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This won't end well for Rasmussen polling

I like it if they are trying to get to LA Dodgers level of constant competitiveness combining spending, scouting and talent development. I fear they think they can do this with Tampa and Oakland levels of spending.

Yeah. This town would love to be back in 2012 and relevant.

Strategic retreats are boring for fans. But man this board does not lack for off-season activity.

Huh, the link doesn't work?

This is mean to people afflicted with mental health concerns. But not all of those people are multi-millionaires with built in megaphones to the RW hate machine.

Really enjoying Rogue Heroes.

[Mattingly, get rid of those sideburns]

Huge, if true

good point

i mean it’s a bad word but it’s funny

Did Putin’s people kill him for Donald?

Profound and true. The easiest way into the wallet of the average person is via their patriotism or their religious feeling.

Mitt Romney and Bernie Sanders do seem like the kind who would hang out.

"Heterodox" made me uncomfortable.

That's me. I'm usually in the ... why are we talking about the decision I made when I was 18 stage of befuddlement when some never-served decides to bask in my patriotic glow. I remember how annoyed as shiz I would be during my drill weekends at Selfridge after active duty when i was an Air Reserve Tech... which is a full time State of Michigan employee who works at the base -- who also is a drilling Air National Guardsman. So, i'd work my full week of day or night shifts in the command post and then on drill weekend these buzzing bees of patriotic enthusiasm would roll in from their other worlds and try to shine the US Air Force's apple on their Friday Night/Saturday/Sunday morning drill weekends. Don't get me wrong. I definitely will bore my fellow vets and others with my lame stories. Its just those stories are not about how wonderful it all was to serve 'merica.

Could be a slow news day or maybe not

Its more than likely. Kudos to the Whelan family for not feeding the hate machine. I'm not happy that Bout is out of our custody. We eventually caved to Israel on Pollard and that burned me up too. That at least had the fig-leaf of his being paroled. Spy swaps happen. The country that doesn't try to get its agents out will eventually not have agents to work for them. Griner was not an agent. Whelan is not an agent either. He was a very mixed up dude trying to be an agent.

I wouldn't hire someone with this profile. I don't think the resume makes it to my desk because he won't be in my organization more than a year and who wants to train him just to see him leave. Now in some industries its normal for that sort of behavior, not in mine though.

The CI aspect of this is off the charts. A lot of people will die because of this. The arrogance of one asshole and his threats to the civil order. "But he was on TV!"

He did a very good concession speech. i think he learned from playing on the Dallas Cowboys how to lose gracefully.

Totally true. I don't mean to high road. I want Scott Harris to be some sort of genius with a plan. When you don't see data points, the lack of datapoints become the datapoints.

If the goal is to defeat the Japanese Navy in the central pacific, or defeating the Soviet Navy in the North Atlantic, patching holes in your dingy isn't gonna cut it.

per the guys in my office who follow all the recruiting drang and sturm, the Alabama portal moves and some of the more mature programs guys are examples of gray shirt guys who have been told they won't be getting playing time at big time program.