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Some good baseball news, AAA is going with robo umps in 2022.

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Officer: Do you know how fast you were going? Driver: No, officer. But I wasn't picking my nose! Officer: 80 in a 45. Here's your ticket. I couldn't see if you were or not, but that isn't a crime. Driver: Exonerated! I wasn't picking my nose!

Nothing came of the Mueller report because Barr got the report and changed the narrative and in his summary left out incriminating bits. Remember, Mueller didn't have the power to indict. He didn't have the same powers that Ken Starr had. His job was to investigate and hand it off to DOJ. Barr said "Thanks, we got this, and then threw it in the trash". That was why he was picked to be AG.

Well, I think your 'prejudices are in the right place. Anyone who cares to actually read the book knows that the #1 target of Jesus' scorn were the organized 'church' and orthodox practitioners of his day. And of course according to the available reporting, it was 'churchmen' that did him in.

Theses so much bullshit in this post that it’s not even worth trying to address.

I found this 8 x 11 photo I took with my first digital camera (It was huge and used discs). I wondered when it was. Thanks to Baseball Reference I was able to figure it out - very quickly. The only season Dean Palmer played for the Tigers while they were at Tiger Stadium was 1999. I went and looked at all the Box Scores from night games when the Indians were in town and only one had the corresponding inning-by-inning run count indicated on the LF scoreboard. This was September 23, 1999. Dean Palmer batting against Charles Nagy in the 3rd inning. Tony Clark was on first base. Dean lined out to RF. The Tigers won that game 7-5. They had only 4 more games at The Corner and I went to all of them. Man, I love Baseball Reference.

I don't know why you guys are hating on Manchin and Sinema. They are saving the democracy of the US at this time. When the Republicans take over the Senate and House you will be thanking them 20 times a day for saving the filibuster.

LOL - can't lose track of which side we're on!

its much easier to just blame republicans. fits the narrative better.

no, I'D be the one telling you he IS the man! you would be the one arguing with me about how he started the process of the atlantic slave trade and was mean to africans. or dont you remember our columbus conversations. lol 😉

federal reserve with 0% interest rates and free money for businesses has more to do with it than anything reagan did.

It would be six, but Mize, Manning and Skubal were promoted last year. Baseball America has Greene #4, Torkelson #5, Jobe 79

I tend to be on the more "glass half full" side of these debates, but don't get me wrong, I am definitely concerned about our trajectory after what happened in this last election.

Yes, I said that. I should have clarified better apparently as I was trying to say that was the entire focus of the media/left. It was overpromised by the media and the left as collusion/conspiracy and when Mueller's report, that focused on Russian interference came out and said he absolutely saw Russian interference, but didn't see Trump colluding (despite some unethical behavior) it fell flat. It was still grounds for impeachment based on the obstruction that was identified by Mueller as he was investigating. editing to add this as I went back to see how bad I butchered my initial post and it seems to be on target with what I have been saying.

what you ignore with your list of difference is that despite those differences, inequality was not as bad here 30 yrs ago as it is today. The point is we are getting worse faster than other places and as long as we keep claiming everything is hunky-dory because we are so unique and have problems no-one else does, we give ourselves the excuse to not address our problems. and yes, this is a very big part of the problem - the people who will never admit that everything isn't roses stand in the way of addressing problems as much as anything. The belief in 'exceptionalism' gives Americans the excuse to look around and say we needn't pay attention to what any other country in the world is having success with because 1)it couldn't possible be more success if it's somewhere else, and 2) even if it is what they do can't possible inform our decisions as to what we should do because we are soooo special. This a very destructive mindset America has gotten into. Historically - meaning pre-WWII, the US was more than willing to look around the world and import the best models it found anywhere. The genius of America was to take what it found anywhere, use it and improve it. The refusal to keep doing that has been our peril.

I seriously don't think you understand what the word obstruction means.

That's a terrifying amount of power for the President to think he has an and even more terrifying act for him to attempt to do. There was no evidence of wrong doing in Antrim County, MI and when they did a hand recount of all the ballots Trump picked up 12 votes out of 15,692 total votes tabulated.

Pick up a banjo!

I'm not trying to play legal jargon word games like Giuliani. To the legal lay person like me, there isn't much difference between collusion and conspiracy. Looking up the definitions, they seem pretty close to me. From Oxford: collusion - secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others. conspiracy - a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. So while Mueller was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, the media was focused on Trump/Russia collusion/conspiracy. When that didn't pan out, the result was a dud, because again, everyone expected Mueller (through all the 'leaks') to be focusing in on collusion. I stand by my statement that the focus of the investigation was not on obstruction even if 1/2 of the report is about obstruction. In fact, if Mueller went into the investigation with a focus on obstruction, to me that would nullify the report any further. Any investigator that plans to just keep investigating until they can put an obstruction charge in place is abusing their authority.

