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of course you can have a perfect bat path and still be too late with it....

Pence is pretty much a worm. I can't really come up with a better fit. That would be a guy that blindly follows his nose in the dark, eating whatever dirt has been shoveled on him, and in the end just ends up a someone else's bait.

TBF, we do have a couple of guys who have put up some pretty nice MiLB numbers at least recently. If they don't flame out after 100-150 AB maybe one or two of them may be better hitters than Stewart was. That's the best we can hope for now. But heck, even if we assume Tork and Greene are both going to be + MLB hitters (and that is still an open question) you look at the rest of the bats on the team and after Javy - who even if he has disappointed is a reasonable bat for a SS - and you have basically nothing. So assuming you need at least 6 decent hitters in a lineup to score runs, we are still at least 3 short. If in the next year we need to count on an MLB breakout by at least three out of say - Kreidler, Couch, Rogers, Perez, Carpenter - that's asking an awful lot.

but if you put in the context of people who have always been able to claim favored status with respect to law enforcement, i.e. white privilege and the rest, it makes more sense.

Sad thing is that conviction under the law prohibiting the removal of documents contains a bar against holding future federal office, but it's probably not enforceable on the Presidency since the qualifications for Prez are set in the Constitution and Congress has no explicit authority to override them, and given the current Supreme Court..... OTOH, if they could get him convicted and sentenced, say by early 2024, it might be pretty tough to campaign from Leavenworth. 🔒⚖️

that's a bit revisionist. Stewart's best BA at AAA was 260, so having him come up and not be able to break 220 shouldn't have been a big surprise. He hit for good power in the minors, but was never the kind of hitter in the minors that would make you think he would be a good hitter in the majors - you could only hope at best he would be a Rob Deer type, low OBP, maybe good power, but he wasn't even that.

A significant capability for the Ukr air force.

4 IP for Norris without a walk. We'll how long that lasts.

I think I am too. Go the Lions route. Don't just turn the page, get a new book. (now watch the Lions go down the tubes again.......)

no, just putting out there that concerns about lithium are overblown. Yes, there will be a lift to increase production. But Lithium is about as common in the earth's crust as Cu, Zn or Cr. You don't get a dozen or so large multinational manufacturers going full tilt for a set of technologies based on a non-existent resource base. Lithium suppliers are committing to battery manufactures based on their projections of how much they've determined they can expand production and it seems to be enough for the anticipated market. I think a good counter example would be hydrogen. For years we have heard talk about the hydrogen economy being just around the corner, but of course we never see it, and the reason is that because even though every water molecule contains two hydrogen atoms, there actually is no source of large scale molecular hydrogen (the form needed to 'burn') available currently or in the foreseeable future. Thus while you hear 'people' carry on about it constantly - touting its supposed availability, you don't see any actual commercialization attempts anywhere, and it's because when industrial people look at commercializing a hydrogen application for a real world application they quickly learn there isn't any. OTOH, 'people' carry on a lot about Li, but you don't see the talk bothering the people already adopting it commercially. They've done the due diligence and aren't too worried about it.

The burning mystery of Jacob Robson's disappearance without a trace has been resolved. He has hooked on with the Kansas City Monarchs - and indie league team. Still has never been any transaction posted for him by the Tigers....

Deja vu all over again

So you thought it was funny unintentionally or it is supposed to be funny? I can't say I would have expected funny from the trailer but trailers often miss, and if course sometimes they haven't decided quite how to pitch a film when the 1st trailers come out.....

Even Soto’s meltdown isn’t the worst aspect of the story. Every pitcher comes out flat sometime, and Hinch could have gone and gotten him sooner. But he could have had 3Ks and given up a solo HR on 100 low on the black and they still lose the game. They were shutout in their own house again

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yeah - "Blonde John Wick" was my exact thought when I saw the trailer for this.

Ok - let's do the math. A 100 kWhr car battery would contain - very roughly 10 kg of lithium. If you want to build 200 million batteries, that's 2 million tonnes of lithium. Known deposits per USGS are 21 million tonnes, and no-one has really started looking for it seriously until recently so I would expect reserves to ultimately increase by an order of magnitude (as does USGS). Just for a scale, the ocean contain 230 billion tonnes of dissolved Li. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-lithium.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#cite_note-uslit-49

Weird but oddly amusing. I'd never seen this although I've had a copy of Graceland since its release.

Yup. I left this one in the 7th as I had thing to do and could only laugh at Soto self-destructing - I guess it was his turn after Vest and Jimenez. *IF* Skubal doesn't have anything serious wrong, and Manning is stable and ERod is on his way back. That's three plus Turnbull and Brieske (if he doesn't turn into a pumpkin) as a presumptive starting rotation next season. That wouldn't be a half bad place to be if there were any hope by then that they could score runs.

It looks confusing now because which solutions are best are not yet obvious. But if you look at the growth of renewables generating capacity on the grid, things are already moving faster than people appreciate. There are a lot ways things can shake out - more solar generation and local overnight battery storage - (BTW - an ideal use for that car battery that is no longer giving you 300 mile range but still has lots of cycles left) or maybe the storage stays on the grid, or maybe we get past the politics on nukes and it supplies the night time base load, and of course wind still blows some at night. In any case, all these things are already possible, the but economics of the choices can't shake out until people start trying them out at larger scale.

apparently show up in the clubhouse in a red cap and and fill when the team X-ray machine is on the blink.

Exactly what worries me. If an org can’t identify good talent, what confidence can we have that there aren’t players in the org with more potential than they recognize and so they don’t get the focus they should have?

The mistake with Tork was not giving him the shot, it was not recognizing when it was time to let him back down to catch his stride again. His time at AAA now can/should be more productive for him having had his weaknesses highlighted for him.

No, the point is there is no seeming rational process behind them dragging out the inevitable with guys like short while denying opportunities to other guys even if only the opportunity is to fail. Again, it looks like they are wed to managing AAA as though they were a playoff team, which is ridiculous.

But Hinch needs Zach Short so he’s there to call up so Hinch can play 7 level chess during a game he is already hopelessly behind in and won’t makes any moves anyway. 🤬