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GDP numbers for the 1st Q have come in negative. We are 90 days from officially being in recession. On Jan 20 Trump walked into a sunny blue sky day and now has a rain cloud all of his own making.

This GDP number would make one think unemployment is destined to start trending up faster as well.

great point.

well that is interesting. It seems inconceivable that when they post some obscure prop bet those odds can be based on money already wagered, how could there be any? Someone has to be handicapping those props as the starting point don't they?

I don't gamble either. I've thought it was interesting to watch point spreads on football games as a reflection of better sentiment but that was about the only thing I ever paid any attention to and the 'moneyline' format doesn't tell me anything intelligible about that either.

And I have to assume the need to do that and the awkwardness of it is probably exactly why today's bookmakers prefer this format.

well, what goes around usually come around. After the right interprets the Establishment clause away, it opens the door for a future court to interpret the 2A away. At least I can hope.

the theater formula can be profitable though, it has been working for wrestling for 50 years. When the only measure of success in a society values is dollars, how do you argue?

The odds of any draftee making the majors is pretty terrible, but OTOH, you only need a couple of hits out of each draft to keep a team pretty well stocked, so I've always thought you draft purely on ceiling and don't worry about the washouts. A guy can have the highest guaranteed floor in the draft and all that probably gets you is a career AAA player.

Starbucks may be the poster child for a firm unable to make an in person sale efficiently, but it's amazing to me how many retail/counter sales type operations can't get a sale done quickly. It's such an obvious requirement to stay in business...🤷‍♂️

They did go for the guy that was supposed to have a short path the majors with Madden. Hasn't gone particularly well.

Keith did hit one well last night but was BaBIP'd. No doubt that right now he and Jung in the line-up together is putting you 2/3 of the way to the dreaded 3 man black hole line-up. And Malloy is not much of a challenge for any pitcher that simply understands you can throw him strikes and let him get himself out. Jace is looking a bit like Malloy from the left side - OPS driven by a good walk rate but no ISO. That's not supposed to be his MO so any time he'd like to start hitting the ball hard would be a good time.

I think to a degree, McClellan was giving Yzerman cover arguing the team was good enough to have made it. He harped a lot about game management, but the real problem for the Wings is that even if you make the safe dump to the corner and fall back - the puck is still coming right back at them because most of them still don't fore-check worth a damn and they can't pressure the puck effectively once it gets in their end, and when the other team raises its energy level and start to press, you get 5 wings standing around waving their sticks at passing lanes hoping their goalie can make a stop because they know only way they are getting the puck back is a lucky rebound right back to a Wing. The ability to pressure the puck and take back possession when the game gets competitive is just lacking with this team - has been for years now. The rest is all just noise.

Yikes! Crankshafts and rods. This could be the recall from Hell for GM. How on earth do you "inspect" the crankshaft/rods on a V-8 SUV? Maybe a specialized fiber optic through the oil filler or dipstick hole? Drop the oil pan (half a day's work at least)? And that assumes that visual inspection is even going to tell them anything useful. It's likely to cost them a small fortune. Not to mention doing a short block replacement of the defectives they find. Then fixing all the AC/Steering/tranmission/Electrical damage likely to occur in the process of doing an after market engine replacement.

Jace may have been tearing up AAA pitching but he's not showing much with the bat since his call up.

I think he was still stewing over Larkin - I imagine he felt 'betrayed' by him in a way - but Yzerman has to realize that he is management and Dylan is the guy dealing with the locker room. McClelllan absolutely looked like he wanted to be somewhere else and the worst thing to come over loud and clear is that Todd thinks his group is mentally weak - and you don't coach your way out of that, you need to turn over the roster. And there-in was the disconnect - Yzerman repeatedly talking about the need to win with who they've got, while McClellen talked about the guys they've got not being able to win -- albeit while giving lip service to trying to make them better.

do you suppose his planners know one part of Macomb from another?

Bloomberg reporting about Chinese efforts to rally the rest of the world against US economic bullying. It's so ironic to hear them using the exact same anti-appeasement rhetoric that has always been the US stock and trade when we've tried to rally other countries to support us against what we viewed as international roguery. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-trying-turn-world-against-103001129.html

3k's not so good, but the other AB was a 100mph EV shot that it took a great play by Altuve to prevent an XBH so he's not completely in the dumps either. Despite the hot start, I don't think Torkelson has suddenly become a particularly high BA hitter. He'll be doing fine if he settles out around 250-60 BA but >30HR and maintains his good walk %.

I've never given it much thought in the past, but I'm thinking that just like it's reactionary conservative gulf oil state money that support the Madrassa that produce radicalized Muslim clerics, there has to be a politically aware US money trail that is supporting the seminaries that produce the pastors that go out and spread this toxic theology because otherwise is hard to imagine that running schools to produce terrible people is profitable on its own.

Other than DT Toronto, Southern Ontario still showing a lot of blue (con) on the CBC map.

Tigers 2, Astros 1 in the game of inches

With this small K zone - could be a high scoring game before it's over.

well the nice thing about being a catcher is the guy in front of you is still going to leave you about 60 games no matter how good he is.

well it wasn't because of the match-up. Last year Keith 0/3 against Blanco, Zach 0/4.