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Thwarted by the Virginia constitution. What a self own.

Colt Keith is having a super weird year. He’s hitting .321 and his wRC+ is 113 even after yesterday, so it’s not as though he’s collapsing, but he’s in this weird sort of purgatory where his contact quality is actually the best of his career in term of hard hits, but two things are suppressing his results: (1) a launch angle drop to 9.7 that’s turning potential home runs into hard grounders and line drives, and (2) literally zero home run luck on his fly balls. His xSLG is .451 vs his actual SLG of .387, which should suggest a comeback, but his SLG has trailed his xSLG his entire career, just never like this. It’s a real question whether that drop is the result of instructional intention, since the Tigers are one of the more line-drivey teams in the majors; whether pitchers are exploiting his weakness at hitting sliders more systematically lately; and whether his more passive approach at the plate this year (much lower strikeout AND walk rate) is a slump artifact or a real change. Everything about his individual and expected metrics screams inevitable comeback, but man, it sure is hard to watch while we’re waiting.

They sure were yesterday, at least.

Accident of geography?

Tulsi was a hero of the left LMAO Similarly larry summers was a hero of the establishment. Clean your own house hoss

They miss Javy's defensive versatility..even if he had some boneheaded errors along the way.

A bat-first outfielder. A tale as old as 1876.

Like, how is this even debatable????

Literally 77,302,580 people voted for trump (hitler) in 2024 and hes here bashing 1800 people in Michigan who DIDNT vote for Trump (hitler) as the reason trump won which is false on its face, numbers posted a few weeks ago. Its weird as hell

Cavs are a better team at home. Will Kenny Atkinson finally make the change and put Mobley on Harris? You have to hide Harden's terrible defense. If you are not willing to bench him that is how you do it. More of the same for Detroit. Cavs will probably come out flying. Survive it early and steal the game in the 2nd half.

Wrong thread

Yes. A lot of people use the term Yzerplan which I don’t think is fair because Yzerman didn’t come in trying to sell people on a plan other than to draft and develop. But part of that development was for some of these kids to play meaningful hockey together in GR, and they are doing it. It seems pretty clear by now that next season in the NHL we will see MBN and Mazur again. Probably ASP again. Probably Anton. Maybe a little bit of Amadeus. Almost certainly one or both of Postava and Cossa. Presumably Danielson will be back in the mix too. That’s a lot of guys who are showing right now that they play with a level of energy and camaraderie that doesn’t always seem evident in the big league club.

Not everyone sees it that way. There are people that believe we are screwed either way. Nobody is entitled to their vote.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/judge-rules-trump-administrations-cancellation-humanities-grants-was-u-rcna344162 More Bernie/Rashida/Uncommitted/DOGE cuts deemed unconstitutional

I wil NEVER vote based on magatownbummers poasts

I deeply regret that 4 week period where I was rooting for Ted Cruz against Trump in the 2016 cycle. The ideal candidate: a person who is worried about how his grandkids (i.e., the future) will think about his legacy. You don't get too many of those.

Try not to make stupid mental errors I guess.

I will never vote for Abdul El-Sayed. Am I supposed to be blindly vote for whoever Democratic leadership tells me to vote for? My vote is sacred. My personal identity is tied to whoever I vote for. The candidate I vote for must be pure.

He was always this way. Look at Tulsi Gabbard. A hero of Bernie Sanders and the far left. Hillary Clinton had her figured out early and Sanders and the left rushed to her defense. Platner is another one. There was that Kay woman in Illinois. It’s funny how a lot of the far left was either Republicans or turned Republican. It’s a party for white people who don’t want to be labeled republicans.

Good. I'm glad this is a wedge issue. Trump's corruption, imperial excesses and vanity boiled down to the term: billion-dollar ballroom.

I want to level set this topic. Is Fetterman the way he is because he "took a journey" because of his illness or as a reaction to Oct7? Or is he this way because he was always this way? Connor Lamb would have been my preferred Senator there in every way.

WTF are you talking about? Fetterman ran as a progressive. He was endorsed by Bernie Sanders. He was the populist left wing candidate. Conor Lamb was the moderate.

When your choice is Hitler or democracy, this is 100% correct. Like, how is this even debatable?

because Dems are virtue signaling that they aren’t going to accept pac money. It’s redistricting all over again. Blue states unilaterally disarmed themselves over purity contests while red states continued to gerrymander. Same thing with pac money.

I think this makes sense but it’s also something that could probably be documented fairly easily via those “umpire scorecard” things. I’d be very interested to see if this is actually true or not. For it to be true, it would mean that umpires knew they were calling a bad zone before and only now are calling a better one. And that could definitely be true. Umpires are stubborn. I’m sure the data is there. Or there may be some other reason for walls being up and aka being level relative to last year. Could just be that the pitchers are worse.