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reports that a US B-52 with Polish figher escorts "toured" the Gulf of Finland today - virtually on the Russian border. I wonder if a part of this is NATO is saying to Russia - "You can make a 100% resource commitment to your operations in Ukraine but there is no free lunch - it's going to cost you not being able to respond to who knows what we might be up to on your borders. Have a nice day Ivan."

I think Riley has said that Parker was the best outfielder of their group when they played together in the minors.

right. Riley plays better than his speed, whether Vierling can play up to his speed is what they want/need to find out.

OK-OK! I'll take Lipcius! The last player I took who walked as much as he struck out was Adames. (Ooops, we know what happened to him....)

Yooper used to make a table of all the Tiger players at all levels and do the fill ins to prevent duplicates, that's about it. But what's missing is sig lines in this BB SW. That's sort of made AAT work. Without those you don't really know who players belong to. So that's a bit of a limitation.

Brees' playing weight is listed at 210 and he carried that well. There seems to be some question as to whether that +200lb number Young showed up with at the combine is real or not. But someone is going to pick him and at some point they will be able to look back and see whether it was a mistake or not, but that won't until long after they have made the call on the pick. 🤷‍♂️

I don't even really think the long downfield bomb is the toughest test of arm strength. You generally have time and can put a lot of air under 'the bomb' to get distance. To me what requires the strongest arm with the quickest delivery is the diagonal throw against the zone when you have to get the ball there on a rope with no tell-tale wind-up before the defender - who is watching the play in front of him - can react/close. Which, btw, was something a young Stafford was quite good at. The long bomb is all about throwing accurately to the right distance/timing - which is a different skillset than arm-strength alone, though it certainly helps.

My music library, which I have digitally cataloged, is 70% classical. She is correct that none of the common tools handle classical music worth a damn. The mass market streaming services are mostly bad at it also other than a couple that specialize in it. I'll have to check this out, but in general I really dislike working in the apple SW world, so I'm not optimistic.

Torkelson with exit velos of 95 and 110. Both on fastballs. Seems to be having a bit less trouble squaring up the ball so far this season.

Great camp for Wenceel so far!

All income is fungible. 2.5 million tickets at an average of $50 plus another $20/head on concession plus 500K parking fees at $20 is $185million in attendance income/yr. The gate can still a major piece of a successful team's income.

I've heard about it, never used/interacted with it.

anybody know their immigation policies? asking for a friend of course....

Maybe it helps to be named Joe.....Montana set the bar for cool under pressure.

Nice to see Brieske have a better outing. Maton looking like the real deal - and Jake (fingers crossed).

odd box so far - 2 runs in, one for each team, no RBI yet - the steal and a run in on a DP.

Cartoon says Baddoo just stole home.

Yup, The plus thing is the guy who can roll and then throw on the run. As you noted - that's Rogers and Mahomes mostly. You have to distinguish between that and the college style dual threat - tuck the ball and just run. That is not worth as much in the NFL as the guy who can use his legs or size or just quickness to keep the *pass* play alive.

Baddoo has not impressed so far. That could be one less OH OF.

and of course, a stupid lie to speak in terms of his own constituents, who certainly almost all know perfectly well where El Paso is and can only hear that as a blunder, so no value there. If he's running again in '24 and trying to polish his anti-Biden bona fides I guess maybe it works.

I'd argued long before the war started that the history of Crimea was more complex than the Ukraine mainland. If Putin had played a civilized hand instead of immediately going to war, maybe a better outcome could have been reached, but at this point Russia has pretty much forfeited any consideration of civility toward its preferences by its demonstration of a preference for barbarity.

in fairness - I haven't watched the interview - IF they were talking about a particular issue at the Matamoros area the statement may have made sense - given that he still probably mispoke deliberately in saying "Biden hasn't been to the border" instead of 'the valley'

TBF to lyin' Ted, he is both right and wrong in this statement. El Paso is clearly the border, his is 100% wrong there. ElPaso is also on the Rio Grande. BUT - the area which is called 'the Rio Grande Valley' is several hundred (more like 7 than 8 )miles away where the river reaches the gulf coast.

Which is why immigration reform might be a really good idea. But the unemployment is just picking up the trend that started long before the pandemic and probably was driven by so many years of near zero interest rates. The odd part really was why the economy stayed so inflation resistant before the pandemic despite low interest rates and falling unemploymnet - and I think that had to do with a period of uniquely high management leverage over workers and wages. The loss of unionization plus a psychology of weakness got baked into the psyche of the American worker and I think it overran reality by quite a bit. What the pandemic did was wake workers up to the fact the labor market is tight (because of those demographics) and they do have more normal leverage now. So now low unemployment is driving wage gains in a way we weren't seeing in say 2019 even though UE was already very low. As I've said before, personally I'm OK with a some wage inflation - the American worker needs it. Clearly the Fed can't let it turn into 1977, but I can only hope they don't overdo it.

and it's a least a little bit of a false comparison isn't it? A dual threat QB runs up big offensive AV stats, but it's a bit of zero sum game because it's only a function of his higher use rate. If he runs for 20yds, that's 20 yds one of his receivers or RBs doesn't add to his total. So I'm not that impressed is a dual threat QB can put up a huge AV because he's not necessarily adding that to his team total as opposed to subtracting it from other players totals if he were a more successfull passer. "Escapability" I do like, but being a QB that actually runs for a lot of yards is not the only way to get that. A guy who has a good sense of how and when to step up, or even one who is big and strong enough and has a good first step to fight off first contact (i.e.Rothlesburger type) can give you a lot of the same value without rushing for >500yrd.