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Drive to the Old Tunnel WMA, watch the bats come out (if they're still there this late), eat at Alamo Springs and go have beers at Luckenbach/Albert/Bankersmith
Also, it has to sting the Republicans that Schiff gets to rip everyone a new one to conclude every day. Elections have consequences.
In the same thread: https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1197195784422338561
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1197184057249062915?s=21&fbclid=IwAR13GPGl5fZiVgtjktySl4Ozs73Dlwcz2g8uCX82hR7wV1z24H7iFROvM8A
That is the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen.
I was only slightly being tongue in cheek.
[Trump probably] Never heard of him. [/Trump probably]
Advancement in wireless connectivity and camera technology is such that It would be pretty easy to be able to set up a tiny discretely concealed spy cam that could be monitored on a tablet or phone. That is how any savvy up-to-date tech would set it up. And it would be virtually non-detectable and fool proof. Hell, you could signal the batter with a mild electric shock or vibration of a bracelet or neck chain or behind some tape or in a sock. No need to fuck with an audible signal. It is silly that such a forward thinking team would choose to tap into the network feed from the CF cam and watch it in the tunnel while sitting two feet from a 36 inch monitor. In fact the same monitor they used to watch replays on.
Even better than The Expanse?
Tell me you've watched The Expanse.
His playing every day should have been taken more seriously in my opinion. Value is greatly diminished on the DL.
Trout mvp
Yes, the MLB contract structure cheats the players, but only Springer is singled out to play this generation’s Curt Flood. Were he clad in BoSox or pinstripes, this fantasy piece would not exist
unless I'm missing something, it wasn't illegal in 2017. WFW.
On a completely unrelated note, I almost got suspended in high school for arguing about whether or not Sidney Carton and Charles Darnay were doppelgangers. My teacher argued that they must have been identical looking, otherwise Carton could not have taken Darnay's place at the guillotine. I argued that all that mattered is that someone's head rolled, and whose it was wasn't particularly important....that blood cleansing was the point, not justice.
Don't clubs get to see medicals on guys before consummating a deal? Not being a wise-guy, I'm just not really sure. I thought that was part of the process?
I see the 2020 rotation as
Verlander
Greinke
McCullers
Sanchez
Urquidy/Valdez/James/FA
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Watching from the stands, I was sure until the moment it was signaled out that he was going to miss it.
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I checked out his spray chart.
Zero homers to dead RF this season. The furthest right prior to that would have been about where the bullpen fence meets the RF wall.
https://www.fangraphs.com/spraycharts.aspx?playerid=4229&position=2B&type=battedball
Lightning in a bottle.
Here's the Chronicle's clubhouse story:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/texas-sports-nation/astros/article/Astros-insider-Scenes-of-heartbreak-and-Cole-14610152.php
Nationals are saying Max Scherzer could pitch in a potential Game 7 as long as his neck will let him.
Just very odd for all of the five games to have gone to the visitor.
That's the website most use to get that data
Baseball savant
No surprise, Corbin has been especially tough on lefties this year. I'm sure we'll see Diaz pinch hitting tonight, probably early.
I hope Jake brought his khakis.
This whole thing still seems bizarre to me. Could he have been the point man on the Osuna deal? Taking the fallout personally and dealing with it in such an immature fashion would fit that to me.
Truthfully, I'm more annoyed that the Astros have started doing that light show for home runs that the Rangers and Yankees do. Cool when your team has/gets the lead, I guess, but fucking ridiculous when you're down by 10 in the 9th.
The PR folks aren't on the frontline in this. Taubman certainly is. I think he'll end up gone.
The more I think about what Luhnow said in the interview the more it seems clear to me he's too close to see what's happening. Worrying about intent of the statement is well past its expiration date. The narrative has now been written. As there really is no absolute way to know what anyone is thinking there's no way he can alter the narrative without the accusers first retracting. That's not happening. For now and likely a long time into the future Taubman is a misogynist douche bag whether that's really true or not. I can't see any other baseball org hiring or recruiting him. As long as he's employed "the media" as well as a lot of other public figures (I'm a bit surprised some of the local politicians haven't come out on this yet) will caveat all things Astros as the domestic violence enabling organization. At some point MLB I would imagine will lay that kind of reality at Crane's feet.
Also, "those that know me know I am a progressive" sure sounds a lot like "I'm not racist, I have black friends".
Doubt there will be any more statements though.
NPR’s David Folkenflik added this:
I know of one reporter well known to the Astros that tweeted out the DV hotline number every time Osuna appeared last year, and that is one Alyson Footer.
Luhnow needs to get out in front of this tomorrow, immediately. But he'll probably end up saying that Taubman's transgressions are really ultimately a net positive since they'll help to raise awareness.
They do not have a deep staff, but the ones who pitch are good. I hope the bats reappear.
Corbin joining the pen for tonight's game says a lot.
Anybody have insight on the strength of Washington's pen?
Sorry if this cabrera’d, but have the rosters been announced? Is Pressly in? Also curious if Straw might make it.
Good.
That Cole talk was madness.
I'm sure the intent of the question was more like "does having a lead change your approach out there at all, and if so, how?" But it was awkwardly worded.
Smoltz saying Bergman’s versatility during the season should count in MVP voting.
Radio says Urquidy is warming.
Bring in someone other than Osuna for the 9th?
He did it in game 2.
I’m pretty sure he can be replaced on the playoff roster if he’s injured. If so, CC would then also be ineligible to play in the next series, if the team advances.
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I don't see why not. Short rope, of course.
The Trump Administration is now pursuing the curious political strategy of publicly admitting to crimes.
Love these three run homers...
You'd think if they were stealing signs in Game 1 it would have done them more good.
I thought they blacked out announcements like this in the postseason. Or is it just the WS?
I've been getting the flicker on my FUBO stream. Also there's no superimposed strike zone graphic.
Reddick is in today's lineup, assuming the game is played.
Game 6 in that scenario is the bullpen day not game 7. Game 7 would still in theory be Cole's on normal rest. A rainout just moves the bullpen game back, if it gets that far.
This thread makes as much sense as the calls to move Springer down in the order in 2017. Correa has had one good game. Tap the breaks on moving him up. Whatever Hinch decides I am fine with, but I think he likes the balance of this batting order.
The whole situation in Syria is unraveling fast:
- Turkish forces are committing war crimes
- The Kurds have been forced into an alliance with Bashad’s, Russian-backed Syrian government
- No one is now fighting ISIS, who are escaping from their Kurdish captors
- US forces are cut off and in need of evac, most likely by airlift
- We are trying to figure out what to do about the 50 nukes we have stationed in Turkey
What a shitshow. Aside from the death and destruction - which is horrifying - the big/only winners here are Putin, Bashad (i.e. Putin) and Erdogan.
