gehringer_2

LOL. It has nothing to do with prudery to me. Gambling comes down to how you are wired. I get no entertainment value out of gambling. Zip, Zero, NADA. period. For me it's in the same class as country music () . So for me it's just stupid from any angle and the house always gets its cut. If you are wired so there is a pleasure payoff associated to winning a money bet, then you are automatically closer to risk of addiction but hopefully not close enough to be pulled over the edge. It's true that's not really different from alcohol but I would say the difference is that you can enjoy the taste of drink without the benefit of the buzz. It exists in two different sensory realms. I'm not sure the bet's pleasure return can be divided from the same property that can be addictive. Maybe.....

It was kind of disgusting watching Edmonton go the cheap shot route in the 3rd. Everything wrong with hockey. Hope the Av's kick their butts the rest of the way.

you're a fish that's already hooked, you are just aren't landed yet. Best of luck.

Vito says addiction to gambling is only bad for your legs.

It's too bad Armando couldn't actually pitch. The most fitting ending would have been to go on to have a great career anyway. For the guy to have so quickly disappeared into obscurity in a way devalues the attention to perfect games as significant events. Of course Don Larson was no great shakes as a pitcher either , though he did stick around the majors for a long time...

Like Canada didn't learn Gretz was a sell out when he went to LA?

Beer used at any level below intoxication returns a positive value to the purchaser. Every gambler will eventually lose money,

I like this quote from the idiot Sheriff: You didn't get it under control, moron, the perp killed himself for you.

War in the IT age?

Oilers lose their cool, take three stupid penalties in the 3rd to take themselves out of any chance of coming back.

LOL - Keith still wasn't done. Singled in the 9th to make it 4/5, 2B BB 2HR for the night.

for starters the heinousness of a crime should not even be an admissible consideration in a trial of guilt because it is wholly immaterial to the question of guilt or innocence and only serves to inflame opinion against a defendant who should be presumed innocent. To me it's one of the great abuses of US criminal trial conduct in general.

add another walk and run scored each for Keith and Perez. WM not satisfied to let Toledo have all the fun, had now scored 16 runs in their game.

doesn't look like there are any flights out of Columbus to NYC this late.....

How excited can you be when it's only what was expected?

If you hurt yourself scoring on a home run after you have walked you should just go ahead and file your retirement papers....🤣

maybe they're working off left over MLB stock from last year....

LOL 22 hits and 25 runs and still only in the 6th at Columbus. Hens down 3 but closing!

Don't know what they are waiting for with Keith. Perez on base twice also - hit and walk. Dylan Smith may have had a long sit down before he went out in the 5th and gave up the last two. Not a good reason but it does happen.

at least a month away, wouldn't you say?

"GOP candidate calls for defunding the Police!" I want to see this ad.

Baez is striking out at the 2nd lowest rate of his career. His biggest problem isn't that he is swinging at more pitches than usual, it's that's he not hitting them hard.

excellent read: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-off-ramps?s=r

Led by don't-call-him-a-joke-even-if-he-is Clarence Thomas, the US Supreme Court officially separated itself and US law from any obligation to actually consider that justice be done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/01/arizona-death-row-supreme-court-shinn-innocence/ "In the 1993 case Herrera v. Collins, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a staggering claim. The Constitution, Scalia wrote, does not prevent the government from executing a person who new evidence indicates might be “actually innocent” — that is, someone with the potential to legally demonstrate they did not commit the crime for which they were convicted. Scalia didn’t just make his point casually. It was the reason he wrote a concurring opinion. Scalia’s claim was so outlandish that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor felt obliged to specifically rebut him, even though they agreed on the ultimate outcome in the case. Only one other justice joined Scalia’s opinion: Clarence Thomas. Last week, Scalia’s once-fringe position became law. In Shinn v. Ramirez, the court voted 6 to 3 to overrule two lower courts and disregard the innocence claims of Barry Lee Jones, a prisoner on Arizona’s death row. Importantly, the majority did not rule that it found Jones’s innocence claims unpersuasive. Instead, it ruled that the federal courts are barred from even considering them. Thomas wrote the opinion. and of course, they don't even care how many times they are proved wrong: "Thomas also recites the prosecution’s narrative — including gruesome details of the crime — as if it were fact, ignoring the numerous expert witnesses and two federal courts that have said the injury that caused the girl’s death couldn’t possibly have happened at the time and in the manner the state of Arizona claims. The Supreme Court’s own history ought to impart some lessons here. In 1994, Scalia described in an unrelated death penalty case the heinous nature of the rape and murder for which Henry McCollum was convicted and sentenced to death in North Carolina. It was, Scalia argued, a poster case for the death penalty. About 20 years later, McCullum was exonerated and freed. In 2006, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote a dissenting opinion defending the Tennessee conviction of Paul House that also included graphic descriptions of the crime and a recitation of the state’s narrative as if it were fact. House, too, was later exonerated and released."

part of the reason the pitching is better is that Schoop is at 2nd and Baez at short. I hope Hinch doesn't lose sight of that. Harold's bat is a pleasant surprise, but I still don't want to see much of him at SS, a nice play today notwithstanding.