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yeah - the parking around the Stadia is probably not the next logical develop area. First you have to finish the commerical occupancy refill south of Grand Circus park. Maybe not everyone is coming back to on-site work but most will be - but the DT is still not full enough to force more develop need north. Just for example - Hudson's has to be filled once complete, Penobscot is underutilized and BookTower needs to be filled. And after that the next target may actually be the near east 375 corridor once the Frwy is gone. The parking lots keep things cleaned up and generating income. They will be replaced by a smaller footprint of parking structures when property values make surface lots uneconomic.

Don't disagree that there is a commitment there - I'm just hoping it's justified. If he hits it won't matter but but I was dismayed by what I have seen of his fielding - hopefully new team jitters or something.

they believe that if they got money, they would be different, but in truth they wouldn't!

the first sentence needs rebalancing - modern wars are almost 100% a test of industrial capacity, the balance being motivation, and Russia fails both by orders of magnitude. A Russia at full industrial mobilization is losing the balance of mechanized capacity on the battlefield daily to a West that is hardly spending its extra pocket change and it's young men have largely fled. Population is immaterial if all you can send bodies out there to do is become cannon fodder. The west has so far had Ukraine fighting this war with two hands tied behind its back - no fixed wing air resources or long range rocketry -- against a 100% resource deployed Russian force and the Russian is still dead in the water ( and the fields, and the trenches......). If Nato changes it mind about either (and it appears to be about to on the 1st) what chance will Russia have but to lose more ground? Russia's singular hope is on the political side, with voices like yours. But carry on.

I've been underwhelmed with Vierling. Hopefully I'm wrong.

LOL - I'd refine it to say that with him and Faedo there is more question whether they will ever be MLB starter material than that more time at AAA changes much for either.

this. We visited CA during the summer during Feranando's career. He was pretty huge in the Spanish speaking world.

I suppose one can argue that Wentz is about as ready as he will ever be, but the reality is that given just ordinary DL rates for the staff (as opposed to the disaster last season), Wentz and Faedo are probably both going to get plenty of opportunity to pitch with the big club this season. I don't think you can say starting pitchers at AAA are effectively blocked until you get to at least the 8th or 9th man down. OTOH, unless they bite the bullet and take both Carpenter and Baddoo, Cabrera will be blocking the last OF cut who otherwise would be sharing the DH. But that's sort of what I don't get anyway - Cabrera is not going to play nearly everyday, so someone else is going to be picking up a good number of DH ABs. I'd just as soon have that be a LHB as Haase - who seems to be the next most likely candidate. So if it were me, instead of an additional IF I'd bring Carpenter even if Baddoo makes the team. But Hinch's obession with having a Swiss Army lineup means that won't happen.

One of the obvious things that I have yet to hear anyone stress is that the deposit limit was at 100K in 1980. If you apply the CPI to that number it means it should have been increased to ~400K by now. A too low insurance limit is another thing drives up the % of uninsured customers. By design the insurance limit is *supposed* to cover *most* - i.e. any average, depositor at your average bank.

And launching from Kamchatka will suck anyway - latitude is way north of optimal.

Good show, but it's the one you don't see that will get you..... 🥷

LOL - not much gets past Max

Yup. Easy answer is to platoon him with Carpenter. Reserve his AB for LHP and RHP that don't come inside. There's your 2 starts a week. Let Kerry feast on the rest of the RHP.

Nothing built in that era is actually going to function on the battlefield unless it got regular corrosion protection maintenance work for the last 70 yrs. Who thinks that was likely? I imagine they will end up with about a 10% recovery rate cobbling together the few working pieces into complete workable units. And they will still be worth little as weaponry. And of course if all that matching ammo is just as old? CEP will be so large they will have no idea where each successive shell is going to land. That's still useful for beating up civilians in towns, but has little value in the battle space.

It takes more than a day. Pick out what you want to see and take your time at those things. I wouldn't try to rush through just to say I waved at all the exhibits.

So how do we feel about the starting pitching? Right now I'm: Manning: I'm seeing a mid rotation guy. I think he could be dominant if he had a couple more mph, but I think lack of top level velo FB limits the ceiling for his pitching style. And needs to stay healthy Boyd: Should keep us in most games he starts - a 500 kind of guy. ERod: This Spring we see why they gave him the money. They should have a shot in the games he starts Turnbull: Above average starter if his body holds together. Lorenzen: now a question mark. so basically decent potential but too many health question marks (what else is new?)

It depends on whether he hits at all and of course whether he stays healthy enough to be in the lineup at all. I'm sure the FO hopes he ends up on the DL and removes the issue from their inbox. Alternately, we, and they, can all dream that he actually holds the lineup spot down at maybe even 700 OPS, but I'm not optimistic because he was back to hitting flat footed today, and the regular season hasn't even started. That is a bad sign.

Manning with a move Dan hadn't seen yet during the game today. Against a batter that had already stepped out and with a runner on base, he came ready very early on the clock so he had more than 10 sec and then did an old fashioned hold for over 7 sec to freeze the runner and the batter could not take time. Clever boy.

Leyland did an inning in the radio booth then moved next door. Told the joke in both places, but it was SS the 1st time...😎

well, I don't know if it will change and who knows what may possibly change with the Bally bankruptcy, but as of today, the Bally game on DirectTV and my Gameday audio are back to being close enough to synchronize. Blissful relief from Shep and Monroe. Jim Price is showing his age - but mostly just by talking less.

Cisnero gives up a 2 run bomb. Tie game.

Vierling had another poor break on a fly ball to left. He may be fast but I'm not seeing a good OF - at least in this game.

He did fine but he was behind enough that I wouldn't say he had been sharp.

a problem with a blanket move like waiving it late is that you would still have relievers that never picked up the discipline of working faster. That's sort of where I see they could improve it. Set up a system where guys are forced to work faster at least enough that it becomes a habit, and then you can relax it under some circumstances to benefit tension and the game still is not likely to slow to a crawl, but if you do something that exempts certain guys completely - for instance like closers, you won't 'reform' their behavior at all.

Manning getting by but not throwing a lot of strikes today. Baddoo adding to his day by throwing a seed from RF to third to almost nab a runner. Best throw I've ever seen him make.