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I think any agent that can't do that should be fired immediately.

I've felt for a long time that conservative Christian pearl-clutching over imminent "sharia law" was one of those accusation-as-confession things. Like a Coca-Cola stockholder fulminating against the health risks of Pepsi.

Practically from the moment they announced the trade. The haul we gave up for him ... Got a couple good years out of Dany Patterson, though. But Gregg Zaun was flipped over to the Royals before he stepped onto the field for us and had a pretty good run with the Jays we could have used. (Although that would have precluded signing Ivan.) I remember being especially hopping mad to let Catalanotto go, and he did have a fairly decent career after that, but Francisco Cordero was the real kick in the balls from that trade.

One of my least favorite Tigers ever.

Probably true in a lot of denoms. Apropos that Tater posted that lecture by Watts above where he makes the excellent point that a person can only talk about things in the forms/images/language they have particular access and experience in, IOW that your communication is all culturally conditioned. Paul is pretty revolutionary when you filter him through the lens of what he was - an upper class(probably), Pharasaic Jew of the Roman Empire. Of course by today's culture he still appears in places as reactionary. I don't think that's the best take, but YMMV. I always look back to the story told in Acts about Peter and Paul disagreeing on doctrine. I am always astounded the curators of the NT let that story slip through because to me it is the most salient episode in all of post resurrection writing and blows-up every church's claim to interpretive authority. You are not an evil person because you disagree on doctrine. If Peter and Paul do not, nobody ever will, no-one really has any better claim to it than anyone else. (yeah - they'd probably have burned me at the stake as Gnostic heretic too )

And by completely, you mean: made the playoffs and won a series and took the next series to extra innings in a deciding game. Not my definition of the phrase.

I think, barring injuries, they’re a playoff team again. It’s time to develop playoff habits during the regular season. Things I want to see this year: Cade — Be aggressive from the start. This team runs best when he looks to score first and distribute second. Cade’s efficiency — Target a true shooting percentage near 60%. Ausar — Operate as a secondary ball handler, both with and without Cade on the floor. Duren — Improve both perimeter and interior defense; he needs progress in both to earn a second contract. Ivey — Become at least a neutral defender. If he averages 18–20 points and shoots over 38% from three, that’s enough. Basically, he can't be hunted by offenses in the playoffs. The 46.5-win projection feels right. If things break well, they could reach 50 wins and contend for the 4th or 5th playoff seed.

I'm old enough to remember that day and the few following quite well. I was 10, I remember seeing teachers standing outside their classrooms murmuring as we took our bathroom breaks, or headed to recess. A lot of tension in the air

It's long been my opinion that Paul (Saul) usurped JC's power long ago.

Lordy, we wouldn't want to mess with the vibe of a team that completely **** the bed in a historic meltdown.

I don't subscribe to this well known theory. I think talent sprinkled with good health and a bit of luck wins. Last year we traded our number 2 starting pitcher and went on a great run. Players are professionals playing hard for their future as well as the team. I don't think they sulk and despair to the point of not trying.

Dylan Cease; "At surface level, Dylan Cease did not have a very successful contract year for the Padres, but his 3.56 FIP and a 29.8 percent strikeout rate that ranked third among qualified starters still paints him as an impact, frontline starter." They predict 5 years at $125m https://www.si.com/mlb/padres/san-diego-padres-news/padres-dylan-cease-predicted-to-end-free-agency-with-125-million-deal

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I still love that bit, and one of the things I love about it is that if you love football but hate baseball you'll think he's praising the former while mocking the latter, and vice versa.

He already cleared waivers. The Lions have him an injury settlement after he cleared. He’s free to see with another team but the Lions likely have a handshake agreement to sign him.

Not the red hats. Remember, these people in large part embrace the prosperity gospel. Trump is wealthy because God favors him, and God favors people who favor whom He favors. Unrelated comment: Pouring $200 million into a vanity construction project at the White House is not the act of a man who expects to leave willingly in three years.

