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I guess it on one level it might be ironic that the CPP should throw a big party for the victory in a war they didn't have all that much to do with, but OTOH, Nationalist ineptitude and corruption in the war effort did a lot to catapult the CCP into power when it ended, so in that sense the War is something for the CCP to celebrate. And of course it's also a chance to take a swipe at the US by playing 'our' role.

It's baseball. Every single player that gets called up the big leagues has to be 'auditioned' in front of real fans in real games before his manager will decide how to use him in the future, it's been part of baseball since forever. A manager can talk all the 'win this game now' culture he wants, but there is *always* a parallel imperative to manage for the season - regardless of what they say to their team and the fans. It's a matter of 'do as I say' for the players because that's what they need to do, while I do the stuff I don't want the rest of you thinking about.

in a sense it is. He's got less than a month to decide who he can use in what situation while there is a lot of turnover going on in the personnel. He has to balance the cost of losing a game now versus the value having a clearer picture of how he can use what he has in a playoff elimination game.

To speculate a little about the obvious: There is always the possibility that an individual player, in particular one who is struggling to perform at the level he believes he should, is frustrated enough that the combination of his struggles and the human need for ego protection have driven him to transfer responsibility for his performance to factors outside himself. That's always something that can happen. You do the best you can for a guy in that situation but in the end he has to straighten himself out. Obviously some managers are better at managing people than others, but to think any manager has a set of psychological magic beans to meet every single situation is unrealistic. I wouldn't take that kind of situation as a reflection that there is a broader clubhouse issue though or that there is some other guy out there that could have fixed said player's problem.

IDK, maybe it's different in baseball because the season is so long and the guys have to live with each other in such close proximity for so long, but usually the bottom line is players respect coaches that can get them rings, and AJs done that. This doesn't feel like a team with clubhouse issues, but then again, local sports journalism has fallen to such a low level a lot more could fly under the radar than those of us from who have memories of an old world might expect.

There have always been injuries in pro-sports but the wastage rate among pitchers is getting to be so high that baseball is basically just as bad a football. It's really getting really depression to watch my teams put in competent managements, make all the right moves, then still get their seasons blown up by injuries. We talk about the playoffs being basically a crap shoot because the probabilities are so close to even between teams with similar records, but today every season is basically a crap shoot because no matter what kind of pitching staff you assemble, it still has an even money chance of evaporating before season's end.

I used to talk to kids about engineering ethics now and then, what I should have have to them but never did was that best way to have ethical courage on the job is to have a spouse with a job good enough to support the household if need be. 😉

He must have been a fail as an informant as well considering all the jail time served from that 1st round of investigations.

Skubal, Mize, and pitching chaos the rest of the way I guess.

Johnson is just what you get when you send Jimmy Swaggart to law school. Every bit as false.

the old line is that when the US sneezes, Canada catches cold. When the US catches cold, Canada gets pneumonia. Driving it over a cliff is not exactly what Trump is doing to the US economy yet, but at this point he's run over the curbs and is tearing up the neighborhood lawns.

Naw - that definitely wouldn't be good for the gambling sites.

Ultimately, I think you have to name it what it is, which is worship of the culture of death. It's the idea that if you kill enough other people your problems go away. It's basically the same logic whether it comes from Putin, Netanyahu, Isis, Hamas, Trump, or an MTF poster. It's the same kool-aid. It's the 21st century cool-kids philosophy. Anyone that hews to that old "I came that you may have life, and have it abundantly" stuff? Losers.

As a wise old mage once said: "“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."

It's a west wind, that means from right to left and a little out to left. Both starters are RHP, Wont be as much aid to LHB as it will be to RHB.

actually, regardless of whether the results output is a matter of bad luck or needing to catch up, either way less dramatic outcome numbers will still lower the attention being paid to the young man, which is probably a good thing.

Jobs number 22K, June revised to -13K, unemployment up 0.2 to 4.3. Trump's big beautiful re-industrialization? Durable goods employment down 19K I guess they will have to post director of BLS as a monthly temp job after Trump fires another director today.

Tale of two halves. Eagles seemed like a different O in the 2nd half. Maybe out of gas with it being week one, or the delay, or maybe Dallas made all the right adjustments.

And/Or the 150 PA at A ball may have included some good luck.

Of course, for starters, the term "processed" is so vague a term as to be scientifically meaningless when it comes to food. A corn flake may be highly 'processed' but it may contain zero additives.

The real public health epidemic is obesity and it shows no sign of letting up. Type II follows obesity like day follows night. Kennedy's sense there is something widespread going on that is wrong is correct, but he's not seeing the actual forest for all the overweight people right in front of him.

For the season McGonigle has as many PA at AA as at A by now, and his BA/OPS is down 130/220 pts on the transition to AA. He's finding some challenges to overcome that he wasn't at A ball. Hype train can maybe take a bit of a breather.

other than computing power, might be the only that's cheaper today than when we were in college......

$224 at CVS if your insurance won't cover it.

Meadows with a double and run scored for the Hens. Best I can do.