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Look, I question the extent and role that the US should be involved and all... But come on... doesn't what Ukranians today want matter in all of this? Who cares about 1790 to 1971?

The Youngkin era continues to be a shitshow, apparently

He's also spot on as well.... I sometimes wonder, when we all complain about the Tigers depth, whether there's a bit of "grass is always greener" going on.

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Part of me is hanging on the comment about how lost regular season games would be catastrophic. But I really don't trust Manfred, I dont.

Definitely. Either way, it seems yet another case of a loud but otherwise small minority of the population commanding way more media attention than it should. I suppose it was a phenomena before COVID, but it feels like its gotten worse.

Some could also be seasonal drivers who aren't currently working because of the winter season?

Or as Reagan said, "peace through strength".

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/war-with-russia-has-pushed-ukrainians-toward-the-west/ This article from 538 kinda details some of the polling from Ukrainians. Its a bit all over the place, but the trend line among the population clearly is trending west. Make of that what you will, but it seems like a clear majority do not want to be in Russia's sphere

Saager Enjeti is a reporter? Does that make MSNBC prime time legit reporters too? I dont care, what Stacy Abrams did was dumb and it probably will, at least in the short term, hurt her image, but I'm not sure why I would trust reporting from someone who hosts an opinion show.

My understanding is that most Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia at this point. Hence its relationship with the west being one nexus of this conflagration

But. Hillary's. E M A I L S

Seems applicable lol

I definitely think this system is probably in better shape overall than it has been at most points during my lifetime. But I understand the skepticism as well in the sense that you need to see some guys meet their potential and there isn't a history of that happening in this organization.

This is a lot of what I see below Greene/Tork when I look at the Tigers prospect lists... they have some talent that projects to be major league material, but nobody who is can't miss or projects to be much beyond serviceable. Things can change, but that's the status quo at the moment

Or whether they would be withdrawing from Belarus and into Ukraine?

Just to expand on this, there are parts of the country (Atlanta, Houston, DFW) where Section 2 helps the GOP more than it hurts them. On the whole, i think the decision is more bad than good in terms of minority representation, significantly so even.... but, for instance, if state lawmakers in Texas were, in practice, to eliminate the VRA vote sink district that spans between Fort Worth and Dallas and allot it to other adjacent districts, it would potentially be a net negative and could potentially put a couple of districts that are 15> GOP in play. A ruling against Section 2 seems like it would be symbolically pretty terrible, but how it would play out in practice would just vary based on the geography.

I'd guess the comparison is pretty apt in that the average person probably doesn't like freeways being blocked regardless of whatever political message is being pushed.

Idiotic as Bob may have been, I'd be surprised if he were calling the shots from the afterword lol

This one has "Ron Gardenhire" hire written all over it.

From this past draft? Or just historically? Certainly past results don't justify trust, I'm on board with that, but I do think we need to keep an open mind about who is in the system currently and entered the system in 2021. Past results may not predict future performance, particularly with the org turnover they have had.

This is the distinction between what Murphy is doing and what Youngkin is trying to do in VA. Local versus state control.

I take it the meeting with Macron isn't going well for someone....