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Chaun-CEY. B-B-B-Busted?!

Incredible - thanks. It would have been (what I remember) mid-seventies on. I remember delivering the Toledo Blade on Sunday. When I was done, the first thing I would do is read the sports page. In the stat section you could see the MLB stats right along side of the the Federation league stats, if that's what it was called. I remember the guys who I knew were in there. I don't remember about the International league then, though. I think they had a team in Toledo back then? Swayne Field? These teams traveled around the ball yards in their own cars. Probably a 50 game schedule. They called them semi-pro teams. Little ball yard in the middle of nowhere has a few hundred fans because these guys were pretty good. There were also high school traveling teams then too. Around here they called them legion teams because the American Legion sponsored a bunch of traveling teams, or helped. The good old days.

A white QB who can read defenses and pass accurately

Inflation and lowering costs for Americans and consumers? Nope! Ensuring Americans get jobs paying livable wages with good benefits? Nope! Building a healthcare plan that lowers costs and ensures universal coverage for Americans? Nope! Protecting our environment and making our air and water cleaner? Nope! Protecting consumers from being ripped off and better regulating corporations and going after predatory businesses? Nope! Building a golden ballroom to self aggrandize and pimp yourself out? Yep! That's the one. That's the priority with all the challenges Americans face today.

As I recall: "Atheism is a religion like not playing baseball is a sport."

So, I moved outta Jersey two weeks ago, (so far, so good….. cat acclimated by day 2, it took me a little longer), and I realized this morning that Halloween is next Friday…. So, I went to my neighborhood grocery chain and bought the BIG bag of assorted candy (m&m’s, Reese’s, etc) because I have NO idea whether my new little block gets a lot of trick-or-treaters, a few trick-or-treaters, no trick-or-treaters. But for sure, the last thing I wanted to do was get stuck with no candy here and have the whole new neighborhood complex Talk about the new chick from Jersey who’s a “cheap ass son of a bitch to Halloween trick-or-treaters”. 😱 I am kinda hoping there will be some come around because I do love to see the costumes & happy faces — or sometimes the totally confused tiny faces of first time trick-or-treaters. So cute 😊

He thinks it's golf.

Nobody is asking the real question. Did Beasley have the over on Hollands point total?

Must be nearing Halloween because Duncan Robinson’s Joe Harris costume is really convincing.

I was just reminded this is the 50th anniversary of Carleton Fisk's iconic home run in the 1975 World Series. One of those shots that stays in sports TV archives. MLB.com has a great story on how the shot of Fisk waving the ball fair came to be https://www.mlb.com/news/carlton-fisk-home-run-rat-story?adobe_mc=TS%3D1761175936%7CMCMID%3D11690324914217096266954970920983166800%7CMCORGID%3DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44%40AdobeOrg&affiliateId=mlbapp-ios_webview_news-index&rsid=mlbios.at.bat.new.implementation

The name "Epstein Ballroom" seems to fit

FYIW...Carlin's monologue

SHOTS!

Once again, the money isn't worth the risk. Remember during the Beasley stuff, I said you can't make enough money manipulating prop bets to make it worth the risk. Same thing here. The FBI said the Billups card games made around $7 million. He made $100 million in his playing career. He was set to make $4.7 million this year in Portland. What percent of that $7 million do you think he got? 10% tops? So he risked all this for $700 thousand?

An NBA team's coach admitted to tanking, and that is only like the 14th most shocking thing announced today.

FanDuel would just claim Damon Jones was arrested first and not payout.

Started watching Ted Lasso. Love it!

This is Vinny Vinny, what happened Well, uhhh, we had a problem and we tried to do everything we could Whaddaya mean Well, you know, we had a problem and there wasn't nothing we could do about it Whaddya mean You know what I mean, he's gone and we couldn't do nothing about it That's it Whadda ya mean, whadda ya mean? He's gone..........uh, he's gone...............and that's it

I can see this investigation has been ongoing for years, so maybe there are some teeth to it? We will see.

players have been gambling long before it was legalized. and theyve been throwing games since....forever.

