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gehringer_2

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  1. could be. Hillary took him apart in the their first debate but she faded in the later ones. Harris is probably higher energy today than Hillary was in 2016 and Trump is 8 yrs older and less focused/focusable than ever. If she turns that prosecutor's laser on Trump, Harris's biggest risk might be looking like she's being too mean to him - seriously.
  2. if I'm Trump I can't see any reason to agree to another one. He's not facile enough to actually debate with Harris, so he can't do himself any more good than he already gotten out the night with Biden, and it gives Harris a huge platform where his supporters will see her in action - when because the media segregation, they otherwise might never. And all it costs him is being dissed by the people who already dis him non-stop? It's a no win for him. But his ego might goad him into it anyway.
  3. the way Dingler is tearing up Toledo, Kelly for a relief arm is getting to be an obvious move apart from anything specifically to do with time tables or rebuilds.
  4. Dingler with another HR (17th)
  5. 5.2 IP, 5H, 1R(HR), 5K, 5BB
  6. Hurter gave up 9 runs in 3.1 IP his last outing. Tonight he goes 6 innings on one hit, 0 BB. Go figure.
  7. Or they just won't pay their original writers what they are demanding to stay on and end up with the 2nd string doing their scripts.....
  8. Riley is definitely a forefoot runner, though I've never heard anything to the effect that made you more susceptible to hamstrings. OTOH, being a forefoot runner is something that I've heard at least one Tiger analyst (it was either Scales or Maybin) say that reduces the chance of a bouncing head making you lose a fly balls at the end of long run. Back in the day I was a forefoot runner and I can say I never had a problem losing fly balls at the end of a long run so it made sense to me.....
  9. Some of the early reporting about Jung gave the impression he was just a 'catch the ball' guy to whom anywhere on the field was pretty much the same - whereas for Keith the move to 2nd was going to be a bigger transition. But who knows what you can make of reporting like that? When they talk to the player he is probably the least reliable witness for his case.
  10. I'm getting concerned about the of string of hamstrings. It's sounding like something needs to be addressed in conditioning/strength/flexibility work.
  11. As much better a man as John McCain succumbed to the need to stroke the GOP crazies, abandoning much of the centrism that made him popular enough to have been in a position to run in the first place, and he was several levels of class above the GOP's current cast of clowns. It's the Devil's calculus whereby you persuade yourself that you make the compromises to win an election but then you'll be different. But once you sell your soul they all find out there is no easy way back. IIRC, somebody one said something relevant about wide and narrow roads....
  12. I think this is double significant because if you are a dem supporter it was not something that was particularly important not to miss.
  13. GOP votes in the City of Detroit are so rare that Fox reporters regularly try to imply there must be fraud in Det election results. But zero is especially nice.
  14. geesh - getting close to time to forfeit the rest of the season and convert the BP area to an infirmary.
  15. true - even in a sound bite, vidclip era where context is easily lost, it still matters.
  16. Statcast rates him as average, he's on a 27 game errorless streak (I know, scoring is horrible but it still measures the worst plays), only two of his errors have been on throws. People are too impatient. I used to complain that the franchise expected too many guys to become better fielders when when they were already a bit long in the tooth and it was going to be difficult but, Colt is going to be 23 next month. I want to see what he looks like as a fielder next season at this time. (actually I'd really like to see what he would look like back at 3rd if the arm were up to it),
  17. I hate to say this because sure as I do he'll go into a tailspin, but Torkelson is starting to get his OBP into a respectable range at Toledo (377 for July so far). Still needs to pull the OPS up some more though.
  18. he's starting to do a pretty nice job on the DP turns as well. Not sure what he thought he was doing on the that last fly ball to RF though......
  19. As Charles would say "Turrible"
  20. Risky to comment outcomes that depend on the competencies of another nation's armed forces.
  21. my own guess is that in general, the reason you aren't seeing the bigger reaction you would like is that TPTB think the best thing to do is not give these people any media oxygen, since that is what they most thrive on.
  22. I think in a case were the VP and Pres know that the world leader in question is very likely to espouse positions which they do not want to be forced to make highly public reactions to (like would happen sitting in that chair) then discretion is probably the better part of Valor. The admin is trying to thread a needle between the long term relation and bond to Israel and the obvious fact that they believe Netanyahu to be a counter productive actor, and since Netanyahu also knows that quite clearly, the admin is not going to give Bibi any opportunities to try and put them in a box or help get Trump elected, liking making statement in a speech that the presumptive party nominee has to make filmed reactions to. So when Bibi addresses the US Congress there is nothing 'normal' about the situation. He has made himself a politcal player in the US so no surprise gets treated as partisan.
  23. Bibi got one on one's with both Harris and Biden. Don't know what you see here.
  24. If the measure of what is condoned is everything someone doesn't take the time to condemn, then you have given power to anyone you oppose to control your agenda. Harris and Biden happen to have other things they think are more important to spend their time right now on than wasting it talking about political performance artists. You can argue they should make it higher priority, and that's a certainly a fair argument,but to get from there to 'condone' is just fitting a political opponent to the cloths of a straw man that's easier to oppose.
  25. your are a way out over your ski's with this statement. They are a segment - they are not 'the left' anymore than every conservative is Seb Gorka. Your current LW admin has been pretty supportive to Israel over all, if you hadn't noticed, and any number of your academic bastions of entrenched LW orthodoxy are busy tightening up speech and behavior codes in response to the excesses of these folks. I would also guess a good part of the reason there wasn't a bigger LE action in DC was to prevent the embarrassment of the international press reporting that Bibe had precipitated a major police battle/riot - so who did that benefit?
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