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Certainly a good result. Then again, I don't know how big Al districts are, but you don't want to get tooo too far over your skis about an election that only totaled 6000 voters.

as a practical matter, the one thing that could be done to at least help insure against this particular kind of accident would be to require that a tug (or two?) stay on escort with any ship above a certain tonnage until it clears the last harbor bridge. The operators would scream about the expense, but if you are going to run huge ships with single point of failure engines the only ultimate safety is to have another engine with relevant power out there with them.

This ship was Singapore registered, which is supposedly one of the better countries in terms of maritime standards. I don't know that kind of propulsion this ship had, but many similar container ships use a single massive low speed diesel engine - up to 14 cylinders so huge a person could easily stand inside one.

My marker is when the team is good enough that Veleno and Petry can't make the roster.

too many differences between the bridges and the sites to even start listing them.

Baez with 4 K in his last 27 ST AB.

they are just not there yet. Two centers and 2 Dmen - maybe one of the later if Edvinsson sticks.

Please just don't let the 4th line be out there with Petry and Chiarot. The Wings 'deadly five'

I don't either. It's not a bad looking play. It doesn't have the speed/drama of a conventional kickoff, but if the league isn't going to have those, then it's better than coming back from commercial break for 30 seconds of a fair catch or kick sailing through the end zone before going back to break.....

To me Wentz over Brieske was sub-optimal in terms of a purely talent driven decision. But no decision is ever made in that kind of ideal vacuum. If they can leverage more value in an eventual trade by having kept Wentz, the long term return on the decision could still be better than having a very marginally better starting 26 this week.

you have to consider how deep the water is where the bridge towers are. If the bottom is a long way down it gets impractical pretty fast to build very large defensive islands. I was a little surprised at how narrow the span on that bridge was. A ship that size didn't have to miss by that much relatives to it's own size.

yes, the weather is a big confounding factor. We were living in Minny when Target opened and there was panic because by the end of 1st summer the park was playing huge, which was not the intention. But it was all weather - it was just a bunch of really odd weather patterns for that summer - odd winds and cool temps. The park has played fine since.

One thing you never heard talked about is that if the entire US pension system went private, we might well end up like China (where everyone saves because there is no SS), with a stagnant, over-invested, under consuming economy. It's actually not clear that there is enough investment potential available to absorb all the savings that privatizing SS would generate. The example of China argues it an issue that can't just be dismissed.

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Biden believes that campaigns are not won at the front end but at the back. He didn't really get in gear in 2020 until half the people had written him off. Let hope the strategy continues to hold.

FWIW, The story is the bridge was built to relieve sever traffic congestion on the harbor tunnel. That was 50yrs ago though, so maybe traffic patterns have shifted. It's actually not an uncommon pattern in the US that by the time a bridge gets built, the need for it goes away. In the local area the I280 bridge in Toledo was built to get around a draw bridge where I believe the river traffic ceased not long or even before the bridge was completed. I'm not sure the same wasn't true of the I-75 Zilwaukee bridge.

My guess is they hope to get some trade value out of him, as opposed to Diaz who at ~30 with a long history of high walk rates wasn't going to return enough to be worth bumping Faedo for.

HaHa - good luck on that. The truth is that current SS benefits are paid out of current year taxes and if the GOP cuts enough taxes it will result in benefits cuts to current and future beneficiaries. The 'trust fund' does not exist as real dollars anywhere you can get them back from. It's 'real' from the standpoint of the federal budget, but that only means it's an accounting entry that fundamentally tracks money the government owes itself. There is no account anywhere with that money sitting in it to give back to you.

So Diaz is out. He is the guy I would have guessed they view as most willing to lose.

That's a bit of tribal knowledge for the site. Realize that some folks here have been posting together for 20yrs, so often a lot gets left unsaid. I've been here a while and there are still plenty of even more senior posters whose references I don't pick up!

If you post on the forum long enough it will happen to you. I've seen this enough that I believe the forum SW has a deep bug in it somewhere that on rare occasions will decide a certain character string is poison and refuse to process a post. You can spend a lot of time parsing through your post trying to find the exact byte string that is causing the rejection (impossibly tedious), or just rephrase your post and it will pass.

I think it has to be more difficult to develop the kind of analytics around hitting as have been accomplished for pitching because with hitting the biomechanics is only half - if even that - of the story. There are so many additional neurological issues - vision, reflex, concentration, decision, layered on top the biomechanics issues around swing, balance, bat speed, etc.. Makes it a more complex problem. You may make a physical change that should theoretically help a guy but maybe it doesn't help because he is blocked somewhere else. It's going to be harder to figure out what's going on. Or maybe another way to put it is you can put guys into better physical approaches, but it may or may not make them better hitters. Obviously if you do at least help the guys that can be helped it should still put your org ahead of an org that can't even do that. Marginal success rates matter even if net success rates never get as high as with pitchers.

Yup. These ship are now up to 250,000 tons and there is a practical limit to how low you can make the harbor speed limit because the ships have to maintain steerage, which is needed as container ships have huge windage.

That was an arched truss. If the ship damaged the left tower enough that the arch form was compromised, all the forces go out of balance and it's all over. Since the elements in the truss have to support both compression and tension, they are tied together tightly enough that they pulled down most of the right side before there was enough xs force to actually break the truss. The point where it finally broke was so near the right tower that the remaining mass on the right tower was too out of balance to stay up - like a teeter-totter, the torque just rotated it off the right tower to the heavy side. I imagine when this bridge was built they never contemplated the size of the ships that are in service today. Even if they had I don't know how much you can do to protect any structure from an impact by 250,000 tons even at only 5 kt or so.

sometime this week I'm going see CoPA's park factors show any correlation to the Tigers offensive output. Haven't decided exactly what to pick, but just looking at the park factors over the years vs the team, my impression is I'm going to see a correlation. I know park factor is supposedly production neutral, but I don't think baseball as game is itself production neutral. It makes sense to me that a poor scoring team should depress the output of its opposition as well because they won't substitute or pinch hit for optimum production if they are always already ahead.