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Manning tends to be as good as his fastball is on any given outing and his mechanics were not consistent from start to start last season so his fast ball was up and down. There was a pretty good inverse correlation between his velocity and his results. If he ever gets a chance to pitch more regularly, and his ability to access more consistent velocity straightens out, I think you will see a more consistent pitcher. And sure he might not, but if a guy has shown he has the arm to throw hard at least half the time do you really want to bet that another team isn't going to unlock that as soon as you move him? It's a much more straightforward task than fixing a bad breaking ball.

Never root for OSU. Just...never.

The other question is whether as a society we can afford both technologies side by side or if it become too uneconomical. 95% of all driving is short trip. If *all* that were done with EVs and you still had an IC car in the garage for long distance travel or occasional hauling, transportation use of liquid fuel at a rate of 5% of today's is not a significant ecological carbon load. But there are certainly problems from both the cost and regulatory sides. You'd need a system that insures IC use was only kept to an actual minimum and didn't leak back into everyday use. That could probably be done with pricing incentives or a carbon cap and trade system. And would a liquid fuel distribution system remain economically viable at that small a scale. But right now we are in panic mode trying to hit zero carbon. Which is fine for now. But that is probably not a realistic or necessary target. The planet already has a huge natural carbon cycle with or without us. We don't have to nor can we bring it to a full stop, we just have to get to where we stop messing it up, and that will be work enough.

spot on. OTOH, you never know when a goalie might just surprise you for a season - so we can hope for that.

Ha! I like Manning's potential exactly because he can be effective without high K's, that is, he's not a slider dependent pitcher. If a guy can successfully get batters out with a fastball and change or curve, I think the K rates will drift up as he learns to sequence better, but he'll be more consistent in the long term and less prone to implosion when he can't find the feel for that slider and less slider dependence is also more resistance to platooning.

You would think it would be hard to take the word of man who refuses to ratify objective reality as meaningful. But what do I know, it's been a long time since I saw the world through a GOP belief filter.

right - there is no free lunch. If an IC vehicle's mileage goes down doing a given tow, an EV's battery life is going to go down in the same manner.

Manning has the talent - can he stay on the field? He's been snake-bit so far, no reason for that to continue - yet there are always players for whom it does.

McCarthy got to 217 by giving stuff away to the point he neutered himself. What does Jordan have at this point he can buy votes with? Will other members believe any promises he makes to them? They all knew McCarthy was going to swing any way the wind blew - do they actually trust Jordan to keep his word even if they don't like/disagree with him?

Adjournment. No immediate 2nd vote.

there's a dozen. It's Donuts for the Dems

Nancy laughing in her seat.

now 6, 7, 8, 9

5 defections so far unless someone caves before the vote closes.

Buck didn't vote when called.

I agree banning a pitch would be a 'nuclear option' and extremely unlikely, on the other hand it's just a fact that athletes will always put themselves at risk for the sake of the winning and the money. They will not protect or police themselves. So I don't know what the answer is. The other question is will the numbers continue to get worse and is there some wastage rate high enough that owner will decide it's enough? Clearly it hasn't reached that point .....yet..

At least to far, the Wings seem to be getting away from playing such a simple game, which I think is a good sign. It was like under Blashill he didn't want them playing anything but dead simple hockey. That's fine to limit how bad the losses a bad team is going to suffer are going to get, but if you start getting skilled players you need to start seeing skill level play - less dump and chase, more sophisticated passing schemes, more effort to retain possession instead of just constantly clearing the puck back to the opposition. And yes - it can sometimes backfire, but you can't beat good teams without playing a higher level game.

I don't know which is true because I haven't seen any follow-up reporting, but as CMR notes, there was a report put out that it was McCarthy who evicted Pelosi on his way out the door because he believed she reneged on an earlier pledge to support him against a MTV. Also - supposedly under the rule McHenry can't do *anything* except preside over the Speaker election anyway.

They would need to get McHenry a 'nerf' gavel though, otherwise he might accidentally kill someone.

so then what's our excuse? 🤷‍♀️

Ironically the tech might make a solution possible that never was in the past. Let just say for the sake of argument that these injuries are the result of increasing lateral spin velocities. So what do you do? In the past you could never talk about banning a particular pitch anyway because it wasn't really possible to prove a guy was throwing it. Well now you can. Of course if you did something like 'outlaw the slider' you'd have to make other shifts to compensate the pitchers' loss. Maybe enlarge the K zone and raise the mound etc.....

not too bad. Or how about you play the 154, then the top AL and NL team immediately play the traditional 7 game World Series. Then the top 12-16 teams (which includes your WS participants) feed into an international tournament with Korean, Japanese and Latin American league leaders. Each year you have WS winner and World Tournament Winner. That gives you the US world series for just the two best US teams and you get a huge tournament with an international audience and more importantly, world wide broadcast $$. Sounds like a win/win to me. The WS can claim to determine the best US team. The international tourney makes even more money for its participants. You can give Latin players from non-playoff teams the option of playing for their home teams if you want to make it more competitive but even without that you'll still get a lot of upsets in short series.

Gotisbehere did seem to be everywhere. Holl shows a little flair on his skates for a big guy. Doesn't guarantee anything about his quality of play but always nice to see a bit of plus skating out there. You notice Petry was not out there tonight. I'll leave it at that. > they might need to break that up with a bigger forward at times. seems likely

Law and Justice lose their majority in elections in Poland. They may not go gently into that good night, but still a promising step for democracy in Poland.

One theory would be that it's the Rhapsodo machine. If you can tell when a guy spins it harder you can teach him to do it more consistently, which is more stress on the parts of the forearm that spin the ball.