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Bill Brown is great on the radio with Sparks.
Correa's timing is not close to back yet.
Best part to me is that he's attacking hitters and not throwing a million pitches chasing K's
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Wow. That was one hell of a play from reddick! I thought there no way that ball gets caught
Kinda surprising altuve isn't playing today. They often make note of the fact that jose doesn't like doing the day off before the day off.
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Fixed it for you. Hurricanes have only been recorded for 80 years. No one knows if Cape Verde storms this strong have ever been before because they just don't know.
I didn't mean to imply I want anyone deported or that I supported anything Trump is doing. I was just pointing out that Trump's motivation is political and about nationality, not race. The differences don't seem that subtle to me. I would be real surprised if they get deported. Pretty sure it wont ever come to that. God, I hope not.
Labeling everyone that has a different opinion cruel racists is pretty honest about any actual desire to address issues head on.
Jeff Sessions made a strong case that this is about the rule of law, so there's only one possible solution: Trump must pardon all the Dreamers the same way he did Joe Arpaio.
It is not a fact that zero DREAMers have a criminal record, nor that 91% are actually employed. These statistics came from an online poll.
The questionnaire was administered to an online panel of DACA recipients recruited by the partner organizations.
I think you've stepped in some fake news.
The Trump Foundation is currently embargoed while it tries to sort out legal issues around other charitable deeds such as paying off Donald's civil fines and buying him a painting of himself to hand in his own country club.
There is no way Trump coughs up out of his own pocket - he has a history of this. Sarah Sanders was equivocating on this as early as last Friday when being pressed by reporters for when Trump would make good on his pledge from the previous Tuesday. She refused to confirm that it would be his own money but, with the foundation shuttered, it seems that he has two options: pay up or take the heat.
Oh, and repealing DACA? This clown's default setting is cruel. It's also stupid because the US rakes in $800mm every two years in registration fees from the Dreamers. 91% of them are employed, 100% of them have no criminal record and they're buying cars and houses and shit.
I just don't think McCullers is going to be able to help. I expect Keuchel, Verlander, and McHugh to be the top 3, and Morton to be the #4.
There is no more 25-man roster. Everyone on the 40-man is eligible to play in any game.
That was me. I was betting he didn't say to the players' faces that they should be replaced by better players.
Sometimes the numbers are what they are. Hoyt has done some good work out of the pen this year. He had struggled lately and had options but he'll be back and help this team win some games down the stretch.
I was three innings into the game that started at 7 before I realized it wasn't live. Now I know what's happened, that first inning home run by Altuve's not as exciting.
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Outside of the obvious talent upgrade, I can only imagine the shot in the arm this is to the clubhouse. The guys absolutely have to be ecstatic.
Whoa! No. He's not going to trade Martes, Tucker, AND Whitley. I hope. Fisher? Sure. some combination, maybe. Not all.
Split DH. Requires two tickets.
Home for the weekend. No Friday game. Double header Saturday.
Astros did not have their home uniforms or their regular road uniforms with them. They are wearing their blue warmups, and presumably will the entire series.
We are getting hammered with rain in Bear Creek.
We took a foot of water in the house but we're safe. I hope everybody stays safe and dry.
And anybody who watched the clusterfuck that was the Rita evacuation knows that it's simply impossible to evacuate a city of that size. The evacuation causes as many problems as it solves.
Blame on many sides.
Besides das, check out www.SpaceCityWeather.com. Eric Berger is also reporting the potential of intensification, but in a scare-free sort of way.
Okay folks, let's look at what Aoki was really doing. In his last month with the Astros, he played in 16 games and had 47 plate appearances. Aoki had hits in only 8 of those games. But one of those was a 3 hit game and another was a two hit game. He was good when he got in but only because he was being put in situations that were favorable for his success. Oh, and many of his games were played with a healthy Correa (DL 7/19), and Springer (DL 7/29).
In the 26 PA since the trade, he is only hitting .208 with 5 Ks to 1 BB. Did he get bad all of a sudden or are the situations he is in not as favorable?
Fischer has 61 plate appearances in 16 games this month so far (he appeared in a 17th but didn't get a PA) Fischer has a hit in 9 of those games. Each of those games has been a one hit game. Springer came back 8/9, Gattis went out on 14th, McCann on the 15th.
Let's don't romanticize Aoki. I am not convinced he would be doing much better than Fischer as an every day LFer. He was a good bench player.
Тивок, ти.
I met Joey in SF before a Giants game. He was a friendly guy.
The show has gone completely off the rails. The big moments are great, and I still enjoy watching, but the story is absurd at this point.
I do love the fact that the response to Sansa's rule in the North is "BUT HER RAVENS!!"
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No one wants HD?
Is he the one who faded out after moving to Korea? Or maybe I'm getting him confused with the guy who already lived in Korea.
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S7E6 - "Beyond the Wall":
Man, that was overall disappointing.
But damned if I wasn't feeling real human emotions watching a CGI dragon.
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So one quote I heard today is "Now Bannon will be pissing on the tent from the outside"
Well, Kelly sacks his first high profile victim: Steve Bannon out.
He's the one with "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed across the knuckles of his hands.
The only place to find some long lost legends.
/waves to JackAstro
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Here's a great speech. Definitely worth taking the time to read.
They are saying "us" was a transcript error
I see that Trump could only maintain his fake concern for 24 hours and is now back to the both sides shit. In Trump's ideal world, no one would have ever opposed the Nazis or the Klan and presumably, everything would have been hunky dory.
You know, my autocorrect ha learned pretty much every players name. Even Marisnick. Except Bregman. It still wants to make it "Bergman".
Davis
Stassi
Marisnick
Peacock
What a murderer's row.
Mix up those two? Impossible.
They aren't. Gattis still unavailable and McCann to 10 day DL. Centeno and Stassi are it.
An overall team that is made up of individual players. Some of who are "championship calibre" and some of who are not. Anyone that has played on any team sport understands this. Or, at least, should. Their comments do nothing to build team unity and likely do a fair amount to tear it down. Maybe not overtly and maybe not with the superstars but likely yes with the fringe players that are the razor thin separation between a championship team and one that is not.
