DaveW

Hicksie!

Butera with his best Darcy Keumper impression there.

No Molson?

Haha. I mean it happens all the time, the Rangers don't "owe" anyone anything but themselves, its not their fault teams need them to win.

LIke 95% of those seats are bought by companies our given to big advertisers. They may not be at the game at all, or may be smoozing in one of the many bars target field has.

Zobrist definitely had a beef, that thing was 6 inches outside.

Huh?

Solid beer. I'm going with good old Brooklyn Pennant Ale (Seems like the right fit currently)

The commish? No, if they want to rest a few guys it's 100% their right.

Blue Jays Mets Cubs Pirates Rangers all probably deserve it more than Molly TBH, he will get some votes though.

no

Keuchel is on the mound for the Stros tonight: Couple silver linings: Goldschmidt mashes everything in sight, but he mashes LHP even better, putting up a 1.091 OPS this year against them. Keuchel is lights out at home 15-0 1.46 ERA but on the road he and the stros have struggled 4-8 3.83 ERA

One out of 5 ain't bad!

Home Run Derby contest between Trout, Sano and Correa.

Tonights games: Texas is a -122 favorite Texas are a -126 favorite Houstin is a -177 favorite

Counterpoint:

Tragic, what also is tragic is how basically every other country close to them with the exception of Germany are treating the refugees like human garbage, often times spouting out nonsensical "What if they have ISIS with them!" fears to cover up their deplorable xenophobia. I think the US should bring in a significant amount of the refugees, it was our actions in Iraq that basically set up the current instability across the entire region and allowed ISIS to form. The John Oliver segment is a good watch if you haven't seen it yet.

Pelf since June 2nd (5.62 ERA, 1.65 WHIP) There are alot of guys who could have at least matched Pelfrey's numbers.....one of which is in the bullpen currently

Yeah, it's a pointless and futile effort. I will commiserate re: sending May to the pen though, and maintain if he was kept in instead of Pelfrey the Twins would likely have already clinched. That decision will never sit right with me to be honest.

The Twins also should take this year as a lesson to not throw at Ramierez next year, especially if it is a close game. April games count just as much as Sept/Oct games, I would hate to see the Twins lose an April game because they let one of their starters get tossed (and suspended) for "fixing" this fued.

I was talking to a kiwi in our building last night, she was saying that the gun "control" in Australia has worked wonders, after reasearching them a bit, I don't see why we can't at least "try" something similar, will it end all mass shootings? Absolutely not, we are past the tipping point on that, but even if it prevents run, or cuts shooting deaths by even 10% it absolutely would be worth it, no? I mean, hell, try something? We waste so much money on military and a host of other stuff we overspend on, for once let's just try something! Nothing seems to ever change. Full disclosure: Gun violence/Gun Culture hits close to home for myself, a good friend from high school was killed senselessy trying to break up a fight at a party. Some random kid thought it would be cool to buy a gun from his church group friend and crash a "black tie" party my friend was hosting. Once he wasn't allowed in he started a heated arguement/fight and decided to shoot his gun in the air twice and then into the crowd of people outside. Two of the bullets hit my friend Jay and he bled out/died in the arms of several more of my friends. As Jay's father put it: "this wasn't done by a terroist, this wasn't done by a gang member, this wasn't done in a bad area of town" this was a "Christian" who was so enamored with gun culture he somehow thought that carrying a pistol to a party and then firing it senslessly was the "cool" thing to do. Needless to say this affected a lot of people in a lot of terrible ways, in addition to losing Jay, I have a couple friends who never fully recovered from the events of seeing him killed in front of their eyes, even close to a decade later some of these guys aren't the same and likely never will be. We can sit here and bicker all day about how to fix this big problem, the money it would cost etc, but when it happens to a friend, relative etc of you, it just gets infuriating more than anything else. This. Should. Not. Happen. In. America. http://victimsupportservices.org/memorial/jay-clements/ http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Student-shot-to-death-at-party-1213513.php

You know the answer to this question!

I dont think anyone state he absolutely woudl be effective out of the pen. The argument seemed to always be: He has a much better chance to be effective out of the pen instead of the rotation (mainly due to the face he was kind of a hard thrower who only had 1 or two pitches, and those types can transition to bullpens quite well at times)

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/10/02/umpqua-community-college-oregon-shooting-gunman-name-presser-sot-ctn.kptv/video/playlists/community-college-shooting/ Hard to argue with that.

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