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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.

they have

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

and it looks like they are going to waste Underwood . Either they don't have the coaching to develop what is there or they over recruited a bust. Bad look either way.

Toronto is South Coast (if you are in Canada that is)

Seriously, who wants to see Indiana win the conference outright? ..just sayin' 😉

pretty much. I probably have become less inclined to give people the benefit of the doubt than I was in say, 2017.

It's just a little limp Coach (dragging himself along the floor), put me in!

I find the fascination with the 10 words so odd in groups of people that never come close to at least 4 of them.

You are more willing to ascribe to ignorance in the population what I see as fear, greed, prejudice and a healthy dose of malice.

Romad1's SS teacher would have toldl you "The Lord works in mysterious ways."

He’ll cave, they always cave

It doesn't seem to matter what Yzerman does, he can't seem to collect enough guys who handle the puck/and or skate well enough to play any kind of puck control game. It's like somewhere in the system they have a disease where as soon as their stick touches a puck they drop into slow motion and the only thing they can do before they are checked off the puck is make a dump/ice the puck.