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Tesla stock price is not sustainable once Ford, GM, VW are all also established in the market, and that is happening as we speak now. Elon is looking for something new to leverage himself into, which I think is what is driving most the the Twitter take over sturm and drang.

That makes for a good stat discussion. So if Aquino moved to a division where the other teams don't run stupidly, he loses the opportunity to get those assists, so is he actually worth those runs saved or not? I guess when you have a player ranking that depends on what other players do or don't do to allow you to make a play (and I suppose all defensive stats have some of that character, though some more than others) that's one more reason to stick with larger aggregates when trying to evaluate players from defensive stats. It's the same old old story about great RFs. When they come into the league they rack up a bunch of assists and then their assists drop. Of course that has two possible interpretations 1) they lost their arm 2) guys stopped trying to run on them. You might have to dig a little deeper to find out which! I suppose you can even make the same argument for hitting stats since divisional play means different hitters to see a different cross-section of pitchers, but it's generally assumed all hitters see a similar enough quality of pitching over the course of the year that stats are comparable, though I wouldn't be surprised if there have been cases of divisions with differences in overall pitching quality that did reach statistical significance.

exactly!

the other thing that is true however is that as long as Ukraine fights in a way to preserve their people, the Russians have no hope to win a war of material attrition against the US, let alone the US and the EU. US DOD could lose the whole Russian GDP in its budget and hardly notice. The Russians are an army that has already past it's peak strength, Ukraine? Maybe not so much. Of course at that point it becomes as much a matter of politics in various nations as fighting strategy.

makes sense

LOL - I'd be willing to guess $13M is north of what many FCS schools clear from football after expenses.

The 'endorsement' aspect that JC first mentioned wrt Gretzky is interesting also. In an ad like Gretzky's the endorsement aspect is right there in your face - clearly that is what he signed up to do. OTOH, Larry David's people put out that his commercials were not a personal endorsement of crypto, he was simply paid to make a funny commercial that all you are seeing from him is his craft, not his endorsement. I don't know if that argument cuts any water or not (esp since he 'plays' himself in the commerical) but it's out there.

really. There has to be something in the deal for them or they'd be in court again.

The twins were having trouble with pitchcom at a couple points in the game but I didn't pay attention to whether the Tigers had to give up on it also during the game or not.

well, that opens to a larger question. I don't have all that much confidence in Homo Sapiens as a species. And curiously enough, old style Protestantism sort of agreed with that take in seeing man as a fallen creature and thus that it was an obligation of culture to erect as much curbing as possible around the straight and narrow path so that fewer people with prediction to fall off than might. The new prosperity gospel version of US Christianity sort of tosses that out the window with a new "I'm saved, I'm saintly, I can do anything I want" view of mankind. But that's another story. Not sure why you are down on brain science, its objective facts stand up to scrutiny a lot better than religious opinion. Of course the fun part is response can be conditioned as well as the response driving subsequent behavior!

well, you seem to be missing my arg, You do it because you enjoy it, there is a dopamine event associated with the behavior. No dopamine event, no behavior. I would say you have the cart and horse reversed. Behavior is driven by neurological response.

also a good point. When gambling is advertised the 'product' being sold is you losing your money directly to the house. At least A-B is giving you a beer.

LOL. It has nothing to do with prudery to me. Gambling comes down to how you are wired. I get no entertainment value out of gambling. Zip, Zero, NADA. period. For me it's in the same class as country music () . So for me it's just stupid from any angle and the house always gets its cut. If you are wired so there is a pleasure payoff associated to winning a money bet, then you are automatically closer to risk of addiction but hopefully not close enough to be pulled over the edge. It's true that's not really different from alcohol but I would say the difference is that you can enjoy the taste of drink without the benefit of the buzz. It exists in two different sensory realms. I'm not sure the bet's pleasure return can be divided from the same property that can be addictive. Maybe.....

It was kind of disgusting watching Edmonton go the cheap shot route in the 3rd. Everything wrong with hockey. Hope the Av's kick their butts the rest of the way.

you're a fish that's already hooked, you are just aren't landed yet. Best of luck.

Vito says addiction to gambling is only bad for your legs.

It's too bad Armando couldn't actually pitch. The most fitting ending would have been to go on to have a great career anyway. For the guy to have so quickly disappeared into obscurity in a way devalues the attention to perfect games as significant events. Of course Don Larson was no great shakes as a pitcher either , though he did stick around the majors for a long time...

Like Canada didn't learn Gretz was a sell out when he went to LA?

Beer used at any level below intoxication returns a positive value to the purchaser. Every gambler will eventually lose money,

I like this quote from the idiot Sheriff: You didn't get it under control, moron, the perp killed himself for you.

War in the IT age?

Oilers lose their cool, take three stupid penalties in the 3rd to take themselves out of any chance of coming back.

LOL - Keith still wasn't done. Singled in the 9th to make it 4/5, 2B BB 2HR for the night.

for starters the heinousness of a crime should not even be an admissible consideration in a trial of guilt because it is wholly immaterial to the question of guilt or innocence and only serves to inflame opinion against a defendant who should be presumed innocent. To me it's one of the great abuses of US criminal trial conduct in general.

add another walk and run scored each for Keith and Perez. WM not satisfied to let Toledo have all the fun, had now scored 16 runs in their game.