nate82

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.

With what pitch? His best pitch is basically dead in Coors. The batters won't have to worry about his breaking pitches and will just sit on his FB which will get crushed.

Probably should have pinch hit for Hoskins in that spot with Bauers.

Wasn't really the contact play. You are going home on that no matter what. Either you are out at 1st or out at home there. There are still two outs so where the out occurs doesn't really matter.

Yelich looked out there.

Hudson would be a bad option in Colorado. His sweeper is basically a HR ball in Coors. I wouldn't pitch Hudson in this stadium his stuff is just not useful due to the thin air.

A single but if he was thrown out then CI. What is weird with the CI rule is that it states a runner can only advance one base but Adames took two bases. With the runners part it sounds like it can be a dead ball play or the HP umpire can let it be live and similar to the infield fly rule the runner can advance at their own risk. I wonder if Adames were to be thrown out at 3rd if the manager can elect to have the CI instead? I think the rule only applies to the batter and not the runner unless the runner is forced out at a base. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/rules/catcher-interference

I see you know nothing about technology. You can't just do a software upgrade on a piece of equipment that is not compatible with the software update. Try updating an original Iphone to the most recent Iphone software. It is not possible for a lot of reasons but one being the chipset not being compatible with the new software. The software is written for a specific CPU. In this case it will be for one set of instructions for a set of CPU's. If your old EV doesn't have this CPU then you can't get the software update you are stuck with the old software. Don't even think about upgrading the board because that will be a proprietary board for the manufacturer and they will charge an arm and a leg for these boards. The media control unit on a Tesla costs about $3k. Expect to pay at least that if not more to get your car upgraded to the newest software.

Summer + midwest equals construction. It is impossible to not run into some kind of road construction in the midwest during the summer.

I believe most are coming from Kenosha and Racine as both are basically Chicago suburbs.

I don't even agree with your premise it seems like you picked a number to agree with your "pilling on" runs. I think 6 runs or more would be more of a qualifier of "piling on" runs as 4 runs on average is going to win you a game more times than not. The Brewers have scored 6 runs or more 8 times this month. So they have been "piling on" runs plenty enough.

Yelich and Contreras are the only likely two players to be all stars for the Brewers. Depending on who are the only AS's for the Nationals, Rockies, Cubs, Mets and Pirates it is unlikely Turang makes it same with Ortiz and the many bullpen arms deserving of an AS bid for the Brewers.

Of the 15 games 9 wins have come with 5 runs or more with only 4 of those 15 wins being less than 4 runs. Sounds about average scoring to me.

Who had Turang with 2 GS on their BINGO card?

Easier said than done. Turang just tried to go oppo and well just weakly popped it up.

Teams don't normally trade multiple players in one deal. Even if the players are of lesser value it makes more sense to trade the players individually. You just don't get as much value back in return if you are trading two players to one team in one deal. The team trading for both players are also not going to want to give up the value each has on an individual level. This is one of the many reasons you don't see teams trading multiple players in one deal unless it is a 3-team deal. These trades where multiple MLB players are going to one team are in the minority of trades. If the Brewers are trading with Toronto it will be for one player not a Kikuchi and another MLB player. You could probably get Kikuchi for Brown and Blalock or something like Baez, O'Rae and someone from the DSL. It just doesn't make much sense for Toronto to move multiple MLB pieces for a lower value. As for Black the only way I would trade him would be for someone like Vlad but the Blue Jays are hesitant on trading him or Bichette. The Blue Jays are basically the 2010 Brewers but have to make a decision on two players instead of one (Prince). The Blue Jays don't want to tear it down but they also don't look like they can be all that competitive in the AL East or even the AL Wild Card race even with the added WC. I think the Blue Jays will decide on Bichette and Vlad in the off season. So look for the Blue Jays to only trade off the pieces they think won't be around for their next run. So don't expect anyone significant to be traded away with multiple years of control left.

Culpepper is probably the only under slot at 17 I would consider for the Brewers. Cam Smith is the player you want to drop and hopefully makes it to the Brewers but that would take an over slot deal for him.