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I like the planning. Righteous fury needs to be the mode.

Hagarty videos are awesome btw.

No better representation of that than this video which is a love letter to the Cadillac CT5 Blackwing.

I'll be hopeful when i see the pros being hopeful. Right now they are merely encouraged.

Expect? I dunno about that. Its hope. Its the only armor I have at this point.

This is interesting

Holy crap Dontrelle Willis was on the team in 2009. Talk about a long-slow-death to a career.

when Dontrelle Willis is sucking down the team every 5th day, Justin Verlander is 11 and 17 with a near 5 ERA and guys like Magglio and Carlos Guillen were breaking down and everything looks stupid. The next season however, they got into Game 163 (after a stupid Twins surge). So, we need to sweep away a lot of chaff and get the core right for the next 5 years. That might not include Skubal but perhaps it includes the Max Scherzer type SP we get for Skubal.

I have checked out as much as I can for a team I love. You can't subject yourself to hope when you know something is fundamentally broken somewhere. I could speculate about clubhouse, coaching, data-driven approaches all being bust but the one thing that they were bad at in the off season was not bringing in hitting help (even symbolic help). The team that nearly beat the Mariners in 7 games is not out there the last month.

2008 was like this.

They are trying to murder reporters. That's one of my red lines.

ok bring it

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Looks like Georgia (the country, not the state) is not good with Putin

Just because it's a dumb joke: "where is the impregnable Isle of Lesbos?"

Not sure I shared this here earlier. My buddies and I had a good time with this one over the weekend. IFKYK about Swan Lake. Really not sure why Xi felt he needed to make this point about their relationship.

This is a hmmm...

We need to lower the temperature in our politics because every weekend a time-traveler arrives to try to... oh wait. Also, the gun strokes will lose it over identifying the long gun that was generated by AI as a shotgun.

FTR, I don't mean it sexually.

spell check got me there. infantilize is the word I was going for. Which for some reason MTF's spell checker dislikes https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infantilize

One part of it to know is that the Anatolian peninsula used to have large Greek populations but they were all driven off after the Ottoman Empire was dissolved following WW1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor_Greeks Others can speak to the history of this horrible event better than that. A lot of them moved to Australia as I understand it.

Probably for the best that Europe arms up so there is a democratic bulwark against MAGA and Putin fascism.

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