1984Echoes

As I was reading your post above this I was going to throw out a post of my own suggesting... Just exactly what you said here. Headline News for 30 minutes. And focused (topical) 30 minute segments for at least a couple hours on: Ukraine, gun control issues, Supreme Court, education, China, etc... whatever are the most interesting topics of the week... But focused for that 1/2 hour on one subject only.

This.

Tenacious D Projection: MLB OF: Grossman, Meadows, Greene and Reyes Toledo: Baddoo, Cameron, Hill and Robson This makes me want to: 1) Promote Carpenter to Toledo 2) Drop Willi to Erie and let him play OF/ IF down there, every day. 3) Keep one of Daz or Hill with Detroit. 4) Dropping the other guy down to Toledo to pair up with Baddoo and Carpenter. Just my 2 cents.

You know Yzerman is absolutely going to do this... I think this is the main issue... After the top 3 guys I believe the scouts are saying not much difference in talent level for the next 10-12 guys, no one stands out, or is head-and-shoulders above, and therefore... We get mocked the highest rated center available. Personally, I'd be happy with Savoie or Kasper...

I've seen the top two choices in our mocks as either Kasper or Savoie. I guess we want a #2 Center for some reason...?

Pure projection. As always.

Russia is stealing tons of Ukrainian grain. And trying to pass it of as their own (and denying that they stole anything... Hah!!!)

Ballsy.

Lynn: "Why not just wait until 2024? Give him time."

I remember those. But... aside from BABIP... I think his biggest problem was that he had a crappy fastball. A devastating slider... but as soon as batters learned to lay off his slider and wait for his meatball fastball... they feasted. And his BABIP (.250-ish?) went the opposite way (.350-ish?) from then on. There was no regression to the mean. He just sucked. And to me, it was less a BABIP issue and a whole lot more "crappy FB" issue. A 1-pitch pitcher.

As long as Severodonetsk is not encircled, Ukraine will still be able to hold onto, resupply, and fight back there. It won't be the same as Mariupol (as long as Ukraine holds the Donetsk River) even if the Russians flatten it. Which I think they've already basically done. The Russians can't seem to get across any contested river without Ukraine completely demolishing their multiple attempt(s), so, that may be as far as Russia can go in the Donbas... halfway into Severodonetsk.

Which doesn't change the FACT that the AR-15 is modelled on the M-16. A military killing weapon. I was trained on the M-16. You? You still haven't answered me on which Military Branch you served. So you go after the messenger to try and change the (factually correct) point? I find your obtuse behavior and stream of lies despicable Archie Bunker. Contemptible. But that's just me.

Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton wrote on Twitter: “Let me state unequivocally — For all intents and purposes, the AR-15 and rifles like it are weapons of war.” “It is a very deadly weapon with the same basic functionality that our troops use to kill the enemy,” Eaton wrote. Eaton broke down the differences between the M16, M4 and AR-15 in the thread of seven tweets. He said those opposed to assault weapon bans were playing with semantics, when they claimed any meaningful difference existed between military weapons and AR-15 rifles. “...The AR-15 is ACCURATELY CALLED a ‘weapon of war.’ … Don’t take the bait when anti-gun-safety folks argue about it,” he wrote. “They know it’s true. Now you do too.”

And that was my point. Desperation to score a couple runs is causing desperate moves. Like sticking Willi frickin'-no-glove Castro in CF.

I agree 100%

That would be my preference. But they're scoring close to 0 runs per game and Hill doesn't fix that. So they're forcing a round peg (Willi) into a square hole (Runs Scored) despite the shitty glove because they're desperate (for runs) and have only bad options. That's what I mean...

Nope. That ain't working either...

That or they KNOW he's so frickin' bad in LF that they think he can catch up to any mistakes in CF by just covering enough ground...? I don't know, I'm just fishing. And Willi doesn't have the glove for any position on the field, anywhere, so... He just can't be for much longer in MLB. He just can't. Stick him in Toledo where he belongs as soon as we can get back Greene and Meadows.

And what are his "good" choices? Anybody? Anyone?

Reverse psychology doesn't seem to be a motivating factor in this game... we might be stuck with that...

What the heck is a Sunday 11:30 AM start time?

Not going to matter as Gerrit Cole is pitching a no-hitter.

I think Archie is full of hot fucking air and would piss his pants.

So in other words... And put succinctly and in politically correct word usage: REPUBLICANS and their SUPPORTERS are the FUCKING problem.

The key will be what weapons the West (US & EU) sends to Ukraine and when. If we send artillery pieces that can outdistance and out-accuracy Russia's... then Ukraine's chances of re-taking territory increase dramatically. They're (the U.S.) talking about HIMARS. If that actually happens, the conversation will change...