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I'm still confused. It wasn't as if we passed on Correa, did we? If we had passed on him, yeah, then I'd be wondering 'If only' for a long time, but he was never ours to choose.

Okay, I'll give you those, except for the tobacco. If you had said a different substance I would have given you 5 for 5. As for the scented candle, go online, find the website for Thymes, Ltd., and order their Frazier fir scented candle. It's the best. Like having a fresh Christmas tree in the house!

Um, we do? Who has he brought back? And don't say Bartlet or Kubel because I'm not convinced that was his choice.

Okay, now you have to tell us five things that you like, that is around you right now. Go!

I like having long, painted fingernails, but it really hurts when you accidentally scratch yourself and remove a chunk of skin.

Um, how? Wasn't he selected before we picked?

Tomorrow it's supposed to rain, starting about noon through the night. Argh ... that is going to be one really horrible commute tomorrow.

Okay, actually, it's warmer here in Chicago right now than what it is in Ft. Myers, FL.

Lol ... my parents live there and I've visited then many times in the summer. It's really no worse than what we've been getting in Chicago all summer.

I just ate and doing fine. I had two pork belly sliders.

Wish it were here ... and that it would push out this heat and humidity ... and I'm a fan of heat.

Did we lose that game on Monday then?

Okay ... the game thread for the night game of the double -header begins here. Forget the first game. Okay, so, it happened, and a little rain won't erase it from the books or from our memories, but it's a new game. The sun may not have come out, but it's tomorrow. No carrying the baggage from earlier today into the next. This is the line and I've drawn it. It's onto the next. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Okay, so 6:10, game 2, if it happens and isn't erased due to weather. Lineups: ASTROS George Springer [R) CF Alex Bregman [R) 3B Jose Altuve [R) DH Carlos Correa [R) SS Marwin Gonzalez (S) 2B Evan Gattis [R) C Preston Tucker (L) RF Tyler White [R) 1B Tony Kemp (L) LF Chris Devenski [R) P TWINS Brian Dozier [R) 2B Joe Mauer (L) 1B Max Kepler (L) RF Miguel Sano [R) DH Trevor Plouffe [R) 3B Jorge Polanco (S) SS Eddie Rosario (L) CF Kurt Suzuki [R) C Danny Santana (S) LF Tommy Milone [R) P Forecast: Mostly what I said in the OP, except that the chance of rain is at 15% until 'round midnight. It begins to tell 'round midnight.

Yeah ... whatever happened to workman's comp?

My employer yelled at me so my count has slowed down, hence only at 13,451.

It wouldn't do us any good. Once five innings are in, it's set, nothing is erased.

Glad my tennis game lasted longer than anticipated. Not fun.

No. Do not concur.

Not due until later.

