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I just turned it on Fox News and they are talking about "Democrats slam fed rate hikes"

Seeing the picture of the first installment of his bonus puts it in perspective. $1.9M. Nearly half taken in taxes. A friend of mine use to work in a check clearance outfit or a big local bank, which the Tigers used. He came across two players in the early 90's. One was $50K and the other was $80K. That's twice a week. Even that small amount still seems massive as these were not high caliber players and it was like 1993 or something.

One of the biggest factors in space is weight. A big piece of weight in Apollo was the computer. Apollo 14 almost didn’t land because of a memory issue. They had to wake up the original programmer and get him in to figure out the error. They were down to their last orbit of the moon.

Who would be influenced by him at this point?

That I agree with. Jacob Turner runs a wealth management company. He writes about this. But he’s also reasonable. but it takes some careful planning up front.

That happened in 1992 by the way 🙂

are you saying if a guy gets to $700K a year they should be set via a nest egg? I disagree. Half of that is gone for taxes and other fees. I don't think Eric Haase is set for life if he never plays another MLB game.

speaking of TikTok.... Axios pissed me off yesterday because they sort of bashed the "tiktok generation" by claiming that the new Star Wars Tales of the Jedi series was "catering to them" by having very short episodes, like 15 minutes. Nah bro. There's too much stuff to watch and I love it. It's so much easier to bang out a quick one under 30 minutes rather than a 45-60 minute one. I'm much more likely to watch. I never used TikTok. I'm 49. I doubt I'm the demographic. Also I doubt that the viewers of this show are the TikTok generation anyway.

I know what you mean. There needs to be something behind it. I think it’s laziness. The focus for many is to sing and jump around so they do the easiest lick.

Allred though? Not saying it's false but she's a red flag for me.

Dwight is as legit as they come. Given what Country music came to be after the 1990's I think some of the truer country, like what Tater often shares, can now be grouped into the americana/singer/songwriter genre. if you recall the Ken Burns Country Music doc there was a struggle in the 60's and early 70's on how you separate the Dylans/Kristoffersons/Cashes of the world. Kind of just came down to geography. But I think these folks today are bringing it back full circle.

of a particular team. But even if you look at the overall draft by a year the results are still sporadic in my opinion. Just proves the June draft is just one piece of building a team.

Maggs went to Germany for his procedure. Not sure he even got any offers. Ivan reportedly never got an offer more than a year from anyone else. We gave him 5.

Remember McCain in the grilling of Comey in June 2017? He went off the rails. He had a brain tumor. I wonder if that's a similar case of the mouth not doing what the brain wants.

Don't forget tax implications when considering "the most money". In some cases the money might be more in terms of contract but when you factor in the state and local taxes it might not be the most money for the player. and every player is different. Some might go closer to home. Some might go to the highest bidder if there's not much difference in the organization because they want to do their part to lift the rising tide for the guys coming after them. I don't think as a whole they will always go to the highest bidder. Many if not most will. But not all.

I saw two clips this morning, after hearing Fetterman struggled, and at least in these two clips I didn't see it. It really is an issue of ableism. If he can pass written competency tests then it's fine. Being able to not process audible is a legit thing but the mind can do it. We had that issue in my city with our mayor. Verbally he's all over the place. But I was told by a friend on council that he would pass a written test with flying colors. That's all he would say. My dad had strokes and was that way a little bit. We wouldn't hold it against a deaf person who needed captioning or a blind person who needed audible. This is no different.

That just shows how much of a crapshoot the draft is. Pick any random team and a random year and the results are usually pretty pedestrian. Here's what I did just now on BR, all random, the best player picked: 2013 Astros - Tony Kemp 2010 Twins - Eddie Rosario 2015 Rockies - Brendan Rogers 2012 A's - Matt Olsen (good pick, #47 overall, comp pick for losing DeJesus) I think our old friend Biggs was right with his theory that if you can get a Tony Clark in your draft then it was a very good draft. He wasn't anything special, solid player but that's about all you can hope for. Not every draft has a franchise player like a Trout or Verlander or ARod.

That’s so bad because he’s not even going with the morality clause that all abortion is simply a sin. By bringing the state into it he’s admitting there’s wiggle room.

From the replies it says that this court is not the highest court in the state.

Is he the guy that handcuffed a protester?

I don't remember if this was the thread that had her bit or not..... but here she is on Kimmel last night.

If I hear of any of this in Michigan I'm going to go up there and sit next to them and just film them. Or if they are near my drop box I will find the most offensive and disgusting music I can find and blare it. I figure these idiots claim to be christians. They'll love it. My son is 21. He knows that stuff.

Can't one of the Secret Service agents do it? They don't work for him. He doesn't sign their checks.

One guy I follow said that by hyping up R favored polls they are pumping the public so that if the D's do surprise people then the only obvious reason is.... fraud and cheating.