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Hiura has a bit more power but his K rate is ridiculously high. He won't have a job if he can't cut back on strikeouts. Biggio has a better K rate and also walks a lot

This is perfect. I am picturing you typing madly with Fox news blaring on a black and white TV in the background. Your wife just brought you another beer.

Judging from the perople who call themselves patriots these days, I think lots of people don't know what it means to be a patriot. The word has been soiled in recent years.

I just became a huge Nick Kuzia fan! He pitched for UMass Lowell where I spent a dozen years as a student and later a teacher. Not many UML grads make the majors. If he can pull it off, he'll be #7.

It's seems that lots of people here don't agree with you that nobody cares/remembers anybody who finished second.

Biggio

Everything from 2011-2014 kinds of blends together for me. They had very good seasons and great players, but there isn't one season that stands out from the others like 2006

I have great Tigers memories from 76, 87, 06, etc and many of my great memories of 84 came before the World Series started.

Not yet. It's still early.

The owners are evil caricatures, but the players are not saints.

70 BB in 80 IP for Eric Pinales There's your hard throwing right hander with no command.

They are wrong. Torkelson is going to be better. Bold prediction: Torkelson will be Rookie of the Year. Greene will struggle in his first season.

Yes, it is, although we have learned to take minor league fielding assessments with a grain of salt.

He rarely even gets excited. Never mind "very" or "incredibly".

It was another one of those things that would have destroyed any other politician, but it was just a back pages headline for Trump.

Montreal is a great city. Ramener les expos!

Do they have the same list for men? I honestly don't know how great this country is to live in. It's good enough for me and I doubt I'll ever leave, but I suspect other countries are just as good or better. I have lived here my entire life and don't really have anything to compare it to (as far as actually living some place else). America is the most powerful country and there are many opportunities here, but that doesn't necessarily make it the best place to live in.

That may be true, but any outspoken black man would have been viewed as one in the 60s. So, it's hard to tell. Regardless, there are lots of assholes in the Hall of Fame, so that's not a Hall of Fame qualification.

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Maybe I should have gone there! That is a good point.

I agree drugs are a massive problem. We saw what happened when we made drugs essentially legal during the oxycontin epidemic though - Death by overdose, rather than guns. Now, that epidemic is feeding the epidemic of illegal drugs.

Just trying to explain my original point that there is poverty behind violent crime. I don't know the complexities of the Chicago problem, but violent crime in general would be reduced by less wealth disparity.

Socioeconomic status.

What is the SES of the victims?

When middle class whites become addicted to drugs, it becomes a mental health problem rather than a crime. When Blacks were addicted to cocaine in the 80s and 90s, they were put in jail. When doctors were handing out opiates like it was candy in the 2000s, it was primarily white middle class, so it became more of a mental health problem. The Blacks didn't get any of the legal stuff because doctors were reluctant to prescribe it to them or because they didn't have the right insurance. They got lucky for a change! Now that they have stopped giving opioid prescriptions so easily, the illegal trade has picked up and everybody can join in the fun.