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Rage Against the Voting Machine.

I saw a meme that said "Did you know you can go to a bakery and buy a birthday cake when it's not your birthday and go home and eat it? Nobody checks."

No shit. Personally, I have an expectation of zero deaths or property damage during the Certification of an Election. But maybe my standards are just too high

I can imagine! 😃

either way rob manfred will be embarrassed handing the trophy to either team, so i feel like i've already won.

They don’t want to waste doses. When you look at the criteria now it’s pretty broad.

My dad kicked cancers ass about 7-8 years ago. Prostate and Colon, he was in his late 70's. 86 today and still going as strong as an 86 year old man can I guess. Keep up hope, it is what keeps us going.

as of right now, i dont want the lions to take a qb at #1 this year. just wait. they can get thibodeaux and then a stud receiver late in the first, that would be perfect. maybe even pick up dax hill or a corner at the top of the second?

I'm a Jim Harbaugh fan, but I saw this today & it reminded me of every press conference he's ever done. 😅

I tend to think that's common in a lot of suburban areas though.... there was hardly any visible Trump support during 2020 in my neighborhood, although there were plenty of signs for other GOP pols (ie. local State Reps). I can only assume that almost all these people voted for Trump anyway despite not putting his sign out. I guess what I'm getting at with my comments on this issue is this: one thing the association of the mainstream media with liberalism misses is that GOP consultants do a really good job of leading coverage in a lot of these publications.... specific to Virginia, we saw this with MS-13 four years ago, and the education discussion surrounding this election seems similar. That's not to say that TMac isn't vulnerable or can't lose (obviously, the polls show a close race), I just think that the focus on these particular issues and how they play in NoVa is gives Josh Kraushaar and Jonathan Martin types more to write about than "Candidate from President's Party Struggles in Tough Mid-Term Environment"

Yikes. Good luck with that😮

The top two shortstops, Correa and Seager, both have problems with durability. Both are going to get 8+ years for huge money. The next tier - Story and Semien - will be be a little cheaper (although still expensive). They have been more durable but aren't as good and Semien is over 30. I won't mind if the Tigers take chance on any of those guys, but if they are going to spend like a middle market team, the latter two make more sense. Baez scares me with his ridiculous strikeout rate. Simmons is going to be 32 next year and I would stay away from a 32 year old defensive specialist.

The Great British Baking Show is in our rotation.

HaHa - got mine an hour ago. MTF vax day!

My daughter has started watching a show called Nailed It on Netflix, where they have regular non-professionals do really complex pastries under a totally unrealistic timeline and they always fail miserably. It's really quite hilarious show.

It used to be that libertarians were democrats who owned guns or republicans who smoked pot

Browse into your gateway's admin page. Mine lives at 192.168.1.254. Yours probably is, too. Navigate to Home Network/Wi-Fi. (I had to click it a few times before it got there because it wasn't responsive for me. Or try this URL: http://192.168.1.254/cgi-bin/wconfig.ha) Choose Advanced Options. You will see separate settings for 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Assign them each a different SSID with different passwords. (I assign the 5G signal the same SSID and just add "5G" to it.) Click Save. See screenshot below. You'll get all the benefits of 5ghz (reliably faster speeds) along with the limitations (worse at going through floors and walls), but do this and they can't throttle you by band-steering your connection at their whim.

Libertarians are conservatives who want laws only to constrain others and not themselves.

The draft might be the biggest reason any American professional sport is different from eurosoccer, at least as far as talent is concerned. Pre-draft a team could sign any players anywhere they wanted—they were limited only by the reach of their scouts. But expanding their amateur talent acquisition efforts is what supercharged the Cardinals into becoming the NL Yankees. And, of course, the reserve clause allowed them to keep their best players basically indefinitely. I saw where MLB suggested a new free agency benchmark as being 29-1/2 years, whichever comes first. That’s a little better for many players of course since you would have as many players going through arb in their 30s. But it’s worse for the best young players since it would tether stars like Vlad Jr and Juan Soto to their teams for close to a decade. Under such a system an organization like the Rays may be able to identify good 20- and 21-year old players and keep them for a long time and pay them cheap, but most organizations wouldn’t be able to pull that off with much regularity. The thing you suggest would happen is teams bringing guys up at age 26 or 27, then losing them two or three years later. That might happen to most organizations, but I bet they Rays would adapt and figure out a way to go younger. Or, flip side, maybe with a change like that everybody would force their best young prospects into the majors at age 19 or 20 or 21 or 22, just so they could try to get more than six years out of them. More younger players coming up greener would probably hurt the quality of the game overall, though. MLBPA might counter with either-or: age 29-1/2 or six years, whatever’s first. But the thing they have to be careful not to do is to agree to a system that floods the market with free agents, which could drive down contracts in general since it would become more of a buyer’s market. As for dumping ten years on a 32 year old: that’s happened only three times out of 14 ten-year-plus contracts, and two of those were uniquely silly contracts by uniquely clueless ownerships. Ten of the fourteen 10-plus-year contracts have gone to players 27 and under. All four nine-year contracts have gone to players 30 and under (including Prince), and 13 of 17 eight-year contracts have gone to under 30s. So this may not be as big a problem as popular media portrayals make it seem.

