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I think schools have been playing games with rules about commitments and 'interim' coaches. Commitments can bail when a new coach is hired, but if I understand it right, their options are more limited if an 'interim' is announced

supposedly it's centers they want.

I get it, it's what Congress said to do, but chasing employment with cheap money is the economic equivalent of crack cocaine. But 25 BP off 4% isn't going to move much anyway - it will function for Powell mostly to keep Trump's dogs at bay.

Puts me in mind of my family's long time next door neighbor, Sam. Sam was a small, quiet but intensely witty man, strongly near sighted, CPA. Would have reminded you of Jerry Stiller to look at him. Won a silver star in Europe. Who can imagine what that kind of evil can pull out of ordinary good people in response. Conversely, you know Trump would have been schmoozing up to Hitler without a 2nd thought if he'd make the scene in 1936.

And Ivey - cited as one of the givebacks, is one of the guys who is another potential 3pt shooter - assuming the rest of his game comes along at all.

Zelenskyy is learning that if you just hold your ground Trump gets antsy and goes off in some different direction. Of course Putin knows that too, so recipe for continued stalemate.

Honest question because I know you follow this closer than I do, but if the GOP loses Cubans, don't they lose Florida statewide? Or are there enough MAGA snowbirds now that they aren't the swing?

Israel is an issue with a huge generation gap. If you are old enough to remember '67 and/or '73, you have an image in your mind of small nation surrounded by powerful, hostile nations, backed by the Russian super power, just looking for an excuse to push Israel into the sea. But since then: Iraq has collapsed, Iran is pretty close to collapse, Syria has collapsed, Libya has collapsed, Egypt is a mess, Jordan is just barely hanging together. Russia - is, well the mess Russia is today. So if you are younger your orientation is much more along the line of: where is the big threat? It's Israel that is the big boy on the block throwing its weight around. And of course that is more true to day than at any time in 50yrs, But older voters still have a frame of reference of what the situation could easily be again, and that changes perceptions in the present.

Leftist prog politicians are just as ambitious as any other kind. Some of them see an opening to win a seat on Mamdani's coatails and NY10 is probably the only place they can try it. It's not going to be that easy to unseat a guy who polled 80% in the last election though. Voters are creatures of habit to a larger degree than politician or talking heads like to admit. By November (ok - make that August) we don't know what kind of approval Mamdani will still have or if the Gaza issue still has any resonance. Also worth noting that a record number of people voted against Mamdani as well as for him and turn out is a fickle thing. (IIRC Coumo got more votes than any or maybe almost any *winner* in decades) We'll just have to wait and see how the cookie crumbles.

so I've been putting together an unraid NAS at home and it wasn't sending me a daily email summary like I thought I had it programmed to do. So I asked google AI why my Unraid server mail wasn't going out via gmail. It spit back a very nice step by step procedure starting on my google account page, but none of the menu entries it listed were there. Now this is google AI, the application is chrome - a google app, and the target was gmail, a google service, and google AI didn't know squat about what was actually there. Boggles the mind. Now I do have to admit that it did give me the clue I needed. The bot mentioned the term 'application password', which sounded relevant to this non-artificial 'I', so when I put that term into the search box on the chrome account settings page, it took me to where I needed to go. I think this was another temporal awareness issue. I believe this is something that google has changed relatively recently (I had not had to go this route when I set up my previous NAS) and the bot threw up old info - probably because there were a lot of references to it out there, but it had no awareness it had been obsoleted. This seems to be a real stumbling block for the large language models.

isn't he trying to turn into a bum now?

It's always been my opinion that Avila knew what needed to be done - he knew where DD had let things atrophy. All the things he talked about were basically all the same things Harris talks about, but he wasn't that up to speed himself when he started, and he brought insufficient creativity and urgency to the task. But the one thing we never give Al any benefit of the doubt about is that you don't just start firing people willy-nilly in the Ilitch organization. Some of the inertia could have been coming from ownership unwilling to dump loyal employees abruptly. Now without doubt, he was a disaster at trades. No need to cut him any slack there.

My personal speculation has always been that Hinch was part of Tork's problems. Early in his career Hinch constantly talked about trying to get Tork to only swing at pitches he could drive, to the point where he had to go back to Toledo to recover some plate coverage. I won't hold that against Hinch because no philosophy can work for every hitter, but just to point out that nobody's going to bat 1000 with player development - it's a 'people' science, meaning to some some extent it isn't one at all.

It's *always* about privatization of profits and socialization of costs isn't it?

The Trills are already secretly among us.

maybe the most bizarre thing there is about baseball.

this is one of the differences between success and failure for the non LA/NYC market teams isn't it? Being right about which of your own prospects can be dealt because you've figured out which ones aren't going to make it before their prospect value has a chance to fail by failure? I think back in the day it became a by-word that you never traded for a pitching prospect from Atlanta because if they were giving them up, you could count on them not panning out. 🎓

actually it can because they throw away all the old stationery, reprint all the placards on the walls, all the printed and posted matter, etc. But the joke is that it's just as wasteful to switch back again once a change was complete..

change is hard! But just pointing out there are solutions, people just won't adopt them. The 'lead.a horse to water' analogy is one that applies here, to too many things in fact.

it appeared to be hot, he probably knew he was sweating, which is always a bad look on camera, and it was quite noisey, which may have distracting. The text was almost verbatim what he has already rehearsed multiple times locally, so it wasn't like he was having to think much about what he wanted to say, only getting it said. It may have seemed worse exactly because we have already heard him give the same pitch under better conditions.

Believe so. But Goldman is establishment - relatively old money, Yale. I thought he was great in the 1st impeachment. Have little idea what he's done since.

I would think as fans our position should be we don't care (at least very much!) how much of your money you spend, but don't give away future players!

I like to see to see a little more turnover, Usually in team sports, if you aren't upgrading you are getting passed. The Tigers are young enough they may still have some upgrade built in, but more is better.

Big plants with big cooling towers can be a problem in agricultural regions because they concentrate the phosphates, nitrates, etc, that tend to be in water in agricultural areas and then slam them back to the local waste water treatment system (and that's assuming they are in complete control of their toxics). If the community was using recovered water or they discharge into rivers upstream of other communties' intakes, that can put water systems way out of compliance for safe drinking water or even safe irrigation use. They need to forced to put in their own tail water treatment systems and not give them permits to discharge into low capacity rural municipal systems with little or no review/oversight. This is one place where Big Brother is almost never big enough.

If Rubio hadn't said anything and it was just reported, I would have taken it as a swipe at Microsoft. 😄