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RILEY DITTO!

You could't even make it up.

the other half of the equation is that Norris has already failed repeatedly working in relief. It just seems to me if you are going to bother bringing in a guy who you think might be able to turn it around a little based on starting, then you should start him. Norris' problem has always been repeatability. It seems to me extended outings are far more likely to help a guy maintain body discipline than putting him back into relief. Granted Norris was a low probability play from the get go, but if you make the play, and he has two decent starts, why do you pull the plug on it? It's just more indication to me that the people running this team are just ad hoc'ing everything. I just see no sense of commitment to any kind of planning/strategy.

still irritated they didn't give Norris the opportunity to keep starting and slide Tyler back to the pen. That scheme might have failed, but this one was guaranteed to. Tyler's OPS against 565 as reliever, 791 as starter

At the end of paper they get to an interesting conclusion about velo normalized stress which points up how complex that analysis might be. My other question would be how well the stress measurement sleeve actually models the distribution of the overall stress on the individual components within the joint. If you put one stress on the elbow that is borne by bone and another that creates a riser on the UCL, the question is whether your external measurement is able to capture that difference.

you may have a point there! 🤷‍♂️

I think it could be as simple as that he made hand written sharpie notes on a lot of them that are probably embarrassing if viewed by historians/researchers later. You have to keep in mind how vain the man is. I would never assume a grand motivation for Trump when a venal one is just as good an explanation.

yeah - whatever they see in Zadina must show up in practice because you sure don't see it in the games. Maybe he was doing a little better as a forechecker in the course of the season, otherwise still a disappointment. I have a memory burned in my brain of a Wings power play when Blash apparently decided they were going to force feed 'Z' and they set him up for something like 7 consecutive shots from the right side slot and he missed or hit the goalie in the chest 7 out of 7. It was doubly frustrating because it was so rare to see the Wings be able to sustain possession like that and then just to waste it all for guy who couldn't make good play with the puck.

I assume this was not part of a re-enactment event. I wouldn't hold wearing the uni again someone if they were part of a historical play event, which is probably why some people might own a confederate uni in the 1st place.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fire-biggest-us-midwest-refinery-185900197.html BP trying to burn down their Whiting refinery again (largest in the Midwest). They have to be the most incompetent operator in the industry. One company I'd love to see just go away.

The GOP way to steal an election.

LOL. "...Carl Rove, with *his* thoughts on that....." Don't don't break a leg running away from any association with a Trump critical opinion!

Market taking a beating based on Powell's hard stance on anti-inflation in his comment today. S&P down 2.5% and haven't hit much support yet.

Indeed. It is part of the Human Condition to crave simplicity and thus people will cling to systems and arguments that give them justification for abdicating hard judgments and allow them to avoid facing the reality that life's problems are inescapably hard and you only fool yourself to believe you have all the answers. and of course Marco is exactly the type that can only handle ethical complexity at the about the 3rd grade level.

How many were Rusty Staub?

TBH, I wouldn't count on Rogers either. His throwing was one of his best attributes and who knows how much of that he gets back. Garneau is 34 so there is high probability he will fall off the same cliff batting wise that Barnhart has. Sanchez is young, has no power....what kind of receiver is he? Dingler is 23, you really wanted to see his bat start making some strides this year but he's been so-so at best. Crouch is too far away. I can't believe there would be much competition for his services so if you end up eating a couple of million, tough cookies. So I don't see it would do any great harm to not make a final decision on him until after a trade, FA signing or lacking either of those, the end of Spring Training. The only possible silver lining for Barnhart that might be out there is that he has wondered whether he messed himself up trying to switch hit this year. If he came back next year just concentrating on his LH hitting, maybe the bat recovers some, but you sure don't want to pin any hope on that either.

Keep your core strong. The terrible paradox of back trouble is that once you get to where it's too painful to do the needed physical strengthening, it's really hard to reverse a downward spiral.

The simpler the answer to any complex philosophical/ethical question is, the more certain you can be that it's wrong.

I was waiting for this shoe to drop. Moderna had been developing the mRNA tech since MERS/SARS. There is no real scientific/tech question it's their tech, only whether they did enough to protect it against Pfizer's particular implementation. But Pfizer's legal team is probably bigger than their research team so good luck.

Workman's best month at Erie by far - August OPS = 884.

Reuters data summary Second-quarter GDP contraction revised to 0.6% from 0.9% Gross domestic income rises at 1.4% rate in Q2 Average of GDP and GDI climbs at 0.4% pace Weekly jobless claims drop 2,000 to 243,000 Recession? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

exit velo. As I happened to have the afternoon sports radio come on in my car today and I was amused to hear several minute's prattle regarding various silly betting options on sporting events, it struck me that there must be millions of people out there watching sports with no interest in the actual net outcome of the human competition and it seemed a fan more interested in how hard Tork hit the ball instead of the rare but absurd game outcome of the AB summed it all up.

But did you have the over or under on the EV?

LOL - Indeed! Last years Wings would have killed to be an 'average' skating team.

anybody watching Parker in the 70's would have thought he was a lock for the HOF.