me too..... the old rules don't apply. It's like watching pro wrestling now because no matter who is better in the end it's fixed.

That's another advantage we have, a QB who limits turning the ball over. Cade might not be flashy and I do feel we need to stretch the field more than we're doing. But if Cade can protect the football and our defense can create turnovers, Thorne or otherwise, I think we can succeed this way.

I have reached the point of exhaustion wrt politics. I saw Steve Kornacki on the morning Joe this morning and just hit mute. I can't. I want the Trumpies to lose. I need them to lose. Hearing how bad it is and how the Dems need to up their game to save democracy is just getting old. Get your crap together America.

This is pretty good....

Stan said something insulting about my (at the time) girlfriend’s sick son, who was thought to have possibly had Covid at the time. That was pretty much the last straw.

Bigglesworth peed in the parking lot last year. That was embarrassing, which I think is part of the reason he never comes here anymore. You can't really fault him though. The Rule V can cause one to get unduly excited.

I believe the banning wasn’t over Trump stuff but his dismissal of Covid as anything seriously.

If you don’t mind, I’m gonna just expand on that a bit. He was banned - and the trigger was pulled by the owner of the website, - ….who has run this for more than 20 years, (and we’ve had others who eventually were banned by moderators) but in this member - Stan - finally came across someone who did not add any value to this forum. Who was beyond deserving of being kicked to the curb. So, your brief off the cuff description of Stan, headed by the blurb “he liked trump”, insinuating that was his sin…. that’s just aggravating. And somewhat insulting.

very 'enthused' tourists. But civic minded to fault apparently.

Except nothing much happened on Jan 6. The democrats are sensationalizing it for their own good. Even one person here is trying to say it caused more deaths than there really was. Sensationalism and lies.

Only an idiot would convict Rittenhouse after seeing the video. Everyone, even liberals, have right to defend themselves. If Ashley Babbit deserved to die then you must think all the people illegally crossing our border deserve the same fate. They are a far greater threat to our country and democracy than Babbit was. Or is it you think all Trump supporters deserve to die? If that's the case you're a special one!

She got what she deserved. More should have suffered the same fate. And Kyle Rittenhouse should be charged with murder. Only an idiot would think otherwise.

There was only one death. Liberals are trying to pad the stats to make it look worse. What is the point of discussing or debating this. Its over and done with. Nutty Nancy has her faux Jan 6 commission stocked full of Trump haters and the verdict was cast in stone before they even met. The more important things are happening today and are effecting all of us. The US supply chain is collapsing, inflation is getting worse and cost of goods is soaring, there's yet another caravan of people marching toward the southern boarder to go along with the record number this year of illegals that were detained or made it into the country, we have hundreds of Americans stranded in Afghanistan and Iran is that much closer to a nuclear weapon. I would thing you would be more worried about what is happening today that will negatively impact you and your families.

Isn’t it obvious to everybody here yet that this is an ongoing trolling performance? I mean, come on.

I'll be making my fondue again. Was a hit last year.

Just reading this now, and hope all is well! My big sister had it just under two years, ago and they thankfully caught hers early as well. She’s doing great and is cancer free.

Yeah, I was just reading up on this. Teams will only lose their 2nd highest pick when signing a free agent (so a team will only lose a first round pick if they have 2 of them). If a team receives money due to revenue sharing, the highest draft pick they'll lose is their 3rd, which I believe is the case for the Tigers.

Start your morning off with a bad Lions joke . . . Q: What do you call 3 straight completions by Jared Goff? A: 3rd & 2

Imagine Elon Musk but richer and worse arguments about politics

Just want to make it clear that I hated the Tomahawk chop long before it became a political statement to hate the Tomahawk chop

Campbell was competitive in this game by continually making the risky move. I’m not sure what people expect out of this roster but the staff is making the most of it.

Post- postseason SI cover, October 22, 1984