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Jays all the way. For a variety of reasons.

Shamelessly stealing from Reddit:

And as a bonus, theyre also allies to pedos

TP USA’s boy Kid Rock said he was going out for Halloween as a “Retard” on Fox News today. In case you want to know what that organization, that one of our members here promotes in his avatar, is all about.

Vlad hits a home run off Shohei. If that’s not the perfect encapsulation of this World Series so far, i don’t know what is.

And if you yourself don’t need a food pantry, consider volunteering for one. Pack food, deliver food, distribute food, whatever. Inquiries have more than doubled just in the last couple of months. People know it’s coming.

Going back to Cancun Cruz, whose college roommate said he used to whack off in his dorm, thinks it’s a “get” that someone referred to their father’s cousin as an aunt? That is very common, especially in close families where you see each other a lot. Our cousins kids call us aunt and uncle. We were all together at a reunion for a week and it just came out that way since the kids were all little and we had to figure it out.

Exactly. Give me the Cade, Ausar, Ron, Tobias, Stew lineup. I don't care if you start them or not, but we should see this lineup for 15-20 minutes a game. Three good to great defenders and a couple solid ones. Everyone's 6-6 to 6-9. You can switch anything you want, generate stops, and run. This was the lineup that torched the Bulls and we haven't really seen it since. The traditional thinking that you need Robinson in there to create a decent half court offense is nonsense because all that does is move you from the 25th offense in the league to the 23rd, while tanking your defense completely. It's not worth it. You're going to suck in the half-court with this roster no matter what. Instead, lean in to your strength: Better defense, more transition opportunities, more chaos. Also, when you have Jenkins on the court with Cade, stop having Cade bring the ball up. Let Jenkins fight the full court press, not Cade. In fact, stop having Cade bring the ball up against pressure at all. Give it to him once you get to the frontcourt. He's already seeing double and triple teams every time he comes off a screen, why make him work just to bring the ball up as well?

I am not glossing over it. I lived it in real time and that’s a major reason why I was a right winger for 25 years. You don’t need to preach to me about Bill Clinton. But compared to what’s happening now that’s peanuts. He was rightfully scandalized. That’s what is supposed to happen. All of that would be in the “afterthought” section in a book about Donald Trumps transgressions. You look at the grifting today and read up on whitewater and see amounts in 4 and 5 figures. My point is our media and perception on what is scandalous has been warped beyond repair.

Giving a **** how people spend their own money isn't high on my list of things to care about.

Same. The "never let it happen again" mantra needs to be drilled into the heads of the public.

Toronto, for reasons I can't articulate in this part of the forum. 😏

is that good?

I would say yes, depending on his health. The healthy version of Torres was at or near all-star caliber last year and it's just one year, so I don't care about the amount.

having him walk for nothing, or signed to long-term deal, both sound not ideal but having the 35th pick, or getting him for 1 more year at a bit of an overpay, both sound good he did have i think the 3rd best bb/k ratio in baseball

Same.

There are several AI models one can use. I wonder what the difference is between them. You have the Google AI, the Mircorsoft AI (Co-Pilot), the Twitter AI in Grok, and I'm not sure how many more. It would be fun to test them against each other to see how their answers compare, but I'm too lazy. It seems like with some things, it is really kind of stupid. There are hundreds of articles out there about people testing and playing with AI and it doesn't live up to the hype. One guy I read is an economic guy asking one of them this question; divide millions by what to get billions. AI's answer was wrong. Even a simple question like that, it was wrong. But a couple of days later, it corrected itself when he went back and did it again? Is is learning? I don't know. I've been playing with it quite a bit using a range of things to try. Sometimes it seems dumber than a brick, while other times it does a really good job. I have found, it seems, when you give it more information up front, it does a better job. I was looking for a backup/copy type program to back up files from ssd drive to another. I gave it a bunch of information that I wanted to do, how I wanted the interface to look - it found a free piece of software that exactly met my needs. I was impressed with that. With other stuff, not so much. The issues are still the same. Data centers are not popular, they use massive amounts of energy and water. Where will it come from, at what cost, and who pays for it. This doesn't include the fact if it works or not, or what it will eventually be able to do. The real danger IMO, is the bean counters who think this will replace X amount of jobs and that's what they will do, because it benefits the bottom line. So jobs get slashed (already happening big time) because they think they don't need humans to do the work. Then when the whole thing crashes and burns and they are SOL and all the humans who could do the work are gone. Now what? Ask AI? Sure, why not;

Injury report will be more interesting for the Vikings than the Lions today. Both starting offensive tackles and their center are hurt right now, but will have had 10 days to rest since Thursday Night... Hutch and McNeill are going to feast on ole JJ if they aren't back. Combine that with Goff's success against the blitz and the Vikings inability to stop the run this year, and this train may be headed for a double digit win if we can take care of the ball.

