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At some point you have to question the prep the hitters are doing.

Meadows had his good game for this week. You want ….. more?

Well, there certainly are nights when a ‘participation’ trophy doesn’t look so bad.

Kobe throws 75 pitches tonight. 5IP 4H 1R 2BB 4K

Greene 2/3 tonight. Really having trouble finding ‘it’

Funny, the team playing on the scoreboard video is winning easy tonight

some guys rehab faster than others, but sure, if he had had the surgery the first week he was IL' he had a shot at being back during something during the 24 season, just as Turnbull could be back later this season. But at this point that possibility is probably lost.

I'm a little vague on this, but didn't they nick a nerve doing Bonderman's TO that created recovery problems? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else. In any case, the other thing that seems true is that Bonderman didn't want it bad enough. Which is fine, he doesn't owe going through the rigors of rehabbing to be an MLB pitcher to anyone, but if you don't want it bad enough you won't go through it and if you don't it's pointless to hang around.

Is MLB still doing 10 days for COVID or are they allowing 5 or 7?

that is exactly right. Traditionally, when some level of good faith is present, some kind of logical argument is generally presented on both sides and the debate ensues about what you believed about the premises, not that the argument itself was groundless or not even logical. Often enough neither side's premises are verifiable and all you get is a good talk. For instance Tater might have argued based on something Friedman said about a market and I might have argued - sure but that part of the economy is not an efficient market in the first place. That kind of discussion can still actually be constructive, driving each side to examine the soundness of the premises and their logic. But Tribal and cultural based politics is all about emotion. Truth, logic, premise all fall to the wayside because the brain is demanding to believe what makes it feel good. It's not about rationality, it's about dopamine. Now too be fully honest, most of us take positions based on their emotional/subliminal appeal, especially initially. But if you are willing to be honest and open yourself to argument, then at least some times you come to see that your initial position was a reaction born of the self-comfort mechanism and you are willing to confront yourself with the need to admit that the facts don't support what you would otherwise prefer to believe.

It seems silly to believe that a painful cramped existence is any god's plan when it so much easier to make life better and more fruitful for every one by dropping ancient cultural biases based on superstition and ignorance. I know, people who adhere to biblical inerrancy are lost to any rational appeal, but I find US Evangelical style biblical inerrancy such an absurdist position to take that in the end I admit to having no intellectual common ground there.

wow, this strains the memory. My freshman programming class would have been '72. I think FORTRAN 4 running on IBM 360's. But as I think about it, University of Waterloo had put our their own compiler which they somewhat jokingly called WATFIVE which is what our stuff actually ran on at UM. I don't remember that any structured programming capability was there at all yet, just GOTO's and labels - or maybe they just didn't teach us any! I've been told by older IT alums that UM was a missed opportunity for IT tech development in the midwest. They were in a position to build one of first great CS departments in the late 60's - in the forefront with a lot of advanced hardware development like multiplexed 360/70 systems and even had an early Amdahl. But at some point they stopped putting resources into it and so their talent got frustrated and went to CA.

In the early versions of Fortran GOTO was all you had. I suppose if you want to be picky, BREAK and exceptional handlers in newer languages still sort of of violate structured programming.

too true. And even if you convict him of something, it's no guarantee we are rid of him. Look at Silvio Berlusconi. The one hope is that Trump is at least already older.

That is one, and by far the most likely of two possibilities. The other far less likely one is that he only had one thing wrong with him in the first place and it's just taken 4 years to get the diagnoses and fix right. Of course the Tigers have to hold out hope for the latter!

So as science increases its understanding that sexual drive and gender expression is just as genetically conditioned and just as possibly genetically independent of one another as skin color and stature, how does that inform your view? Do you just deny the science? Or believe that God created people sloppily? Or that he deliberately curses people with bodies that don't match their brains according to conventional or majority outcome? If Christ preached so that people may have abundant life, how does that square with a social/religious or legal regimes that denies millions of people the opportunity to have meaningful relationships given the nature of their individual creation?

On June 3rd Gerrit Cole took a perfect game into the 6th against the Tigers and left after 7 giving up a total of 2 hits. On June 9th, Gerrit gave up 8 hits and 5 HR and didn't make it out of the 3rd inning against the Twins. Yankees won both games.

Old friend John Hicks playing for Iowa against the Hens tonight.

Just read a story last night that supposedly Jared told Trump he was off the team if Rudy was involved in the post election efforts, so he and Ivanka were already in the process of bailing out by 1/6. I don't know if you can believe anything you read about any of them, but the scenario sort of checks out.

doesn't get you a center.... If you are a bad team because you have a low value roster, it's hard to make trades that do you any good. The value of trading is when you have more resource of one type than you can use or a good player that's a bad fit, that you can give up to get resource you don't have enough of. If you don't have enough of anything, any trade becomes a zero sum transaction, you have nothing to give up you don't need. Unless of course you are lucky enough to find a trade partner you can fleece, and granted that does happen!

There is FORTH in BSD? That is pretty weird.

Poor Pyotrs pushed to purloin Potty Putin's potties. Pointless?

Reyes with HR so far, Baddoo with a walk. Randy Marsh posted in the "Season" thread that the real news from the game was ERod at 94-95 with 9K in 4IP. EDIT: Toledo playing one of those 7 IP each DHs. Reyes' HR was the only run in the 1st game. 5 hits total between the two team. Reyes and Greene also each had a BB. Second game just started.