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  1. I think paper credentials are going to be important here because they won't want this nomination to look like charity, so K Jackson has be the favorite, but I looked again at Kruger.  I just saw young and California Supreme Court and dismissed her.  But she was a SCOTUS clerk and clerk for the DC Cir court of appeal.  She worked as an AUSA in LA. Harvard/Yale.  I think K Jackson is much more likely, but so that $.19 on Kruger seems like a good bargain

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  2. feel like it has to be ketanji jackson.  i don't think going from california supreme court or SC district court straight to SCOTUS feels right.  candace jackson going straight to 2nd circuit, and only spending a year there until scotus seems too rushed.

  3. Seriously though. The argument is that adding weight to your arms allows you to more quickly swing. 

    "Everyone understands that skaters accelerate their spins by pulling their arms into their torsos, and this analogy works with Bonds because skaters also suddenly grow a third arm to actually increase mass much like the increased mass due to his arm guard, which makes them speed up, because everyone understands you should deny the very idea of moment of inertia (I=Integral of (r^2)dm) and that adding mass any distance away from the axis of rotation will by definition increase the moment of inertia.  This makes Bonds spin like a skater, because a skater isn't just repositioning his mass closer to the axis of rotation, but adding a third arm and thereby increasing the total amount of mass closer to the axis of rotation.  I have a lot of valuable insight to provide today."

  4. 7 minutes ago, 66BUFF said:

    5) Bonds enjoys quicker access to the inside pitch than average hitters because his “assistant” – counter-intuitively – allows him to turn more rapidly. Everyone understands that skaters accelerate their spins by pulling their arms into their torsos, closer to their axes of rotation. When Bonds is confronted with an inside pitch, he spins like a skater because his upper front arm is “assistant”-sealed tightly against the side of his chest.

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    By Michael Witte, Who Has Very Little Understanding of Physics

  5. 3 minutes ago, 66BUFF said:

    1) The apparatus is hinged at the elbow. It is a literal “hitting machine” that allows Bonds to release his front arm on the same plane during every swing. It largely accounts for the seemingly magical consistency of every Bonds stroke.

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    yeah, that's the secret behind bonds' swing.  the fact that he has no give in his flesh such that when a hinge is placed on it, the swing that he had for 30 years and 6 mvps is suddenly fixed in a perfect plane.

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  6. yeah, everyone called it the steroid era for a reason.  everyone was roiding.  now that memories of JAGs have faded, all the focus is on the standouts and people seem to have lost the understanding that it was the entire culture at that time.  no one bitches about ken caminiti, luis gonzalez, troy glaus and whatever other dude ballooned up and hit 40 blasts out of nowhere anymore because no one remembers those guys. no one remembers that nobody could keep an ERA under 3.50.  everyone suddenly had 4 guys in their lineup that looked like canseco.  that's what frustrates me.  all the moralizing is post hoc finger wagging when we were all laughing about it at the time. 

     

    Here's an article from 1995.  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-15-sp-24265-story.html

     

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    Just how prevalent is steroid use?

    “I think 10% to 20%,” Smith said. “No one has any hard-core proof, but there’s a lot of guys you suspect.”

    Said one American League general manager, “I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s closer to 30%, although most people will say it’s about 5% to 10%. We had one team in our league a few years ago that the entire lineup may have been on it.

    lulz at this quote.

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    Bud Selig, acting commissioner, said the topic was last addressed by owners in a private meeting a year or 18 months ago. The conclusion was that no one had any evidence that steroid use should be a concern.

    “If baseball has a problem, I must say candidly that we were not aware of it,” Selig said. “It certainly hasn’t been talked about much. But should we concern ourselves as an industry? I don’t know. Maybe it’s time to bring it up again.”

    lulz at selig:  i personally don't think steroids even exist, at least so long as we are making a ton of money off them.  perhaps later we can pin it on someone after the checks have cleared and i'm dead.

  7. 15 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    How is this question different than the UT case a couple of years ago? 

    UT one wasn’t SCOTUS.  That just governed the 5th circuit.  A few years after, a Michigan one went up and set the nationwide rule. 
     

    that meaningless aside aside, I don’t know. The fundamentals are all the same, so viewed from 30,000 feet there will be no differences.  I’m sure the litigants will zoom in on particular details where they want to differentiate.  

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