First real adversity this team has faced this year. Waiting to see how they respond. So far, it's not good.
They weren't perfectly reasonable to express to the public. Every new player added would replace one already there. They basically said to everyone there are players on this team right now who aren't championship caliber. That may be true, but we don't work with them EVERY DAY.
And I'm disappointed in those comments from Reddick. Lost a lot of respect for he and Keuchel.
I'm not disappointed that they feel that way but I certainly am that they said it to the media.
Yuli continues to appear extremely plussed by pressure situations.
I'm sure he's a decent player; he practices enough! But I read that he never posts his scores so no one knows what he true standard actually is.
Plenty of evidence. Hinch had him start the 10th Saturday.
I have to ask...what the fuck is a "LOOGY"?
Lately Yuli has been reminding me some of Moises. Not because they have similar swings or even similar approaches or anything like that, but because Moises seemed and Yuli seems totally nonplussed by who the pitcher is or how tight the situation is.
The first week of September would be a very good thing. I was afraid he wouldn't be back until late in the month, with just a week, maybe two, to get his rhythm back.
I can't believe the United States put a 31 year old white nationalist who couldn't have won a high school debate tournament at the podium to speak on its behalf.
The eff-you from Medvedev is worth highlighting itself. It signals Putin being at the end of his rope with his ineffective puppet; he expelled 755 U.S. diplomats this week, and Trump has still yet to utter a word about it. The peepee tape can't be far behind.
I read somewhere today if no one claims him, Detroit can negotiate a trade with all 29 teams. Is that correct?
Crasnick Tweets that Tigers put Verlander on waivers.
Does anyone know how long teams have to put in a claim?
Trump appended a signing statement to the sanctions bill he signed today. The full text is at the foregoing link, but here's a taste:
In all seriousness, it's a piece of work. You need to read it.
Get there for the Early Bird special. You'll larvae it!
Or Dallas Keuchel is a petulant child who believes what he wants to believe. That is also an option.
FWIW, I ended up going to Salsa's and Mosquito Cafe. Salsa's had an ocean view, strong margaritas, and the 'Stros on the big screen. Can't ask for much more. I highly recommend both places.
This team was not made better today and that's on luhnow.
I didn't think Kelly and Scaramucci were going to mix very well. My big worry right now is that Kelly might very well be able to get everybody to heel and start implementing all of these ill-thought-out policies.
Have they made it clear he is working from the pen?
I liked the end of his speech best. Saying that if watching him while spending time with your family was good then he did his job. My Astro, you did your job and more in 2001. I spent so much time with my Daddy watching you that I have more memories with him than I can remember.
Strange, shouldn't he go back to Fresno?
Trump tweeted this morning that the filibuster has to go. smh
What frustrates me about the "don't trade away the future" crowd is that they'll give you chapter and verse about how getting Gray or Verlander doesn't guarantee a World Series, but they act like Kyle Tucker is certain to be a fixture in All Star games for the next decade.
Imagine if a rookie had pulled a stunt like this. Isn't baseball supposed to be about more than someone's ego? Beltre did something that was silly at best. More like someone that feels "certain rules don't apply to me" is my read. He pulled a spring training gag in the middle of a season where his team is still in it. I doubt those antics would go over too well here if anyone on the the 25 man roster did it.
It's also best not to forget that defeat of the bill also required "nay" votes from Murkowski and Collins, who have been consistent in their opposition to this entire process. McCain swept in, made an impassioned speech objecting to what was going on, but then split his votes with two "yays" and two "nays". Not entirely a profile in courage but very effective in hoovering up the kudos.
Exactly. Worthless until proven otherwise.
Lindsey Graham is McCain Lite. He'll complain about this and then do nothing to stop it.
Here's where I start getting nervous. Cornyn is now insisting - despite no public or private assurances from Speaker Ryan - that the Senate bill is destined for conference committee. Given the rampant and effortless lying that's been going on about this process, I have no confidence that the Senate leadership won't reassure the Republican opposition that this bill will go to conference so it's safe to vote "yes", and then have Ryan promptly put it to a vote in the House and rush it thereafter to Trump's desk for the smuggest, most gut-wrenchingly self-congratulatory signing ceremony in the history of the planet.
There's a system now that calls balls and strikes in real time. I've seen it on my TV. I think it's time.
Blue at home plate can call HBP, pitches in the dirt, foul tips and plays at the plate but, given that the entire art of pitching is about fooling the person watching the pitch as to its location, having a human - who couldn't catch on as a player - calling balls and strikes is now just silly.
Same here. Jake's on Chimney Rock used to be good, haven't been there in years though and I hear they changed ownership (the originals were Philly natives).
They've been campaigning on repealing the ACA "root and branch" for 7 years. The base and the President are holding their feet to the fire to get it done. That cacophony of flapping and clucking you hear is millions of chickens coming home to roost.
That's a nice state you have there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
I doubt we would panic and trade for a SS.
At the risk of sounding like a cheesesteak snob, Papa Geno's is closer to the quality you'd find at either Pat's or Geno's in Philadelphia. It's not bad, but the locals don't really eat at those places for a reason.
I liked John's Roast Pork on Snyder the best when I was up there.
The Tony Luke's at Bunker Hill and I-10 is pretty good stuff. Papa Geno's (at least the one near me on Ella/18th) is good, but it's not what I would consider representative of a real Philly Cheesesteak.
I had a similar feeling about Miller Park in Milwaukee. No matter that it was a nice park, I hated the process of getting to it so much that it sullied my mood. How kick-ass would that place be if it were on Milwaukee's lakefront or at least the Milwaukee River?
It's pretty premature to say that Bregman might be out for any lengthy amount of time but.... if he is, what's the price for Zach Cozart in Cincy? By the time Correa returns rosters will have expanded and he'd be a pretty killer bench option for the playoffs. Cozart is a rental and I haven't seen much chatter (demand) on his services this year.
Just speculating... the rash of injuries has become concerning.
Pittsburgh is an incredibly underrated place. Really nice people, great Polish/Czech/Italian, and like you said a surprisingly pretty city. The daytrips from there are great if you're there for longer than a couple of days. I've also never been in the dead of winter or summer.
