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The fans have spoken — more viewers were watching game 3 in the 18th inning than at the start. https://x.com/mulvihill79/status/1983687697861620071
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I’m referring to an LLM when I say AI. All of what’s being built these days are LLM wrappers essentially. Using an LLM for emails is interesting. Email Is basically obsolete to me now, I doubt I write more than one email per day.
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10% seems right based on my present use of Copilot for coding help. It’s definitely the best new tool since I switched to Python around 2014. Everyone is working as fast as possible on AI agents since that’s where the 50%+ efficiency gains could come. I have my doubts at their ability to replace software engineers. They seem more like customer service agent replacements.
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I don't think Oilers/Flames fans would agree. Maybe I'm wrong and they would all embrace an "Alberta" baseball team, but they would have to pick one city to put the team in so half the fans will associate that team with the "enemy" city in the hockey world.
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It's a two-tiered economy right now. Higher earners are mostly doing fine. The bottom half to two-thirds is struggling to get by. At some point I suspect that half the country could be in poverty or borderline poverty and the economic metrics would continue to indicate a strong economy.
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Calgary and Edmonton are separate markets are far as I'm concerned. They are 3 hours apart from each other. If they are the same, then the Brewers are Chicago's third baseball team.
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The absurd CapEx spending on AI is propping up the economy right now. We have mass layoffs happening during an economic boom because they need to cut costs elsewhere else to pay for it. AI itself is not adding value (yet). The AI startups are bleeding money badly. Their infrastructure costs are through the roof. We have no ability to get electricity costs down in the short term. Obviously nobody can predict when corrections will happen, but in the short short tern it sure seems like things will continue to go up.
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Personally I think Vancouver BC is the best Canadian spot because of the significant Asian population and international influence, as well as not directly encroaching on Toronto's core fanbase in Quebec/Ontario. When comparing to the western US expansions candidates, Salt Lake would be like Denver on steroids and Portland is too small and too close to Seattle. The nostalgic side of me would really love the Expos to come back though. Having seen some Canadians discuss this, the two primary issues are not surprisingly (1) ownership and (2) stadium. The Blue Jays are owned by the albatross that is Rodgers and there are only a couple other potential players with big enough pockets in all of Canada. Montreal would be starting from scratch on a stadium but at least in theory they could play at the big O in the interim. Vancouver is interesting because the Whitecaps (MLS) are trying to leave the downtown stadium (BC Place) which would potentially open it up for a renovation into a baseball stadium. That would still be costly but would be an excellent location. There's no way in a million years that they expand to Alberta. SLC has stronger ownership interest with deeper pockets.
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Yeah when you add in Canada and Japan these were the highest watched World Series games since game 7 in 2016. It's nice to see the Blue Jays' popularity finally getting some credit. Many Americans don't realize how popular they are in Canada. They are #1 in MLB in regular season TV viewership -- higher than the Yankees. Yes, all their games are broadcast nationally, but you still need to have people interested in baseball to get those eyes on the screen. Manfred even mentioned the possibility of another Canadian team in the future.
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You might be the only baseball fan on the planet with that opinion 🤣 The Manfred runner is almost universally despised by baseball fans but has perhaps gained some reluctant acceptance as a necessary evil in the regular season. Almost nobody actually likes it though. I was at the 15 inning Det-Sea ALDS game a few weeks ago. For that elimination game to be ended by the Manfred runner would have been an absolute travesty. Every single fan stayed to the end and I think that one was a 5 hour game.
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It's not something we would want to happen on a regular basis, but everyone is talking about the game today. Managers forced to use their entire roster. Unsung heroes. Records broken. It was great for baseball. I'm glad it still happens every now and then.
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I love seeing a back of the bullpen guy like Klein with the heroic performance.
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I would hate this in the regular season but it’s a lot of fun in the World Series. It’s only a double game at this point so the equivalent of 3 full OT in hockey.
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Which is worse? A position player pitching for the Dodgers or Little for the Jays?
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Lauer with nerves of steel
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This game is baseball at its finest. Just perfection.
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I find it hard to believe that most of Toronto's key postseason role players are any better than our guys. They have a bunch of career .700 OPS guys who all got hot at the same time and are OPSing 1.000 in the postseason...Ernie Clement, Addison Barger, Nathan Lukes etc. Even IKF and Andres Gimenez have been serviceable. And then you top it off with their stars putting up star-like numbers and you have the recipe for a ring. Same thing happened to the Braves when they won it all a couple years ago. Seattle almost beat Toronto while getting essentially nothing offensively from their role players. The difference between us and Seattle was that Seattle at least got big contributions from their star players (and their deadline acquisitions wink wink nudge nudge). We were dependent on an injured Chourio, got middling numbers from Contreras, and nothing from Yelich.
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Some of the stuff that they allow prop bets on is just asking for scandals. Only the stupid ones get caught where tens of thousands of dollars are involved. There are surely many others winning smaller sums for their buddies. It’s so easy to do in these leagues like the NBA and MLB where the regular seasons is a slog and individual players can easily have a “off night”.
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I can’t believe this is considered acceptable. How have heads not rolled yet?
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Starting pitching highly favors the Dodgers. Offense slightly favors the Blue Jays, especially bottom of the order. Star power is probably a wash. Both bullpens stink. Dodgers in 6
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I don't know enough about what Mac is doing behind the scenes right now to judge whether he should be fired or not. I only assume that the Fickell succession plan is already well underway. If it isn't, then he should be gone ASAP.
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Matt Arnold Promoted To President Of Baseball Operations
owbc replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Heavily promoting from within is a smart business strategy from Attanasio that has served us well as a defense from the high attrition rates that would be expected when the bigger markets come calling for our FO talent. -
Hopefully the lesson has been learned twice now that outsider "rising star" type football coaches are not going to succeed at Wisconsin. I feel for the next guy. He's likely going to be a Brady Hoke type, getting underpaid for an impossible job that will satisfy nobody.
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I should have clarified that I was referring to my personal experience of witnessing it during a time period when I was a fan of the team. I know 1982 has significance for many on this forum but for me it means the same as 1957 or any other event that happened before I was born.
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I think I had moved on from the Brewers before the series was even over. Didn’t even watch the Ohtani game after seeing they were down 3-0 in the 1st. Honestly though, the Mariners got over a big hurdle this year by finally overcoming the Astros and their run of always missing the playoffs by one game. The Tigers series was a total toss up that ended with an all-time classic. You just never know when you’ll be back though.
