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LOL - American Management: I worked for a fortune 100 that was horizontal integration of a bunch of very successful subsids. The divisions all had tons of long standing market cred and goodwill tied up in their names. The mothership in Houston couldn't wait to homogenize it all under their own logo - to prove how smart they were I guess. Company ended being partially dismembered and sold at least twice after that brilliance.

Hindsight being 20/20, using Chapman in regulation instead of extras was a waste because you need those K's a lot more starting with a man on 2b.

does this refer to all rebuilding, or just rebuilding that accompanied by a zoning change request? The City of LA normally processes tens of thousands of ordinary building permits in a year.

three teams in the Central have better records than the Yankees. Love it.

It's a thumb guard. They are actually fairly common around the league once you start to notice them.

they should have tried the last one.....

Humid air is less dense.

Andy says Boston has one more BP arm.

Just thinking - don't let down after getting the two tough bats - and bang.

If the Tigers and get through another inning, Wiessert is the end of the Sox BP. They'd have to warm up a starter to relieve him.

good AB but no result

Riley's been hot when he's hot, but he's been cold too much.

Well - at least it's not Chapman again.

Not tonight apparently.

Chapman has such a classic delivery. Coils up like a snake, then WHAM.

Chapman off to a great start this season - hard to believe he's not due for some regression at 37.

it's cube of office space that GM is going to move into, plus the adjoining tower which is what you see over the OF wall. The tower is supposed to be apartment/hotel or some such residential typ space. It's being put up by Gilbert/Bedrock. They've completed the structure now, but last night I was at the ballpark and you could see that the interior of the tower still had construction lights hanging inside - just open space yet. The kicker is that when GM moves there the RenCen ends up with a bunch of vacant space and they've floated a plan to tear down the two towers closest the the river to open up some green space there. Not exactly Orthanc and MinasTirith, but the complex would still look pretty weird with the three still standing in such an odd asymmetry.

He came pretty close to one down the RF line last night but the wind was sort of in

who then gets cut down on one of the best OF throws of the season so far.

"Shoulder." I suppose that could be better or worse than TJ depending on whatever details follow.

Who knows, maybe the Tigers make him a decent offer and he decides playing for a good team in a mid market is more fun than NYC/LA. OK - not likely, but you never know. Could also depend on what Keith looks like in another couple of months.

It's the old line about managing the US economy is like steering an oil tanker while only looking in the rear view mirror. One thing for sure though, if an administration actually gets a hold on an ability to manipulate the numbers, I can't think of a clearer signal we are done as a functioning democracy.

IDK, if they give him a few 12 day breaks like the last one, or maybe an even longer one at the ASB, maybe he can go further than we expect without harm.

True, the counterpoint would be that for April, the number the FED appears to watch - the PCEI was up 2.8 core 2.7 overall

More illusion of large numbers, TBH, a billion a month is pretty much war on the cheap today. At 12 billion a year it would take a century to spend what we did in Iraq, and it represents only 1 1/2% of the regular DOD budget, so I don't really think that level of expenditure was a serious driver. Of course with Trump, it's hard to say what he's going to latch on to as important.