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- There may be portions of time where this happens during the course of the program, but "there may be times where it's more expensive than other times" does not tip the scales for me. It will also be asking for temporary revenue from a population that has already benefited vs asking for money to set-up a program they have not experienced. Overall, you think that actually baking in the costs will create more buy-in and make it less vulnerable to cuts in the future. I think that not baking in the costs will create more buy-in and make it less vulnerable to cuts in the future. I think investment in the future should consistently be done by a country, the US controls its monetary supply, and shocks will be inevitable but can be solved relatively easily. - This is a recipe years-long recessions which should not be the goal. Your plan merely prevents a worse downturn, it does not spur enough economic activity in the short term. You want people back to work as soon as possible. - Yes, of sectors that would be responsive to handling demand from sudden short-term stimulus, higher education would be low on the list. All your program argues for in terms of stimulus is in a recession, the government should not shed jobs, that doesn't mean this is a particularly good vehicle for counteracting economic downturns.

1. No, it makes sense so long as output > costs, and among other things it may lead to increase in birth rate. Costs of course would be cheaper in the future than they are today. Deficits are not inherently bad, especially when used to invest in future like this. Obviously, this goes against CW where all can agree that the deficit is bad, but it's more accurate that they can be bad (so can surpluses). 2. No way, of activities to spend money on in a recession, you are: - Removing people from the eligible workforce for at least 2 years - Creating demand in a sector that is terrible at scaling, it is a roundabout way of creating construction projects for a short term capacity problem Just give people money, create capital projects and other public works to counteract demand shortfall.

I think Curbelo will be a 3b, but I'm also of the opinion that we should just wait until they are moved until we worry about it. All projections are inexact in scouting, but the body type projections seem the most frivolous imo.

If you believe paying to educate people because an educated work force will provide long term economic benefits (i.e. growth) it makes plenty of sense to do that on deficit spending. Deficit spending on medicare? Less of a reason. And paying for education in a demand shortfall would not be an optimal use of resources anyway if your goal was to spend to cover the shortfall. Actually that seems like a terrible idea, it may be popular though.

D'oh, Carranza = Maldonado. So funny how 3rd day of the draft I'm obsessed with the guys and so pumped then two weeks later I can't name any of them. And I forgot curbelo, yeah this is pretty decent.

I would say that education or childcare would be one of the better things to deficit spend on.

That's good. For players that split time across infield positions how did you decide which list to put them on? edit: wow i thought sosa played a lot more 3b than he did. Let's see: Sosa, Yrizarri, Rivera, Delgado, Carranza,?

Yeah, and Zack being a local kid I root for him. But those supplemental picks were just the ideal spot for some high ceiling HS talent, too, especially for a risk averse group like our FO. Carter Kieboom, Taylor Trammel and Joey Wentz all went after Burdi.

So it's preseason, but the bulls defensively are ATROCIOUS. Just incredibly, incredibly bad.

Not sure the sox are deep at any position other than OF. But players like Nunez if they somehow did turn corner, could well be a 3b, same with Sosa if he develops power.

Even when pats score 50, not that exciting to see 15 straight completions of 4 yards to a running back

I feel like this is a common view from STEM majors, but I majored in Journalism, my wife majored in English, we both have technical-ish (or at least, numbers driven) jobs in banking/tech industry, and both of us would say we use our majors every single day. Now, I wish I would have studied this or that, and known now what I knew then, etc, but when people study things they like the most important thing is they dive in and learn how to work and enjoy that process. Sociology majors leave with great research and stat backgrounds that are very useful in many businesses right now. English majors have great communication and creative thinking minds that can take on different tasks. The idea that there is a skills mismatch after employment is down to 3.8 and essentially non-existent among college grads is just not backed up by much.

I may go back on this (in other words, I'm not confident what I'm saying is true but I do think about this a lot), but I feel like rodon would be better suited with a different pitching coach.

Well this is gonna be a tough bridge to cross then, as I think more democracy is on average better than less (extreme bad example being california's governing via props) The issue I have with minority government is it creates a perverse view of thinking the government is being more representative when it is responsive to your needs over others needs, instead of requiring that bargaining. Small states think they would not be a part of the bargaining without this extra power and I think there are few examples of this in US history to say that would be the case. I suppose they would bring up the city/downstate relationships but it's quite different.

Nobody said it was easy and I'm sure that there are a variety of recovery times, but on one hand you have the writer saying this deficit is larger than expected and it has not improved since he began pitching, and on the other you have you who are saying tommy john is hard and it doesn't matter just because it's october. The value in burdi being a great reliever and just a reliever is a really big deal. The sox improving rapidly goes through a dominant, organic bullpen. Burdi not recovering to his top velos would be another blow to the rebuild effort.

Literally bolded it for you. I’m not sure why spring training is some magic cure all, he had TJ 14 months ago. He’s been pitching since August. He’s lost 4mph off his fastball.

There is nothing I hate more than when tweets are read over a broadcast when something big happens.

Yes, I'm a bit surprised this didn't panic some more folks. Fegan would be more nuanced if he needed to be, this was a pretty clear "things are bad" statement.

The track record of college 1b the last ten years has been so bad I think you have to factor that in, as some aspect of it may be predictive. These may just be big guys that matured quicker but lost athleticism along the way. So while they are the best hitters in their age now, others have more room to grow and can surpass them.

Note from the athletic today ? https://theathletic.com/571707/2018/10/08/a-tour-of-white-sox-instructs-provides-a-snapshot-of-the-rebuild/ This is a monster article of notes, so I highly recommend: Had stuff on robert, madrigal, stiever, dunning, lambert, bush, weaver, sosa, nunez, gonzalez, rutherford, zangari, basabe, hansen, puckett, steele walker, and more.

That would be a strange stand for a GM to make, I wonder if it was a behavior issue.

The Suns just fired their GM. He has not performed well, however, strange timing for performance firing.

Also interested a bit in the grading and how it was used, were they like "Hey, this is a job for a grade 5 criminal, don't be sending that grade 2 criminal out there!"

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/ When I saw there was an FBI investigation in MLB's latam operations, I'll admit I didn't think much of it. I thought some fines would come through and some reforms by MLB. It seems based off of this that some significant punishments may come down, especially on dodgers front office, who actually kept a spreadsheet on how criminal some of their contractors/employees were. Great work by SI here: https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/02/fbi-investigation-mlb-atlanta-braves-los-angeles-dodgers Thankfully, the sox previous criminal executive means sox are very likely not a part of this, but I have a hard time believing MLB won't respond to this with a draft which means union will need to figure out what exactly they want to receive in return.

Wow what a dropoff.