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    Contrast thus with Claude Rossman of the 1908 Tigers, who was 26 going on 27 when this picture was taken:
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    Why go for it if you can make just as much money not going for it? I guess.
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    If C Trent is to be believed here, they might give Castillo away for peanuts.
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    Ok, let’s do ties after 12 and a point system, two for a win, one for a tie. Make it so. 😉
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    FWIW, it did shorten the average number of extra innings played.
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    If they start it in the 11th inning and never in the playoffs, I can be talked into it.
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    I think this part is worth highlighting because I heard a man on Fresh Air last week sometime, I forget his name, but he worked at State with a Russia-Ukraine portfolio under Obama. He actually rigned the day Trump took the oath. The question came up of whether he thought Putin had changed, and if he is even sane anymore. He answered yes, Putin has changed, but not that he has became less sane or anything like that. It's more that Putin has fallen more deeply into the same track that basically all long-time autocratic leaders eventually do: they become wildly hubristic, and believe they can accomplish much more than they actually can. Couple that with the fact that he has surrounded himself with loyalists who don't dare tell him hard truths, and it makes sense that he totally believed that the West was weak and divided and would basically stand aside and let Russia take over Ukraine with nary a shot fired, since they'd be welcomed as saviors by the people there.
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    "Russian lips" is a real thing! Also: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDURwVlg6pw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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    You have leapt to an invalid conclusion. I said only that it was interesting. "Interesting" is not necessarily equal to "possible", let alone "definitely possible". Perhaps next time you could ask me whether I think something is possible, rather than declaring to everyone I think it's definitely that. I'm glad you don't mean anything personal by it. I appreciate that. FWIW, I think the possibility of Baseball losing its Sherman Antitrust over this lockout is ~1% at best, which I'm sure you will agree falls far short of "definitely".
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    Why are you telling people that I feel it is definitely possible when I said nothing even close to that? Where are you getting this? All I said is that it was interesting.
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    I hope for his sake his injury history doesn't go the way of ... ... wait for it ... ... Carlos Correa. 🤡
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    "That only we can fix", right? You know how that works.
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    I'm starting to wonder whether Correa signs for one year with the Astros as a way to reset the market for himself? Not saying I would agree with that or that it would work.
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    You waited all this time to come back and quote this so you can hammer me for "eat the rich" or whatever? In a baseball thread no less?
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    The GOP needs COVID to be raging to help them win in November. They can't risk things going well.
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    I would find it difficult to believe that Putin would have gone forward in Ukraine without at least some tacit agreement from Xi that China would support Russia in some material way, whatever that may be. I'm also wondering whether Xi is waiting for US to get militarily involved in Ukraine before moving on Taiwan.
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    Sure, back Putin up against a wall. Surely he'll back down ... 😬
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    I clicked through to see whether he actually says why he voted against the impeachment. He doesn’t, but I think we do know why.
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    Briefly setting aside what we would like to see, how do we think the games going to fall, now that they have announced 162 games against all 29 other teams? Feels to me like this: Other league: “Natural” rival (i.e, Pirates): 4 (home-and-home) Other 14 teams: 3 (switch off home field every other year) = 42 Total other leagues: 46 Remaining: (162-46=) 116 Same league: Other divisions, 10 teams: 6 (hone-and-home) Subtotal other divisions: 60 Remaining (162-116=) 56 Same division, 4 teams: 14 (two home, two away) The math works, so I think this looks fairly workable—at least until Vegas and Nashville enter the league in 2026.
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    Lemme ask you this: what are the chances those folks think that those of us who buy the evolution theory are going to hell for buying it?
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    Sold. Sign him up.
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    There’s no room in the rotation for Peralta, anyway.
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