Trump: "We ended up with 51 votes, 51 to...whatever. I don't know what it is."
Not a joke. This is the actual President.
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And when Bran arrives at Winterfell... is he now King in the North?
I thought it would be his "great gift".
I'd encourage anyone interested to read about his speech at the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. "Inappropriate" doesn't even begin to describe it. It's sad, embarrassing, hilarious, disgusting and unsurprising all at the same time.
Tell me the great options. I walked all around the park for three days and saw nothing unique unless you count cheese curds.
I bet the class A players love the challenge of facing major leaguers on rehab assignments.
On which side of the argument do you think the Republican congress and the Supreme Court will fall...?
No, look, I'll happily work for a serial liar and lunatic who makes me marionette in front of the global press and say shit that makes me into a worldwide laughingstock and underscores my complete lack of personal integrity. But you hire a communications director?! THAT'S A LINE TOO FAR!
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Dallas Keuchel will make his 2nd rehab start Sat. at a location TBD, A.J. Hinch said. Keuchel said he expects somewhere around 4-5 innings.
I heard Luhnow say they figured Martes could help them down the stretch from the pen with his electric stuff.
My bet is he stays.
If you run 15' past 2B with no obvious intent to go to 3B, could an umpire call you out for being outside the base path? If so, I'm assuming the run would not score?
Jammed left thumb for Correa.
Five or six years ago Panama was playing in San Pedro Sula against a heavily favored Honduras. Panama scored its first of two unanswered goals in rather spectacular fashion, and the goal scorer and general ringleader, El Super Raton Perez, dashed over to the corner and summoned all of his teammates to celebrate. They launched into what was obviously a pre-arranged dance where they all sort of leaned back and bobbed around with their arms hanging loose. Que chucha e'eso? Everyone wanted to know. Well, apparently someone had seen Weekend at Bernie's and decided to turn it into a dance.
It became a national sensation for a while. Here's the goal and the celebration put to the song commemorating the craze by a local, I don't know, half rapper half notorious criminal who goes by the moniker Japanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdGEDrbdJ0&t=31s
English names and surnames are a total mystery to most everyone around here so in no time at all Bernie became Barney and dancing como Barney which got confused with the animal character and, well, things frankly went downhill from there.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HWLCG52rwbQ/hqdefault.jpg
There always seems to be some sort of weird dance that these guys are doing. Lately it's been the Salty Tic Toc. Here they are dancing in the lobby of an upscale hotel somewhere or another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s4aVdlkuCo
Here's the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv44jwI0Rbc
I wonder what the Astros' team dance might be.
An inside-the-park-home-run over two ABs.
I neither trust them or fear them...fuck them....but they have a couple thousand nuclear, deplorable
weapons...so I respect them. No need to piss them off if we can find common ground. It's a different bear these days.
That would be the worst ending ever.
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The translator apparently was not a Russian but instead a fellow named John Barron.
Well, if you want to talk about guarantees, there's no guarantees about any baseball player. You go with your best guess about what condition guys will be in, and try to have enough depth to have reasonable fallback plans.
You should get a temporary ban for the subject line.
Well, that is the first time this fucking imbecile has made me laugh out loud. I'm imagining some poor sap standing around in the shade in Presidio, Texas, minding his own business when suddenly, WHOMP, crushed like a June bug by one of those archetypal 60-pound bags of cocaine the bad hombres are forever heaving over the border.
Some of you seem to have more faith in Fiers/Musgrove/McHugh/Martes in October than I do.
I suppose you could say he's a bit of an enfant terrible.
I'm still laughing at one of the things he said in the interview with Pat Robertson, who apparently is still alive somehow: Just got back from G20, amazing meeting, we had 20 counties there, you know.
I've been on the bolster the Pen bandwagon for awhile, there just doesn't seem to be any sort of difference making starting pitcher available. And considering the price the Cubs had to pay to get a ~#3 guy with Mike Fiers #s... Maybe Luhnow can pull of some Jedi mind tricks and get the A's to part with Gray for Paulino, Fisher and some lower level guys.
Things can change due to trades, but is there any rotation in the AL that you think, wow the Astros are going to have to hold the other team to 3 or less runs 3/4 times a series to have a chance to advance*
*IF they make the playoffs.
At least we can now rest assured that nothing came of the meeting...because they said so.
Also, because Manafort was there, the meeting may actually have been illegal under campaign laws; you can't solicit help from foreigners.
I'll be sad to see Fisher go, but I think he's probably going to have to be included in a package for any significant pitcher.
Joe West was crew chief in the 2005 World Series. It was the only thing about that series that I recall.
That number seems impossibly wrong for a league average.
Unless--I see this now--as per MusicMan's suggestion, an urban center contained, say, five districts to the one rural district of equal population. Yes, that does make sense. I'm for it. Where do I sign?
The Torre quote is great.
I'm guessing he could regress to mean.
What a game! Exhibit A to why I love this team. Correa's AB showed how much he has matured. His off-balance throw to get Gardner was incredible. Oh my, Yuli! Hostros said in the GZ his bat was Alou quick on the game winner. Great description. Need a win today. Only Devo is rested.
Republicans in Congress appear to be done with him after he proved to be no use to anyone over the healthcare debacle. He's poisoning the brand and is completely ineffectual as a leader. It won't be long before they turn on him because his only use will be as a scapegoat.
Smoking gun? Getting closer to it, at least.
The Murdoch Street Journal reports that a GOP opposition researcher, reporting to Mike Flynn, worked with Russian hackers to try and recover the deleted Clinton emails.
That link requires an honorarium to Murdoch to read it, but here's an article about the article from NY Magazine.
The Trump team's defense is that Smith didn't work for the campaign and, though Flynn did, he must've been doing this on his own time. They also asked if we'd like to buy a bridge.
Water Street Oyster Bar. Downtown. good stuff.
Thanks for doing this. Mark and I have talked frequently about hoping to be .500 during this onslaught of pitcher injuries. We cannot say too much about the great job the "backup" starters have done in what could have been a crisis. Kudos thus far to Hinch and Strom for managing the pitching to stay afloat while the rotation has been on the DL.
