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Thats because there isn't 24 hours worth of news. They could give all of every day's news in 30 minutes. All the commentary is just filling up airtime. CNN needs to do more things like Bourdain's old show and less commentary. Also, you don't need up-to-the-second national and world covid data. You need breaking news on local outbreaks, closings, etc. The rest you can get in a single 30 minute daily newscast. Trudeau is keeping the Canada border closed. Do you really need to know about that as he says it? Or can you wait until 9 pm and learn about it?

I doubt he ever used the N word much. It isn't something racist rich Manhattanites really say. Its more commonly said by racist southerners or, to a lesser extent, racist working class Brooklynites. Trump always learned to talk about black people and poor people in code. Its natural to him. Direct slurs arent that natural to him. He has come close to using slurs against Asians and Latinos since he wasn't trained otherwise for them, but even with them he usually uses code instead. If he was really going to drop a direct slur, it will be an anti-gay one. It would have been "okay" through his entire upbringing and would have been commonly used in his social circles up until the mid 1990s.

Only just turned it on after the Astros and watched 2 plants ask questions in a row. Any real people in the audience?

Negative? Oh, my God. WHY! WHY! WHY? What? What? Negative is good? Oh, yes of course! How stupid of me. Thank you.

Sorry your 300 million dollar team couldn't get it done this year. Maybe if you spend another 100 million next year, you might win. And who doesn't like the Rays? They're a team. Home grown mostly. You hate the Astros but they're a team too. Also mostly home grown. Are the Yankees a team? Stanton has been there for two or three years, still not a Yankee. Cole has been there one year. Is he a Yankee? The farm matters. You can't just buy championships. Ask Jeter.

I'm on board with Greinke having earned the right to pull himself when he knows he is done. And I was on board last year and the ALDS too. Both stupid moves. If he thinks he can still pitch, he can still pitch.

You should really feel bad for Pence and how the gay agenda is already making him suck all those dicks against his will. If its banned, maybe he will stop hanging out in that truck stop bathroom.

Look. Correa was right. Altuve didn't use the trashcan to hit. He used it to field. Bang once, double play. Bang twice. Get one out at first. No bangs. Throw the ball away and let everyone advance. Still cheating though. He needs to hear the trashcan bangs in order to know where to throw.

They said rainbow flag, not an actual rainbow. Yes but they said rainbow flag on an ID. So we are halfway there. The Hawaiian ID has a rainbow on it. It's not even possible to put a flag on an ID. You would just have a rainbow rectangle missing one of the colors.

What does the Hawaiian flag have to do with the Hawaiian ID card Edit: mclovin rainbow ID Image link wouldn't work.

Agree. They dont target people they think will fight. The closest I've come is at an NJ gas station. At peak covid around here. There are attendants because you arent allowed to pump your own gas (crazy but true). The attendant, an older eastern European guy, has a mask, we have masks in the car to protect him, he takes the card, its paid for, all seems fine. Then he hands it back through my wife's window, pulls his mask down and says "breathe the fresh air." She rolls the window up on his hand. I get out of the car and start to go around the car, and the guy runs away into the station. My wife was screaming at me to just get back in the car, and I eventually did,, but I still wish I followed his ass inside. And really, that was just a mild Ken. I'd be in a melee with most of the Karens and Kens I see posted online.

We already do. In Hawaii.

That Pujols ball is still in orbit. I saw it fly by in footage of the ISS a couple weeks ago.

One thing about this that I've found off since the start is that libertarianism used to respect the personal space of others. Why are they getting within 6 feet of people that don't want them that close in the first place? Don't we all have our own libertarian personal space bubble around us? Cross it without permission and get met with a justified libertarian use of force. It should have been simple. I actually think we've gone a little too far in allowing nearly everything to be fair game before a physical altercation. If someone is verbally attacking you inches from your face, you should have the right to throw the first punch. Because these Karens and Kens will get right up in chest to chest fighting distance while screaming in someone's face, and think they have a right to do so without getting hit. And all this would be over if a few of them got knocked out.

Perhaps. But they also more than doubled according to your graph. But I did also fail to mention that America had its own forced lower class that wasn't truly able to make it past menial jobs. And very few, if any, of the descendants of that forced lower class believe that America was a great place to be in the 50s. The larger point being that it's easy to be middle class if you have a lower class, be it African Americans or outsourced low wage earners, that are unable to get up off the floor. All the 50s white guy needed to do was show up to work to succeed. He'd already be ahead of female coworkers that topped out at secretary and black coworkers that topped out at janitor.

