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Brian Dennehy, 81. Dang.
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The Onion tweeted voters in Wisconsin received an "I voted" tombstone.
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Former half-footed NFL kicker (and one-time holder of the longest field goal ever made) Tom Dempsey passed away Saturday. He was 73.
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I am a huge fan of Home Free. Their version of this song helped me tremendously as my grandmother passed in January. As I've been headlong into covering the pandemic, I was stopped in my tracks when this song came on my Apple music the other day. I had to pull over and cry. It allowed me to remember her and to take my mind off the anxiety, burden, and fear I had let creep into my life. Instead, I was able to grieve in a healthy way. They released the video for the song today and did a very good job with it: https://youtu.be/a6_I_Kzb1HE
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Will The Player's union do SOMETHING for first responders?
biggentleben replied to ewen21's topic in Other Baseball
So far, from my estimation, individual players have donated over a million dollars toward first responders and over a half-million toward minor league players during the shut down. That's just the ones that I know of that have been made public or told to me. There are very likely others out there as well. Much like stay at home orders require personal responsibility, the union itself wouldn't be able to take money from the players, the players would choose to give that money, and many have. -
Understand my like of this post is a "like" in support of sympathy. That really sucks.
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Well, F COVID at this point. Wallace Roney?! You can't stay away from Wallace Roney? F this virus.
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My dogs have been a great source of comfort during all this. Well, more accurately, my pugs have been a great source. They'll cuddle up at night and just lay there. If I pet them, great. If I don't, it's cool, too. Our toy poodle is her typical attention-starved self. I do know it's been hard on my kiddos to get a read on Daddy coming home each day, and I am working hard to reset in the garage before I come upstairs, but sometimes, it's just hard to get everything out of mind and come into the home with a clean slate after a day of dealing with the local reporting on things with this disease...
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It's going to get worse before it gets better. The state legislature chose not to give the governor's office the power to shut down businesses in the state (something not set forth in the state's constitution and even questionable under emergency powers). The governor's office has been encouraging municipalities to do their own stay at home policies and ordinances, and many have put into place ordinances more strict than surrounding states' "lockdown" orders, yet the cities/counties that do not have that authority built into their charters asked for clarification from the legislature and were also denied the power to do so. Oy.
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Agreed. Poor wording. Please accept my apologies. Plenty of back and forth to sort through daily, and that was carelessly worded.
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South Dakota's Department of Health has been open since day 1 that the negative tests could not be accurate as private labs out of state were not consistent in releasing back negative tests run to the state. That's why I've really only started reporting the percentage of positive tests since the end of last week, when the two private labs in SD came online and there were not tests being sent out of state at that time.
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Boof's projection and Teng's projection at the time of trade I would rate as similar. Teng could absolutely become much more, and when I did a report on him last summer, I had an MLB comp that was much higher than a 4/5 guy. Berroa is a lottery ticket. Liriano was as well. You could make the argument at the time that Nathan would not have broken through the Giants bullpen and other such arguments made here, but Twins fans view that deal as highway robbery, especially in light of what the team received for giving up those players.
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No, I don't believe any of the three have success staying in Pittsburgh. There's a reason they were being viewed more negatively. Glasnow especially needed to get out of that system. I'm still far from sold that Baz will turn out.
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Here's what I find funny. Minnesota people are lecturing South Dakota folks because their governor issued a "lockdown". Meanwhile, Sioux Falls is the only major city in South Dakota (and its surrounding area) that hasn't issued some level of stay at home edict, and most have followed the model of Huron/Beadle County, which is actually MORE restrictive than Minnesota's as far as what is closed and shut down.
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The Twins very well may have made their reverse-Pierzynski deal last July with Sam Dyson, giving up an outfielder who could help the Giants this year, a very talented arm that projects in the middle or back of a rotation, and a lottery ticket arm in the low minors. Those are the type of prospects used to make these deals typically. Even with Greinke, you didn't see elite guys moving. It was primarily guys who were in the back half of the Astros top 10 (which wasn't a great top 10 at the time as it was) and not top 100 guys at that point. Yes, some of that was due to money involved, but the Diamondbacks ate a huge chunk of money JUST to get the guys they did. The Pirates get chastised for their Archer deal, and rightly so, but they really traded guys who were on a down slope as far as prospect rankings went, and the Rays turned all of those guys around to some degree. Guys like Lewis don't get moved for a pitcher. That's just something you don't do.
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Not true in every state. It's the 10th in SD.
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Joe Diffie passed on Sunday due to COVID-19 at 61 years old. While not everyone may be a fan of country music, Diffie had some great songs that spoke to the heartland in the 1990s.
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This is one of those interesting things that took a long time to get through the news cycle. I showed it to my sports editor on Monday from a release on LinkedIn from the company, but it wasn't in the news cycle until the end of the week. Still not sure they're the type of mask you want anyway. Many nurses are very, very wary of cloth masks for good reason. SD just had their first 20+ positive report day, now up to 90 positive cases, with an age group split almost even from 20-69 in each 10-year age block. "Good" news is that there are now 3,127 tests that have been processed negative and the state lab is caught up and processing immediately rather than having a triple-digit backlog. Also, 29 have recovered in the state.
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I still marveled at his ability but watching Nathan mix it up or especially seeing the contrast of Aroldis and Kimbrell on their fastballs to their breaking stuff was more fun for me to watch. He was a tough cut, but Fetters/Ligtenberg/Berenguer were guys that were "fun favorites" for me.
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He threw one pitch. I didn't have enjoyment of watching him pitch the way I did guys like Wagner, Nathan, etc. He's still very, very good, but that's not what this list is about - it's about who your favorites were, not who the best were.
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$$$
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I figured many would have interest in this. Hopefully, we have a draft in some variety this year, but in my contacts with the league office, the story has changed a bit each time on what is exactly going on, so I won't assume anything! Multiple writers from the Prospects Live team put together this mock. I handled the second Twins pick along with multiple other selections. Enjoy! https://www.prospectslive.com/mlb-draft/mlb-2020-mock-draft-2020
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You saw them live?
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Wow. Posts like this are why we no longer have political discussions allowed on this forum. Significantly agree to disagree here as I actually like people.
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Finished the write-ups...
