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Should close baseball games be decided on Style Points? But joking aside, I am opposed to actions that an umpire can not be expected to police fairly on the field (steroids, gambling leading to throwing of games), and perfectly fine with what goes on between the lines that the umpires can judge within the rules of the game. Play on!

Not only does Arizona's park tend to inflate offense numbers, but so does their AAA affiliate in Reno. I'd like to know Seattle's thinking in this. Maybe they have real questions about the SS Marte who they gave up. But Walker alone seems like a very high price for what they got in return: a SS likely to return to earth, a backup CF, and a likely good reliever.

In addition to the valid points you made, I'm also pretty sure the prize would now be worthless to Clinton even if she were to come away with it.

Competent fraud of this type won't likely allow unscrambling of the egg.

Indeed. A couple of writers at Nate Silver's site, where statistical chops are de rigueur, advise tempering the expectations. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/demographics-not-hacking-explain-the-election-results/

Perhaps something a little stronger than just a vibration, like an electric shock. http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm27/Boyd506/Forum%20Pictures/LeslieNielson.gif

The only positive "scouting" datum I can think of is that the Pawtucket Red Sox manager mentioned Walker and his power first, when asked to describe his team's upcoming opponent one day last season. But, in all likelihood, he just started in the outfield and went "around the horn" naming players. He next mentioned Buxton, who by that time was already up with the big team.

Free admission. Sales of $10 beers will skyrocket.

But if you don't have confirmation bias, and don't find it, doesn't that conf-... oh. http://inky.netsoc.ie/internets/iswydt/startrek.jpg

Earlier Trevor tweeted that he got fired. I wish I could put together as generous a statement after being fired.

Which was in response to something facetious I said. Of course confirmation bias is real. And all fallacies are easier to see in others.

I'm always on the lookout for it in myself, so of course I find it without much effort.

Look for confirmation bias and that is what you will find.

Assuming this is deadpan humor, I'm still going to spoil the joke through explanation, by directing (to here) those who still want to pursue this tangent but seem to have forgotten: http://twinsdaily.com/forum/13-questions-about-minncentric/ Discussion of moderator action/policy is always open, just not in baseball threads.

Dude, this is not a [insert your least favorite political website] blog, we deal with reality here. Justin Verlander is dating Kate Upton and is grateful.

The swap would have to involve players not on the other team's 40-man roster too, if the object is to free up a spot. That's the problem when a prospect gets older: his value drops if he's marginal because he has to count as one of 40 guys you can protect. Apparently* no other team except the Brewers had room to add a guy without giving one right back to the Twins - at least, no one we wanted. So there was no bargaining power for the Twins. * I'm giving the new brain trust credit for not making an "outright" (heh) blunder.

I believe we don't know that yet.

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I, personally, would leave off tea-party activist and Benghazi nut Mike Pompeo as CIA director too, but it's not up to me. Just put Hillary in jail and get it over with. I'm done with this country.

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That's how it looks on the surface only because the alt-right never trained their sights on Sanders, Warren, and the like. Indeed the progressive/socialist wing was seen by the alt-right as a useful tool to further weaken Clinton for the general election; she could not tack toward the middle after the convention, lest the Bernie bros rise up and smite her some more. So the attacks from the right on the progressive candidates (I include Hillary in this group for this purpose) were not symmetric or evenly distributed, but all trained upon one candidate. Had Bernie somehow shocked the world and upset Hillary for the nomination, the alt-right would have quickly found ways to chip away at Bernie's likeability. In the minds of middle America he's just as elitist as Hillary; he comes across as a rumpled college professor, which the far left loves and the vast middle detests. And this is apart from the main message the Trump side would have adopted, that the election was now a referendum on free enterprise versus socialism. The character assassination of Hillary Clinton was achieved over many years, so that by the end the idea of anyone even having a "private server" was somehow equivalent to treason. But the main concepts of doing so would have carried over just fine if a different candidate had emerged. As an aside, my recollection is that Trump rarely used the term "rigged" until Clinton had the nomination locked up. It was useful to let Sanders deliver the body blows for as long as possible. The most Trump ever had to say about Sanders was "crazy", in an amused tone. After a while, he started to add, "but he's right about one thing..."

If this means he's out of the running for Secretary of Leveraged Buyouts, it's a good move in my book.

Heat death of the knowable universe.

I knew some team would snap him up shortly after he was let go as manager.

I know an estate planning lawyer, in case you think he could help.