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#3. Hunter Biden #4. Hillary.

If the Tigers win out that will make them 83 and 79. That’s a winning season in my book.

Meh I was kinda hoping they'd just keep Tork down in Toledo for the rest of the year and let him start with a clean slate next season.

I just got over it on Saturday, and my wife finally tested negative just today.

brief and to the point

If you're an oaf like me and can't iron clothing very well, or often make wrinkles worse with an iron.... a clothing steamer is awesome. I've spent years begging my wife to iron my shirts before an important event.... NO MORE. We got one of those mofos and even my disheveled ass can get rid of wrinkles from my clothes.

And I really wanted to like it, too. I'm all for including queer themes in the story mix, because queerness certainly existed in the actual league back then. After all, the reason the real players back then got charm school training, frankly, was to teach them how to not act like dykes in public while they were representing the league. It was considered crucial to the success of the league that they crush any hint of out lesbianism among the players. So directly tackling queerness as a challenge of the time in some detail would have definitely passed the smell test. What doesn't pass the smell test is all the anachronistic language, present-day speech patterns, and use of famous rock songs (e.g., "Piece of My Heart") as featured pieces. All of it yanks you right out of the era, forcing you to wonder why they make such choices instead of just being able to immerse yourself in the story. (Answer: because they're talking to a 2022 woke audience, not a 1943 wartime audience. Even if I understand that, it's still distracting as hell.) As for the concept of queer relationships, not only is it included, it actually constitutes the A story, above the baseball itself. The baseball serves as a mere conduit for bringing the characters together so they can discuss and otherwise explore their sexuality in their off-hours. There are long stretches of no baseball in this show. And worst of all, to me anyway, is that the baseball they do portray is just terrible quality, at least in the first couple of episodes. Outside of a couple of decent swings at the plate, and maybe one good infield throw, they're not even pretending to try to make it look realistic. Few of these actresses are decent athletes, at least in a ball-playing sense. The pitchers are especially bad, in particular the black girl they highlight. And the players and their play are so marginalized and insulted by coaches, PA announcers, and fans that I simply cannot believe it went down like that, even close to it. I guess they feel they need to lean into the victimhood to get you to care about these women while they are on the field. Again, I have seen only two episodes, and I may try to slog through at least one more, but it won't take much more to make me completely bail on it.

At least they earned it.

I had it last week and got over it on Saturday-ish as well.

Even if they are not being paid in actual money, they are being paid in media coverage, which will raise their profile and lead them to increase their list of scummy clients not named Trump who will not be able to get away with not paying them in actual money.

The main qualification Habba, Bobb, and Halligan all share is that they are LILFs.

Stat of the day: Harold Castro has a career 0.1 WAR as a pitcher.

It’s amazing who he has defending him. This is yet another young attorney with less than 15 years experience and a law degree from a bottom 25% law school (Weidner School of Law). The profile is just like Bobb and Halligan. Corcoran is no gem but at least he’s been practicing for 30 years and has degrees from Princeton and Georgetown. That’s the kind of pedigree that I’d expect from the former President.

can't we just play Texas again instead?

hoping that between taking legal advice from non-lawyers and taking legal advice from these horrible lawyers, Trump will serve some jail time

Apropos of nothing... https://archive.ph/OiU75

Counter to your counter: Development is not linear; two of the guys listed (Perez and Meadows) are 22 years old. They are 2 years younger than their average competition. That being said given the lack of development/talent from Avila I would agree any true MLers that come out of his remaining draft picks will be as you said gravy.

https://themalikreport.com/2022/08/30/ivan-ivans-going-to-be-attending-the-red-wings-prospect-tournament-as-a-try-out/

i dont like their chances against the eagles. theyre at home so they have an advantage, but the eagles can run the ball and have a good oline. i expect the lions to give up a ton of points unless the eagles turn the ball over a lot.

Reminds me of the Sonics home jerseys. I don't love it, but I'd wear that over the teal any day.

Seriously. The Rockets should have Vernors replace Credit Karma as the sponsor on those jerseys.

I see it’s from the Toledo CL, not AA. Road trip! https://toledo.craigslist.org/msg/d/toledo-1984-greco-js55/7512256422.html You already have the BB ones covered, though.

Exactly how many times does ND have to say no before people get the hint? At this point it has just become embarrassing.

halftime? dude, it will be the first time he throws an incompletion. mcs will be ranting about how he doesnt care about the fans and this is all the fords' fault. tp will blame the coaching staff. UNACCEPTABLE!

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I’m prepared. Haven’t had to use it but if/when I do, it will be with every penny.

Wentz: 6 shutout innings tonight with 4 base runners... and so far at AAA: 3.18 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 10 K's per 9 in 10 starts / 45 innings... Worth giving him another shot IMO...

Learn to do it correctly when you are 10.

WOOHOO!!! Miggy is BACK!!! A single AND a DOUBLE today!!! Let's sign him to another EXTENSION!!! I mean, he's our BEST hitter...!!! Today...

Recent stats have Android as over 70% of the mobile market. LOL

I was having those issues with the snowblower several years ago. It was especially frustrating after being diligent about servicing it each Spring. I talked to one of the counter guys at the place I bought it and had it serviced. They pointed out the special small engine blend to me. I think I may have started using it on the mower about the same time.

I blame it all on the ping pong table. Burn that sucker.

I liked the hubris of the trade at the time because we thought we could still complete and needed someone to take over when Riley went down, and it was clear that Paredes was never going to get a real chance in Al Avila’s world. He didn’t get even as many at bats here as Travis Demeritte, perhaps because Al thought he had to prove trading for Demeritte was a good move. It’s not as though Paredes was always considered no better than a fringe prospect, though, at least outside the eyeball scouts in the Tiger camp. The national scouting reports all said he had an exceptional hit tool, which he has proven out over several seasons of minor and now major league ball; and even though he’s stocky and was always likely to move from the middle to the corners, his glove and arm were considered solid even if his range isn’t. Even this year, all the main stat sources agree that Paredes is having a plus defensive year. The main reason he’s not playing third every day in Tampa is Yandy Diaz. I would bet at some point in the next few years, maybe next year or 2024, Diaz moves over to first or leaves the organization, and Paredes will be given his chance to hold down third base on the regular. He may end up a full-time DH someday, but at age 23 with even average D, that day is not now. Paredes will probably not become Aaron Judge, in that he won’t stop having down periods. Very few players don’t go through down periods, and it’s clear that when Paredes does struggle at the dish, the See I Told Ya Crowd will be here and all over that, just as they have been lately, while others will be all over his recent stats when he is in an upswing. Either way, though, the overall takeaway is undeniable: Isaac Paredes has been a very pleasant net gain for the Rays. He will have been worth 2-3 wins by the time the season ends, and so far, we are getting nothing in return for that, and whatever our personal takes on the trade are, I think we can all agree that part definitely sucks out loud.

That might have a lot to do with the processing actually. The broadcast of the game is coming from one place and the commercials are coming from somewhere else and radio has added secondary filters to process the sound. They now have their signal processed to sound good over a radio and the streaming version, which usually runs different commercials is processed to run on smaller speakers or headphones. The commercials are often coming from a third party server who does not have special processing to make it sound better on the smaller speakers or headphones, so it comes out as overbearing. It's not intentional, but it's also fixable but nobody is in a rush to fix it.

This is just saddening. Mother of a 14-year-old girl killed by touching downed electrical line shares final moments Kid grabbed a live wire thinking it was nothing more than a twig. Completely innocent action with tragic consquences. To make things worse, first responders arrived, but could do nothing until the wire was deactivated. I simply cannot fathom.