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After getting 30 games with the DBacks in 22 (mostly at 2B) and not hitting much, Kennedy started out last season with a lot of promise at AAA putting up a 925 OPS though mostly OBP and little power. In August the Diamondbacks called him up for 3B but after he had only 4 hits in 10 games they pulled the plug and sent him off to Oakland, who sent him to AAA but at that point he played only 11 more games and didn't do much. Has played 2B and 3B recently. Compared to Lipcius probably more bat upside.

😢 Another of my AAT's bites the dust. (maybe)

When will they have to re-up Raymond and Seider?

and whether Patrick Kane is a RedWing next season is a good question. Kane is probably loving playing with DeBrincat and sometimes Larkin (the three of them on the rush for DeBrincat's goal against the Caps was a thing of beauty) but if he finishes healthy he's going to want to get paid and I'll be surprised if the Wings offer him as much as some other team will.

Any good GM should make a move that makes sense even if it departs from his usual philosophy, my point initially wasn't so much that Holmes would never do something as that from what both he and Campbell have said since they have been here, they value depth seriously. That seems so obvious for the NFL and yet previous Lion FOs absolutely did not build depth and it seems one of the most SOL things of all was Lions seasons crashed by injuries.

The sane ones keep trying to salvage their old party. It's a co-dependency we all keep hoping they'll free themselves from.

You could get there from Barenboim - as in the conductor Daniel. I've looked at Ellis Island records for people in my family that came in the 1910-1920 era - the approximations of the names can get pretty funny - especially first names where they were even less concerned with accuracy.

we've had this debate before. The gov and purpose you serve is bigger than the particular pols running it at the time. If you are SecDef and you disagree with a war your resignation means something. If you are miles down the food chain it means nothing. Whether she supported the policy mistakes of the Iraq war is certainly fair game, but that arg needs more to support it than that she wanted to serve her country. If your intelligence work is saving the lives of the grunts on the ground you shouldn't keep doing it because they shouldn't be there?

have never heard that one before either.

Exactly. All that matters are the ones that make it. You can draft a lot of high floor guys and look good in the system evaluations and never build an MLB team. I think in the baseball draft you mostly have to swing for the fences, ceilings are all that matters, but even then there is a fine line between doing that too much and coming up with nobody at all as cellings can be hard to know. For instance Carpenter and Bigbie have probably already exceeded what theirs were assumed to be at draft time. Workman maybe a case of guy with a potential high ceiling who couldn't get there. Do you call him a failed pick or the kind of chance you want to be taking?

Tigers were starting to figure out pitcher development under Avila, they didn't seem to have a clue about hitters till the end though.

This week reminds us: If Chelios could come to the Wings, anything is possible!

also note what Campbell said in his presser "in this league, everybody gets hurt." I think we will consistently find that when given the option, Holmes/Campbell will opt to have two good players instead of one great one because your depth is going to play as much as your starter. And esp if they can get the two for less than the price of one and have more to spend on another spot.

Counter arg is that as part of their development, Cade and Ivy should both learn how to optimize their own and each other's game both together and apart since if they both stay each should be on the floor when the other isn't but also mostly together - QED.

This, but also there is real economic loss which is more than a matter of superstition. The fact that the Arab world decided to fight the Partition by not admitting Palestinian refugees, means you have millions of displaced families who have not been given a chance to rebuild lives and 'get on with it' somewhere new on a permanent basis, as the victims of displacement in most conflicts do. Even if you always have a certain number of 'dead-enders' the pressure in most displacement situations dissipates in a generation or so because people do move on - a Palestinian in Egypt eventually becomes an Egyptian of Palestinian origin and if not true for him at least for his children. That process has been frozen here and it is another piece immobilizing the conflict. Every potential deal between Israel and the Palestinians in the past had foundered over "Right of Return." ROR won't die as an issue for Palestinians because since Partition they have had no-where to go, and of course "Right of Return" is a non-starter for Israel as it is fundamentally a reversal of Partition.

Millennials and Gen Z seem to be turning out to be better voters than young boomers or Gen X were. Hopefully that continues. Maybe they understand the system has shortchanged them and they need to change it. It seems ironic that since the boomers the young haven't been good voters when it was the boomers that grew up wanting to change the world. But I think the answer is they wanted more to change the culture, they didn't want to change the US government per se. We were cold war children, our system still was the good one. There were people in the government we didn't like (Nixon!) but the idea that the US constitutional order itself had problems wasn't so much on the radar outside the still active communist left. And of course we came of age when the 'fairness doctrine' was still in effect and before billion dollar political campaigns. There was a lot less perceived risk that not voting might be a prelude to collapse.

LOL - I was thinking the same thing. Especially below the waist. We saw him live on the field at a Hens game last summer and 'low center of gravity' is the thought I had then also.

Just to be accurate, the claim of 'first to inhabit' isn't even made in the Torah. The covenant with Abraham explicitly gave him possession of land that was already inhabited by other people. He was an emigre into the area from the East. (and in fairness, the current Arab claim to the land itself only goes back to the Islamic conquest of the people already living there before the 8th Century) Bringing forward ancient historical arguments about current national boundaries is in the end an exercise than can only lead to futility and very pointless wars (I see you V. Putin). All we can say that matters is the state of Israel exists were is does because the UN put it there in present day history and that its borders are the result of that and the practical outcomes of continued military clashes with its neighbors. I suppose one can easily say that it was just another example of European imperialism for the Western powers to take chunk of real estate from the collapsed Ottoman empire rather than offer up one of their own (the South of France maybe?) to Jews in expiation of their Holocaust guilt. Everyone is some kind of victim of history?

The other interesting one is that the Palestinians in Gaza live in a area settled by a group modern historians call 'the Sea Peoples" who migrated there possibly after the fall of one of the pre-Greek civilizations, They sailed around creating a fair amount of havoc for a short time - in the 11th Cent BC IIRC (don't quote me on the exact dates), I listened to a couple of lectures about this some time ago. They are a rather enigmatic group in terms of their origins, but they may have brought a more sophisticated culture with them than existed in that area at the time. So the Gazans - or least some of them, may have more complex antecedents than most. There is/was a whole speculative theory about the rise of this group somehow collapsing the commerce that supported the Minoan civilization.

One can go overboard on the skeptics side as well. If nothing else, there is plenty of archaeological evidence still standing and staring one in the face that Jerusalem was the center of an empire large and rich enough to support building a significant city in the pre-Hellenic period, ~11th-9th century BC.

Right. The dilemma is that Hamas has to go but Israel likely cannot completely eradicate Hamas purely by military action or as an occupying authority without that authority being completely tyrannical. What you want to happen with the Palestinians and Hamas is what eventually began to happen in Iraq with ISIS: the rise of domestic authority in conjunction with the population's eventual rejection of the ISIS program. Now, I have no idea whether that is even possible given all the things that make the situations different, but that is the kind of mechanism that somehow needs to be driven towards. The problem I see is that you still need a provisional authority, and as bad as things were in Iraq the bulk of the Iraqi population was never as militantly anti-American and the Palesitinians are anti Israeli so if Israeli can't run successfully Gaza because of that, who can?

LOL - Lange walks the first batter he faces and then gives up a 423ft moonshot.

Skubal through 2: 0H, 1BB 2K. Meadows had to run down one hard hit ball. Skubal hitting 99 as per pirates announcers.

Filipkowski may be correct about Trump fatigue inside the party in general, however I don't believe that is what is driving McConnell's decisions. I think in this particular case it's more about Mitch's failing health.

Gameday Audio for this game sounds like it's being broadcast with paper cups connected with strings. Bush league audio quality.