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always fun to go into a season with 3 of 4 IFs having no track record and the 4th having one you'd rather he didn't.

and the convenient thing about hanging is that all you really need is the rope - the gallows is quite optional. I doubt many lynchings failed for lack of being able to find something to throw a rope over.

no 1B glove at least until he hits his 1st MLB HR.

Interesting approach. Gets away from trying to definne 'gender' and specific genetic categorization. We'll see if it flies.

One thing I haven't heard (is it out there anywhere?) is how much of a haircut, if any, the Tigers took on their TV deal in the Diamond bankruptcy. Hard to believe that it could have been anything but a cut. Was it or more or less than the Tigers had already anticipated? Enough to crimp spending plans or not?

Cade is one of the guys for whom "a legend in his own mind" is the perfect description.

Oil isn't going away - that's simplistic thinking, which both sides engage in because both are mostly economically and/or technically ignorant. The question is how much oil is needed. Sure, the whole world stops without lubricants but you can make all the lubricants the world needs with a tiny % of current oil consumption. We didn't kill all the horses because we started driving cars. There will be be things that still need oil, but most cars won't and cars are about 70% of today's oil market.

I tend to see it the opposite way. And I think he just shot himself in the foot. IMHO this is because he knows the party is going to fall in line behind Benson so he has no shot there anyway. If he does mount any kind of independent campaign the end result will be a repub getting elected. (EDIT just saw you said the this in another thread) f*** him indeed.

Maybe, maybe not, but pitchers also want to stay in rhythm. It was hitters that were responsible for slowing the game down and forcing the 'pitch clock' -- which is a misdirection name because it's been the requirement that hitters get in the box that has made the change. There were always a few pitchers that worked slow - Benoit for instance, but most ended up waiting for the batter most of the time.

This. The real reason the illegals have been allowed to stay is that the business community knows removing them will drive up wages everywhere. The employers of illegals wail that Americans won't do the work implying that they are too lazy, but the truth is not that they are lazy, it's that being legal, they have choices. You will have to pay enough to make it a better choice to get legal workers out in those fields and into those hotels and construction jobs and American business doesn't like that idea one bit.

Of course this is an overstatement, but there is an interesting tension dynamic going on inside liberalism. American Jews have generally comprised a chunk of liberal leadership, and have been in the vanguard of previous progressive movements, but the recent turn of a section of the progressive movement to victimology has been leveraged by the Arab American community to take the movement into anti-semitism, and interestingly, the old guard leadership is now pushing back. We have old traditional Jewish liberal regents at UM, people that would in the past have been considered progressives, pushing the 'U' back toward the mainstream, and the 20% of the faculty that comprise this new style victimology wing are screaming bloody murder.

LOL - this is GM you are talking about - a company that hasn't failed to bet wrong once in the last 40 years. I think I'll start a tracker on GM vs LGES and see which one goes up more in the next 5yrs.......

C'mon, CMR - who needs fruits and veggies, don't they call come from the left coast anyway? We don't care about those farmers, they don't have enough votes to carry their states. Nope - You can have beans and bread on weekdays and beans and corn on weekends, and you'll get fat and happy.

The counter point is that McMasterCarr sells this product as Duct Tape, and with Sears long defunct, they are the pre-eminent authority for all things hardware. https://www.mcmaster.com/products/duct-tape/

so there is an alternate etymology that says this kind of tape was used to repair the cotton *duck* fabric as was used on the wings of early aeroplanes. I don't know which is older or truer. BTW - "duck" had nothing to do with ducks, it's the approximation of the dutch word for canvas - "doek"

I've always understood from game theory that the best strategy is to absorb the first violation of the rules, but then then take it pedal to the metal if your opponent won't come back to the game properly. After the second insult to the system there is no place for decorum - you have to fight with every tool to win, you put the system back together as it should be after you've won. WWII being the salient example of how this actually played out in the real world. The problem is the good guys too often don't trust even themselves to put it back right so they think they can't risk it. The other problem is sometimes they are right.

yeah - it does depend a lot on how fast your org's turnover is. Things turned over relatively fast at the regional level in one org I worked for, you could basically keep your head down and just mostly avoid a bad middle manager because they wouldn't be there long in most cases. Obviously there are limited places you can do that. In some orgs you can cultivate your boss's boss, which can pay off but can also be risky.

then we better make a LOT of NOISE about how BAD an idea the GOLDEN AB IS.

I've learned to enjoy baseball with less expectation about the outcome. Haven't gotten there with Hockey yet though! And darned if for a change I don't have to for football!

Gee, wouldn't it be terrible if the GOP actually faced the fact that Trump was *their* problem? Yeah, no - what am I thinking?.......

and the more unrestrained the rich teams get throwing money around, the more likely the above becomes for everyone else.

exactly

I'm sure the people at Henry Ford Health love seeing the same ad format they adopted show up in this.

so if Bobby Witt singles and the two guys behind him walk, you take him off third base and send him up to bat again?

It's empty rhetoric in any case. The US can't do anything to Hamas any harder or more effectively than Israel has already been doing. The only impact US involvement would have is if the US gave Iran an ultimatum on the theory Iran could force Hamas, but I'm not sure that's still a good theory at this point.