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Here’s a wee bit more context, offered without further comment.

Crypto has practically the same value as tulips did. In theory people can spend crypto like money, but in practice nobody does (unless they buy sketchy stuff on black and dark gray markets). Only 2% of people cops to actually spending crypto, so it trades on speculation alone, as in the Dutch tulip market of the mid-1630s.

Saw this in one of my media newsletters this morning, although the survey is six months old. Still, I would not have put any money on NYTimes being younger than Joe Rogan podcast.

So you're all for killing suspected drug dealers on sight instead of arresting them and giving them due process. You're going to fit in nicely with the new regime. In any event, how do you know for sure they even had drugs?

Might as well invest in tulips. In that regard, it is the exact same thing.

This has gone under the radar here, but the last vestiges of Al Avila's Reign of Error are getting swept away.

I don't think that would change things. Even if he kills it for the next month, is someone going to pay him more than $20 million? There is also the possibility that he simply doesn't like it here. I have no evidence of this, just that it is a hypothetical possibility.

Even if the boat were carrying drugs, since when is doing so a death sentence instead of being merely an arrestable offense?

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You are probably on to something here. Taking a look at last year’s result for relief pitching from August 11 on, the Tigers had the lowest BABIP (.230) by over 20 points; the second highest LOB% (78.0%); and were 8th in lowest HR/FB (8.3%). All are markers of luck, which helped lead to us having by far the highest RA9-WAR (the results-based WAR) with 6.5, far ahead of Cleveland and Milwaukee, who were tied for second with a mere 4.0. That said, the Tigers were also #2 in regular WAR (the process-based WAR) with 3.3, behind only Milwaukee at 3.6. We achieved this because while we were #30 of 30 in relief pitcher strikeout rate after 8/11, we were also tops in walk rate and #7 in HR rate. This led to us being 5th in FIP, even though we were 13th in xFIP (the quality of contact FIP). TL;DR: even though we did get quite lucky with the results from our relievers after 8/11 last year, we were also very good underneath the hood. BTW: in the second half of this year, our RA9-WAR from relievers is 2.2, 6th-best in baseball, even though our regular WAR is 21st at 0.3. That’s because we’ve been 3rd in BABIP and 4th in LOB. Either we’ve been nothing but lucky in this way for two years in a row, or there’s something we have that makes this happen—maybe defense?

Good call on Dirks and Benetti. Jason may be trying to one-up Dirks to maintain his booth alpha status, who knows. I agree Bobby could trim 5% or 10% off his delivery speed, although i do think he’s better now than when he started. Sometimes when I hear him he reminds me of the one fast-talking DJ at the end of The Sky is Falling on the Songs For the Deaf album by Queens.

Maybe Kahnle just needed a garbage-time stretch to work things out. Hoping that did the trick here.

I like Bobby Scales better as a match for Benetti. They’re close enough in age to connect really well and they don’t go overboard with cultural references.

That depends. You still talking about Epstein?

Black guy with no American roots trumps everyone with the slavery bower. What a country.

Oh for the love of …

Maybe the server is going through a constant rebooting loop at the moment.

It should be 2-0 but OK, I’ll take it.

You mean this Thomas Massie?

It’s really not even a death sentence, is it? Death sentences are typically carried out in controlled circumstances like electric chairs and gas chambers and medical gurneys or even prison yards. This was more like open murder.

Just talk about it and talk about it and talk about it some more, then, when it happens, everyone's like, yeah, well, they said they would, shrug.

Next up: Nobel Peace Prize!

They are undertaking efforts to discourage EVs and move people back toward IC. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-pushes-for-more-oil-and-gas-production-and-a-roll-back-of-climate-initiatives https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-hits-brakes-electric-vehicle-growth-now-2025-07-28/ https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/commentary/good-news-drivers-its-the-end-the-road-the-ev-mandate