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    that's the problem with most youth sports.
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    My brother in law is in his 70s and still does baseball and basketball. But I don’t know how he can keep it up.
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    I suspect the RNC ran some numbers and realized they were not going to get enough of the independent/maverick voters to offset the hardcore who would stay home. I don’t recall who the contenders were for VP but a guy like Thompson is who I am thinking of. So they did the Hail Mary by thinking having a no name female would draw. Did they know she was a kook? Doubt it. Was she back then? Who knows. She wasn’t smart but was also savvy enough to play victim against the elite. The type of mothers who go to church and home school and watch the Duggars sure loved her. She was able to carve out her niche and wasn’t interested in Alaska anymore.
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    Idiot parents will be in for a rude awakening in about 3-4 years. Officials are aging out and there won’t be any left.
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    I think she helped him because the conservatives really were not happy with his nomination. She drew in a lot of the people who later would make Trump the nominee. I remember listening to Hannity doing a bit on his show where he was pretending to like him but then took it all back. But her being on the ticket gave people like him the reason to get behind McCain. A lot of those people stayed home in 2012. After the war in Iraq pretty much any D would have won that year.
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    I don't think so.
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    Didn't Eminem apologize? That means something.
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    I think I have more friends who's kids play soccer than baseball.... meaning more than just playing on a school team. I'm talking club teams, etc. Two friends have kids who just got college scholarships, UM and Carnegie Mellon..
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    Maybe but I've been hearing this since 1982. Soccer is like running.... would people partake in it if they were prevented from telling you they partake in it? (I say that as someone who's main use of social media is to brag about my running)
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    Larry has been very public about his severe drinking problem. He went to jail. Lost his marriage. He seems to have rebounded quite well. I follow him on social media. Works for a college now. The rumor I heard at the time is he got drunk and insulted Marian Ilitch. Right before he got the Tigers gig he was briefly on the WDFN in the morning when they launched. That was June of 94. By the 95 season he was with the Tigers.
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    Soccer... the sport of the future in america.... and always will be
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    I was on that “call” or whatever it was for 30 minutes. It was like listening to a half dozen Don Cherrys. I wonder if it’s still going ?
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    It has to be getting to where nobody who is good at being a lawyer or now accounting will work for him.
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    The greatest thread in at least 4 years. Included later on is a link to some channel they are on. It’s compromised.
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    I haven’t been able to find anything that makes sense of that. Are they knee deep in it and this is their way of covering their ass? Or trying to? I don’t see how they just come to that conclusion now.
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    I wonder how many casual fans know or care that it’s a lockout or a strike. I suspect the more casual the more likely they think it’s a strike and the players are selfish and “just want more money. Kaline refused a raise you know?”
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    Trump Org accounting firm has bailed.
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    Frankly, as a ticket holder, I pretty much write off early April games. It's cold. They moved the times up to 6:40. It might snow. There's hardly anyone there so the atmosphere is dead. Even on nice days you get that thing where you feel fine in a light jacket when you leave but by 8:30 when the sun sets you need a hat and gloves. I'm turning into an old man where I ask "Why am I sitting here freezing my ass off when I could be home?" You could say the same for the last 2 weeks of September, outside of playoff chases. I don't like extreme weather games. Opening Day is fun because it's all new but I'm done with the party atmosphere. Nothing cool about watching a lady sit on a curb crying because she's drunk and can't find her friends or listening to a bunch of frat bros swearing. Also in terms of overall sports appeal in April don't you have the NBA and NHL Playoffs in full swing? So is it worth it to the league to fund those games? Jeez..... don't let Manfred read this.
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    I remember Art Regner had him on his show after he'd been let go by WXYT. he lamented some big news story at the time that he missed out on... not sure if it was the OKC bombing.... It was around that time, mid 90's. Don't think it was Lewinsky.
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    Man... David Newman was so so good... he would speak off the cuff in a way that would take us a few days to write ourselves. So intelligent. I loved his movie quizzes. He was the very best of talk radio.
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    MAGA upset at the halftime show, predictably.
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    I go by what Jim Leyland said.... managing in the AL was harder than the NL because once the game starts he said the biggest decisions a manager makes is bullpen usage. In the NL those decisions were often made for you by the pitcher's slot in the lineup.
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    pitching has changed so much over the last 40 years with advances in medical knowledge and training. I'd rather they focus on their mechanics and staying healthy rather than worrying about swinging a bat.
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    I started a spreadsheet where I was tracking him and Aaron at their respective ages and he was just a hair behind him until that time he tore his bicep in June. Thats the thing so remarkable about Hank. The numbers he put up in his 30s.
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