This is completely indefensible, yet Republicans continue to offer bizarre third person criticisms as if it’s some kind of abstract issue and not the deaths (in one case reportedly by rape and stoning) of men, women and children who are our long time allies.
My disgust for Trump and his enablers - be they in Washington, on TV, the 40% who still support Trump or those complete cunts who made the “Kingsman” parody - is overwhelming right now.
Top 3 will probably be the same as the Division Series which had, Paxton, Tanaka and Severino. I got nothing but wild guesses after that. Maybe someone else has a better handle on it.
Joe Smith to Sparks: ‘You’re having more fun than half the room.’
Even Andrew Jackson thinks this is harsh.
Take Flaherty out? Keep him fresh for the NLCS?
Correct on all accounts.
Some are, but most are Muslim (you may be confusing them with Armenians).
This is still abhorrent, and the reality that how much Republicans will care about these events depends in large part on the religion (and race) of the victims is sickening.
So, I'm seeing all the day after managers saying how JV was "over confident" or too tired and should not have pitched yesterday. I still stand by the decision.
Partly, I'm just sick of people who rarely watch the games start commenting on them now. It's getting on my nerves today.
The Turks are hitting the Kurds with air strikes, including civilians. They are begging for the enforcement of the No Fly Zone but US forces have been told to stand down.
ISIS has been attacking Raqqa, including suicide bombings, and most of the city is without power.
This is just 72 hours since Trump’s fateful phone call with Erdogan in which he was said to have been “rolled”.
And don’t forget that last time (that we know of) Trump talked to Erdogan, the same thing happened - he promised to pull out of Syria completely - but the uproar from Trump’s own party forced him to reverse the “decision”. This time, Erdogan was prepared and had his forces ready to roll immediately so that he would turn Trump’s stupidity into a fait accompli.
This is so fucked up. If we let this stand, millions will die and ISIS will be resurrected. If we push back, we will be in a shooting war with Turkey and Russia. But, her emails...right?
I like it. Splits up the lefties by having two rightys between each one. Forces Cash to really pick his spots when using his lefties
https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/status/1181330947419049984?s=19
Maybe. I read it would either be JV in short rest or Urquidy in a 2-1 series. If it goes 5, and Cole pitches game 5, messes up rotation, maybe I need to count the days. ALCS starts 10/12. Offense needs to show up.
JV tomorrow.
Another hanging changeup
Game 3: Monday, October 7, time TBD @ TB
Starters: Zack Greinke (18-5, 2.93) vs. Charlie Morton (16-6, 3.05)
TV: MLB Network (Bob Costas, Joe Girardi, Jim Kaat, Jon Paul Morosi)
Badass. It's been a while since I was there.
I am not sure with whom I'm more angry: Trump and his flying Trumpanzees, the Republicans in Congress who have gone deaf, dumb and blind, or the Democrats who are being calm and methodical when this is running around, hair on fire stuff.
Hinch says Correa is ready to go on Friday.
Buckle up, folks. Tampa is a good baseball team. Their bullpen is purportedly one of the best in MLs so getting runs early is key.
It’s a balancing act between not leaving anything out (which means it would take forever to finish) and going narrow suggesting that everything else was ok (or at least not impeachable).
I think they need to pick maybe 3 things:
Abuse of power (Ukraine)
Influence peddling (foreign/lobbyist spending/investment at Trump/Kushner properties)
Self-enrichment (govt spending at Trump properties)
I am leaving out anything from the Mueller report because - as serious as it is - it would be cleaner to go with all new stuff. The RWNM would make it all about the Mueller report which was twisted into nothingness and with hindsight was so narrowly focused that it blew right by all the rest of this. Also, the new stuff is all entirely while Trump has been president, so it’s clearly valid for oversight by Congress.
ETA: Plus, of course, any shit that any of the pull from now on can be considered obstruction, which is an impeachable offense. As Trump’s knee jerk reaction to getting caught criming, is to do more crimes, this will likely lead to an ever-extending list of charges.
We all have our lapses in judgement but Braun?!?!? What he did as an adult is far more offensive to me than what Hader did as a kid. With Braun it was not so much his juicing or lying about it, it was when he tried to deflect blame by implicating the innocent sample collector.
Oh, and it’s bad enough that foreign governments pay Trump by staying at his properties, but now Politico reports that foreign governments are paying Trump for stays at his resorts and then not staying there. There’s a spate of large block bookings being made and paid for, but no one shows up.
Friday at 1:05 and Saturday at 8:07, both on FS1
Any chance Verlander and Cole share the Cy Young? That would seem to make the most sense.
4 minutes left in the first half, scored tied 3-3...Texans recover fumble at Panthers 46 yard line. Four plays later, they have 2nd and 4 at the 18 yard line driving for a lead nearing the 2-minute warning...BOB thinks that's the perfect time for someone *other* than Deshaun Watson to throw a pass, so he calls for a wide receiver throwback pass from Deandre Hopkins, who promptly lobs a dying quail up the air for an easy interception, which is run back to the 46 yard line. Panthers go in to score the TD in the final minute instead and take a 10-3 lead into the half.
It wasn't BOBs worst mistake of the game...after all, we were only halfway through.
I missed the game but just saw the highlights. Not hard to tell what this referred to.
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What a miserable display of pedantry by both teams.
Is Peacock a lock? He's only pitched once since coming back
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Huh, sounds like the threat of retaliation.
He meant Harris the first time.
I don’t think a person who believes this can be called a “centrist.”
You have Smith in there twice.
There’s a lot of misinterpretation of the aftermaths of the Nixon and Clinton impeachments.
Clinton’s was obviously politically motivated and it cost the GOP the House that they’d just won back. Clinton was re-elected, but was left with enough stank on him that Gore pretended not to know him - despite Clinton still being a popular figure at the time - and promptly lost in that Florida shitshow that likely doesn’t happen if Gore had felt he was able to embrace Clinton.
Republicans turning on Nixon, late in an mid-term election year, was what forced him to resign. The GOP still got trounced that November and Carter won the White House thereafter.
A Trump impeachment is far more akin to Nixon than Clinton, but it’s not like Clinton’s impeachment didn’t leave a mark either.
Settle down, Beavis. I haven’t argued he doesn’t. I’m making the observation that doing so will ensure his re-election.
You obviously missed my point. A group of you (and you know who you are) say almost nothing but negative things about the team. I'm not even sure that some of you are really Texans fans down deep. Perhaps the Tennessee Titans nee' Houston Oilers really is your team. The stark difference between the misery that we've all endured as Astros fans, I've heard very little of comments like "the GM's an idiot. AJ's lineups and pitcher usage is horrible. etc. ad nauseum." We maintained a positive outlook during the Astros darkest days. I've heard nothing positive about the Texans. You should be grateful that it appears that you've got a QB. Cheer about that.
