nctransplant said:

True dat! Remember all the wars going on when Trump was Prez?

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let's go ahead and start pointing out that Trump is not responsible for the wars already going on when he takes office. Because sure as shit, at some point the demlibs will be saying 'look at the statistics. Look at all the wars going on while Trump was in office'.

Sounds like the major problem we may have this year is a cussing deficit.

Kidding aside, what's the story with Claude? In the Blue-White game, when he wasn't fouling he was rebounding and putting it back with some authority. I thought he looked promising.

joeydavid said:

tHE gOp ASkEd foR THe cOMbINEd biLL.

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that was mostly unwatchable, the idiot talking over Bolton was ridiculous...almost as stupid and ridiculous as Bolton saying that Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco was 'Trump's deal'. Take them both out and shoot them in the back of the head and never show such crap here again...

dadika13 said:

So it's actually been pretty black and white and I haven't even ever really seen a team have to be penalized for not following it. Everyone kinda knows now that your guys have to be in certain spots pre pitch and they adhere to it.

To me, it's made a hit a hit again. I remember a few years back that someone could smoke a shot into the hole and off that bat you think it's a good base hit but you forget that the other team has 7 guys on that side of the field so it's an out.

I hate the possibility of that. I still think you need refs, umpires, line judges, etc in sports. It still needs to be a human being calling balls and strikes.

And does the computer adjust for player height or is it just one strike zone for everyone? Does Aaron Judge's low pitch get called the same as Jose Altuve's low pitch? Is Judge's strike zone larger because his body is larger from knee to chest?

I hate this idea but I'm sure it's happening.

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I won't argue much because it just boils down to what appeals to you. But play in the field is just as much baseball as getting a hit is, and dictating how you can play is tinkering with the essence of the game. I do like the clock, it eliminates a lot of the drudgery while not really changing the game itself. But when I think of the new shift rule, I wonder if at some point they dictate that right-handed hitters only have to face right-handed pitchers, and vice versa. I know that's ridiculous, but it's what I think of when they tinker like that.

So far as the judgement call thing, I picture an ump having to judge whether the fielder moved out of position before the ball was in play, or if he was entirely IN position to begin with, kind of thing. Having umps is part of the charm of BB and I wouldn't want to see that screwed with too much, but I know there is a lot of discrepancy in the way balls and strikes are called, and a single wrong called ball can decide a game. It wouldn't surprise me to see some sort of challenge process instituted, backed up by electronic replay.

One more thing. I bitch and whine all the time that refs in other sports should be physically trained to make calls, the way that umpires are. Other than the balls and strikes thing, they ain't wrong very much.

Heels Noir said:

Eric Bolling is a hack, not to mention a creepy pervert as well. I'm not a big fan of John Bolton but he schooled the host in that episode.

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No, no, no. Like every member of trump's administration, Bolton is lying. They are all deep state RINO's out to get our orange lord and savior.

In 3, 2, 1...

John Bolton is the neighbor with the perfect yard that glares at you when you drive by more than 15mph

dadika13 said:

So teams used to move the shortstop all the way over to the 2nd base side of the diamond and basically have 3 infielders for a lefty pull hitter. They did the same for righties on the shortstop side but not as often. So what happened was there was no longer a hole on the pull side, if you grounded anywhere on that side it was an out.

Now, the shortstop cannot be on the other side of 2nd base before the ball is in play...same with the 2nd baseman to the shortstop side. It actually allows hard hit balls in the holes to be hits, as they should be.

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I know this improves play in a certain way but it also takes away from the game in a certain way. Plus if I am imagining it right, it will lead to some questionable judgement calls which isn't a good thing. JMO.

But that being said, I'm no BB fan, although once I start watching a game (almost never) I enjoy it. One thing that is interesting to me is the possibility of balls and strikes being called electronically. Is that ever considered? And what do you think of that?

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heelmanwilm said:

For real, I’ve come to the conclusion that if I drop something or see something on the ground, it has to be worth around $3 to make it worthwhile to pick up. Pens, lighters, dollar bills….fuk it. Ain’t worth it.