This is true too and the worlds destruction also allowed us to position ourselves as the global "front office" so that other countries could be our "lower class" while we wouldn't have to worry about their welfare. After Europe and Japan were rebuilt, we later shifted that burden to countries like China. And we now pretend like we used to pay miners and seamstresses a living wage but we never did. So we didn't really care about outsourcing until it started to hit higher wage manufacturing jobs. And now of course, we have come close to the endgame on that model, and our middle class is being eaten alive because of it. But we still sell ourselves on the belief that 1950s America, exporter to the world who has to buy our stuff just because they do, is even possible today. The solution is European socialism, and not this ridiculous coupling of laissez faire economics with ethnonationalism. No amount of deportations is going to make Ford reopen a factory in some meth riddled dying town. But socialism can reopen that factory if that is what we really want to do. Also, I think we are center left and have been since the 70s. The EC and Senate cause the political center to be center right, but the people aren't. I also dont know that we are actually more polarized as an electorate. We have always been polarized. Cletus always hated big city lawyers, but he used to vote for people that would work with other people to govern. The big difference now is that the right has been electing polarized politicians. The left has only just started doing the same in response. The shitshow has only just begun.

What did the TV numbers look like this year? I think they underpriced mlb TV this year. I watched a lot more games than usual even when my favorite team was in a down year. Although I'm probably a bad example since I always watched a lot of baseball even when I wasn't stuck at home all summer.

Prior to WW2, we were middle of the road, but the road was pretty shitty worldwide. The rest of the western world may have moved left after WW2 because they lost a significant amount of men and women began to make up a significant portion of their voting bases. They also fought to overcome their prejudices that led them to WW2 with varying levels of success. We, on the other hand, are incapable of looking inward and understanding our own flaws, much less fixing them. So we are still run by the same white male oligarchy that always ran us, but really that oligarchy is only interested in their own selfish interests. The only thing that really saves us is an extremely selfish individualism that is uniquely American. Even American white supremacists care far more about looking out for number 1 than their shitty cause. Same with evangelicals. Because of that, we will likely be saved from neo-nazism or Gilead, but we will also be unable to protect the environment, slow pandemics, or even maintain basic safety standards for anything long term. We are a failed state, but we are a failed state that is difficult to rule. Trump is actually our perfect representative. He is overwhelmingly selfish and wants others to do his dirty work for him. All his followers are the same, but want him to do the dirty work. So you get some lone shooters, and some ragtag plots against governors from basement dwellers, but you don't get much real organization. Really, even our LEOs are rent seeking selfish individualists.

Sure. My point is that they are all power hitters now. They hit a lot of hard hit outs directly where the other team expects them to hit hard hit outs. They hit the warning track a lot too. We have been through almost 2 years of this "hard hit outs" thing now. At some point, we should figure out that it isn't just bad luck. The other team was exactly where they needed to be because their analytics team told them to stand there. So the Astros need to learn how to hit less predictably. The offense also wasn't "back" when the Astros outslugged the Twins. It hit 12 home runs. It was the same "hard hit" offense. Sometimes they hit it out. Go look at Ichiro's spray chart. He used the whole field. If he played now, there would never be a shift on for him. He would destroy it. To be fair to Altuve though, he does see fewer shifts than other Astros, but he still doesn't use the whole field as much as he used to. And he needs to quit swinging for the fences so much. Bregman too. We need more of Altuve hitting a single down the first base line, and less of Altuve popping out hard to the left field warning track. And the fact that they are capable of putting the bat on the ball better than most means they should be able to follow Ichiros footsteps if they want to.

Because people overvalue home runs. IMO, Altuve's decision to become a power hitter worked for a couple of years, but has become detrimental. He was a great contact hitter before 2016. In 2016, he managed to be good at both. Now he is a warning track hitter. He needs to go have a talk with Ichiro. But I think in 2019, and especially 2020, you saw that across the Astros lineup. Either they hit a HR or they dont score at all.

In 2019, the Astros were the most profitable team in baseball, and that was with one of the highest payrolls already. Who is really in the market to pay them at that level? It isnt like the other heavy spenders have cap room either, and even the Yankees don't like to go past the luxury tax level anymore. I guess Springer and Correa already won a title so they may be content with being the one great player on a non-playoff team like Trout. But even so, I dont think the Astros should get in that type of bidding war. Not that I don't want George to get a huge payday, but I think even the Angels realize that paying one guy so much money means that they won't be able to put a winning team around him. You could get three 10 million dollar players for 1 Trout and still have 3 million to toss around.

It has to be, no? Sucks it still counts against the cap, either way. Also, a lot of yall seem to think the Astros are the Marlins or Rays. The Astros had the 6th highest revenue in 2019. The Houston Metro area is no longer mid market either. They can maintain an expensive roster. The main difference between the Astros and LA/NY teams is that the Astros need to be above average to maintain revenue while the Mets can suck and still hang around the top 10 in revenue. The Rays couldn't sniff the top 10 even if they win the next 2 world series.

I think the odds are good. He might have considered a fire sale if none of the young pitchers worked out, but they did. So why would he throw away a team that can contend next year? When we already know he is a guy that isn't afraid to spend a shit ton of money on one extra piece of the puzzle.

Don't think either one. Rays play tense and with expectations tomorrow. The Astros play loose and win comfortably. Then in game 5, the Astros finally win a game like games 1 through 3. Rays close it out in game 6 in a similar game.

You Rangers fans are funny. I just hope the Astros sign Luhnow again when his ban is over before yall snatch him up.