The Astros now have a magic number of 1 to clinch a better intradivision record than the Dodgers: six game lead with six to play for both teams. Astros hold a 2-game lead over the Dodgers overall.
They’ve had hours and hours of draining and drying time. If it’s a problem this afternoon, it’s not a weather problem, it’s a facilities mismanagement problem.
I'm glad you said this, I wasn't watching the game and was about to call bullshit because Max Scherzer struck out exactly 300 last season
The Rangers could reincarnate Roberto Clemente and Mother Teresa and I would still hate them for Harvey.
To further muddy the waters, ATT is considering selling their regional sports networks. So what works now may not work after a sale.
https://awfulannouncing.com/local-networks/sinclair-comcast-att-regional-sports-networks.html
Welp,
Looks like a storm is brewing b/w DirecTV AT&T vs ESPN. ESPN set to go black at midnight, so no college football tomorrow. Im finally to the point to cut the cord.
I live in Houston, my #1 priority is finding a service that I can still watch Astros games live. It appears that is the case with Fubo.TV Are there any other options?
Also, I have 3 TVs, who do I get them to play a streaming service? One is a Vizio with their built in chromecast stuff. The others are not smart TVs. Lastly, would I need to up my internet plan? Never have a problem with data limits, cause I dont stream much.
Couple of quick hits:
Trump wants to lend Iran $15billion
His trade war with China has cost 300,000 jobs in U.S.
The Federal deficit just topped $1billion(per year) for the first time in 7 years
Just looked at the box because I could not watch until the 7th. That was scored as a WP. Listed to the 6th inning on the radio, and those guys thought James was pretty bad.
If Maldonado keeps that ball in front of him, that lazy grounder is at least one out and possibly 2.
Circumstances change, as the acquisitions of JV and Greinke and the extensions for JV, Altuve, and Bregman prove without a doubt.
The Astros will never give a pitcher than many years...I think.
This is all so much worse than even the most pessimistic of us could have imagined.
I'm starting to get cautiously optimistic about seeing LMJ pitch this year.
Man, that brings back some memories. Some are good.
See link above.
Hum, thot that was a trick. He's not visible on OWA...
Besides, my bride assigns my homework...
It is on here somewhere.
He was wearing Reddick's shirt and who knows for pants.
The other day, Trump issued a tweet suggesting that Alabama could be impacted by Dorian. The National Weather Service immediately corrected him, saying that there will no impacts to Alabama. Today Trump called that a "phony report by a lightweight reporter" and insisted that he was correct, not the NWS.
The amount of judginess and outright terrible opinions in this thread is pretty incredible. (Obviously not aimed at you, das)
I'd love Limey's take too. I thought THIS article was informative, and it's worth a click for the photo alone. They predict a new general election.
Quote relevant to this thread:
Back to Skaggs for a second. The moment that Skaggs' death was announced, I was certain that something like this would be the case. And the longer it went without the autopsy results being made public, the more my feelings were reinforced. And perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, but it feels to me that when baseball players die under these circumstances, maybe MLB (and its media operations) should ease up on the over-the-top tributes immediately thereafter. They did this with Skaggs. They did this with Jose Fernandez who it turned out was coked up and drunk. They did this with Halladay after he was killed in the plane crash and it turned out that he had morphine, amphetamines, and alcohol in his system. And those are just the few that stick out in my mind. Perhaps MLB should be a little more circumspect about these deaths -- at least until the circumstances are known.
Fans: The Clowney trade was the worst deal in Texans history!
BOB: LOL hold my beer.
Per twitter
Octavio Dotel detained in the Dominican Republic as part of a larger drug trafficking and money laundering operation by authorities:
I'd like to think he's a hitting coach somewhere. That guy could roll out of bed, be sitting on the can with a beer in his hand and still put a pretty good swing on the ball.
I didn't.
Do you seriously think this is what other GMs look at when they evaluate prospects for a potential trade? How they did after the trade?
Did you get to see the Saturday game? Combined shutout. Javier with 10 SOs. He has pretty much mastered AA. I wonder if he will get a AAA start this year.
In terms of what happened last night, the reporter WAS the victim. The question is whether the snub was justified. I'm guessing it was.
In self defense I'm preparing for more injury news we haven't heard about yet.
I think Guduan's suspension temporarily removes him from the 40-man.
Growing up in Corpus we had a small local business called Shep's Chicken Shack. Their fried chicken was awesome. To this day I haven't had anything better but you can't buy it outside of Corpus. At one time there must have been a Chicken Shack in Waco because I remember their signage off of the interstate.
Maybe they're showcasing Eschenfelder because they think they can move him over the offseason.
That looks really good. i might have to try it next time I'm in town.
I've been there just not for fried chicken. I'll have to find time for another visit.
CFA spicy deluxe is a great cheap sammich. Only problem with their fries is if you get them to go they turn soggy in the box within about 3 blocks of the drive thru.
Hopefully, it’s the good Whitley. Last start was ass.
Altuve will sit game 2, Straw will be active as the 26th man and will start at 2B
Minneapolis to start August, to get out of the Houston heat, is one I plan on making.
Aren't they going to have to come up with a sixth starter for Saturday?
Thanks. I don't suppose it's possible to say he's not right and send him back to the IL. That would open the door to too many shenanigans.
Dang it. Greinke and Cole on the same day? Wonder which order Hinch will choose.
Is there a limit to how long he can be on rehab before they have to make some sort of (presumably irreversible) move (like releasing him, or releasing somebody else to make room for him)?
Winning 2 of 3 is a 108 win pace.
Definitely an underrated contribution to that season.
I wonder how many swings-and-misses he had that year.
Waiting to see if Hannity et al will pursue the Epstein suicide with the same vigor as their Clinton/Foster fever dream.
Not.
Luhnow is The Master
Somehow all those folks behind the plate have survived it for years.
Why didn’t Bregman score on Alvarez’ single? Was he holding the score down by stopping at third? Two outs so he should have scored easily.
Is he the other with 8 in a game?
Not unusual for Fisher. Not a good OFer.
I wonder if Sanchez gets the Saturday start. A couple of sessions with Strom and he should be ready to go.
If I didn't know better I'd guess he's on the spectrum.
O M G
Deep breaths.
Glad the site is back up and running!
Gonna just leave this here
Springer
Altuve
Bregman
Brantley
Correa
Yordan
Gurriel
Catcher
Reddick
Verlander
Cole
Grienke
Miley
MOTHER OF GOD
You wont have to wait that long, Deadline is 4PM EST today.
He was just placed in the IL.
That’s your idea of a counterpoint.
No thanks on Bauer.
