gehringer_2

right. In the 8 team league they were playing each team 22 times = 154. When the leagues expanded to 10 in 1962 it went to playing 9 teams 18 times = 162. 9 times 17 would have been 153 but then home/away wouldn't have been balanced.

don't know the breakdown on shot percentage in the corner vs the rest of the arc, but the real key is to get the eFG for the all threes -for at least the big majority of players, to a number closer to the eFG of the midrange jumper. Then the D is no longer biased to any point on the floor. If you can do that by eliminating just the corner, fine, if not the line needs to be moved back all the way around.

This reminds me of Ford taking an interest in Mazda when they were building their US presence. Companies that are primarily competitors still find reasons to work together. One piece you have to count is the international situation for TMSC with China. Increasing their stake in US manufacturing capacity as much as they can widens the escape hatch for them to relocate the company if the Chinese try to take over Taiwan.

Rates will fall if the economy slows because demand for credit will fall. The *right* result but for all the wrong reasons.

sadly true

It wouldn't have to be very big money to be better money that minor league hockey but even if it's not better, if you just assume he's not going to get rich in either place but is going to get enough make student life easy, which is going to be a more fun year?

*he* looks like he's had a nose job.

When the US was the world's leading manufacturer of everything coming out of WWII, we were the indispensable nation in any trade system. But that's long gone. Asia is the manufacturing center of the world. The rest of world can put together a perfectly prosperous trade regime without the US, and now probably will.

Shawn Fain's first win.

well. he's got a -1 WAR to work off now......

pretty much this. I suppose if JB started fining him it might get his attention, but can a coach even do that kind of thing anymore?

Trammell would often go to 1st for the third out even when the short throw to 2nd was available, because there were always fewer things that could go wrong. Of course he had a lot of confidence in his throwing accuracy.

exactly - one of two things is true of everything Trumps says: It's either a lie, or something he will change his mind about in 10 min.

Jake has played 5 years and is now 30. He is what he is - doubtful he will ever clear the Mendoza line again. Dingler isn't particularly young either, but he could still have some improvement possible.

Trump doesn't care. An isolated/isolating America, sort of a 1st world N. Korea, is fine with him.

10% baseline is quite the walk back from where all this started. 34% on China is going to cost consumers a lot of money though. I'll wager that gets negotiated down.

Tigers seem to be playing with wiffle bats - lot of ball to the OF, all short.

Even Cy Young would have trouble if his team give the other side 4 outs. It's hard enough to get 3 outs without giving anything up.

Should have been an error and FC, but no mental error has been ruled a scored error in the last 3, maybe 4 decades. Unless you don't drop a ball or throw it away, the scorer has no beef with you in today's game. And in the OF even a drop is not certain to be an error if the player had to run more than a few steps. They really should stop scoring them at all. They are supposed to represent outs that should have been made, whether the ball is touched or not should not be relevant, but that is how is has evolved. I guess the scorers didn't want to take any heat from the players on anything that was too obvious to argue.

also true, but Kreidler did at least make an average skill level play.

Keith just gives away an out that costs two runs.

what I find comic is that Tesla stock has rebounded strongly on the news Musk might leave DOGE and get back to managing his own business. But my question is after the level of stupidity and mismanagement he's demonstrated at DOGE, why would anyone think having him spend more time back at Tesla would be a good thing for them? 🤔

Trump will likely threaten Canada with something out of proportionally crazy and save Elon's butt. But that still won't stop Canadians from refusing to buy any more Teslas. It will be one more market lost. China is the interesting one though. If they really wanted to help destabilize the US they'd be clearing the path for Tesla sales to continue in China, but thankfully, they seems to care more about their own self interest in BYD than making life any worse for us and so far Musk is not getting help there.

Those would be a great start.

For as much as we complain about how slow they are to promote, they are playing 4 guys who are pretty much rookies this season. I think there is a fair argument that the goal tending was bad enough they should have given Cossa some run, but OTOH, In the one game he did play he didn't exactly demonstrate an NHL level sense of positioning. But I still would have preferred to see a longer test. So I'm not so concerned about the management of the internal talent pipeline. They are missing the playoffs because of their pro level moves - and over more than just this season.