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Not sure how they could right now regardless of the money. Madden has not been effective, Manning is sort of floundering around - presumably working on new stuff that's not ready. Gipson-Long is out. Montero already filling in for Mize and Flahety's health seems precarious again (plus he might get moved...). Convert Faedo or Holton to start? - bullpen is already thin. Englert? A bad team spending on a bridge pitcher in a deadline deal seems like a pretty dumb route. Choices besides giving Maeda more shots to fix himself aren't so great currently. I guess the other thing is, does anyone in the org have a guess as to why he's failing? It's not like what little velo he has is gone. It's that command is lacking - he can't get ahead, which is easy enough to see, not so much to fix. It's not like anyone expected him to notch a winning record or anything, but they sure couldn't have expected this implosion either.

I think techwise they are fine. I've driven a Fusion hybrid and it was well engineered. But I never got the impression there was that that big a production or sales investment made- and of course they got hammered over accusations of manipulation of mileage figures on their hybrids, which had nothing to do with product engineering but gave them a big marketing black eye for a while. Plus, WCF Jr., being the idealist he is, has created a public image for Ford that was pushing 100% EV (as you noted)

It is sort of funny. One of the stock complaints from the population about politics is too little focus on the issues. So here is a case where as a voter you have a clear opportunity to vote a program and a set of positions on issues over the particular personality (i.e. Party over Person). and we can't cope?

As of today, Tork's OPS at Toledo is about 50 pts higher than it was when he was at AAA in '22. That's not a lot be excited about, but I guess it's more progress than if the numbers had been the reverse. To me, if he can get his average up to something north of 270 at AAA it might mean he's covering enough of the zone for another shot against MLB pitchers. He's hanging around 250 now.

So of the Presidents that have died since WWII ended, 4 died at an age greater than 85 and one is still alive at age >85 (Ford, GHWB, Truman, Hoover, Carter). Three died younger (Nixon, LBJ, Eisenhower) than 85, and one lived past 85 but was effectively incapacitated at by that age (Reagan). One was assassinated. So Biden's probability of making 85 based on just on that sample is about 50/50. (4 are still alive but not yet 85 - Clinton, Obama, Bush II, Trump).

and he gave up three runs in 4 IP so he's not exactly found dominance at AAA yet.

IDK - forecasts have been moving up the time the rain is expected to clear. Question might be if the OF is playable.

that may be a true take - in the abstract, but the primary season is when the *public* had to make that decision and it didn't. All those ambitious potential democrats in the field that people are talking about all looked at Biden and decided he was too formidable to take on. Now the chattering class in the media want to revisit that decision - and from a vantage point of having much less inside understanding than those potential candidates that didn't run. The system isn't designed to to just drop in candidates after the fact - not gonna work. The Northam bruhaha should be the model for this. If Biden just keeps on keeping on, people are finally going to figure out there is no story in his age. If he keels over, then he can be replaced! 🤣

I think the whole question of the way music genres come and go is fascinating. There has been a change in popular music style pretty much every generation since Bach. Some eras have produced music with a lot more staying power and it looks like 60s-70's period may turn out to be one of them. I've seen music historians speculate that a big surge in music education in the post WWII era (US and Europe) led to a lot of very high quality musicianship, plus the boomer cohort creating enough market for their down generation's musicians to break through early when their creativity was still high.

LOL - 8M is really nothing in terms of dead money. Of course next season that's likely to jump to ....$39M.

I will say it concerns me - some. Most hitters are forced to abandon big leg kicks once they have to face the level of velocity differential that major league pitchers can throw at them. No great hurry yet - he can wait and do at some point on his way up, but he might as well do it sooner as later because he almost certainly will have to eventually.

Biden looked fine at NATO. Americans probably not watching.

Moral of the 10th : need more K's in the bull pen.

If only our starter had only given up 3..

Yeah - He throws pretty well, but the glove is not particularly reliable -

The old guard GOP, finally disabused of the idea they will ever get their old party back, is reduced to hoping the Dems can somehow fail them back into relevance.

and that makes it official.

yea - true in the overall sense, but in terms of the back to back to back futility....At least Zimmermann had the decency to keep going back to the DL so we never had to contemplate him being in the rotation for 15 straight starts more!

Zimmermann was pretty bad, but this feels worse.

play slow and wait for the rain

Kenta appears to be toast.

how about by the 1st?

Nose is narrower and the eyebrows are less rounded, other than that....

With another year on the legs, I have a hard time believe Petry will be anything close to effective. Seems totally unfair to Edvinsson to ask him to play opposite a pylon as rookie. Of course, if he's good, I suppose he is the blue-liner likely to have the range and reach to play opposite guy who covers less ice.

There is also a big cultural break within the boomers somewhere around 52/53. Maybe driven by the difference between being at higher risk of the draft, and also being more at the cutting cultural edge. If you were born in say '51, your might have been able to be sheltered from Rock'n'Roll and the cultural shifts somewhat - esp if you had conservative parents. By a few years later the older generation had lost the rear-guard action to hold back youth culture primacy. In my experience that older end of the cohort also became more politically conservative than the rest.