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the unreality of 'reality TV' at work. People thought he was person on their TeeVee, but the person on the TV was the producers' version of Trump playing a scripted character with his face, rather than the real character behind that face.

which is good example of analysis losing the forest for the trees. I'm more interested in trends. The Tiger team aggregates are skewed by last April, but a human factors approach argues that that was more likely the anomaly. But we'll see!

good catch, missed that. I read that the army wanted a laser guided mortar - looks like they got one.

land mine?

seems odd. They played the last 120 games at 7 over 500 and in the main the team is at a point where most players are still improving toward their peak years and they have overall made more additions than they have had losses, so why would you assume they would be any worse than the last 2/3 of last season? Of course with any team the pitching could take a huge step back, but that is no more or less likely for the Tigers than any other team.

yup. The low case counts are good to see but they might not really mean much anymore in terms of whether the Virus is circulating out there but only causing minor illness because of the community immunity level. But as Hong Kong shows, Omicron can still pack a wallop for the elderly unvaxxed.

don't see much of a chance for Cameron - I think he's going to have to put up some good numbers at Toledo for a while to prove his bat before he gets a call. Reyes and Hill will be good competition. Reyes had a good off season and you pretty much know what you've got - it ain't gonna be a lot but he can OPS 850 against LHP so he's a good pair with Baddoo. Hill has the higher ceiling but the bat has to be there right now. I think he can win the job coming out of the gate if he hits well in ST but whichever of them wins it. the other is only the 1st slump away from swapping places so I don't see it as a very big deal whichever comes north in April. As per this link Baddoo, Reyes, Cameron & Hill all have options remaining so they will be free to bounce them around.

yeah - I don't think any wires are going to get fished through that stuff without cutting wallboard. But most inside work guys treat redoing wall board as pretty much nothing. Of course if you weren't planning on repainting the room after the electrical work, well, now you are!

I had fiber insulation blown into the walls at my 1st house - it was a bit messy when you opened an electrical outlet - but the insulation worked great . I was always a little reticent about the foam blowers because of the potential for organics, but they do have much better compositions then when I was looking at it. Current house was built OEM with tar paper backed fiberglass in the walls - not enough, but enough that trying to shoot anything in around it is probably a bad idea....

another difference is that as I read it, there is still some semblance of a distribution Chinese governmental authority around Xi - he has not had nearly the generational time frame to consolidate his dictatorship that Putin has. He may have the same impulses, but he remains somewhat more constrained.

If China eventually losses control of Omicron despite the draconian measures to keep the lid on, Xi is going to see a level of pressure he probably thought he had reached immunity from.

maybe....hard to see how college baseball could fill the role that college football does given that it doesn't generate very much revenue, and even if you somehow generated the fans, it would take years to build out the college baseball stadium infrastructure to support a larger fan base.

25 cases in Washtenaw County. 1st time under 30 since.....I don't remember when.

If Correa goes back to the 'stos I'll wager it will be for less than he purportedly turned down from the Tigers - or else maybe it will be all deferred money out 20 yrs..... Along the same lines though, I'm beginning to wonder if the Tigers and Matt Boyd may not be done with each other either....

Yankees could get lucky and get 2 more good years out of Donaldson, in which this trade will be good for them, but more likely Donaldson's bat will fall off the table sooner than that.

maybe the Yankees are going to go all in on D and will join Baltimore in moving their fences back...... nah.....

can't figure out Minny. Dumping salary. But the Yankee end is odd also - a 36 yr old 3B and glove 1st SS are not really typical Yankee type targets..... ...and the list gets shorter for Correa...

another aspect of this that even with the most supportive position by Chinia, the logistics are very bad. There are only limited road and rail connections from China to Russia by land, and at this point arms shipments by sea could face Western interventions.

and this piece showed up today in NYT today by one Wnag Hulyao - who runs a 'non-governmental' think tank in Beijing (yeah - I know that's kind of an oxy-moron in today's China, but I'm just the messenger here.....). Basically making the case why this war is not really such a good thing for China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/china-russia-ukraine.html

What I don't get is that it's crazy enough that for all intents and purposes he is "aid and comforting" the enemy, but he's not even doing a creditable job. The rhetoric is stupid weak from any side. Embargoing the importer of 8% of our imports is the "the worst..." whatever. That doesn't even make any sense as Russian agitprop.

Back in my philosophically more conservative days, I was more sympathetic to the idea that making things that are already illegal ‘more illegal’ is little more than a kind of virtue signaling, but as time goes by, I’m less sure our society isn’t becoming one in need of more formalized consensus virtue signals. If a guy with a deep record as a ‘real’ philosophical conservative, say a Justin Amash, opposed something like this one the grounds given above, I’d accept that as an honorable position, but not from this current House GOP rabble.

IDK, at least from outward appearances Chris seems pretty happy to be a baseball owner and pretty involved with the team. If he's only doing this as a chore for his mother he hides it well.

He's still too sloppy with the ball, but aside from that....

ah - memories of Eric C.

So speaking of Chris Ilitch, Henning suggested recently that the Tigers would be on the block once Marian dies. Does someone know the logic to that? The Tigers are in a Trust, Chris is the Trustee, Marian is not legally a party as far as I can see. Sure, Chris might for whatever reason sell the team, but I don't see the connection to Marian being here, or gone. I guess it depends on the rules of the trust but if Mike made Chris the supervising Trustee my understanding would be that the other siblings couldn't force a sale even if they wanted to - but I could be wrong there.