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  1. I’m following along on the ESPN ap-why did Arrighetti get pulled after 3 innings and 64 pitches?
  2. Interesting choice-we probably won’t find this out for years but I wonder who else they’ve talked to. I figured they’d first offer it to Jon Watts or maybe Lord and Miller.
  3. Jesus, what a horrible first third of a season. On the bright side, we don’t have Maldonado to kick around anymore. Blanco is outperforming his 90% best case outcome. Hitter’s regression has to come at some point. We’re getting a chance to see what Brown and Arighetti can do and whether we’ll need to commit to a total rebuild in ‘26. Onward…
  4. He’ll probably end up like Jimmer Fredette and be a good reminder that I don’t know shit about basketball, but the more I read about Sheppard the more I like the fit. We don’t really need him to be Mark Price or (yikes!) Curry (as I saw a statistical comparison made today on Clutchfans). If he can shoot threes at 38% and be average on defense guarding 1’s I think he’ll justify the pick in a weak draft. Anything more is gravy.
  5. I think it’s important to remember the medium in which those early short stories were published-they were all in skin mags, to break up the monotony of nude photos or otherwise provide a veneer of sophistication to someone who just finished some self-gratification. They are punchy, provocative, by turns gross and pulpy, and all of that is intentional. Aka, the scariest, most efficient story King has ever written.
  6. When you posted this Saturday I looked up his stats and I think that Bridges would be a good fit if he was a couple of years younger. As it is, he's going to be a free agent right as the team matures and he'll be 30, on the downside of his career and expensive. I'd rather draft Sheppard at 3, let Brooks hit FA when his contract is up, and keep my powder dry for someone more useful.
  7. Reviews are out from reputable, non-geek media like Variety and they are positive.
  8. LCHorn

    Gumbo

    Rookie move-when you transport it you first put the pot in a large garbage bag.
  9. Those NY Times voter interviews can get so ridiculous that they could be mistaken for The Onion.
  10. I don’t want to put the cart before the horse but I think that’s something post election that will suddenly become the crisis de jure. Not to go full Cloak Room, but I think the historical party of labor should be hammering this on the campaign to sever some of the populist energy on the right and it more naturally plays to their base. Maybe they are and I’ve just not been paying attention.
  11. I’m not entirely sure I’m following but I think you’re referring to ageism. That might be a part of it but we’re seeing the same thing across lots of differently aged peer groups. Mortgage lending historically is a good place for an older person to still be useful but I think this particular down cycle has been hard on them. Tech, particularly because there’s just been so many more layoffs there, probably contributes more to my perception of labor weakness. Again, all this is anecdotal, but I hear a lot of folks taking state jobs and they are happy to be employed but it’s a pay cut and not in their field of expertise.
  12. Personally I think the Larry Summers “inflation might be due to high rates” drumbeat will grow as we get closer to the end of the year. Also, purely anecdotal but between me in mortgage lending and wife in tech, we know ALOT of people laid off in the last 12-24 months, many of whom are having a terrible time finding something comparable. I’m getting really skeptical about using the unemployment rate as a predictive measure.
  13. I’m still trying to navigate my own feelings on the subject, but let me give you a rebuttal on this in two parts. First, Roe didn’t settle the issue-it might very well be that the white nationalist movement would have picked another issue where the Venn diagram on white supremacy and male superiority didn’t overlap so well, but the forces that would oppose them have had 50 years to legislate or otherwise create a compelling counter-narrative to the evangelicals powering most of the rhetoric repeated by GOP politicians. At some point progressives need to look in the mirror and admit we failed. Second, there’s clearly institutional flaws in the way that government is organized and in the basic character of the body politic. I’m not sure which is easier to cure, but most of our efforts have been on the latter (for example, liberals have presumed that increased levels of education, particularly among women, would have been a non-controversial policy to implement but it’s either the cause or correlative with a large drop in education for men and subsequent rightward shift among them). I’m not nearly so pessimistic as @Brisketexan, but we’re definitely approaching a “you’ve got to break it to fix it” stage because the federal government (and now state governments) are doing a bad job of actually passing or implementing popular programs and/or improvements. Bringing it back to your post, I don’t know how you reach low information citizens without making them FEEL consequences, and good leaders are going to need to rally that emotion towards passing legislation that actually protects women’s body autonomy.
  14. Wells just intimated that he may be getting the hint that Texas likes Armstrong and Townsend more.
  15. Tangent alert, but there’s various stories on the internet from the writers/producers recounting Seagal pitching a fit on set about his death scene. Bear in mind he was hired with the script in place and his character perishing in the first act, but on set he wanted it re-written to become the protagonist.
  16. I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but 4 years as an AD is a long time. A second term Biden administration could rightly look to get a fresh face here.
  17. The pork chop looks more interesting to me than the steak, although I’m sure they were both delicious.
  18. This--you've got to chip away at the support. There's going to be at least a few "hold your nose and vote for Trump" voters that are going to be a pushed away because voting for a convicted felon is just too much. If we're thinking margins will be slim in battleground states then every bit of help matters.
  19. I bet this is vindicating for DA Bragg--there was a lot of "legal scholars" publishing opinion pieces that the DA had a week case after it was filed.
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