I think fixing his curveball was a much more practical factor than "stepping up", but completely agree that he deserves the praise.
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Did Verducci just pull the deGrom tidbit out of his butt or have there been discussions? Neither he nor any other writer knows what a GM is certain to do, and I guarantee Luhnow is not talking.
There is some stuff here I did not know particularly about the Martes and Paulino deals. Worth reading. https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/06/21/houston-astros-trade-rumors
I'm all about getting rid of career politicians. I'm all for term-limits. I don't think many of those elected officials represent the people, but represent businesses. But, I in no way think Trump is going to do any of the things you think he is going to do. I also think too many people pick their party and don't vote for anyone else.
You want to get people out of Washington, don't vote for an incumbent.
Yep. I think we are without Ambassadors to Canada and Britain, and without Ambassadors to Japan and South Korea - which is important given the crap going on with North Korea at the moment. Japan's PM isn't always going to be at dinner on the patio at Mar-a-Lago when the shit goes down, but at least he has Trump's unsecured cell phone number.
It doesn't help when he fires all 50 US Attorneys. It's not unusual for a new administration to replace most or all of the USA's, but typically they have a fucking clue as to who will take over those jobs. Trump kicked them all out in one day, without warning, without a plan to replace them and without any opportunity to effect any kind of transition to the next person.
Unfilled positions
Anyone have a link to compare Trump unfilled positions to where Obama, Bush, Clinton were at this time into their presidencies? It seems like Trump is way behind on this, but I don't know for sure.
Nope. It is a new thing in baseball broadcasting. They all get time off in-season. This is Kalas' second already this season.
Why all the name calling...sorry if my comments upset you...not all of morons are as smart and all knowing as you.
Try to accept the election results and get a grip on that anger.
May's position is untenable, so she'll likely go soon. In the meantime, the Tories are partnering with the DUP, effectively handing control of government to 10 anti-same sex marriage, anti-abortion, climate deniers.
Dick-stepping about having an unsecured email server on which you may have stored two or three confidential emails out of tens of thousands doesn't even come close to the President carrying around an ancient (by technology standards), unsecured Android phone on which he tweets, calls other world leaders and which can have the camera and microphone turned on by a 10-year old (or a Russian or ISIS). And that's one of the more minor problems with the Trump presidency.
Clinton was a horrible candidate. But there is no equivalency to what would've been her ongoing email scandal and the multiple scandals, corruption and crimes perpetrated by the Trump administration.
Perhaps NATO needs to turn it's attention to this war against ISIS... with all members contributing equally.
This makes me glad that cocksucker is still allowed as a pejorative.
The US does spend the highest GDP percentage (>3%) while many NATO countries are below the 2% target.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-chart-11
Maybe that's what AstroNut is talking about? I don't know a lot about the subject, but my reading of the situation is that there is no NATO "fund" that countries pay into, it's just a commitment to spend a certain percentage of their GDP on their own defense.
Paying for what ?
How about the vast majority of NATO...weapons, bases.
Not to mention the thousands of troops...
And yes I know they are not paying us...we are just paying their defense bills.
We went to Eorope and spilled our blood...more than once. And then protected them from the Russian bear. We can't afford it any longer and the threat from the East has deminished with the fall and breakup of the U.S.S.R.
I've heard the offense (and the Astros in general) called a "juggernaut" increasingly in the media in the last few days.
Paulino is taller, I think
I think Hoyt is growing into his role, and I think Hinch is getting more and more confident in him.
Wait, a lefty can come in and get the left handed hitters out, then sit down? Unprecedented!
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Europe finally to start paying their share...the Cold War is over folks. We are a trillion dollars in debt.
America first...about time.
Various comments he has made, relating to team needs, assessing the team's strengths/weaknesses, direction of the team and so forth, from time to time since he bought the team 5+ years ago. I'm surprised that you're surprised by this.
It has to do with Jake Marisnick. Altuve has hit 2nd in the games where Marisnick has started and Reddick on the bench.
By leaving those positions unfilled, couldn't this be viewed as the White House consolidating its power/influence by destabilizing those agencies? Maybe I'm giving them too much credit but many of the administration's actions thus far (e.g. attempted Muslim ban) don't smack of egregious incompetence to me. In many ways I think they know exactly what they're doing.
I'm sure Crane is knowledgeable and smart at running a logistics business or whatever the fuck he does, but considering every baseball-related comment I've ever heard or read by him I'm pretty sure he doesn't know shit about running a baseball team. His understanding appears to be around the level of the average spelling-challenged Chronicle commenter. I hope Luhnow has the wits and the balls to never base any of his moves on Crane's wishes.
But what does concern me is what's going to happen as the television inevitably tells him that Obama is getting more and more popular and he is getting less and less. Will he manufacture something terrible with Iran or North Korea? It will be terrifyingly fascinating to watch since the guys who hold the note on Trump are basically fine with the status quo in both places. But he may get to a point where he feels like he has no choice.
Lot of folks like that. It fits right the fuck on a standard-sized bumper sticker.
I like breakfast....whenever.
The game or the punnery?
I think we can all agree that in the month of May Marwin has been THE MANCHEGO.
Let's wait and see who provels.
It may be his feta.
I camembert the last time a rook struck out his first batter.
Understood, but if there's one thing I've learned in the last year, it's this:
If you can survive having your most sensitive files hacked by your rival AND an endless FBI investigation with no satisfactory result, and STILL build up a seemingly insurmountable lead, then nothing can really go wrong after that.
What's Houston's record for runs in an inning?
This is weird and cool. I hope they win.
He said horseshit about 5 times as he went off the field while the tarp was coming out.
I am fucking livid. Why didn't they roll out the tarp earlier when it was a deluge with the bases loaded?
I'd probably get run if I was AJ, because I wouldn't take any answer other than "we fucked that up."
Less than 3 months in, and the United States is no longer a world leader.
This is true, but it's hard to recruit candidates to run in a race where the opposition has a 20+ point head start. Also, the outside money came in for Gianforte because he was struggling, it's going to be very tough for the Republicans in 2018 if they have to spend millions just to defend ultra-safe seats.
