Phil C

🚨 Do you understand what UBS just did.. they locked $469 million in a real estate fund and told investors they can't have their money back for up to 3 years.. they're calling it a "withdrawal halt".. it has another name.. here's why this matters.. in June 2007, Bear Stearns froze two of their hedge funds.. told investors the same thing.. "temporary.. market conditions.. we'll sort it out.." 14 months later, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the entire global financial system went with it.. the "gate" on a fund is a confession.. it means UBS looked at their real estate portfolio, looked at how many people want out, and realised they don't have the liquidity to pay them.. commercial real estate has been quietly bleeding since COVID.. office vacancy at record highs.. WeWork gone.. buildings worth half what they were.. UBS just confirmed what the market has been pretending isn't true.. someone always knows before you do.. trust me.. and when they stop you from taking your own money, they've already made their decision.

CHLORAMPHENICOL IS BANNED IN THE US BECAUSE IT CAN CAUSE FATAL APLASTIC ANEMIA IN HUMANS BUT DON’T WORRY, THE US HAS INCREASED BEEF IMPORTS FROM ARGENTINA —WITHOUT IMPLEMENTING MANDATORY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING REQUIREMENTS!

MLB's No. 9 overall prospect Colt Emerson (@Mariners) rockets a two-run shot for Triple-A @RainiersLand. And he's only 20!

@wilberdata 2 million for a 13 yr old. Seems crazy to me.

SOURCE: The Milwaukee Brewers have reached a pre-agreement with 13-year-old Dominican prospect Maximiliano Feliz for a $2.0 millón bonus The deal would represent the largest bonus the organization is expect to hand out in the 2030 internacional class. “I see in him the same type of athlete Leo De Vries was at 13 years old. He’s simply impressive.”

Elk wears what remains of a dead mountain lion on his head

@FAmmiranteTFJ @RotoBallerMLB Hope so

35 HR

@EricCrossMLB Is Pena's stock dropping?

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@Andrew_FBB Are you saying Lagrange is going to be on the il most of his career?

More high-ceiling prospect comps: JJ Wetherholt - Geraldo Perdomo Samuel Basallo - Rafael Devers Carson Benge - Nick Markakis Carlos Lagrange - Tyler Glasnow Luis Peña - José Ramírez These are ceiling outcomes…if everything clicks.

@EricCrossMLB Breslow cute? Never.

Connelly Early is opening in the rotation. Hopefully he stays there and the Red Sox don't try to get cute with this.

@jkbjournalist @shamus_clancy I might do that in Seattle

@shamus_clancy I've gone to many Phillies games alone. Always a blast. You meet new people, everyone is in such a great mood opening day.

I went to the Rhys Hoskins bat spike game solo. Met up with friends before and after who had tix separately. Wouldn’t trade the day and the memories for a single thing. Go to sporting events alone! Go to the movies alone! Or don’t! Who cares about anything!

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@Andrew_FBB Where is Pena?

How I think the top 10 prospects will look in 2027 (updated): 1. Leo De Vries 2. Jesus Made 3. Josuar Gonzalez 4. Ryan Sloan 5. Andrew Fischer 6. Alfredo Duno 7. Sebastian Walcott 8. Eduardo Quintero 9. Max Clark 10. Edward Florentino

@FAmmiranteTFJ I'll take the chance

Starting to feel like we're getting a bounce-back

The amount of catchers I'm super high on is starting to worry me. This is the deepest and most talented the position has been in a long, long time.

@EricCrossMLB It's unbelievable

@EricCrossMLB Bullpen for now.

Well, Fuentes made the Braves, but in a bullpen role.

@EricCrossMLB Crews to the minors? Ugh

Remember when Dylan Crews and Jasson Dominguez were arguably the top two prospects in baseball and had a ton of hype? Life comes at you fast. I'm not 100% out on either, but both of their values are plummeting.

@ImBreckWorsham $5

Gas is creeping up toward $4 here in coastal South Carolina. Trump says it's "no big deal." What are the gas prices in your area and how is it impacting you? Sound off.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@EricCrossMLB I am only concerned about his health

Percent of my Chase DeLauter posts where I get at least two comments about his swing... 100%