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the thing that is so ridiculous is how is dead children even a partisan issue? How do we come to a society where half the people think their right to go out and put holes in pieces of paper at the range is actually more important than the lives of the kids they are going to end up relying on to change their diapers at the end of their lives? And half the leadership caste of the nation without the.....leadership --- to try to turn their own followers around? The 2A is not the problem. We've amended the constitution 30 times and we can amend it 30 times more. The problem is a population that is all too happy to embrace death, to count it as a small thing as long it's the other guy and their recreations are not inconvenienced. If there is a God like the one in the OT who had a penchant for judging nations as nations, this one has chosen the road to perdition with its eyes wide open.

I don't know how you square that circle. MLBPA can't give MiLB players a voice in their union (i.e. a vote) because they would immediately lose control of it by the numbers. But without that voice, I'm never going to expect more than a smattering of guys who hit it big to care much about the guys they've left behind. Plus most of the guys in the majors who are at the minimum bouncing back and forth to AAA and for whom MiLB issues are still front and center, are not often going to stand as unions reps, believing that is one more strike against them with the ownership that can ship them out at any time.

that's completely true, but how many guys on *this* roster did SVG put there? yeah - trick question!

Well, I wouldn't put that quite so "either/or."

It doesn't matter if he is predisposed to follow the law if the gun had not been available. It may be hard for the government to control personal motivation, it is easier by far (even if not always 100% here either) to control economic activity. Pretty hard to hide a gun factory and most overseas manufacturers would still have enough legitimate business in the US (LEO, those bolt action hunters....) that allowing their product to be smuggled in the face of things like US banking or SEC sanctions would probably be a losing proposition.

Insanity or evil - take your choice.

and just to extend the point, not every owner took any risk at all to be where he is. Not to dump on Chris Ilitch, he may turn out to be great owner in the long run, but there is a guy who pretty much never risked anything to be where he is. I'm sure he is not the only owner who is there by a similar path.

I'd go back the point about the risk though. The players have all taken a huge risk to get where they are They literally risked the rest of their lives that could make in the majors from the time they were probably teenagers. The opportunity cost for the guys that put in all the years on the field and never make it are huge. You just don't turn around with just a HS diploma after being cut at 25 and embark on your your second career choice to be a doctor.

you are missing the arg here. Current deer hunting guns may be semi-automatic. They don't need to be. You can hunt deer just fine with a bolt action 30-30. I love that so many gun owners claim sport as their motivation but then do all they can to take the 'sporting' part out of the process! Reminds me of a guy I used to ride with on bicycle tours. Always wanted to take a short cut on the route. WTF did you sign up for a scenic bike tour for if you don't want to ride the route?

yeah - find out what the other side really wants that you don't care about, act like you care about it a lot. Give it away in the end to get what you want. Negotiation 101. I'd guess the failure between these two groups is that they don't listen to each other seriously enough to ever figure out the part above.

yeah, it's pretty straightforward. The other aspect that I don't think gets stressed enough is that it's not only max effort, it's max breaking ball effort. More guys throwing more hard sliders or splits because they can't be prefect enough even with a decent movement fastball to keep the ball in the park.

My question for the Wings is how do they get better than they are right now this season? Are there players ready to come from GR and make an impact? Berggren? Anyone else on the horizon before next season? And who on the current roster might be a better player in a month or two? Zadina (maybe) , Veleno (seems doubtful), Hronek *should* be able to raise his game from where it is right now. Even more from Seider and Raymond? So we have banked two big improvements with two rookies, and we have Larkin and Bertuzzi back to anchoring ta serious #1 line with Raymond. I see less unrealized upside until next season when some guys like Edvinsson get to the end of the pipeline.

But I don't think the owners will agree to higher minimums without a hard cap. If you made the ML minimum $3M, which I think would be a very fair number, your base roster cost would be $78M. If you are a mid market team that has revenue for a maybe a $125M payroll, you are up against the wall before you even start to build a roster with post minimum guys.

I liked the way Greiss works the shot-out. Very aggressive going after the shooter with his stick. It was only dumb luck it didn't end the round earlier because Greiss had Donskoi beaten

FWIW, we do have Avila on video saying they signed Baez.

I think one problem is that there is limited solidarity on the players side because there is such a chasm between the large number of have not players and small number of have players - and the 'haves' seem to control the union. If I'm Eric Haase what do uncapped contracts like Max Scherzer just got do for me? The union spends all their energy fighting a cap, a stance which benefits only the top players and in fact hurts the rest because the more they pay Max (or we pay a SS) the higher the drive to have more players on the roster be held at the minimum. Little wonder to me the union doesn't have the solidarity to make substantive progress.

True. And the development of the monoclonals was every bit as 'rushed' through the process as the vaccines were, and monoclonals probably have higher theoretical potential for serious side effects than the mRNA vaccines, though to be clear, in practice I have not heard of any associated with these COVID monoclonals.

Nice to see Kreidler's glove get some love.

yup - in a democracy a society gets the government it deserves. There, in fact, is the most overused word in American marketing: "deserves." If you are an American you don't "deserve" jack, because you are doing a damn half-assed job on both your foreign and domestic responsibilities.

they've already done it.

very good point

It's the digital equivalent of a Potemkim village. Everything is fine here, move along....

I'm sure a metal detector inside this home's front door and/or an armed neighbor borrowing a cup of sugar and this would never have happened. https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-church-musician-william-broyles-guns-down-his-wife-of-30-years-and-their-two-kids-cops-say?ref=home

Can't see how. And an additional problem for W Castro is that there may not be a whole lot of playing time for him at SS in Toledo either as Kreidler probably has a higher system priority now.