The Muslim ban - remember that? It just lost again in court - continuing its impressive oh-for-everything streak - when the 4th circuit upheld a Maryland district court ruling that the ban violated the equal protection clause.
The 9th circuit is still chewing on the broader decision that came out of Hawaii that prompted hilariously ignorant comments from AG Sessions that suggested that he didn't know (or didn't care) that Hawaii was a state; wondering out loud why a judge "on an island in the middle of the ocean" had the power to block Federal government.
Reporter gets beaten up for having the temerity to ask a Republican candidate about the CBO report.
Read the bottom of that Fox News article for how the candidate tries to spin the encounter.
What seats have they flipped?
Also Duterte heads up the Philippines, not Indonesia.
He also pitched hurt for most of last season.
I'd send Musgrove down to AAA and keep Fiers in the rotation. I don't want to move either Musgrove or Fiers into the bullpen. I don't think it would be to their strengths. And then I'd bring up one of the bullpen guys the Astros have been moving up and down from AAA. But Fiers would also be on a short leash.
Alternative math.
Back in the world of real news, the Trump budget, released yesterday, relies upon a $2 trillion math/logic error to work. That's trillion with a "T". Times two.
This is not normal.
Quantum and Spectre are Star Wars prequel bad. I have watched Casino and Skyfall dozens of times each. Nostalgia has Moore as "my Bond" because of my age, but the Connery movies (excluding his self-funded wigged-up disaster) is the classic set. I barely watched the Brosnan series and the bits I did watch were turgid crap. It was the nadir of the Brosnan era - the invisible car - that prompted the reboot with Craig, so there was that I suppose.
Moore had For Your Eyes Only, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun and The Spy Who Loved Me. That's a pretty strong resume.
I knew you guys would zone in on his statement at the beginning of the article. Facts seem to be hard to come by these days don't they.
I didn't think he was being serious. I thought it was more of a "and now for a look into the loony-bin" offering.
On a slightly different topic that seems to fit in with this thread...
Does anyone share concerns regarding McCullers's relative lack of efficiency? This may be excessively nitpicky, I know. He has only given 2 earned runs in 30.1 innings in May, but has also gone a full 7 innings in only 1 of his 5 starts this month (and twice in his ten starts on the year).
Given his stuff and relative dominance, it would be great to see him get a little deeper into games. The help to the bullpen is obvious, especially given the relative uncertainty in the 3-4-5 slots in the rotation and the greater likelihood of increased bullpen work in 3 out of every 5 games. Even with a deep 'pen, I would have to think that this will add up by the end of the year, and getting more innings out of McCullers would be a big help.
Moore on his Bond. " To me, the Bond situations are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy and, yet, everybody knows he is a spy. Every bartender in the world offers him martinis that are shaken, not stirred. What kind of serious spy is recognized everywhere he goes? It's outrageous. So you have to treat the humor outrageously as well. "
And now for a different opinion...
Watergate played out over a long time because there was no "smoking gun" to show that Nixon himself was in on the cover up. That was until the White House tapes were finally coughed up and there he was, Nixon instructing HR Halderman to tell the CIA to get the FBI to back off the Watergate investigation. As well as being a smoking gun, it was the straw that broke the back of Republican support for Nixon, and he resigned days later.
So now strong reporting claims that Trump asked the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the NSA to intervene with the FBI to shut down the investigation into Mike "5th Amendment" Flynn.
Seriously, this is one of the only scandals in Washington not to get a "...gate" nickname, and it's basically a shitty remake of the original. The Nixon era Republicans were right on top of a mid-term election, which may have stiffened their spines, whereas this generation may not yet be feeling the pressure of impending unemployment. But we have an exact precedent here, so the ending is known, just not the timeline.
Tumescent pygophile.
I don't like Pence. But I don't think he'll destroy the country and/or world.
The 25th Amendment solution seems much more likely. And maybe more likely than that, a duck out the back from the principal screwball a'la Nixon.
He joked that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his poll numbers would go up. He's not wrong.
Comey wrote a memo detailing that President Trump asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn.
I'm no lawyer, but I believe FBI agents' contemporaneous notes are considered admissible in court.
What I do know is that President Trump is too stupid to understand that a lifelong FBI man would know how to cover his ass.
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There is a non-zero chance of President Trump telling someone the nuclear codes just to show he knows them.
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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
But he didn't do it by email, so it's all good.
So...
"When I decided to just do it [fire Comey], I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story." - Donald J. Trump
“We want this to come to its conclusion, we want it to come to its conclusion with integrity. And we think that we’ve actually, by removing Director Comey, taken steps to make that happen.” - Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
Isn't firing an investigator who's investigating you to end the investigation into you the classic definition of obstruction of justice? You know, the thing that was the 1st article of impeachment against Nixon and the 3rd against Clinton? Day #113.
Interesting aside: the Russian press were allowed to bring their cameras, camera bags and a raft of electronic equipment into the Oval Office to shoot the overly-happy handshakes between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak.
So that's the Oval bugged to shit, then.
It was in there - "no additional cost to authenticated pay TV subscribers".
No you don't need an MLB subscription.
No. See the link/quote I posted earlier.
On a mobile device you're probably better off using the MLB At Bat app.
Not everyone appreciates your biting sarcasm.
Move Correa out of the cleanup spot.
So you're saying being a mass-murdering psychopath isn't necessarily "not in the best interests of the NFL"?
Major League pitches don't get any easier to hit than that one.
Ken took it with him to Tahiti.
I am well beyond being amazed by anything congressional republicans do. They long ago lost all sense of perspective when it comes to duty to country versus duty to party.
Beers at 1820 to start. Knowing most of you through posts and some in person (chuck) you'd all really enjoy 1820.
Speaking of fun. I hope we aren't getting teased, cause this is 1998 Fun.
I posted this in the GZ, but here is Gomez's commentary on Monday's game: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/227870040/rangers-carlos-gomez-discusses-altercation/?game_pk=490499
Dude is a straight up dumbass.
