Brock Beauchamp

It's unfortunate that you think this forum is unwelcoming to an "oldtimer", but you also have to realize that a lot of "oldtimers" tend to dig their heels in and refuse to accept the changing game. If you want to know what the stats mean, please, just ask. There are loads of posters and writers who will be happy to explain what they mean and why they're significant to the game.

Good god, that article is terrible. The person who wrote it should be embarrassed.

The range is 500 miles on the premium vehicle. This isn't a vehicle that will need to charge on job sites very often, and could often be a power generator itself. I don't think people really realize what it doesn't cost to run an electric vehicle. No oil changes. Brakes last twice as long. The motors last twice as long. There is no transmission. Fueling the vehicle is pennies compared to gasoline (seriously, this truck probably costs $25 to go 500 miles if charged on the overnight grid). I'm not talking about this being useful on a job site 150 miles from bum**** nowhere, but that's not where most job sites exist. And the savings are enormous when applied over the life of a vehicle. This is why I never understood why electric/hybrid has been pushed at economical consumers in small hatches; that's not where you can actually save real money. The real money is saved in vehicles that are driven 100+ miles a day, where electric and their 25-40% operating cost really starts to add up. For example, you can buy a sedan that gets 40mpg on the freeway. That's really good. Move that same vehicle to electric and the savings are pretty minimal because the cost of operation is already so low. The savings are there, but they're not enormous. But take a fleet vehicle that mainly operates in an urban environment, rarely drives over 200 miles a day, and gets pounded into the ground five days a week, 52 weeks a year, while getting just 12-15mpg... Now that's where you actually see savings and where businesses can start being convinced to move to electric, which will drag the rest of us along with them. And that's why Amazon dropped $700 million on Rivian: to build them fleet vehicles. UPS should have done it five years ago, maybe even longer, but traditional business is far stupider than free marketers want us to believe. It's just one more reason why companies like Amazon are lapping the field on traditional businesses in pretty much every way; they don't have their heads up their asses.

Truly a bizarre design but functionally, it will be the best pickup on the market if Tesla can keep up with Elon's promises for towing, payload, ground clearance, range, bed size, and price. It's a bummer they needed those side rails for aerodynamic reasons, though. That seriously constrains work use for the truck. Not being able to side-load the bed can be a real hassle on job sites. But from a functionality standpoint, this thing tows and hauls like a diesel-powered F-250 while operating for less than 50% of the costs of a gas-powered F-150. That really tells you how much more efficient we can be in fleet vehicles by moving to electric. I only wish Tesla had gone more for the functionality of a work truck than a sleek (let's just say "weird") consumer truck.

But the second season was bleeeeeeeeehhhhhhh. Jack Ryan is about using smarts to figure out a problem and if he enters danger, he's out of his element. The second season was about Jack Ryan, Captain Bad Ass. It was pretty weak.

While I don't agree with parts of it, this is a really well thought-out and prepared argument about how to approach the 2020 season. Really well done, Tom. Super well done. You convinced me on more than a few points.

Frankly, you're missing out. I'd cancel Netflix before Prime Video. Their original content is fantastic, much better than what Netflix has been doing since they axed the Marvel shows. Just scan their stuff for the "Emmy" banner and you'll be in for a load of delicious content.

Yes, Americans watch too much TV in the aggregate. Casting the blanket "turn off the TV" is an entirely different statement, one that is super-judgmental.

Funny how I meet most of these goals while thinking this post is bull****.

I'm down to Prime, D+, and Hulu. I plan to cancel Hulu soon. I'll always keep Prime because of the shipping that goes along with it. I bought 36 months of D+ for $150. The rest I will subscribe/unsubscribe as necessary. Now that I've axed Netflix, my rotation is: HBO Now Netflix Hulu Acorn TV BritBox I'm probably missing something in there but that's what I can think of right now. I literally subscribe to one of them, then cancel ten minutes later, which gives me 30 days to watch what I want. If I don't notice it expired, good. If I still want to watch more, I repeat the process and get another 30 days. As a result, my streaming bill is rarely over $25/mo.

