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I don’t think this story, or this kind of iconography, resonates with the evangelicals, who make up the plurality of red hats, at all. Evangelicals don’t believe in any special status for Mary: that she was a perpetual virgin; that she was raised into heaven via the Assumption; that she was immaculately conceived and sinless while on Earth; or that she should be venerated or even prayed to as the Queen of Heaven. In fact, praying to Mary is considered a blatant apostasy since all honor and glory should be reserved to Jesus Christ and him alone. Therefore, veneration of her is idolatrous heresy, and beyond that, it is a sore spot for them that Catholics believe all these things about Mary, and serves as a linchpin of their argument that Catholics are not even to be considered Christians. So attempts to appeal to their religious soft spot by using her in this example would probably fall well short of the mark. Mary is, more or less, just another woman from ancient times to them, albeit one who did God a solid.

Trasnlation: "Well, that's a hard one because I have no idea what the **** you're talking about."

I don't think they believe are close enough to throw bunches of years and nine figures at players. I am totally cool with their approach just as it is.

Careful, people will get mad if you ask that ... 🙃

It's not time to spend big yet. It will be when it makes the difference between close to the playoffs and definitely making the playoffs; or else, between squeaking into the playoffs and going deep into the playoffs.

I find it a little hard to believe that Tiger coaches didn't tell an 18-year-old kid coming into their camp to change this and change that, but hey, maybe they didn't care enough to. What seems unlikely to me is that they saw him throw and said, you're perfect, kid, don't change a thing.

Got it, OK. I asked because you said "Let's not overthink things here", which I reasonably took to mean, "here in this post".

I'm German-American, or so I was told when I was little, so, apparently, I'm already in. Buzzfeed: Which White People Support Trump?

The Marlins were the third part of the Tigers-Pirates-Marlins-Expos quadrangle that keep passing players, coaches, and front office personnel among themselves.

I agree that a team owner is supposed to give the players the things they need to perform to maximum output, and that includes not only proper, state-of-the-art coaching, equipment, and analytics support, but also the day-to-day amenities that leads players to really like playing and appreciate for them. I would also say that a lot of owners don't do this, including this very same owner until just recently, so I'll still give credit where I think it's due.

But at least we're going to get to watch a good and interesting baseball team out of it!

OK, I'll bite ... how am I overthinking things here?

But this is so hard to understand! Alzheimer Biden, though—that's easy.

"I hope you're right", she said at the end. Journalism without the "j".

I'll give them a chance to win me over with the new scoreboard. I'm semi-optimistic it'll be better on information.

I gotta wonder what “tweaks” the Tigers coaches of 2009 made to Turner’s delivery.

First-class amenities matter!

I’ve run down Baby Doc on this site as much and for as long as anyone else here, but I’ve been really impressed with his commitment to fix the team’s infrastructure (and beyond just the pipes in the bathroom), instead of just throwing up a Potemkin village like Papa Doc allowed Dombrowski to do. It’s obvious that should have been the plan from the very beginning, and it’s gratifying to see them actually following through on it. It may not lead us to the playoffs this year, or maybe even next year, because the rot was just so deep. But I think it will soon, and for a few years after. I have never felt so optimistic about the near future of this franchise.

Especially in the Gaza War thread.

Radio comedy solved that problem by having music, typically one song from the orchestra and then another featuring the singer. The better shows would also weave in commercials into the script. For example, Jack Benny would devote two or three minutes to a Jello or Lucky Strike bit. (Or, for a year anyway, Post Grape Nuts Flakes.)

The superannuated among us might remember as many as 39 episodes running during a season, a state of affairs that lasted well into the mid 1960s. That’’s a holdover from the live days of radio, when all major series would start their seasons in early October and end in late June, and they were committed to broadcasting a show, come hell, high water, or holiday, every single week, without fail, because there was no transcription yet and therefore no reruns possible.

Or subscribe to Apple TV for a month at $9.99, binge it, then cancel.

And goddamn it, it’s working. I blame Presbyterianism and its unshakable belief in a infallible, implacable, and muscular God who is lying in wait for the right moment to come to Earth to rain hellfire on the wicked and then reign over a dystopian Christofascist world for a thousand years.

Translation: “Don’t talk about that, that’s not important, we should be talking about how the Biden Crime Government is treating me worse than Navalny …”

I think there is probably room to take in both numbers, meaning the IDF number for combatants killed, and the health ministry’s number for total killed. I’m not really seeing how they must by definition be mutually exclusive and therefore, point of gun, choose one or the other. They may be both right, or at close to right, although there may be some definitional differences. I think most people agree that there have been a number of civilians, probably running into six figures, who have nothing to do with the politics of any of this who have been killed, wounded, missing, or made homeless from the ruthless and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza. It’s been just ****ing horrific for people there who just want nothing more than to live ordinary, everyday lives. If I were a man given to praying for people, they’d be up near the top of my list.