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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I’d say things have been broken a long time, but more recently it’s been a special kind of broken. In the 1980s, the NCAA gave SMU the “death penalty” because the football team was paying the most talented poor kids to come play for them. More recently, schools like Penn State and Michigan State were harboring child molesters in their athletic departments that for decades the schools pretended not to know about. The NCAA punishment for those schools was, what was it again, exactly? So many people in so many of these institutions nowadays have no souls, no intelligence, or none of both. Not talking about the perpetrators; talking about the leaders. Universities, media, corporations, government, sports teams, you name it. People leading these institutions are certainly not where they are because of merit. It’s gotta be be something else. Privilege is as good an explanation as anything else.
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    Ok let’s back up, then. What to you is a REAL claim of racism?
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    So, reading the statement and just generally weighing the evidence, you believe the fan’s account?
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Did you read the statement released by the Jazz?
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Notice how the headline mentions only women.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Or somewhere in the middle, 78-84 or so
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    cojones, ahem... I see what you did there
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    You sure that wasn't a type of beverage you had nearby, and not catch percentage?
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Seth or anyone, what is your take on Garver to this point this spring behind the dish?
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    MLB would have benefitted from an impartial commissioner these past years. Vegas should not be a big stakeholder in this.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Agree completely. Also I’d say MLB is losing its way. Hopefully Baldelli at least posts the lineup in the clubhouse for the players somewhere if they choose to see it, before he sends it to the gambling syndicates
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    As far as I'm concerned, it's about 4 PM the next day, the prince never came back, and we're all getting on with our lives. Tough luck for those guys playing chicken with free agency, and losing. As for the Twins, if the Twins wanted either of them, they should have paid x price during the offseason, rather than hoping to get a less ready player for less the price at a much later date.
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    I dig the guy in the first video, by the way. He's not saying much different that I have been saying (except for the MAGA hat stuff, etc.).
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    Perhaps the poster is in fact a libertarian, but labeling him/her as such seems to me like an example of the inside-the-box thinking the poster is trying to persuade us out of.
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    Great post, SDT I come down on the side of the players, but on the other hand I'm really not interested in seeing veterans making mega-deal money in their decline years. The Pujols contract comes to mind. He doesn't even pretend to run anymore, barely jogging from base to base. Sure he earned it, but look at him now. It's not good for baseball. I don't know. The market may be self-correcting as we are seeing Keuchel and Kimbrel not being offered long deals? The idea I hadn't heard but really, really like, is the top draft pick going to the team that just misses the postseason. It would be really, tough to game that or tank for that that way. You could alternate the draft order something like: 1 - Final team eliminated for postseason 2 - worst record 3 - second-final team eliminated for postseason 4 - second worst record, 5 - third-final team eliminated for postseason, and so on, until the postseason teams draft. Really love that and wonder why it hasn't been mentioned much before.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    yep, sliders, sliders away, etc.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Checked swings. Sano has got to lead the league in check swings.
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    Great thread idea
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    may I push back a bit? To the extent that the Democrats are “my party” (not really but sorta but sortanotreally), I’d say there’s zero investment in seeing Omar be a rising star. Maybe among a small few, but I doubt among anyone with any real influence. Either way, can we start calling her IAO now? j/k She probably holds the seat as long as she wants it, but unlike Ellison, I don’t see any natural political post for her once she retires or is voted out. Oh and this just in—Omar is now criticizing Obama!
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    That's probably how I would come down on these. I can understand why people are resistant to the automated strike zone, but, if implemented well, there will be no change in how the game looks. The umpire would get the signal privately and it will simply look like he is calling a good game. And frankly, I wouldn't want it until that is doable. And I am honestly starting to doubt whether MLB is competent enough to implement it properly without screwing it up or making a scene of it. I guess an amateur league is a good place to try it out. Changing the distance from the rubber to the plate seems bizarre. Seems like it would add offense and action, but also continue to lengthen games.
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    I really can't disagree with this part of your comment, especially as it relates to the U.S. having been split into two sides from the beginning.
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    When I was a kid, on Sunday nights, before the Internet, my dad would always let me stay up for the 10 o'clock news so I could watch the Vikings highlights one more time (the highlights were usually just the touchdowns, of course, no other plays mattered). Anyway, the formula was the same, every Sunday night: News at 10 for about 18 minutes, weather for 5 or 6 minutes, then the sports, then the happy ending of the day. Over time it occurred to me that this was the formula every night, even on nights without football. I asked myself, why isn't there more time for highlights on Sunday? Is there really the same amount of news on every day of the week? Why do they need to stop right at 10:35 every night? But the bleache blonde was so beautiful (Henley), and the anchorman's hair was so perfect (Warren Zevon), that I never really cared what they were saying! Just kidding. I've been a media skeptic ever since. I probably never got a good answer to why the news must end right at 10:35, no matter how much or how little news there is on any given day. And now knowing a little more than I did then, even thought I "get" why, I still don't really understand why. At least the newspapers still run special sections when the baseball seasons starts, instead of trying to fit it all into the sports page.
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    Fascinating to watch this conversation evolve
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    Have you ever wondered if there’s a cause-effect with the US meddling in a foreign region, followed by a destabilizing of a region, followed by a migrant and refugee situation where the people of the region flee to the US for safety? Nope, me neither.
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    It’s by no means the end of the line for Sano. But that’s different from saying I expect little from him and I think we can win without him just fine (see other thread).
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