The equation is something close to: 3(Clinton) x 5(Nixon) = .1(Trump)

why not both?

That was like one step for each brother he has on the team.

Except it became unfamiliar later in the year!

https://www.threads.com/@markyadavies/post/DQX8LD0kzXk?xmt=AQF0QbcRPO1Yw_XcPtvUFJWbo7zRfP15TGRdRAYEFhID1g&slof=1

When I watched the Freddie Freeman in the 18th it looked like almost nobody had left.

that's the most frustrating thing about him: we've all SEEN him do it! but he almost never does it anymore.

Since most of the AI stuff is here... This even has baseball. I'm watching the baseball game and a home run made me wonder how it would do calculating home run launch angles. I used Google maps to measure an old field I was familiar with. I watched a guy one night hit one over the right field light pole in the power alley. I could get a distance and guess at the pole height. AI (Microsoft Co-Pilot) says the ball went 420-450 feet. I wouldn't doubt that. Then I asked a bunch of other questions about how many could do that, and also throw, thinking of this LA guy who is off the charts amazing. Then I got into the the "5 tools" baseball thing. My Aussie buddy explained that very well, including how one tool makes a difference with others. Let's talk about the speed tool of baseball next I thought. How fast do you need to be? It gave me times for the 60 yard dash some give you in tryouts, and typical game numbers in the pros. Of course the Bot is very personal, it/he/she thinks I'm talking about me. I thought I would see what happens if I screwed with it a little bit. This stuff is nuts.

Especially if the relative was much older than you. A lot of my dad’s cousins were Uncle Jim or Aunt Helen or whatever. It was a sign of respect. Figuring it out came much later in lives as we grew.

It was Robert DeNiro, dude. He did it.

Agreed. That face pace game makes it very exciting. It also increases the amount of possessions. The Pistons didn't even slow it down when they had a lead they needed to protect. Drove me crazy...lol

Killing 60 minutes was a huge coup for the RW.

I just watched the Freddie Freeman at bat and in defense of Dodgers fans, there was hardly an empty seat in that ballpark and those fans stuck it out to the very end. Good for them. They represented themselves well.

It feels as though she's just stripping the network for parts until she goes inside the White House in a communications role and help the regime strip the rest of the country for parts.

I was going to make a joke post saying pretty much the same thing as this. I'd be fne with it, but I don't see Harris/Ilitch signing more than one expensive player. If they sign one of those guys it would be a big deal.

I went to a Reds-Dodgers playoff game back on October 1. It was a ****storm trying to get out of that parking lot, and we left before maybe 75% of the crowd. They funnel everyone coming from a dozen or more directions into three lanes to pick up the freeway of your choice, and you have to be aggressive in staking your slot in the scrum. I'm surprised I saw no fender benders along the way, and really, if you do bump somebody, you probably shouldn't get out to examine the damage because people behind you would probably get out of their own cars and firmly persuade you to get back in your car and keep going. I guess it all made sense in 1960.

I can see one guy from that core being moved, but otherwise for good or bad, that's it. If I'm going to play armchair GM, and I feel I have to move a core player for some pitching, the guy I'd like to move would be Carpenter. I'd have to buy out most of Javy's deal to move him, besides he's my safety net in CF. If you get a catcher who can receive and throw, and even hit some, you hold onto that for dear life, so I'm not even answering the phone about Dingler. Torkelson might bring back something of value but I'd just have to turn around and shop for a RH bat to replace his production. That leaves Greene and Carp and I think Greene crimped his value last season. I'd rather risk that he gets back on track than sell low. That last part is the gamble. I'd rather know all that the coaching staff knows about Greene's season from the inside before making that call.

Looking forward to the movie Nuremberg.

I watched it last night instead of baseball. It was fine. Maybe I'm just burned out on superhero movies, or I wasn't in the right mood, but it never really grabbed me.