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Boyd was expected back sooner - he had a definite rehab set back. Of course anyone else could also You really can't count on anything wth pitchers, but if Skubal can stay on the prescribed schedule without such a set back, he has a shot a being out less time than Boyd was. That's about all you can say.

Yeah, sort of like Al Avila used to collect also-ran middle infielders hoping one would eventually hit. We saw how well that worked out....

it still depends. It's not just twitter alone - I think the war in Ukraine is a good example of that. There is a flood of information of all types about the war reported on twitter. Very little if any of it ever moves the public immagination or the MSM to cover the war much more actively. So no doubt Twitter news is a huge source, but Twitter news content doesn't seem to drive broader agendas by itself, other ingredients need to be present. I guess it provides a vehicle to the public to become interested in a story and that drives the rest of media - but I think it's worth maintaining the distinction between twitter content generators driving agendas vs the broader public being responsible for bringing something that may have initially appeared on twitter to the cultural forefront. The latter effect of what catches the public fancy is capricious and largely unpredictable as opposed to being driven by Twitter content generators. Not that they don't try.

The Pistons have something like 10 top ten picks in the past 11 yrs, 7 of those yrs under Gores, and they still have a roster that can't win games. Coaches come and go, management comes and goes - they are showing a disturbing trend toward a WCF rut under Gores.

Speaking of Britain, it's sounding like they may be ones to break the ice and send a Western airframe to Ukraine.

The Freep's puff piece on Santana went directly to that point. Garko (as per Petzold) said they are less interested in changing his swing/mechanics than just making him stronger to get his bat speed up https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2023/02/01/detroit-tigers-prospect-cristian-santana-takes-next-step-in-growth/69857673007/

Sure, it's always a balance of what else the guy brings. We had a guy even in the game as it was played a few years back make a pretty good name for himself as a running back who you'd be hard pressed to find film of doing much blocking....

agree a RB should not be expected to do much against DE/DT on an overload, but a lot of blitzes are LBs or DBs and a RB should be able hold his own in those situations. I would still rate it at a useful skill.

I don't know if I'm considered a liberal or not () but I think we need to shift our whole understanding about media regulation from the free speech paradigm to the environmental pollution paradigm.

I'm not here to argue your points above, with which I agree, but to note that I really don't get how people lump Pelosi's fully decorous and completely symbolic act, into the same pot with things that are often crude, essentially aggressive and/or assaultive/disruptive in nature.

it's one thing to take them out of service for a short term geopolitical gambit, it's another to let the total investment go down the drain by leaving the damaged lines open to salt water to corrode into scrap. In fact I would actually invert the argument. If the Russians didn't want the line taken out of serivce - they would have moved to repair them immediately wouldn't they? That said, our side did have an interest in making sure Germany didn't backslide on its Russian epiphany. If the recent row over Leopards is any indication having discounted gas from those pipelines off the table may be doing as much as any single factor preventing more German backsliding. In this world it seems anything is possible, but to this point I'm still coming down on the side of believing it's another of Putin's 7 dimensional chess gone awry before I'm persuadimg myself that the incredibly leaky US gov took the risk they could do this without being found out.

You see this syndrom a lot, it's the desperate fight against the dying of the light for a person who was once relevant and is now fading into irrelevance.

Ahh. Indeed.

I'm taking Kerry Carpenter as my dark horse impact player. Guy's been underestimated/ignored at every level but just goes out and gets it done.

LOL - that's the one problem in major league baseball, you have have a huge number of candidate prospects and still have them all fail. 😢

This is spot on. And BTW the people that run Ann Arbor should have their eyelids pinned open (a la Clockwork Orange's Alex) and be forced to watch this until they get it.

I think this is the 1st time I've seen quite so interactive a SOTU speach. Probably a form or rhetoric more fitting for the times.

Old people can certainly get prickly, but I wonder sometimes if these feuds between old guys become almost a subconscious defense mechanism that gets them out from under the pressure of doing something they probably just don't really want to do anymore (i.e. pretend they are 20), but aren't 'allowed' step away from by fans/society....

and the thing is, so what if he did? (survive a primary). How are you going to vote for a 'good' GOP guy when all his presence in the legislature will do is empower the rest of GOP idiots? I get the idea there is some sense out there that people are looking for 'good' GOP candidates so they can feel better about voting GOP because........ Well because why exactly? Because it comforts their sense of tradition? That party needs to LOSE and lose BIG so the wackos currently controling it lose control of it. If there was any doubt remaining our recent "Three Days of Kevin" should have put them to rest. Filling in around the margins with sane people who will not control the party or even oppose it internally in any meaningfully useful way just perpetuates everything currently wrong in US politics. A Nickelson's Joker would put it - the GOP town needs an enema. The total cleanse.

they're being rope-a-doped.

yeah - I don't see how Meijer gets through a GOP primary process either.

that one surprised me. His results in his limited outings last season didn't offer much reason to retain him, but I guess he was showing something to the coaches.....

I imagine the answer to that is mostly to see what they can get away with, and gather intelligence from how and with what hardware and what methods the US responds. Low cost, low risk. Conversely, if this is not the 1st one of these (and it apparently is not) then you can guess the US has been sitting and watching for exactly the same reason - to see what China wants to try to get away with, figure out what information they were looking for (and thus value), and gather intelligence about what methods and hardware and command and control they are using. After watching several the value in that probably reaches the point of decreasing returns to the US decides the end the little game of mutual, symmetric gamesmanship. Spying is alwys a strange exercise, feints and feints within feints. It's never clear the spy doesn't betray more useful information to the side he is spying on than he (or it) gains. And each side usually believes they are thinking one move ahead of the other, even if neither are. I believe in trying to keep technologies to produce capabilities secret. but less so the capabilities themselves, and most of the rest of what each side tries to keep secret is probably counterproductive. It's ignorance that leads to paranoia and miscalculation and bad outcomes. If your enemy knows your capabilities, that *may* give them some kind of edge, but that's going to be less strategicaly dterminative than their realization that it's going to be really hard to succeed in whatever they have in mind if they are considering starting something stupid. More information is more stablizing than the secrecy buffs will admit.

This island is between Buffalo and Toronto, but it's sort of noisy at night...

Same Chinese manufacturer probably made those balloons for Google ten years ago....