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Whenever I hear that tune now it makes me think of Al Avila. 🤷‍♂️

This and that blacks were the descendents of Noah's cursed son Canaan - Gen 9:25 fit the Slaver's narrative so well there could only be one way to read it couldn't there? So they created the condition that matched their reading then used the reading to justify the condition. Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” 🚫

LOL - When they tell you who they are, you can believe them the 1st time.

LOL - one more point in the 3rd and they would have played 4 exactly 25 point quarters on the nose.

I has a sad. Turning out not to be the Lions year on the unjury front again.

I think I would put it a little differently - it's not a matter of being 'worried about Colt' for Colt's sake, I think it's more a matter of how the team sees how much marginal value there is to spending money on a position, and that depends directly on how good they project themselves to be at the position. So I think a good GM is and should always be looking at not just what do I get for my dollars signing guy 'X' (which is the piece the fans focus mostly on - will his production be worth the dollars on an absolute scale) but how much more do I get than I already had. So there are two sides that evaluation of any FA decision. The fastest way to get better is addressing the weakest part of your team. Do they think 3B with Keith is going to be weaker than SS with Javy or CF with Meadows/Vierling? They brought Torres in because they thought the biggest hole was going to be a 2B. Tork crossed them up on that plan but I don't think their approach will have changed for that.

IIRC He never got below 40-42% in he first term, so something real may be happening. Of course a large number of old voters from his 1st term are now deceased.

Without knowing what a school has been willing to spend on NIL I wouldn't even try to rate a coach over that last few seasons, because coaching hardly matters when there are schools out there buying all the best players. Sure some guys can turn more three stars into 4 stars than others, but that only gets you so far in the era of 8 figure NIL deals and the revolving door portal. Wisconsin is an old line school in a pretty conservative state, I wouldn't be surprised if like UM (prior to Corum and Underwood), they were trying to refuse to play the game as much as they could hoping the worst would blow over, and now that the worst is actually going to be the status quo, the fact that they are publicly announcing an increase in recruiting spending - as disgusting as it is to read that about any university - sort of makes the case.

😇 Think about how big a jerk Steinbrenner had to have been to not be able to get along with Yogi.

Mace is one the people trying to get a discharge petition out to ban congressional stock ownership. I don't know where that puts her with Trump but it's put her in Dutch with the leadership grifters on both sides of the aisle.

What always makes be laugh about creationists is that however creation came into being, if someone who was there and understood it had actually tried to explain it to a bunch of bronze age nomads, in the end they probably couldn't have done all that much better than Genesis. I mean, have these people ever given serious consideration to what would have happened if Moses had come down from Sinai with Quantum Theory and General Relativity on the tablets? It's just a complete lack of understanding of both the context and purpose of a creation narrative.

sick puppies.

in a gallery of Trump's terrible people she manages to stand out as one of the terriblest - or maybe make that terroriblest

Yeah - I don't where the lower limit is for what a team will carry. Seems that if you get much below maybe ~500 OPS it's not going to matter what you can catch - but for sure Meadows will get as much leeway as anyone would. At one point last season I scanned through a bunch of Meadow's hitting data and convinced myself he wasn't a hopeless case if they could just work on his stance so he could cover the low pitch better. Probably easier said than done for a guy that tall - but there have been a lot of good tall hitters (Judge!) so it's not impossible.

Johnson apparently facing another discharge petition movement on a bill to ban Congresscritter stock ownership - some alliance between the far left and the far right on this one.

You assume way too much here. An atheist may or may not be a devotee of science. There are thousands reasons someone may or may not believe in God; being of a Scientific bent is only one and it isn't even particularly determinative. I know many religious scientific people and of we course we know many of the greatest minds in the history of science believed in God (e.g. Einstein). In my experience it's not Science that makes most atheists. Most people I know that don't believe in God have come to the conclusion from looking around at a world they believe is too f'd up to believe anybody is running it - no science required.

Circling back on Bregman, I agree he's not an issue wrt McGonigle; it's Keith who gets squeezed. There are a couple ways I see that: On one hand Keith hasn't been that much of an impact player on O or D so if he gets squeezed out, though luck. On the other hand, if his bat were to improve from 25->26 as much as it did from 24->25, then he will become an impact player. So the attraction of Bregman becomes a matter of their projection of Keith's likely progress.

There were years in the Avila regime where there apparently was a hard budget, and for instance we would hear Al would talk about having spent the last portion of that years allotment on player X so they were done for the off-season, etc. Harris is much less communicative on that stuff so we don't know if Chris is managing him in anything like the same way, or if as the team gets better more decisions are made ad hoc given the increased opportunity to actually win something. With this regime there just isn't much public info to go on, so I take no opinion on what might or might not be true.

doesn't make it a religion. What's actually funny about people who claim to be religious trying to dismiss atheists as being 'just as religious' about it, etc., is that it's implicitly pejorative of themselves.

Aside from the fact that 'the Bible' is a book, not a sentient entity and thus not capable of 'smartness', the statement "Atheism is a Religion" is foolishness. An atheist may believe any number of things are true that may or may not be true, and he may hold some of those beliefs in dogmatic fashion, but he does not believe it is true that God exists, so whatever you call his belief system, it is by definition not religion. And English is certainly a rich enough language that that kind of inarticulateness is unnecessary. cf: re·li·gion: /rəˈlij(ə)n/ noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods.

True - we can never discount the possible, but to TBH - I'd put the odds as high that the ship has sailed on Bregman playing anymore SS in his career. I do wonder how much they plan on McKinstry being productive. I'd love the story there, but I've seen enough guys of his profile flame out after one good year. To my mind, the downside risk with McKinstry means they really should looking at shoring up SS, because Javy's bat might continue to fail or even if it doesn't he may up needed in CF. Sure - maybe McGonigle is lightning in a bottle by May 1st and really can play SS at MLB level, but do you really want to pin the success of a team that should be challenging to get to the WS on that much good rookie luck?

and beyond the irrelevance of the question, if what he means to imply is that an atheist can't be deeply educated in religious and biblical study, that would also be quite false.

I think this is accurate. Gleyber's return has pushed Colt to 3rd and other than some deal that is too good to be true, I think that leaves the probability of the Tigers bringing in a full time 3d close to zero. If they had gone soft on Torkelson that would be another matter, but considering they hardly gave him a day off at all in the 2nd half, I don't see the evidence of that. My guess is If they bring in any kind of 3B it has to be a 3b/SS combo player.

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Remember when Academic athletics was where young men went to learn character? Yeah - me neither.