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I'm LMAO, and I'm sure you understand why.

heelmanwilm said:

I’m not familiar with it but in my experience whenever you delve into these supplements and so on you realize that it’s all just a wannabee substitute for eating properly. *You gotta look at what hundreds of thousands of years of evolution have made our brains and bodies dependent upon. *Not being judgmental, I ate a Cajun filet biscuit for breakfast and will drink too much alcohol this evening.

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*this is why I often synch with you in spite of some glaring differences of opinion. You hit the nail squarely on the head here, and it's really just common sense.

*We have to consider our mental well-being as well as our physical health. This seems like a healthy balance to me.

As for collagen, the collagen broken down in the slow and low heat of BBQ (or braising or any other method of breaking it down), especially if supplemented and catalyzed by the addition of apple cider vinegar, is the key to a long and happy life. Serious. Collagen and vinegar is good for you. In supplement form, maybe not. Who knows.

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bluetoe said:

just wait...

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For real, I’ve come to the conclusion that if I drop something or see something on the ground, it has to be worth around $3 to make it worthwhile to pick up. Pens, lighters, dollar bills….fuk it. Ain’t worth it.

blazers said:

I'm getting more and more achy and creaky.

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just wait...

dadika13 said:

Once he figures it out - and I'd bet it's sooner rather than later, he's going to average 15ppg in his sleep. He reminds me a lot of Joe Forte, can just score from any level and has so many ways to beat you. Until then, yeah, it's gonna be ugly at times.

He won't, but I hope we get him for 2 seasons. He can replace the scoring we lose from RJ.

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I would dearly love to see us with a clone of Forte.

pooponduke said:

This "borders" on pure comedy gold. Your referenced tweet goes back to that same SOP of confusing things. It says that Trump was "asking Congress to pass the same border bill he now opposes". So, the only thing that can be concluded from that claim is you are now asserting that Trump is better than Nostradamus.

Think about it for a second.

If it was the same border bill that Trump asked for, that means he asked for a bill that provided funding, literally, over 2/3's of which was for billions and billions and billions of dollars for two separate wars that were going to start in the NEXT administration. Trump was predicting both the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. Damn, that's good. Glad you've come to the light, but that's more ability than any of us would ever have given the guy.

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pooponduke said:

As per SOP, you've taken something and intentionally confused it with another. No one has any problem whatsoever with the migrant worker program where non-citizens come here to work in relatively low paying, labor intensive jobs such as agriculture harvest. There have been many calls to expand and streamline that process. The issue are criminals who illegally enter our country, some caught and released after using appropriate buzz words and phrases, and many, many others never accounted for.

Whatever the sob story and the shitty conditions of their home life, it doesn't change the facts that there is a legal way to immigrate and there are illegal ways. We have immigration problems and there needs to be many changes in things, but don't piss on our legs and claim it's raining. No one is talking about removing "migrant workers". Oh, and you may also not know this little detail: the way a migrant worker program works is people come, they do a job, and they go home. They don't sneak in and stay.

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Again.



You have a candidate who is running on throwing legal migrants out of this country. If you remove illegal workers only, it will still cause a financial disaster.

Heels Noir said:

Except in this version of the Bible it's rewritten (with a Sharpie, of course) to depict a world in flames while Trump and his lover boy Putin are exchanging bodily fluids in a bunker somewhere in Siberia.

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True dat! Remember all the wars going on when Trump was Prez?

Then of course there’s this Pearl of wisdom

“A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as a constant drip, stopping her complaining is like stopping the wind “

Proverbs something something

I will give the Bible credit where it’s due. The descriptions in revelations of Armageddon are uncanny in its resemblance to a modern day ground war , an asteroid strike, and a nuclear war. For someone 2000 yrs ago to make these descriptions is pretty fuking impressive.

dadika13 said:

I've watched more baseball in the last 2 years than the previous like 10 because of the pitch clock and making the shifts illegal. Those two rule changes have made the game so much better than it was in the 2010's when it was 4 hour games with pull hitters grounding into short right field for an out because the team had 7 guys on the right side.

And obviously watching this year for my Yankees. Ohtani is ridiculous though. 50/50 and a top 10 pitcher? Just absurd.

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What shifts are illegal? Like shifting for a left handed hitter? I didn’t know that. Evidently I don’t keep up very well. Lol