There's so much I don't get about trading for Bauer. In no particular order:
• He's got no emotional control on the field
• He harasses women online, in full public view
• He does shit like writing "Bush did 9/11" on the mound during games
• He's notorious for refusing to listen to his teams' coaching staff, dating at least back to his college years
• He and Cole despise each other from their UCLA days
• He called out the entire Astros organization for doctoring the ball last season
• He's enough of a cancer that Cleveland is thinking about trading him when they're 3 games up in the Wild Card and 2 games out in their division
Is a wicked spin rate really that valuable? I just can't see it happening.
Amazing. Rosenthal and others have reported the Astros linked to just about every good starting pitcher. The job Luhnow is doing of putting everyone off is incredible. Certainly all of the other post-season contenders are wondering what the Astros are going to do. If this keeps them occupied at all then fantastic.
Is Wheeler expected to pitch better than his 4.71 ERA seems to indicate?
That would make the runs unearned. Makes no sense to bring in a rental not named Beltran or Johnson if there are alternatives.
So now they trade Syndergard? The Mets getting Stroman is crazy.
But the “optics” were terrible, because this is a fucking drama production, not the state of our republic.
Why does kemp need to be the odd man out? Send Straw down, since he has options, when Correa returns. keep Kemp on the roster so you don’t lose him. Let Straw spend a month in the minors working at SS and bring him back up when the rosters expand in September.
Was there any word about James after the game yesterday? Does he have an issue??
The Yordan jack was reminiscent of Bonds.
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(Try again) "Curious, when did each of you last post - b/f today?"
I'm a little curious as to why McHugh doesn't get a shot at holding down one of those BOR spots. He has been successful in that role before.
I wrote this in 2012, as a part of a series preview. I still feel this way.
Fuck him. Fuck his bullshit "book," his chortling reminiscenses of times spent emptying the spittoons of the Really Wealthy, his giggling with Other Millionaires and the twisted dream that they think of him as a friend. Or that any of us have the slightest interest in whatever warped sack of lies he hawks as his story.
Embattled Labor Secretary Alex Acosta - who is currently trying to strip 80% of the budget for the prevention of sex trafficking... just think about that for a moment - rake-stepped his way through a Trump-ordered press conference yesterday. He claimed that the environment we are in now - presumably meaning as it relates to child rape - is different than it was all the way back in 2008. He also claimed that he did not have the evidence available now.
Former colleagues have come out and cried "bullshit", saying there was a 53-page Federal indictment ready to go, but it was dropped. Congress is demanding Acosta come and testify as to what the fuck he was thinking; hopefully they will subpoena that draft indictment.
In the meantime, though, Acosta struggled the most with the question that really should be burning up everyone: why were none of Epstein's co-conspirators charged?
There are a lot of people associated with Epstein who frequented his parties. He brought these girls to his parties. 1 + 1 = rot in jail motherfucker. These Epstein-adjacent people include Prince Andrew (one of the girls in the Herald piece mentions servicing "royalty"), Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and one Donald J. Trump, who has described Epstein as a "terrific guy", was a regular at his parties, has hosted at least one of Epstein's parties at Mar-a-Lago and is probably more adjacent to Epstein than he is to Melania. He also has admitted to grabbing pussies without permission and of invading the dressing rooms of his Miss Teen USA pageant contestants, because he could. Miss Teen USA is open to girls between 14 and 19.
Trump has been proved correct that he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and get away with it. He is credibly accused of full-on raping a woman in a New York city department store, yet the media focused on Biden's inappropriate handsiness instead. But can he rape a child - maybe children, plural - and get away with that?
If bros engage in Twitter wars, then they may be.
Easier than explaining it to Cole and Bregman.
Details from what FBI found inside Epstein’s $77 Million Manhattan mansion:
- Extraordinary volume of photographs of nude underage girls
- Hundreds perhaps thousands of sexually suggestive photographs of fully or partially nude females.
- Safe containing compact disks with labels
This guy needs to be in Federal pound me in the ass jail without lube for the rest of his life. Same goes for anyone on any of those CDs, be they royalty, former (or current) Presidents, entertainers, anyone. Acosta can join them too as an accessory after the fact, as can any other enablers out there.
Round them all up and throw all the fucking books at them.
He had some choice words for MLB about the baseballs too: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27149029/verlander-mlb-juicing-balls-more-offense
"It's a f---ing joke," said Verlander, an eight-time All-Star who is starting his second All-Star Game on Tuesday. "Major League Baseball's turning this game into a joke. They own Rawlings, and you've got Manfred up here saying it might be the way they center the pill. They own the f---ing company. If any other $40 billion company bought out a $400 million company and the product changed dramatically, it's not a guess as to what happened. We all know what happened. Manfred the first time he came in, what'd he say? He said we want more offense. All of a sudden he comes in, the balls are juiced? It's not coincidence. We're not idiots."
Is Alvarez hurt? Didn't pinch hit last night and not in the lineup tonight which has White batting eighth.
I didn't realize Bell or Offerman were on the show until I re-watched it.
Damn. Just seems like a few years ago they lost another young pitcher in a car accident.
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chuck keeps taking my number, I protest
They could find themselves in second place by the end of the weekend.
He's probably got a giant bruise with distinctive stitch marks- not knee damage.
I just hope she has excellent doctors.
I realize that is the organization’s narrative, but I have seen him play there a couple of times in RR. We read about his being a bad OFer too, but he has shown he can play there.
It will all be better once the injured players return.
Final 10-6. Slapdick umpires letting that farce continue in the deluge made all the difference.
Thank you, HudsonHawk.
Is that b/c this is the only Astros trip to NY and there will be no other chance to make up this game?
There was one telling play where Blummer exclaimed "Heeeee's baaaack!" in terms of being able to play second effectively. It was a pop-up that he immediately screamed everyone off, including White who made an initial move to go after it, but Altuve had those little legs moving so fast as he screamed "I got it". He made a routine play out of it by getting to the spot quickly and camping under the pop fly. No one else dared come near him as he made that play. Altuve then turned and fired a bullet to Bregman as if he were saying "That felt good!".
In short, he looked good out there, no problems.
Normal
Here you go...
The article goes on to question whether it's wise to continue placing him as a middle of the order hitter. The author suggested Yuli is better in the lineup as a #7 or at most a #6 hitter, with a strong suggestion that placing him in front of Chirinos (#8) and Reddick (#9) once everyone returns is the smart play. Hinch might not see it that way, but we shall see.
We've already discussed the lineup with Alvarez hitting as a DH, and it looks by all indications that Yuli will become a #7 hitter when all is said and done.
He looked okay, but he is getting his swing back in order so it is to be expected. Basically, he's going through spring training again. It's going to take time.
The ball was wild left of the beyond the batter’s box. Somehow Stubbs knocked the ball right of the plate outside the batter’s box. Where was Osuna supposed to be? He was not involved in the hitter moving to second.
