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Plus we are allowed to run them over now

If I had to bet $1000 on whether Dick Morris was dead or alive I would not have placed the bet because I wasn't sure.

"Nobody wants to work"

It's the same feeling I get when I go to a concert. You are outside, maybe waiting in line. You get in the lobby, walk around, get a drink then go out into the theater area and see the stage and drums set up, the lights, the soundboard.. then it hits you why you are there.

The NBA owns the G league. MLB doesn’t own all of the minor league teams. They own some of them but for instance the Toledo Mud Hens are their own business unit. There’s no contractual reason stopping them from ending affiliation with MLB and entering an independent league. Obviously they would have to provide their own players and staff at that point though.

What I don’t get is what does Vlad think will happen? Is he naive and thinks everyone just rolls over? Didn’t he know sanctions would come?

I now we won't 'delcare war' but things beyond sanctions are not ideal either.

A friend of mine worked in a bank's check processing center in the early 90's and the Tigers used this bank. He came across some player's checks. One was 80K and the other 50K. They got this twice a month. These weren't the best players either. They were regulars but it wasn't guys like Fryman or Fielder or even an Eric Davis. When you see it split up like that you can see the magnitude I think. Another friend had a connection to Jason Varitek, his friend's cousin. They went to Chicago for a weekend and the Red Sox were in town. He invited them to the hotel bar. This group of 6 guys rang up a bill for a few thousand. It was a fancy hotel so drinks were marked up quite a bit I assume. Jason took care of it. Didn't think twice about it. It would be like us buying a couple of hot and ready's for a group of guys that came over.

This whole thing has given me an impending sense of doom... here we are looking like we're coming out of COVID and now we might have WWIII? Even if this is just contained "over there" it's going to disrupt things everywhere. How do you declare war when Russia is involved on the other side and not fear nuclear options?

Abigail wrote John some terse letters about women being able to vote too.

Yep. That can be directly led to watergate. He was worried about them finding out he had a back channel to Saigon, as a candidate so they created their plumbers to go after Ellsburg. He also knew that LBJ bugged his campaign plane, and LBJ knew he knew so they had to dance around that. Mutually assured destruction.

Ike moved like a snail on civil rights and segregation, if at all. He was even too afraid to give an outright rebuke to Joe McCarthy because he needed Wisconsin. JFK lacked courage on civil rights too because he needed to be re-elected. JFK's benefit is his brief time in office and staving off nuclear war. The country was on thin ice for much of it's history and a President who "did the right thing" would have probably ended it.

anyone else still watching The Walking Dead? We are almost caught up and I don't know what happened behind the scenes but this season is as good as anything we've seen with the show.

If you want space consider the area south of Downriver. I've always wanted to go down that away because then you are still closer to 75 and the rest of the country. Or out west in the jackson/Manchester area. The further north you go then the more congested it will be.

It's all the same people.

On a lake and not seeing your neighbor will be a tough ask.

Earlier presidents, prior to the civil war, also get some extra credit because as the nation was forming and expanding the decisions were larger in scope and scale. It’s hard for a tax policy to compete with doubling the size of the county.

When this hit the webs a few weeks ago I download the wordle app and it looked stupid. I didnt understand the fuss. Then my wife was telling me about it and it sounded nothing like what I downloaded. So yes… the wordle app is not what everyone is playing. It’s just a site. At least that’s how it was a few weeks ago.

Is that the one that said Biden did stuff to her?

I know this has come up on the old site but has anybody read Ty Cobb A Terrible Beaity? I'm about 10% in. Really enjoy it.

Of that picture - Lincoln, Ike, Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes would not be welcome in today's version of the GOP. Maybe Coolidge too but I'd have to research Silent Cal some more. Never interested me.

There's also the element of "Fix the roads" and "why are they always doing construction?"

He's Mr. McFly and Biff.

Guys load up with body armor and hover over the plate and demand to be able to hit the ball wherever they want for a hit? Batters want to retain their competitive advantage that suits them while making the defense give up their competitive advantage derived from education? Sorry, not buying it. Defensive positioning evolved over time as teams got smarter about where the ball was most likely to be hit. This is just that. "Sorry, you have to keep the lane clear so that Lebron can dunk..." The Wings did the left wing lock in the 90's and it frustrated the other teams.... so they adapted and beat it. That's how sports works.