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it's a testament to operant conditioning that their viewers can still watch Fox without their brain exploding. Actually the story is false anyway, all they are doing in Donbas is putting their regular uni's back on.

IDK, when teams use turf they aren't required to have dirt except for sliding boxes at the bases. They still painted a line though, even if it didn't matter to anything anything. e.g

We pinkos in Ann Arbor are an island floating in a malevolent sea.

I had a similar thought.

the weird thing is that Putin is basically saying no-one had it right but the Romanovs. Lenin was a sloppy fool so we reject the Bolsheviks take on history, Gorbachev gave away the store so we reject the Glasnost history. Is there really that much nostalgia in Russia for Monarchy and serfdom that it can be good PR to basically plant your flag on returning the country to Tsarism? And of course if you want to talk history, it's only natural Ukraine should have such brotherly affection for Mother Russia after Stalin thought starving most of the population would be just the thing to cement Russo-Ukrainian Slavic unity.

Yeah - Marc Crawford was pretty nuts. (Of course hitting Scotty in the head might hurt - doesn't he have a metal plate in his head?)

RIght. As unlikely as it seemed in 2015, what Donald Trump had done in effect is join the pantheon of American Televangelists. Kenneth Copeland, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen et all send their regards.

If we are going to re-adjudicate every national boundary since Lenin the world is in even bigger trouble. If Putin really wants to go that route maybe Japan should reclaim all its one time Asian holdings.

People say this, but look at the % of GDP the US Federal Government spends. Other than wars and depression/catastrophe (including the Covid spend spree) spending the drift up has been pretty moderate over 60yrs considering the changes in the world.

Obama was only important because of his bio. That is still saying a lot - a huge amount really. Politically, it's not clear to me if anyone could have done anything more with the GOP opposition he faced, though it's probably safe to assume that at heart a lot of that opposition was also because his bio, so the two things are probably inseparable. In all respects other than his ambitions for health care Obama was a frightfully conventional thinker, and despite his obvious intellectual candlepower he really had no sense of what the US economy needed beyond the need to prevent Wall Street from imploding. But there was really no hope for any meaningful economic progress to come out of the 2008 election. Clinton and Obama were both in thrall to the NY banking establishment and McCain didn't have an economic thought in his head.

opinion on grant seemed to have pinballed all over the place - he was either a useless drunk or a great visionary. Guess you had to be there.... Same with Jackson to some degree. When I was in school opinion on Jackson in History books was pretty positive, today he commonly seems to be considered to have been an idiot.

Or they had him rest his arm for a couple of months after the season and when he restarted conditioning it was no better.

yes, course exactly this. The hitters already have the jacked up ball that is making it advantageous net offense wise for them to pull everything *despite* the shift, then people moan and groan that the balls that don't make it over fence aren't going for singles too. Screw that.

100% don’t mess with the rules because hitters refuse to learn to hit to the opposite field. What’s next? Ban the slider because guys can’t hit it? It would be exactly the same stupid logic.

And all she wants to do is dance.

Figures something coming from Saudi would be half-baked.

In the final analysis, as big money sports have evolved they have become more a mismatch to the core mission at a school like UM than ever, but that won't make any difference to them. I'm perfectly happy to be entertained as fan, but the truth is that as someone with almost 50 yrs of skin in the game with the University community here, if it all went away tomorrow the truth is I wouldn't shed a tear over it.

yup. Sort of a conflict between it being in the interest of MiLB players that it be easy to bring up minor leaguers and easy to cut older players at the end of their run, while it's the opposite for the current players, who want it to be costly to bring up minor leaguers and hard to cut or reduce the salaries of older players.

well, yes and no. By '78 there the rumblings had begun. There were some that wanted to be rid of Hayes by that point (2 yrs with more than 2 losses and 4 losses in 78 was too much for some) but he was going to be very hard to fire, the incident gave them the cover to do what some were hoping for.

I don't know if they have to fire him, but they should at least hit him with a hard suspension. - IDK - maybe something like 30 days?

if Berggren, Edvinsson and Soderblom make the team next season, that will be 6 rookie adds (I suppose Veleno still has rookie status but I'm not counting him) in 2 seasons which would be pretty impressive. Still probably a need to sign a FA Dman for next season, not sure how much more Staal has in the tank.

the internet needs a "Tucker Carlson is a Moron" meme.

LOL, running with your head down is always a good way to make an out. Actually it sort of looked like the batter didn't know/understand the interference rules - it almost looks like he's asking for 2nd because the 1B was in the run out lane.

speaking of which, if Xi has leaned on Putin to be good until the game are over, that would make maybe next wed to thurs as Putin's 'go' days. Rain Mon/Tues with weather in the 50s though so the talk of the middle of Feb being the hardest ground is a miss.

So, do you really want to park that electric car in your attached garage? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/18/cargo-ship-fire-porsche-bentley-ocean/