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Skubal's ERA is 2.15. What a run.

Harold flashing the leather!

LOL - Bally cut away before we saw if Skubal got the handshake or not.

IDK that that is true. Back in the BaaderMeinhoff days Germany had problems with dark subcultures, obviously you had some people with a twisted sense of righteousness in Ireland. The US has powerful antisocial undercurrents running all over the place today. I doubt many other developed countries have such a high level of crazy lurking so close to the surface as the US has in the last couple of decades. Don't forget the gun issue runs both ways, one of the reasons that so many Americans are so attached to their guns is because they are persuaded of lot of terrible things are waiting for them if they give them up. That paranoia is real and it's not the normal condition in most countries. Sure, some of that is racial fear and other kinds of bigotry and xenophobia, but that's the point - guns in America are also a result , not just a cause.

WM wins a blowout - 8-0 Colt Keith: 2 BB Wenceel Perez: 3/4, HR(9), BB. Wenceel's OPS at 894 over over 169 AB this season. Not bad for a middle IF. I would think he should be moved up pretty soon. I know they are high on Workman at Erie despite him not doing much with the bat, but Wenceel can play 2b so there should be AB to go around. Seems like Wenceel has been around forever but he's still the same age as Workman.

don't like Harold playing SS. He's turned out to be a decent guy - anywhere but there.

I think the other big problem here is that a person can become acculturated to a lot of garbage ideas, and when they then act rationally within such a belief system, the rest of us want to take solace in calling them mentally ill, when what has really happened is exactly that they fell down some kind of 'rabbit hole' that created a distortion of their reality and thus warped what they believed was rational action. We don't want to describe it this way because once we do, the onus falls on society to do more than just fix broken patients therapeutically, the requirement is to fix the broken society whose terrain has become so littered with those rabbit holes, and no-one wants to hear that, especially the 'don't-tell-me-there-is-any-thing-wrong with-America-too-many-immigrants-already-want-to-come-here' crowd.

yup - and all those fat 50yr cops were probably highly fit and trained once upon a time also. But time destroys all things, including physical skills and reaction time. There will never be an American police force that requires its officers to be or remain at a level of physical training and performance for them to perform the way people fantasize about them being able to perform (i.e. Hollywood level)

Freep management apparently pushed him off the edge of the earth. His twitter account is frozen at 7/20/2020.

absolutely.

I can't imagine how much this generation of children is going to grow up to hate the preceding generation. It's going to be the 60's all over again.

well, Mr Musk has decided..... https://finance.yahoo.com/m/b60968b7-a955-3a45-a3cd-c7776186c487/‘pretend-to-work-somewhere.html

It was bound to happen evantually.

You obviously are not too familiar with how teachers in the classroom dress. It's not in three piece suits with jackets, or leather jackets or trench coats BTW. Any student not flunking kindergarten would know if the teacher in his classroom was packing inside about 30 seconds. Kids are a lot like dogs in that respect, they see right through up all kinds of things adults with their dull wits think they are being cleverly obscure about.

People just don't think at all when it comes to subjects (like guns) where the attachment is emotional. OK we are going to arm all the teachers - just how is that going to work? Are wemgoing to leave a gun in every classroom? OK how does that work? Is it locked up? Then how does Ms. McGillicutty get to it before she is dropped by the perp coming in the door? Does she pack it on her person? How tough will be be for a 6'ft 7th grader to take the weapon from 5''3" Ms M when she leans in to talk to the student at the next desk? Do we leave all those guns in the building every night? So a gun safe for every room plus the gun plus a security system to harden the building in general because schools were not built to be fortresses but if you make them into munitions depots that's what you need to convert them to? Well, OK. we don't leave the guns in the building, MsM will have to pack it home and back everyday. OK, well MsM has kids at home so you now you have to buy her a home gun safe because she doesn't want the thing laying around her house, not to mention that again, how hard is it going to be for a couple of bigger JrH boys to over power and take her gone any night she might be leaving late with her hands full of teaching materials? These are ideas that don't bear even the least scrutiny. And that is because they are not meant to be solutions, they are only needed as argument deflections so people with other stupid ideas aren't forced to confront how stupid they are.

Company HQ was in Houston during one segment of my working career. The more trips I took there the more sure I was I never wanted to accept a home office assignment. And Houston is hardly the worst Tx has to offer.

Not knowing enough of the details to do more than engage in baseless speculation, I would say Mize and Alexander are not as likely training related - messed up elbows/UCLs are just endemic. Pineda obviously 100 accident. OTOH, Manning, Rodriguez, Wentz, being more muscle based problems might possibly relate to unbalanced training leading up to the season.

TBH, one terrible call is not the worst. Umps blink, hiccup, whatever, missing ONE call once in a while can be expected in any human endeavor, it's the umps that miss ten or twelve in a game or shift their zone during a game etc, and so tilt the outcome that are unacceptable.

then again, CA has the biggest economy in the US and gas has been $5.00 there pretty much since forever. Even in MI, $5.00 fuel doesn't seem to be bothering people much. You should have seen the boat traffic in the Huron River lake system (Strawberry/Baseline/Portage etc) this weekend. The most in two or three years and that is 100% discretionary fuel burn. I think for the US the bigger issue will be if/when export capability for NatGas gets larger, domestic NatGas prices could start up as stranded domestic capacity finds the international market. Transportation fuel use is pretty elastic, heating and industrial fuel consumption less so.

There are exercises that work pretty well if you are prone to kinking your neck - maybe they will work for Wentz. Have to say I was not looking forward to his start, his last one wasn't much of course but his May starts in Toledo didn't look particularly exciting either, but he showed some plus pitches tonight.

they will pass a gun control bill that is ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS and tell the Fed to GFI

How about "Scheduled for cervical vertebrae fusion surgery in the morning." /k.

ZOG is an old one but it hasn't gotten much play recently.

total insanity. I read a speculation today that the most likely scenario under which the US dissolves will be after one more terrible event and CA tells the Federal gov they will not enforce the 2A and other blue states join it.

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