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If the Dems are just being pragmatic and making the best of a bad situation.... good for them. I'm glad Ukraine got what they needed. Of course we know damn well any Republic minority leader would not do the same to a Democratic Speaker who was in a similar position.

I looked at her profile yesterday and it said something about "leftist and progressive causes".

Could also just be the case where they saw how important things were in the world and if the only way to get those passed is to help him stay Speaker, then so be it.

For some reason when I see those kids I'm reminded of an anecdote I heard about the people in Texas who want to secede from the US and some old timer asks "If we secede will I still get my social security checks".

The weather turned warmer, it's the end of the semester, and these are naive, shallow, and spoiled kids who wanted something to do. It's the protest version of "glamping".

As one reply to that tweet said "I'm done revolutionizing now, I'd like to go home please". The rest are also hilarious. "Did my doordash make it here?"

Well it shouldn't be a problem...I have MLB.TV 🙂 Oh wait.

Woke up to this today.

Did that seat flip?

Faedo always looks scared.

Harris just needs to go to the GM store and trade in his 4 players worth 12 points total for a couple worth 6-8 points each. this season was all about finding out if these guys could play. It was a transition year. Fans bought into the hype of prospect lists and assumed a 1:1 draft pick would be an all star. That’s not how baseball works.

Ha. The part at the end where she’s like “no we don’t want them to feed us but we don’t want them to violently stop food from coming in”. Asked if that’s happening she says “we are looking for a commitment that they won’t stop it”. “but they haven’t stopped it?” ”well I don’t know to what extent it’s been attempted” Don’t tell me Ivy Leaguers are smart. This one is dumb.

Ever notice how some people only show up here when things go bad.

Now I remember why I hated my peers in the early 90s. They were once protesting “globalism” and Starbucks wisely handed out free coffee so there they are on the front page of the student’s right wing paper blasting global corporations while holding a cup with the corporate logo. You can’t make it up. they will get the country they deserve.

I really detest the in game promotion of the bets. Not just a commercial but in the middle of the action one of the on air staff has to tell us how the players are doing relative to a promoted bet. It makes me angry.

I get Jason Grilli vibes when Miller pitches.

I had wondered that about Lucas Raymond for the Red Wings and it was mentioned a few weeks ago.

just tourists

I think in situations like this ,where there’s no point in starting only to play for 30 minutes and hope for something clear 2 hours later, it’s wise to postpone. Nobody wants to mess around with late night games in muck. Just play 2.

I’m having doubts now about them getting this game in.

That's why my position on this has evolved somewhat. Meaning I see a lot of the protests now as just the bright new shiny object for young people and they really do not understand all the history of this conflict. They are being used by people with many agendas, including anti semitism. Nate Silver is getting roasted now for a tweet last night, I'm all for him getting roasted, but in this case I agree with him.

In HS, we had a pretty good team when I was a sophmore. We were ranked in the top 10 for a while. Favored to win districts. In a playoff game, I was playing LF. It was a windy day. On 3 occassions in that game that very thing happened. In one situation I had to move to my right. He came running over flailing about and each time the ball dropped. It was the kind of play you don't even think of calling as a LFer because it's right to you. We lost by 2 runs. Of course he was a senior and I was a sophmore so..... and by that point he'd already walked in graduation so what's the point in complaining. And then next year we got put into the same district bracket as a very good school so that ended our playoff hopes for my modest HS baseball career.

Truth. that extends to the corporate world as a whole. Every few years we're "upgrading" to the latest and greatest. Whether it's HR software platforms or hosting websites or simply where we store our shared files, i.e. shared drives, Sharepoint sites, OneDrive.... it's maddening. I have files all over the place now and I can't keep up. I'll spend half a day just cleaning up bookmarks. It's people just making work for themselves.