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I don't know how polished Correa is so this may not apply, and you can't generalize with much accuracy, but I think it is more true for Latin players who are transplanted to the US to play ball, that they see their careers in workman like terms and are less 'romantic' about their teams. They are less likely to get endorsement and media gigs in the US post career so going for money and security can rank higher for them than a slick anglo like say - Verlander who probably figures after retirement he will make as much out of baseball as he has in.

you can't seriously make this statement about anyone or anything related to the GOP can you? You can debate what motivations may or may not be at work, but desire for veracity certainly isn't one.

I hope two or three months of severence in today's tech market end's up being good deal for a lot of those folks.

again, so many people have no idea how interdisciplinary high level tech is. You can provide a critical piece of some development without having any idea at all about how other parts of it work. The analogy might be that you can be the world's formost authority on internal combustion engine piston design, doesn't require that you even know how to drive a car or even what a 'car' is. Malone is not an immunologist. and of course, even if he was, people go off the deep end all the time regardless of theoretically 'knowing better.' It's a weird psychological phenomenon but we all know it happens all the time. Humans often reach a point in life there is some kind of need to reject things associated with their earlier experiences and when that happens, psychologically it really makes no difference whether the parts being rejected were things that do or don't represent objective realities. And sure sometimes it's just for the grift.

Musk had one idea I think could might help him successfully build Twitter into a subscription based service, and that is to make Twitter a sort of one stop destination for people looking for one off news from paywalled sites that they aren't interested in enough to subscribe to on a regular basis. The idea, as I understood it, was that Twitter negotiates some limited access rights for its uses to access otherwise paywalled sources such as local newspapers etc. It's a theoretical win/win if the originating site can get some revenue from Twitter for the single hits they just otherwise woudn't get, and it would provide twitter with something of sufficient and unique enough value to offer uses that they would pay for it. Of course the problem is that negotiating access rights to enough sites for it to get off the ground could be a herculean taks, and there is no guarantee the content originators share the belief that it would be good enough for their business to be interested. But it is at least an idea that might be attractive to a fairly large customer base. meanwhile, he seems to have forgotten that both Ca and the US have layoff notice requirements (60 daya) for enterprises of Twitter's size, which Twitter has pretty obviously violated. Class action suit has already been filed

I don't know if Musk was ever clever on his own or just had a big enough birthright bundle to buy his way to success initially, it doesn't really matter, the fact remains that for any person, no matter how smart, if they aren't careful they will find themselves having to deal with something none of their previous expertise prepared them for. Sure looks like Musk has found his.

Interesting, When I saw it I just assumed it was was supposed to be in the feed to the Philly region and my streaming/cable operator hadn't managed to overlay their local spot in a planned slot, but if everyone got it that would kill that theory.

And sadly, Biden and the Dem still couldn't hold their ground on repeal of Carried Interest, without which Bain probably wouldn't exist - at least in is current formulation.

well, he can't very well admit in public that his advertisers are holding back because *his* pronouncements about his plans for the service have been the loose cannon for the last several months. 🤷‍♀️

Loved Andersons. By the time I stopped working in Toledo a lot of retail East of the river along Woodville Rd had collapsed

Yeah, it does seem like every off season there have been lots of guys signed as roster filler for Toledo/Erie.

it makes sense that there is a balance. If you don't give guys enough time you are occasionally going to move on from the next JD Martinez before he hits. If you give them too much time, there is an opportunity cost because that means you have a chance to look at far fewer guys. My take would be the Tigers were way too far over on the 'stick with the guy' side - and individual cases like Niko Goodrum and Buck Farmer are poster examples, as will be the Castros when they are gone......

can't tell the inmates without a diagnostics manual.

this.

yup. Also - bench discipline in the NBA is a joke. Westbrook pretty much had his toe in play on the court in the corner the pass was thrown to. Would have served LA right if the officials had waived off the bucket.

when you get down to two games, and in fact once you get to the end of Verlander's start tonight - however many innings it goes, from that point on there is no bullpen/starters - it should be every pitcher all hands on deck at any point for the remaining innings.

except Rolling Stone. No one should ever try to cover that.

Too bad he can't get the win when Dusty pulls him after the 1st time through the order.......

game 7?

Well, I can't say I've ever heard an American President give that speech before.

I worked a project in that facility for a number of weeks. Wasn't a day there I wished I wasn't.

The Lions put a TE in the HOF. Got him in the third round.

I may be slow to the party here - maybe someone already reported this but: Just saw a Biden tweet that gas prices were back to March levels. My wife is retired and I communte less than 10 miles per day so I don't have to buy much gasoline anymore but my impression, without paying much attention, was that local gas prices were sticking awfully high. Well, I knew BPs big refinery South of Chicago had had a major fire and outage through Sept, but hadn't taken the time to look any further. Today I finally took a look and it turns out our friends at BP have blown up their refinery in Toledo and put another 160,000 bpd out of service indefinitely. So between that I believe Whiting is still not back to full capacity and Toledo being completely down, we are screwed locally. When I was working refineries, BP was without question the worst operator in the industry. Disaster after disaster at BP facilities and nothing ever changed. At least Exxon cleaned up their act in big ways after the Vladez. BP appears to learn nothing.

In one sense, it doesn't really matter if the whole draft was a bust or not, if you have high picks that aren't building toward a winning team, your rebuild is bust. Whether it's the fault of the the GM making the picks or a cosmic alignment that meant no good players came out of the NCAA for a year doesn't really matter to how depressing it is for Lions' fans to see one more of their shots at impact players coming to ashes.

The thing about this trade is that it signifies different things at different levels. In the abstract, simply based on price and performance, it's a typical economics driven move any team, good or bad, might have made purely on their evaluation that the performance of the player wouldn't justify his cost. From that angle, it's fine. But with the infinitely rebuilding Lions, moving a top draft pick who should be in the prime years of his career is just another marker that any chance of a good team just took one more ratchet further into the future, so it's depressing from that angle.