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I don't think so. Does a runner advance on pitch clock violation? When I saw the Tigers and Orioles in Sarasota on Monday, de Jesus got called for balks three times in a single inning, all of them sending runners from second to third. None of them were either a pitch clock violation or a botched third disengagement. Umpires are just being much harder on deceptive motions, which is a big change this year no one is talking about yet.

What the balk is going on here?? Is it 1988 already?

No doubt, and I know he practices that art as well as anyone. But if it is his voice on the phone directly asking someone to do dirty work on his behalf, that is itself dirty work. Real capos know how give orders or approvals with a look, a gesture, or words completely unrelated to the act they are asking for, while making it all very clear what he wants. That's also why capos typically don't work by phone, unless there is an established code word (e.g., "it's a shame about it.")

I have no doubt that she is deeply dumb, although I do have my doubts as to whether there are any normal people in her world, where I would bet one must be either a MAGA patriot, or a woke CRT-loving ESG-addled libtard. Time to pick a side.

If Torkelson bats even a little better than last year, he’s going to start 140 games at first. If Nevin aand/or Ibanez is on the squad they will probably relieve here and there, and Schoop may throw on the glove for a game or two, but Eric Haase may also end up seeing some of the remaining 22 starts there. As for third, we’re probably going to have four different guys starting at least 20 games each there, and no one guy starting 80, unless one guy can suddenly and unexpectedly break away from the pack.

One call would have been enough to indict a typical politician.

I believe the idea is that if people like she suddenly start forcefully arguing some point no one is even talking about, that de facto positions the liberals as being on the other side of it. In this case, Greene forcefully argues a point no one is even talking about—cartels are bad—and by dint of that, her acolytes conclude that liberals believe cartels are good.

Lol she was rattled and also who cares what woke means anyway

In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

That's the textbook definition of fascism.

Good. The umpire should have been suspended, too. Look, the kid, who is no more than 21 years old, should not have been so demonstrative on the pitch before it. He should have known better, and If he would have been rung up on a pitch a couple inches off the plate, that would have been defensible. It would teach the kid a lesson while maintaining the veneer of credibility for the umpire. But calling him out on that pitch proved the call was obviously vindictive, not instructive. The conference couldn't not suspend the umpire, because who knows how much farther he would go on the next one. If he loses this job permanently, I don't think that would be the worst thing. He can take another umpiring job in a lesser conference and work his way back up. This should teach him a lesson.

With pleasure! It's pretty easy to pick up, actually, if you're already pretty knowledgeable about baseball. I learned it just from watching it.

His #1 problem seemed to be pitch recognition, specifically, recognizing the pitch pecker high and in any major leaguer should be able to crush. Once he overcomes that problem, I think we'll be happy with what we see.

Cricket is awesome.

I read this as it is encouraging that TORK! has exit velocity rates similar to the current best power hitter in the game.

I'll believe it when I see it.

It's true that the fighting and the battles did not take place on American soil. By the same token, people in America lived under the specter that it would for almost four years, and also, their loved ones and neighbors constantly became casualties of the war overseas. And even for the home front folks, even without local bloodshed, every day there were constant unceasing reminders of the war that affected everyday life for them. They were part of the living memory we needed to keep it alive. Without that, and without the same kind of monuments they have in Germany, the American People forget, and then eventually never really learn. Once it all becomes history in a book or a grainy black-and-white film, it no longer seems real or affective to us.

I agree with the consequences angle, and it’s possible that many of our neighbors are falling for the primrose promise of America First fascism because World War II is no longer in the living memory of anyone influential. If it were, the burning memory of it would still resonate with the majority of Americans. But it’s now almost 80 years on, close to a century, and nobody remembers Hitler in any real sense, so he seems like a harmless historical relic to far too many people, and even an attractive action figure to too many others. People aren’t seeing truly terrible things happen to anyone who looks like the still-prevalent power structure, which still looks like the majority of Americans. If it’s not happening directly to us or Western Europeans, too many people ignore it as though it’s really happening. And then we see all this starting to develop, and we wonder how to stop it. There’s only one way to truly stop it: consequences.

There’s a reason they don’t define it: the tighter the definition, the fewer things they don’t like that they can use it against. It’s the same thing with “social justice” and “diversity”, and when the economy falters, as all economies eventually do, it will be the same thing with “ESG”.

Oh, hey, are we doing antisemitism here now? Kewl.

Some pretty good jokes in that thread.

Also, lol zero hedge. Remember that Putin shit from the old board?

COVID for the 32nd straight month.

It’s my fault. I saw all four of those guys play in Sarasota yesterday.

I’m gonna give Harris some rope on this one. I’m not ready to write him off yet. Let’s see how he pans out. I just like the idea of finding talent in not the tired and true usual ways.