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well, it was true when the marker was first painted. 🤷‍♂️. The fence went in in the early 60's I think. Probably by that time "440 to straight-away center field" had become enough of a mantra the team just decided no-one would notice the difference. What I wonder is why they put up the fence. I suppose the straight wall was a cleaner look for TV, it made for a better batter's eye, and maybe there were complaints about the injury risk of the flagpole. Seems unlikely we will ever know.

I refuse to be optimistic, but Alex Lange right would be a huge add.

Casey is fine. He doesn't quite have Ace level command, maybe he never will, but he keeps us in the game most nights.

well, thereby hangs a tale. When the Briggs rebuild was done, the CF corner was more square, the flagpole was in play, and it was 440 right into to the corner where the flag pole was. But after some years they put a fence across the CF corner so there was 25-30 feet or so of fence square to home plate and the flag pole was behind it - no longer in play. the ground crew used it as a storage area. The distance to that fence was ~425, but they never took the old 440 marker off the wall and eventually just kept repainting their little fib. After the ball park closed, Google earth got a shot of the field after they had torn down the interior fence, you still see the warning track end at the line of the removed fence. Measured with GE, it was indeed 440 to the original wall, but 425 to where the fence was. And there is your Tiger Trivia for the day....

good to see him squaring a few up

Blast from the past!

I don't know if Briggs already had a bad rep when he bought the team or if in those days people just thought it too vain for him to rename the park after himself, or maybe just habit, but as little squirt in the late 50's, a lot of men in my father's cohort continued to call the ball park Navin Field.

If you can get a laser designator on a spot you can get close enough often enough.

If your intent is to sign the player, you deserve the leverage because you are going to spend a lot of money for it!

One thing I usually take as truth is that for whatever has become public (i.e. GBU-57) there is something next gen waiting to be "trialed." Probably as true about the IDF.

Once you decide you aren't going to pay the guy, it becomes 100% an exercise in getting what you can. The situation with Skubal is going to look pretty much the same. The only difference is that pitchers are so fragile today that every year they get through might be their last, so I'd lean more toward keeping him right through FA and taking the comp pick.

If I were trying to build a bunker buster but didn't have an aircraft capable of carrying a really heavy bomb, i'd build the biggest penetrator I could carry with a rocket booster that would drive it to supersonic velocity before it hit the ground. E=1/2MV^2. when it comes to penetration, you can get back with V what you can't carry in M.

Maybe they bought that thing the Wachowski's had built for tunnelling into Zion.

there are 4 leaders in the world today who stay in power by stoking conflict to keep their people unified against the "other": Putin, Khamenei, Netanyahu, and Trump.

TBF, the return for Betts wasn't that bad for a guy in his walk season that they weren't going to sign. Verdugo and Wong are at least useful major leaguers. It wasn't equal player value to Betts but he was on his way to FA so equal value was never on the table.

Not unlikely - did I read this is ranked choice election? That will probably play well for Coumo if he is everyone's 2nd choice.

She does focus too much on the messenger over the message, and her complaint that old pols cave is not really accurate. All pols cave, and it's because of the way campaign financing works.

Position side is as good as it's ever been, but is a pitching shortage looming around the corner? Hall isn't pitching and Hamm and Melton aren't particularly exciting.

this admin is one long slow motion train wreck.

WaPO is currently running this red "Breaking News" Banner on the site's front page: Breaking: Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids. Sadly the link does not go anywhere yet. If the Taco has ReTaco'd, do you get a Chimi?

It's probably in the US interest that they get a deal while Israel is still on the offensive - once Iran thinks Israel is done it will be harder to get Iran to deal.

Another stupid conflict, generated in whole by the Ayatollahs need to whip up domestic political support and their attempts to build a proxy empire. There had been no historical animosity between Iran and Israel until after the Iranian revolution.

If you ask me, if we let have let you live in this country and work and pay taxes for 5 yrs and the US gov hasn't deemed it worth its while to find you or stop your employer from employing you, you should be guaranteed a route to citizenship.

Exactly. With Trump and Miller, the GOP is the dog that caught the UPS Truck. TPTB don't want numbers deported, they only want the show and the issue with the proles.

My point is that merely arbitrarily deporting people doesn't get you any closer to fixing the broken system. The country has a decision to make if it's going to maintain any moral consistency. We must either stop employers from hiring illegals (and bear the cost increases that will follow), which would pretty much end the influx of economic refugees (the vast majority) in about 10 minutes, or we legalize the people that are here and set up a system that gives enough people to keep agriculture or whatever else that need to keep going a way to come here and become citizens. Everything else is 🐮💩