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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.

to separate the private/public part - say it was a public school, then as far as I understand things think 'generally' the school would at minimum have to show a rational basis that connects the rule to an educational purpose. That is sort of getting to first base for rule making by a government sponsored entity. Suit could have been more fun if the guys had been demanding to wear the skort uniform.....

prolly doesn't matter because if this gets to the current SCOTUS the school will win with the conservatives on two grounds: They won't care that it's public money funding the school, they will still give it private rights; and they won't care what the rational was, 'traditional gender role' in loco parentis will be just peachy with them.

here is one on it's way to Scotus. Alito will certainly find the view of the manager's of this Charter school right in his 12th Century wheelhouse. NYT - charter school dress code overturned at US District level

HaHA - this didn't age well https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-power-russia.html

3K in his last 48 PA. That's pretty rare. Wenceel Perez undaunted by AA pitching so far. Parker Meadows with a strong June (870 OPS). maybe having his brother in the org has charged him up. Baddoo with a 9 game on-base streak going.

LOL. I read this and did a deep double take, I still always think of McGwire as an "A".

Point take that it's easy to get over excited about prospects, but in Jackson's case he's almost the counterpoint. He was the real deal as a minor leaguer. Austin had 19 WAR in his 1st four pro seasons across more than 550 games. He WAS a really good pro ballplayer on a solid career trajectory, but for whatever reason his body gave out on him - not even so much a single big injury, but a number of things built up starting with hamstring injuries when he was still in Det. Most guys are over hyped for sure. But there are also a fair number of guys who deserved the hype but ended up with their careers derailed by acute or chronic injuries who could have been great players if they had stayed healthy. You can't really knock the people that scouted them for not knowing that would happen. I think about Madrigal. Kid was off to a great start but it's not clear he will be the same player after that injury. FTM, if Casey Mize does not come back from TJ he'd be the same kind of argument. You could say the pick turned out to be bust and be correct at one level, but doesn't mean the excitement him about him wasn't also justified. He will still almost certainly be a good pro if his arm cooperates.

I noticed the Tigers taking a lot fewer strike ones early in the game, swinging and getting hits instead. I'm all for making pitchers work, but don't do it by just giving them strike one! If I were pitching to the Tigers today I'd have felt pretty ambushed by their new found aggressiveness. You only get the element of surprise on a change in approach once, but I'll take it.

One thing he could have touched a little deeper on is that one of the reasons that Crypto doesn't meet its purpose as an actual exchange medium is because as mining becomes less profitable, operators will not process the blockchain without charging transaction fees, and those fees are far higher than anything (usually zero) you ever have to pay to spend a US Dollar or a Euro or even a Renminbi.

that sounds right! Jim likely quoted him at some point...

Burn the ping pong table!

Hilarious. I've had the DVR going while working around the house and last checked in after the 1st. If this game were to be the point from which they break out, Riley will have to get the season MVP. then again, was it Leyland who said something to the effect that in baseball, "momentum is as good as the next day's pitcher". ?

other thread.... but speaking of spin rate, Kumar Rocker will available in this years draft...

there was no reason to let Alex go but Al always felt it didn't look right for his son to be on the team. The story was the rest of the FO had to push him to agree even pick Alex when when he was the best player left on their board.

"About as poor a start" might be a bit strong for less than a hit an inning and more than a K an inning. He is definitely walking too many. As noted - lots of time for command to develop.

about whom he had an absolutely foolish sense of impropriety about keeping.

One of the things that could help, though it's too early yet, is battery standardization. One of the things UM is trying to get some US money for is for the Engin school to work on cradle to grave design standards to make production and recycling of batteries efficient. All kinds of work to be done in this area for sure. LOL about Bessie. I was working everyday in Toledo when they almost succeeded in corroding a hole in the top of the containment vessel. Between the risk of being in a refinery whose operator thought doing equipment maintenance was for saps, to being within contamination range of a nuke plant run by one of America's worst utility operators, yeah, fun. But nuclear power can be done safely enough. Again though, it's something that is not a good match for market economics. The market says you must spend as little as possible on safety and still be safe - but that is not a workable standard to apply to nuke. You have to do it like the Navy does, where the safety discipline is absolute - no $$ considerations. I'd be curious how France has their nuke industry structured. Might be something there worth importing but I've never looked into it how they are set up. (and of course, heaven forbid America ever take a lesson from anywhere else in the world.....) As an aside, Sun was eventually driven out of the refinery business, in very large part because of the cost of their poor maintenance and investment driven refinery operating failures. So in that sense the market had the last word in the end, but you could never allow as many plant failures around nuclear as Sun had before being forced out the business!

Carpenter K rate: April: 35% May: 28% June: 22% That's what they wanted to see. If he doesn't revert that could be his ticket to AAA. Unfortunately the rest of his hitting has also fallen off in June - OPS back to ~720 for the month

When you trot Eric Haase out there as your clean-up hitter, it’s time to foreclose on that mortgage.

He does appear to be seeing the ball again. Now he just has to hit it more often.

didn't they make it through the whole season without a starter missing a turn or something close to it? I have the recollection that team had the kind of injury luck you can't bank on.

of course in Detroit we had two great examples of guys who were hit first, see if the power comes later, in Whittaker and Trammell. Both eventually developed fair power, but even then not the kind of power you are hoping for in a 1B/OF targeted player.