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Legally yes. The issue goes back to the fact that the entire system is broken. If you are going to make some kind of explicitly legal exemption and *invite* people into the country, then the only reasonable, moral, (indeed, need we say "Christian"?), thing to do is give them a path to permanent residence/citizenship. But since the legislative process is broken and both the legislative and judicial branches have basically abdicated everything to the executive since neither for them have been able to produce sane function for 30 yrs, we get governance by executive fiat which is then subject to the whims of each administration because it has no permanent legal standing. Trump is a disgusting human being to whom no sane person would give custody of dog let alone the lives of 350 million people, but OTOH, what does a Democratic admin think is going to happen when they make policy by fiat themselves and leave hundreds of thousands of people's lives potentially in the hands of someone like Trump?

and the other half is the naturalization process. It's only been in relatively recent years that we have the phenomenon of people coming here and not entering the naturalization process, in the current situation of course because many don't have legal status to access the process. When there is a straightforward and widely used path to naturalization, which was traditionally true in the US, the distinction on birth/blood citizenship fades from significance.

IDK - True, but I can see it the other way too. A couple of advantages of taking the ball: 1) because you don't know what the other team did, you're under less pressure, a FG might be enough. 2) You have the whole game clock, you can run a more leisurely offense, run the ball more (if you are running team etc) without worrying about the other team having burned the game clock.

looking at his heat maps (caveat - it doesn't break down pitch type), you should pitch Raleigh inside as LHH batter (generally counter-intuitive for a power hitter), but outside as a RHH. But you still have to stay up or down. He hits pitches in the middle all the way across the zone.

The difference is nations founded with migrant populations. There was no practical alternative for the "New World" countries. They would only have had citizens born of their indigenous population (who were largely repressed) at their foundings if they hadn't made citizenship "JusSoli" and that never would have done for the Euros that founded the modern nation states there(here). Pakistan is the interesting outlier. They had to do the same thing since so many millions migrated there during Partition - so they are in effect another nation founded with a largely 'migrant' population despite the Indus valley being one of the oldest civilizations on the globe. And on the flip side of that one I imagine India had to do the opposite and consider everyone who lived under the Raj a citizen by blood even if they had had to migrate back into post partition India from what became Pakistan or Bangladesh.

His hard hit rate went up last season then this season he's pulling the ball more and he gotten his ground ball rate down while maintaining the HH rate. That combination will get you some ISO. Odd how his OPS went off a cliff in July and Aug without his HR rate dropping all that much.

Trump has done more than enough to earn it.

Melton threw 16 inning in Sept with 10 BB and 11K, His ERA wasn't bad but those are bad peripherals.. IMO Montero pitched better than that, but he has thrown to 15 Mariners this season and given up a 1.042 OPS, so that's probably why we are seeing Melton. Not sure that is how I would judge it. You can have all the stats you want but some human is still deciding which ones to pay attention to based on his gut. I haven't seen all his outings so maybe it's just a skewed sample but I haven't been impressed with Melton. I suppose against a team that's had a few days off it might take once through the order to catch up to Melton's velo, and once through the order may be all they are looking for.

yeah - I'll grant the 1st line went into the tank late, but I'm going to put that as much on Larkin as who he was playing with. He's played with a lot of schmuks on one side an still been productive and/or pulled them into some level of productivity with him. He wasn't the same player from some point after the worlds - whether it was mental, a lingering physical thing they didn't advertise, or he's just getting old.

IDK. I think it's possible there could be some kind of spit between the big AAU schools - which the Big10 mostly is, and the rest - in effect mostly the SEC - where you have two different competing 'super conferences'. I say possible, I'm not going to say it's likely , but still possible just because of the long standing habit of the B10 centered schools wanting to do things differently.

Wasnt splitting Seider/Edvinsson part of the team's upswing when McLellan came in? Of course even if it was the team went back to being crappy later anyway. That seems like the kind of thing that could be more of a mix and match. If you are playing a team with a powerful 1st line, pair them up. But against most teams I think you want one of them out there 50 out of 60 min.

Language outrage seems selelctive. Wagner is supposed to be the national music of fascism, it's all sung in German, and all the Pope Francis haters want the Mass done in Latin.

You had the mods by the short hairs - they were tired of going game threads -

Great time for UM to be operating with an interim Prez, and one from the Dearborn campus no less. Warde better know what he's doing because he probably has no effective informed oversight right now.

Dan was talking about him being an ex-shortstop and by far the Tigers' best fielding pitcher. The catch and throw to 1st on the high chopper was a 1st rate play for a regular middle IF.

Same here, but clearly he's a 5 alarm fire for the culture warriors.

second time in a month Holton didn't know where his infield was.

get Perez and Riley going again and it would be a lot better line-up in the next round.

This. But we'll take it.

Managers always look like geniuses when guys perform, always look like dunces when they don't.

Yikes. Flaherty gets the K after almost giving up the long ball. Game of milliseconds.

Torkelson took two tough breaking balls for strikes looking for a better pitch and never got one. The Tigers approach problem in a nutshell. They refuse to put strikes in play and end up in a hole where they can't cover everything.

do not understand why Perez was put on the roster. He is totally lost at the plate recently.

I think he will be a guy who it benefits more than most.

An old boss of mine had sign over his desk with something pretty close: "Why is there never time to do it right the first time but always time to do it over?"