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he went the IL middle of July. Pitched only 9 innings across 3 starts in September for the Hens so his 2nd half was pretty much a loss.

Jack is lucky they are good enough friends that Ras just skated away.

This game was an object lesson on what the Wings offense has to work on. Devils players moving constantly without the puck, someone is always open to take a pass. On the other side, the Wings still can't close out on anyone in their own zone. They constantly look down a man at even strength.

I thought Raymond played a decent game tonight - did a lot of hard work on the boards.

Ras showing a little fire there.

Taking too many penalties.

They've already endorsed the Dems for House and Senate MD and VA, they (read:Bezos) would look at least as silly as LAT to withhold a Harris endorsement now. Especially since the editorial stance of the paper has already been strongly anti-Trump, their op-ed people like Rubin have even taking the liberty of laughing at the NYT's false equivalencing.

I wonder. I imagine Manning will still get a look, I think they just have nothing more to say about him. He has to produce. If he does, they'll find him room.

Yeah - I think he gets another shot at starting, but you and Hongbit may have the long term idea. If he goes short maybe he can push his his velo nearer triple digits and throw one breaking ball and maybe you have yourself another Will Vest. That's might be a defeat at some level for a 1/1 but you can't let yourself miss your best chance over sunk cost fallacies.

It's been fun watching how good Keith has gotten at turning DPs, he is quick and his arm in general is strong and accurate, his hands seem fine as well. The problem for Colt is range, and as he gets older it's hard to imagine that big body is going to get any quicker. Because of the arm and the turn, he's OK at 2B now, but sure, it's easy to imagine a significantly better defender coming through the pipeline like Lee. You would like to see more ISO if you had to move him to 3rd or esp 1st, but that may come - don't need to worry that for now.

Apparently the LA Times had a no endorsement policy over much of its history, and in the abstract I don't have a problem with that, but even if Soon-Shiong's motives were pure - and I don't think for a minute that they are, this is the wrong point in the wrong cycle to try to re-establish that stance.

Here's hoping! 🤞

I think it's ironic that the Internet was supposed to make news 'democratic' and free, but the fact is that driving the cost to zero also drives the quality and trustworthiness of the information to zero. We've seen that broadcast and cable news, which was always 'free' (i.e. advertiser supported) was of good quality as long as it was highly curated by the monopoly of the three US networks, but though it took a long time, that system has inevitably broken down, and value of broadcast news in total is a fraction of what it once was - can even be considered to be negative once you add in FOX. The best hope for the future is getting people conditioned to paying for their online news sources the way they always paid for newspapers in the past. Once you pay for it, the standard you expect from that source will go up, and since you are paying for it, the independence of the source to provide the standard goes up also. I am put in mind of this by the fact that today Reuters announced they are putting up a $1/week paywall. I think they are a pretty good source, I will probably pay it.

Yup. GOP really needs to hold their NY Congressional seats seats to keep a majority.

Dems can win Tx if they could ever get out the vote. They have the supporters, just not the voters. Odd, but it is what it is.

LOL - ain't it the truth! I understand all the downside efficiency risks in nationalizing health care but you only have to spend a year on the target end of Medicare Advantage 'outreach' (read: "advertising") and the service approval process to understand the money being wasted in insurance company overhead. Those dollars, if actually applied to people's health, would probably drive US life expectancy back to the top of the list. We spent some time in Australia a few years ago and they have a hybrid system and from what I could tell is seemed to work very well and was very easy to access. IDK, maybe it had its problems also.

No one should be.

well, you can postulate that what we see in a district poll is unfiltered, un-re-biased sampling. I've been reading Cohn's columns in the NYT right along and with every one he writes it becomes more clear that the uncertainty in the sample adjustments is so large that the polls really are almost worthless - the true margin of error is probably more like 10%. In fact he even had a chart showing that just the choice of the so called 'recall vote' treatment produced a 10% swing in the outcome in some of the samples he tested it against on. Some polls are going to get it right, and they will pat them selves hard on the back hard, but it will have been pure random chance

That's probably what Mikhail Khodorkovsky thought too.

Yup, that is a very good take. He hits something I think the Democrats have probably made a mistake in not talking more about - the number of ordinary people Trump has cheated over the years. That would probably have more traction with the working class white male than much of the democratic message focus.

Mize can throw 97 which means he will continue to get looks, if not from us from someone, but the fact that his performance pretty much got worse all season is not in his favor. Torkelon at least was an increment better after his return then when he was sent down; needs to add another increment to that to hold down his gig.

and if that is how to do it right, Boeing giving a clinic in how to do it wrong. Second contract proposal goes down to defeat by the rank and file. FWIW, if the reporting is correct, mostly over 5% on the wage increase. Boeing management apparently still high on their own supply.

All politics is personal. I'm have to believe Bash still has a bruised ego after Harris' bested her by not giving her anything she wanted in the earlier interview and so this is what you get.

Sometimes the candidate is the problem.

very quick bat, so he doesn't get fooled that much - and results in a relatively low K rate for a modern player. Like Riley he falls into over swing mode too much. It's so hard to get young players (and old ones for that matter) to understand the physics that at their bat speed levels, barreling the ball is more important than swinging the bat hard(er).