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they need to be over 500 in conference play. if so, they'll probably squeak in.

just wait until she gets a lawyer and sues the nfl and the rams and stafford.

oh matthew....a fractured spine? that could cost you a million in meds easy.

they have neither the ideology or the terrain to hold off the russians. they also have a sizeable part of the population that is pro russian. there is no comparison between them and the afghans. and it doesnt matter, its not in the us's interests to fight the russians over this. take a compromise. move on the other things.

ok. you need to relax a bit.

it doesnt. some are under the belief that mlb is somehow rejiggering the game solely to placate some gambling interest. even though the ones who are preventing the game from speeding up are the players, not the owners. baseball has been getting slower and slower and slower for decades, but somehow now that the evil gambling interests are involved its all about mlb catering to their interests (even though theyre trying to speed up the game).

my tell? your tell is thinking every year is 1938.

well duh. we will protect our nato allies. we will not protect ukraine.

athletic article today on how this whole negotiation thing is missing the real problem, which is improving the pace of play. which is very true as has been discussed here many times.

did we invade russia when they annexed the crimea? nope. and were not going to do it now either.

ukraine is not an ally. its a former soviet republic that is much more important to russia than us. same with georgia. same with belarus. if we had expanded nato to include them (which would have been foolish) or put them in the EU, things would have been different. but we didnt (rightfully) and now we are where we are.

no its not. if russia put missiles in mexico and venezuela and cuba, how would you react? the ukraine is nothing to us. sorry to let you in on the uncomfortable truth. they need to bargain this in a way that prevents a russian invasion and allows russia to save face. that's what needs to be done. america is not fighting russia over the ukraine, just like it didnt fight them over georgia.

you want to go to war with a nuclear powered russia over a country that has zero significance to the united states? come on. that is not going to happen.

there will never, ever be promotion/relegation in american sports. its a different business model.

this is about labor negotiations, not public relations. this lockout has really flustered some folks. i swear joe sheehan is going to shoot himself.

about time.

bad win. even if it was boston. sorry to say this, but they need to finish last so they cant pick worse than 5th.

+/- is a very incomplete stat.

hot take: there are more rams fans today in LA than there ever were in St. Louis.

i agree. the twitter outrage machine tends to focus on the extremes of both parties. but only one party has gone ahead and made their extreme a president of the country. fortunately i dont see the democrats going down that same path, as they now seem to be distancing themselves from them in a lot of their major urban bases.

i dont know either, that's why im wondering what republicans will run on there. covid reopenings?

there arent really many democrats in san francisco?

almost 80% of san francisco voters vote to recall three of their city school board members. the big issues being their support for changing the names of schools named after lincoln, jefferson, washington, and diane feinstein because they werent sufficiently anti-racist enough, their re-doing of the admissions standards for selective public schools to eliminate "academic ability" as a criteria because it was racist, and their inability to re-open the public schools after covid when everyone else in the country had done so. next up on the recall block is their ultra progressive "thou shall not charge anyone with a crime" prosecutor. if san francisco voters are getting fed up with left wing messaging on crime and covid, will that be what republicans run on nationally? i imagine it will be. and its probably why democrats and progressives seem to be moving a bit toward the center on those issues.

are you getting political ads in michigan yet? the ads in illinois for the governors race are all about crime and public safety. is that a theme in michigan too? i'd be interested in knowing what republicans are running on. i'd figure it would be crime and covid reopenings. those seem to be their two strongest issues.

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