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  1. PseudoSABR
    The Orioles welcome walkway looks like a slip'n'side
  2. PseudoSABR
    Is this real? Perhaps it's the Dozier effect...
  3. PseudoSABR
    TD's Parker with some rationale about why LaMarre may have had better results this spring, and hopefully in the future. https://twitter.com/ParkerHageman/status/978792578215706626 I'm glad to see production, and not just pedigree, is rewarded with a roster spot. His exposure will be limited, and he may only last a short while, but he did earn his spot.
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    We understand, Brock. Thanks for keeping us appraised about what's possible/practical. Good luck with the work, and while it should go unsaid, great job on the site!
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    I'd also echo the "under review" approach. Editing feels like an invasion of personal privacy. It happened to me in TD's nascent days. I can also say deletion doesn't feel a whole lot better. Rather than editing or deleting. Perhaps blacking out TOS violating language, which would be subject to change upon review, would be less offensive, as it would indicate there was something there, and would also perhaps encourage the poster to delete it. A PM is certainly in order on an action taken. All that said, I'd rather see the mods attempting to remedy the situation than handing out warning points. Typically they do a bang up job, but they are people, and perhaps occasionally throw out the baby with the bath water.
  6. PseudoSABR
    Maybe he can be our own David Ortiz!
  7. PseudoSABR
    I imagine we'll try to sneak through waivers again at some point, so he can play in the minors? Unless there considering him for a bench role.
  8. PseudoSABR
    But often there is no other evidence, and in many cases the victim's testimony carries the day. But without corroborating evidence, the case can be hard to prove, which is why many sexual-assaults go unprosecuted.
  9. PseudoSABR
    The jury would still have to believe them (obviously, they aren't required to accept the testimony as true) but no additional evidence is necessary for a conviction. Many, many child-sexual-assault convictions are based on nothing more than testimony from the victim.
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    Again her testimony would be sufficient evidence in any court of law. I stand by that they could not find any corroborating evidence. I imagine in the other case, MLB was able to talk to witnesses. While there are great many protections for defendants, again the evidentiary and sufficiency standards are often much lower than you would anticipate. Private organizations make their own rules regarding what kind of evidence is sufficient; while they may not need prove beyond a reasonable doubt (probably just by preponderance, more likely than not), they per rule require direct or corroborating evidence (I'm speculating, but I think, generally, it's a sound policy, except it doesn't work well for sexual assault). Reasonable suspicion is the standard for the police to be able pull your car over or search you for their own safety. It doesn't apply to standards of proof or sufficiency of evidence.
  11. PseudoSABR
    That creates a false equivalency. False accusations and sexual assault do not occur at the same rates. Accusation can eventually become testimony, which is enough to sustain a conviction.
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    I'd just like to add: that in a court of law (this may vary from state to state), there need not be any corroborating evidence, nor any direct evidence. Testimony is enough, of course, it must be enough to overcome the jury's reasonable doubts. But often testimony is the only evidence. The MLB may require a higher sufficiency standard than a court of a law because they aren't using a jury/due-process to make decisions. So even if MLB believed her version, without corroboration or direct evidence, I imagine their hands were tied.
  13. PseudoSABR
    The Indian Child Welfare Act gives tribes the first opportunity to find foster placement for dependent children; I'm sure you just reached the wrong the person who doesn't realize that their tribe was given an opportunity to foster that child. And to be fair, our race has earned a bit of mistrust. Sorry that you're bearing the brunt of it, in act of solidarity no less.
  14. PseudoSABR
    Uncorrectable as matter of physics? Or uncorrectable as a matter of American political will? If the former, sure, it's conceivably correctable. If the latter, Oi. The sin, in my mind (or rather in my mind at this moment), is the reverence we (continue to) give to the concept of the economy as wealth production (as opposed to service production), and thereby the sway we give to wealth-holders. Even, if we cared to take on the task of reparations, what does it look like, how does it begin? Cutting a check would wash our hands of it, and hardly solve the problem. (i.e. an augmented welfare, that wouldn't build sustainable much less inheritable/pass-onable skills). There's real geographic and community boundaries. We may not be able to terraform the reservation or gentrify urban centers; and more, we cannot better-shape how such people may see themselves, and buy-in to the supposed limits of their successes. An exceedingly difficult problem. It's shame we don't have academic programs devoted to it, instead of whatever drivel they've been hanging tenure on. (Forgive me, it's late, and I have opinions.)
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    I think the distinction is not so much a matter of type or kind, but one of scale. Nearly all of the African Americans and Native Americans living today descended from those atrocities. I'm not sure the same is true of Asian Americans living today.
  16. PseudoSABR
    So is it to you that we bring complaints about the spacing after sentences? I jest; congrats, and good luck!
  17. PseudoSABR
    Yes, that's what it means.
  18. PseudoSABR
    It's Eddie G. who's doing the mentioning, and basing the comparison on attitude not ability (or likelihood of success), Eddie even tries to qualify it. That doesn't seem preposterous, it seems genuine, from someone who has worked with them both.
  19. PseudoSABR
    So deplorable, and cowardly. I hope McCabe crowdfounds his retirement and exceeds whatever pension he would have gotten. The more likely outcome is a lawsuit, which will reveal details Trump and Sessions don't want given any illumination. This is the American equivalent to Russian assassination.
  20. PseudoSABR
    That interesting, in that we're not the only team to see Cave as roster spot worthy, even before his swing adjustment, on which so much depends. (As you seem to point up thread, it's the three options that add necessary patience to determine whatever value Cave has.)
  21. PseudoSABR
    Cave lands on MLB Pipelines Top 30 list at number 26, one spot ahead of Granite.
  22. PseudoSABR

    Dogs

    PseudoSABR replied to Vanimal46's topic in The Sports Bar

    There's a certain ironic cruelty to allow him to play with his own instrument of punishment.
  23. PseudoSABR
    Between Lynn and Morrison this team will be a hoot.
  24. PseudoSABR
    What is this starting pitching? Who are they? Depth? Do not believe.
  25. PseudoSABR
    I think there is some conflation between moderation and reasonableness in this discussion. I think we all have our beliefs/affinities for how we lean politically, but the great majority here are reasonable so that puts each of us somewhere in the middle (or somewhat on the left), given the stubborn, unforgiving allegiance that's become the right. I've always been on the left in terms of my beliefs, but I've never been Machiavellian or, I hope, otherwise unreasonable, and I've always understood the need to have a conservative-minded (and reasonable) person as part of any policy discussion. Although I do agree there is much harm in polarization and tribalism surrounding politics, I do think there's something of false equivalency in terms of which belief-system has a larger share of that guilt-pie. Moderation is great in some cases, but it's also harmful in others in that it can grant the side which buttresses itself with half-truth and conspiracy theory an air of legitimacy. (That's kind why Fox News went with "fair and balanced" tag line for so long.)
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