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Publix Field @ Joker Marchant Stadium - Lakeland, FL Game Time Forecast: 76 Sunny Listen: WXYT 1270 Watch: Bally Sports Detroit Probable Starters: RHP Dominic Hamel RHP Matt Manning

Railroad? WTF

It’s nice to know I’m wanted, but at 67 it would be hard for me to get into game shape. What’s the signing bonus?

yeah, who does that judge think he is, settling on a number so high that it might deter others from doing the same thing?

catching up on some of the clips of Lev Parnas yesterday...... he raised his right hand before he said that stuff. People saying the opposite haven't.

Just as an aside, representatives from 33 states met in Williamsburg this week to discuss and exchange plans for the nations 250th celebration of the Declaration of Independence. As expected CW went all out in welcoming these folks. The closing "ceremony" was a bit of a history lesson centered around the events in May of 1774 when the Royal Governor dissolved the House of Burgesses after they announced a "Day of Prayer and Fasting" in support Boston colonists. The group met the next day to discuss plans for sharing information with the other colonies. The group was about as evenly split as we seem to be today, especially those who depended on the mother country for their goods and livelihood. This was re-enacted for the conference participants and whatever tourists and school groups that happened to be on DOG yesterday afternoon. In his closing comments Daniel Cross, who portrays Col George Washington, reminded those gathered outside Raleigh Tavern about the opening lines of the Constitution. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union. (my words now....The Constitution does not say I alone can fix it)

This will literally push zero moderates/independents to vote for Trump. The only people that will be upset about this is the cult that will always vote for him anyway.

Trump is the one who told the Judge he had that much money. When they try to provide a penalty to get him to stop doing the bad things they need to match the punishment to the pain threshold of the perp.

it's funny how you say he's guilty and you aren't defending him but you spend all this time defending him.

There is no way on God's green earth that MLB will let it be known that Ohtani had a gambling problem if that's what occurred here. Not saying he did, I'm willing to believe that it's simply this guy racked up debts and Ohtani wanted to pay it off for him. But the changing of the stories makes believing that suspect. I just saw a list of the MLB players with the highest endorsement earnings, he was over $60-70M a year. The next guys up were under $10. MLB isn't going to let that type of marketing be tainted. It's not unusual for performers at such a high level to be into gambling to such a degree, we have Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as examples. I believe the competitive fire that makes them excel at such a level can be triggered by the same things in the brain that a gambling win, no matter how bit or small, delivers. They have to compete, they want to win.

yep maga calls c-span on the independent line all the time and also say democrat party

What an embarrassment

I'm not sure about the Cade vs Hali discussion, but I'm willing to hope you could be right over the long haul. Things is, we may never know because the organization and coaches are so incompetent. What would Cade look like under a real coach like Rick Carlisle? Watch the Pacers play. They do everything with purpose. Guys are cutting, screening, not hesitating, passing and catching the ball ready to go immediately or relocate. Everyone is on a string off the ball or on the ball. Yes, they have more talent overall, but even their scrubs play that way. That's 100% coaching. Rick is a coach that can make a team better than the sum of its parts. Monty is exactly the opposite.

The gallows is too slow. That's why the Nazis did gas chambers. Much more efficient. I'd assume it would be the same here. Of course, I don't think anyone could accuse the Trump regime of being efficient. So who knows how they'll structure it all. 😏

At this point...Im more worried about his physical/ mental health

If they could catch me. I would become a American Freedom Fighter guerilla with assassination of fascist American politicians my specialty skill.

What took them so long? My hands are all raw from clutching my pearls since yesterday afternoon.

It just seems like it's customary for an agent or lawyer to say that Sutton will turn himself in by x date. We have heard nothing. It just seems weird and concerning that no one has come forward and said yeah Cam is fine and will be turning himself in on x date.

According to the school's website his father coached there. That could be the connection https://goduquesne.com/staff-directory/keith-dambrot/234

But he has to wait a year to be traded after he signs it. And it takes away the qualifying offer which is his only real leverage. He could be looking at two years before the Pistons finally trade him. If Weaver is running the draft in June, I demand a trade July 1. The only risk there is if he makes all nba next year he would be eligible for a larger contract if still a Piston but not with his new team. I have zero faith in Weaver and wouldn't be mad at a young guy wanting to waste more time here under him. Cade is a max player all day every day. I also think 3rd year Cade is better than 3rd year Hali. Cade has a much bigger bag on offense even though Hali is a better shooter. Hali is a better PG/passer. Cade is bad on defense but still better than Haliburton. But maybe I am showing some recency bias since Haliburton has been terrible since the all star break.

Just used to being disappointed by the Tigers by May 1st. Hope they break the streak this year.

