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@mattyglesias Well I found your worst take. Just didn't expect it to be this obvious.

The Coke Zero people need to be stopped at all costs. A line must be drawn here.

Andy's Pizza has demonstrated better than Amazon what it actually looks like to have a successful AI rollout.

@chuck47i @BrewerNation Guy knows his way up and down for sure. But remember you only use one option per year when you move someone up and down, they can go back and forth multiple times in that year only using the one option up.

@BrewerNation How many options does McGee have left lol

The #Brewers have officially decided to place Brandon Woodruff on the 15-day IL. Easton McGee has been recalled. They'll likely bring up a starter when the turn comes around again.

@ashleyschendel What I'm hearing here is that you don't want rich people that can pay cash for housing to have to pay property taxes? I do not understand this issue. Just because I stop owing the bank a payment, why would I have to stop paying taxes?

A paid off house should actually feel paid off. When the average property tax bill is $4,427 and keeps climbing even if you didn’t sell, refinance, or magically get richer, it’s not hard to see why people feel like they never fully own the place they worked for.

@Em_TeeGee This is something I talk about with "my" interns, and professionals in the same field as me. Knowing what people in your field are making is super helpful for others.

FWIW, posting my salary actually makes me pretty uncomfortable. However, I know of at least 7 people who have been able to use the information to negotiate better pay for themselves (two thanked me this weekend!), and giving them that opportunity is worth some discomfort for me.

@kristofgunter @AdamMcCalvy Do you think Lara will be on the big league roster when Jackson, Vaughn and Yelich come back? Seems unlikely, so they are not going to start that service timer.

@AdamMcCalvy But hey, we can’t call up Luis Lara because we have Gregg Jones, Adam

No Chourio, no Yelich, no Vaughn. No homers. The Brewers have gone six games without hitting a home run, their longest power outage since 2015. They haven't gone seven games without hitting a homer since 1999.

@BrewCrewScoop @Brewers Roof should be closed if it is less than 65 out. The point is to be comfortable watching in a tshirt and never worry about the weather

The roof is closed so often these days that it has me contemplating no roof and a couple rainouts a year isn’t so bad #COWARDS @Brewers

@zdch Playing music on speaker or being on speaker phone in public should be a disturbing the peace violation.

In the last 48 hours I’ve encountered not just one, but two different grown-ass 50+ year-old dudes fully watching streaming videos with the sound on inside bars. I just can’t inhabit a consciousness-experience where this is remotely acceptable behavior.

@NeisesTom @dgasper24 Rengifo contract is 3.5 million, they'll give him a long leash. Ortiz and Ham both have options remaining, but really only Pratt is available on the 40 man to bring up and he hasn't started hot in AAA either. Similar issue with Megill, getting paid 4 mil...does have 1 option tho

@dgasper24 So, what is to be done? Ride it out?

Dating back to last Tuesday, April 7th, the trio of Luis Rengifo, David Hamilton, and Joey Ortiz are a combined 3-for-51 (.058) Rengifo is 0-for-19 in that span

@CartoonsHateHer I think if you work in white collar office jobs, especially with any kind of tech bend to them, you're noticing a difference.

ok yeah I thought it was just me. "Everyone I see is rapidly shrinking." Really, everyone? Everyone you see on the bus? Cashiers at CVS? Or just like, Olivia Wilde and Demi Moore?

@zdch Players are more explosive and high flying today than the 80's/90's, this increases injury risk, and appears to drain the bodies energy faster/longer as well. Combined with your point #2 and ring's is all that matters for legacy talk, makes stars want/need to sit more frequently.

The NBA is confronting three existential problems at once: 1. Much of the regular season doesn’t matter and is a bad product. 2. Playoff is a good product, but playoff performance is a function of injury. 3. Minimizing injury has an inverse relationship with product quality.

@EngeB_1 @AdamMcCalvy He doesn't do many away games anymore

@AdamMcCalvy i know Levering was under the weather and BA had other obligations, but why was Rock gone for a while?

Brian Anderson makes his regular season debut tonight with a Grammy-winner in the booth (no, Rock doesn’t have a Grammy… yet). From IG:

@zdch I just don't think further punishing teams bad teams is useful. It really hurts non-destination cities as well. I also just don't see how the players on the floor care about draft picks for the team, when on a bad team there is likely to be lots of roster turnover.

I gotta say, this is pretty smart. It is the least second-order-downsidevwremch I’ve heard relative to the first-order upside of getting every game to matter.

@WildeAndTausch @ESPNMilwaukee @ESPNbd @ESPNMadison We've had competetive teams in all 3 pro sports, and the Bucks won a championship. I'd love to get a Brewers WS win and the Packers back to the SB, but even the Badgers made 2 final fours, plus multiple hockey and volleyball successes. We have it pretty good IMO

Today’s #poll: Since the #Packers won the Super Bowl in 2011, how happy have YOU been as a Wisconsin sports fan on a 1-4 scale? @ESPNMilwaukee | @ESPNbd | @ESPNMadison

@zdch Also announced today, "sky is blue", "water is wet" and "ice melts in the heat"

Mostly improvising? Not following a clear plan? THIS President?

@JeffPassan Any thoughts on if teams are looking at the possibility that they might need to give up some years of team control in the CBA in order to get things like a cap and this is affecting their thinking on extentions?

Between Colt Emerson today and Cooper Pratt with Milwaukee yesterday, teams more and more are willing to give big money to players with no major league service time but the pedigree to be frontline players. The allure of having a player’s prime locked up makes it worth the risk.

Top shortstop prospect Colt Emerson’s eight-year, $95 million contract extension with the Seattle Mariners will be done this afternoon, sources tell ESPN. Emerson will remain at Triple-A for now but is clearly a big part of Seattle’s future. First with the news: @ByRobertMurray.

I saw Project Hail Mary over the weekend, and it was great. The kind of story about humans doing something great and at the same time making a very basic connection to others. Book was also great and recommend going to see it and/or read it.

@DariusJoshuaTV If Sac wasn't already the Kings that would be perfect to go with the WNBA Aces. That said, probably a desert dwelling creature like the Scorpions or something.

Supersonics coming back. What would you name the Vegas team?

@zdch @AOC @neeratanden Or you know the presidents children, or congress person's cousin or whatever.

@AOC @neeratanden Right; the big issue is not Anthony Davis placing bets, it’s Anthony Davis’ medical support staff (etc etc).

This is absolutely not enough. Just on the policy piece alone, there are SO many individuals - staff, advisors, consultants, cabinet secretaries, spouses, and more - that can trade on insider information. This is just a fig leaf to deflect from criticism. We need to do more.

@efropoker @hungryhorsepokr I'm obv not a pro poker player by any stretch, but I do really enjoy his stuff.

Wanted to shout out @hungryhorsepokr & their YouTube content. Not sure what rock I was under, but I stumbled upon it a few weeks ago & have nearly watched the entire library. This is from someone unlikely to ever play a cash game again, it's just so well done. Highly recommend!