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I like it. Don't try to be too clever, just pick a good guy. One of the things Walz said during his podcast with Ezra Klein was that as a political leader, you should have an agenda of what you want to do, and if you get it done, you should move on. Not something you hear very often. Now who knows, maybe that's a well practiced line, but it still highlights that he brings some different rhetorical ideas as a campaigner.

The whole organization is risible and it's entire premise is superfluous in a world of paid athletes. When does the whole facade collapse under the weight of its own contradictions? Can't be soon enough.

Overnight futures on the 4 indexes all running up 1%-2% even you post this. Neither making the Yen carry trade less attractive or letting some air out of future expectations for AI really has much to do with the near term health of the US economy.

My memory is not good, but I seem to recall there was a game last season where this was looking like a possibility but then it didn't happen, and it is hard to believe it hasn't happened yet.

well there is certainly no excuse for any manager who puts a reliever into a game after the reliever tells him he is going to blow the save. Wait, What? ... you mean they *don't* tell them? Well that's poor.....

didn't they say last week the announcement would be this Tuesday? Always good to be on schedule.

Good point. There may be fewer Al Kalines but you also see fewer Greg Luzinskis

but Alito and Thomas only in part. /...sigh../

It's a bonus kind of thing isn't it? Not going to decide as many games as the bat and when the steroid era hit and everyone was pumping up that just wasn't good for the ability to throw and there was a period where there was real dearth of guys with good arms. I think it has come back some, hard to know how much just because you have a lot more players today. You might be able to pull as many good arms out of today's league as you had in 1960, but they would still play a much smaller percentage of the total innings played so they make less difference.

Parker wasn't a big HR guy, but a true 5 tool guy during his good years.

Well if if the was Pence, they'd have to make sure Karen Pence was eligible for a top security clearance since Mike wouldn't able to talk to his boss without her in the room....

and you see more guys who start out throwing well, but don't maintain it as deep into their career the way a Kaline did. I will say that I think there is a just a little bit of trend back. Training science is good enough today that it doesn't have to be as much a binary choice as it was and we I think we are seeing more guys that throw well than maybe 10 yrs ago. Tigers haven't had one recently though. 😢

The first key is to get back to where debates are about how to cope with reality, rather than what reality is. You can argue about the former with good faith, arguments about the later too soon take on religious character.

And to think that for a couple of years, Kaline was playing next to Colavito, who also had a cannon. I think the way hitters strength train today just makes it impossible for as many guys to maintain the elasticity you need to throw like the old timers did, and hitting the ball hard is the name of the game so that's the way it is.

Shoigu's the cat with nine lives. No matter what he f's up, Vladdy still loves him.

agree there. Maybe in all the general controversy about it, POC's box office numbers got lost in the noise because I don't have any recollection of it having been a big box office hit either. I wonder if that includes overseas?

Surprised if Kelly didn't make the final cut, but Walz and Shapiro have been at the top of my list. if your are already blue, Shapiro is fun to listen to when does stuff like take apart Vance, but in a general election for Pres Walz's less confrontational/down home style may play better to a wider audience. If they think they have PA without Shapiro, I would pick Walz.

speculation, or more like wishful thinking, is now that the Fed might make an unscheduled rate cut in response to the sell off. I have my doubts of that on two grounds - the first is that so far the dip has been self-limited, of course we'll if that holds till the end of the day or not...... and 2nd, the Fed can effectively "loosen" by cutting back on its asset sales schedule ("quantitative tightening") without nearly as much public attention as an out of schedule rate change would generate. (they've been selling off about $100B/month)

Or Trump would have just welshed on the deal when a big donor that didn't like it made him an offer on a hotel deal. The thing that separates Presidents on both side of the aisle who get things done from those who don't is whether they can be trusted in a negotiation, and if you look up 'untrustworthy' in the dictionary Trump's mug will be staring back at you.

Nowadays the bottom feeders are all out there with cash waiting for the dips. Crypto is somethings else. Smoke and mirrors remains smoke and mirrors at any level.

I'm not a marvel fan but I assume this flick is also benefiting from lack of competition?

so in the pic: Reagan, Bush I, Ed Meese, tall guy might be David Gergen, the guy next to Reagan looks for the world like Walter Cronkite. The guy bent over in profile has been identified in some places as Buffet but I've seen denials - it's supposed to actually be a CBS exec (Cronkite's producer), which would work if the other guy is Cronkite.

I just logged into my Fidelity account - no problem. Of course didn't try to trade anything.

Yup. Warren getting out is probably one of things that started the move to the exits.

If they ever play together, Clark, Meadows and Greene would be an outfield for the ages, though no arms like Kaline's.