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Middle America is so confident in the economy they are spending themselves into bankruptcy to prove it! "Personal bankruptcy filings in the U.S. reached 565,890 for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2026, marking an 11.9% increase from the previous year" - google search

LOL - a team that has a total disaster month in each of three consecutive seasons is not a team where you have to search very hard for something to bitch about. 🙄

CF was not the major source of their problem- if anything IF D was as bad or worse, it was poor run production and poor pitching = mostly relief. They gave up 19 more runs in may than april, but scored 37 less.(one game difference in total games I'm ignoring) The increase in runs against is both pitching and defense - say you split xs runs allowed 50/50 between fielding and pitching then ~46 of the 56 run differential was still in hitting or pitching, mostly hitting.

I think what would help the honest news business would be per story pricing. Not as a replacement for subscriptions, but as an adjunct. That would help support reporters doing in depth stories because when they hit, they would generate additional revenue. I can't count the number of times I've picked up a lead on a story I wanted to read that led me to a local newspaper or some e-mag that was paywalled. I would have gladly paid a buck or two to read the story but wasn't going to subscribe to an out of town paper to do it. If the argument is that the overhead on small e-payments to too large, then build a micro-payment system. Maybe you buy 10 or 15 tokens a month and drop them at any news outlet in the system. There is a market for journalism. What's killing journalism is the lack of good ways for good journalists to get paid in that market.

I'd love to see the analysis supporting putting data centers in space. A data center on the smallish side is a 10 MW operation. The solar energy available in space is ~1400 watt/meter^2. Really good solar panels operate at ~25% efficiency. The maths say that's 28,000 meters^2 of solar panel, or ~70 acres! For comparison that is an order of magnitude larger than the array on the ISS (which is a fabulously expensive one of a kind). And then add the radio transmitter power to the 10MW. Not to mention it's going to be in the dark half the time so you actually need twice that much plus a big battery (with a limited cycle life) to get you through the dark passes. There are no tech fixes here either - solar panels are very mature tech and you can't change how much the sun shines.

Of course they all cross correlate to a more or less degree because good hitters tend to be good at all the good things in their ABs, but the logic that home runs with men on base are optimal isn't hard to figure 🙄

slugging+OBP. OPS is generally the best predictor for team run production of the 'simple' stats.

well, lets just hope you not really floored because the Rays have found ways to pitch and hit as badly as the May Tigers.

"The District Court also failed to follow...." I love (not) the legal conceit that you can just do some semantical handwaving and then argue from your sophistry that reality is not what it is plainly is. 3000 years ago civilized people already knew that 'making the worse appear the better cause' in the teaching of the youth should be considered a capital offense.

Perez is 5 for 27 in his last 7 games --- 3 of the 5 were HR. 🤷‍♂️

But he was like watching paint dry. If he had pitched faster maybe Ortiz isn't so perfectly ready to take him deep....🤷‍♂️

LOL - so first take I thought this was Harold Castro - but the glove and body was wrong. Let the browser Ai search and it did the player the ultimate indignity by identifying the glove and giving me its marketing info while completely ignoring any ID of the player. So switch browser AIs and Chrome google lens ID'd the player as Jose Valverde (from the crouch maybe?) - sorry no way Jose. Finally third try it came up with Benoit, but still highlighted the TPX glove as the point of interest. 🎓🎓

or Hu - they still need someone who can play SS reasonably

hold your friends close, your potential extortioners closer.

Rest easy, the nations secrets will soon all be secured with these:

but it's all sizzle and no steak. Trump will yell and scream, but in the end he won't *do* anything that will deflect or even faze Netanyahu.

I wouldn't even give Pulte a security clearance.

Kareem said the hook was an easy shot to learn but I don't know if most guys would agree -🤔 So with all the help defense in the league today, would the hook be more at risk of a backside block or steal? A lot of people complain that old style/back to the basket play is a lost art in general, but how much of that is because that was a man to man defense league where a Center backing down didn't often have to deal with a (usually quicker) guy in his face as well as the one behind him?

It's one thing not to panic, it's another to let the season go down the drain without trying *anything* I guess like frogs in warming water, we became inured to the inaction in the face of the continued losing, but if one steps back and considers the whole month, is it in any way acceptable that a POBO can't come up with is a single idea/move/trade/call-up to try and break his team out of an epic tailspin before they got so hopelessly behind that their probability of getting back into the race is effectively zero (as per Chasfh's well appreciated but dismal research result)? That after 3 1/2 years of his work to build the system it had no assets he could leverage to help his MLB team? That his league wide scouting couldn't identify one obtainable player with a reasonable chance of helping? Whatever confidence I ever had that Harris is anything special has pretty much evaporated.

so the strait has been closed for 3 months now, all that time asia has been surviving by drawing down huge inventories they had built up in anticipation of exactly an event like this. Now Trump surely believes he has the whole summer to squeeze Iran into a better deal, so he can act at playing bored, and still get a settlement in time for gas prices to be back under $3 by election day. But what nobody has bothered to tell him, or maybe nobody on his team has figured out, is even if the Strait opened tomorrow, those drawn down Asian inventories mean there is going be huge surge in purchasing once oil becomes available again, and that is going to keep the price high for months after the Strait re-opens.

And where was Short once we had the add on runs? What are you still waiting for to make your defensive substitution with 6 outs left and a 5 run lead on the board? "we're just trying to win a game" is the new "I'm not taking responsibility" mantra.

very easy to him to say he's bored and doesn't care, but one small detail remains - the Strait is still closed.

fun game if you don't mind SLOPPY

over extended or not - Vest has 97 tonight

NOW Short goes to SS.