No, CC wasn’t discussed. Unless they can mend bones with a potion a la Harry Potter to speed up the healing process, I’m guessing we are about 2 weeks away from hearing how close he is.
I remember Ben McDonald saying that the CWS teams were equivalent to AA. I'm of the belief that his statement is off the charts wrong, so much so that I went through a thought experiment. If there were 8 four-team, double elimination tournaments with the top 24 ranked college teams and the 8 Texas League teams, I'd take even money that the final 8 teams would all be the Texas League teams.
Sure, there are college players who would not embarrass themselves in AA, but the average to below average AA position player would be one of the top players on the best college teams, and the sheer pitching depth of an AA team would overwhelm college teams.
Snuffy, who is Luke?
Would you grant that there was a maturity difference and that the level of competition was probably stronger for Bregman's 3 years @ LSU?
Unfortunately, i can put the HC on ignore, but it does little good if you break a year-long silence here to drudge it up again.
You all make good points and they are all factors in the success divide between genders, however, I think it is wrong to discount the favored status of other sports in America of having a negative effect on the talent pool for men's soccer.
Also in a different vein, VAR is changing the way the game is played.
Don’t understand your jab, but if you knew what is going on with me, you’d be nicer.
Extremely non-uniform asymmetries of men and women soccer participation by country. Also, the US has a competitive college athletic soccer program which act as a proxy pro league. Given most of the world doesn't have any kind of post-high school support for women's soccer beyond say Olympic teams, this is a big advantage.
Nothing about that quote makes him sound like an asshole to me. Is there something else?
https://twitter.com/markbermanfox26/status/1136749439387938816?s=21
Interesting he chooses to be on the side of the Empire.
Just adding this here. Luhnow’s tweet Sunday morning when he called up Alvarez was priceless. The comments below are funny too.
https://twitter.com/jluhnow/status/1137719089688915969?s=12
Yeah, I'm saddened. That little fucker was something else.
I bet that you pulled for the National League in the ASG and in the World Series when the Astros were in the NL.
Correa released a statement saying that he "sustained the rib fracture during a massage at my home on tuesday"
Three times in this thread now and once in the Bus Ride. What’s the Cabrera record?
So, if you haven''t read Justin Amash's Twitter threads about why he thinks Trump should be run out of the White House on a rail, then you should. It's the kind of sober, point-by-point, principled without grandstanding, demolition of the arguments against impeaching while painstakingly making the arguments for impeachment that Democrats could do worse than copy and paste onto their campaign websites. He also has another thread where he does the same to Bill Barr, stripping him to the bone marrow.
If you were to replace 'identifies' with 'insults' then I think there might actually be a victory to be claimed.
Now i want to know if the kid is Jack junior and they call him Jack-son or if it’s straight up Jackson. Can’t wait to meet their future daughter Jacqueline.
I honestly have no idea how this will go. Gun to my head, I’d say hard Brexit, i.e. falling out of the EU with no agreement in place. The Brexit campaign was breathtakingly corrupt and based entirely on the fake premise that Britain could keep all the stuff it liked from the EU, while still getting out. Europe was consistent in saying that this was nonsense and would never happen.
When the Brexit vote squeaked to a narrow victory, every leader in the Brexit movement quit. They knew it was impossible. The PM Cameron quit, because this was his fucking mess in the first place and was replaced by May, who was anti-Brexit. She prostituted the government to a fringe group in order to maintain a majority, and has been getting told to fuck off ever since by everyone from Aberdeen to Azerbaijan. Every Brexit proposal put to a vote in Parliament has gone down.
So now it’s very possible that Boris Johnson - the Clown Prince of Brexit - will be the new PM. If that happens, think of the worst thing possible, double it, and you’ll still fall short of how bad things will get.
I feel as though Carlos Hernandez had large strikeout game also.
But those teams were AA not AAA. Maybe that is the difference.
Mr. Weebles! But he wasn't an alien, just a microscopic man.
Found it in this transcript
For the record, who was on which side of the manager argument?
Yup. Daughter is going to see Death Cab for Cutie there next month. It’s amazing the decent acoustics they’ve been able to generate in the warehouse setting. Sound engineers FTW.
I think Alvarez because he can play first, unless George has more of an injury.
The bolded part is why I don't understand why Kemp is even in this discussion. IMO, his particular skill-set is highly valuable to the Astros, but no so valuable to a non-contender or a contender that needs him as a everyday player. Bottom line, you'd get little in return for a player that will be hard to replace.
So last week, Daenerys's fleet can't see the Iron Fleet right on their flank and the scorpion crossbows take down a dragon from long range. This week, the entire King's Landing forces never, I dunno, turned around? and not one of about 40+ scorpions can't land a single hit in CQB.
The sheer amount of deus ex machina being employed in wrapping up this series is maddening.
Like the Battle of Winterfell, another technical masterpiece depicting shitty storytelling.
Can’t disagree with any of that.
The fact that Eric Gordon was their second best player, not Chris Paul, was a huge problem.
Paul only looked like CP3 for one stretch during the entire series.
Durable, yes. Inconsistent, yes. Decent year, with last 20 starts being very good, yes. Very good year overall, no. We’ll see if he ever signs, but I think he is on the downhill slide and should have accepted the QO.
Why was the roof leaking? Have the seals gone bad?
12-11, 3.74 is “very” good? Where is the very good bar set?
The was a graphic last night comparing the two through their first 8 starts. I had forgotten how bad Dallas was last year.
Oy My God!!!! Lucas Mora!
Spurs concede early but, due to the away goals rule, the math hasn't changed as two goals will still win it for them (without shipping another one). It also means it will be decided in the regulation 90 minutes as there's no scenario that can produce extra time or penalties.
Reportedly (not watching) they're up for it. With a top 4 finish in the league sewn up, this is what they have left to pay for.
I'm sure UEFA would love an all-English final!
Raise your hands if you thought Mike Fiers would throw TWO no-hitters in MLB.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. In what reality in this capitalist market is there a direct correlation between entity profitability and employee wages? When owners (shareholders, private owners, franchisers, etc...) go through profitable periods, employees get paid what the market will bear. When those owners sustain losses, employees still get paid what the market will bear until the thing becomes insolvent. I’m not sure it’s a reasonable expectation that owners equally share profits but bear all the risk for the ebb and flow of profitability. I guess an analog would be a franchise like McDonalds. They are rapidly moving towards a living wage for employees but that has nothing to do with profit sharing. It’s all about customer pressures in response to socioeconomic mindset shifts.
Interesting to think through.
I'm sure the player's union pays close attention to MLB revenue and want to maintain their slice of the pie, but the better way to do that is to pay minor leaguer's and young players more and not overpay mid-tier guys like Keuchel.