Aoki...taps one up the 1B line...ruled it hit his foot...not sure why, it didn't come within 5 feet of him...umps confer...yep, they get it right...fair ball, score it 3U
11 straight fastballs to Espinosa, pull the string on him 3-2 with trying run at 3B
That's BALLS I tells ya!
I want to say that Willy T did it once for the Astros. Does anybody else remember such a thing, or is my memory playing tricks?
Personally, I don't think the Fat Kid is as dumb as he looks. The general populace there in DPRK is pretty ill informed, but he's not. He's lived in the west. He went to school in the west. He watches the NBA and Swedish porn. He knows he can't win that fight, he just has to find a way to back down and tell his people he won. China will help him do that.
Of course I could be wrong.
I've wondered about the etymology of a name like Dickinson.
every once in a while I hear his dad in him.
Off to party with Rick James.
strosrays
I am back and trying to say hello. I will be stopping by more, again.
That is all.
According to yelp, they open at 10:00. https://www.yelp.com/biz/alices-tall-texan-drive-inn-houston
I'll bet against that.
This presumes no one would want to provide good health care because why? Geography has nothing to do with it. In a free market, health care would be provided that met the needs of the community just fine whether someone else in another state thought that was good or not. And without stealing from anyone to accomplish it.
And now the GOP has about faced again and completely pulled the bill from consideration. Amateur hour.
As much as one blames Rick for the signing, one must also acknowledge he's managed a reasonable out. For all their faults they realize that they cannot waste this defense nor the talent around the QB and did something about it. Which domino falls next? Romo? Probably the likely outcome but not without its own risks too.
Also, how is that you take these talking points and overall narrative at face value without even a hint of skepticism? Why would you rely on the same people that lied to you about Trump's doomed campaign and certain humiliating defeat?
sounds bad, but Kevin was my favorite.
There were probably more, but after Apollo 13 was released, someone claimed there were only two minor inaccuracies:
1) It was Lovell's previous space flight that forced the family to cancel a vacation;
2) Lovell's Corvette was blue, not red.
Fritz
Kerry
Kevin
David
Mike
Chris
Jack
"I did not have international relations with that country" - Jefferson Beauregard Sessions
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When conservative politicians refer to welfare recipients as freeloaders and grifters, I assume it's entirely projection. Over 60% of food stamp recipients are working (and over 40% are white). Paul Ryan received social security survivor benefits that allowed him to go to college (back when it was affordable).
Reagan's welfare queen was a myth. Widespread welfare abuse is a myth. People choosing welfare over employment is a myth. Yes, there may be isolated cases, but the very, very few anecdotal examples is statistically irrelevant and by no means something on which to base social policy.
In my opinion, this is immoral and wrong.
In addition to the Notre Dame-ex pontificating on SiriusXM and doing some coaching in Phillies ST, Brad Lidge managed to squeeze in some academic work since his retirement:
"Since he last pitched in the big leagues in 2012, Lidge, 40, earned his master's degree in Roman archaeology from the University of Leicester. He still goes on archaeological digs in Italy, with another one planned this summer."
Despite a couple of missteps, President Trump is doing exactly what I hoped that he'd do, and I'm glad that he's the president.
Wait, I thought "cucks" was now the preferred insult. It's hard to keep up.
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Not only did an Israeli journalist call him out about anti-Semitism, but he "answered" the question by bragging about his Electoral College victory.
He then went on to establish the US position as "one state, two state, whatever makes me happy." Seriously.
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Not a joke: Source says Sale blowup was because he didn't want to wear throwbacks, so he cut the jerseys up so no one could wear them.
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You have a touchpad??? I have to use the garage door opener.
If that's what he thinks then he doesn't know what it does, either. Which I do not doubt.
Turnbull is what in Australia passes for a rightwing nutcase so you'd think there might be some simpatico there somewhere.
I also like how the people most offended by objections to the ban don't seem to have any idea what the ban actually does.
He managed to piss off Australia. AUSTRALIA.
It's like we ordered a President with Richard Nixon's foreign diplomacy skill, and Jimmy Carter's core human decency - and the waiter switched the order.
Bob Klapisch @BobKlap 2 hours ago
Heard very sad news: Former #Mets pitcher Anthony Young has an inoperable brain tumor. Doctors unsure if malignant but cannot reach it.
Some may recall that Young finished his career with the Astros, pitching 28 games out of the pen in 1996.
Luke? Rey? Plural?
Let the record reflect that the first official act of the White House Press Secretary was to lie about size.
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I think I agree with you, but given Smoltz's reception I'd wager Schilling's a first-ballot lock.
Bidge and Baggy become just the fourth tandem in Cooperstown to play for at least 15 years together on the same club. If you want to take a guess at the others they played for Pirates, Giant (NY) and Yanks.
That is great news for the Texans defense.
So, how long are they going to let "offensive guru" O'Brien waste this defense?
He does play-by-play when Dewayne Staats is off and he's very good at it. His voice is deep like his fathers but has more of a lilt to it than Harry. He certainly deserves a shot at a main PBP gig but I'm not sure how he will fit into the void Brownie left.
JD is the only Texans rep in the initial pro bowl selections. Of course there will be plenty of turnover in that process. While the biggest snub of the bunch seems to be Texas native Matthew Stanford, if I had to point to a Texan I thought might be deserving it would have been Mercilus.
At the end of the day the pro bowl is likely the worst all star game of the bunch, so who cares.
Sounds like the whole thing was a mountain out of a molehill. UH said "hey, we'll reduce that buyout if you schedule a couple games with us". UT said "no thanks, we'll pay the money." Not really much of a story there.
Because he was fired and the other P5 jobs passed? But being reported now that he is out and its down to Kiffin/Orlando/Major.
If UT doesn't pay it, Herman must. I believe it's binding.
Beltran hatred makes no sense to me. I am thrilled he is back.
I love Brother's.
At the end of the day, I (and most UH fans) don't begrudge him taking his dream job, but his exit has changed my opinion of him to a certain degree.
The second Comey letter had nothing to do with it, although I laughed at Comey's second no evidence letter that came out the sunday before the election, which was obviously the product of severe political pressure from the White House.
