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interesting point. The originals remain the property of the USGOV don't they? So that would put them under the jurisdiction of the new Admin. I don't think it is unprecedented for material that was once unclassified to be reclassified.

one of my favorites was at Sault Ste Marie. We had come up to take the Algoma scenic tour train and were staying on the US side but were going to the Canadian side for dinner. My wife and MIL were with me and - as though I had never crossed a border before, were adamant that I must not say anything the agent except the exact answer to his questions. So first question was "where are you from" --- answer 'Ann Arbor' next "why are you going to Canada" --- answer 'Dinner' That got an interesting look in return. Of course this was all before 9/11 when things were pretty loose.

a case of localized lead poisoning maybe....

But he wouldn't want to be pinned down on the question.

LOL - I've heard you used to be able to get a ticket on the FLA turnpike if you made it from entry to exit too soon, but never had it confirmed. Maybe they just put that out there to persuade people to make a rest area stop and spend some money.... I spent a couple of years with company car with a speed monitor in it - totally terrible experience esp - in Mi where speed limits are posted just be abused. Initially we got around it by going through the speedometer re-cal procedure and setting with an offset so the thing thought you were going 10 mph less. Once the company figured that out I turned in the company car and took an allowance to drive my own - monitor free.

From what I've read recently, they have made good strides improving surgical technique with Achilles ruptures and the prognoses are better than they were even a short number of years ago. Of course, as noted, he hadn't proved he could play in the NFL before he ruptured it....

All our dogs had lost some or all of their hearing at the end but still saw pretty well. We are dog sitting for a friend this week and her elderly mostly lab still hears a pin drop but can't tell if a screen door is open. You sort of have to be prepared for anything as a dog ages.

2nd Erie game a 1-0 shutout win for the Wolves. Wolf with 5 IP 2H 2BB 5K. Meadows with a triple, scored the games only run. Toledo scores 9. Torkelson 3/5 2B BB 2K, 370 OBP for August (and finally breaks over the Mendoza line). Kreidler 1/4 2B 2BB

yeah - deaf dogs are a challenge. If they aren't profoundly deaf hand claps may still work, otherwise a lot of walking around to get in front of them so they can see you.

Don't get me started!

RIght, it's certainly true that the current rail network doesn't support *high* speed, but on clear ordinary welded rail current Amtraks can safely sustain 100mph in most places if they had track clearance around other traffic. So even within the limits of the current system Amtrak could be much faster, but the system isn't even uniformly up to it's current potential standard in enough places and of course the faster a train goes the more clear track it needs with no other trains on it.

It really hurt that starting maybe 20 yrs ago or more they started removing all the double track between here and Chicago. That has made scheduling passenger trains around the freights is way more difficult than it was in the post WWII era when trains were still the major inter-city connector. But then probably all the train routes between NYC and Chi had double track.

The war is getting hot for the Russians now. More reporting of deep strikes into Crimea again today and also at C&C targets near Kherson. The Ukrainians now apparently using Excalibur(TM) rounds that can hit a rat's ass on the 1st shot, going a long way to neutralize the Russian advantages in numbers of shell deliverable - at least in strategic terms. I can't help but wonder if the Ukrainians have figured out that even if culturally they might want the eastern territory back more than Crimea, it's Crimea which is the Russian's soft underbelly. The Russians cannot resupply or defend it in the face of Ukrainian long range fire capability so I'm starting to understand that is where Ukraine has decided to go for the jugular. Not to mention that strategically Crimea does more to guarantees Ukraine's Black Sea access than eastern acres.

I think this is correct. You see a lot of short outings at the lower levels that are do not appear to be performance issues. The Tiger philosophy seems to be to keep young guys on a consistent schedule but limit the total amount/stress of pitching they do.

Yeah - the Tigs are in a weird situation. They have a lot of middling guys that have pitched decently in limited MLB auditions, but that were were not big prospects and still haven't proved much, while our top pitchers are all getting hurt. And TBH, if I were a GM looking at our system from the outside I'd have to be at least a little leery about any ranked pitcher that came through our system.

TBF, Boyd was originally expected to be ready at or before the ASB - his recovery has not gone as easily as hoped. We can take that as a good or bad omen for Skubal!

Say 16 teams, 7 years, that's about 62.5 million per team/yr. Given that by the end of 7 years the current inflation cycle will have cut the real value of those dollars by something like 20-40%, that would be ~$40M per team by the end. They may be desperate to get out of it by then!

However, the 'Retread' issue is not comparable between field managers and general managers. As has been beaten to death for years here, a field manager has very limited upward influence on his team's win total. A bad manager can make it worse, but even the best is completely constrained on the upside but the absolute talent level of his players, and he has little or no control over that. So many of field managers may be perfectly capable of winning but never do until they fall into the right situation. A general manager is directly responsible for that talent level so team performance is much more directly his responsibility. I suppose a bad manager can mishandle a good team that a GM assembles, but in that case firing that bad manager is still part of that GM's job. The only thing that limits a GM is stingy ownership, but that is often pretty obvious to see from the outside. In fact, those are probably some of the guys you want to be looking at, guys from orgs with poor resourcing who show promise of being able to do more if they had better resourcing. Tl,DR version. I mind a 'retread' manager who may not have won a lot less than a 'retread' GM. The 'win' burden for a GM hire is higher.

right - a trend shown by two polls with the same methodology is more like to be real than the absolute value of the results. But trends are usually movement in the undecided blocks, so even trends can be a bit deceiving if you don't have a good handle on the number of true undecideds left. If you run out of undecideds before you catch the other guy your trend was for naught!

For Hens tonight Torkelson 2/4 1k, Kreidler 1/4 2B, Wentz 5IP 3H 0R 5K

and he's finally hitting a few hard.

Norris 5 IP, 1 run. Feels like 2015.

Strike all over the map tonight. Riley rung up on a terrible call.

it's been a struggle for Norris but he's making some good pitches when he's needed to.

Ump misses a perfect 1st pitch of the inning