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Since they aren't going to score big very often themselves, as long as you have to keep staring pitchers that occasionally get rocked in the first couple of innings leading to huge losses the ugly differentials will continue - but they don't really mean much other than the pitching staff is short. Who knew?

ye of little faith.

But what is the purpose of the exemption in the first place? I think it's the idea that the 'public figure' is a person placed with the resouces to get out his own message. But that thinking is based on world view where communication is a constrained resource. Today's technology has turned that completely upside down. Today the larger problem - at least in the US - is not the opportunity to speak, it's the impossbiity of being heard over the malicious generation of opposing noise. Communication regulation once had to be aimed at providing or protecting the basic opportunity to speak, today it's much more important for communication regulation to maintain the health of the information eco-system by controlling the pernicious noise level that makes the right to speak in and of itself trivially useless. I think this kind of thinking is very mind-bending to Americans because it's a shift from long accepted truth, but the world does change. The idea that you could regulate someone's personal use of their private real property was once just as outre' - until the world become so polluted it began to kill us and we realized that your absolute freedom to use your property ends when the air and water on it moves off it. We need to think about *why* we protected free speech in the first place - it was to support and protect the the body politic's ability to reach reality based political decisions. When we find ourselves in a world where 'media' as an industry is actually acting antithetically to ithe increase in the public's understanding of reality and the thus the quality of political decision making, we need to start re-thinking what we think we know as true.

The truth is that if not for Sullivan, Trump would never have become President because Obama could have sued him and stopped his lying on the air long before 2016. If that's not an outcome that would have been better for America, I don't know what is. And from that it follows to me that if the Constitution was created as a vehicle to create a government that would make law "in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity" then I can't think of a law/legal precedent anymore more useful to be revised than Sullivan. Also, on purely techical grounds, the internet has also made the very idea of a 'public figure' meaningless. Any of us can become 'public' - as in known by half the world- in an afternoon via TicTok or Twitter. It's simply not a useful paradigm for a legal distinction anymore.

They also merged with Manufacturers - a even older Det bank. The blue badge that is that background of Comerica's logo is from the old Manufacturer's Bank logo.

Add a data point. Just heard TJ Lang on the radio. He said he had made some calls to contracts around the league and came away with the impression the non-football concerns about Carter are significant - I think he put it at 6 on a 10 scale. Wilson vs Anderson could depend a little on where you think the game is going next. One one hand, it seems like more teams want to run the ball a little more than in recent years, certainly the Lions are part of that trend, so the value of big bodies like Wilson (or Carter) on the inside might increasing. OTOH, if your scouting around the rest of league says that's not so much what you see in the immediate future, then take the guy who gives you the pass rush, and outside presense.

Yeah - this was more the story line. He never had to hit the high FB on his way to the league, but as it started being used more he did learn to handle it better. Good hitters can adjust, hitters that can't adjust end up not being good hitters.

I think you are correct, teams don't fly commercial much if at all anymore, but there are still different kinds of non-commerical arrangements possible. A team may own a plane and employ a flying staff, which I think Ilitch did for the Wings early on, but today there is a bigger charter industry that provides custom point to point service on a contract basis. In any case, every pilot still has to follow FAA scheduling limits whether he works for you or a charter Co.

IIRC what I'm thinking was a few years into his career as the league started moving to the higher K zone. He had come into a league where eveyone was trying to pitch low and he was a hitter that feasted on low pitches. His K rate went up quite a bit in 2014 and the conventional wisdom had become to pitch him as high as the umps would call. He still hit well, just down from the prior MVP levels. But he steadily worked back over the next season or two - has never had another season with that kind of K rate.

From what I read recently I would guess it's nearly impossible to find a pilot on short notice. Between the fact there there is shortage across the industry and that you need guys certified on your particular airplane that just happen to already be in the city you are in and aren't already doing something else. Maybe easier on the East coast where there are a dozen airports within an hour of each other.

One issue is that of course all media loves Sullivan - so even a liberal bastion like the NYT is running around with their hair on fire at the thought of it being circumscribed - but the truth is the US press operated without it for 150 yrs and in the rest of the free world press operates without it just fine. They need to realize that in the US the crisis today for the presss - all press, is credibility, and lack of accountability is what is driving that.

Yeah - I saw it somewhere - maybe in Henning's MiLB round-up - He's fine, but the Tiger MiLB rule is go near 40 pitches in a inning and you are done and Madden went 36 in the first - and was only throwing 50% strikes.

They've found a hole in his swing and are explioting it. Now he has to fix it. That's the way it goes for a young hitter. If he figures it out in 100 AB or so he'll be fine. If not he'll be a bust - what can you do? He just has to play through it. Early in his career they found out Trout couldn't handle the high strike and he slumped pretty badly for a while, he eventually adjusted and that's why he's Mike Trout.

It's a really stupid reason to end up missing a game, but there isn't anything anyone can do about it once a pilot's clock runs out. That's why you make check lists for planning processes - otherwise nobody remembers to call the pilots on a rain delay.

McCosky tweeted that they did intend to play at 6+ but at some point the Giants found out their pilots to FLA were going to 'run out of hours' if they stayed that long.

agreed. There may be no-one alive responsible for more hours of lost American productivity than Steve Ballmer.

On the bright side, they gained ground in the standings by sitting around all day. All four teams in the div lost today.

The most likely if Comerica bailed? Huntington Field. Or maybe Huntington Hippodrome if the CEO's wife is into alliteration.

Could be, but they knew the forecast at 2 and decided to shoot for 6:30 and both were on board for that knowing what the forecast was, which is exactly what happened. There was never (or never should have been) any expectation that the weather at 6:30 was going to be different than it was. It was exactly what was forecast. So to me the story is one (or both) sides changed their mind about agreeing to play in the conditions that were going to be present at 6:30 after having agreed to do so. Maybe a minor nit but I think a likely reality.

No question Fox will try to offer Dominion enough $$ to make the company's head spin - enough to make it very hard to for them to demand a trial for some unspecified corrective performance. I want this case to go to trial because I think the Sullivan doctrine is eating American Democracy at its core by removing any and all recourse to the distribution of outright lies and while the odds are slim, this case at least has a chance to lead to some trimming of the expansive protection Sullivan gives outright liars.

re the game call: We also don't know that even if Kapler may have wanted to play maybe his FO agreed with Det about protecting pictchers - or whatever the rationale ended up being. Or maybe he wasn't mad about the game call at all but what bitcing about the schedule making the makeup difficult.....

6' 6" china doll.

I'm sure they were in the loop but you can't assume the two sides agreed in the end either. It's not like you can horse trade to get to an agreement where both side get what they want - it's a binary choice. If two sides don't agree, someone makes a decision and someone else goes away unhappy. It happened at least once to the Tigers last season - I don't remember which side of the decision the Tigers wanted but I remember the home team did not agree and that's the way it was.

And if the Giants sat around believing they would play when the rain stopped and the Tigers changed their minds, he's got a legit beef. Given the Tigers' pitching injury history I can believe they meant to play but then bailed exactly because it was getting cold and windy.

So if I remember the rules and they haven't changed - a game that hasn't started yet is up to the home team, one that has is in the hands of the umpires? You could read between the lines from the video that Kapler wanted to play but the Tigers decided not to - maybe.