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Infield is full up, especially with Harold on the roster, and DH and catcher positions are taken. As long as we need Willi’s bat—and we do at the moment—and as long as actual outfielders are hurt and few and far between, the options of where to put Willi in the field are limited. Once Meadows is fully healthy and Riley arrives in Detroit, and once the bats of slumping regulars get untracked, then the calculation regarding Willi changes. If Hinch is regularly sitting either one of those guys in favor of Willi after that, then I’ll be more willing to hop aboard your bandwagon. In the meantime, and I’m not canonizing Hinch by saying this—I do think he gets far too harshly criticized here for dealing as best as anyone can with the shitty roster hand he has been dealt.

At least they have plenty of firearm options for their suicide when it comes time. /s

Looks like we’ve lost whatever Pythagorean advantage we had gained in that 13-0 win over the Rockies.

Austin and Riley being unavailable is why the “experiment” is happening in the first place! I wouldn’t call it an experiment, anyway. I would call it making do with what little depth we have.

This is what you get when so many players at the top of your chart are hurt and your organization’s lack of depth gets exposed.

My wife and I spent an afternoon there when we were in Denver for a long weekend, so we explored town a bit. I wouldn’t move there, but by the same token, it does have a bit of an artsy neighborhood with galleries and and boutiques and coffee shops and whatnot. It is a government town (state capitol) and the university is not far away (like Ann Arbor to Detroit), so if any city in Wyoming is going to be halfway decent for educated people, that’s the one.

I don’t know … looks here like hybrid vehicle sales have experienced strong increases lately, especially last year (when I got mine). If Chevy doesn’t want to keep building PHEVs, I’d bet there are plenty of (foreign) car companies who will.

It won’t happen this year, but as more states with currently good economies go more and more medieval with their governance, like Florida, Georgia, and Texas, more and more companies are going to leave or refuse to relocate there, except to exploit cheap low-skilled labor that’s already in the state. With the possible exception of people who work for heavy manufacturing companies, few educated white collar people will want to relocate there.

I’d bet if/when hybrids can increase their battery range from ~20 miles to ~50 miles, meaning most trips that most people take would be within battery range, sales would explode through the roof. I myself am hoping for something like that by the time I’m ready for another car in 2024. And once that happened, the oil companies that ramped up production to meet this single moment’s demand would be sitting on a glut of gasoline, and the prices would crash by probably half, which would spur an increase in sales of gas guzzlers. It’s all cyclical.

Move the team to Montreal.

Cowardly, conniving, hindering and blundering. Bad combination for someone in charge with a gun.

Armando can take cold comfort from the fact that he had a more productive career than Philip Humber.

I could see Fox ... ahem ... whitewashing that fact by claiming the people back then didn't use the word with hate. It was a just another word, like "chair" or "tree" or "rope".

That's a shame. I like what I've heard about the guy so far.

I never think about it, and I live in THE bogeyman city. Public mass shootings are so rare it's not even worth gaming out what to do if it happens. The only sure thing that happens during a mass shooting is chaos. Your only job is to hide or get the hell out of the way. You don't want to be the guy who starts shooting at a perp and ends up killing a bystander by complete accident. You wouldn't want that on your soul.

Cheyenne is a neat little town in spots. It's like "Milwaukee" to Denver.

Exactly how is the info "slanted"? It's firearms deaths by state, and political affiliation of their legislatures. It's all very straightforward information. What part do you not believe?

Is it any shock coming from a guy whose last name sounds so much like both "Gomer" and "Goober"?

Saw this and immediately felt the need to put this table together, ranked by 2020 firearm mortality rate, and using color-coding to show just how weighted to one party the problem really is. I'm being generous by including governors here because the gun legislation comes from the state houses and senates, and not out of the governor's mansion.

Republicans could hardly be doing a better job trying to drive talented people out of their states and steer their economies into the shitter if they reinstated Jim Crow laws.

If we were playing a Kremlin Talking Points drinking game, I would have been dead of alcohol poisoning before finishing reading this post.

That's one way to approach it. I'm not sure how much they put into it now. They would also need to put resources into stopping straw purchase sales, as well as identifying unscrupulous or corrupt legally-licensed gun dealers who flout the law now and certainly would then.

I understand that some folks here are now thinking that I believe higher taxes on guns and ammo is stupid and will never work, even though I never said as much. I don't think that. I do believe that guns should be expensive and hard to obtain. All I'm saying is that if taxes on guns and ammo go up by a whole lot, they're going to have to deal with the dramatic expansion of the black market that is practically certain to occur in its wake. You could probably say the same thing about making it harder to buy guns, something I totally support as well. If they decided to make buying a gun a lot harder by enacting measures like stricter acquisition standards or mandatory gun education or renewable licensing or anything along those lines, I believe that even if they were to not raise the price of guns by a single penny, the black market would dramatically expand under that circumstance as well.

Jack up the taxes on guns and ammo and a lot more people are going to be motivated to find out how to get a cheaper gun on the black market.

The higher the taxes, the worse it would get.