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I could write a whole chapter about that...

Speaking of good old Jimmy... You have to supply your own Marlboros?

The effort some of you are putting into crazy ideas to motivate Baez by humiliating him or benching him in favor of clearly lesser players is really weird. Dude is a dumpster fire and also the best SS the Tigers have by far but the moment people start pointing that out, people feel the need to come up with some crazy ideas that he is not getting the $98M he is guaranteed. Feel free to keep pointing out he sucks at the plate (he does) but your olde timey "solutions" are silly.

if you keep digging, you eventually will get out of this hole. just keep digging. you're doing great. almost there.

I also think that, as frustrating as it is almost baked into the cake in this era that various GOP pols will engage in this kind of rhetoric, this is an area where higher standards have to be set. "Rigging" is a very loaded word that is often used to imply votes being casted illegally, thrown out, etc. Using it in this context really cheapens the word and lacks memory for how that word was thrown around at the end of 2020 and the consequences that resulted from that.

It's a legitimate topic in general, but when it is brought up by a high level politician who knows what kind of system she is getting into, it sounds disingenuous.

Yes. She's running for Senate in the largest state in the country. Who did she think was going to be paying for things? THis is the game she chose to play in. Don't whine because their billionaires spent more than your billionaires. Reminds me of the Right Stuff... "Our Germans are better than their Germans"

Baez had his worst full season in the majors last year, while posting his best strike out rate ever. looks like he is trying to do just what they want him to do, and it has clearly all blown up in their faces

Fielding percentage! Man, I haven’t thought of that one for a long time …

Trump’s whole schtick is salesmanship. The silly tweets. The nicknames. He knew how to reach into what a segment of aggrieved people were feeling. He could speak the language they wanted to hear. Nobody else can do that. The folks in rural areas with the trump hats and buttons and car flags are doing it for Donald. Nobody else. the one person I think could pick up this idea and run with it is JD Vance.

Tell you what, let’s try this. Give me $100 million and then try pissing me off. I’ll let you know if it works.

KLaw top 30 out; no mock but Caleb Bonemer (MI HS 3B) is ranked 11th.

Baez will have a better year in 2024 than 2023. By a good margin. Patience grasshoppers. If there is crow 🐦‍⬛ to eat in September I will be here.

He is just stealing money at this point.

another thing that I didn't like about 4 years ago. The masked goons from the Bureau of Prisons standing in phalanx on the Lincoln Memorial to prevent people from peaceful protesting.

Just a few points on the "Are you better off" question with a few facts from JVL (Bullwerk) https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/the-definitive-answer-to-the-question?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=142360180&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true Crime??? In Trump’s 2020, America became a criminal hellscape the likes of which we have never seen. Under Joe Biden, the murder rate has fallen every year—and the drop from 2022 to 2023 is one of the largest declines in the murder rate in American history. And it’s not just murder that’s down: Violent crime is down across the board. One more thing: In 2020, 8,600 American troops were in harm’s way in Afghanistan. Today that number is zero.³

What about others that make plays that a SS with a high FP% doesn't even get to? That is left out of FP% You can't make an error if you don't touch the ball. A SS or 2B with no range means they are fielding balls hit generally right at them. Those are hard to screw up. So they have a high FP%. A SS or 2B with better range still makes those same plays the first guy makes, but also gets to balls outside of the other guy's range. Of those extra chances, he will commit some errors. So his FP% is lower. But he's also converting more outs. The errors made are irrelevant in comparison because in both situations the player is on base. Would you trade less errors for less outs?

Yup, that should be the starting 5. The rest of the regular rotation is filled in with Sasser, Grimes, Stewart, and I guess one of Fournier/Brown. Fournier has the proven 3 which could stretch the floor. Brown's 3% has gotten better over the years and is the younger player, so maybe him rather than Fournier?

I will say this for Porter. Was she the lead prosecutor in an impeachment? No? She didn't earn the job, then. Schiff put his ass on the line and is a hero.

You will doubtless see this in your feeds today.

That, at least, wasn’t an Italian stereotype that anyone in my family bought into. 😂

The only person who doesn't see this is Monty. Let's keep rolling out that starting lineup with Ausar/Stew/Duren who are a -10. Not only does taking Stew out of the starting lineup help Cade and Ivey who are struggling with a packed paint every night, it also means less Wiseman minutes which is good for everyone.

Need lots more voices like that... Speaking out loud... and LOUDLY.

good man

Reminds me of Casablanca.... "I'm shocked, SHOCKED, there's gambling going on here" lol

I’m pulling back from her personal tree and focusing on the “billionaires control the election process with their money” forest. I don’t think that’s wrong. That’s what Citizens United was all about.

Yes. She lost by 20 points, you cannot boil her loss down to "billionaires rigging the outcome" And if one purports to be angry about Trump using that kind of language (as people should), you cannot turn around and then use the same language when an election doesn't go your way. Take your loss with a little bit of dignity and move on.

Another part of going back to the way things were - can we please give up this "rigged" bull****?

I’ll bet Jim Leyland could learn’im to hit that ball.

Sorry if you say he escapes blame for this particular incident. This says he's pretty nuts Who is North Carolina’s Mark Robinson, the off-the-rails Republican nominee for governor? - Vox

It was more the colors that caught my attention. I thought we all agreed that pitcher wins and fielding percentage were the bees' knees.

These hiring practices seem abusive to me. 😕. Sorry, DJ

When I went to the Lions @ Niners, I chatted to Lions fans living in 12 states (Oregon, Florida, Utah, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Washington to name an few) and 3 provinces. More, because that’s just people who identified where they’re from as we talked. On my Sunday morning Vancouver-SF flight day of the game, more than 10 people on a plane of 130 people were wearing Lions gear.

Neither was Saddam, but he still slipped through

The sixties wants to make a point.

Maduro didn't have Chavez's charisma either. Once you break the system it doesn't matter.

i'm pissed off that nobody owes me $100M

All they need to do is win this one and that'll be it for elections.

Meanwhile, down here in reality….

Maybe the disconnect is mostly because my field is engineering, but I don't think I've ever been through any kind of in depth interview process where anything in the process had anything to do with my competence or likely success level in the job. I always got the impression the processes were mostly designed to justify the employment levels in the personnel depth. The only things I want when I hire someone is detail on what they have already actually done, and to talk to the people who have working with them in the past. Never saw much value in anything else. We have this conceit in the US about talk - it extends in all kind of areas - employment interviews, politic decision making, you name it. We put far too much stock in what people say when we should simply be looking at what they have done. Talk is cheap, and never cheaper than when money or jobs are on the line. The idea is to hire the best person to DO the job, not the one who can tell the best stories about doing it.

Ok Stan. 😃

This just seems to be a reasonable conclusion, to me.

I don't know if this qualifies as a peeve, but for the 2nd time in my career I have finished a battery of interviews for a new position - which took place over 6 months - & then was notified yesterday that it was down to me & 1 other guy - & they were going to pursue them first. In some ways, it makes me think they liked what I had to offer - but this one came after they mistakenly sent me a rejection letter once & then rescinded it - put me thru 3 more interviews - & then moved on. Maybe it's just because it's fresh - but I hate putting that much mental energy into something to be let down.