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LOL @ Archie appointing himself the arbiter of people saying stupid things

I hope you get a chance to shake his hand some day.

He gets away with it, yet someone without connections who is misinformed about her rights gets 5 years in the slammer.

If they want to spend $200 or more a day on diesel just to own the libs, go for it. I know a lot of backroads.

No way. This is what makes baseball great! Hitter knows he cant put the pitchers putaway pitch in play but can get enough bat on it to foul it off in hope he makes a mistake on the next pitch.

These same people have no problem giving us their opinions on Covid-19 despite knowing nothing about epidemiology, biochemistry or microbiology.

well, the Ukrainians are having a bit of dark humor with this

Just ban batting gloves altogether. Take the Moises Alou approach to toughening hands.

You’re joking.

And remember at the low point the orange fella had the oil execs in the Oval Office promising that they would be taken care of. They were “hurting”

Christ on a Cracker...

LOL c'mon man!

Having the Texans at #3 helps us I think. I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see them look to replace Davis Mills at #3. I’m not at all attached to the #2 pick. If they would take Hutch/Thib at #2, two of Karlaftis/Ojabo/Walker will probably be available at any of 6/9/11. If they’d rather a WR, it makes more sense to take one at 6/9/11 than 2 anyway. I’m not saying to give away the pick, but I am okay with being a little flexible in our asking price. If any of them offered “just” their 2022 and 2023 1st, it might be a loss on the trade value chart, or compared to what other high 1sts have gone for recently. But it gives us a really good pick this year, plus the ammo we need with a 3rd 2023 1st to hopefully go get Stroud or Young next year.

Jordan Davis Wow

It's cool. For the record, I wasn't in any way trying to imply that the people of Ukraine don't matter. Just that there are millions of others in insufferable situations and we should be as concerned about them as well. Its about confronting my own biases as well. Grew up in a very conservative household and drank the Kool Aid for many years. The cops wouldn't shoot them black folks if they just cooperated. If they just worked hard like we do and pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, they wouldn't be living with crime and poverty. We don't need affirmative action, they need to earn it like we did. I'd like to think I've evolved over the years, but just when I think I have, I realize I still have a long way to go. When I watched the Trevor Noah clip, my initial reaction was that it was more PC Bullshit. Then after my conversation with my internet friend, I had to ask myself why does the Ukraine situation affect me differently than other equally horrific situations? It's Putin, it's the economy, the threat of nuclear war, their heroic leader...maybe? It's more likely that I'm relating to people who are more like me. I'm not feeling for the people of Yemen or Afghanistan or Haiti, etc, as much because I'm not seeing myself in them. I'm not relating on a human level. I've been to Honduras on several occasions to provide services through a charitable organization and it lulled me into thinking that must mean I don't have biases or prejudices. I'm honest enough to admit I do. No, not everyone and everything is racist, but I need to do better and I don't think I'm the only one.

So I was feeling a little saucy this afternoon. All I kept thinking about as I listened back to this section was @pfifesaying that I have lived on metal for an extended period of time (paraphrasing)

I don't like the one foul ball after strike two idea. I think a hitter's ability to foul away borderline strikes to stay in the box for another pitch is a skill to not be punitive. I think it goes along with the idea that you don't abolish the shift, you expect the hitters to deal with it and hit away from it. We are probably biased, but we wouldn't have the Dave Bergman at bat in our memories if this rule were in place. An at bat that gets extended in time by foul balls also gets a shot of adrenaline with each pitch. I think that adrenaline is what people find enjoyable while watching a game (the actual foul ball, not the 30 seconds of unnecessary wandering around the mound and batting glove adjustments that might come along with it). As far as calling time outs and being back in the box, etc, if a batter doesn't move their feet on a pitch, there shouldn't be much of a delay in between pitches. Heck, even if they swing and stay in the box and maintain balance, there shouldn't be much delay. A pitch up and in that pushes a batter back and out of the box, you have to be reasonable. A batter gets a bug in his eye or a contact comes loose or something like that, you've got to acknowledge those issues come up. I think umpires probably have a decent idea as to who is milking it in those situations. You have to give the umpires the power to keep things moving along. (And, yes, I realize I am lumping Angel Hernandez into this using good judgement scenario, but I didn't claim my idea to be fool proof.) As for the in field non pitching mound visit conferences, put a limit on those like mound visits?

"Hurts" is a relative term. I guess ultimately these numbers being tossed around are just way outside of my realm of comprehension. We got a commissioner crying about owning a team being a financial drain rather than a financial investment (that gets to syphon off funds from state/county/city governments either directly or indirectly). We got players deciding $35M/season ain't enough to play if there's a higher bidder out there. We got both sides claiming the fans are the top priority, which, sure, OK. The economics of pro sports is ridiculous.

I have been looking for a good database that documented all of Trump's alleged and proven criminal misconduct and I think I finally found a good, trusted source this that complied it all into one place. https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trump-staggering-record-of-uncharged-criminal-misconduct/

I don't understand it either. I mean nobody is forcing you to have 240 million payrolls.It seems to me the Union should agree to cap if they can get a high floor requirement that HAS to be met.

I’d like to know what pitch counts were back then. There certainly wasn’t the reliever merry go round like there is today.

Speaking of sporting games dragging on, somebody on twitter timed the actual time of the final 1 minute of game time of the MSU/Purdue game on Saturday and it was over 19 minutes. Talk about a sport that drags on.

I listened to games on the radio and made my own box scores and kept track of Tigers statistics as best as I could until TSN came at the end of the week. If I couldn't listen to the game because it was a day game or there was too much static, I would cut the boxscores out of the paper if they had them.

You need to respect people who wear glasses. They paid money to see you.

You could ask him why he thought, in the midst of all the human suffering in Ukraine caused by alt-right poster boy Putin, that this was exactly the correct time for a link to a gun nut magazine that absolutely no one was going to click on, to apparently correct a grievous error made by every Hollywood script writer for the past 40 years. Seriously...that is what is important today? The lack of empathy, the lack of sensitivity is just appalling.