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I'm watching for turnarounds on guys that have stagnated. That would be the indication that the new PD staff has more pixie dust than the old one. W Perez, Parker Meadows, Lipcius, Bryant Packard. Not necessarily even that guys suddenly look MLB viable but just how many guys that have been around for a while not doing much at least improve their games from where they were under the old regime.

so who is even the inner circle at this point? Hicks bailed(again, supposedly), Jared and Ivanka bailed, Cohen is gone. Who is left beside the two dimbulb boys and Rudy?

You wonder if at some point the patience on that wears thin…⏳

He needs to announce so he can keep grifting off of campaign funds.

???!! Interesting logic. Maybe F1 is some kind of engineering unicorn, but in general any/every kind of testing/simulation is cheaper than finding out out you messed up in the final product on the track and have to redo the finished car. I suppose in a backhanded way reducing the allocation of cutting edge engineering introduces more randomness into the racing outcomes, but maybe in this case as much from the standpoint of equalizing engineering prowess between teams as the expense.

One of the stranger exercises is to CAD something like up a simple bracket, specify the loads and then let a stress analysis program optimise it for 3D printing. I haven't done it myself, but we have people around who do and they get these weird looking things that look like close-ups of bone structure, or a heavy webbish sort of structure... or ...something. Odd perforations all over the place and no flat surfaces except the mating faces.

Good question. I think his IF days are over, but the only way I see him holding a spot is if Baddoo falters - which he may but he's gaining momentum fast, or Meadows comes down with some additional plague. Truth is Willi has only looked adequate as a hitter by comparison with the futility of the rest of the lineup. His June OPS is still under 700. 2 HR in 160 AB and 3% walk rate.

seems like an odd rule - from the standpoint of safety alone why prohibit testing up to track speeds? You are going to take the wind tunnel data verify a CFD solution and run that up through the full speed regime anyway?

But if you have to prototype with an FDM.... The paradigm in my particular area is to get them doing something that generates some hardware with as little bootstrapping as possible. Only a fraction of them are even headed for ME. It's primarily about the experience of dealing with any/all kinds of constraints faced in getting from Idea to working model. The simplest possible electrical, computer and mechanicals. Learning how to do it right comes later. We want them find out at the beginning why it's worthwhile to learn the hard stuff needed to do it better.

Hill, Cameron and Reyes will all slot below Baddoo as Akil pulls himself together. Then the correct OF would be Grossman, Greene, Baddoo, and Meadows. The rest of them all get the chance to OPS 900 at Toledo to force another look. The obvious plan when they signed Meadows had to be that they would move Grossman sometime before the deadline, but he has played himself right out of the possibility of getting any return, not that much could have been expected, but whatever was, it will be less. Assuming they do move or release Grossman sometime after Meadows returns one of Hill, Cameron or Reyes gets the 4th OF spot. Basically right where they were at the beginning of April but Meadows replaces Grossman.

Perez, and Meadows seem to have gotten a new lease on life with the new development staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szYlGeEx-OE Good explanation about the design of moving bed wind tunnels, which are the only way to get good data on ground effects. One thing not mentioned is surface roughness. A metal belt is not going to act exactly like pavement in terms of the air drag along it. Doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't use various coatings on the belt but no mention of whether that is done. I noted he said they were "allowed" to test up to 80 m/s, but that the system could go faster. That's 'only' 180 mph.

Box says the scorer gave it to Lange. More brainless robo-scoring. Should have gone to Peralta if any thought had gone into it. But by giving it to Lange every body gets their participation trophy.

'Rehab' is dumb when guys are out that short a period.

If conservatives in WY are not swayed by Liz Cheney, their isn't much hope. They will become a generation of voters lost to any useful input to the democratic process, of whom the best you can hope is that they start staying home in greater numbers..

Candelario with a hit and walk for the Hens. His rehab OPS is >1000. Why is he still there?

the Riley Greene Tigers are undefeated.

Carpenter hits #22 today along with a double, 2/4 no Ks.

gotta make this Safe for Soto.

really good to see him go to the right side of 2B.

We have our students try to learn a little 'Solidsworks' so they can do 3D printing for their projects right off the bat, and I'm always surprised at how good they are at figuring out how to configure their shapes so that they can be printed with FDM. I think those of us who grew up understanding reductive machining actually have a harder time with it!

Mayer and Lawler are off to big starts, Mayer’s K rates might be more than you want to at A ball. At the time from what I read, the question was whether either was going to stay at SS. You see a number of scouting reports that are sort of self-contradictory. The player “has a body that will fill out for power”, but then project the bat with that power as plus for a shortstop.

IDK chas - on the above part - I would never underestimate what corporations will put up with to gain tax breaks/cut costs. The top officers that make such decisions can live where they choose regardless of where they site HQ. And exceptions are easy to make. A fortune 100 I worked for bought a company in St Louis and moved everyone to Houston, but a top tech group all just quit instead. Within a yr they swung a deal to reassembly the tech group in a St. Louis facility. And that was in the pre-zoom days. Even easier today. Employees with leverage will always have a choice, but corps can easily live with those compromises. We have a Toyota tech center in MI but Toyota won't manufacture here because of UAW strength- same basic principle at work.

Roberts doesn't have much in the way of formal powers as Chief, so I wonder how long he can delay or even refuse to release a decision if he wants to? It's been 6 weeks since the leak, and they must have already been some distance along in the case for drafts to be circulating. I suppose 2 months isn't that long given the generally slow place the Court operates....

too true. And totally ironic as the capabilities that lifted the US to global predominance are all deeply cooperative - public education, science, and war fighting. The lone wolves in Wyoming would all be speaking German or Russian today if theirs had ever been the real ethos driving the future in the US.