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Yeah it is but I suspect the same people who won't get a vaccine won't take the pill until its too late. So it's good for us that are vaxxed in the chance, which looks more and more likely, that we do get it we'll have something to help. But since most of hte hospitalizations are unvaxxed I think their skepticism will just carry over to the treatment. There's been people all throughout this pandemic that even refuse to admit they have it while in the hospital getting treated for it. They think it's a conspiracy and they are being lied to. Even the families believe it.

have polls been right since 2016? I'm not asking a rhetorical question.... just don't pay close enough attention anymore. Has the landcape changed too much that make them unreliable?

the only C&C album I had was their "Greatest Hit". Still use lines from that today: "You drive just like Steve McQeen" "No man... I'm not into time"

I have a friend who works for Harmon so I get my stuff from him. I have buds that are configured so that you can hear the music and words really well yet at the same time pick up any outside sounds. They don't look like air pods, sticking down your ear like that, just plugs. I also have a couple of wired sets that are bluetooth. The wires just connect the earpieces together. I actually prefer those as they are easier to keep track of. Like on an airplane I can just take them out and sort of tuck them in my shirt collar to stay in place. If I have them on and someone needs to talk I just take one out and let it hang there rather than take it out and then have to hold it.... My son has lost 3 pair of earpods. Because of the discount available to me they are really disposable. I can get an $100 set for $15.

The things they are doing well now in the FO were put in place years ago. Brad Ausmus of all people talked about it when he left. He specifically said it will still take 3-4 years for it to come to fruition. It's not just strategy and philosophy but physical systems and databases that have to be built. I don't believe the Tigers in the DD era had any specific plan. They didn't set out to build around SP and a few big bats. DD saw a deal or a player he wanted and made it. Because teams have typically 5 SP then there's more of them to out there to acquire. A good 2B or 3B will cost more than a prospect no matter how touted they are. The lack of development hurt them because they had to sign guys like Fielder and VMart (his 2nd contract) and overpay for Zimmerman. I like to fantasize that the Tigers signed Beltre prior to the 2011 season instead of VMart.

When the Mercury astronauts had their first press conference they were asked about the tests they undertook. John Glenn said it consisted of finding every orifice in the body and figuring out how big and how far things could go into them.

I’ve had a cough for about 10 days… that Sunday when the weather turned. Not really a cough but minor congestion. My whole life I have woken up with congestion though. Smoking cigars doesn’t help.

Same with. “She looked 18” jokes.

Funny you bring that up. Listened to live bullet a lot 30 years ago and it came up on my playlist so I listened to the album again. Heard that and was shocked that I never gave it much thought back in the day.

Bill Burr did a great bit about Thin Lizzy and The Boys are Back in Town.

What's up with Larkin's absence? All Blashill will say is "personal reasons". That could be many things. Maybe he's drying out in a clinic somewhere? Heard the dude loves to party.

We don't drink milk. Drives my mother in law crazy. She thinks its because we're some kind of hippies but I'm lactose intolerant and our kids never really got into cereal. So we don't buy it. When we need it for a recipe I get the smallest one I can find and we end up throwing it away.

I thought they approved "looking into it"?

I don't think it's a big mystery. They didn't have a good bullpen and the lineup was not that strong. Our big guns were dreadful on the bases and we had too many holes in the lineup. 2014 was kind of an off year for Verlander with his injury. Sanchez/Porcello/Smyly winning rings is non eventful. They were on good teams.

is it a waste of time for the conservatives when it works at the polls? It got their people out and got Youngkin elected. All the Trump lovers are now engaged because they think our school boards are communists indoctrinating our kids with "white people are evil" and want to make them go to the bathroom next to a trans person who will rape them and they can't call the cops because they're defunded and they cant pray because they banned Christmas and it's all goin to hell.....

MI's numbers are back at a new high for this wave.... things looked promising 10 days ago but they started back up again. Across the board in most counties so we can't blame the outstaters so much... although their rates are in the 40s and 50s and metro area is better, except Macomb of course.

call me cynical but folks like Kavanaugh and Barrett are just paying lip service now to look "reasonable".

I mean it did cross my mind that despite being a HOFer, Smoltz seems dumb and Buck is waiting to tell us about the Cowboys or Aaron Rodgers. But I didn't see anything on the twitter either.

I don't know the rule but I would think once the path is blocked then you don't try to infer what would have happened as the runner had to make some kind of adjustment. I don't know. Was just surprised that they didn't bring that up. Maybe I'm wrong, like I said, I don't know the rulebook.

But isn't this just a procedural thing? It doesn't kill the bill it just kicks it around some and will come back to them as the lower courts do their thing and the losing side appeals. In other words this isn't the end of it.

I'm not an expert but isn't there an interference issue at play too? Fried's leg was blocking the closest part of the bag and the runner didn't have access to it. His leg was straddling the entire front side of the base.

My twitter feed is hinting bad news for McCauliffe.

Maybe she meant the dude… ? Like the heir.

knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster