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Not directed at you individually, so please don't take this as such.... There is tons of help on the ground in NC....and in VA, and in TN, and in SC, and in GA, and in FL. Any assertion otherwise is complete and total BS. I haven't seen my family in three weeks because I'm on the ground providing support. I know.

No, he has CONCEPTS of a plan.

I should add. Yesterday's visit to Duke was good. Everything is basically stable which is all I can ask for. I'm not on O2, exercising as prescribed 2-3 times a week and my doctors are happy. If anything they are concerned I may have lost too much weight in recent months. It was also a good chat with the head of the transplant team which put things into better perspective. To quote Monty Python "I'm not dead yet"

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I would not mention politics and just have a good discussion about baseball with you. I would only punch you in the face if you wore a Yankees cap.

…. Are some people forgetting (or disputing) that there was a transition of power, by for Christ’s sake, are you going to call what went on as “peaceful”???? And are we going to call the countless lawsuits and inquiries that CHALLENGED perfectly fine votes, and called out election workers, putting their very lives in danger - are you calling that PEACEFUL?? Add to that all the violent rhetoric from the damn CANDIDATE himself every damned day for four years… What of any of this is peaceful?? What of any of this is truthful?? Don’t liars, at some point, deserve to be called out for their behavior?!

I sure miss times like when McCain responded to supporters who said the country would be destroyed if Obama won, by telling them that he was a good, decent man and that their fears were unfounded.

Ignorance, selfishness, lack of empathy, fear mongering, Russian propaganda, toxic masculinity, religious extremism, hate, racism, etc.

this exactly. You can keep working a gig like that when you are old if you are in decent condition, but you have to keep working all the time to stay current like Scully did.

I live on a cul-de-sac, so we get together with the neighbors and all setup in one driveway in the front of the cul-de-sac. When the kids come up, we tell them to take one from each bowl (there's seven or eight bowls). We are all eating, drinking and talking, and so not paying much attention. It was rainy anyway, so there weren't a lot of kids. Anyway, this one kid came back to the table AT LEAST seven times. Always with the same "Trick or treat" and look on his face, like he was there for the first time. It was quite funny. He was probably nine or ten. He had (I assume) his brother with him the first few times, but by the end it was just him. I swear the last couple of times he didn't get more than a house away before he turned around and came back. 🤣

Thanks for the info. Nobody needs to vote now, since it's been determined already. That's disappointing.

Thank you for being there!

they were just above average offsensively during their 2 month sprint no one really knows if they are in store for a regression, will produce the same, or are about to explode in what would be a remarkable player development success story if some of Tork, Jung, Sweeney, Perez, Malloy and Dingler join Green, Meadows, Carpenter and Keith as consistently productive major leaguers - that's going to be great but logic dictates not all of them will make it and some might regress he has not made a BIG TRADE yet, but all of Harris' trades have been good, and it's possible some might turn out great - so I would be confident in the return if he made an impactful trade in addition to spending money for impactful bat

So the rest of us take one for the team? The argument would be that currently there are externalities adding to building costs which have uncoupled housing prices from direct construction cost, which if removed, would increase market driven construction. The market says the the proper balance of factors creating the value of your house should neither be driven down by the government overbuilding housing sold at below cost nor driven up by government created bottlenecks (regulations or whatever) creating an artificial shortage. But for sure, if you hold an artificially inflated asset of any kind you are always at risk of it coming back to earth whether it be your house, a bitcoin, or an Nvidia share.......😉

The ONLY time you see Trump laugh is when he's laughing AT somebody.

No but they are being fooled by a racist Nazi just like the people of Germany were fooled and they still deeply regret it to this day, as they should. Trump wants to be a gangster like Putin or better yet, a deity like Kim Jong Un. Would you want to live in a country like Russia or North Korea? The only reason you're still in a free country now is because there were people in the government who stood up to him and stopped him from doing whatever he wanted as President.

The nature of text message campaigns is obscene and needs to be regulated, but these are the ones that are really getting under my skin. This is clearly a Trump group posing as a Harris group to rile up the progressives and get them to flip or stay home. It’s false advertising. I’ve gotten three just like it in the two days.

Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich started all of this. I don't see any common sense people taking control of the Republican party any time soon. I think John Kasich was trying a few years ago. The more pragmatic issue-oriented types have been pushed aside for these extremists and conspiracy theorists and yes RACISTS. The extremists on the left are kind of kept on the fringes. It's at the point where most Democrats just roll their eyes and let folks like Tlaib talk themselves tired. Yes, I believe in some conspiracies. I'll never buy the JFK assassination story. Most of my conspiracy beliefs are sports related (David Stern rigged the Patrick Ewing draft, the Refs were told to pick up the flag against the Cowboys, Game 6 of the 2002 WCF was rigged for the Lakers). But those sports are businesses, those are entertainment and they can run their show any way they want. I'm the sucker for believing it was legit.

I can’t get over the guy concerned about inflation wants to vote for the guy promising to raise the price on most goods by 20% or more.

We won 86 games with about a dozen rookies on the roster.

For a good part of my lifetime, a 6.5% mortgage would have been considered a good deal, and most boomers probably paid at least that on average over the lifetime of their mortgages. The 15 yrs of very low rates sort of masked the fact that without abnormally low mortgage costs, housing prices were rising out of reach of too many people. So the issue for housing costs in the US is less mortgage cost than the price of housing. This is a multifaceted problem that has grown up slowly over the years and it touches on zoning, building codes, transportation policy, urban policy etc. It took a long time to develop and is going to take a while to unwind. To their credit, the Dems are at least talking like they realize housing costs are being driven by shortage, but it's going to take a lot more than down payment subsidies to fix it.

Thanks. I hope we can some day get back to a normal country that does not hate each other.

Trump has 2 issues. Immigration - which exists because the GOP has refused every effort to pass new legislation for over a dozen years, and inflation, which was world wide and the from which the US has recovered faster and with more growth than any place else. There are lots of reasons why the general public doesn't understand how economics works, and every election that lack of understanding is an issue that can cost a good economic manager (e.g GHWB) an election unfairly. But there is nothing new about that.

Speaking of Scully... I'm pick the off season to start reading basball books. This year I had Joe Posnanski's book "Why we love baseball" on standby. His books are so much more than just a list of what happened. When he discusses Koufax's 4th no hitter he focuses on Scully's PBP of the 9th, verbatim. It's pure poetry. I'll share some screenshots later from my kindle.

The economy is always a factor. There are always people who are going to get screwed no matter what and others who will do great no matter what. We've been telling that to you Republicans for years! I just don't think it's comparatively bad now. But let's imagine for a moment though that Trump was not a traitor, a fascist and an overall disgraceful person and was actually a legitimate choice for President. What specifically do you think he can do to fix to improve a economy? Eliminate the income tax and pay for everything with tariffs? Deport 16 million immigrants?

They have in the aggregate, actually, but I haven't dived in to look at the caveats. Only saw the top level headlines.

I read people on the net blaming that and the Boeing thing. It doesn't matter, the numbers are what they are. And look at the market reaction - booming stocks today - bad news is good news. JaPo to the rescue. When you have nothing but a printer....

Each of Trump's death threats is aimed at a different audience. The next Vice President, GOP chairperson of an investigative committee or the next CJCS know that unsatisfactory service to his needs will result in death. How is he still close? Lets hope its a landslide against him in fact.

I can't get 3 people to agree on a tee time and these folks get an entire neighborhood to do a choreographed dance.

Now that inflaion is under control, it appears that you are looking for a new economic problem that doesn't really exist.

If he in fact loses, one of the many benefits will be the possibility of never hearing "but 2016" ever again

Yeah i hope they threw out the cleats they used in that awful Panthers game lol.

But he has a plan and it’s almost ready.

recall the movie Galaxy Quest where the poor naive aliens were under the mis-impression that TV show they saw Tim Allen and his crew were in were "Historical Records" and you can believe people fooling themselves with bad data. Plenty of honorable people fall prey to this and many bad ones manipulate them.

Bernie Porn has spoken

He was talking about the automobile industry

Literally calling for Liz Cheney's death by firing squad should have been a decisive moment. We have to break this movement. To quote Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln: "the moment is NOW!"