I think the only people truly sympathizing with players not getting paid like they once were are other players and a handful of sportswriters.
They're getting paid better than any players in history. It's not enough for them. It's just plain avarice.
My biggest gripe was Surprise! Euron and his Invisible Fleet once again resetting the gamepieces out of nowhere.
To each their own. I loved it.
Isn't it just the Mexican version of Montreal?
I don't disagree with this view. I still it enjoyed it while I watched it though.
The opinions on last night's episode appear to lean negative, and I get why, but I think it fit in with the show's general feel in a post-source material era. Benioff & Weiss have not shown that they have great storytelling chops - nor are they particularly strong writing dialogue - so the show works best as a spectacle, and in highlighting individual character moments.
The spectacle was a bit muddied at time with the prevailing darkness, but the moments abounded:
Melisandre's fiery touch and the Dothraki Screamers charging into the darkness
Lyanna Mormont bringing down a giant
Sansa and Tyrion's shared hopelessness when all looked lost
Theon's and Jorah's deaths
Arya ninja-ing her way to the Night King
Some of it was silly, and at least 3-4 characters lived when they should have died, but it kept me on edge for the full 80+ minutes, and with both the music and several of the standout acting performances, I was satisfied.
Now what? A couple hundred survivors and two banged-up dragons are going to take down Cersei? That's a lot of plot armor.
Grey Worm and Brienne all but certain this week. Jorah, Tormund, Edd, Beric highly likely.
Does anyone think that any combo of White/Kemp/Marisnick is going to fetch a starter?
If you want a starter aren't you going to have to give up something valuable from the farm? Or an actual proven every day player on the current 25 man roster (i e. Reddick; not endorsing this)?
I started a rewatch last weekend.
Speaking of healthcare, North Korea, before it would release Otto Warmbier - as U.S. citizen who had been treated so horrendously in Kim's regime that he died shortly after returning to the US - demanded that someone pay his $2 million healthcare bill. Seriously. Trump authorized it paid (and has denied that since, or course).
Congratulations everyone! Our tax dollars at work; funding a pudgy, crazy, nuclear-armed dictator with a stupid haircut...
...and Kim Jong-Un.
And this Verlander character may turn out to be a decent acquisition.
“By this summer”
He has to clear a roster spot.
The Mueller Report is available as an audio book. I got mine for free on Audible (you get one free book as a new user).
Are we taking bets on stranding Chirinos on 2nd?
I’ll be the Old Man until the end. Neil is a mere child.
CFM
The Lamb in Leadenhall Market, if you find yourself in the City of London, is interesting not only because the Market was a set for Harry Potter (it's Diagon Ally) but you will have some great people watching - namely the peacocks of Lloyd's of London (also Young's isn't a bad pint).
...after R2 just magically awoke from years in a droid-coma with the other 99% of the map. 🙄
A new one every day; like an evil, four-year advent calendar.
I get what you are saying Limey and it's shameful to make these migrants pawns in a political game but on the flip side, If I had just risked my life traveling from Central America through Mexico to migrate to the US, I might prefer a city that welcomed me over a hostile one.
The players that provide the offense were very high draft picks and would have done well in any organization. On the pitching side there are people like McHugh and Morton who have dramatically improved by coaching and development, but I can't think of someone on the offensive side like that. I can also think about Singleton, JD Davis, AJ Reed, who seem stuck at the AAA level.
I don't know how you can't call the "ball" he called on Gallo that was about 3 inches from right down the middle unintentional. Missing that either is intentional or you're bad enough at your job that you shouldn't be doing it anymore.
That was much more than bad umpiring last night. That was deliberately dishonest umpiring.
I don't recall a single mention of Brent Strom either.
- the most heartening side of the book was the acknowledgment of the human factor, flying in the face of many know nothing critics of the rebuild
The DOJ said that every page had a alert that it may contain confidential Grand Jury materials. Washington Post reports claim that the lead for each section was written in such a way as to avoid disclosing any sensitive information - Grand Jury or otherwise - with the intent that they could be lifted and released to the public as is. That doesn't mean, though, that there wasn't a stamp, header, footer or watermark with the Grand Jury caution on those pages too.
Of course, the DOJ has a couple of options here:
(1) it could review those section leads first, and clear them for public release; or
(b) like it did with the Watergate Special Prosecutor's report, get a court order allowing the release of the Grand Jury materials to Congress. The DOJ did this immediately upon receipt of the Watergate report and Barr could have and can get this done very quickly at any time he chooses.
He has chosen not to do either of these things, which makes it disingenuous to use the Grand Jury materials as a defense for not releasing the report to anyone.
The fact that Mueller's team handed the report to Barr on a plate, since which time Barr has acted to obfuscate its core findings and is working to render the entire thing dead by redaction, appears to be what's sparking the heretofore unthinkable leaks. They didn't do all this work for 2 years for Barr to deep six it.
This is my son's favorite movie (for now). We're pondering a group Halloween costume of the various Spiders.
Since the previous year's winner can't win again maybe they should run the contest the next year.
Jose with a no doubter. He had that look on his face.
Anyone watching the Nats game? Scherzer almost struck out the side on 9 pitches. 8 straight and then Cano flied out to right center.
Just had lunch with Ty and Chuck. Headed to the yard now.
Eastern or Central?
Does the "The Lid" still exist? Wasn't there a Derek Bell baseball card as well?
100
(Google indicates that the lead singer of Dishwalla was one JR Richards; seems a longshot that the OP was referencing this guy but he and his band are currently in Peru touring in support of a new album)
I hope Cole was at the brief press conference:
“This is the best organization in baseball. This is the best team in baseball.”
A HOF pitcher wants to stay in Houston.
Call me Pollyanna, but I hope someday the importance of team and organization will transcend more millions piled on top of already many millions. “I owe it my family” is bullshit. You and they already are set for life, and you are helping, not hurting, them if you stay in an environment in which you and they are happy. As for Cole, he has said and must recognize being in Houston made him the dominant pitcher he is today. His quote last year was spot on: “I would have never done this in Pittsburgh.” Springer and Correa have made their homes in Houston and are very active in the community. In the world my Pollyanna self lives in, all of these players should want to stay if the organization makes the sincere, good faith effort to keep them it has with the other extended players.
Crane and Luhnow have a plan. I am eager to see how it unfolds.
Do you mean Euron? I find the actor that plays Theon to be quite talented and the charecter to be properly nuanced. However, regarding Euron... not so much on either point.
I figured this was about Jim Ross.
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We saw just the other day with Maldonado that this is not true.
I don't think they're saying Ichiro and Henderson are from the same era, just comparing Ichiro to other great leadoff hitters. And since we're comparing:
Ichiro: 291 2B, 79 3B, 1184 R, 98 HR, 633 RBI, 439 SB,
Henderson: 507 2B, 66 3B, 2244 R, 293 HR, 1100 RBI, 1384 SB
Ichiro was a great player, and a fine leadoff hitter. But let's face it, he was no Rickey Henderson. Not even in the same league, career-wise, even.
