u/fortress_sf

There are so few in history and so few chances, what are we doing here? There’s no reason short of an injury (none I could see) that they don’t let him try at least for 20/30 more pitches. I get if it’s just a no hitter but a perfect game is a different story. This is the worst version of asset management baseball - this game is for the fans and they let down all the Marlins/A’s (they booed the choice in the A’s stadium) and rest of baseball fans who want to see a perfect game.

With increasing coffee popularity in China, there is a lot of interest in creating new quality espresso machines. The parts inside as good machine are not foreign to Chinese makers - there’s just not been a strong market for imitation machines or a Chinese prosumer machine until last few years (recently) it feels like.

We’ve seen roasters, grinders, accessories, parts, etc all being featured and improved in standard from Chinese and Taiwanese companies the last 4-5 years. It’s only a matter of time until the espresso machine market is thoroughly integrated with cheaper high quality (and constantly improving) Chinese espresso companies.

It seems like it’s already happening but buyers are tentative with working out representative relationships with some of these (some already out there that are known like Wendougee, Turin/mdk, meraki) because there’s a lot of logistics, support etc, but the development and offerings out there are waaay beyond the general belief that Chinese espresso machines will be inferior in build and destined to be cheap imitations.

I would not be surprised one bit when there’s a wave of incoming $900 Chinese espresso machines with better features and the same build quality as a San remo, la marzocco, lelit, or ecm. I’m guinea pigging into a higher level MDK (rotary, dual boiler) out of curiosity. I got to see a few in Taiwan and a different expo) Anyone have experiences yet?