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I think more people here respect religion than you think. Over in the religion thread, there was a long drawn out discussion about the existence of God and almost everyone either believed in God or thought that is reasonable to think that some kind of supreme being exists. There were only a couple of all out atheists in the discussion. What people don't like is people who don't seem to be very Christian pretending they are better than everyone else and telling people how to to behave and what to think.

More of it if they get Flaherty!

President Trumusk

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I'm not so naive to think bad people can't pursue beneficial political policies (often accidental to some other not so beneficial objective!) and vice versa, but to anyone who supports Trump *because* they think he is some kind of latter day Christian Paladin, I would say you are deluded.

it wasn't a brow beating about religion. Some people are just too defensive of their hypocrisy

LOL - well, the religious aren't doing a very good job of it so somebody has to.

Bahamas should trade him to the vikings for a championship core of ambassadors

I think it’s wild that people that claim to be Christian are Donald Trump supporters.

Ever since the species began to think, it has struggled with a way to justify a set of ethics/morals that seem to have a level of universal appeal. In religious systems this is easy - you don't have think too much about why something is right if God told you it was right. But as religiosity fades in Western culture, we'd sort of like to get to a way to argue for that system of morality that we are all comfortable with, that has evolved from the Hebrews and Greeks and for the last 2 millennia, to the western Christian church, by some non-religious means, but philosophically it's not that easy, though folks have been working at it for hundreds of years. To me when you say you are a 'cultural' Christian what you are saying is that you'd like to keep living in the moral milieu of the western Christian church but without the old man in the sky and the Church's downside baggage but you don't have a totally clear idea how to argue for your morality without them. (yes - I'm being a little arch - but just a little)

Guy is still productive at 38. He would fill a need.

Dang thats awesome!!!

See, now that's the thing that's gonna make you wanna watch, right? Media meltdown live and nationwide? 😉

As usual, Powell talks and bad things happen.

I'm just being over dramatic plus I like the old lady striking out Javy meme.

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Those dang tourist from Illinois?

Bregman may very well fail, but I don't think Baez is a good comparison. In fact, they are opposites in terms of skillsets. Baez has always had perhaps the worst plate discipline in baseball even when he was good. Bregman has close to the best BB/K ratio in the baseball throughout his career.

I don't mind Congress Critters being well paid - there are a lot of places in the Country where $250K is not great shakes for a professional. But the payback ought to be tighter financial ethics rules and an end to private money campaign finance slush funds. I know - dream on.....

He is reportedly very close with Yu Darvish. SD is a very real possibility.

I dont think Biden was hypocritical in this instance. I also think pointing out a politicians hypocrisy isnt super difficult

I see no alternative to a 6 year Bregman deal becoming anything besides another payroll boat anchor.

You can take the boy out of Afrikaans but you can’t take the Boer out of the boy.

I am not playing that game. Anything anybody suggests will be shot down, but every year there are some contract surprises in both directions. The following players have been linked to the Tigers and I think they are interesting: Bregman Walker Kim Flaherty Buehler Sasaki Heaney Yates

https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social/post/3ldkkxfjcms2v Seth Abramson ‪@sethabramson.bsky.social‬ Follow Musk is so set on destroying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Liz Warren created—because she fights for workers and Musk is an plutocrat who detests them—that he’s willing to take the plunge and... ...keep being an open racist. He’s committing to the bit so hard it’s like he was born to it. December 17, 2024 at 11:55 PM Everybody can reply

I'm only bumping this up to mention that I'm doing a rewatch of BCS. I just started season 3, got through the first 2 seasons over the past week. My observations: 1) It's much better the second time around. Seems like the first time too much energy was spent trying to find links to BB and easter eggs, etc. You missed out on things. In the scene with Chuck where he records Jimmy confessing, he's got his house all taped up, etc. He makes a reference to "it all burning down". I remember feeling that the show dragged on and was a little slow. I am not feeling that this time. Maybe it was the week to week waiting. 2) The storylines were tighter than I remember. I thought certain things lingered on longer than they actually did. 3) It's easier to follow the cartel stuff which confused me at the time. 4) I am amazed at how much I forgot. Obviously I recall the overall storyline but smaller plotlines are fresh to me. I remember them immediately but several times I found myself anticipating almost as if I am watching for the first time. Just wanted to throw this out there to anybody else who is considering doing this. I am having a great time and can't wait to watch more every night.

Always the victim. Always.

Ryan might be decent at QB, he was a huge liability at Corner in Remember the Titans.

It’s the time of the season to declare that “Trading Places” is far superior as a Christmas movie to “Die Hard”.

I used to love going to games and I live in Dearborn, the stadium is 15 minutes away from me. But I understand. It's so darn expensive now. My workplace has tickets and they will offer them up sometimes in an email. I can't go to weekday games (day or night) because of my work schedule. If there's a chance weekend tickets are offered, I'll jump, but that's rare. The games look great on my TV and if it's a stinker I can go get stuff done around the house, but realizing that going to a game is a hassle makes me feel like an old man. I turn 60 a week from today, so I guess I am.

Minor league games are great! We try to visit MiLB parks every year that we’ve not been to before. Columbus, GA, Spartanburg, SC, and Knoxville, TN are all on the radar this year.

Get some Culver's onion rings

Last season Badoo had a -0.5 WAR. 500 of him is a whole lotta bad

He can’t, but he can get INTs.

Well… 500 Akil Baddoos = 1 Juan Soto

I have never considered myself a sentimental traditionalist, but if they make any of these weird changes to the game it’s going to piss me off so much I’m going to take the $3.99 a month I spend on MLB radio and spend it on fast food in protest. But not at McDonald’s.

I don't see it happening, but I went looking for links as I haven't heard anything about Flaherty to Detroit being talked about. https://www.si.com/mlb/tigers/news/detroit-tigers-jack-flaherty-reunion-predicted-to-happen-in-free-agency It's the only one I can find, but the numbers aren't horrible, especially considering what we're seeing now a days. That said, I have no faith Illitch will open his wallet for even this modest contract of 5/115.

It's kind of wild that the two things they got Hunter Biden on were illegal possession of a gun and tax evasion. MAGAs should love the guy!

I bet he brings the dog out in his players.

Bregman "My OBP fell off a cliff. Give me $200 million."

Sam does 30 minutes on Cade and a few other Pistons. Says Cade is an all star this year. Goes on quite a bit about Thompson and how he is used. Said he is too good not to play, so they better figure out how to stop sitting him in the corner on offense.

The Tigers have been linked to him for a while now. But are the links speculation or is there some substance? I'd trust evening radio guy.....afternoon? Not so sure

Okay, so if we can beat the Bears and the 49ers... which seems doable even with our heavily depleted defense... and if we can get the Packers to beat the Vikings (wait a minutes for me to wash my hands after rooting for the Packers), then we could go into week 18 with the division sewn up.

A sample of some of this year's wreaths on Duke of Gloucester (DOG) St.

♬ King Tut ♬

Reupping the need to start taxing churches