The Justice Department has seriously hampered those investigations in a partisan way. Can you imagine doing an investigation without subpoena power? That's what they were working with. I believe that a nonpartisan prosecutor with a nonpartisan FBI would find enough evidence against Clinton in both the pay-to-play and private server issues to try and convict her.
In the end, it was just too much baggage for Clinton for me to vote for her. Again, I believe that it goes back to that contempt order back in the 1980's. Had there been an ethics intervention back then, she might have suffered some consequences and learned a valuable lesson. But her husband was governor of Arkansas, so nothing happened. When she skated by with the firm paying the $5,000 contempt fine by the court, she was emboldened to take additional and increasingly larger liberties for lo these many years, leading all the way up to the present.
All of the idiots are coming out of the woodwork now. I'm trying not to get too alarmed because most of the stories I've seen have come from Facebook posts and there's no telling how real they are. I'm hoping that some genuine news outlets will look into what we're hearing about and determine if it's real.
I can understand that. But a candidate who coordinates with foreign powers during the campaign and openly discusses using nuclear weapons on a first strike basis is a fairly big threat to national security.
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Probably not much, but it was more than I would have expected from Hillary.
Kasich is a tool. I voted for Trump, primarily for his anti-establishment message.
And how is feminism not sexist.
I just couldn't do it. My experience with her back in the 80's with the Rose Law Firm was just too much to ignore. I thought that she'd win for sure.
there is no way this man can govern a country. I am certain the outcome surprised him as much as it did me. the throwing his hands up and quitting scenario also occurred to me.
I'll be cabinet-appointee watching.
Bruce Bochy named Phil Nevin as his new 3B coach.
Reissdorf tall boys are a treat.
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The backlash among Houston beer drinkers appears swift and decisive. The Hay Merchant is discounting all their beer until it's gone, then will stop carrying. Others will also stop. They're getting toasted in the media for selling their barley souls to the one true beer Satan. In short, they've fucked Lumburgh. But they'll have that check to keep them warm.
I just could never get into Love Street, has a weird mediciney aftertaste to it to me. I enjoyed Sympathy for the Lager and Hopadillo, Weekend Warrior and some of their seasonals.
They are a still-life painting of a fruit basket that suddenly turns into a SUCCESS poster as soon as you put it on the wall.
Alex Rodriguez is a slimy fucker, Pete Rose seem less fucked up next to Alex.
A UT prof who worked as a consultant at a previous job has a first name of J. It's not an initial or anything, just a single J. I've been told that it's not all that uncommon.
Cue Trump -
"I never said that."
Well, you're going to have to give a reference to where you heard what you think you heard.. my reference is here:
https://youtu.be/mFMUZ7xvQfc
No, they were yelling "lock her up" when Trump exposed the crimes of Hillary Clinton.
It means he'll continue to stir up the tinfoil hat wearing, John Birchers out there. And they'll wail. And talk show radio hosts will get rich egging them on. The rest of us will continue on with our lives.
I think it's time people came to terms with the fact that these aren't your father's Cubs. They have smart people in charge and talent on the field.
I'm indifferent on Cleveland vs Toronto, but I know I'll be pulling hard for one of them in the WS.
I highly doubt that, they look like the real deal.
You (actually, everyone) might want to read this piece from The Atlantic. They have endorsed a candidate for President for only the third time in their 150-year history.
Harumph!
QuotePolitiFact evaluated 32 statements made by Kaine and Pence last night during the VP debate. Of 19 Kaine statements checked by PolitiFact, 15 were True or Mostly True (79%); Four of Pence's 13 statements were True or Mostly True (31%)Link
At the risk of breaking an impressive streak and actually defending Trump; he does say "big league". It's just that his speech patterns are odd, to say the least, such that it sounds like "bigly".
The only poll I pay attention to is the Five Thirty Eight poll and right now it has her at 66 to 33. She is in fact pulling away, at least for the moment.
By the way, I don't think Trump's support always and necessarily equates to a hatred of Hillary. Obviously forty something percent of voters will vote for the Republican regardless of who he or she is. Some similar percentage of voters will support the Democrat. I don't think the polarization has anything to do in particular with either candidate.
All of the polling post debate that I've seen has her with a small lead now. Shocking to me coming out of the debate. She should be in double digits. The level of hate for her is strong in this country.
You don't understand, none of that matters. He said he is "going to lower taxes, big league. She is going to raise taxes, big league. End of story."
These are common people, salt of the earth. You know... morons.
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It doesn't take much to find out how horrible she is. But my point was people will vote against her because she's part of the establishment, i.e. a politician.
For all his talent, Springer is frustrating as fuck to watch hit sometimes.
To be fair, McCown and Bradford are only starters due to recent injuries.
Rockies PR @RockiesPR 27 minutes ago
Chad Qualls makes his 824th career appearance, tying Tug McGraw for 45th all-time in Major-League history.
McCown, Gabbert, Keenum, Bradford, Taylor... yeah, he's not bottom 5.
Heyman milks it some more...
"Astros people say GM Jeff Luhnow wasn’t serious when he was quoted in a story saying one of their big issues was no-trade clauses (i.e. Hamels, who used one to turn them down, and Jonathan Lucroy, who accepted their rival Rangers). Maybe so, but it certainly didn’t come off that way. Anyway, from here it shouldn’t be said at all. Trade vetoes are a negotiated right, and negotiations with hiccups such as the Brady Aiken and Ryan Vogelsong discussions don’t necessarily help if they want to seem player friendly (though Astros people say they are getting better in this regard)."
I hope the timing he gets back is more in line with early in the year Rasmus. Middle of the year Rasmus should not get playing time over Hernandez, IMO.
does to me. i'll trust Hinch's decision on how ready he is. the GZ hates Teoscar, and Colby will upgrade LF defense.
Let's say a pitcher, we'll call him "Roy", bounces a curveball wide of the plate with a runner on third.
Catcher A stabs at the ball with the glove hand, it bounces away, and the runner scores. This is properly scored a wild pitch.
Catcher B instead slides over and blocks the pitch with his chest, keeping it in front of him, and the runner holds.
The catcher may not "allow" the wild pitch, but the difference in defensive ability does cause a difference in whether a wild pitch occurs.
