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  1. Just now, Helobious said:

    I’ve been to Disch once, weekday game against Cal in 2016 I believe. It looked like pre-2015 Minute Maid in there, maybe 300 folks in attendance. It probably swells to 1000 or so for a weekend conference series. Non-SEC baseball stadiums only fill up for the 5 or 6 postseason games (if you’re lucky enough to qualify/host). Hardly worth the cost of a massive expansion. 

    Sounds just like your Yankee fandom. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Well, I’d like to see America wriggle itself back from the ledge of this imminent apocalypse!

    *America wriggles itself back easily*

    Ah!  Well, nevertheless.

    HE ALREADY LOST AS AN INCUMBENT AND HIS PARTY LOST THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PLUS TWO STATES THAT HAVE BEEN REPUBLICAN FOR 50 YEARS!  STOP TRYING TO MAKE “FETCH” HAPPEN!

    He's not even 1/16th the man Grover Cleveland is either - the only one to lose and then win again.   Plus Cleveland is pretty much praised by historians for honesty, integrity, adherence to his morals and defying party boundaries, and effective leadership.

    Sounds like nothing like the fat narcissist. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If the Dems were competent, they could use it to drive up Dem voter turnout next year.

    It could also backfire - nothing fires up GOP voters like a SCOTUS vacancy (except maybe Hillary on the ballot).  Dems need this seat filled in 2021 so the Republicans can't use it for voter turnout in 2022. 

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  4. 49 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Like RBG, the Democrats will pretend we live in a decent world, and let Breyer retire on his own time, and will get gutted by Mitch. 

     

    That's kind of what retirement means, though.  Not like Biden can fire him from SCOTUS.  A very public bitchfest by Dems might just have the opposite effect on him.  

    Dems are probably having behind the scenes discussions with him about it, including Biden.  We are slowly approaching that time when they usually announce retirements (late June/early July).  The last conference day of this term is June 24. 

  5. Stanford has won it every year except the first year (UNC).

    Texas has three runner up finishes (01-02, 02-03 and 04-05) and a 3rd place finish (05-06).  Since COVID ruined it last year, our most recent finish was 4th in 2018-19.

    Our lost decade in MBB and FB (2010-present) has led to: NR, 6th, NR, 6th, 9th, 9th, 7th, 5th, 4th

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    my guess is they LOVED the former guy. at the very least his ineptitude allowed them to get away with all sorts of shady shit and at worst, he was complicit in their actions. my guess is they don't like the current because he's not helping them do crime

    Trump's BFF Putin said he can work with Biden and there won't be any impulse-based movements coming out of DC now.  The world is so happy about that. 

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    As for Biden, Putin said the current White House occupant "is radically different from Trump because President Biden is a career man. He has spent virtually his entire adulthood in politics."

    "That's a different kind of person, and it is my great hope that, yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements on behalf of the sitting U.S. president," he said.

     

  7. 25 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

     If Beyer retired, but Manchin screws the dems and doesn't support the replacement the seat may not get filled. 

    Is this just doom casting or is there a single thing anyone can point to that he would not support it?

    He seems to give deference to POTUS (so far) - he confirmed 2 of Trump's 3 (but not ACB because it he said it was way too fucking close to the election) and he was adamant the Senate should have done its job for Garland in 2016.  He was not in the Senate for either Sotomayor or Kagan's nominations. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:

     

    There was suspect outfield play in both the regionals and definitely the supers. I think part of the reason was some games with twilight start times where it is definitely harder to pick up the ball. Also, while it is not a major or even minor league ballpark, the Disch is most likely bigger than what SF plays in normally. Minor leaguers sometimes struggle finding the ball upon moving up to the "show" and finding the ball due to upper decks of stadiums, might have been a small factor here also.

    Yeah I saw some Arky players in the OF struggling to locate balls and have to leap or dive what seemed pretty routine.  Same with DBU. 

  9. 11 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

    Lotta folks in here needed a beer last night. Heaven forbid we have a home field advantage in any sport. 

     

    5 minutes ago, PatSolitanojr said:

    CDC was doing jello shots with them after the game last night so you better get used to it. 

    What was the point of these posts? 

    We aren't saying they should fuck off and never come back.

    But they should not do bushleague shit like the horn honking.  It's a little too "air raid siren" for me. 

  10. 15 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    We've got 11 senators over 75 years old and 15 more that are between the ages of 70 and 75. That's a full quarter of the senate born before the Korean War even ended. 24 house reps are over 75 and 52 house reps are between 70 and 75.  One SCOTUS justice is 82, one turns 73 in two weeks, and another just turned 71.

    The members of our government are entirely way too old.  Technology is changing the world at an increasingly rapid pace and these are people who were already near what should be retirement age by the time broadband came around. And it's an even bigger problem than it seems, because the oldest members are disproportionately Democrats. The "young guns" who we might expect to be able to understand the problems we face and enact policy to address them are mostly psychotic and idiotic culture war dipshits who only got into politics to grift Fox News viewers and don't have the slightest interest in responsible governance. 

    Meh.

    The average age of each Senate caucus is 63.  The average age of the House Dems is only 3 years higher than the Republicans (59 vs 56).   3 of the 4 oldest Senators are Republicans (Grassley, Shelby and Inhofe).  3 of the youngest House members are Dems (AOC, Jacobs, Torres).  The Dean of the House is an 87 year old Republican from Alaska who was born 26 years before Alaska was even a state. 

    Dem leadership averages 5 years older than GOP leadership - which is a bit skewed, since they just threw out a 54 year old lifelong conservative for a 36 year old moderate whose only qualification is that she has a newfound affinity for orange cock. 

    Both the Senate and House is full of old fuckers in both parties.  It's actually, for once, a "both sides" problem. 

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  11. 19 minutes ago, Fletch said:

    Has there been worse centerfield play that deep in the tournament….ever? Good fuck. Corner outfielders in Omaha? Yeah ok shit happens up there. But every fucking fly ball was “ohhhhhh ah fuck he somehow didn’t miss that despite doing everything wrong” 

    I feel like I saw a lot of routine OF plays across the supers turn into OFers making plays harder than they needed to be.  Not just the USF CF.  

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