gehringer_2

Champlain towers building had an emergency warning system. Security Guard didn't know how to use it. 7 minutes elapsed between the call to 911 and the building's collapse. Do the math.. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/surfside-condo-collapse-alarm.html

Teams also get unlucky and have bad years. FOs are no more, or less responsible for ether. You hope to be able to see past that at the longer term organizational direciton.

well, everyone prepare yourselves for the fact that it will likely be Al that hires his own successor.

Duren could be maybe 3-5yr from whatever his final product is going to be? Big men normally take a while.

Add free throw shooting to the improvement wish list. Would like to see a top level guard shoot more than 74%.

Hayes and Duren probably the 2nd unit - at least until Duren gets a little experience?

not bad. So now we have a fun team, but like Del says, somebody still has to put the ball in the hoop.

Doesn't the ball just go in the hoop out of fear when your players are athletic? No?

LOL - gotta love NBA transactions. More convoluted than a Russian spy novel.

right pick, no deal ---- yet?

they've got ~2 min.

good outing for Wilmer Flores 5IP 4H 1R 0BB 7K; Lipcius HR.

IDK, he's probably happy with himself for being on pace for something like 150 hits, but he'd be a lot more useful if he risked a few more outs to drive the ball more. Or maybe he is and this is still the result.

no deal

went right to the wire, must have been working the phones

The original Packos, which is also still there, is at Front and Consaul across the river in East Toledo. The one at the ball park came after 5/3rd was built.

TBF, sometimes the guy in front of the tank stops the tank, sometimes he just gets run over. It's heroic when it works, but it doesn't always. If it did it wouldn't be heroic to try. Rosen and Donoghue did have a number of advantages - they had the support of their institution, they didn't personally have much on the line - they were defending their Department, not themselves, they were past Trump having any personal leverage over them. But what stands out to me is that not only did they do the right thing themselves, but actually mobilized opposition to fight back. The scramble to mobilize the upper levels of DOJ in support was just as important as the the act of saying no to Trump.

I guess I would take the other side. I would think Chris has a lot more invested emotionally/personally in Al than Miguel. If he can bring himself to fire Al, Cabrera won't be an impediment. Besides, what can Miguel do? He either shows up and does his best, or dogs it in order to get cut to show his dissatisfaction. I imagine the new GM might actually thank him for the latter - though very privately....

as I listen to the testimony of these guys mobilizing DOJ to oppose Trump, I'm struck that this is *exactly* what Robert Bork did not do to defend the DOJ from Nixon. Or for that matter Richardson and Ruckelshaus didn't attempt to do it either before they got canned either.

original intent on arms, even though the founders didn't even know what a bullet was, but not on religion, which is quite the same as ever.

yeah - I mean sure, it could have been cut down to 3 words "She's a looney" but the point was to write a story about the the basic human 'flat earth' syndrome (for lack of a better word) and it's spot on. What it does need is the companion article about the social and/or psychological and/or educational factors that lead to a population so prone to it.

in the current age, isn't all media becoming siloed?

wonder if they weren't more likely to get away with that because the exchange of position between the players was away from the offensive end.

I would think even Gores would have reservations about that.

are there reasons beyond JEIII to think they are particularly focused on Ayton? Just as a counter point also close to the team, Beard doesn't think they are.