I think it's more than that. They want people to suffer, and they want people to die, because that's how they demonstrate their power over the entire country and everything in it, which is quite explicitly their goal. Having the power of ruination and life-or-death over the people is how they maintain their control over everything. The suffering and death are not merely consequences. They are tools. Related to this, there's zero advantage to the republicans for everyone to be prosperous, despite their promises, and I'm including the red hats themselves, because prosperous people have the luxury of free time to complain and protest and push back and work to kick the scoundrels out if they become unhappy with them, which inevitably always happens. Abolish the middle class, demote them to working class status, put the working class on the constant edge of starvation, and they'll be too focused on getting by day to day to think about luxury items like protesting and voting and upending the current political order. I believe that's the thinking on the inside, anyway. I guess we'll see how far they are allowed to get along with that.

Just another typical fall day at the Idaho Botanical Garden, one of my most frequently visited and favorite places ever.

Jones was never close to Goff on the Rams. He’s more like Darnold or Geno Smith.

I wonder if he dresses. I think two-way players can dress for 50 games.

All the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men can't undo what this pretender has done

Damian Easley for Greg Gohr was a good move.

Possibly some good news out of Indiana. Granted it's still a deep red state, but at least they're committed to proportionality to a certain extent..

Over and over and over again you hear from farmers and those whose economic livelihood relies on farming and agriculture, about just how bad things are getting for them. I have no clue who this guy voted for. Hopefully not Trump. But you're seeing the negative economic consequences of Trump's tariffs and on farmers and rural Americans all over the country.

There was a documentary on Prime that said the Romans created Christianity because they were having problems with the Jews. They needed the people to be sheep. Of course the rules did not apply to Roman leadership. History repeats. Now Trump is the new Messiah, so do as he says and not how he does.

I don't care who is in the Epstein Files. They need to be released to the public, with victims protected. There needs to be justice brought to whoever abused and trafficked these women. Donald Trump Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Republicans, Democrats, there needs to be justice for these women.

I wonder if he's being coy, as if he came out and said "Our guys needed a break and this gave us longer than a time out with a microscopic chance of something being found to overturn the play" the league would begin to look into the policy.

This popped up in my feed today https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/how-do-religious-americans-view-the?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true A few interesting takeaways

Heretics sometimes get a bum rap. One of the most famous events in Church history was the Arian controversy of the 4th century, resolution of which led to among other things the Nicene Creed. On the one hand, the priest Arius and like-minded bishops such as Eusebius of Nicomedia perceived Jesus as a highly moral person created and then adopted by God as his Son, with Jesus being raised from the dead and granted a divine yet subordinate status. To future saint Athanasius and his mentor Alexander of Alexandria, the Arian position was destructive since their view was that Jesus was fully and equally God, which not only upheld the principle of monotheism but was necessary if one were to believe that Christ was capable of offering mankind moral and physical salvation. It was a genuinely undecided issue, with support for the respective positions ebbing and flowing practically year by year, city by city, council by council, emperor by emperor. It deeply involved the urban, Greek-speaking Christian laity, who were no country bumpkins. Cities at the heart of the Roman world in late antiquity – Alexandria, Antioch and then Constantinople – were sophisticated metropolises where trade, commerce, art, and learning flourished. Gregory of Nyssa later in the century quipped about Constantinople that “in this city if you ask a shopkeeper for change, he will argue with you about whether the Son is begotten or unbegotten”. Not one, not two, but at least four councils deemed Arian’s views to be orthodox prior to his death although that position eventually lost out. Meanwhile Athanasius repeatedly was hit with charges of financial extortion and incitement of violence, all of which resulted in Athanasius being exiled on five different occasions totalling almost 20 years by multiple emperors. But the Athanasius position eventually won out.

I know Costa's wife in real life and they are both on the left side of the fence if you get what I mean. Karsch is also a big Dem. Edit: I heard what they said on the morning show on 97.1 healthcare just now and it was during Heather's news updates. It doesn't sound like it was one of their regular topics of discussion. But I am a bit surprised she mentioned it given that 97.1 usually stays away from political discussions.

The Costner film Thirteen Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the best historical movies ever made. His performance is sketchy, he drifts in and out of his crappy Boston accent, but the movie itself is fairly accurate. Like most movies of real life events they have to condense who said what and all of that to make it presentable. But the general gist of it is spot on.

Those commas are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

That's what Jesus told us to do, and they don't care what Jesus actually says, outside of "I'm coming back someday to kick your enemy's ass."

I think a splurge on Cease would be very high-key, and I would approve.

