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All the Dmen with more points than Seider are also 3 yrs or more older.

Turley under the misapprehension that it's black letter law and not civil culture that is the ultimate protector for civil rights. Ask any Russian of the Soviet era about the guarantees under the Soviet constitution or any black American who lived through Jim Crow about those in the US Constitution. Not to fault Turley particularly but it's the typical tunnel vision of lawyers (just like people in any field see the world through that field) to only see the law. With items like Civil rights and civil culture, law is no better than the will of the rulers that it be followed and that is often no will at all. The Canadians have already proved their civility and tolerance by giving the protesters a week to make their point.

WCF probably viewed football players as fungible commodities regardless of their color.

Trump was leveraged by his celebrity on the Apprentice, which is what opened the door for him on Fox. Not many other people you can think that could bring that kind of pre-launch altitude. At some level most American's realize that 'reality TV' is scripted, but they still give a guy like Trump a pass in terms the 'character' they spent time with being him instead of him playing himself as per the producers 'script'.

I don't think the non-Obama voter needed Palin to increase McCain's appeal, and I doubt if she drew much of the progressive women's vote, so I'd have to guess that based on her own negatives, she was a net negative for him

The truth is the worst thing the west can do to Putin long term is renewable energy. That will hit the oligarchy where it really hurt$.

True enough that the West has to avoid overing playing its hand here. In fact Putin's overplay has made it relatively easy for the West to get a deal without actually giving up very much - but they aren't going to get it without giving up anything. Taking NATO membership off the table gives the West a virtual 100% return to the status quo ante. Putin would have spent a lot of energy for no real change on the ground. That looks like pretty close to the good guys winning to me.

John Wilkes Booth had too high a shooting percentage to interest Troy Weaver.

the most finely articulated part of the human body is the arms/hands. You give up a lot taking them out of the game!

But even for this, it only works if you know the game well enough or had played it so that your mind is able to fill in the action from the description. A fan already knows well what his team’s DP combo looks like making the play so you don’t need to see it as much. Sort of the inverse of basketball or hockey where radio is harder because there is no set form to what is happening.

It’s more popular with kids that grew up playing it, which is pretty much the same reason baseball is dying (relatively). the thing that baseball has in excess to other sports is not action, but tension. Tennis somewhat similar that way.

one thing that soccer could use is a sidewall all the way around so the ball stays in play. Maybe a low wall just a couple feet high (which would stop most rollers) and then glass or tight screen above that so it can be seen through but still keep the ball in play ball. It would end the interminable throw ins and open up all kinds of rebound passing. ...don't mention it, glad to have helped. When does baseball start again?

IDK Tater, the Trump saga has already had more turns that a 3 ft jack-screw. But here's hoping...

I suppose there is nothing wrong with soccer that shrinking the ball, giving the players sticks and moving to ice couldn't fix.

acquired taste I guess. I'd rather watch paint dry.

Bingo

UMIch daily tracker hasn't shown a new student case since 2/9. That could be backlog, but pretty nice if not.

wtf?

With Mantha you get a nice set of hockey player attributes, with Bert you get a nice hockey player. No question that based on his physical gifts he has theoretical upside that Betuzzi doesn't, but he also hasn't shown much inclination to achieve it. Which brings me back to how impressive it is that Sieder actually plays to his size with such seeming ease. There was a play along the boards in the Philly game, not any kind of big deal play but just a little microcosm of what Seider brings: He was in the corner along the boards getting control of the puck and a Philly forechecker was coming at him to hip check him against the boards and roll off the check to try to get possession himself. It was not going to be a big hit or anything, just a solid play that could normally take a guy off the puck, but in a seeming split second Moritz was able to set an edge and shift his weight and just repel the check - the guy just bounced off without moving him. An example of the difference between just having physical attributes and actually playing to them.

LOL - that doesn't say much for how much even pitchers that do have to hit care about their hitting - you'd think they would have to be better than guys who only face live pitching a few times a year if that. Then again I suppose the AL pitchers don't have enough AB to push the numbers a lot anyway.

does that 108 include AL pitchers hitting in interleague games? I would probably exclude them from a comparison.

The Rams D also came up huge - they really tightened down in the 4th. Going into the fourth I figured for sure the Rams would need to score twice to win because there was no way they wouldn't give up at least another FG to Cinci for a tie at 23.

I have never been a fan of the DH, but TBH, pitchers were bad hitters even in the 60s. 125-150 was not an unusual BA for a pitcher even when they did it all the time. I would guess the difference is that the pitchers that did like to hit were able to stay sharper but I don't remember there ever being too many of those. Just on on a quick comp, the hitting on the '68 Tiger WS team starting staff wasn't particularly better than last year's Braves - a couple weren't terrible, a couple weren't.

it definitely seemed the order was in to the refs not to call the call too close. Actually, after the missed call on HIggins I was waiting to see when the make-up call would come.

It's looks like he had a good grip on the jersey with the right hand that was the source of the momentum he needed to propel himself past Kupp for the knock down. That's a fair call.