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It wouldn't be half so bad if he were even a competent Judge, but he's an idiot. Invoking the 13th century in Dobbs - then yesterday he was the *sole* dissenter in the courts rebuff of a couple of states trying to control how the Federal gov runs immigration. You can have all the complaints you want about US immigration policy from admin to admin, but the idea that a State has any standing force the Federal government's hand on policy is legal drivel. Even Normally-I'm-a-mile-off-the-reservation-Thomas couldn't see his way to disagree with the majority on that one.

sadly I think there is zero probability of this. It's the crazies that tend to be the most monomaniacally committed. They will all stay with Trump while more secondary voices peel off slices of the remainder who are looking for less crazy voices. The thing is each voice will appeal to some of the sane because of the natural breadth of concerns of more normal people. Thus the sane vote divides and the crazy vote congeals -- to Trump. You can book it.

Pittsburgh is a traditional salary bottom feeder so there's some conventional wisdom that they would rather underslot the HS player. Ownership did spend a bunch of money on Bryan Reynolds, maybe they've changed their tack.

yeah - for whatever reason the cop probably just didn't want to deal with it. IIRC, a proper Miranda warning (at least in MI) ends by asking the suspect if he understands his rights. If he assents I would assume the police are then off the hook if he starts talking. If the suspect doesn't reply to the Miranda that he understands but then starts talking what is the situation? Is that where you tell him to shut up as you may not be able to use what he says anyway?

Big boost from the defense too - errors by Cruz and Workman opened the door to the big inning. 5 of the 6 runs unearned.

To get to Detroit? No doubt!

5 people dead because ---- apparently because of a loophole in the law. Almost any kind of vehicle used to carry paying passengers operates under some kind of certification process: Buses, trains, boats, airplanes. But apparenty not submarines. Of course the owners of Titan wouldn't want to have to 'certify' it because that almost certainly would have required pressure testing the hull - probably to 150% of it's intended use pressure, and that would have been an expensive proposition - which by the way would also have certainly revealed the weakness in the design. Hard to understand why they choose carbon fiber composite for the design of something that was going to be used in compression in the first place- maerketing? Fad engineering? Maybe to save cost handling it at the surface - (smaller cranes required etc). Carbon fiber provides no engineering advantage over steel once the vessel is in the water.

Hard to say. It could also been that for the sake of his own sanity he didn't want to hear Doerman say anything that might have led him to leave another body at the scene.

Keith made it 3/5 2B in what will likely be his last AB. Navigato 2/4 2B, HR, BB at Toledo: Parker Meadows 2/4, SacFly

Another ho-hum night for C. Keith, H 2B in his first 3 AB. Manning one hit and 6K in 4 IP. Unfortunately also 5BB!

IDK, I'd wager that a lot of these young athletes know a lot more about gambling than the average crossection of the population, and I'd probably do it without giving a thought to where I was.....

stepping back from the case details though, it *is* a stupid set of rules. What possible difference does it make to anything *where* you are when you place a bet? The wager either is, or is not an issue. Nothing could be more immaterial to any possible consequence of the wager than where it was placed. Maybe the basic illogic of the rules had something to do with why guys may have found them hard to make sense of or take seriously.

Franklin Perez got his 1st win in 5 yrs today. Didn't do much to get it: 2H BB ER in 1 IP. OTOH, if there was ever a guy who needed to start having better luck..... 😉

MOC baby! You live by it in the process industries, avaition, anywhere hazardous. (management of change)

Santana was the most the Tigers had ever spent. QED.

OTOH, they have spent their money in Latin America on infielders so that also goes to the mix.

Of the top 12 pitchers by 2023 WAR on fangraphs just now, 7 are 1st round picks and Valdez was an international. Of the top 12 hitters by WAR, only 3 were 1st round picks (several internationals). Taking pitchers may have terrible injury risk, but I think they may be more projectable than hitters - so it's a conundrum.

only one hit for Meadows today but it went for 3 bases. Malloy with a dinger but his June is still not exciting.

I thought for sure Pudge would have 67 games at 400 bracketing his month at 500, but his best 67 game stretch fell a bit short - 384, and that's not starting at the 1st game of the season either..

I wonder if that challenge was Hinch sticking it to Quatraro a bit for asking for the replay on Marisnik, which was a stupid challenge.

The way the Tigers jerked Castellanos around in the minors was a classic case of being stupid in this regard. If you have a good fielder, I think it makes a lot of sense to build his flexibility by learning new positions, but if you have a guy that starts out with a distant relationship to his glove to begin with - put him somewhere and leave him there to concentrate at getting as good as he is able.

That might well be a missing piece. A lot of the discussion has been about the league not communicating the policies, but If the league put out the policies to the teams and told the teams to communicate them, then it's easy to see why the league might have no guilt over enforcing the sanctions on a team that didn't do the job.

This part is also true. The complete contrast is to Basketball - where you expect your top pick to play immediately and fit into a team with an already fixed cast of players.

or is it the opposite?: Maybe it's that in baseball, BPA 2-5 yrs out is so impossible to determine with any degree of probability that it's pointless to go down the rabbit hole of trying to make razor fine distinctions to rank many similar players in the absence of anything like MLB relevant competition? Sure there are mere handful of guys that break away from the pack in a given year - but always far less than the number 1st round picks and thus only relevant to a small minority of the 30 teams. IIRC, when people have broken down the MLB draft by total WAR by draft position things get pretty flat after only about the 10th pick or so. It would be interesting to see that same WAR vs draft position data reparameterized by team. It's often argued here that it's the teams doing drafting that is the better predictor of performance than draft position. Of course there are two possible explanations for that, which are not mutually exclusive: Some teams may do a better job with their internal BPA rankings than the conventional published wisdom (i.e. they are getting better players in lower rounds) or they simple do a better job at skill development - i.e they create their good players - at least to some degree. And then the third thing that all the concentration on the US draft misses is that nearly half of the players are coming from the international system, and being good at working that system is a whole different set of competencies for ML teams.

yeah - wouldn't have gotten my vote.