So, why does she have a higher approval rating than Trump even in right wing polls, but she is losing the presidential polls conducted by the same right wing polling orgs? My guess is that people like her more than Trump, but don't think she would be a good President. It seems like you are just cherry picking every poll where she looks good and ignoring all he polls where Trump looks good.

Rodgers has 79 yards through 2 1/2 quarters. Who does he think he is, Jared Goff?

The announcers are afraid to come right out and say what’s been obvious for weeks with the Jets. Rodgers is the problem. He’s old and done. We saw the signs 2 years ago in his last year in GB.

People want to be nervous. I do think there is a strong possibility of violence if team crybaby doesn't get its way but the overall trends (well outlined above). The only trend you don't mention is the huge, already polled and captured in early voting trends gender gap.

THJ has been dog **** so far. No need to wait to say I told you so. Extreme one dimensional players like him offer nothing to this team. Score 12 give up 13, rinse and repeat. Getting a defensive identity would be the best thing for this team. You can play defense with effort for the most part. That is why I have been wanting Stewart to start over Duren.

Looks like we won’t have Bob Costas to kick around anymore. I still think he was a genuinely great announcer when he was working with Kubek back in the day. http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/mlb/bob-costas-retires.html

I think the only thing I can say with some certainty is that the voting numbers are, for sure, Going to be higher than they were in 2020. Some part of me says substantially higher. And, my gut feeling is just that this plays better for the Harris side of the equation. We’ll see.

Last year's team loses this game. I lost count of how many we lost against teams without their best player(s) that we "should" have won last year. Stew really was the biggest difference maker in this game on the defensive end. There was a lot of buzz about how the defense is 20 pts better when he's on the court prior to this game and I'm sure that number only improved. The offense has been an issue because he's not good on the roll (stone hands), but JB mentioned before the game that it was his fault and he needs to find a way to get Stew more 3's. JB Also mentioned after the game that if Stew keeps this up, he's going to have to adjust the big man rotation to give him more minutes. I'm happy to hear that...but what does that say about Duren? With all of Weaver's investment in Centers, could it be that we still don't actually have a true starter on the roster? It's nice to see the Ivey that I was so excited about when we drafted him. Monty was a basketball terrorist. Ivey is even showing some nice defensive moments here and there. There was a stretch in the 3rd where he was absolutely wearing Maxey's jersey. We've seen him be streaky before, but hopefully his play can be sustained throughout the year. Tobias and THJ carried them offensively in the 4th. Something that was sorely missing last year and it's the reason you get vets around your youngsters. Harris has had a rough start to the season and even this game, but he put in 18pts and 14 rebs last night, which was nice to see. I know everyone's waiting for THJ to go into a slump to say, "I told you so", so I'm just going to give him his flower now because he's playing pretty well to start the season. I doubt we beat the Knicks, but then you have the Nets, Lakers, Hornets, and Hawks coming up. Could win 2 or 3 of those.

Put a democrat in charge of the Lions and they suddenly become a well run organization.

I'd be wary of adding a lot of position player veterans unless those veterans were good cultural fits. You can't help but notice that Javy Baez leaving the dugout signaled immediately the surge. Is Alex Bregman that fit? I dunno. Spencer Torkelson would be a cultural fit if he could hit his weight. Will that happen? I dunno. The formula of the '84 Tigers to create a core of young players who all come up together and add via trade (Chet Lemon) and FA (Darrell Evans) those extra pieces seems more robust for our market than the 2006-2013 model of building via the checkbook and trading for pieces from the bottom of the woodpile because only a Dave Dombrowski can do that if he's backed by a hefty Mike Illitch checkbook and Scott Boros is on speed dial.

I think we have to ride the kids again to see what we have in a full season of Meadows, Jung, Sweeney, Dingler and Malloy. Can’t bury any of them—get them 400-500 AB’s. Could lead to an improved team, or some regression. Lots of variability. External reinforcements should be at 1B, maybe OF. Lots of kids coming fast. Not all will make it, but we have enough depth and options. Supplement the pitching staff. A #2 and a solid bullpen dude.

the number of the counts is 3, and three shall be the number of the count. Neither shall it be 2. 4 is right out.