To the bold above - YES! It's wild the way it talks to you. Very personalized, but it gets even crazier if you use the voice version (I was using only text). I did voice with my phone when I replaced a SSD card in my laptop. Guy had a Aussie accent. Talk about creepy! It was like someone sitting in the room with you. How much to trust with stuff like this? I think that is yet to be seen. I used it as a check on all the research and stuff I had done. I didn't post the numbers above, but Co-Pilot was pretty spot on with its assessments when I compared it to my own research, measurements, and calculations. For example, it told me how many watts my furnace fan would pull. It was a pretty wide range, which isn't good enough to design the system. I could give it a model number for the furnace, and it would get closer, maybe even close enough. But I used an ammeter so I knew "exactly" how many watts I needed under peak load and startup. I don't see how AI can replace a meter, and that difference might be a factor. In this case, one I can't be unsure about. But it is kinda cool - and creepy.

it is funny how drose gets raked over the coals for getting accused of rape, denying it, and then going to trial and getting acquitted while chauncey pays off his accuser and no one ever brings it up.

keep it in the political forum, domer. 🙂

I think the current gov might have this primary under control by now. Virginia Dem party probably wishes it had done oppo on the AG candidates. Now a MAGA idiot is going to give the top of the ticket headaches.

@romad1? Is that what you meant?

I bet Joe Cronin (Portland GM) has about 93 missed calls from Becky Hammond.

In the minors I think there’s been a pretty large amount of both. For hitters it’s probably more avoiding strike 3 than getting ball 4 though.

If I could hop in a Time Machine and go back to experience life for a little while, one of the things I would do is see a town league game from the 1900s or 10s or 20s. There were literally thousands of them littering the American landscape, and every burg of over 500 people definitely had at least one team representing their town in a league spanning a couple or three counties. I think most of them were semipro, players making a two or three bucks a game. Maybe teams hire a ringer from a competing town and pay him five bucks to help them win the league. The quality was probably at least the equivalent of D league ball, but it was probably the best quality ball the vast majority of the country had available to it, and towns celebrated these teams and the players who played on it. They would look forward to the new season all winter, talk about the local league around the hot stove, and tell stories (and tall tales) for decades about the men who played for their towns. It all seems very romantic to me.

Anyone see Beasley around town this morning?

nobody demanded anything. Just pointing out that some people think that serving in the military bestows some special status on somebody that we're supposed to care. Go back to protecting your pedophile overlords.

We can worry about Ivey when he’s ready to go in January.

Yep that should be it. It'll have trouble scoring but establish a defensive identity and have Ivey leading the bench but that's highly unlikely to happen.

How about you run Cade off a screen or two?

This is my starting lineup. Cade, Ausar, Ron, Tobias, and Stew. Lean it to what you’re good at.

The substitution pattern is maddening. Why is Cade sitting with 7 minutes left?

He's toast now. There is no way he can make it through a Democratic Primary given the mountain of terrible and ugly this he's said and done. I would imagine there will start to be calls for him to drop out at this point.

Good for you - don't get hurt. 🙂

Yes, it is the act of a dangerous person who will destroy things if things are not going his way.

+1 I've read some about Origen, one of the most renowned teachers of the early church, may have been the single person most responsible for the selection of the canon. Today the church doesn't talk about him because a lot of what he believed is not current orthodoxy. But Origen himself was cool about it, freely said he wasn't sure about a lot things but he'd tell you what made sense to him, take it or leave it.

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.

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

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.

Wait till AI fixes this ****.

Wow, I did not know that. My family has a connection to him. My father's friend Eddie "Bucky" Boehm (you can look him up on b-ref) played with Shantz in the minors in 1948 and they became lifetime friends. Shantz owned some really nice rental houses in Lakeland and he sometimes let Bucky use them when he wasn't doing anything with them. One of them happened to be available the weekend my father, mother (the only time she joined the boys on a Lakeland trip!) and I were heading to Lakeland, so Bucky passed it on to us. It was the nicest vacation housing I every stayed at. That was a good thing because I doubt my mom would have liked Lakeland much otherwise!.