

peer review is a system in trouble writ large. I don't know what the answer it but it doesn't work anymore. Of course, in the technical sense, I'm not sure a good grad student might not be be a better reviewer than a tenured greybeard who has mostly been a research CEO for decades. Of course not necessarily fair to the grad students that get tasked, but maybe not the biggest reason the review process is in trouble in terms of not weeding out bad research.

I suppose in the end leadership always makes a difference. There are no lack of complaints at any University about academic politics etc., but where ever the problems were in the Engin School, I wasn't near them. We had a long tenured and much loved dean over most of my time there. They are now on the 2nd since he retired so I suppose things could change at any time! And part of that may just be the way incoming funds are shared/not shared at a college. Different schools do it in different ways - some of which lead to more or less collegiality! The performance pressure is certainly real for tenure track staff, and it doesn't get much better with tenure because there is still an expectation to take on grad students and bring in the money to support them.

This is a very good point. I don't actually think it's as bad for people doing basic research for industry, I think the people that feel this the most are the R&D research and engineering types who run into the conflict that in most corporations everyone except those lucky enough to be in long term basic research ultimately report to sales. And if you are a data/truth driven worker you find out pretty fast that truth is about the first thing that goes down the drain when there's a customer to be sold. After a while that gets ....fatiguing....to deal with. Sure did for me.

There are a lot of theories one could spin. One that appeals to me is that with all the noise and distraction and entertainment, fewer students have the habit of really being able to concentrate for the extended amount of time it takes to wrap your head around and understand a complex math/engineering/programming problem. So the net result is that too many that do end up in STEM are the introverts because they never liked the noisy distracting stuff anyway because they always had something they were concentrating on - so in the end they are the ones that have those concentration skills. But then the rest of the kids see that most of the STEM kids are not the cool kids and the whole thing just re-enforces. I think for a lot of those kids, it's not until they can get into a big engineering/science environment like a major university where they are members of big socially independent cohort that has its own social reward system that they finally get to do what they like and be the cool kids too.