TheLeviathan
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I don't know....did you get that sense when he was here? My sense was he was constantly praying to the Baseball Gods he'd never have to take the bat off his shoulder.
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A .600 OPS player for 4 months is not the kind of "inconsistent" I want. Not to mention how one month of brilliance in a sea of .600 OPS doesn't leave me wanting to plan on anything other than the .600 OPS going forward.
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I sometimes wonder how much of it is Hicks' eye and how much of it is that he just doesn't swing and pitchers do him a favor. There are probably some metrics that would verify or eliminate that theory, I just haven't looked them up.
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If he spends the rest of the year at 223/299/346 than I'd consider this early part of the season a fluke. His final line might end inflated by the flukey start, but 1 month of him being a fluke doesn't override 4 months of him reverting back to who he is. Maybe this whole season will be flukey awesome for him. Maybe he's turned a permanent corner. I just don't find those likely.
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I wouldn't go so far as to call him a budding star, but he's a budding factor in our future. And that is more than enough for me to give him as many ABs as possible.
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I wish these conservatives would be even more vocal holding other conservatives to account. I hate to throw them a compliment, but some of the alt-right idiots and Breitbart have been the few loud voices against some of what is happening. Now, they're mad because their warped viewpoint isn't as dominant as they'd hope, but at least they're consistent. I can deal with consistent stupidity, even respect it to a degree. Bu your average social conservative, Fox News watching conservative is largely silent. That needs to change. This isn't the usual partisan principle abandonment, this is on another level.
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Well, that's not what you said earlier. And while I'd agree the Mets could have handled it better, Harvey hasn't exactly made this process easy either. It's hard to have a good plan for how to respond to something like this when he's lying his way through the whole thing.
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I'm happy to see him doing better, I'm betting a lot of people deserve credit for that.
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You guys provide more than enough ammo though....
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Dave. He's pinning it on the Mets for not keeping it "in house".
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I would venture to bet the Mets would have been more willing to keep it in house if Harvey had been honest and this was the first time. Plus - it's New York - Matt Harvey getting drunk and not showing up was never going to avoid being public. I don't know why we're trying to let him off the hook here. He did a bunch of stupid stuff and put his employer in a terrible spot. That's pretty much the end of the story. And I'd still pick up the phone and ask the price tag.
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I thought his explanation about that blunder (Loretta Lynch's shady meeting with Bill) at least made sense. When you manage to irritate both sides this much, it leads me to believe you are either seriously good or incompetent at your job. And I don't think Comey was incompetent.
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Regardless of why it was unpopular - at the time of the last elections it was already unpopular. You stated that you wanted the Dems to stand up and campaign on something people adamantly disliked. I'm not sure why you believe that would have been successful. Now, you can argue they did a poor job selling it at the outset of the legislation, but we're long past that point at the election. Any time they talked about it was toxic to their election chances and anything they said that might have made good policy would only assist the Republicans. They had to hope to win while dodging the issue and put their fixes in later.
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50% of the America Public had a negative view of Obamacare. Every Dem that stood up and said "We should keep it, but" stopped being listened to long before they got to anything after the "but". It was a toxic subject to celebrate, even in passing. Venturing into the weeds of policy ideas in debates would only highlight support of a bill that, regardless of the merits of those feelings, was largely unpopular. Hell, "repeal and replace" largely worked precisely because it verified the anti-ACA that half the country wanted without discussing policy in any meaningful way.
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I think you're looking at this too rationally to explain how people lined up behind Trump,
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Right, but laying out policy might have allowed the GOP to look less foolish now. It probably wasn't in their best interest during the campaign. Plus, Obamacare wasn't a particularly strong issue to run on. The less most Dems talked about it the better off they were.
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Well, Claude Taylor also suggested Chaffetz was resigning three weeks ago. So, just a caution on all this. But I do think people like James Comey are the types we need more of, not less of in government.
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Honestly? I don't think they wanted to give the Republicans any ideas. I think they read the tea leaves that the Republicans had squat.
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I don't disagree and I fully admit I'm speculating, but I think the sands are shifting on this. I think people care less about who their doctor is and more about whether they can see one and not give up their life savings for it. Promise them much cheaper prescription drugs and nothing out of their pockets every month and you could swing a lot of those people. (Depends, largely, on how you sell it)
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I'd still pick up the phone about the idiot.
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Graham was far from stern on it in his response. That may pull the rug out of that assumption.
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I think many of his voters just want a fix. I wonder how many true "free market" health people there really are other than the powerful talking heads on the right.
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Yeah, I generally think these sorts of things are a bad idea, but I'm on board. Pay the man.
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They are doing a masterful job writing a prequel series. You know how all of this turns out, but it still feels like it's own story. Still, I can't imagine Saul being married to Kim in BB. I think her giving up on him ends up being the straw that breaks the camel's back. (In true tragic fashion)
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If the Democrats want to actually be brave, maybe they should embrace single payer. I honestly think if they have the courage to do that, it might not be initially beneficial to them, but in the long run could swing them a lot of permanent votes. If their honest attempts to help this bill are rebuffed, pivot that into single payer and sell the ever loving hell out of it. It's risky, but they're at the point where risks like this should be taken.