Is she crazy, malicious, longing to fulfill some childhood need, confront a trauma or something else.
what have you been doing the last year that was so important you are just getting around to reading Astroball?
Irrationally exuberant about Correa getting over whatever he had last season.
I'm enjoying this recommendation very much! Thanks for the heads up on this one. I like the Food Channel's "You're eating this wrong" show so this was a good podcast for me to follow. Downloaded it to iTunes and got into it right away. BTW - the podcast on "Other People's Food" is very good. Kicking off with Chef Bayless and his "White Chef, Mexican Food" was the hook for me.
The less a character is picked, the more points they are worth.
Scoring is based on % of people who selected the character who dies.
10 points per death, multiplied by the % bonus.
Scoring example:
(If there are 10 people in the death pool)
7 people select character X, who dies. 10 points times 30% multiplier = 300 points
2 pick character y who dies: 10 points plus 80 point multiplier = 800 points
Ive run one the last 2 years, its a lot of fun to be a part of. Had 47 people in it for Season 7. Probably be in the 60s this season. We did $20 an entry. Here is a link to the final scores if you are interested. And if anyone here is interested in joining just email goftdeathpool @ gmail dot com
(dont click this HH)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KHrSwIr98mZgGiaR7xmJJZ9FKPXPfy8JR2CKwc6eMXI/edit#gid=1070022118
I just made the mistake of reading the comments on the MLB Trade Rumors announcement of the agreed-to rule changes. (Why did I do that? Never do that. They add nothing to your life.) There were no nuanced defenses of the three-batter policy; I've yet to see any nuanced defenses of it anywhere. People just say: I don't like pitching changes. But it seems to me that if you want to take away a tool baseball managers have had since the beginning you should probably have a steeper hill to climb than just saying: Well, I don't like pitching changes. Especially when there are undoubtedly less intrusive ways to finesse the issue. You should have to do better if you want to take decisions out of managers' hands.
I find this weird rush to suddenly fuck with the game extremely depressing.
If there is a runner on base with nobody out in the eighth and the Yankees bring in Betances to pitch, and he gets the first two outs and then the Red Sox send up Deavors to pinch hit and he hits a homerun while Chapman is standing there ready to go watching from the bullpen mound, Yankee fans will burn the fucking stadium down. And they should.
I'm not a labor attorney, but I'm pretty sure unions are required to represent all employees in the bargaining unit fair and equally, not just union members. These "free riders", as they're known around the shop, get the employer benefits derived from collective bargaining without having to pay for the representation. That said, they also don't share in any union benefits, such as in the case of MLB, the union's take of merchandizing.
And as for MLB players, no way they'd want to negotiate their own contract terms individually. They have essentially zero power that way.
A question for nobody in general: do players HAVE to join the union and conform to the CBA?
But this isn't new. Just because you possess something of value that you earned doesn't mean you're hurting the free market by not participating in it. The free market is correcting itself by removing the stupidity.
There is the argument that allowing club control actually increases the market value of free agents. That if every player were simply free agents every year, it would flood the market and drive down the price for mid-level players. It would certainly level the playing field, and be more merit based, rewarding guys like Bregman and Snell, but it wouldn't reward mid-tier players the same way the current system does and for not nearly as long.
But Bregman isn't a free agent. He was tendered a contract pursuant to the collectively bargained-for framework, to which he implicitly agreed the day he joined the MLBPA. Luhnow's comment on Bregman didn't have anything to do with the free agent/market.
Ignoring that your definition of "tepid", where players are getting hundreds of millions, and guys like Martin Maldonado are turning down $6 million/year, is slightly different than mine, by your logic, the free market can only go up exponentially, never at a slower rate, and heaven forbid, actually decline due to increased supply.
"That's just the nature of our industry right now. That's the world we operate in, and next year when he reaches arbitration, he's going to begin to get paid at the level he deserves."
I don't think Dallas really wants to be an Astro. He wanted to be a free agent so bad he turned down a better offer from the Astros then he is going to get on the FA market. Then he passed on the QO. And now late into ST according to Ken and Buster, he is refusing a one and a two year offer.
Seeing him come to bat in the top of the 9th was the most excited I've ever been to see a pitcher hit.
I know what you mean. Over the last two years, I don’t know that I’ve felt prouder for any other Astros player than I have for CFM. Dude had been through a lot in his career and came out the other side on top in game 7 of the WS. He’s a champ on and off the field.
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The NL East this offseason just became as competitive a division like the AL East. Where I would start to gauge the possible advantage one team might have over the others is to look at the starting rotation:
Washington: Scherzer, Strasburg, Corbin, Sanchez and maybe Ross or Fedee
Atlanta: Foltynewicz, Newcomb, Gausman, Toussaint, and Teheran
Philadelphia: Nola, Eickhoff, Velazquez, Pivetta, and Eflin
New York: deGrom, Syndergaard, Wheeler, Matz, and Vargas
Miami: Who cares?
Next would be an evaluation of defense and the offense. So just on starting pitching alone, I'd give the edge to the Nationals to stay competitive and quite possibly win the NL East (for now). What the NL East teams have done this offseason, however, is put the NL Central and West on notice that the wild-card contenders might all come from the NL East this season. It's not a far-fetched idea at this point. But like the Houston Astros faced in 2018 with an improved Oakland A's team, a good Seattle Mariners team and a somewhat enigmatic but still good Anaheim Angels team, having a tough division to play in means you're just going to have to find your wins early and often within the division and then look elsewhere. Houston won 103 games in 2018 primarily on having a record-setting starting five rotation. The offense was good but spotty. The defense was okay, but not spectacular. But the starting rotation was out of this world.
By adding Corbin and Sanchez this offseason, I'm thinking the Nationals made themselves a team to be reckoned with. IMHO of course.
Bud Norris has to settle for a minor league deal with the BJs.
That's new-fangled stuff, like people wearing caps in restaurants.
$330 million over 13 years. No opt-outs.
Did anyone else see Julia's interview with Straw today about the Tebow catch? They talked about that, then how much he hates running. Eventually she asked how he got his love for baseball. I'm paraphrasing, but it went:
"I was about 3, and my dad would throw tennis balls to me. The first time I ever picked up a bat ..."
You can tell here he's wondering if he should tell this.
"The first time I picked up a bat, I hit the ball and bounced it off ... well, an inappropriate spot on him." Julia trying to keep a straight face. "And I guess I thought it was funny, so I kept doing it, and ever since then baseball's been my dream."
He mostly kept a poker face through the whole thing.
Weren't they planning on going to 26 man rosters?
