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You can't realisitically project if anyone is going to even reach 3000 hits again. Anybody who would reach it is just a guess right now based on the active leaders. Freddie Freeman is the active leader at 2100+ and he's 34.

and he qualifies his statements in such an insfufferable way that he's technically never wrong. I look for pundits to clear out the weeds for me and do the dirty work and give me the straight dope as best they can. It's ok to just come out and say "This is what I think will happen based on....." and if you are wrong, so be it. we can all see it. But don't try to hedge your bets and look for cover. Be a man. Own it.

I think if you are searching enough for a data point to confirm a theory then you can find it in a primary election like this with so many unusual variables. Two incumbents from the last election, a third party, a passionate issue like abortion, a clear divide on one side with a since departed candidate, early voting.... You can find what you need but I'm not convinced that's reliable. The theory is sound but I don't think these things necessarily show it. That's my best Nate Silver impersonation.

Baez not helping Maeda there.

I think that story coming out in 2015 or early 2016 could have sunk him in the primaries.

He bought the old NWA Wrestling org.

He limped to 3000 hits and 500 HR.

Aaron Boone got ejected yesterday by Hunter Wendlestedt, after being given a warning, because he heard a fan behind the dugout, say something immediately after. On the video you can clearly see and hear it. Afterwards, in a manner totally in line with the NFL and their officials, Wendlestedt said some nonsense about Boone's responsible for what comes out of his dugout. Because it's too much to ask for an official to just admit they ****ed up.

wow, those are two names from the past. I kind of but Seth up there too.

I'm not a lawyer but I'm not sure telling the judge he doesn't have "common sense" is wise.

Good friends of ours have a son attending Carnegie Mellon and they go to Pittsburgh a few times a semester, they're trying to get us to go. We might go this summer when their son is home b/c they are payig for his place all year. They go on and on how cool it is there.

we are going on a cousins trip in early August to Jeckyl Isand, GA.... there's a good reason for it I won't get into, but I'm fearing that one of them has "things lined up" for us. It's just a weekend and I guess I will have to play along. I just don't like being told what to do when I have spent about $2K for hotels, a car, and flights. Someone's like "We'll go golfing...". Again, another thing I don't care to do on vacation. I'm not spending 4 hours walking on a course and drinking so that I can come back to the hotel and crash. I can golf here. A golf course here and a golf course there are the same in my opinion. I'd rather lay or sit on the beach and see the Atlantic Ocean because we don't have that in MI. Or walk around the Island and explore some history.

My son went thru that last month and that's what he did. I told him to cancel but I guess he's smarter than I am 🙂 He had a photo of his driver's license saved on his phone, both sides, in case he needed it for a cop. The MI secretary of State lets you replace a lost/stolen ID online, they just mail you a new one. THen you can print out a temp copy. I have a few CC's but I only care one of them for that very reason. If I lose my wallet I just have to replace 3 things, my license, CC, and Blue Cross Card. My wife says it's easy being a man because I don't have to carry all the other stuff around but I just reply "If I need one of those other things, I make sure to go into that drawer with my bigger wallet and take it with me. How often am I going to use my Henry Ford membership card, or my Best Buy CC that I used for no interest financing, or whtaever...." I think she's just mad that I have the foresight to think about it before leaving. Men and Women's brains are different.

They were my least favorite of that scene... kind of like I was into hair metal bands but Bon Jovi tried to be but were fake about it. Had to keep up appearances and maintain some broad appeal.

yeah we looked into it in 2021 but the weather wasn't optimal.... I know, it's Florida in the summer, it can rain anytime but the week we were there it was like that all day. I really love the gulf area. I'm a "play it by ear" person on vacation, I hate agendas. We might find outselves at 2 pm deciding to go and we'll see what's available.

I'm strange for being a big baseball fan but on vacation I have no real desire to go to an MLB park for a game... I'd rather spend that time doing something I can't normally do. I go to 30 MLB games a year. THe only exception would be something like Yankee Stadium, Fenway, or Pittsburgh. I've been outside of the stadium in SF so I feel like I already went there. Part of it is cost.... I'm already a few thousand bucks in the hole and we're dropping a few hundred here and there while on vacation.... I don't want to add to that.

We are going near the TB region this year for vacation, we went in 2021 but they had red tide which made swimming in the gulf not really an option, plus it rained 3 of the 4 days. This will be a do over. My wife is like "Why don't we go to a game?" I'm trying to tell her that stadium is horrible and I have no desire. I'm open to going to a minor league game somewhere if we can find one. As it is, they are away anyway so dodged that bullet. "What kind of fan are you if you don't want to go to another MLB ballpark". "The kind of fan that doesn't need to go to the equivalent of the Pontiac Silverdome"

Well… Oct 7 is my birthday so yeah… long love Oct 7. This last year was my 50th and I spent it at Cooperstown. I kept getting alerts about the massacre but I was distracted.

I quit wearing a watch until I took up running and got a Garmin for that. I don’t look at it for time. I look at it to see how many steps I have or if I get a notification on my phone that goes to my watch. It’s much more valuable for that. In a meeting or at dinner or whatever and your phone buzzes… just glance to see who it is. Much less obtrusive

I listened tonight on a walk. Very good. It’s going to be fun. I learned some things about them. It’s funny, I remember Dan kicking around the reporting arena then suddenly getting some innings and I didn’t think anything of it. “Oh just a guy they are bringing in”. Not unlike Matt Shepard.

Good for him. There’s a limit. She crossed it.

I forgot about that case. Call my cynical but I don’t see it going anywhere with that judge. She’s dirty.

Each of the 3 have unique qualifications. Gordie is Mr. Hockey and probably revered more in Canada than in Detroit and that’s saying more about Canada because Detroit loves him obviously. It’s just that he and others reach national levels like Ali. Yzerman was the face of the franchise for over a generation. I’d say the only thing putting him over Lidstrom, if you choose to, is his leadership and captaincy. I won’t argue with you. He’s no lower than 3 obviously. Lidstrom is Mr Perfect and I can’t recall any reasonable criticism of him or his play. Won a ton of Norris Trophies and finished second quite a few times. He would have been team captain longer if not for Yzerman’s standing.

Canha, batting 2nd, crushed it for a HR. That’s not right. He should just poke the ball around

I mean.... getting a new international border crossing named after you has to count for something, right?