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better in period two.

lol, "do you think the PLAYERS give a shit about the fans"? i forgot a word in there...

has russia produced any non-reformist, expansionist leaders other than vladimir putin? and - again - i was saying i thinknit is likely that this is not ALL putin, because none of us know the inner workings of the russian leadership hierarchy, no matter what twitter tells us. i imagine there are people in the army and russia's foreign policy apparatus who believe in its need to expand and protect its borders other than just putin ,as you appear to be suggesting. however, i dont really know. but i think its a strong possibility.

do you think give a shit about the fans?

for so much of the game they really struggle to control the puck against good teams.

he didnt say anything stupid. he stated the owners position on the negotiations.

the pitch clock is a good idea. the actual enforcement of it would be even better. step 2: you cant step out of the box. let us return to the sanity of 2 hour baseball games again.

he's the face of the corporation, did you expect him to get up there and cry? he got up and told the owners story. youre like people arguing that tony clark should have showed more emotion as a player and because he didnt, he didnt love the game.

its good to hear that the league wants to institute pitch clocks by 2023, along with banning the shift and larger bases. the pitch clock, at least, is a positive sign.

what did people expect him to say? i heard his speech and it was exactly what any executive would say. we thank the union for participating and we look forward to negotiating more but we gave up a lot and we couldnt come to an agreement. union comes up and says the opposite. rinse, repeat.

why do you say that?

they own a house in rogers park. her father bought the lot next door so they dont have to have neighbors. one of our friends is high up in the union and has been there for parties, says its a gorgeous house. she's a real marxist, though. which is hilarious. she is certainly rich and privileged enough to be a modern day marxist.

nba and nhl finals end in june or july? soccer and football start up in august, i think. as long as there ia baseball by july it will be ok.

chicago has suspended moscow's sister city status. take that, putin!

decisions made in haste and based on the emotions of the moment are rarely without serious, unforseen consequences later on.

lol. turkey is like, wtf?

illinois has lifted its mandate - through some court procedures that basically let everyone off the hook. however, the city of chicago continues to enforce masks in school due to its earlier agreement with the teacher's union. its the only district in the state that still requires masks in schools. after their last botched work stoppage (the 4th in the last 10 years or so) the teachers union head is stepping down (dont worry, he's married to the daughter of the guy who owns carnival cruise lines and is very very rich. as an aside, his wife (the trust fund baby) owns a radical bookstore and tweets out anti police slogans all the time. its fun to be independently rich!). so there will be a new election that sets up between the radical faction that has run the union for a while, and a moderate group who wants the union to do less politicking and more, you know, actual work for its members. we'll see who wins. the radical union member may run for mayor, which could put another interesting wrinkle in things.

at the very least, this has served to awaken europe from its peaceful slumber underneath america's nuclear umbrella. NOW do you believe us, germany? why we had to warn you - of all countries - about russia is bizarre. but years of your peace guaranteed by our money and our army have made you blind to reality. i doubt japan has any such illusions anymore.

where does "great movement in russian society" come from? not from me. but to think there is only one person involved in machinations and decision making in a country as large and with so many internal departments as russia is naive, imo. you dont have to be a democracy to have factions within the decison making apparatus. and again, you seem to have this idea that russia's ideas of its place in the world are somehow misguided because they dont align with our version of ourselves as benign actors only out for the good of democracy and freedom, and that "liberal democracy" is the obvious goal of every nation on earth. i doubt russia (or china) share those goals. and they react differently to what they see as provocations, which we see as "freedom loving people making a democratic choice to love freedom." i'm not on russia's side and i would really like to see them lose (or be drawn into a quagmire that further strips their legitimacy) but i do their actions differently than you apparently do. i dont think its some sort of vanity play, i think its their attempt to reassert influence and protect themselves from a perceived threat (us).

that's exactly right. teams have gotten smart with their money and FINALLY started doing the things that smart fans have been telling them to do for years. why go to arbitration with that backup catcher and end up paying $4 million ler year when you can get the same or similar production from a $600k rookie? use the favorable system you have to minimize your labor costs without sunstantially affecting your on field product. we've all been yelling at them to do this for years and when they finally start doing it, we cry "but but but the players!" i definitely see why the players want this system changed, its highly favorable to the owners. with the caveat being the players are very well compensated for their labor. extremely well compensated.

yes, but why?

seriously. did they just forget that there was nfl football in detroit in from the 30s to the 80s? is it because fontes had the MOST wins so they just put wayne in there?

availability is also an ability, and AA was never available. and soft as a pillow.

you dont know that. and there are other interests within russia who are likely in favor of moving against ukraine before it moved into nato's orbit, dont you think? this is not a vanity play by one man, its a strategic move by a country that has been moving in this direction for years now. it may turn out to be a MISTAKE. one that undermines their previous successes in their goals of dividing the western alliance, but it is a move that has been a long time in the making and is part of a larger plan. the "putin is just a crazy unhinged dictator" is a lazy narrative, imo.

there's not a lot on twitter you can actually trust. look at the last few pages of this thread: nato countries are sending planes! yay! belarus isnt sending troops! yay! all false.