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I remember vividly a morning in March of 2010 when Brad Mills and Ed Wade stood in front of me and several others talking about what a great guy Brett Myers was. I think that was the last I ever heard of Brett Myers being a great guy.
Teo-Marisnick-Springer would be a pretty good outfield defense as well.
According to this tweet, it's Tucker landing on the DL.
Jake Kaplan @jakemkaplan 14s15 seconds ago
Preston Tucker to DL
Exactly....The guy just did not fit. The flipping of the bat on long outs. The over swinging in clutch situations. Misplaying fly balls on a regular basis.That was the reason behind my "poison" comment. Never could warm up to this guy being part of this team.
JimR...where does your love for this guy come from? Where did he perform as an Astro? As a clubhouse guy?
Speaking of ceiling projections... At what point do we start saying Altuve is better than Biggio?
Why when they have Chapman up for one day?
Get his shit together? They still haven't come to grips with who he actually is and what he represents.
(By way of contrast, Trump's support from registered Republicans is in the 60s, which is manifesting itself in certain solidly red states that are now in play for the Democrats this year).
Three, but all inside the Loop. Moving outside the Loop really isn't anything we've contemplated seriously. The only time we've been outside the Loop is when we lived in the Manhattan lofts on Post Oak / Hidalgo, so only juuuust a bit outside.
Exactly. The only argument I have heard is that voting third-party elects Hillary. I don't know of very many at all that are switching from the D side to vote for Johnson, but many R's are jumping ship.
Well that didn't take long.
After rebooting his campaign over the weekend - endorsing Ryan, McCain and Ayotte, and giving a speech where he laid outPaul Ryan'shis economic plan - Trump has since rolled out a membership gold card for campaign donors and, just today, called for the assassination of his opponent.
So, at what point does he get locked up for inciting insurrection?
He moves effortlessly from each easily debunked lie to the next so quickly that it's impossible for anyone to keep up. That one got run over by the rigged elections, which got run over by the Iran ransom, which got run over by Melania's immigration status, all of which were fighting for air with the ongoing feud with the Khan family.
Bizarrely, it actually works in his favour. Any one of the many, many controversies that have hit his campaign would likely scupper another candidate but, for Trump, there's safety in numbers. I have seen it likened to a nail: step on one and it hurts like fuck; lay down on 1,000 and you're completely fine.
You're assuming that he'd quit gracefully and go quietly into the good night. He won't. Quote the opposite, in fact. Quitting allows him to maintain his fantasy and to keep banging on about how the post-apocalyptic hellscape we currently inhabit will continue because Crooked Hillary and the lying media conspired to rig the elections to keep him out of the White House.
there was no letter from the NFL and the dates were set by an independent panel a year ago.
I just don't see him quitting. Crazy just keeps going. But, you would be right.
I've met a lot of Democrats who will vote for him.
I don't understand what that means.
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Arauz by any other name?
***BREAKING****
Baby has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
-Drudge Report
He does but I haven't learned how to spell it Ruben.
The Kratz fascination continues. Now landed on his third playoff contention club this year (Blue Jays). Though at the moment it's a minor league contract
"I'd like to announce my White House counsel, A Mop Bucket With Overwhelming Law School Debt."
Speaking of: Trump just asked Putin to hack into Hillary Clinton's email. Is this the shark-jumping moment? Or was he born jumping sharks and thus immune to the effect?
Sale has been suspended for 5 games (Saturday through Wednesday).
Welcome to the show, kid. You're playing the Yankees.
Incredible. This is my favorite baseball story of 2016.
"Oh, is that how it works? 'I object.' 'Overruled.' 'I strenuously object!' 'Oh, well then let me think about it!'"
I enjoy backstories, and this particular one might well be true, but it doesn't particularly add up to me. Is Houston really UH's turf, so much so that UH's feelings warrant soothing by politicians? Still seems more likely that this is just time honored politics: Fertitta gives money, expects favor and this is the favor. I'm still not sure whether it is serious favor or lip service.
For his last 28? 29? road games, he's hitting .500.
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In 2004, when he set the hit record, Ichiro had 136 hits through 94 games.
Through 94 games, Altuve had 131. And started today with another.
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It's a trick question.
That's the combined line for anyone playing DH for the Astros this year.
See why I keep saying we need another bat?
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So - just 2 questions:
2. Is an offensive line of .186/.274/.330 acceptable for any player?
i know it's impossible to speculate (but why would that stop anybody) but is that in line with other corporate espionage cases?
46 months is his sentence per a Mark Berman tweet.
Not sure about the rest of it, but I am pretty sure a US citizen can visit Canada without a passport.
Well, that certainly went completely over my head.
It's not skynet yet, I don't really see the difference between a human-controlled gun and a human-controlled robot.
Yeah, a bullet to the brain is much more sensitive.
As in, if the rights established under the Constitution are inalienable, how can we take them away from someone?
Or, if we can take away a felon's right to bear arms, why can't we do it for people on the terrorist watch list and/or no fly list?
Does that suitably poke the ant nest?
If they just blew some crook up, I'd question it but under the circumstances they ended it in the most prudent way possible.
Well that makes a bunch of sense now. Where I was coming from is I dont see Moran being the #1 option at 1st/3rd base option anytime soon, based on the current players the Astros have on the MLB/AAA roster.
Unreal
and that demented marionette Michael Gove - who completely blindsided Boris "Trump with his hair on backwards" Johnson by going back on his promise not to run for leadership of the Conservative party, and thereby PM, by immediately running for leadership of the Conservative Party, and thereby PM.
Here was the biggest test of the British government since the Iraq war*, and all sides have failed it miserably.
I hope you'll excuse the indulgence, but tonight's recap is a little different.
Game 84: A pretty good win
Speaking from the player's perspective, Todd Hollandsworth was all in favor of doing something to reduce innings.
Playing devil's advocate, extra innings has negative impact on the quality of the product:
-Tired hitters flail away at pitches, making the game even longer
-Increased mileage on superstar players, especially at premium positions
-Game devolving into competition between the ends of the bench.
I have to imagine that once everyone sobers up they'll find a way simply to avoid invoking Article 50.
