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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.

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.

Good luck, Lomas;

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.

They should all rot in hell.

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.

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

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.

I think you’re right that trading Skubal would send the wrong message to the rest of the team, which could have an impact on their psyche and thus performance afterward that can’t be calculated beforehand. These guys are not mere widgets in an OOTP sim game (although that game also has a optional mechanism in it to account for the impact of the team’s actions on player psyche as well, which is part of what makes that game so, so good). Players are human beings who to varying degrees naturally allow personal issues to affect performance, While I do agree with SoCal that the good health and luck a team experiences can help elevate them above other teams that are more talented but less lucky or healthy, an organization simply can’t plan for that circumstance to occur. Those factors have to be set aside during the planning stages as being equal among teams.

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.

I remember that guy when he was at Everett. All over the Free press even during high school. Hard not to believe in a guy like that.

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And he was leading off the inning. Was a huge call

I agree but … Fields is not Goff. He’s going to pull everyone under being asked to do something he’s non capable of, namely play QB.

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.

It was a more benign version of that brainwashing scene out of A Clockwork Orange.

Everyone should experience the Indy 500. Doesn't matter if you are a race fan.

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

Lol at the Tiger Territory guys listing Blade Tidwell in a Mets trade. He was traded to the Giants at the deadline.

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

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.

Also saw this one earlier too . . .

I’ve been wanting to take up pickleball for awhile now and the local community Ed has a “beginner - new to the game” class so I signed up. I wanted to know the rules and nuances and figured this was a great way to be introduced properly to the game. First session was tonight. It was me, 5 women in their late 60’s to early 70’s, one 50-something woman and one very uncoordinated woman in her 30s. After a brief skills practice, we started serving and playing doubles. The best way I can describe it is with a visual representation: