1984Echoes

No freaking way. That uniform is absolutely grotesque. I would hate to be a Rockets player wearing that. Give me teal any day over that eyesore.

Paraphrasing: "... warned every C.I.A. station and base around the world last week about troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the United States being captured or killed, ... foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised. ... In recent years, adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down the C.I.A.’s sources and in some cases turning them into double agents. Acknowledging that recruiting spies is a high-risk business, the cable raised issues that have plagued the agency in recent years, including poor tradecraft; being too trusting of sources; underestimating foreign intelligence agencies, and moving too quickly to recruit informants while not paying enough attention to potential counterintelligence risks — a problem the cable called placing “mission over security.” The large number of compromised informants in recent years also demonstrated the growing prowess of other countries in employing innovations like biometric scans, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and hacking tools to track the movements of C.I.A. officers in order to discover their sources. ... " They forgot one more real possibility: Trump has been selling them out to Russia, etc...

Errr.... I guess not till tomorrow, at the earliest...

Yes. So do we shift Baez over to 2B...? Like... today?

Forget the damn cute quotes like "make attorneys get attorneys"... How about, just... PRESS CHARGES?! I think that would have the... desired effect.

I'd rather not. Let's go in a different direction please...

I will definitely take Sudfeld over Blough... Competent and capable. That's good enough... Still Jonesing for Strong as a 3rd/ developmental QB though...

Wentz: 6 shutout innings tonight with 4 base runners... and so far at AAA: 3.18 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 10 K's per 9 in 10 starts / 45 innings... Worth giving him another shot IMO...

Wentz is pitching really well at Toledo... I think he's due a call-up pretty soon. They really need to push Alexander back into the bullpen...

You're not remembering it wrong. The only year in Detroit Verlander pitched as well as he has in Houston was his Cy year in 2011, with a 0.92 WHIP, 2.40 ERA and 24 wins. He HAD improved his pitching in Detroit in 2017 prior to being traded at the end of August... but wasn't pitching well enough at the trade deadline to get traded. In 6 August games though, 4-1, 2.36 ERA, 0.79 WHIP... Electric! He did do better in Houston though, in 5 games at 1.06 ERA and 0.65 WHIP, phenomenal! The scuttle was that Houston had improved the spin on one or two of his pitches... I don't remember, but it was something like that. But... the small sample sizes in both August & September are just too - small - to really draw any conclusions. However, in his 98 games with Houston, ages 34-39, 2.30 ERA, 0.84 WHIP, 2.96 FIP. With Detroit, from ages 22-34, in 380 games, 3.49 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 3.48 FIP. Again, the only year JV had with Detroit that was as good as his pitching in Houston, was his Cy year in 2011. Now... he's pitched a whole lot less in Houston, annual innings-wise... but I'm thinking Houston helped him tweak a pitch or two and he's been a bit more effective there... in his lesser innings that is...

WOOHOO!!! Miggy is BACK!!! A single AND a DOUBLE today!!! Let's sign him to another EXTENSION!!! I mean, he's our BEST hitter...!!! Today...

Good for her...

Plus he's 22 and could use the push...

It seems to me like there are too many players with roster spots in the front 7... At least 1 spot... we need all of Banks, Buggs & Cominsky (weird sounding lawyers group...)?

They like Stenberg and Kraemer, and had to hold onto Brown (C) and Nelson (OT) as the only backups for those spots... Maybe let go of Stenberg but... roster calls gotta be made somewhere so I guess they keep two guards. I also am surprised Justin Jackson was cut... He seemed ahead of Jefferson in all phases (catching/ returns ability/ rushing too...).

I thought the guy was a potential 1st rounder? With a - pardon the expression - strong arm. Not mobile, but a pretty decent pocket passer. He ended up as an undrafted FA that the Eagles picked up for $300K. I agree on the LT project... but if there's actually potential with this guy... then I pick him up as the 3rd QB and coach him up until he can push Blough out the door or, at least to the practice squad. But that's just me. What is the issue that everyone is so down on him? That he fell all the way to undrafted...?

Nice! Now we need the playmakers, and defense, to do their jobs...

eagles waived Carson Strong?

That's a lot of wait and see right there... But I actually believe in quite a few of those guys so I'm willing to wait this out... Also including Keith, Jobe (who I think will move quickly in the next 1-2 years), Flores & Olson & Wentz & Madden, and also the recoveries of Mize, Skubal & Turnbull. And the needed improvements from Tork & Greene. I know others aren't so willing to wait because they've had enough of patience... As impatient as I usually am... this is where I find myself.

Which backup QB do we get to waiver wire pickup...? Inquiring minds want to know... ! (I'm hoping someone like Minshew or Keenum shake loose...).

I mean... seriously... WTF?

Has anyone (US Citizen) outside the Mafia ever flouted US law so... BRAZENLY and incessantly in 1,001 different ways?

Not gonna believe a single word from "Russian sources are saying"... Why does this remind me of Trump incessantly stating that "people are saying"...? In other words. Horse shit.

(Elliott looks like he could be Smith's older (younger?) brother...). Doesn't Daemon have an older brother...? 😉

Not quite close enough: How about Cary Elwes: Or Matt Elliott: