David would obviously know better, but it’s not like the air is destroyed when hitting the lights. I would assume most of the air that hits them deflects around them and flows back towards the grill. It might create more drag, but it seems like airflow probably isn’t affected much.

Given his history, I’m quite sure sure there’s no one down there who has the upside Davis (who was a truly dangerous hitter) does. Granted he may never get back there, but the Orioles farm system is barren (3rd worst in baseball according to FanGraphs, others have them a bit higher, but there is a definite lack of…

Exactly. It still amazes me that they made Romney run away from his signature accomplishment as governor because they decided that Obamacare, a conservative, market-based approach to universal health care, was actually the worst Socialism ever. 

Certainly when applied to guys in their 30's.

Waiving him at this point would be moronic. Obviously signing him was not a good idea, but since you’re paying him regardless, you may as well do what you can to try to get him back on track. If this were a competitive club, maybe you eat those sunk costs and free up the roster spot, but for the Orioles, there’s…

Mitt Romney (R-Utah) won’t say more than he and colleagues are “working on health care thoughts

He’s got 13 strike outs in 23 ABs, which suggests he’s put it in play 10 times. For an average hitter, that implies he’d be expected to have around 3 hits. He’s hitting into the shift a ton though, which is hurting him, and he’s probably also just been a bit unlucky.

His wife, Christina Ann Rogel, was arrested on scene for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. This was after she tried to block deputies from executing the search warrant and lied about Rogel’s whereabouts to keep him from getting arrested.

Yeah, those USB logos are upside down. But maybe it’s ok because the ports are also upside down. The USB logo on the cable is supposed to face up or towards the user, but on these it will face down to the floor.

Yeah, at this point I think the Orioles would probably have to pay 90% of his salary to get anyone to take him, and even then only if he was playing at his old level for a period of weeks. Maybe if he had 20+ home runs at the all star break they could do better, but no one is going to want to be on the hook for that…

But then they’d be paying both of you to suck.

SI had a really good piece about Davis’s struggles at the end of last season: Crushed Davis: Nobody Is Struggling With the Modern Game More Than Chris Davis

I think you are fighting a losing battle there.

I’m more than a little annoyed they sunk these Intruders as a reef instead of giving me at least one:

I mean, David’s last Moab entry didn’t really have floors. His fleet should be ample evidence of what MI allows (or doesn’t keep off) on the roads.

First-gen Volvo S40 (which shared a platform with Mitsubishi, but used a Volvo engine). As I understand it, it’s pretty common cost cutting measure on 4-cylinder engines since the only real downside is faster spark plug wear.

A spark during a piston’s intake stroke, for example, would be useless.

Some gambling app apparently. Seems like it would have been cheaper just to develop one if that’s all he wanted.

Weirder than 16:9? Definitely these days. You can still buy 4:3 monitors, but the number on the market pales in comparison to 16:9, and those are small and low-resolution.

Pretty well. He asked me where I came from, and then seemed embarrassed when I told him I had been there the whole time.