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I had her pegged for early 30s, and she was very poised for that age.

“They’re not here to hurt me” strikes me as a more crucial statement than it is getting attention for rat the moment. How Trump said this phrase is really crucial. The way Hutchinson testified, he basically said, kind of flatly, “they’re not here to hurt me”, maybe even a little emphasis on hurt. That would suggest they otherwise are there for something else, such as “they’re here to love me instead”, or “they’re here to praise me instead.” Something like that. But if the way he said it put the emphasis on a different word—as in, “they’re not here to hurt me”—then we’re talking about a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. Because then the alternative could only be, “they’re here to hurt someone else”. And we all know who that someone else is. And that would mean he had foreknowledge of impending violence, and might even suggest even that he would approve of it. I kind of doubt they’ll try to follow up on that, but I think that’s a pretty important distinction.

“Great for the first half of the season, not sure what happens after” is not exactly a ringing endorsement. After that, I was just trying to find ways to put a happy face on it (although “a very different move” doesn’t read as much an endorsement, either. I did not like the move and expressed on multiple occasions that I was concerned we were giving too much away and he would have an All-Star career elsewhere.

Reminder: I didn’t. The only quarter I gave was that the move showed chutzpah, but I also expressed apprehension that he would go on to have a All-Star career in someone’s threads. There’s no guarantee he will keep it up, obviously, but even you admit he’s off to a damn good start. His 1.8 WAR in 34 games extrapolates out to 7.9 WAR for 150 games. In retrospect, Paredes was probably always on the block, since he himself was seen as being blocked here for the next two years, so I believe Avila was looking for the first decent trade opportunity to come up. If Riley had broken north with the team and we didn’t feel we wanted Meadows, I think Paredes would probably have been dealt for whatever halfway decent right-handed starter we could have gotten when all the pitchers were going down—perhaps somebody like Drew Rasmussen of the Rays.

I’d love to hear it. It’s not packaged as a podcast, is it?

That’s how it’s supposed to work, although I rarely if ever hear any evangelicals speculate that about someone whose sin they hate.

I don’t think any official government business should have any prayer attached to it, since we are technically a secular country, but that’s just a crazy idea I have.

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OK, that being the case, I wasn't going to share this with you before, but I will now: 😁

Not if she had sex out of wedlock, she won’t.

Is it really TLR’s fault that these kids today suck so much they can’t even throw complete games like the old days?

That’s OK, the baby will live and become a productive member of whatever farm or service job they are assigned to.

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We can only hope that this means the car the Republican dogs caught is going to run them all over.

Good catch.

My wife and I are thinking about seeing this, and I watched Top Gun exactly once when it first came out in theaters and I was like, meh. Do I have to see the first one again in order to fully appreciate this one? Or do I not have to?

This comes on the heels of something that came across my alerts from AP news: More Than 1 Million Voters Switch to GOP in Warning to Dems Of course, that’s broadly in the past year, not related to the Roe overturning. We’ll see whether that has any impact.

What I like about this is that they are not artificially limiting themselves to the seven sessions they announced at the beginning. More evidence deserves more sessions. Keep it going until Justice can’t ignore the obvious next step.

We thought Trump was a toxic candidate in 2016, and look how that turned out. Trump is a criminal who used the power of his office for further criminal gain, and as such his name should be be allowed anywhere near a ballot.

This is only marginally less bad than the coach example since students don’t rely on teachers for playing time, but on the other hand, teachers can also come down on apostate pupils by grading them down on work that’s more subjective in nature, such as work requiring composition or interpretation. The other thing that can happen here is any pupil who opts out in public fashion could be setting themselves up for bullying by others, as well as creating problems for their parents once the news gets out. This will be especially relevant in small towns and rural areas, where everyone knows everyone else and local social status matters as an everyday concern.

The only ones who possibly could get away with it is either the indispensable star, which not every team has, or the worst players on the team who are already not getting playing time, because they’re on a short timers list anyway. Everyone else who’s on the playing time bubble basically must comply.

The Tigers strike me as an organization that really values that amorphous concept called “culture fit”, which if you think about it really boils down to “our way or the highway”. It would not surprise me to learn that the butting of heads between players and coaching or management has led to departures related less to performance or potential than to culture fit.

I kind of wonder whether Perez wielded his 800-pound gorilla status to pressure the Royals into putting him in the lineup sooner than he should. I am working through a grade one MCL sprain right now that should take three weeks to fully heal, and yesterday, less than a week in, my knee was feeling maybe 95% back to normal. It definitely takes discipline not to stress it just because you’re feeling good, and that might have been the case with Salvador Perez. I have no inside knowledge of anything, just speculating.