Weather really can screw things up. Last night we saw a couple innings of 5-0 baseball (against Keuchel no less) get washed away by the rain. Gone, completely. My At Bat app doesn't even have the box score of what was played. No going back to watch videos of the hits and errors that led us to five runs, no going back to see Santana get through two with only one hit relinquished. Just a big, bold, all-caps POSTPONED. Weather can be a good thing. Who doesn't like getting caught in the rain? (No, no NO ... do not start with the pina coladas.) But in this case it really mucked it up good and completely erased what was. The game this afternoon will go as planned with Berrios on the mound. No TV for you locals, but I'll be able to watch Houston's feed here in Chicago. But this evening's game, well, it will be Milone starting instead of Santana and it looks to be televised for y'all. It is what it is ... you can blame it on the weather. Game 2 thread begins here. In keeping with Brian's format, the five things themed thread, I'm going with weather ... what else? It's a Midwesterners favorite thing to talk about. So here are some past weather events in Minnesota's past. 1. Flood of 1965 - I barely remember this event. Actually, I don't think I do. What I remember is the pictures in the family photo album and Mom and Dad saying what was. We were shipped off to our grandparents in Duluth. Don't remember if Mom stayed with us or left us there, but Dad stayed home in Winona to help with volunteer duties ... you know ... filling sandbags, walking the dike, things like that. I think I had the mumps, too. Ah, well ... that's how it goes with the recollections of a 2-almost 3-yr old. 2. The Halloween Blizzard of 1991 - This one I do remember. I was living in Minneapolis in a duplex on Kenwood Parkway just down from the Blake School. I remember walking to work that morning. My route was through the Sculpture Garden, across the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (yes, that's the name of that bridge, I had to look it up) to Loring Park, through the park, the Greenway and to Orchestra Hall. There was a pretty good path in the snow to follow through the park so I made it just fine. It took a bit longer, but made it just fine. We were supposed to have a concert that morning at 11 but it was, of course, cancelled. By noon, it was announced ... go home, go home now. So I bundled all up and started my walk back the way I came. I got to Loring Park and in just two short hours, there was no more path in the snow. It had been completely erased. (Like last night's game. Thank you, weather.) The wind was up, the snow was falling thicker and faster, and the snow was deeper, much deeper, in just two hours. That ended up not being a walk through the park through the snow, but one, long, difficult trudge by trudge step. I can see how people get lost in a white out, get exhausted trying to get somewhere, and die in a blizzard. Thankfully there were no headlines about me losing my way in Loring Park. 3. 1965 Fridley tornadoes - Not in my own words because I didn't experience this: "On May 5th and 6th 1965, a violent outbreak of at least 12 tornadoes roared through Minnesota. Six twisters touched down in or close to the metro area. Particularly hard hit was Fridley, with two of the tornadoes crossing the city. In all, 14 people died due to the storms. The event has been called the greatest weather disaster in Twin Cities history." Well, maybe at the time it was the greatest disaster ... was there worse than that? 4. The Dust Bowl of the 1930's - Chief could probably give you a first-hand account of this, but this wasn't just a Minnesota thing. It was a weather disaster nation-wide. Drought and heat led to turning lush prairie farmland into, well, dust. And when the winds kicked up, it was massive. It displaced 10s of thousands of families and was an ecological disaster. Yes, there is more to it than just that ... but now that I'm down to point four, I want to finish this thread. 5. More rain in the forecast for tonight. While I talked about seeing Milone pitch tonight, that game could also go the way of last night's game. So, maybe after two innings, the game will get delayed and eventually postponed and the Astros will see their 5-0 lead wiped off the face of the Earth. That would be a time when weather disaster isn't so bad. It is what it is ... they can blame it on the weather. Lineups for 12:10pm game: ASTROS Springer RF Bregman 3B Altuve 2B Correa SS Gonzalez 1B Tucker LF Reed DH Marisnick CF Castro C Fister P TWINS Brian Dozier 2B Joe Mauer DH Max Kepler RF Kennys Vargas 1B Eddie Rosario CF Jorge Polanco 3B Eduardo Escobar SS Juan Centeno C Robbie Grossman LF Berrios P Lineups for the 6:10pm game will be posted in-thread when they are available and linked here. Forecast for 12:10pm game: 77 deg F, 81% humidity, partly cloudy, 3% chance of rain (at the start of the game), winds from the SSW at 4mph. Forecast for 6:10pm game: 84 deg F, but will feel like 90 (similar to what it was an hour ago in Chicago), mostly cloudy with a 41% chance of rain/thunderstorms, winds from the SSW at 7mph.

This is why term limits are a good thing in cases like this, not to change the subject. But I think McCain wants to keep his job more than remember why he ran in the first place.

And no DanSan!

Okay ... but let's not turn this thread into that. We all have our beliefs and opinions and we aren't always in agreement on that, and that's okay; and we needn't label those who think this or that because it doesn't fall into our line of thinking, so let's just stick to Tebow and baseball without interjecting/debating the other.

Concur (because, well, we all wish we were Chief) and indeed (because that's usually my one-word 'go to')

I'm not sure why the sigh, but my reaction is basically ... 'So?' Give it a shot. If it doesn't work out (which I suspect it won't, but whatever), at least he can say he tried.