gehringer_2

I just get tired of all the complaining over stupid **** - by both sides.

Similar view. I don't really care for 'brooding' Nolan; "Dark Knight", "Interstellar", for the same reason - I'm just not entertained by that kind of darkness. It's art for sure, but he's not telling me anything I need to hear anymore in it (maybe that's a product of age?). Nolan with a twinkle in his eye - "Inception" - is just more fun.

Getting to be the NBA's version of ruptured UCLs.

shadowbox warfare.

Glad to know that the crack NYT journalists can restate the obvious in 12pt TimesRoman.

So I should care now that she is complaining at what looks like about 6 MO after the fact?

and not doing much against AAA pitching either - though maybe they aren't keeping him away from right handers at Toledo.

while this may be true at some level, they probably started moving stuff at the point of the 1st Israeli attack.

something not right in this pic though. This woman looks much further along than an ectopic pregnancy would ever get. Or maybe she's just pretty chunky. Or pic from a completely different pregnancy.

I just wish he ran more fluidly. His odd body conformation worries me wrt his long term bone/joint health. But it's the kind of thing that somebody might do fine with his whole life, it just looks like it's unnecessarily stressful.

If you watched you could see his calf muscle ball up at a point that would be too high for most people to be normal, though not as dramatic as some Achilles ruptures I've see caught on video.

He was watching a sports report about the Durant trade as he was posting?

Few parallels to that. In the bad old SAC days at the height of the cold war, the B-36s could do 40 hours unrefueled just loitering off the USSR border as part of the TRIAD. But it was a bigger crew and much bigger airplane - practically a hotel compared to a B2. Of course the fun part for those guys is they were flying with nukes whose blast they probably could not outrun if they ever had to drop one.

If the Navy is sitting on any directed energy capabilities beyond what they have admitted to (HELIOS etc.), this would be when we might find out.

So when all is said and done, we lost one road series and still don't have a 4 game losing streak. It was good to see Holton have a decent outing even if it was short. TBF Hurter was the only pitcher to flub it today - his command has gone bye-bye. Don't think we will be seeing him at leverage again for a while so there is a hole to be filled there. Also somewhat lost in the two losses to TB, the Tigers scored 20 runs in each of these last two 3 game series.

Don't find that credible. Iranians will want any kind of portable or anti-ship missile the Russians are willing to supply, but the Russian don't generally give away nukes. I suppose with Putin you never know. Russia was even a signatory to the JCPOA. (aka Iranian nuclear deal)

how effectively will a physical escort protect against a wave skipping missile? Certainly there will be some level of protection - will it be enough to actually assure the people paying for the oil? Also, a LOT of tankers transit the gulf. The US Navy is already stretched to the limit - we probably don't have enough ships to effectively escort all the oil moving through the gulf. We have about 75 Arlieigh Burkes, The way the Navy rotates at least a third are not at sea and you've got 6 other oceans the USN is not going to be willing to leave completely vacant. This isn't your WWII USN, it's not even Reagan's USN. To do escorts you are going to need to drum up a lot of international support from allied navies (and TBF some are already there because of the Houthis) - but just what Trump and his crew are so good at - amirite?

Bullpen needs about a week off. Unfortunately they only get one day.

because once one is hit, it will get very tough to insure the next one. The impediment is much less Iran's capability to do serious mischief than the point that they will be cutting off their own nose to spite their face if they do since their oil won't go out either. I think they have some shipment capacity on the Caspian but they probably don't have enough infrastructure there to maintain their income. But that's the risk - if you push them to some level of desperation. Have there been any reports at all of casualties from the raid? They obviously knew it was coming and I assume got everyone or at least near everyone out of harms way. If they managed not to kill many folks that changes the calculus also.

Have you been paying any attention to what's already going on in the gulf? A rag tag of non-state actor has already been able to get close to closing the gulf using basic shoot and scoot methods despite the presence the world's most powerful military. The US military is not sci-fi. They can't magically make constraints of space and time disappear. A truck mounted Exocet does not conveniently broadcast a beacon on its way to its launch position. Once launched, the launcher search radius can grow to roughly 314 sq miles in the first 10 min. It's a LOT of work to successfully fight that kind of guerrilla missile war and putting up a lot of close air surveillance leaves US forces vulnerable to MANPADs which I'm sure Trumps buddy Putin or even Xi would be happy to supply just to see the US get a bloody nose. The fact that you can prevail is a totally separate question from 'at what cost'

obliterate what? You have to find it to hit it. We've been down this road before. The whole US Navy hasn't even been able to effectively shut down the Houthi's.

oddly enough, if you have an online subscription to the NY there doesn't appear to be any way to pull up ad from the print edition.

Good old American overconfidence. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility they may be able to do enough hit and run damage firing anti-ship missiles from mobile shore launchers that the US Navy gets tied up in a whack-a-mole exercise while insurers say 'forget it'.

if true, now the shooting starts. The bombing runs were the easy part.

The Iranian regime and Trump lie at almost the same velocity, to the claims and counter-claims will likely be flying for a few days and in the end we'll be left to guess what was or wasn't accomplished.