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Johnson apparently facing another discharge petition movement on a bill to ban Congresscritter stock ownership - some alliance between the far left and the far right on this one.

You assume way too much here. An atheist may or may not be a devotee of science. There are thousands reasons someone may or may not believe in God; being of a Scientific bent is only one and it isn't even particularly determinative. I know many religious scientific people and of we course we know many of the greatest minds in the history of science believed in God (e.g. Einstein). In my experience it's not Science that makes most atheists. Most people I know that don't believe in God have come to the conclusion from looking around at a world they believe is too f'd up to believe anybody is running it - no science required.

Circling back on Bregman, I agree he's not an issue wrt McGonigle; it's Keith who gets squeezed. There are a couple ways I see that: On one hand Keith hasn't been that much of an impact player on O or D so if he gets squeezed out, though luck. On the other hand, if his bat were to improve from 25->26 as much as it did from 24->25, then he will become an impact player. So the attraction of Bregman becomes a matter of their projection of Keith's likely progress.

There were years in the Avila regime where there apparently was a hard budget, and for instance we would hear Al would talk about having spent the last portion of that years allotment on player X so they were done for the off-season, etc. Harris is much less communicative on that stuff so we don't know if Chris is managing him in anything like the same way, or if as the team gets better more decisions are made ad hoc given the increased opportunity to actually win something. With this regime there just isn't much public info to go on, so I take no opinion on what might or might not be true.

doesn't make it a religion. What's actually funny about people who claim to be religious trying to dismiss atheists as being 'just as religious' about it, etc., is that it's implicitly pejorative of themselves.

Aside from the fact that 'the Bible' is a book, not a sentient entity and thus not capable of 'smartness', the statement "Atheism is a Religion" is foolishness. An atheist may believe any number of things are true that may or may not be true, and he may hold some of those beliefs in dogmatic fashion, but he does not believe it is true that God exists, so whatever you call his belief system, it is by definition not religion. And English is certainly a rich enough language that that kind of inarticulateness is unnecessary. cf: re·li·gion: /rəˈlij(ə)n/ noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods.

True - we can never discount the possible, but to TBH - I'd put the odds as high that the ship has sailed on Bregman playing anymore SS in his career. I do wonder how much they plan on McKinstry being productive. I'd love the story there, but I've seen enough guys of his profile flame out after one good year. To my mind, the downside risk with McKinstry means they really should looking at shoring up SS, because Javy's bat might continue to fail or even if it doesn't he may up needed in CF. Sure - maybe McGonigle is lightning in a bottle by May 1st and really can play SS at MLB level, but do you really want to pin the success of a team that should be challenging to get to the WS on that much good rookie luck?

and beyond the irrelevance of the question, if what he means to imply is that an atheist can't be deeply educated in religious and biblical study, that would also be quite false.

I think this is accurate. Gleyber's return has pushed Colt to 3rd and other than some deal that is too good to be true, I think that leaves the probability of the Tigers bringing in a full time 3d close to zero. If they had gone soft on Torkelson that would be another matter, but considering they hardly gave him a day off at all in the 2nd half, I don't see the evidence of that. My guess is If they bring in any kind of 3B it has to be a 3b/SS combo player.

they have

Remember when Academic athletics was where young men went to learn character? Yeah - me neither.

and it looks like they are going to waste Underwood . Either they don't have the coaching to develop what is there or they over recruited a bust. Bad look either way.

Toronto is South Coast (if you are in Canada that is)

Seriously, who wants to see Indiana win the conference outright? ..just sayin' 😉

pretty much. I probably have become less inclined to give people the benefit of the doubt than I was in say, 2017.

It's just a little limp Coach (dragging himself along the floor), put me in!

I find the fascination with the 10 words so odd in groups of people that never come close to at least 4 of them.

You are more willing to ascribe to ignorance in the population what I see as fear, greed, prejudice and a healthy dose of malice.

Romad1's SS teacher would have toldl you "The Lord works in mysterious ways."

He’ll cave, they always cave

It doesn't seem to matter what Yzerman does, he can't seem to collect enough guys who handle the puck/and or skate well enough to play any kind of puck control game. It's like somewhere in the system they have a disease where as soon as their stick touches a puck they drop into slow motion and the only thing they can do before they are checked off the puck is make a dump/ice the puck.

IDK Chas - I won't argue that there are a lot of people who are shallow consumers and have just fallen in with what they happen to hear in the sources they habituate to, but I'd argue there are still waaay too many folks who know full well their media source is fully slanted but that is its exact attraction to them because they simply don't want to hear the facts that are uncomfortable to their chosen believe system. IOW, on your side are the people you identified as conditioned by media, I'll argue on the other side there are the people who choose the media they consume because they have already made the decision that they want their side, right or wrong and they are not going to hold their side to any standard. Or another way to put is that the RWM machine is as much an affirmation service to folks as it is an information news source. And I suppose to that part you can draw the parallel to media on the left.

I've gotten to where my dominant reaction when the topic of college football comes up is disgust. I'm beginning to tune out for my mental health.

This always bears repeating.

you know, I was thinking about a similar thing the other day. I don't think disclosure would even matter anymore. This is why: Go back a couple of generations - say to Watergate. The tapes just killed Nixon dead. We were in an era where it has hard to get evidence, but when you got it, it mattered. We dreamed of the day when Pols woudn't be able to get away with saying one thing in private an another in public. Fast forward: Today, there is camera or microphone almost everywhere. Every lie Trump or anyone else has ever uttered is totally documented - nobody cares. The facts only matter if there is a standard. There isn't.