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the complete inability to score runs when it's cold is such a long standing pattern that management needs to be looking at doing something to change it up. Change the prep, change the cold weather uniform items available - something. Every team we play against seems to deal with the weather but the Tigers.

I am not entertained.

Candelario - misses a 91 mph FB middle-middle.

just terrible. Put some bunts down, go the other way, get out of the damn rut.

It's an interesting thought experiment. Say England had granted the colonies Parliamentary representation and patched it up with the northern colonies. You could easily see the South revolting over a slavery prohibition and an *English* army composed mostly of native North American British soldiers putting it down. OTOH, how much more reluctant might England have been about ending slavery if it were still British land owners in the new world making all that money on cotton?

You and Barenaked Ladies circa 1996!

LOL - yup. The winners spend so much time justifying their wins that reality sometimes gets lost. Since I was old enough to understand a little history it has always made me laugh we call 1776 a 'Revolution', it was a 'revolt' at best. War of Independence - sure; Revolution? Not so much. Has there ever been a 'revolution' fought to change so little of the existing political structure? The colonies basically fought to preserve exactly what had already evolved rather than to change it. It was maybe the most conservative 'revolution' in history. Probably has a lot to do with why it succeeded! In any case I find the use of the term 'revolutionary' more than a bit ironic. OTOH, you can say the American revolution in turn sped the greater democratization of England as well, so it goes both ways. The biggest 'problem' in US history in terms of intellectual consistency is the Civil War. By any measure of what we tell ourselves about political theory, it should not have been fought, and the biggest part of the federalism in the original Constitution was rendered 'dead man walking' status by it. But that is what happens when facts on the ground don't fit into anyone's neat definitions. Sometimes you have to just have to win, regardless of who has what theory. Not unlike Ukraine today.

LOL. If the Monarchy survives Charles, it will survive anything.

I think Musk gets bored with things. He'll probably bet bored with Twitter as well.

I bet you never would have bought a tulip in 1635 either. Party pooper.

Miller trying to make lemonade from his lemons.

I think this was edited down from a longer program so it seems to jump topics a bit at some points, but an interesting 23 miin semi-lecture with Peter Ziehan. It's a youtube but it's mostly a podcast - the video is just a few slides. Educational, economic and political background/trends on the current state of Russia and some explanations about their current desperation level and poor future prospects. https://youtu.be/UwPMtmuuVNw Ziehan was a Stratfor guy.

and to be honest, Jefferson (and the rest) cribbed pretty liberally from John Locke (and without attribution - he'd have his tenure revoked today!) As an English intellectual it was pretty natural to be soured on sectarian religion based on the the previous 500 yrs of religious warfare they had been through - but espousing atheism was probably a bridge too far for any public figure then (let alone now). If I remember my readings, Jefferson admitted to being what was referred to at the time (to some degree still is) as a "Deist", one who accepted the existence of divinity but remains relatively agnostic about any particular theological claims about it.

They've gotten pretty innovative with the retractable designs - I suppose that has lowered the cost. But there may not even be room at the Target site for a roof that moves mostly to the side. It's a very constrained site. So the motivation to stay downtown have also have been a factor. The old Metrodome site is a good deal bigger, but unlike the Vikes, who could play at U Minn during construction, the Twins would have had nowhere to play if they had wanted to rebuild at the same site. To have come up with a bigger site in DT Minny probably would have ended up your typical big political fight. Target is a pretty nice venue though. We were only there a couple of seasons after it opened but to that point at least there didn't seem to be any feeling of buyers remorse about it.

and I should have added the converse - a tendency to denigrate the social utility of the action based on a moral judgment about the actor.

As a rule, people in MN are not extravagant for sure, but also: It's hotter and rains less often in Minny in the Summer than in Det or Chicago. Plus if you live in Minneapolis the last thing you want to do after surviving another winter is go inside for your entertainment in the Summer.

Yeah - I can't help seeing a John Salley with a better shot. Good but not dominant player.

so I'm old enough that safety razors were still the most common article when I started shaving. The better ones had adjustable blade guides. The cheaper ones without that were pretty brutal. The other big problem with the old style safety razor is you have to be really careful with it, which most people used to disposable plastics aren't conditioned to. Bang it around or let the blades get a little nicked - easy because they were heavy and so much blade was exposed - and your face is toast. It was a big 'breakthough' improvement when the 'Techmatic' came out because it had a blade guard that snapped in place to shield the edge when the razor wasn't in use.

GOP, WWE? Can you tell the difference?

really? Fundamentalist? You know Jefferson made a translation of the NT where he edited out all the miracles.🤔 The point that Buddha and I are pushing is not that no-one in the history of the world had ever been anti-slavery - you could probably find examples going back to Greece. The issue was that not much had come of it in 3000 yrs so would any practical person (and these were practical men, which is why their revolution took and France's didn't) really envision what the world was going to end up looking like in another 100 yrs when slavery - an institution that dated back to the pharaohs, suddenly did collapse almost world wide? You may be right - they may have been total mercenaries - I guess I don't really care. As I said, I just don't feel any need to pass judgment 250 yrs later on who they were as people. What they did stands on its own for what it was - which was a revolution in national governance systems for its time. One of the things things we consider a core of the Western system of justice is that we separate the person from the act. We don't let you get away with murder just because you love your dog, and we don't convict you of a crime you didn't commit (at least in theory!) even if you are a gang banger. The problem is pop culture (and historians) don't seem to have ever gotten the message. There is a natural human tendency to want to ascribe personal moral worth (whatever that even means) to a person who does a socially useful act when there is never any necessary causal connection between the two. If we would recognize that, we would be less prone to getting into these weeds.

Yup. He probably feels his reach shortening/narrowing - so there is more symmetry between how much he needs to associate with 'popular' people and how much they need to associate with them.

it's what makes drafting players interesting - there's no right answer. You can draft based on what a guy has done and be right or wrong - a guy with tons of NCAA accomplishment might end up as Peyton Manning, or Andre Ware. OTOH, you draft a guy based on great physical attributes and a projected high ceiling, you might get Tom Brady, or you might get Darko!

LOL - Ethereum all hyped about finally getting off the environmental bad list and dumping 'proof of work' for 'proof of stake'. Just what the world needs, going from a system that outgrew what was envisioned as being a truly open distributed control, to one controlled only by the guys who could bring the biggest HW to the table, and now right on to direct control by the biggest existing holders. Crytpo, which early fans saw as some kind of decentralization of banking has taken less than 20 yrs to descend into ordinary top down control capitalism. It has turned into a cute little microcosm lesson in the natural wealth/power consolidating properties of capitalism. Build the boat, float the boat, pull up the boarding ladders. https://www.reuters.com/business/cryptoverse-ether-prepares-epic-merge-quest-eclipse-bitcoin-2022-04-26/

Peaking too early.

Good reason for Manning/Mize to be in FLA.