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was drafted by the *Pistons* in the top ten. That's your difference. I think the Nuggets show two things - it helps not spend your picks on players like Johnson and Killian , but also that 19 is often too young to get much of a handle on what the guys in the 7 foot class are going to turn into.

a little wisdom from the system's best hitter: Of course, the thing with Torkelson is that he says the right things, but I think he still has to turn up his aggression level maybe one notch. Just 2 less cookies a week that are crushed instead of taken would make all the difference.

I'm also not sure if the game hasn't already moved on from the basic predicate about 'getting the starters pitch count up.' We've done that in a number of series game ones already and have pretty much nothing to show for it. Today all teams have deeper BPs with guys that also throw breaking balls.

Axios reports Fox wants to shut down Tucker's podcast https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson-contract-breach

McCarthy, Jordan, Gaetz, Greene, Hawley, Grassley, Rubio among GOP Congresscritters still all in for Trump after the indictment.

Assange has one less appeal left in the UK https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12174521/Julian-Assange-loses-appeal-against-extradition-espionage-charges.html

yeah - at least Baez shows up and plays.

It seems they wanted Meadows on the record before indicting. So either that, or I suppose it might not even be as much a matter of Meadows turning on him as they needed Meadows under oath not exonerating him either. IOW, just having Meadows on record that he could not contradict other incriminating testimony. That way Meadows would be risking perjury charges if he were testify in Trumps defense at trial in some way they didn't expect.

media getting excited over SCOTUS voting rights ruling in Alabama case. And certainly any voting rights win from this court is better than the court further eroding democracy. The problem is the looked at this case purely on racial discrimination grounds, which means that sadly, it will have no applicability to gerrymandering in general.

The list of guys not good enough to play for this team........Pretty much a whole damn team all better than this one.

Kody Clemens puts it to his old team.

No soup for you.

well - can't cut this any closer....

If there hadn't already been so many already, Lange turning into a pumpkin would be the last straw for this team!

well, more a squib than a boom, but maybe enough - if Lange is on tonight.

Maton hits the breaking ball.

Ford probably lost the election over pardoning Nixon. Argues no-one will make that mistake again.

It's beyond weird how one one hand, we can keep getting such gut it out, fight your way through performances from pitchers no-one ever heard of, and other hand it doesn't matter whether the bat came here from trade, college, HS, international, they all come to the Tiger org to die.

there were reports the DOJ had a meeting with the Congressional leadership (the so-called gang of eight). Speculation was to tell them about a Trump indictment. EDIT: Aaannd there it is. Indictment just popped onto the front page of the NYT.

I know it's beating a dead horse, but it keeps happening. Someone needs to write "Stop taking middle-middle fastballs for strike 1" on the bill of all of Torkelson's caps. And if this is coaching, it needs to change.

You remember how Pedro Martinez looked at Casey Mize pitch and said he was going to break down? I remember a Sports Doc before the draft that watched Zion play, even broke down the way he walked around in street clothes, and said he was trouble. Maybe the guy was FOS and it's just been blind bad luck with Zion, but I've always remembered that.

I don't know if A^2 was just in a clear patch but they said yesterday that Detroit air was supposedly very bad but vis here was fine - infact we drove out to Pickney area and the sky was fairly blue everywhere. Now today it's definitely a lot worse - almost no blue to the sky.

There has been a lot of back and forth at various councils since, but for practical purposes, for the Western Churches most canon was set under Augustine's leadership in the 4th century. The big change after that came when the Protestant movement switched their choice of OT authority from the Septuagint (Greek) to the Masoretic Text (Hebrew) - (KJV reflects this) . For the Protestants reformers, this helped remove authority for some RCC doctrines they didn't like that were supported in the Duetorecanon/Apochrypha since those book are not in the Masoretic Canon . The Protestant reformers may have also viewed the Masoretic text as more 'authentic' than the Septuagint (the Greek OT which contains the Dueterocanon).

While never Orthodox by choice or practice, I was born into it, which left me with sort or a positive disposition about it just because of it's history and persistence. But the abject failures of the Orthodox churches in Russia and the ex-Yugoslavia just go to prove no matter what its roots, any institution anywhere can go seriously wrong.

Looking back from today's perspective, Graham's work against the election of JFK out of fear that electing a Catholic would deliver the presidency to the Pope seems hopelessly Quixotic. Graham later in life did say he had regrets about his involvement with politics and political figures. But whether you think someone's theology is broken and whether you think they are a grifter are separate questions at different levels. And it can go the other way as well. Just because a guy is a grifter doesn't mean he can't preach anything that has some truth. It's being able to get close enough to what people will recognize as some piece of the truth that is what makes the grift work.