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excerpted from Peter Pomerantsev in today's NYT

Could've put this in the things that make you smile thread but since it involves a dog I'll post it here. My neighbor's dog who I've known since she was a puppy recently had to have her leg amputated due to cancer and naturally she hasn't been herself the last couple weeks. But today when I got home from work she was out in front with my neighbor and she came running(well as close to running as she can do now) over to me wagging her tail like her old self, she and my dog were playing like they used to. My neighbor said she has been doing alot better the last couple days. Just seeing her like that made me smile cause in a way I think of her as my second dog since I take care of her anytime they are out of town.

Shopping Skubal is smart. Pitchers break. I don't really trust Avila to get a good return, but that's more of a problem with the current GM rather than the general strategy.

I want a Spinoff of Security Guard Jerry experiencing the last 12 years of Nebraska football.

Based on scouting reports, he shouldn’t be so upset about his gloves.

HE forgot that the PA GOP's Gov candidate is a fucking nazi

I think it has more to do with the game thread intro, but that’s just me.

how much time have you got?

Last weekend and then today, when I was at two different stores "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty played on the store intercom. A lot of people quietly sing along to that song...........so I was walking out the door I let out a very loud I'M FREEEEE.........FREE FALLIN'. Just one of those universal songs

Someone on trade rumors proposed we package Avila with Skubal.

Yep, and I don't quite buy into the groupthink around how disastrous that is.

OTOH, he's probably bitten off more than he can chew this time which means this is possibly the optimum time to stop him decisively enough that he either a) burns up his military enough to neuter himself, b)burns enough support inside Russia to fall. If the West fails to take of advantage of this opportunity the next time the strategic situation may be far less favorable. There might not be a large strong population ready to undertake the fight, he might have learned enough not to make the same tactical mistakes again, the Chinese may strengthen his military tech to where the Western weapons differential won't be as decisive. It seems naive to think Putin's malignancy will in anyway abate if the outcome is a loss of 20% of Ukraine and a temporary military stalemate. The 'risk of everything' is inherent to Putin's existence as leader of Russia and he will continue to leverage those fears against us until he fails sufficiently, or he dies. And in the latter case there is no guarantee his replacement won't be as bad. Does this have to end with Ukraine whole as of status quo 2013? I don't know. But it should end with Putin's army clearly and unambiguously defeated at least to where it's the Russian side that is suing for peace. Plus, for once, this is not a war of our choice, it's Ukraine's war of necessity, and after all the times since 1953 that we engaged in conflicts of choice we started for the wrong reasons in the name of people/cultures who in the end weren't interested enough, there seems something unseemly about the idea of now failing to support Ukraine in a fight they do desperately want to win and when they are fighting much more for the ideals we usually only claim to fight for when our real reasons were oil, or political ideology or other economic expediency.

Reported incompetence of their armed forces notwithstanding, I believe an adventurous Putin armed with nukes is always a worry.

Maybe I should save the invective for the political board, but we find out Thursday who gets put on the Dumbass List for the Tigers.

The guy doing the shopping is an issue.... but other than that, just about everybody should have a price. FWIW, I'll take the under on Skubal actually being traded.

Thanks Hank! 😉

is this Fire Avila night?

Please no. First game in years that my wife and I are attending.

I'm not sure they actually have a best hitter.

Steve Garvey you are such a freaking loser.

Apparently the rumor is that the Sabres (who picked directly behind the Wings) wanted Kasper badly and tried to trade, it is being reported out of Austria (Kasper's home country) that they tried to trade for Kasper but the Wings wanted to keep him. https://themalikreport.com/2022/07/26/roughly-translated-the-buffalo-sabres-wanted-marco-kasper-at-9th-overall-but-detroit-got-their-man-with-pick-8/

I don't see this in regards to the Durant situation. They signed him and paid him when he was injured and going to miss an entire season. They brought in the players he wanted. They brought in the coach he wanted. They did everything he wanted.

I really hope the Blue Jays sweep the Cardinals and the Cardinals miss the playoffs by 1 game.

Fun fact: if you have a lit candle near the area where you're cutting onions, you won't cry. Follow me for more tips.

And the whole weak D strategy of “we can’t get tough like that with Rs because when they win they’ll just turn around and do it to us” is hot garbage, because even if the weak Ds do nothing, Rs are going to “do it to us”, anyway.

I probably saw him 10 times. Always a very entertaining show. He's one of those guys that seemed to reach a lot of people through music, a wide cross section of music fans who usually wouldn't line up together. It's not that his death hit me hard, it's just that it came out of nowhere. I mean, he was a rock star, of course he dabbled in drugs, but this was so surprising.

I'd settle for free Jamoca Shakes for life

Did anyone enjoy the irony of Slippin' Jimmy's plan almost being done in by a legitimate slip and fall?

You’d think with his signing bonus he could afford to go to a sporting goods store for a new one.

1. You do not give Putin anything as a reward for invasion and war crimes against the Ukrainian people. 2. You do not put your own nuclear chips in play for Ukraine.

William Henry Harrison weeps from his grave

We lost the bidding war.

lol I swear when they cut to the fan standing infront of the Cabrera's HR sign the previous pitch I was gonna say something like "Buddy you can stand there for the rest of the season and you're not going to change that number"

Well they don’t want to end up as Bannon’s cellmate.

Gonna have to sling some more insults lol

Must have just happened. Is it dog sledding season somewhere?

Can Jack just shut up

the ~5-6 yrs from ~2015 up to the pandemic were really wasted. The economy was doing fine by then and they could have put things on a firmer basis but they had to keep trying to over rev the engine. If there hadn't been so much money sloshing around beforehand I doubt the exit from the pandemic would have been half this out of control.

when you're one of the highest paid state employees in ohio, there's no rush to leave.

And look at that smile. Good Girl !

such a great movie .... Kubrick was a master