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ah… the graphical version of the old: <g,d&r>

or alternately, Maye is the reason the Pats are out of it

Izzo been searching for an heir to Draymond?

when the rules have gone down the tubes allowing a bad minority to control things, at some point the majority tosses the rules, cleans out the game and resets the rules. That's the way every society that succeeds long term rejuvenates itself after a period of decay and stagnation. And if you are worried the society doesn't have the majority to do it, your society is already ****ed beyond saving anyway and it's time to save up to move.

today's 'editorial' was a 'how to lie with statistics' piece from the Cato institute purporting to inform American workers how much better off they are than they think they are because Cato can cherry pick statistics with the best of them. The wife still wants to keep getting the daily inbox feed, I'm trying to convert her to the Guardian.

besides, what's more fun than Shadenfreude when it's well deserved?

It's more than that though. If Bezos just wanted to be free of the liability that WaPo might have been to his government contracting, he could have just sold it. There was no need to disembowel it.

if Dems get back into control they need to either impeach the RW of the SC or pack it to out vote them. It's as you say, you can't play Marquis of Queensbury rules against a bunch of guys trying to kick you in the nuts. Gloves have to come off, just like the Allies had to do in WWII.

Lewis was supposed to stop the red ink but despite have done Bezos' bidding to make the paper more Trump sycophantic, nothing he did generated any financial turnaround (you don't think those two things could have been related? Nah.). The cost of the Post is chump change to Bezos and he could have endowed the Post with enough to make it independent forever for less than he spent on his wedding, but guys like that don't think that way. His ego demands that his idea of what he wants the paper to be has to profitable, or else the guy that runs it (and a third of everyone else) gets fired.Sure, Lewis had already checked outo and gone AWOL, he had to already have known the score. Lachan will provide him a nice landing place. The only question left is whether someone will step up to buy WaPo before Bezos finishes turning it into the STAR.

One the day they carry an editorial criticizing VA redistricting without ever mentioning Tx, WaPo is now sans its most recent Bezos appointed CEO, Will Lewis, who rides off into the Sunset -- probably to a new gig working for Rupert Murdoch. The paper will be run by its CFO for the time being - another blow for solid journalistic continuity.

that's a black stallion you got there.

Since they have Baez and Vierling, will they will even carry Meadows if he doesn't hit and McGonigle or even Anderson are knocking at the door with good sticks? I think the clock is ticking for Parker - my guess he gets some PA early but it's going to be a short leash he doesn't do anything with them.

TBF, the year Keith came up he made a bunch of errors early but the error rate in the second half was not an issue and there were things he did well as a 2B - e.g. his DP turn is very fast. In 250 innings at 3b last season his Rrds was zero and -2 OAA on statcast. Not great, but not end of the world either. His throws from 3B peaked at 86mph - again, not great but not terrible and in his favor he is pretty accurate. He's not going to be fielding asset but I don't think his play at 3b is going to be something that hold them back. Honestly I'm more concerned about the OF if Meadows doesn't hit. Greene fell off a cliff defensively last season, Perez makes a nice play now and then but he also makes mistakes. Kerry throws well but catches like a DH. Vierling and Baez could end up our best OF and Hinch won't play them enough because they are RHH.

I'm on the skeptical side, but Rdrs actually grades McKinstry positively as a SS, statcast has him neutral. The weakest link potentially is McGonigle. I've yet to hear anyone say they were impressed with his glove work. If he hits his way on to the team but can't hold down short, that does lead to a messy situation.

Speaking of Cornyn, looks like there is very good chance Ken Paxton will take him down in the primary. One of the consequences of the disaffection for Trump among independents is that GOP primary electorates are likely to get even more MAGA. That should put general election races in play for the Dems that would not have been.

do our GOP apologists even know that the CA redistricting move was designed to not even take effect unless Tx went through with theirs? How's that old song go?: "One of these things is not like the other....." So they called the tune and now they are sorry when they find out the others guys can dance it better then they can.

this is the same country that brought you the Salem witch trials, where half was willing to go to war to keep people enslaved, that produced the KKK, interned it's own citizens because of their heritage, produced Joe McCarthy, was fine with bombing the 'gooks' back to the stone age (until they weren't), and never met a social democracy in the third world it wasn't ready to overthrow in the name of corporate profits. This is us baby! Just like we've always been. One half of every American generation has to spend its energy trying to keep the other half from being the terrible people they're always willing to be.

🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 (been used before but bears repeating)

For a long time the players union has operated (apparently) under the assumption that rising top contracts raise all boats, but that seems to objectively untrue and the union has manifestly not operated to the benefit of the majority its membership. Alex Rodriguez's $250M/10yr deal has morphed into $60M AAVs but the major league minimum is still sitting under $1M. I don't know if the union has sold it's players a bill of good or if the agents like Boras have managed to sell the union a bill of good, or maybe both.

Giving someone philosophy books is not necessarily a favor.....

recent polling show independents deserting Trump in droves but he's still got 85% approvals from GOP. 30% of this country have checked their brains at the door. That's pretty sad.

Eric Coe wanabes

if the cost goes to huge, then how do they remain available to most teams in practice? Sounds like heading back to the reserve clause days with the Yankees stashing whole major league teams worth of players in the minors to keep them away from other teams except now it will be the Dodgers.

Right, even if Buddha is happy with the amount of imbalance now, if teams start losing guys at 3 yrs, the Tigers wouldn't have made the playoff either of the last two years.

ESPN has confirmed his arrest, the charge and that he made bail. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/47831110/top-nhl-prospect-gavin-mckenna-charged-assault