America is a very wealthy country in aggregate. Those who hold the money allow the poor to have just enough, so they won't harm the wealthy. It is very difficult for Blacks to get into the ruling class. The world is a bad place if you are not White. We focus on the United States because that is what we can control. There are big inequities that need to be addressed regardless of whether there are other countries that are worse.

No doubt, if hanging wallpaper doesn't end a relationship, nothing will. I, for one, have not been sad to see home decorating styles return to the greater use of paint.....

LMAO. At least you're right about the Ukraine call being what he was impeached for. The rest of this is fiction. The Mueller literally report made no attempt to find evidence of "collusion" and explicitly stated so within the report. So when you say all of the focus was on "collusion" like you explicitly stated, you're absolutely incorrect. "Collusion" is not a crime and therefore was not within the scope of a prosecutor. However, they did attempt to identify evidence of CONSPIRACY which is a crime, but concluded that he did not have enough evidence to charge and even if he did, he couldn't anyways because of the OLC memo. Furthermore- When you said all of the focus was on colluding, you also were also wrong b/c the conspiracy part was only the first half of the report. There's a second half of the report that was about Trump's obstruction of justice. So obviously "all the focus was on colluding" is false - there's literally no part of the report focused on colluding. The second part is loaded with evidence of criminality. For this part of the report, and b/c of the OLC memo, Mueller punted to congress b/c it's their responsibility through impeachment mechanism to do something about it. I have to ask, when you say that "all the focus was on colluding" - did you read the report? Because not only does it explicitly not address collusion but also focuses on a bunch of stuff other than collusion. You couldn't be more inaccurate in your statements about this report. The report itself literally addresses the fact that it doesn't address collusion. And here you are saying that's all it focused on. Hilarious chief.

It was by far the most votes in an impeachment by members of the President's party in history. Beating the previous high set by Trump's first impeachment (from Mitt Romney). I think that alone speaks to how slam-dunk the case was.

That collusion red herring is still doing a lot of work.

When we were planning to get married the minister almost refused to do the ceremony. We failed the "compatibility test" among other things (we were also cohabiting, out of convenience, and not telling her parents) Somehow we've managed 43 years together. I think it's because of our separate interests.

I've just finished the Dutch Clark biography and I've also been listening a lot to Detroit City of Champions podcast and it was sorta suggested during one of those episodes: Why not play a pre-season game in Portsmouth? The team was originally founded in 1928, just 6 years away. I think it would be very awesome to honor them by playing one of the preseason games down there. Schedule with the Bengals who are just a short distance away. The original stadium down there still exists and is kept in "playing shape" as it's used by the local highschool football team. Granted, it can't seat nearly the capacity of an NFL stadium but still I find it extremely cool if the Lions did this. Heck, if they work 'Spartans' uniforms for the game and then offered them for sale I suspect they'd make nice profit on those.

Our old friend Martin Mayhew.

Also, he gets to watch his grand children grow up. Two of them have gotten married in the last few years and they were both thrilled that he was around to see it. Too many people see the elderly slow down and think they aren't contributing anything or enjoying life, but they really do. Their lives are as valuable as anyone else.

well if wharton students think that way then EVERYBODY thinks that way. america is a better place to live for black americans than almost every country on the planet. theyre wealthier, live in larger homes with access to better health care, better education, and better consumer goods. especially if theyre gay or lesbian. there are a handful of countries that are on the same level as the united states when it comes to these issues. your familiarty with this country breeds your contempt. america is far from perfect, but what country is perfect?

The man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...

True, not many white, middle class or better Americans could. I mean not the African American ones. Too many in this country don't have a place to live or food to eat or medical care. Doesn't seem like the USA is all that "rich". I thought this summed up the false perception versus reality very well: “I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures,” Nina Strohminger tweeted late Wednesday. “One of them thought it was $800k.”

I believe if he were alive, he would be really really old.

The voter suppression laws were introduced by many of these states came after the 2020 election. These new laws were based on the lie that the 2020 election was illegitimate. The GOP knows who this will effect if they make it harder to vote. It’s a solution in search of a problem that didn’t exist.

i think the population with TDS is with the people who blindly follow him, not the people who question him.

I don't expect a major delay of the season. There is too much money at stake. Both sides will play chicken until the last minute and then they'll make a deal. There will be universal DH and expanded playoffs and a bunch of stuff that most normal fans won't care about.

Read the thread....

Tjank You.

Best shape of his life and he's working on a new change up.

Another gem from The Ghost of Ernie twitter feed

It happened to my friend two years ago, but his story had a fortunate ending. He was a runner and kept on running regularly right up to the diagnosis. He was having headaches though, so he went to the doctor. The tumor was so big and so dangerously located that they air lifted him to the hospital within an hour to have immediate surgery. He survived and made a complete recovery mentally and physically. He was back to running within a couple of months and is now back running better than he was before surgery.