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you still may not like the development system but Schoop, Baez, Meadows, Haase, Candelario aren't slumping because of it.

Willi hasn't played enough for his fielding stats to mean much, but has clearly and grossly misjudged two balls out of a small number of chances. I not sure I want to wait until the stats prove out what we can see already - He's not good at judging fly balls.

I guess I'm glad I just got back. If we have 5 starting pitchers (Rodriguez, Pineda, Faedo, Skubal, Brieske=5?) and the DH isn't until Tuesday why are we doing a BP day today?

Easily. All this is needed is for Biden to get sick and have to resign, Harris taking over - as incumbent being too difficult to defeat in the primaries, and then getting plastered in 2024 by another Trumper.

TBF, from personal experience they can be bad enough that you'd have hard time playing without taking something and once you did you might have a really hard time catching up to a 95mph fastball. For me even today with the newer options there is only one antihistamine which is strong enough to suppress my symptoms without making me at least a little drowsy. If Austin doesn't have anything that works that well for him I could understand it might be an issue. If they're hiding something I'm not sure what the point would be, just IL him - you don't have to say why.

I guess they can't find a drugstore that sells Zyrtec. (there's Tx medicine joke to be made there but wrong thread.....🤭)

If any one in the org is in the cross hairs today (and I don't believe anyone actually is) it would be Hinch. GM's don't get blamed when guys under perform their lifetime averages, managers and position coaches do.

LMAO. Keep pumping the fantasy. There is no "we'll see", there is only "HAVE SEEN."

In that long presser, Yzerman kept coming back to the difficulty hiring someone he didn’t know or hadn’t worked with before. If that’s his preference then having to eventually fire a friend may be his fate.

true enough.

Actually on 2nd thought this is doubly disgusting - Alito justifies his decision by expecting the poor to supply wombs for the barren upper classes? Handmaid's tale indeed. What an 'effin bastard. To even consider that as relevant completely denies the dignity of those women.

Gee, does that mean they are going to start overturning media mergers because I can't get cheap internet? ......didn't think so.

It was inevitable that while they were congratulating themselves on the low ERA of the BP that the walks they were getting away with eventually would burn them. To many arms in the pen have not been able to throw strikes.

I've always thought of all the sports, football is a game of weakest links. If you aren't balanced enough the other team is going to exploit your weaknesses and beat you. Maybe that comes from watching teams with stars lose.....

What to you expect 84? Elementary school level schoolyard taunting is the general GOP level of discourse today. They all aspire to reach the Orange One's facility with it.

Still, there is a world of difference between building rationales on widely accepted social mores and building them on specific theological holdings from the same corpus that may have very narrow acceptance. Not to mention that the Judeo Christian tradition gives itself too much credit - there is plenty of moral enlightenment available in other ancient traditions as well. But I've already spoken to my skepticism about too much focus on history in general. I think sometimes the value of looking at decision precedent get transferred to a reverence for history in general that is misplaced. In general history sucked. But to be honest, by contradicting his own previous logic enough to get to where he wanted to go, Scalia brought me to understand that the logic given in decisions is not particularly meaningful. They find a way to back fill the logic to get the result they want 90% of the time.

I think legislators speak for the GOP position on law as well as Judges.

not to be too be brutally crude but what is the match between numbers of white prospective parents willing to adopt children of color that would supposedly become available? I am perfectly aware many do, I'm even willing to believe it is higher than I think it is, but would curious to see real numbers. the other mismatch however is that per the study I linked to upthread, many(most?) women seeking abortions already have children. So would those women give those added children up or just end up in a deeper hole?

Are you speaking specifically here or the GOP in general? You have to have been under a rock for the last 40 yrs to believe that isn't true of today's GOP in it's direct appeal to America's Christian Taliban.

I don't have an appropriately large font for the "good luck with that"

LOL - Maureen Down (who I am not great fan of) did have a good line today - actually she was was borrowing a line from the late Mary McGrory: "John Robert appears to be a small man trying to walk a large dog."

Hamstring problems mostly IIRC. Lost his leg drive. His 'explosion' as they would term it today in football.

Chet didn't have top shelf blazing speed, but he was really sound in all phases. A bit like Mickey Stanley in that regard but Mickey was even less flashy. Stanley never looked like he was working at it, he just somehow caught everything.

g.o.t..t.o..d.o.u.b.l.e..d.o.w.n.

OK - If you want to play scripture quotation bingo check Ex 21:22. That is not a murder. Straight from the core of the OT law, of which Matt 5:17 says not one iota will pass away. All of which is immaterial because the Bible is not the source authority for US Law, the consensus of the governed population is and I'd be very surprised if anyone can show a majority of the population thinks the Bible - by whatever of a million possible different interpretations and internal contradictions, should be. Heck if you wanted to take Jesus at his word you should shut down most of the police and court system because you wouldn't prosecute anyone for theft or simple assault and absolutely not for sexual indiscretions.