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To get laughed at yes. Maybe if the Brewers pay for a portion of Ohtani's contract like $100mm worth then sure the Dodgers would think about this.

I have been on the Kikuchi bandwagon for awhile now I guess you could call me the founding father? But seriously I think something like Blalock and one more piece would work for Kikuchi. I would think something like Brown and another minor piece would work. I am not sure the Brewers see Brown as a top prospect anymore as I believe Bitonti, Boeve and Pratt have all passed him by in the pecking order. If there is a prospect that is ranked in the 10-15 range in the Brewers system that gets traded I think it will be Brown.

Just to be clear Hipwell’s suspension was for PED use. To me that doesn’t matter though he will probably be tested more than others. He also seems to be defensively a LF or 1B. His arm should put him at 3B or RF but I don’t believe he has the footwork to play 3B and athletically I am not sold on him in RF. If he is there in the 3rd or 4th round I would take the gamble but any earlier and I would be a bit concerned.

Other scouts have him moving off of 3B. Plus MLB tends to nearly always put a positive spin on some players. The Athletic for example has him moving to the OF or 1B.

Shoot fireworks at the drones?

Cam Smith probably has to move off of 3B defensively but his bat plays just about anywhere. So 1B or a corner OF spot would be fine. He has the arm strength and athleticism to play RF or LF. Smith actually reminds me of a former University of Miami player drafted by the Brewers. Though that player had a bit more power than Smith. But I think Smith could get to that same power.

As I said the only Brewers AS will be Yelich and Contreras. This is now official. https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-mlb-all-star-pitchers-reserves-complete-rosters

During the day the ball carries really good.

Other than Freeman, Ohtani, Smith and Vargas not much really.

It wouldn't be all that difficult to put a sensor on the line or around the line to make this easier for umpires. Just put a ear piece on the ump if it beeps it is fair. If it doesn't then it is foul. Not that difficult to implement really. Even a light around on the foul pole would work. Green fair and red for foul. Not sure why MLB hasn't done this.

This is why you never let pitchers like Hudson pitch in Colorado. It just messes them up everything is flat and just doesn’t move after pitching there.

Colorado really messed up Hudson. I knew it was a bad idea to have him pitch there.

No Skenes has it won already.

The Brewers are now half way to tying the team record of grand slams in one season at 14 by the Guardians (2006) and A's (2000).

Normal in LA due to the traffic.

Yes and yes.

Lots of rumors that it will be Lopez. The Bucks are apparently shopping him and teams are calling about him. The Knicks and Pistons being the most interested.

13-11 sounds about right for July.

Where did I say it was exclusively for EVs? Oh I have and hybrids are actually selling far better than ICE and EV's combined. Which is what I have said in the past should have been the goal to go to. Hybrids over EV's is still the better plan.

Powell is still pessimistic and isn't rushing a rate cut. So I don't see one coming until the earliest being November or Q1 of '25. We may see a second rate cut in Q2 or Q3 of '25 depending on how the economy is doing. Really need congress to do their job and actually make some cuts in the budget instead of kicking the can down the road for another 25+ years. I wonder if the can has returned back to where it had started? One thing people are not talking about enough right now is the horrible birth rate in the majority of first world countries. Even with the illegal immigration that has occurred in the US it is still not enough to curb the coming doom for millennials. Millennials may have to face a third crisis in their lifetime if the baby making doesn't happen soon. Birth rates in the US have fallen a lot and our population density is starting to look fat at the top and then skinny in the middle and bottom. Right now there are enough millennials and gen x in the workforce to support the baby boomers. But once millennials and gen x's start retiring there are not enough Gen Z to replace them in the workforce and the next generation looks to be smaller than Gen Z. Government pensions will be hit the hardest by this. This will be the millennials third financial crisis if this comes true. For millennials it is the financial / housing crash and then the current housing market issues. The third possible financial hardship will be the social security and pension crash after the baby boomers are gone. There will not be enough high skilled workers (high paying jobs) to support the pensions. If everything holds true we should see a pension crash somewhere between 2040-2045. Gen Z's if they are in power are not going to vote for higher taxes as it won't just be the 1% paying these higher taxes it will be them. We are kind of on track to follow in Greece's footsteps here and I don't see a EU to bail us out as Canada, Mexico, EU, South Korea and even China are facing this issue. Hopefully all of the models that I have seen are wrong about this but it may just suck to be a millennial.

Tesla is not using H100 chips in their cars. They use them to train the FSD which is what is in the cars. The H100 chip is $25k per GPU and again they are not in their cars. Majority of the chips that are in a Tesla are TSMC. Like I said you know nothing about technology. You can call it arrogant all you want but it is the truth. You might want to do some research about planned obsolescence and technology companies. Apple has done it, Samsung has done it, Sony has done it, Microsoft has done it and add any other technology company to this list. If you think Tesla or any of the major car manufacturers are not going to do this then you are completely naive.

Tesla doesn’t use NVDA chips they use TSMC in their vehicles. These chips can be extremely expensive. Going for anything from $1k-$40k+. You also can’t just replace the chip you have to replace the whole board. Replacing that board is going to cost you around $10k. Which is about what it costs for an ICE. If you are referring to NVDA supplying Tesla with AI chips then that is even more expensive at $40k+ a chip. Even if you are talking about NVDA’s cheapest chip on the consumer market for graphics cards then that is anywhere between $400-1900+. None yet but try and update an iPhone 8 to the most recent iOS. NVDA also ends support for its consumer graphics cards after a certain period of time. This happens all the time in tech and I fully expect it to happen with the EV’s. At some point you will be stuck with old software that just won’t work anymore and you will be stuck with no support from the company. You could try and upgrade the board yourself but then you will have to get the software as that new board isn’t registered to your car. Plus your car model may not be compatible with the software now because the software engineers didn’t design the software to be compatible with that model. You will still be able to drive but some features won’t work anymore.

Didn't really matter. One run wins it. So you have to get the out at home better for it to be a force than a tag play. They still needed two outs so if the ball is hit on the ground you basically create an out at any base. If the DP is not there you go home for the force.

That cement mixer of a slider somehow fooled the batter.