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RFK Jr's latest kick. Most of your vegy oils other than virgin olive oil are solvent extracted - can't have that. I suppose in a perfect world it's an infinitesimal risk that could be avoided, but the price of purely pressed oils would probably be several times higher. Or to make the tradeoff a little more plain, you can have a perfect food supply, and starve half the world to death.

now you're going too far.....

Because he will be 37, his even strength goals are trending down, his takeaways are trending down, his give-ways are trending up and they will probably over pay, other than that, no reason.

Maybe someday some one will figure out how to win a baseball game without scoring any runs. 'Till then it's gonna be a loss.

Boyds career WAR after the trade was not too much different from Price's, Norris was sub replacement as often as he made a positive contribution - so we did better than MN did moving Santana and better than we did moving Verlander, but I think the odds are you move Skubal you end with a lot less total WAR returned than he will generate - the question is can you use the money you save to find/buy/develop other players to make up for it. Bottom line I doubt the Tigers can recoup much of his value whether they try to trade him or not.

no indeed, and if they move Skubal it should also be in the off-season, but like the Twins, they probably won't get real value back, just like moving Sale was no answer for the White Sox, nor moving Verlander was for the Tigers (though of course they weren't even in contention). It seems counter intuitive not to take the trade value a year out but it seems more often than not the value returned in the player's walk year is as great or greater than the trade return ends up being so you might at will keep the player and take the comp pick when he walks.

Too bad because cooking done in beef tallow might need a little more color.......

the fault here is Paramount more than the gov. US news orgs have gotten heavy heat from administrations they criticized before (people forget because it's been a while since Nixon). The difference is in the ownership structure of the news orgs. They are all basically inside the oligarchy now.

I'd rather see them let Kane go - he's on a down hill run is isn't the player they really need - but I know they will sign him.

the Twins were a contending team when they moved Santana - they finished 1 game behind the Sox for the division in 2008 after moving him. And won the division in '09 & '10 without him. IIRC the trade ended up pretty much a bust for them but they were a contender when they made it. Carlos Gomez eventually did OK but the rest were pretty meh.

It's still all 'greater fool'. If they had hit $0.40 they'd still be at over 100 P/E with no serious future expectation of increasing market share with BYD having lapped them internationally and Euro sales cratered by Musk's politics.

They got what they wanted. But this is probably just another opportunity for a Trump grift. He'll sign off once Sanders agrees to put all state employess in Trump merch unis or some similar payoff.

well, maybe 5 or 6.

The Chinese position on Tesla has to be an interesting tension. A happy, empowered Musk is bad for the US and thus probably a good thing in Xi's eyes, so there would be a logic to not do anything to make it hard for Tesla in China. But on the other hand, they have to punish the US/Trump via Musk in the general conflict over tariffs. Then again, if BYD is building a cheaper and better alternative at home (they are), the Chinese buyer is going to make the need to resolve any policy tension moot.

Look at Mario's early years in Pittsburgh. He was at the top of his ability, the team was finishing 5th and 6th

you would think that any good accounting firm would bail if pressured to cook the books, and that is sometimes a good sign of a company going off the rails, but with Musk so tightly connected to vindictive President who respects no revenge guardrails, even a good firm might be more hesitant to bail on Musk. Again doesn't mean anything is going on, only that the current situation results in a situation where HB is justified in asking if we would be likely to find out.

I think one mistake with Rizz and Rathbun was just teaming up two guys that most people couldn't easily tell apart. You just instinctively want to know who you are listening to at any point in time and there was always that sort of subliminal audio tension with those two when you didn't. Ermie and Paul, Al and George, Ernie and Oosterman, even Mario and Rod. All those pairings had instant recognition. I think it's generally true that too often people responsible for audio production don't pay enough attention or just don't have a good enough ear for the absolute audio properties or what they are producting. It's something that does have an impact on the hearer's comfort over a long listen even if it's things that can be quite subtle or hardly noticeable on a short exposure. And that is one of Benetti's real strong points - he has a great voice - lots of body and depth to it, very easy to hear over a long period of time.

Indeed. Sure, part of it was slowly hit balls and part was Sweeney not being as quick on the toss as he might be but tonight I was not impressed with Gleyber's DP pivots either. Still holding my breath for when Javy gets a play at the wall in CF. He looked fine otherwise though.

I would agree - for one thing there are far fewer mound visits when you see them and they cut away as fast as they can when one happens, but for me another thing that has happened is that I watch fewer games live, or start them after they have started and skip dead time to catch up to real time, net result is I listen to a lot less commentary during a game on average than I used to. And other factor is the change in how the broadcast is done. On that score, you have a lot more content to fill the time during the broadcast when your long baseball history PBP team might have been talking about things like the opposition manager back in the day. For instance FanDuel with its too many competing faces trying to get on the air with mostly total fluff stuff you already know about your team (I see you Natalie & Daniella), and we also have a ton more stat and graphics data to fill time on a broadcast that might have been spent on something else in an earlier era.

they have played Jung some at 2nd, which surprised me when I just looked it up. 7 games at 2B and 10 games at 3B. So Hinch will be able to keep the position line-up vego-matic going full tilt.

Personally, I don't consider voting for two of them 'throwing up my hands', but nor I can't deny what my eyes are telling me about the society I'm living in. Of course if the Dems could manage to make themselves into a more overall appealing party, they could probably elect candidates even given the irreducible residual of sexism, racism or whatever 'ism' that is always going to infect some marginal number of the voting populace. It's pretty disappointing to me that by early in Trump's 1st term there seemed to be democratic voices with leadership potential showing up all over the place, but so far I don't really see opposition leaders meeting the challenge of building a winning movement to turn things around (in fact we get Hogg trying to self-immolate what's left of his party). I think it has to start with a message that defines more than opposition - that may be enough for another close win in the next election, but it's not enough break the stranglehold that nihilist zero sum politics has on too much of the US electorate. It won't start the kind of civic transformation we need. The dems need to find an ethos richer and deeper to mine.

don't be unrealistic, no player or captain can throw his mates under the bus - at least not without the prior decision of management to be rid of those players - which does not seem to be forthcoming. The better players on this team have a right to be PO'd. Two full years of nothing but backward moves from management at the pro level can't be making anyone in the room happy. In the light of what was said today, letting Larkin and Raymond go to 4 Nations and get a taste of what playing with an actual NHL quality roster was like was probably the worst thing that could have happened to this team.

I think he'll be fine if he doesn't kill himself against the wall. The guy can flat out catch baseballs, that talent really has never been in doubt.

yup. Not the world I'd prefer to live in but the one I also think we are in, and if anything the DEM party insiders are going to be even more adamant that they have to get a woman elected, and to be honest, a good deal of the best Dem talent is female. But that and $5 will get them a Vente and a President JD Vance.

Major league fielder, AA hitter. His glove has already gotten him more MLB service time than most guys with his bat will ever see. He'll probably be a great manager some day.