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After he caught it, did he clutch it in both hands and yell "Tell me where the bomb is!!!"? Wait, never mind, I'm thinking of his bro Jack.

Maybe just bad at clicking?

We'll find out tomorrow. If the Twins get three good starts in a row, the answer will be 'not yet'. Seeing Odirizzi fan 11 against a decent lineup is the next best thing to a win.

Perez's block on that wild pitch deserves a co-Save if Mr. Hand gets one.

If nothing else, I like him as an option in relief the half-inning after the opposition plunks one of our guys. How you gonna get all huffy about Parkour hitting your guy when even NSA satellites don't know where his next pitch is headed?

Another option: 'Parkour', in deference to the gymnastics that Twins catchers are apparently going to be performing while chasing down those WP's.

At this point it doesn't even matter exactly where T.C. Bear is; if the answer is 'somewhere inside the stadium' then there's at least a chance that Parker will hit him/her.

Yup. One more reason to get one.

Am I disqualified from answering if I'm typing it on a Kaypro?

Watching on Fox and just saw that atonal, indescribably awful McDonalds fish sandwich commercial for the first time. What's the over-under on how many times it airs before triggering all of tv-watching America to re-enact the church scene from Kingsman?

I'm just going to go ahead and admit that I was hoping for a mound charge for a second there, but I'll settle for whatever version of "Catch me outside" Nelson was responding to Bauer with. And if I were Bauer, I'd buy Perez a steak for doing his best Jake "You showed a lotta heart shakin' it off like that" Taylor impression to steer Cruz toward first.

I'm not going to be too hard on the Twins for not warming up to Wes sooner. The Timberwolves passed on him after only two seasons.

The joys of framing!

Bauer has been a new pitcher since the 2017 ASB. He more or less ditched his ineffective cutter and then his sinker while adding a very mean slider. With his previous mix of pitches his K/9 sat in the 7-8 range, but with the new one he's sitting somewhere around 11. If his arm can withstand the slider, he's a perennial All-Star.

On NBC's "Today" Show, his attorney reconciled Smollett's account of his attackers' whiteness and the Nigerians' known involvement by helpfully suggesting that they could have been wearing whiteface under their masks. So... that pretty much cleared it all up for me.

You're just noticing his suspect judgement now?

With regard to your former point, relying on CNN to authenticate the veracity and sanity of CNN's coverage of politics is a poor choice. And if you venture outside of the anti-conservative CNN bubble, you'll find that even reliably left-leaning outlets and media figures have spent the last several days excoriating the supposedly non-partisan mainstream media for failing spectacularly to proportionately and accurately cover the issue of possible impeachment. With regard to your latter point, there is considerable anger offered up by leftist commentators toward DEMOCRATS for their MAKING obstruction of justice an afterthought, as the media's hyper-partisan coverage focused on Schiff and Co's repeated insistence that collusion leading to impeachment was the only story worth covering. Democrats have fed their rabid base the fantasy endgame of a Mueller report that would culminate in impeachment and Trump being dragged from the White House in leg irons, and 'mainstream' media have feasted off the demand for what often devolved into elaborate fan fiction of how it would play out.

Not seeing your intent with your first sentence. Honest, I tried. But the clip ewen posted has no apparent connection to Fox, so all I'm able to glean from your 'Fox = eyeroll' thing is that you'll be a proud flat-earther the moment Fox (or any other right of center media) declares the world to be round. Your second sentence is a bit more clear; I think you're saying that media coverage of the likelihood of impeachment prior to the release of the Mueller report was accurate, proportional to the publicly available evidence, and consistent in its volume of airtime with other important issues. In essence, you're saying (as badsmerf did) that the media (non-Fox, of course) got pre-Mueller Report impeachment coverage right. Rather than argue that point with you myself, I'm going to defer to a well-known political commentator's summary of mainstream (non-Fox) media's coverage of impeachment/Muellepalooza: "The whole [media] thing was a scam and a fraud from the beginning" and "This is the saddest media spectacle I've ever seen". That darn Glenn Greenwald, always trading in far-right hyperbole. Yeah. That's right. Glenn. Effenheimering. Greenwald. The far left Democracy Now! hosted Greenwald and the overmatched David Cay Johnston in a debate over the media's impeachment malfeasance that, had it been a boxing match, would have been stopped in the third round. RCP has the video and a complete transcript. If you don't know of his far-left politics, his voluble anti-Trump writings, and don't already know of his (and other leftists') absolutely scathing takedown of the irresponsible hyper-partisan BS cranked out by CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WAPO, and other 'mainstream' sources that you're so confident in, then with all due respect you're out of your depth in any conversation regarding the media's catastrophic failure to maintain objectivity regarding impeachment and the Mueller report. Democrats will probably pivot to their fallback talking points and bounce back from the embarrassment of the Mueller report, but the colossal systemic collapse of American news media leading up to its release will plague our country for years.

Sure sounds like it, at least based on what he said. That's one. A terrible one, but one. It looks like you're arguing that the majority of mass murderers are motivated by white supremacy, and I don't think that's true. And I'm interested in why you edited my post to exclude my question about approval. I take it you're admitting by that edit that there's at least one massive functional difference between radical Islamic terrorism and white supremacist hate crimes.

You're under the impression that scores of terrorist murders are committed in the name of being white and male? And that there is world-wide respect for its infamous perpetrators?

Yep. US carriers were sitting in an uncomfortable safe/not safe middle ground, with at least one of of them honoring flight attendant requests not to fly on them yet refusing refunds or non-Max rebookings to passengers. Sounds like it's probably not a flaw in the aircraft's structure, which is largely unchanged from other recent versions. That's the most lengthy and costly to fix, so chances are good that they'll be back in the air relatively soon.

Unfortunately for Westbrook, even before this incident he had made it hard to give him the benefit of the doubt. He blew up at a fan just trying to take his picture after a game vs the Jazz last season. Well, one answer would be to just leave the seats in a 30 foot radius around the players unsold, and let the owners, players, and fans share the burden of the lost revenue...

This is one of the more confusing things to me about where things stand today. There are a bunch of great schools out there and yet there are relatively few instances of a particular degree from a certain school making anyone a lock for a highly sought-after position. On top of that, social media and employment websites have leveled the playing field at least a bit (and in some cases dramatically) in terms of making connections and getting those first internships/interviews/etc. Given those factors it makes me wonder how many entrance chasers really have their heart set on what a certain school can teach them, and how many are just looking for the prestige and the bragging rights that go with being able to say "I/My kid got into _____"!

Like that time you said your friend's wagon wheel coffee table was nice? http://onthesetofnewyork.com/locations/whenharrymetsally/Whenharrymetsally39.jpg