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Not only the FR, but also the English Civil War, whence the impetus for separation of Church and State and the general Yankee disposition toward religious tolerance.

QFT

sure - because he was following the guidance years ago and when LA times called him on his conduct - damn if he was going to change his conduct, afterall, he's entitled, so he just stopped reporting it. That's about as obvious as you can get at putting the lie to his current excuse. Pitiful excuse for a man.

IDK, if Elon would delete himself from the internet no-one would bother looking for him.....

He was a scumbag in 1991 and nothing has changed.

Hmm - I think that's a good guess.

OK - the caricature looks to be Lester Maddox - I remember Lester well enough. But why is his right hand made of feathers? If that is a reference to something I have zero recollection of what.

I have no idea where Odukah's particular recovery is turning out to be, but just in the last few years the recovery prognosis for Achilles rupture repair in pro athletes has gotten better and it's not necessarily the career ender it used to be. From what I read they learned that if they take much more accurate measuremens for the graft than had been the standard practice, the recovery of elasticity and energy storage are both improved and you are starting to see more guys make successful returns to high level competition. In just the years between Brandon Jennings' and Kevin Durant's injuries things changed.

The Tigers went all in on breaking ball guys in Mize and Jobe. Not sure that is always the best strategy - esp wrt health projection, and a little funny since DD was the opposite - a fastball fan almost to excess in the other direction. Or maybe not so strange - it seems Avila was driven to everything the opposite from DD. He did go in for analytics, even if he didn't do it well, less emphasis on 100mph guys with no control but brought in guys that got hurt instead (!), went all in for switch hitters, even if they were terrible, and got away from bringing in washed up relievers to close. Of all his paradigms that last is the one place where we have to admit he did do better. DDs bullpens were legendary bad.

Mass Market Brewers are much more concerned about capturing young habit formers than any other market seg. They already had to write of the GenXer as boutique beer/IPA fans -

LOL! I'd heard that line from that generation as well!

No class (I know, that's in old school complaint in today's world)

I don't know if you'd call him quite an Ace, but of course they'd be in better shape right now if they had taken Singer over Mize. Not only healthy, but so far better than Mize when he was healthy. Of course the Tigers weren't the only team to pass on Singer, but in his case funny that it was the 2017 conventional wisdom for that draft that had called him correctly.

Rules for thee, not for me. Wouldn't find it surprising. Clarence Thomas has always transfered his large sense of grievance into a larger dose of entitlement.

Interestingly enough, he looks like he's getting around on FBs. He may be resonably productive for as long as the knee holds out - which is who knows how long? So there may not be much 'crisis' over his ABs for a while until the knee (or something else) acts up again.

and Riley Greene just hit 350 for a week against some of the best pitching in the AL.

I think some people question why so many counts, but I would think the reason - esp with Trump - is to undercut any argument that a single incidence was accident or ingnorance. The multiplicity of counts establishes the pattern of behavior.

ERod out of gas at 60 pitches or what?

Javier not messing around.

Maybe, or he's just not being tenative and thus pulling the trigger a lot sooner.

There were some folks that expressed injury concern about Zion because of his build and movement - good call in retrospect.

right - it was his setup (or lack of it) that did him in. As any OF duffer knows, there is an almost irresistable tendency to want to just glide over and meet the ball at the spot instead of getting to the spot and waiting for it (if you can of course) or at least getting there with enough buffer to leave yourself options, but the latter is what you have to force yourself to do in a cases where things might get tricky at the end - like at the wall. And it's doubly hard if you think you're going to have to jump because you can't get there too soon and give up your momentum either. That's why when a player gets it all right it's a major league play!

Faedo pulled after 3IP. 1R , 52 pitches.

Lots of flying knees, gloves and elbows in that delivery. Good distraction value if nothing else.

I need to call him overmatched every night.