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Mantis Toboggan, MD

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  1. This.

    Oh, you are the one who knows what you are talking about and you think it was a sound move to put your worst statistical hitter up, who hasn’t gotten a hit in more than a month, in the highest of leverage situations? I didn’t blame the loss on that one thing, but that doesn’t mean it is a sound move. Or anything approaching defensible.
  2. Diaz should have PH for Maldy in the 7th.  McCormick should have PH for Dubón in the 8th.  I agreed with Singleton pinch hitting for Pena; Pena has been worthless and big Jon is a patient lefty power bat going up  against a guy who walked him the previous night.  
     
    This was not Baker’s best night.

    I disagree about Diaz pinch hitting for Maldy because Diaz should have been playing all along. Singleton pinch hitting in that spot is one of the worst examples of managerial incompetence I can remember. It is a fireable offense imo. If Dusty simply played the best players this series is already over.
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  3. As part of the Israel counterattack, I hope Israel takes overt steps to destabilize the Iranian regime so that it can be toppled. Rid the world of the Islamic cancer strangling Iran, you will improve the region 100 fold. The Iranian people do not consider Israelis to be their enemy. Being pro-Palestine has the same taint as being a regime supporter in Iran.
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    Sounds like a piece of cake. Regime change in 4 letter countries starting with an I always goes swimmingly.
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  4. Looks like UC Santa Cruz is creeping up in my daughter's rankings.  Anyone have experience with that school? 
    I've been to Santa Cruz twice and I love that area, but from what I'm reading the student body is experiencing a bit of a housing crisis because there's not enough on-campus housing, and very little available off-campus housing that isn't priced beyond a student's means.
    I still think she likely winds up at UDub or Oregon, but still gathering as much information I can on the other candidates.  

    Good school, pretty area, hippy vibe. But Santa Cruz is a shithole of a city. Lots of homeless/hobos riding around on bicycles grimacing at you waiting to break into your car.
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  5. 2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Apologies for the sidebar.  But a man marrying into a family wealthier than his own can be really tough.  It can work.  But it can often end in disaster.  A woman marrying into a family wealthier than her own works out more frequently.

    Rich girls are often daddy's girls who do not want a step down in lifestyle.  And male ego makes it tough.

    Seen this happen many times.

     

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  6. Milroe throws a nice deep ball and his combo of speed, strength and athleticism are off the hook. Bama's coaches should be smart enough to design a package that plays to Milroe's strengths instead of making him do things (pocket passer for short and medium passes) he's absolutely not good at. 

    They need to move him to RB
  7. I was trained that minefields are laid to optimize the manpower needs of a defensive line.  Mines should be used to funnel enemy forces to locations that give you a geographic or firepower advantage.  You have to provide cover fire  all along the line to discourage and prevent sappers from removing the mines and making lanes through the minefield, like [mention=281]RDCanecutter[/mention] said, but it doesn't really take a lot of firepower to cover a minefield.  Then you can concentrate more of your forces in the rear to respond to serious problems within the minefields or, if the minefields are set up correctly, bring concentrated fire on the areas to which the mines channel enemy forces.  Done correctly you can force the enemy to come on in column so that they can only attack on a narrow front.  This will let you put more firepower on them than they can bring on you, and allow you to defeat them in detail.  Kind of like "crossing the T" in naval warfare.
    Infantry on the defense love mines.  Infantry on the attack despise them.
    ETA - And I just realized that I didn't answer your question.  You defeat a line like that by finding the weakest points in the minefields, concentrating suppressive fires there, usually a combination of infantry and artillery, and letting your sappers clear lanes through the mines through which you attack.  You are still attacking through funnels (the cleared lanes) but you are picking the location of the attack.  It's bloody, slow, and dangerous work, but that's the business.  Read about the Battle of El Alamein to get a good idea of mine warfare.

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    Similar tactics to Jon Taffer’s “butt funnel”
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  8. You’re not Isaac Newton and the vast majority of humanity, including most of us, just muddle through life trying to do our best. So the first step is to stop thinking you’re special. You’re mostly empty space, the part of you that is matter literally changes over time such that the “stuff” you were made of when you were born is all somewhere else now and has been changed for stuff that was previously in some bugs, some trees, some poop.
     
    So maybe you aren’t even you and any sort of miracle year was accomplished by a different set of atoms. 

    That motherfucker is NOT real
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  9. Certainly looked like that, but giving the benefit of the doubt maybe he was foolishly trying to head it wide?

    His head was aiming towards the middle of the goal. Swinging his head down like he was trying to bury it in the back of the net. Not trying to glance it wide. I’m not giving him any benefit of the doubt. He was either brain dead or point shaving.

  10. That Dallas guy 100% forgot what team he was playing for on the own goal. He was trying to head it into the net. I can’t say I’ve seen that happen before to a player above the age of 8

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