Got to see him play his senior year. Had a great Dr J afro and he scored 32 points

People tend to have a strong belief in self-determination, that sheer talent and hard work are all you need to succeed, so I agree that they tend to vastly underrate the impact that health and luck—which themselves are closely related—have on the final results.

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There is a reason Woody’s team is the same old Jets and Sheila’s team is not the same old Lions.

Woody Johnson needs to shut his damn mouth. In late October 2022, the Lions were 1-5 and looked dreadful off a 24-6 loss against Dallas, that came after a bye and getting shutout against New England. Campbell was 4-18-1 as head coach. Goff hadn’t thrown a touchdown in nearly a month. Sheila came out and pledged her support behind Brad and Dan. She acknowledged how hard the rebuild was on fans and the team alike, but unabashedly threw her support behind them. Obviously the rest is history in the making. To put it into numbers though, they’ve been 40-12 in the regular season since those comments. Can you imagine if she’d come out and said “well it’s hard to win when you’re not scoring points!”

Should I ever be homeless, I would choose to be homeless in San Diego. To be fair to Oblongs cousins, the homeless issue is crazy in some cities, my BIL (progressive dem) even feels homelessness is out of hand in Seattle (where he lives) and Portland (where he visits regularly due to his wife's family. My cousin in Portland (progressive dem by midwest standards, probably just a dem there) won't ride his bike to work anymore because so many encampments have pushed bikers out of bike lanes and into the street and during rush hour he says he doesn't feel safe with traffic. He biked to work since he's moved out there (15 years ago or so) until last year. Note: neither have said they want to leave their locations and love living there. It's just one side note they aren't happy about.

Paralysis by over-analysis is a natural consequence of the degree to which the NFL has chosen to rely on replay. The point of replay should be to fix obvious mistakes, not re-litigate every single play. There has to be a balance between wanting to get the calls right and understanding that if a fraction of an inch seen only by a 8x zoomed super slow motion replay costs someone a game, they didn’t do enough anyway. I’ve said before, I’ll say again. There needs to be a hard cut-off point on replay. After a challenge is thrown and the Referee goes to the monitor, Replay gets 60 seconds to review the play with him. Don’t even make it a full media timeout. When those 60 seconds are up, all feeds to both the monitor and replay cut off. If you don’t have definitive evidence that it should be overturned, the call stands.

I don’t mind the assistance if it’s all the time. I do mind if it’s inconsistent. Either have someone with replay ability to help all the time or stay out of it. There is no in-between.

He's going to **** a brick if he sees you at the ballpark and recognizes your avatar.

Aren't we supposed to ignore those who pray loudly on the streets, and pray in private?

Years ago, my father taught at Butler in Indianapolis. A colleague of his was in his office, looked out the window, and pointed at a nearby neighborhood as he advised my father never to walk there alone at night. My father pointed at one of the houses and said 'that's where I live.' This would have been in the 1960s, and was one of the few integrated neighborhoods in the area. It did get loud during the Indy 500, and people would park in people's yards during the basketball championships, but other than that my parents loved it there.

As long as Fredo isn’t included. No place on this roster for any selfish and incompetent player that bangs two cocktail waitresses at a time.

Jays in 5 LA’s starters drop back from otherworldly to just really good. Toronto takes advantage of the Dodgers sus bullpen. Bichette coming back turns out to be huge as Toronto’s bats come alive.

But wait—there's more: If we trade Skubal to a team whose goal in picking him up is winning a ring in 2026, then wouldn't that get directly in our way, blocking our own goal of a ring in 2026? Especially if we were to trade him to an AL team like Seattle. Would Harris really load up a direct competitor with Tarik Skubal in order to wipe us out of the playoffs? So, if Harris does trade Skubal, then by default logic, he is giving up on winning a ring in 2026 for the promise of a vague and indeterminate future ring in who knows what season. And that would be kneecapping our momentum toward steadily improving this team in the hopes of winning a ring in, yes, 2026. And if Harris did that, he owuld be endlessly hammered for screwing up that momentum and our chances, regardless of how promising those future prospects are. This is why I have to conclude that there is no way on god's green earth Scott Harris trades Tarik Skubal unless the trade makes our team better in 2026, specifically—and I have trouble envisioning any way any other team would make a trade like that.