I'm now wondering what has been the increase in profit from said revenue. Any info on that, anyone?
Also, while making the case that Cohen is a low-life cheat and crook, do any of these Republican interrogators ever wonder why Trump hired him as his personal attorney, and kept him on for over a decade?
Every time I get a chance to listen to Cohen's testimony, it's a Republican raving about the messenger. If there is one Republican, who actually asks Cohen a substantive question in a real effort at Congressional oversight, it should be front page, top fold material in all the major rags. Seems as if the entire party is grifters, grovelers and clowns.
I understand the players are upset about the discontinuation of crazy 10 year deals but the CBA hasn't been all bad for them.
in 2011, average MLB salary was 3.095 million. Last year, that number was 4.52 million. That is 46% increase.
That confuses me. Wouldn't this have been part of Mueller's work?
What else would look an awful like the last two season is the free market at work. Maybe this is simply what the market will pay.
I guess we'll just have to have him come back in and explain everything for us.
No way. There are no secrets in a deposition.
Most of what I’ve heard/read so far is that he will have the same daily utility role he had with Houston.
I'm surprised he didn't find better but maybe (like others) he overplayed his hand early and by the time he was willing to get real about a deal, possible suitors early moved to plan B and were no longer viable destinations.
I'm sure that if MM were not the one who came up with "Drama Queen," he certainly was around for his crowning and was only using the fast-food metaphors for comic effect.
Yeah, my mind doesn't work like these guys either. They act like they need a long-term contract for "security." Give me one year at thirty million and I am more than "secure." I'd take a short-term deal with a club that tries to compete and at the end of that deal, I'd do it again until I couldn't do it any more. Never have to get stuck for long on a team that doesn't want to compete.
That's a lot of money! To me at least, but I'm not making millions to play a game.
I wish you would post links to a lot of the stuff you post here. Not saying anything about the veracity at all, it's just nice to read a bit more detail and if I want to share it with someone I know where to find it. I do appreciate your and other's running commentary in this thread.
I almost don't believe you.
Almost.
I agree but stepping in and out of the batters box 7 times per at bat is more fucking around or stalling than actually playing the game. I understand the mental aspect of stalling but it delays the action, and it has increased over the years. Same as taking 25 to 35 seconds to pitch a ball. Stalling ain't playing.
He's trying to pull a Kavanaugh but he doesn't have a friendly chairman to protect him like Beery Brett.
Barry Switzer turned them down?
From CNN:
Damn, just like one of Trump's criminal associates. What does he have to hide? Crooked motherfuckers, all of em.
For example, they are looking into whether any foreign power or person has any influence over any member of the Trump administration.
And while I'm at it, remember the recent story about 95,000 voters that were voting illegally in Texas? Yeah, it was false. Total bullshit, created by people trying to twist facts to fit their preconceptions. When called to justify the data, they hem-haw, acknowledge that it's not accurate but maintain that they are still trying to ascertain the "correct number."
Just like the "border emergency," "illegal voting" is a complete fucking lie told by immoral pieces of crap to keep the torches of their ignorant followers fully ablaze.
People who measures these things, say there has been insignificant increase in commercial time since the 80s. The actual game is taking about 30 minutes longer on average.
Grant Brisbee's comparison (which I've posted before) is the most interesting, but doesn't give a clear answer.
Sometime around the point that newspapers decided they didn’t need paywalls, we as a society forgot the phrase “you get what you pay for.”
Kate doesn’t seem especially LA.
(Assuming they sign JV for 1 year and Cole long term)
They may be considering adding another starter but also puts Miley in the mix with James and Valdez for the 4th and/or 5th starter.
This is really shocking to me. Is there a common perception that clubs are doing this to enable them to rent out the stadium during the offseason to events that would otherwise destroy the grass? Whatever the case, it makes me proud of the home nine for bucking the trend, and nervous that they won't always!
In actual 2019 Astros roster news, they've signed LHP Wade Miley to a 1-year, $4.5 million deal. No option or anything.
Journey indeed: you gotta read this about Deac and his wife Virginia's experience when he played in the Sally in 1961-1962. Powerful shit.
Also as that article notes, the man still holds the record for highest batting average (.409) in Midwest League history. And he did it despite suffering an arm injury.
Medicare-for-All looks like it's going to get a proper airing in the 2020 process - at least on the Democratic side. Kamala Harris said recently that she doesn't see private insurers being involved going forward. This got some pushback from Michael Bloomberg, saying it would bankrupt the country. It's an interesting and, dare I say it, naive take.
The simple truth is that if you add up all the healthcare premiums paid to private insurers, plus all the deductibles and copays etc. that come out of the pockets of policyholders, you get to roughly the same number as the $32 trillion scare-number that is used against M4A. The difference being that the M4A proposal insures everyone, while the private insurance number includes trillions of dollars of corporate profit.
I don't understand the business objection to M4A. Providing health insurance to its employees is a massive cost to an employer and, because the ACA was a private insurance hybrid, the law had to take steps to stop employers of a certain size from throwing their employees off their own insurance and onto the exchanges. So employers clearly would be happy to be relieved of the burden.
Maybe it comes down to the tax policy that would pay for it, or the fact that people unshackled from their employers' plans would be more free to change jobs or break out and start up their own businesses. I really don't know. But the Bloombergs of this world misunderstand the process (accidentally or on purpose) because they speak as if no new money would be put into Medicare to pay for its new beneficiaries. That's not how this works.
If you'd forgotten how much you hate Joe Lieberman, here's a little reminder: the ACA was going to allow a Medicare buy-in for people aged 55 or older. That meant that those eligible could buy health insurance from Medicare as a competing insurer to KaiserSozePermanente etc. That would be a powerful option both to control the cost of insurance for older Americans and allow people to do things like retire early. The vote to enact this fell one short in the Senate; that vote being Joe Lieberman's.
But the blueprint is there. Allow people 55 and older to buy-in; then 45 and older; then 35 and older. You get the picture. Creeping appropriation of the private insurance market into the wildly popular, wildly cost-effective Medicare system. Yes, this sucks for health insurance company employees and HR staff (sorry Zipp) but that's no reason to leave millions without access to healthcare and tens of millions more on the brink - or actually plummeting into - bankruptcy because of an illness.
Schultz' roll-out has been a disaster. For example, he declined to answer a question on tax policy because he doesn't want to discuss hypotheticals. WTF? At this point, that's your only job!
But you're right, he's a corporatist, pretending to be a social liberal, running to stop actual liberals from increasing his taxes. He's also the only way that Trump gets a second term, and it's scaring the living shit out of me right now.
Going there solo and not on a cruise from the US is not the easiest thing. Is it easier from Panama? Are you a dual citizen?
He was going to stand firm on his demands but his bone spurs flared up.
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Maddux, I think.