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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.

I'm always willing to give a bat at least more than one year - but the disappointing thing with Jung was his play at 3b. Defensive improvements are almost harder to come by. A lot of guys with batting talent take a while to figure out MLB pitching but do eventually get there after >500 AB. But if a guy doesn't seem to show an aptitude for a position in the field, that's as often due physical constraints that may not have much scope to change. ...Just looked at his logs - I guess he only had 68 games at Toledo at 3b before his call-up - I thought he had gotten in more time there. Between playing some at 2B and being out 3wks I guess not..... Whatever, he needs to play 3rd better if he is going to stay there.

Navy has been a huge offender - constantly trying to build the perfect all purpose ship - instead wasting billions and building close to nothing. They need a procurement rule that say you spec a platform, and you build it. Period. You build what you spec and if in 5 yrs you want to spec something else, spec and build that - you can't keep changing your mind half way through a program and ending up with no capabilities at all because you don't have anything in the water.

If you were designing an anti-Dombrowski you couldn't do much better than Harris. Junior watched DD and Senior send the team into 10yr of purgatory. I see a low probability of that happening again.

what's so funny it that these people are such morons that they don't understand that the people with the MOST MONEY are the most at risk when you remove the umpires like the SEC. It's actually the capital class that benefits the most from having a Sherriff in town. It has ALLWAYS been the current holders of property that benefit the most from the police. Bernie Madoff wasn't swindling poor people. They will be stabbing themselves in the back and not even realizing it. So even if they do it, it won't last long. After a few of the oligarchs get scammed by some clever schemer there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and a new regulatory regime. Musk thinks at the level of a pouting 3 yr old who wails his mommy is a meany because she won't let him stick his finger if the electrical outlet.

Costs between Apple, Google and MS are close enough at the 100gb level that it's mostly a matter of what platform you use determining which is most convenient operate in. I hate the way Icloud and increasining OneDrive, try to force you into doing things their way, so bought 100gb on google drive. You can mount a google drive natively in windows, and there is inexpensive SW for Mac and Linux that integrate google drive into Linux or Mac as a mounted drive. $2/mo for 100 gb. If you jump to 1TB they are stil pretty close. I've had no complaints with google drive. I'd already had a big google drive allotment from my employer and when I retired I just bought my own storage and moved things over. That said, I have >250gb of wav files ripped from my vinyl and CD collection so I don't actually use the google drive for music - that's mostly regular data backups. The music lives on my home NAS which serves it to any device around the house. An NAS doesn't do much of anything but serve files so it's pretty bulletproof. The NAS runs a raid array which is fully mirrored and internally CRC checked so you can lose one drive and lose no data. It's also accessible from the internet - easy for Windows. A little trickier but doable for Mac or Linux. But again, I have the music store mirrored to Samsung FIT drive (about the size of a mouse transmitter) that I carry in my computer case. It's in a Linux file system and I've never lost a thing on a Linux file sytem drive, internal/external, USB or otherwise, in 20+ yrs. But I have two rules - don't buy lowest price drives of any kind, and don't use Windows as the primary storage OS for anything important.