gehringer_2

Easter Egg?

I don't, and I desperately don't want to.

Spencer and Jace approve (so far).

Mohammed al_Bashar, who for what it's worth (and it's probably very little in the end) has been appearing in public in western dress - which is at least a nod in the hopeful direction.

Cossa back to GR. 😡

with or without the sulphur and charcoal?

actually the third point about baseball is guaranteed contracts. Asinine. Where else in the world do you get paid for not being able to do your job? You can get disability insurance on most jobs - usually pays a max of 55%! So there is a reform baseball desperately needs - a system of paying players for actual production and not a crapshoot on whether they will still be healthy or productive in 5 or 7 yrs. Maybe at lease an absolute inflation adjusted cap on how much and how long any team can pay any player in any year who out of baseball.

Islamic radicalism is a mind set that doesn't come with a lot of self-correcting tendencies, but OTOH, you can remain a 'baddie' and still be less of a problem than Assad was. Not a very high bar. I think that's all anyone hopes for - or should. I was thinking more along the line that today a radical Islamic leader is likely to have a more internal nationalist focused view than the 'lets start the international end of the world Jihad' ambition of the guys in the line from from BinLaden to Al-Baghdadi who have all already failed at that. And that could mean less trouble for their neighbors. But that's just my speculation.

IDK if he an explicit beef with the Tigers beyond that they were not a great org to play for in general, but I think his heart was always in Cleveland

Ok, that parses better than the way I read it at first! To me it should come down to his shooting. In today's league if a guy with Ivey's athleticism can become a real shooting threat, you want him.

the ironic thing is that coming out of a career in law enforcement, Harris was at heart probably a lot more conservative on the kind of public order issues that progressive dems have fumbled the ball on, but she couldn't run that kind of campaign and keep the party together, which is something the Dems need to figure out going forward.

Two things: The outside asset level of an owner and the profitability of a team are two very different things. Owners don't spend their own money on players, they spend the team's. which leads to the second point: the problem in baseball is not lack of a cap, it's lack of anything close to revenue parity. A cap is meaningless if a team still can't afford to spend to it. The cap works in the NFL because every franchise has at least that amount of income.

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I wonder how much computerized order systems have been able to cut down on grocery store waste? You would think it has to have had a huge impact to be able to track and correlate sales histories and real time product movement on a store by store basis.

TBH, most of the party (who may not admit it in public) is not going to mourn the passing of the old guard that had hung around well past its sell date.

anything is possible, though I seem to remember the Afghan Taliban claiming they had turned over a new leaf and that didn't get very far. Still, it certainly is possible that the abject defeat of many recent incarnations of Qaeda/ISIS/ISIL etc., have taken some of the steam out of the Islamic fundamentalist eschatologists and Khaliff-dar-al-Islam wannabes - at least for this generation who have now lived through the failures of those grander ambitions.

Our side was no better. What was it Barry said? Something like - act like you've won before.

you can hide one if you get to it quickly enough. Something less than an hour I think.

It too bad there aren't enough adults running these programs that this even has to be considered anywhere.

My absolute hero as a little squirt.

Syria may be done with Iran though. Alewites are going to be thoroughly disenfranchised (if not disembodied) and whether the new regime is radical or not it almost certainly is going to be Sunni.

right - it's actually the touch on the block (touch behind the line of scrimmage) that is the different rule in that is does not make it a free ball. Had never really thought about the fact that that's a bit of a unique case.

I guess the complaint by Cowboys fans that it was a bad play was that since the ball wasn't going to go very far, just take it where it's downed. Of course if he had held it and taken it for a TD, he'd be a hero.

IDK, the revenue is actually there in NYC and LA. Yankees and Dodgers have incomes well over $500-600M/yr. The sport's popularity may be waning nationally, but it still generates huge income in its best markets.

baseball being baseball, you could put the bottom team from a division in the playoff and it would still win a WS occasionally - outcomes of individual baseball games and short series are just far more random than the talent level inputs. That said, no doubt the probability of getting to the playoffs tracks salary level - that's already true, it's only the large number of teams eligible that insure some less rich team or two gets a shot at the big spenders each year the way the Tigers did. But I think you are right that the rich teams will be pushing for longer series to reduce the odds of bad bounces negating the value of their spending.