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I would guess the 'agnostic' designation includes a lot of folks who grew in some religious doctrinal system, reached a point (for a wide variety of reasons) where they no longer accept any of the received doctrine, but still have the sense that they don't understand existence at any fundamental level and are left in a state of irresolution. I think that's quite a bit different from a person who has come to a positively objectivist view that nothing they can't see can exist. I think the big shift in the works is that as attendance at Churhes fall, fewer people are getting that doctrinal education in the first place and their agnosticism is even more ...diffuse (for lack of better word). 🕉️

Hear, hear!

The thing I don't get is how the people running the programs in college football resolve the basic contradiction. If you have go out and raise a ton of outside money to be competitive, what makes anyone think the enterprise is ever going to be profitable for the institution? They are all in an arms race where the income never catches up to the outgo. The only answer I've come up with is that the schools are being had. They are spending their own, their alum's and their student's money plus everyone else's they can fund raise from so that a bunch of other people - athletes (to whom the designation 'student' has never applied less), media, PE guys, coaches, can get rich. OK - I know it's not happening but I've never wished more my school would wake up and get off the treadmill that's only benefiting all the leeches out there.

No surprise the Finns understand their situation all too well, but Erdogan apparently doing quite the job of keeping the Turks riled up.

I think there is probably a difference in the intellectual stance taken towards the deist world. For instance I would expect that your average agnostic probably doesn't care much about public displays of Christian culture in the surroundings, where someone who has come down definitively on the atheist side is more likely to be irritated, insulted and possibly litigious.

these people clearly haven't been paying any attention to Trump. Greenland is going to be the 1st target when the Donald decides it's time to rumble.

Missed 6-7, completely, which is just so 6-7.

mustard gas residues persistent in the environment?

all of which are fair and good ideas but as per history in college football, programs will find ways to cheat like crazy - the money will just go back under the table. Again, if history is any guide enforcement will be both feeble and arbitrary.

Will a hot but old goalie bring back a decent 3rd pairing Dman?

FWIW, you are not alone there. The problem with a 100yr old uniform is that it looks like a 100 yr old uniform.

I loved the way Matthews ended up a spectator on the play.

I Whittingham is the straight arrow he's being billed as, we'll find out how long a clean program that loses is viable.

Some of this sorts out in ST. Baez, McKinstrey, McGonigle, Meadows and Wenceel Perez will probably all see their April assignments hinge on their ST evaluations.

Maple leafs make it 2-1 on some weak play in their own zone by Chairot and ASP.

No doubt right wing 'Christianity' has done a good job of accelerating things by poisoning the well for everyone else as well, but the longer term trend has been decades in the making.

It's not like JB doesn't sub defense/offense at the end of close games, that he missed the last one in this one could well have been a miscalculation or just a screw-up. But the situation with,. Thompson - since it was almost the whole half, could have been something more - a reason he was sitting that went beyond the momentary game situation. Since neither Ausar nor JB is going to tell us what it was it's hard to guess if it was a good reason or not. I suppose if you decide you need to make a point to your team that might cost you a game, you do it against a bad team in the other conference.

OK - I just recollect that he was older when he came out for some reason - maybe he was just a year older when he went to school.

I'm with SF on this one. You seem to be focusing on "they get no respect because they are Detroit" but that's not the issue. Every athlete is more pumped to play better competition, the uniform and the city don't figure at all, 24-7 is all that figures. That's always the team you want to show you are better than.

Not at all, just talking players in general. The basic issue to me is that everything (for a position player) comes down to hitting, and to this day, projecting how guys are going to hit as they face progressively tougher pitching is the hardest thing to do, so it's natural that everything else which is easier to see tends to get a little more attention. There's no perfect MiLB metric for 'can you lay off Tarik Skubal's change down 0-2' until the guy gets himself into a position to have a chance to try to do it.

4 goals scored against Larkins line. Yikes.

yeah - one critique I saw (on BA I think) was about his throwing footwork. That should be low hanging fruit for Dr. Trammell. Still, I want to see him prove he can hit MLB pitching.

And you don't need to excel in every aspect of the game to be a great player. Would you draft Andrelton Simmons over Derek Jeter? I've never seen anyone play SS like Simmons when he 1st came up, but if I wanted to win ball games I'll take Jeter. Or long story short version: Great hitting trumps almost everything else.

and Jose Altuve has hit 30 hr twice at 5'6". There probably is no pro sport were physical tools are less connected to actual performance than baseball. I'm not saying they aren't connected, but that in baseball, other skills like ball path perception (i.e. fly ball judgement), anticipation, soft hands, and of course your perceptual hard wiring as a hitter, are all as important as, and unrelated to, raw athleticism.

well, there are plenty of guys in the HOF at less than 6' so his height should be the least of his problems.