gehringer_2

Has anyone ever watched a school bldg door during class change? You can't lock down buildings that hundreds of people have to go in and out of every hour. Even if the first person has to card to open the door, all the people flowing behind are just going to enter on one door opening. Anyone can just fade into the queue. Do people have brains at all? To do this would require a much more sophisticated system. For instance everyone carries a RF ID and the system would have to scan the number of bodies entering and match to the number of ID's detected. Conceivably possible - not trivial to do. And even then you would only know an unauthorized person entered - it wouldn't have prevented the entry.

Yeah - I don't think things will change unless a large enough number of states get to together to force a Constitutional Crisis. As long as you have a gun control president who refuses to call out the army against the states. I can imagine we might get chaos in a lot of police departments when 2A supporting cops argue they should refuse to follow state law......

Money has a logic all of its own 💰!. When you throw around the kinds of $$ the Rangers have I think players automatically believe winning is inevitable.

That's been discussed here before. I guess all we can say is that we know they considered it before the last Bally contract was signed and decided the existing arrangement was more profitable for them. Which makes sense in a way since Bally was paying more than they could ulitmately afford!

the only way around that short term would have been for Ilitch to persuade someone like Theo Epstein to come here. A person with so much track record that he could sell a future FAs would believe in. Harris just doesn't have that kind of track record. He is going to have to show progress before anyone trusts that he's going to get to where he is selling.

If you inherit the assets of the RSN, you inherit a set of existing ad sales staffs that have all the contacts and relationships in place. I think the biggest hurdle is that if MLB holds all the rights and sends all the games out on one service, how do teams participate in the revenue? Right now the RSN money all (largely?) goes local. If MLB originated everything I would guess there would be some attempt made to nationalize at least some part of the income and that's were the battle gets fought.

I don't know how comparable the two are. Note that Baseball has literally thousands of games, gives MLB a much broader base over which to distribute the cost of the network - or in short - the economies of scale are more favorable for MLB>

I don't think they are any more obstrusive than they ever were in terms changing the outcome of the game play. Replay has made officiating more time consuming, but we've always had officials making game swinging calls at critical parts of big games, because players have always crossed the line on infractions trying to get a edge at a critical point of big games. You could do away with replay completely and go go back to the status quo ante, and it would remove the delays, but I don't know how you ever force fans to go back to accepting the normal proportion of bad calls you are going to get when you have 10 angles of super slo mo video indicting each of those missed calls.

Suspect dead at his own hand. 43 yrs old and no known (so far) affiliation with the University.

The Wings won the first few minutes of the 1st and 3rd in a big way, but as Ozzie said, the Wings were beneficiaries of a lot of puck luck the rest of the time. The game was a lot closer if you looked at overall offensive zone time. But we'll take it.

suspect dead as per LE press briefing.

6-1. Wings score on a 6 on 5 delayed penalty call. Can even remember the last time I saw the Wings do that.

which is more useless as a finisher, Zadina or Veleno?

Pay that man his money.

In my book it's pretty simple, if you can't afford to operate without putting other people's lives at risk, maybe you shouldn't be operating. This all comes down to maybe my biggest complaint about the way we do capitalism - externalized costs. I seems like no business in American can do business without the true liabilities for the real costs they incur being shuffied off to someone (everyone) else. It will be stupid Inability to do proper cost accounting that will be the downfall of the system when it collapses.

this is 1970's level tech. No reason for there not to be a wireless mesh system on the train that reports bad bearings/hot spots the to engineer in the train in real time. That would be modern tech. OK there is a reason - no-one has forced them to do better - for all the reasons you stated. Heck, it's only been in the last few years they have finally implemented an occupied track non collision system that's been in the proposed stage for a generation. It's the F'ing 21st century and we have half a dozen *ungated* RR grade crossings around Ann Arbor because the RR won't pay for even that 100 yr old tech.

But unlike the NFL blackouts of yesteryear, MLB TV blackouts are not to protect ticket sales, and they don't benefit the home *directly*. They are to protect the RSN, the theory being that more valuable RSN rights mean bigger payments to the teams. But with the RSNs going under and the rights all devolving back to the teams and league, this is the perfect time to rationalize the system. With all the broadcast rights back in one place, the teams can in theory collect the full value of the broadcasts and MLB could offer Gameday to customers for *all* games for one fee. So simple you *know* it won't happen.

There was a report that a random security camera caught the brakes and/or bearings on this train on fire 20 miles prior to the derailment. The condition of US rolling stock and rail tech is purely third world. But no, we don't need regulators, the invisible hand of market will cure all our ills.....

All true enough. Still, all those teams won't be standing still either, some of them will find good players in the draft, etc. NFL careers are short and NFL teams have 53 players so every football team turns over a lot season to season.

We can all breath a sigh of relief - the MSM has weighed in..... https://www.nytimes.com/article/ohio-train-derailment.html

I prefer the other view. The officials shouldn't just let the team that abuses the rules (and or the other team!) the most, win. Just because the stakes are higher doesn't mean the rules should be bent more or because one team is willing to bet the officials won't call them for illegal play because it's late in a big game. If anything you have two teams that are supposed to represent the epitome of performance - they should be able to at least meet the same standard of play that they did in the regular season. This wasn't really a controversial call, The DB directly held back the receiver on the way to where he wanted to go. That is going to be called every time it's seen. Granted it's not always seen, but that's a different question.

then, there is this: https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove-why-pop-music-all-sounds-the-same

I guess this kid grew up...

got nailed once in about 4th or 5th grade. A huge windstorm had hit the neighborhood and ripped shingles off all the roofs around the school and the pieces were all over the school playground. So at lunch/recess kids started frisbee-ing them around at each other and some of us thought we were likely to get killed. So a couple buds and I started collected them and taking them off the field. Of course what do we know about dumpsters at that age(which were probably locked anyway)? So we found an out of the way niche around the side of building to stash them. The bidie of an art teacher whose room windows overlooked the area turned us in. We got no hearing that we were removing the stuff from the field. Probably turned me into a bomb throwing LE sceptic on that very day..... 💣🥷

The Guardian covered it, but mostly from the angle of Bakken crude moving through the same corridors. Also CBS. Pittsburg Papers been working it. Unfortunately, in given the way local news capability has collapsed in the US, we probably can't get much national attention to an event with no immediate casualties or obvious political fallout.