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yeah - this one has been a real slugfest....

if he starts getting out ahead just a millisecond quicker those are going to be HRs to LF.

yeah - this too. Progs have no use for Bill Clinton's 80's vision of the Democratic party as the 'GOP Lite' and IDK if Hillary ever got past that with them. OTOH, a lot of the progressive wing if the Dem party is their women, and at least in my limited experience, I never met a Democratic woman voter who didn't love Hillary. Whatever kind of bad likeability vibes she sent the men, Dem woman were in her corner.

I'd rate that one a fail, and it's a really interesing suggestion if you have a little imagination - which is probably exactly the issue!

The key for Nevin is his power potential. They'll find him PA if turns out he can put the ball in the seats as well they are hoping.

For me it broke this way: Plenty of reasons in her long public history to believe she would not be a good leader and oppose her in the 2016 primaries. None-what-so-ever to have opposed her in the general once she had the nomination. And don't understimate the 'likeable' part. Presidencies are about leadership and people don't like to follow people they don't like. Hill's is sort of the inverse image of Reagan. I think many people voted for Reagan who did not particularly agree with him on policy but they trusted certain things in his character/judgment when it came to leadership (esp after Carter's fecklessness wrt leadership qualities), and to a large degree, they were right. Reagan left behind a legacy of a lot of bad ecnomic policy, but leadership wise his presdency was a great success. I think a lot of people stayed home who agreed with Hillary on policy, but felt low confidence/enthusisam in her leadership qualities, and a lot of that exactly because she was so easy to dislike.

Hernandez is not part of the Tiger future. If they give him one AB that would be better to be given to anyone under 25 that is a total mistake. They don't have the luxury of giving 10 seconds of concern about the risk of losing CH. He should only play if in the end none of the youngs manage to put up any reasonable challenge.

I would argue that in some sense it's the fact that they've lost the economic theory war which reduced the GOP to adopting the cultural war stance as their core in the first place. The party may still be the party of corporate tax cuts, but that part exists strictly as a recognized campaign funding payoff, no-one (well except maybe Paul Ryan) still believes that Reaganomics is actually sound economic/social development theory. Romney's loss was the pivot. He & Ryan were probably the absolute best most attractive faces you could put on robber baron economics but the voting public still refused to buy in again. If a widely admired, well accomlished, deeply ethical and personally attractive man could no longer sell trickle down, Ted Cruz and the rest of the rogues gallery in the 2016 GOP primary field sure weren't going to be able to either.

Not to mention that the "toilet bowl sticking out of the Parthenon" has to be the most disgusting mishmash piece of archetecture executed in the US in recent years.

My Chinese friend was telling about the file that follows you around your whole life in China. Just to add to the insult they even make you carry yourself and give to the authorities at your new residence when you move. But they give it to you sealed and you dare not open it if you know what's good for you.....

I like the theory that it Poles did it to boost the marketing of their new pipeline. 🤔 The 80 meters thing really puts it in a new light to me. It really could be have been anyone or any kind of free lance team. A 40 ft fishing boot with station keeping thrusters and a gps is all the surface presence necessary. also-Report in the twitterverse that something in Berdyansk was blown up this evening.

except that the he's looked pretty hitterish in his last two outings. We'll see if it keeps up - he may yet put our fears to rest.

How much value is there in keeping Schoop around in the last year of deal if he's not performing? This is something that has been enough to drive a sane person crazy with the Tigers - their attempts to hold guys to the deadline who they keep playing hoping for an uptick in trade value but who just underperform and kill whatever residual trade value they had by the time they are dealt for a bucket of balls. Moving off a Schoop in March/April if he doesn't find it in ST is just the kind of risk I don't mind if Harris wants to take.

Tigers lost to Toronto by 13, StL losing to Det by 13. I don't think the Cards should play the Jays......

Nice day for Tork! so far. Made a loud out pulling a FB in his 1st AB. Got nothing close and took the walk in his second, and banged a hanging breaking ball 1st pitch for a 105 mph 2B.

The damage was at 80 meters, which means the sabateurs really didn't need to mount that big an expedition to do the job. The early reporting implied only a state actor would have had the resources, and that is probably accurate if we have been talking about a spot in +1000ft of water. But mixed gas scuba divers can reach 80m, not to mention commercially purchasable submersibles.

the other thing about QB's is that as long as their health holds, many tend to continue to get more effective with experience - their panic factor falls, recognition experience goes up, the coaching staff's familiarity leads to a better fit between the ask and capability. There are reasons to think that when you see a mid career QB start creating better outcomes that it's a real effect.

Poor Torkelson. Made another 100mph out in his 1st AB. Kids is banking a lot of good karma for something later in his life.

Yeah - it may be that the the most useful thing to for China to learn from the war in Ukraine has nothing to do with the specifics of military tactics and strategy end at all, but just coming to the realization that given the destructive power of modern weapons, you are going to have to destroy the geography to conquer it if your adversary is willing to fight. The idea of ruling the current Taiwan is pretty attractive until you understand that the reality may be more like gaining control of an island that looks like Donbass.

this is so stupid. If you want to work all year from 7 to 4 instead of 8 to 5,then work all year from 7 to 4. Putting the middle of the solar day at 1 or 2 pm to accomplish the same thing is the height of silliness..

I tend to think it all converges to a single system, but I tend to think it will be at the other end - every thing IP and on demand. The current edifice was all driven by the needs of over the air broadcast. As over the air goes away, they whole idea of programming on a schedule becomes superfluous. Ironically the only thing left where 'broadcast to a schedule' makes any sense to contnue is sporting events.

I have a hard time believing you could find 3 in 10 of even the most interventionist US sub cohort willing to send troops to Ukraine so that makes me doubt what the Economist baked into their question biases. Of course the other big question reading a survey presented like this is did they force party ID or only include party self-identifiers? >50% of the US self-identifies as independent - so are they in the survey or not and if not where are they?

That's getting to be a smaller step all the time though. If your TV does WebOS the difference between running programming from a 'cable' provider vs a stream is nearly non-existent. Well I suppose the catch would be if you are buying your IP and your television from different providers so your television set doesn't have direct access to your IP. But then again, if the set is wireless capable, which most are now.....

this is correct. As per what I have read, according to the existing contracts, in case of bankruptcy, rights are going to go back to the teams, the current Bally share holders will be wiped out and the Bally creditors (primarily the teams who have not been paid) are literally going to 'inherit' the company. Of course that was the plan - I suppose once a Bankruptcy is filed the Judge will may decide on something else!

If the Sox were losing, Hawk could be fine - there was nothing wrong with his game analysis. The problem was that when they were winning he was insufferable. Bremer in Minny is good. But when we were living there was before Morneau and I don't remember whoever it was he was working with at the time being that great (maybe Gladden?)