gehringer_2

yeah - Javy does look a little more comfortable but it's not made any difference so far.

Arithmetic is fascist.

you're not supposed to hit HRs in LA after dark.

How did they beat CLE without Cade? NBA makes no sense at all some nights

Jeez SB! I spun a couple back in the day but was always lucky. I never put a ding in that SS - to my parents everlasting surprise, and probably frustration. If I had it might have been their excuse to have me get rid of it! I never raced but I did seriously practice maneuvres, on dirt, in parking lots, etc., and especially on snow. I think we make such a big mistake not teaching people to how to handle a car under a little more duress. It saved me more than once.

I guess that's the safety of fish swimming in a school. Do something that stands out like a Milken or Theranos and you may get hammered. Just do the common everyday fraud everyone else is doing and you're immunized since they won't/can't prosecute everybody.

My first car had a Chevy 327 Hi-comp (an SS). It was hydraulic valves to no top end there but it did pull like a trooper off the line. Compression was so high in that silly thing that the starter couldn't turn it over once it was hot. But it didn't matter since the damn thing started on the first push to TDC pretty much every time. When I think back to all that power with those terrible suspensions, bias ply tires and drum brakes I'm amazed any of us survived it!

OK - if the meme/token/coin is the specific - no arg - the government has been tiptoeing around the whole business. Nobody seems to want to admit the emperor isn't wearing any cloths. Or maybe I wouldn't be surprised if part of it is that since it's all such a good vehicle for money laundering that the CIA lobbies hard inside gov to leave it alone! 🤷‍♂️

Interestingly, when the movie was first mentioned I assumed that in reality both cars would have been old blg block iron with wet lifters that would be floating at 5500 rpm anyway - but my first take was wrong. I looked it up and you could get both the 427 in the Mustang and a 426 Hemi in a hot Chrysler build with a solid valve train so both would have been able to wind it up pretty good! But you did want the cars to sound different, and the V-12 would not have the same out of phase exhaust timing burble of a V-8 so you'd get a good contrast if that is what they really did.

what's your subdivision of investment frauds when you say 'these people"? She was small potatoes and likely had no idea what she was doing. People certainly do get prosecuted for investment frauds all the time.

The addiction of voters to Trump reminds me of the Berlusconi phenomenon in Italy. That did play itself out, but Silvio wasn't half the maleficent agent Trump is.

With this admin I would guess her status as a young bleach blonde had more bearing on the disposition of her case than the facts, but what do I know?......

almost weirder than two GS was that a Pitcher was on base two consecutive times.

Federal Reserve release this month's CPE number - up 0.4%. The markets tanked on the news (down 2%) and the Atlanta Fed is forcasting a 2.8% *contraction* in GDP for the 1st quarter. The last one does not seem credible without a lot more unemployment though....Maybe that's coming. The Federal Reserve doomed the Biden presidency by leaving money too loose during Covid, they may have doomed the Trump Presidency by loosening too fast under Biden.

Could be urban legend and I haven't seen (heard?) the film since to make my own judgement, but I have since read that supposedly the Mustang in Bullitt was overdubbed with audio from a V-12 Ferarri. Makes sense since otherwise the Dodge (or Plym?) and Ford V-8s probably would have sounded too much alike. Ronin was an underrated film all around. Kind of quirky I guess but I thought it was really well crafted.

If you look at Torks MiLB stats, he never achieved contact rates that would properly have justified being called up to face tougher pitching. Then his success with the long ball short circuited any pressure on him to continue working on being a technically better hitter. If that's what he accomplished this off-season (which we hope!) maybe we've got the guy we should have gotten in '24. I would just like to see them play Keith at 2b at least enough for him to keep working on getting better there just because every bat is more valuable at a more premium defensive position.

I think the language works to locate someone as a militant Vatican II rejecter.

Still, with Kreidler starting out in Det there would have been room for another SS at Toledo just to fill Ryan's spot, so they apparently no longer see whatever they thought the saw when they brought him on.

Agree. I think Keith has to make a swing change before he can hit for power. It looks to me that to handle MLB pitching he's gone so compact now that he doesn't get his arms extended much - and I think that's fine for this point in his career. But it also means for now he's not your profile as a 1B. We'll just have to see how it plays out. We don't know if Torkelson continues to hit, we don't know if Torres plays D any better or hits in way that makes him more or less likely to be a Tiger next season or if the Tigers will even be interested in re-signing him - if we're lucky McGonigle streaks through the minors!

That and lackluster debate performances after the first. I think with Hillary there were a lot of people looking for an excuse to justify not voting for her because they just didn't like her or it was expected in their social circles that they shouldn't like her, so- having the FBI validating that 'there must have been something going on' played into that in big way IMO. What frosted me is that Obama could deflected the whole episode onto himself and left it clear for Hillary by just saying that the White House knew what she was doing (which of course had to be true anyway) and decided to give her a pass on it. But there was some weird dynamic going on there where Obama was there helping grease the skids early to get HIllary the nomination, but then left her hanging out to dry when he could have helped her. Really have never understood it. Maybe just more of Obama's "I'm above politics" act, which he suffered from to his party's detriment.

They'll learn

I hope the move to 1st isn't causing him to put more pressure on himself to hit HR's - with the potential to mess him up the way it probably messed up Torkelson.

But we still can't see Cossa.

could be but I never watched the Giants to speak of! And Colt swings at ball 4 and goes down

Keith finally get an AB against a RHP