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summer of 46 he would have been a returning war hero campaigning for his 1st House seat in Boston.

That's crappy. It ought to be a DQ when a team brings an illegal bat.

I've been using Fedora for more than 15 yrs. It's the opposite of an LTS, releases come 2'ce/yr and updates every day. But Linux updates so painlessly, even the full release updates take less than maybe 1/2 hr. TBH, I probably still wouldn't advise someone to use linux if they are not open to learning how to maintain it. It's not particularly hard but you have be willing to do a searching when you have an issue and a little typing to fix it. OTOH, when stuff is broke, linux developers fix it FAST - usually a day or two.

Before I even gave up playing, our league had gone to the lower flight ball - the diamonds we played on weren't big enough the high travel balls.

Pitching Kaos for the win.

Burch Smith will be trying to leaf the Rangers behind.

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Shades of Javy against Will Craig.

and how many plus players has Yzerman scored by trade? Debrincat, Gibson....Faulk maybe..?

IDK - FWIW, press reports today were still that Torres was day to day.

IIRC, when they drafted him Workman was rated a plus defender, but maybe he never lived up to that.

the swing of this series was probably about Cade getting 100% back into NBA playing mode after the pneumothorax.

Freep report says MRI on Vest showed no damage. Still when a guy goes the DL with pitching forearm issues, you can't help but brace for the worst.

I hope mom had tickets to yesterday's game.

the runways at DTW are 2 miles long. The two airstrips and the total flight would all fit easily inside the boundary fence at Metro. ✈️

interviewer never went there. His complaint about distractions started when the interviewer started asking about Fuentes. Carlson said he regretted the interview because people overestimate the reach of people like that who have no power and sucks all the attention from what the people who have power are doing. While I would says he's being more than a little disingenuous there, I'd say he's still correct about the basic fact of the elevation of immaterial over the material - even if guys like himself are a big part of that immaterial.

very nice

immigration is still toxic for the Dems. So here is the thing. Most people believe AI is going to lead to big unemployment. I'm less worried about that - at least long term. Historically, new techs have displaced workers but created more net activity. The best example is mechanization of agriculture. That eliminated the work of a far larger % of the population than AI will, but the Industrial Revolution that came with it easily absorbed all those workers. The thing is, we don't see where the new work is yet, so we tend to take the worst case view. However, short term, one thing that will be worse is the speed of adoption. Things move much faster today so the short term displacement can still be bad. In any case, that real fear over job losses in the economy, whether correct or not, certainly drives a lot of people who are not particularly evil to want immigration to go to/stay at zero. So they may vote against the kind of gratuitous cruelty of this admin, but any reform proposals with things like an expanded H1-B program are not going to go over well in an environment where the predictions are flying that millions of jobs are at risk.

I was able to watch the full video report from the regular CNN homepage yesterday.

I don't know if this story will get traction or if the American public is totally somnolent at this point, but our inability to defend our bases should be a huge story.

Skubal, Valdez, Mize, Montero, Melton will be the rotation in by June - and that's assuming Casey doesn't injure something esle recovering from his current injury

TJ procedure has evolved into two somewhat different surgeries depending on the exact conditions. The STD full transplant procedure and a newer less traumatic one. IIRC (but I really am not sure at all) I thought it was reported that Jobe underwent the 'modern' technique - so in theory he may have an easier recovery, but I don't know if enough of the newer procedure are in the books for there to be a lot of data.

The org is too short of starting pitching to think about including Jobe in a trade for a position player.

The NYT (of all people) did a podcast interview with Tucker Carlson. It was interesting, one of his biggest complaints was exactly how the media was normalizing what this admin was doing - in his case his concern was over the normalization of what he considers an immoral murderous foreign policy and all the happy talk about killing innocent people, but his complaint about the oligarchy keeping everyone distracted with issues that are fundamentally unimportant while ignoring the things that actually affect the lives of everyday Americans could have come from any progressive, and he even said as much.

wonderful. Let' get the whole staff on the DL, they can throw themselves a Tupperware party.