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miss enough and you don't get calls either.

Jack's got strike allergy.

AHJTTT (always have Javy take the throw)

terrible tag though. Dingler had him by mile if Gleyber catches it a little deeper.

Similar feeling. The one I do miss from back in the day is Pogo.

Guliani has always been a charlatan, his prosecutions were always politically motivated (even if the 5 families prosecution was a good one anyway), hiring Bratton was probably his best career move and it was notable he fired him when the police dept (and Stratton) starting getting too much credit for their police work....

We call it "Temperate Rain Forest"

I do give her credit for playing the 2024 election well, but I'm on her spamming list - so I get some kind email almost daily, the stuff she is sending recently does not strike me as very useful for building a better winning coalition. Of course IMV, the time she has spent on the NYC mayoralty is a diversion anyway. I can't think of anyone from the NY mayors office from either party in recent decades who has successfully used that as a springboard to becoming a national leader/winning Federal office. Maybe MB should be happy if Mamdani wins in NYC because it probably means he will be politically cul-del-sac'd.

That would be his 10th team. I guess that's one way to get to be "all NBA"

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LOL - I get the resource play but why would you want to let any of that terrible management culture into your room? I'll grant it's been a few years now but I can tell you it wasn't just the headline stories, From first hand experience working in their facilities I'd say that the catastrophes were no accident. BP was the worst operator in the oil field at every level. Strikes me as having a similar potential to turn out like what happened when the M/D people moved into Boeing.

Assuming Perez doesn't fall back in a big way, the similarity is that they were both guys who started as pros very young, had decent bat to ball skill but no power. Paredes found his in a big way, Perez has upped his EV 4 mph and is hitting the ball more in the air this this season. His BaBIP is right where it was last season but he's slugging at a higher rate. The differences are that Isaac's bat actually started coming around at 23, Perez is 25. OTOH, Perez is more athletic, should be a better OF than Isaac an IF. Also my by my personal theory, the younger a guy gets good, the longer he likely to stay good on the other end, so Paredes has that over Perez as well. I remember discussion that some in the org didn't trust Paredes body conformation - thought he was going to run to fat - they were wrong about that- he still looks the same as he ever did.

been living with this crap forever in Ann Arbor, where I can't drive down my block at more than 5 mph without risking the suspension of my car but we have a resolutions on every international issue and send garbage trucks to Ortega. I pretty much vote against every incumbent at every primary (the GOP doesn't bother running in the generals). The odd thing is the mayor wont be happy until every block in town has 18 stores on it, which is a weirdly paradoxical set of philosophies (well it becomes logical enough when you see who pays his way.....).

the problem is you would never know it listening to people like AOC. They haven't learned the art of supporting the team while playing your own game on the side. It's a curious paradox that diversity of person is such a mantra from the the prog left, which is fine, but they love ideological conformity just as much as any other movement.

Wait. I thought attacking competence was what MAGA does?

abandonment of depressed urban areas by food retailers is a real issue. The left likes to blame this on them being evil, it's mostly because they don't make an money. I'd much rather see my city address the issue by trying to make my city a better place to do business than with a band-aid like city operated stores but I wouldn't oppose an idea like that if the admin is doing the other needed things as well. Mostly the problem with doing retail in the urban centers is security. Always has been. That's something the left doesn't much like to talk about.

Just glad they had more patience with him than Paredes.

it goes back the disaster the Democrats are that they can't run a better centrist candidate than the sleazeball. They should be building the coalition to swamp the midterms and instead they still close to 100% in circular firing squad formation.

his affect was down for sure - probably he was ailing again. My pet theory was he went to the Worlds, got a taste of what playing with a team full of talented players was like and just couldn't overcome the depression of being back in the Wings locker room.....

It sort of amazes me that anyone still cares to hear what he says, because it's all soon "inoperative", often within minutes. I suppose for the press it's the entertainment value, which is also a sad commentary.

Of course there can be an art to this. If you have a guy who you don't believe is going to make it but other people still be he might - you need to deal that guy before you ever let him get to the league and prove he has no value.....

I almost got sent to the Tar Sands once, Fort McMurray? We had connections with the National Research Council CA and ended up working with some of the stuff in our lab - but in the end it fell through. No tears shed.

Oil. When the balance of power was in Egypt and Turkey, where culture was deeper and something akin to normal economic development was underway, the Arab world had a chance. But when oil wealth empowered the Wahabi Sheiks and the Persian Shia apocalyptics and shifted the regional leverage, everything started moving backward. Oil wealth has been a curse everywhere it has bubbled up out of the ground. You could probably include Texas in that as well.

while you are at it, the split in the final day make-up double header against the Angels that the league hung on the Tigers that put us out of the WS in 1967 gave the pennant to .... Boston.

LOL, the dreaded 'ret con'. My daughter was/is a big aficionado of 'graphic lit' (don't call me comics). She came of age just before all the ret con-ing started and was not a fan of having her carefully constructed youthful literary worlds torn asunder by barbarian Hollywood profiteers.