Eco Tradeoff

An amateur exploration into economics and demographics

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“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” -- Thomas Sowell

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@BBGreatMoments Wee Willie Keeler

5 foot 4 inches
.341 lifetime average
2932 hits with only 33 homers

Led the league in OPS in a year he hit zero homers.

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@calwokebot You go!

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@Steve_Sailer Yeah, I just saw that.

Hmm, Nigerian-American Christian or Nigerian-American Muslim?

I think the UK could survive if they just stopped their Muslim problem. I don't think the Christians and Hindus are causing the problems there.

Jews too, but the UK seem to hate them now.

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@Steve_Sailer @nytimes @TheAthleticFC I guess certain team owners don't like the idea of expensive starting pitchers batting and running the bases as some tend to get hurt.

Allow the "cheaper" relief pitchers to bat and run the bases in extra innings.

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@Steve_Sailer @nytimes @TheAthleticFC Or you could go the other way. Every team travels with say 2 young pitchers (for extra innings only) who haven't made their MLB debut yet or have only pitched in less than X MLB games.

This would be a cool way to allow some pitchers a chance to play in MLB and to evaluate them.

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@tyromper "She had made 120k or so doing odd jobs while at university"

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@notgaetti Don Sutton ranked 7th with 3574 in an era where players didn't strike out as much always gets me.

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@notgaetti He struggled with the Cardinals:

2024 WAR 1.6
2025 WAR 1.3
2026 WAR 2.0
(I guess that would be projected at ~4.0 for the season.)

2015 age 25 OAK AL 5.4
2019 age 29 CIN NL 6.2
2023 age 33 MIN AL 5.6

That would be his 4th-best season at age 36.

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@BBGreatMoments 12-inning perfect game?

How is that not #1?

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@baseballcrank LBJ broke a nation-embarrassing 100-year log jam on civil rights.

Truman desegregated the military, the court did the schools, and the Dodgers did baseball, but none had to go through the ancient racists hanging around Congress 100 years. LBJ being 6'3" probably didn't hurt.

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@baseballcrank Grant gets ranked all over the place on lists.

I guess now perhaps they say that he was more naive than corrupt.

Florence King in NR taught me to hate FDR, pro 99.5% tax-rate guy. Yuk!

He should be at the bottom. People act like he was the ONLY one who could have won WWII.

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@WmGHansen @RBrookhiser Any Cornwallis folk left today?

It looks like there is a lot of geography named Cornwallis in Canada as General Cornwallis' uncle Edward was governor of Nova Scotia.

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@WmGHansen @RBrookhiser Winston Chruchill's mother was another American-born woman that let down the British?

And her second husband, 16 days older than Winston, was the great-great-nephew of General Cornwallis?

That doesn't sound very American to me...

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@RickyBobWeaver @RBrookhiser 3/ Non-Chaplain Chaplain (General) Pendleton was the one who named his guns Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

He was another general who was connected to the Lee Family as his daughter married future Confederate General Edwin G. Lee, first cousin-once-removed to Robert E. Lee.

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@RickyBobWeaver @RBrookhiser 2/ Like Polk, Wm Pendleton was an Episcopal priest.

Polk was a bishop, so I guess that allowed to him move diagonally across the battlefield. There was a General Rooks who led the 90th Division in 1945, so I assume that he was better able to move horizontally and vertically.

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@RickyBobWeaver @ColdWarBrat @RBrookhiser Groucho Marx still defeats Karl Marx

John Lennon still defeats Vladimir Lenin

Angels defeat Engles

Fidelity defeats Fidel

Markets defeat Ho Chi Minh

Technological Wow defeats Mao

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@ZedofMIB @MoreBirths For Missouri counties in the Top 100:

Harrison -- 94% White
Hickory -- 93% White
Shannon -- 93% White
Dunklin -- 89% White
McDonald -- 73% White
(3rd highest % of Hispanics in MO,
county closest to Oklahoma and Arkansas)