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Looks like my company has a new corporate overlord...Chapter 11 auction was yesterday. New owner is Bruker ( https://www.bruker.com/en.html ). ETA: Sale Price was $392,555,000 That's good news, right? I think so...original stalking horse bid was a PE holding company, with a bid of $220 million. So ...

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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:30 pm Looks like my company has a new corporate overlord...Chapter 11 auction was yesterday.

New owner is Bruker (https://www.bruker.com/en.html).

ETA: Sale Price was $392,555,000

That's good news, right?

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I had no idea one could place prop bets on an individual player's performance in a single game. That's just begging for crookedness, especially in the NBA. Hopefully the feds will investigate everyone Porter dealt with. You know he's not the only one to take a dive to help someone win a bet. (But it...

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Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:57 pm I'm trying not to be too parochial, but they have realigned the Pac12 and SEC, while scattering the B1G to the winds. I just don't see that being how things land.

They put 7 of the 10 Big *Ten* schools together.

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Jesus.

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Order for him? His bad eyesight affects his vocal chords? No, his bad eyesight doesn’t affect his vocal cords, but it surely soured his disposition. Again, something she was aware of. Like I said, this sounds like a two-way street. Even if you bend over backwards to see his point of view, there’s n...

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Damn.

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That link says they are leaving their name and logo in Phoenix, presumably for a future expansion team. I wonder what they'll nickname the team? Something that says, "Utah" I guess? Hmm... "Jazz" is already taken..., maybe the Utah Zydeco? Or, the Utah Hiphop? SLC Punk? Whalers....

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I remember that one, now that you mention it.

He was not a pitcher you'd expect to hit a homer. He only had 2 HRs in 600+ PAs before the AL adopted the DH.

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Watched the first two episodes of Guy Ritchie’s new series The Gentlemen , on Netflix ( a spinoff from the movie of the same name). I’m enjoying it very much. Very Guy Ritchie-ish, in the crime/comedy sense. We finished this yesterday. We loved it, but weird show. I'm not familiar with Guy Ritchie,...

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Who the fuck is "Sportico"? (Edit: As in, this doesn't seem legit.)

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As long as we're reaching that far back, three-time WS winner Ken Holtzman.

Holtzman pitched two no-hitters for the Cubs.

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HALEN

On a camper van parked across from my house.

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can't wait and we are past ready for the ball/strike challenges. this is so fucked up. i was watching a minor league game yesterday for the first time and the system seems great - I'd not yet seen how it works: pitcher didn't like the call, taps his head immediately, they go to the tennis-like-recr...

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Iran attacking Israel is not good right? Though at least Israel is picking a fight with a country that actually has a military unlike Palestine. Israel sees that it’s losing support with Biden and centrist Dems, so Israel provokes Iran into attacking Israel, so now Rs and Dems both will rally behin...

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degenerasian wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:05 pm Coyotes players have been told they're going to Salt Lake City

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/ar ... g-to-utah/

Holy crap.

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Finallly? https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1778132841622057025 There's still a pretty big auction date to purchase land for a new Arizona arena, no? https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1778152145033785694 Apparently they may not wait. I guess I'll have to start checking in on this thre...

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Sitting in my office at the University of Idaho Law School in Moscow, ID, where I was working as a legal writing instructor. I was stunned to see pictures of black folks celebrating the verdict. Now I understand a little bit more. The discussion today among the young black women lawyers I follow on ...

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That was fucking amazing. Stayed clear enough here in Cleveland to see the whole thing. I’ve always been an astronomy nerd, and I never thought I’d ever see a total eclipse. But to finally see it - the whole solar corona, the diamond ring - was even better than I expected. Kinda feel like I achieve...

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rass wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:38 am 3 days and a couple of hours later would have been better timing.

Anyway have I mentioned that was crazy. Had just gotten out of the shower. Naked earthquake!

Did it move?

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I like that Beyonce is warning Jolene instead of begging Jolene.

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Old guys represent. Did SCTV have a skit where a Eugene Levy character was doing a call-in show and someone said his name was "Haji"? I seem to remember Levy saying "Okay, 'Haji'". That popped into my head during the NCAA tourney, one of the players was named Haji. Do any of yall...

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So, apparently this Clark woman is pretty good.

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A_B wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:32 pm Why do big 10 teams get the reputation that they never foul? They just don’t get called.

Is that their reputation now? It used to be that the only sport more brutal than Big Ten football was Big Ten basketball.

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I’ve seen enough.

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Man. What’s the elevation in Boston?

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I'm debating going to my Mom's where they'll have the full eclipse, but most likely I'll just stay here where we have 94%. Both kid's schools are doing something so that's neat for them. I'd go to your mom's if at all possible, unless the weather looks unfavorable. People say that the difference be...

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There’s some sloppy, frenetic, bad hoops going on between Illinois and Iowa State.

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brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:57 pm They’re not sending their best (the Michigan GOP)

Or even worse, they are.

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:04 pm
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:52 pm MacDill Air Fest is this weekend. The Thunderbirds are currently practicing and my front yard is a perfect vantage point. Murica!
That's dope. You can avoid the crowd and still watch the show.

Shit, we all can! Party at chedda’s!

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MI GOP Launches 'Migrant Invader Bus' Hoax on Gonzaga Hoops Team Republican paranoia over migrants has reached a new level of absurdity, as a State Representative and the State GOP Chair launched a conspiracy that buses of migrants were invading Michigan. It turns out it was the Gonzaga basketball ...

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Mine is in that space in the driver's side door. If your car plummets from a bridge, it will likely go head first into the water, and it will sink to the bottom heavy side first, right? I dunno. Seems to me you want to have that tool taped to the underside of your steering column/wheel. Otherwise w...

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Also, and more importantly, he's part of the reason that Obamacare didn't have a Single Payer option. Fucking asshole. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/56803-lieberman-and-nelson-public-option-compromise-still-not-good-enough/ The classic example of being moderate for the sake of being moderate.

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Also, I can't wait to read Erik Loomis's obit of Lieberman in Lawyers Guns and Money.

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Anyone else here have a dream last night that they were in a car that flew off a bridge over water? I guess I woke up before the car actually hit the water. But I do remember making sure to lower the car's windows while we were in the air, because it might not work once we hit. (I've been nervous ab...

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Bummer. I'm all torn up inside. Really.

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Finally finished "Masters of the Air". I thought it was really good, and it was great to see what happened to those guys post-war. Did Croz ever mention to his wife about his thing with the Subaltern? Or did he wait to write his memoir until she died? And Rosie's story was wild...ending u...

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Finally finished "Masters of the Air". I thought it was really good, and it was great to see what happened to those guys post-war. Did Croz ever mention to his wife about his thing with the Subaltern? Or did he wait to write his memoir until she died? And Rosie's story was wild...ending u...

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