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This makes me happier than I expected it would. I suspect he will have a Tigers hat. He’s talked many times about coming full circle from the minors and majors with the org. In his MLB network he had a tigers hat on the shelf behind him. Yea he works for the org I know. I just suspect that’s what it will be. He had plenty of success with the Tigers to justify it.

They are beyond michigan. Have no idea9’ Iowa but a cousin opens stores for them and has lived alll over

The thing is… to the company…. From their perspective… so what? I’m with G2. I can not be happy but my time is money and I just move on. Sometimes things just suck. The companies know this. You can complain and eventually find someone who will send you an apology or offer a lame discount on a future product. They empower no one so you are on your own. yes they are cynical. Their loyalty is to the stock price and shareholders. Customers are just a means to that end.

Science doesn’t care about God. Science wants to know what happened and how. If there’s a who involved so be it. But not necessary.

Who are you addressing with this comment?

Then you don’t understand religion so I would advise not to try to mock something you dont understand because the only result is you look foolish.

What else would you reasonably a religion to say? you are the reason people hate atheists.

There’s plenty of Catholics who also have no issue with birth control and contraception but that’s not the official line.

Catholics don’t have a beef with evolution though.

but does anybody with the authority and ability to set policy listen to them? It would be like us sending Lebron James over there.

Whatever it is is not within our knowledge to understand. Mathematically it's very likely there's something like us out there in the depths. When you see images from the Webb telecscope.... how can there not be?

Absolutely. It’s why as a non Catholic I was still involved with the parish my wife grew up in. Service. I coached CYO basketball. ( I didn’t know ****.). I did scouts. I worked pancake breakfasts. I volunteered anywhere I could. We ran the festivals. I could see the impact on the local community which is lower middle classs despite the hierarchy of the church itself and its backwards way there was still opportunity to be fulfilled. You can control what you give and get out of it. I never converted because the threshold is high I think to convert. My wife as a lifelong Catholic can get past things but I can’t knowingly join when there’s obvious things I disagree with. But I can still help those who need it. And I did.

Yeah that’s the Ford Wyoming drive inn here. Still in operation and doing well.

My understanding on the history of the draft was that the goal wasn't to make teams better per se.... but to give teams a shot at desirable talent rather than just the big market teams out bidding everyone. The draft was a crapshoot even back then so it wasn't about year to year events. It's about the standouts that pop up periodically being available to smaller clubs.

That's the key. They pay more because it's less number of games. If there were 170 games they wouldn't do that because the individual games don't mean as much. NFL fans are a different breed of sport fan. In this situation less is more and NFL games are an event. A lot of it, maybe most, is because of gambling and fantasy play. I routinely go to a friends house to watch the game on a projector in his garage with others. In baseball that never happens, not even in a playoff game.

The salaries are following the fees, not the fees following the salaries. People will pay what they are willing to pay regardless if players make $9 million or $90,000 a year. Ticket prices aren't because of payroll. It's what they determine the public wants to pay to watch baseball at this level. The owners just have to share more of it now. Huge payrolls were "ruining" the sport since 1901.

I wasn't disagreeing... just expanding.

They're canadian. They will apologize for not anticipating you parking there and providing porta potties.

one female palestinian hostage that I saw being portrayed as a victim with a medical condition (How dare the Zionists keep someone like that in captivity!) .... was a failed suicide bomber and her medical issues were due to her failure to die properly when carrying out her duty.

Being a space and political junkie causes conflict with me with regard to him. Hard to separate the two.

The draft is just one element of a handful of building an organization. You are still limited to small sample sizes when it comes to HS and college players. Drafting and development do go hand in hand but i do think they are also somewhat mutually exclusive. If your 6th round pick becomes a decent MLB player I chalk that up to your minor league coaching staffs and development people. (and the player) Profiling is important but the draft is still a crapshoot and you are lucky to get one good player a year out of what, 20 picks?