I'm giving Boone some credit (and I always give Cashman credit, he's a legendary GM), all I'm saying is that the Yankees are in a much better position to rally using a myriad of resources because they have near-unlimited resources. Almost anything they don't do is a self-imposed decision.

My point is that an excess of riches allows the Yankees to have the best of all worlds. A team like the Rays or A's would have been unrecoverable with that number of injuries in play.

Boone did a fine job but it's a hell of a lot easier to "patch together" a season when your front office goes out and picks up a player like Encarnacion because of said injuries.

Good points all around.

I get your point but I disagree that they're influential to the plot. And I wish that I was wrong, but I feel that I'm not. The last two movies were Skywalker movies; their entire point is to face the evil of humanity, just like the original trilogy. They didn't have a bunch of aliens because they had a ton of lore to deal with, namely the exit of Luke, Leia, and Han. Whereas in the original trilogy, it was easy to bounce cool aliens off Luke, Leia, and Han. You didn't have to mix in Poe, Finn, and Rey while also mixing in the exit of those classic characters. Different objectives, different goals.

Sure, there were lots of non-humans but I'd be surprised if the "I have spoken" character has any role beyond the first episode. Maybe he appears in the second episode as an escape vessel but that's not really a recurring character, that's just a plot piece. The key characters are the Mandalorian and his Empire employer, the rest are probably chaff (for good or bad). We haven't even seen the actual characters beyond those two who will truly factor into the season.

I've seen you reference that twice now... what do you mean? Almost all the major speaking characters are human, and all the speaking characters who appear to be recurring characters are human.

I'm 100% on board with the Twins retaining Gibson if they're confident the disease is in check and will remain in check. But I'm skeptical that is the case. But even so, if you retain Odorizzi and pick up two more good pitchers, I'd absolutely give Gibson a $5-7m flyer and see what happens.

Ask Willie Hernandez how much his MVP means to him. It's a single-season accolade. Deserved or not, it's an important measure of personal success.

I won't argue with Rocco getting the nod but it's always a disappointment to see the managers of teams like the A's and Rays get so little love for what they've done while spending so little. While ownership and the front office dictate spending and roster spaces respectively, the manager is the guy on the field who has to make it work and Cash and Melvin did a phenomenal job with not a lot of resources. While it would have irritated the **** out of me to see Boone get the award, I would have tipped my cap to Cash or Melvin had they won.

It's not entirely fair to remove pitcher PAs because generally, the worst batter also sits in the ninth spot in the AL. The difference between AL#9 and a pitcher is stark, but the numbers are still slightly shifted. I'm not knocking your methodology because it's important to remove pitcher PAs, just pointing that out. Inversely, Wheeler has better career stats away from Citi so home park likely doesn't help him at all. Odorizzi is a wildly underrated pitcher, which is why I want to keep him at almost any cost, but he's also coming off a career year. Wheeler has been good for quite some time while Odorizzi was expected to be a 3/4 going into 2019 and performed more like a 2/3 through the season. I'm not sure we should expect that going forward but he *should* be a better pitcher than what we counted on going into last season. So, yeah, Wheeler isn't amazing compared to Odo but we didn't expect to get that Odo either, so it's something of a loaded point to make.

Are they honestly any better or worse than the others? I don't like that the government has allowed this consolidation but it's not as if Disney is the only company doing it, they're just the best at it (ie. they don't buy things and then drive them into the ground... Hi, AT&T).

I haven't been really interested in a streaming service in quite some time but I'm pretty excited for this. Review of The Mandalorian, spoiler free: Meh, then okay, then "Damn, Favreau, you're walking over hallowed ground here, watch your step". Can't wait for the second episode.

Good for him!

I'll be satisfied with either but my preference is for Wheeler and it's not a close competition.