It may not have been a bad story for him but it woud have been a bad story for MLB to have a player directly pay gamblers. Even if it's not you making the bets, the important exchange is the $$, so it's not leap to say Ohtani is gambling, and then you have to find out if it's on baseball, then the Angels. In this regard it's not about who made the bets but who's bank account they came from. That's who is doing the gambling. MLB wants no part of that so they try to make Ohtani the victim of a "degenerate gambler"

Benetti is doing March Madness so Dan Dickerson is doing play by play for Bally today.

If it's not Ohtani making the bets then I think what happned was this guy racked up the debts and Ohtani paid it. Then MLB found out and they changed the story and this guy is out.

Powder or rock is fine by me.

The easiest comp to how a normal person would be treated compared to Trump viz "railroaded" is the difference between how you get treated for stockpiling nuclear secrets in the toilet of your shabby roadside motel that happens to be a locus of Russian and Chinese espionage, if you are regular person.

His head is still smaller than Bonds’

The Lions aren't going to do anything until the league does something. If the Lions cut him now, there would be a big cap hit. If the league suspends him for violating the personal conduct policy, which seems likely, the Lions should be able to void his contract. I have a feel we have seen the last of Cam Sutton in a Lions jersey.

They should be getting (and maybe will) get a lot credit for rebuilding Casey Mize into a power pitcher - assuming he ends up as good this season as he looks now.

I have the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego song stuck in my head except I replaced Carmen Sandiego with Cameron Sutton.

Paws gets suspended for performance enhancing drugs.

We can probably put to rest the debate on whether Carlton Davis is an improvement on Cam Sutton.

The Mexicans don’t like playing in the cold.

Torkelson will get off to a slow start, but end up with 40 home runs.

TBF though, a judge will normally come down as hard as possible on *any* perp that continually refuses to recognize the validity of his prosecution. And I don't mean this in the sense of claiming innocence. What drove Engoron to hammer Trump is the same thing that would get any perp hammered, and that is to admit you did what the law clearly says is a crime and still deny you did anything wrong. IOW it's Trump's defiance of the fundamental rule of law that got him hammered, and I would argue that would be the result for pretty much any defendant taking the same approach.

Go Leafs Go! 🙃 🤮

While we wait for Cam Sutton to turn up somewhere, one of Holmes first moves or non moves.

What the hell is "just a common domestic abuse"? Should there even be such a thing. It's bad enough if he abused her, but to me, it's worse when you add the fact that he's a football player - stronger than almost anyone else. It's just not acceptable in any way. Go punch a wall. IF he did it....we haven't heard the whole story. And Ray Rice never did play again, but after the news broke that he KNOCKED OUT his fiancée, he got a standing ovation at training camp. Then the video came out. I love football too but it's kind of sick how much we value it. Maybe Joe Mixon got off because he was still a college kid, but I don't see that as an excuse. He was an adult, and again, being a football player adds another level to it. These guys get praised and then get rich for doing somethin violent. Some of them can't turn that off. I find it puzzling that people seemed to be okay with Mixon but shocked and appalled that Laremy Tunsil was smoking weed through a gas mask. I would guess the vast majority of college students have smoked weed. When the Dolphins drafted him the team President said "I smoked marijuana in college, I turned out alright." The gas mask thing was pretty cool actually, but maybe it's best not to allow yourself to be filmed doing something illegal. It was his step dad that leaked it. Thanksgiving must be fun in that family.

a-s-t-h-m-a is an interesting way to spell "blood clot."

The mental attributes that go into someone hiding from prosecution are not usually 100% conscious. The infantile response in the amygdala of fight/flight - or more basically, "if I just hide from the scary thing it will go away" - doesn't really go away as we get older, it just doesn't present itself in the same ways. Usually someone with a warrant who refuses to turn themselves in won't come out and say (even to themselves) "I am wanted and therefore I will hide", it's more a willful (but unconscious) indifference and unrealistic desire that if I just ignore these calls (and presumably voicemails), they'll eventually just go away. It often requires someone with all the necessary knowledge to infuse that errant thinking with direct logic ("no this is not just going away") to get them to address it.

My sister (who lived in nyc for quite a few years w/first husband) personally knew 2 people who had suits filed against Trump for non-payment on work they did in Trump properties. He kept them in court over and over and over (sound familiar?) until they needed to back off because it was causing their own businesses to fail. This is more than 20 years ago. He’s been cheating people his whole life. And still, not being made to pay up.

We just pulled in the parking lot. Not a bad drive. We took the back roads and left Lakeland at 08:30. 2.5 hours it is.

Vladdy’s 57th birthday.

Find a family service charity working the local problem, make one significant contribution and then stop feeling guilty about ignoring panhandling where in any American city, the actual disposition of anything offered is almost always a crapshoot.

It's really a shame the Lions won some meaningless games at the end or else they could have had one of the top CBs in the draft.