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My Chinese friend was telling about the file that follows you around your whole life in China. Just to add to the insult they even make you carry yourself and give to the authorities at your new residence when you move. But they give it to you sealed and you dare not open it if you know what's good for you.....

I like the theory that it Poles did it to boost the marketing of their new pipeline. 🤔 The 80 meters thing really puts it in a new light to me. It really could be have been anyone or any kind of free lance team. A 40 ft fishing boot with station keeping thrusters and a gps is all the surface presence necessary. also-Report in the twitterverse that something in Berdyansk was blown up this evening.

except that the he's looked pretty hitterish in his last two outings. We'll see if it keeps up - he may yet put our fears to rest.

How much value is there in keeping Schoop around in the last year of deal if he's not performing? This is something that has been enough to drive a sane person crazy with the Tigers - their attempts to hold guys to the deadline who they keep playing hoping for an uptick in trade value but who just underperform and kill whatever residual trade value they had by the time they are dealt for a bucket of balls. Moving off a Schoop in March/April if he doesn't find it in ST is just the kind of risk I don't mind if Harris wants to take.

Tigers lost to Toronto by 13, StL losing to Det by 13. I don't think the Cards should play the Jays......

Nice day for Tork! so far. Made a loud out pulling a FB in his 1st AB. Got nothing close and took the walk in his second, and banged a hanging breaking ball 1st pitch for a 105 mph 2B.

The damage was at 80 meters, which means the sabateurs really didn't need to mount that big an expedition to do the job. The early reporting implied only a state actor would have had the resources, and that is probably accurate if we have been talking about a spot in +1000ft of water. But mixed gas scuba divers can reach 80m, not to mention commercially purchasable submersibles.

the other thing about QB's is that as long as their health holds, many tend to continue to get more effective with experience - their panic factor falls, recognition experience goes up, the coaching staff's familiarity leads to a better fit between the ask and capability. There are reasons to think that when you see a mid career QB start creating better outcomes that it's a real effect.

Poor Torkelson. Made another 100mph out in his 1st AB. Kids is banking a lot of good karma for something later in his life.

Yeah - it may be that the the most useful thing to for China to learn from the war in Ukraine has nothing to do with the specifics of military tactics and strategy end at all, but just coming to the realization that given the destructive power of modern weapons, you are going to have to destroy the geography to conquer it if your adversary is willing to fight. The idea of ruling the current Taiwan is pretty attractive until you understand that the reality may be more like gaining control of an island that looks like Donbass.

this is so stupid. If you want to work all year from 7 to 4 instead of 8 to 5,then work all year from 7 to 4. Putting the middle of the solar day at 1 or 2 pm to accomplish the same thing is the height of silliness..

I tend to think it all converges to a single system, but I tend to think it will be at the other end - every thing IP and on demand. The current edifice was all driven by the needs of over the air broadcast. As over the air goes away, they whole idea of programming on a schedule becomes superfluous. Ironically the only thing left where 'broadcast to a schedule' makes any sense to contnue is sporting events.

I have a hard time believing you could find 3 in 10 of even the most interventionist US sub cohort willing to send troops to Ukraine so that makes me doubt what the Economist baked into their question biases. Of course the other big question reading a survey presented like this is did they force party ID or only include party self-identifiers? >50% of the US self-identifies as independent - so are they in the survey or not and if not where are they?

That's getting to be a smaller step all the time though. If your TV does WebOS the difference between running programming from a 'cable' provider vs a stream is nearly non-existent. Well I suppose the catch would be if you are buying your IP and your television from different providers so your television set doesn't have direct access to your IP. But then again, if the set is wireless capable, which most are now.....

this is correct. As per what I have read, according to the existing contracts, in case of bankruptcy, rights are going to go back to the teams, the current Bally share holders will be wiped out and the Bally creditors (primarily the teams who have not been paid) are literally going to 'inherit' the company. Of course that was the plan - I suppose once a Bankruptcy is filed the Judge will may decide on something else!

If the Sox were losing, Hawk could be fine - there was nothing wrong with his game analysis. The problem was that when they were winning he was insufferable. Bremer in Minny is good. But when we were living there was before Morneau and I don't remember whoever it was he was working with at the time being that great (maybe Gladden?)

Right. There is a presumption that children working for their parents around a home business or family farm have the benefit of their their parents' interest in their welfare protecting them from the kinds of abuses more likely to be seen in corporate or 3rd party employment - and thus that activity does not present the same need for general legal prohibition.

I'm trying to find an analogy..... I think screenwriting is sort of like building with Legos. You can't actually build the real world with Legos, and everything you do build with Lego's has same set of properties and limitations - a similar look and feel. Screenwriters have a tool box full of unreal things they appear to accept by tribal convention and another big set of real things they choose to ignore by similar convention. Thus a majority of everything you see in movies and TV suffers from a similar set of unrealities whether they be scientific, emotional or practical ones.

Granting this in general, but in this case - is Girkin part of anyone's inner circle any more?

ER probably made a strategic error in being too enthused. In any case it's going to be the league's decision. If they approve it I don't think any manager will be able to tell his staff they *can't* use it as matter of team policy without engendering rebellion. And if a manager decides he has a pitcher that's overusing it, he'll be faced with the same situation he has with any other player that doesn't swing at strikes or throws to the wrong base - how much winning value does he bring and is it worth living with the non-compliance? I think it's always been true for pro athletes - if you are good enough, they pretty much have to let you play the way you want to, if not - not so much!

LOL- I DO have DirectTV stream , and my ISP is ATT, which is still DirectTVs home essentially. The tech just doesn't work on my end! 😢 Otherwise the service does work pretty well. Of course if ballgames start ending on time it may be a while before I can test whether it now works this season or not.....

I don't know if 'gut' has that much to do with it - it's how he senses a particular pitch is working for him that I would be concerned with. There are all kinds of things a pitcher has always been able to communicate to his catcher about his physical condition wrt throwing a given pitch etc., that always had all time the time needed to get communicated to his catcher, either in mound visits or just by shaking him off to get the where he (the pitcher) wanted to be. As much as I love the pitch clock, combined with visit restrictions, it does very arbtrarily cut off the abilty of that return communication from the pitcher to the catcher. That's not a matter of romance but of practical teamwork.

Arod did have the J. Lo thing going for him for a while though.....

This is 100% true by virtue of Arod defensive contributions alone, but how weird is this?: After 20 yr careers they sport lifetime OPS and OBP within a single point of each other. (380/930:380/931)

because you're allowed to be bad, but not allowed to go backward. Ask Avila.