Edman85

1. What is wrong with Adam Frazier? 2. Jeter Downs isn't worth a 40 man spot.

It's a bargain relative to "trawling" or "heterodox."

Yeah, I looked that up too, but contextualizing once you factor in that most of his AB's came in a higher run environment takes the shine off a bit.

Lorenzen is kinda the reverse Kody Clemens, in that he has played some in the field and hit a bit.

This was a distraction attempt by him. The home insurance market is crumbling, and he brought the legislature together in a special session to rewrite the laws and make sure if the crumble continues it is the homeowners who suffer, not the companies that bribed him. Almost all of his big shows of idiocy are done while he and his cronies in legislature are doing something particularly evil to screw over the people.

It was actually 2019 when I got my first flu shot. After a conversation with said cousin at a family gathering. My sister-in-law was very pregnant and she recommended a flu shot before seeing my nephew. For me and my parents, I think that was the first year we did it.

Mandates were an unfortunately necessary means to an end. I talked to one MAGA colleague who said Biden's civil service mandate was what got him to get the jab. N=1, but I'm sure the mandates helped convince many to do it. I've mentioned my cousin before, but her specialty is vaccine communication (she's probably not a fan of my bombastic nature of going about this, fwiw). Anyways, she was interviewed in NYT and Wapo late 2020 and was sounding the alarm here that there wasn't enough being done to combat misinformation. The mere fact that this topic is doctoral level at an Ivy shows how difficult the problem is.

I asked my doctor about two months after my infection, and he said I was good to go for the bivalent booster. I wanted to get my booster because Thanksgiving was going to be spent among several relatives that were high risk and I was going to be flying in.

The vaccine would have been closer to a be all end all if a bunch of charlatans didn't brainwash a chunk of society into not getting it and letting some unnecessary mutations happen, just so they could sell their snake oil supplements touting immune support.

I've had 5 shots, had covid after the 4th one. It was pretty mild, despite a potentially devastating underlying condition. The vaccine played a role in that (It also, somewhat ironically played a role in me getting it. My brother's symptoms were so mild, likely due to the vaccine, that we had no clue he may be positive when I visted him.) The parenthetical paradox aside, the vaccine helped everybody get back to normalish, and for that it has been invaluable. Those of us with consciouses who stayed home as best as we could needed those shots for some degree of sanity. Yes, I would get the vaccine again, and hindsight only reinforces it. I'll get every booster I'm eligible for ASAP. My doctor agrees. My epidemiologist cousin agrees. If some right wing talking heads don't, well their word is meaningless in this debate.

So the Qatari Government poisoned Grant Wahl, right?

Man, there's a lot of unnecessary $5 words in there.

I was conditioned to hate them. Basically, that was around the beginning of my time being old enough to follow the Tigers and my dad turned me against them from the jump.

No, but it does mean she isn't the hero that the lionization this year has suggested.

The fact that Griner is some hero when she has a DV history is icky to me.

Englert has to stick as a Rule 5

No restrictions that I know of on minor league picks. You just have to have room on your AAA reserve list, and pony up $12K to draft them.

Minor league phase, I'm a bit behind, but listening on a slight delay. Tigers first pick was Layne Henderson, reliever in the Astros system. Dane Myers was just popped by the Marlins. Tigers can make three more picks if they choose.

Mason Eglert from the Rangers... The feed isn't working for me.

Tigers have a Top 6 pick.

Heyman gonna Heyman

Only McCosky will get it wrong.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2022-major-league-baseball-rule-5-draft-preview-version-40/

I came in here to get pedantic and see I was pre-empted.

Good question... It derailed Dontrelle Willis back in the day.