Hosken Bombo Disco

Joe’s never been to Wisconsin? Come on, it’s like Czechoslovakia.

Agrees

With a 7-0 lead, this plea for insurance runs felt more tongue in cheek than serious.

Can never have too many runs.

I was just about to say I was impressed with Harper this year. (Still am, but, timing...)

Are those aftershocks? Are you feeling them in LA?

dammit spoke too soon

I declare this a safe lead

The Twins also have the most road wins, adding some “bottom of 9th” innings they wouldn’t otherwise have.

He has a different style, for sure. But I think we can give him a lot of credit for where the team is, heading into the All Star break.

You may be right. My impression is of Molitor in years past calling for bunt after bunt, and no one on the team able to lay down an effective bunt. Maybe Buxton is a good bunter when it’s his own idea, and not when there’s a play call and it’s not his idea.

Maybe it’s time to switch to a lighter topic, like child prisons.

A group of white men, self-described racists, beat up a black man, in the presence of police, and after some time to think about it, the police arrested the black man.

No, but there is a rule that allows the team to leave him off the playoff roster.

On the suicide squeeze —as someone in the game thread commented, it was a nice throwback to 1900s baseball Personally I did not like the call there, especially because Buxton has shown over and over he is bad at bunting. Know your personnel. Edit: As Chief said, yeah the runner on third was running with the pitch. I’m surprised the team even has signs for bunting at all, let alone the squeeze play. I also have to ask, in the 10th, I thought the camera showed Baldelli signaling for an intentional walk to Canha. I didn’t have audio at that point so don’t know what broadcasters were saying. But the screen graphics were even updated to show bases loaded. But then Canha batted with runners on first and third. Is this something a manager can change his mind about, or what am I missing? And then Canha grounded into that tag play at the plate, which could have easily went the other way. Good to escape with a win last night. I think escape is the right word.

You are wrong. These individuals have been around just as long, but now that they have a name, they are being talked about. And now, ironically, people are complaining about them not being talked about.

Three times better than Palka’s .027, in the previous series!

It’s not personal. These are difficult times. The Nazi thing is not difficult, however. There is nothing in today’s American Nazis that tell me they wish to be seen as different from Germany’s Nazis.

Revising my previous comment. In Charlotte, the black man who was beaten by white nationalists, was originally the one charged with assault. Yeah, you read that right. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deandre-harris-arrest-20171012-story.html Fortunately (or miraculously, take your pick) the victim was ultimately found not guilty, and a couple of the men who actually assaulted Harris were found guilty. (Not all who participated, mind you. But a couple of them.) I mean, originally, the guy who was beaten to a pulp was the one charged with the crime. Think about that. Stories like this cross the wire regularly if you are looking for them—and I don’t blame people for not looking for stories like this, but then when people are trying to tell you yes they exist, don’t try to play both sides, or “we need more facts”, because it feels like bad faith. (By the way I’m still waiting for the “need more facts” crowd to finally express their outrage about the Trayvon Martin murder.) On this particular story it took publicity on a national level to get the charges right. It took terrible, negative, national publicity for the PD to do the right thing. Think about it. Cops were standing around the perimeter while this one black individual was being beaten. The press, for their part, called the black man a “protester” which conjures a sort of emotion in readers, to cast doubt I guess, because everyone knows protesters are dirty violent hippies, or something. The Charlotte videos are out there if you wish to confirm. I’ve already linked to a news story on it. So to answer your specific question in the quoted post, the Charlotte police force. Thanks for linking that vid, by the way. It was good reporting, very well done, lots of stuff I assumed was confirmed, learned a couple things, and thought the segment was great overall (“respect the segment”—inside joke to you) until the end when CNN cut back to the studio commentary and tried to play the BothSides angle. I guess that’s a battle we media critics have lost forever. Both sides always, just because. I don’t mean any of this personally, because I agree with most of your baseball takes and that’s ultimately more important to me on this site. I’m just trying to digitally shake your shoulders here on this social issue and look you on the eyes, and tell you it exists. And with that I’ll bow out of the thread for now. Upside down world indeed.

No. I said as much in an earlier post you apparently didn’t read (hold anyone accountable for committing crimes for example, destroying property, crashing out those windows). It’s a little bit harder when we have two large groups of people with equal manpower telling each other they want to meet in a pre-arranged place to smash each others’ skulls. As we have now. I can’t really fault the police for not intervening. I really have no idea what there is to do. And for your part, I will mark you down as a relativist and neutral on the issue of World War II, since the Nazi party believed it was doing the right thing too, ya know.

According to the link Vanimal supplied me, Antifa is fighting against fascists and neo-nazis, and is a response to the violence coming from the right. Which all sounds right to me. So maybe you, Vanimal, or Mr Brooks can remind me of why that is a bad thing, or why Marshall and Eisenhower were wrong to fight against that 75 years ago. Thanks in advance. Again

Charlotte. Come on, man.

With due respect to Kirby & Van, I personally believe there is still a false equivalency. There have always been violent anarchists, just as there have always been violent nationalists, but the symmetry ends there, in my opinion. Antifa— show me their websites, their storefronts, their radio program advertisers, show me the police forces who stand back and let Antifa conduct their business undisturbed, and I will really reconsider. (I’ve changed my mind before.) I’m partly banging the same drum I always bang, but partly willing to be educated, too. I am not defending Antifa (whatever it is). Aside from some loosely organized groups for the purpose of propaganda or announcing events, I just don’t think there’s an organization there. It goes against the anarchist nature of these individuals. Yes I think they should be policed and charged for crimes. I think they are just sick individuals floating in and out, crossing the country, looking to cause trouble. No permanent addresses, willing to spend their nights in jails. Sorry, getting wordy. Here, have a wordy article (note—from 2017). https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/11/13/far-right-conspiracists-stir-hysteria-about-nonexistent-civil-war-plot-antifa

I’m kind of disappointed in that Snopes article, actually.... Kind of reads like an industry spokesperson wrote it. As if such a thing is utterly impossible... We’re not gonna lose Snopes, too, are we? /rant

oh, my