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    Grant Napear is another
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    None of this looks like a "riot." I guess a few people walked on a car. Crowd and riot don't mean the same thing.
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    Did you quote the wrong comment? If not, of course the best team is going to lose. My earlier comment was that OU's path to the postseason is murky. Until today, they've had a bad non-conference resume. Their weekend rotation looks rough. I still think they'll need a relatively strong conference record to make the post season but the win over Arkansas helps considerably.
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    Yeah, that win today will certainly help. They still have a lot of work to do to figure out their weekend rotation. The lefty they threw today looked good. I don't think he touched 90 but he had good command and the pig hitters were off balance most of the game.
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    Oklahoma may not make the post season. They’ve had a bad nonconference run. They’ll need a strong big 12 conference record.
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    Cam had a bad weekend defensively but he's been good previously. I don't know if it's enough to let someone else get a start though. If he has another bad weekend, it might be worth putting him at DH for a game or two.
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    Cam has to field that.
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    Our baserunning decisions continue to confound
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    Pierce must have a lot of confidence in Ardoin's bunting
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    We strike out so much
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    I think they'll overturn that
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    I feel like every game the announcers mention how the opposing pitcher's fastball must play faster than the gun shows. I think at some point they'll learn it's us. 100% of the pitchers we face don't have deceptive velocity.
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    BYU’s defense is awful
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    All of these home plate umps need to widen their zones by about an inch all the way around tomorrow. I realize practice has been tough for the past week and this is the first game of the season, but the zones have looked really tight across all three games. And all these walks really drag the games out.
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    2021 Texas Baseball

    CDAK replied to petscii's topic in Baseball

    Few random thoughts. Really excited about Melendez and Ardoin. Cautious optimism about Faltine and Kennedy. Like Cam Williams. Think he's going to be steady and solid. Sort of tired of Austin Todd and Zach Zubia. I get that last season was shortened but it feels like they've been here forever. They're good but I don't see them improving on their typical performance much this season (hope I'm wrong). Staff looked decent I thought. Silver lining is we got to see a handful of guys throw. As someone else mentioned, how do you have announcers at baseball games in Texas in 2021 that have never seen a Hispanic / Spanish last name? Every time they said Quintan-ELLUH, I wondered, where do these guys watch and call baseball games?
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    2021 Texas Baseball

    CDAK replied to petscii's topic in Baseball

    Really glad it looks like this tourny is going to happen. I hate the "just cancel" attitude espoused by a few on this site. If guys couldn't get in normal prep, put them on a pitch count. Sure, it might be a competitive disadvantage but that's part of sports. Canceling games every time there's adversity is contrary to the spirit of competition. I'm really looking forward to watching Madden pitch tomorrow. He's got the tools to be special this year. (I would support canceling if we couldn't physically get the team to the game safely, but it doesn't look like that's an issue)
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    Both parties can negotiate for whatever they want guaranteed. Neither party can terminate the contract without a clause permitting termination. Both sides have to sign agreeing to all the provisions, including the provisions for termination. One player may want "guaranteed" money and no incentives. Another player may want less "guaranteed" money and more incentives. I don't care if the NFL ends up implementing a rule that all money must be "guaranteed." But all that does is add rigidity to the contracting process. Maybe it'd be better for the players; I don't know.
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    You two can keep digging this hole. It's stupid. He didn't mean lowest paid employee at Amazon or hourly wage employee of any amount. That's ridiculous. Everybody interprets minimum wage employee as legal minimum wage. "Hi my name is Bob, I'm a minimum wage employee at Silver Lake Capital." "What? Silver Lake Capital pays you the legal minimum wage?" "No, asshole. I make $7,000 per hour. By 'minimum wage,' I obviously meant that I'm paid per hour."
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    What does "minimum wage warehouse employee," which was his actual quote, mean to you if it has nothing to do with the amount of their wages? I interpreted "minimum wage" to mean the legal minimum wage. I didn't dispute (or affirm for that matter) the bathroom shit. I don't know much about it. I'll try to read the articles folks have posted. (I try not to respond to emotional diatribes but yours had a semblance of substance so here I am)
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    I know a handful of Amazon employees but my anecdotes are just that. The developers can get jobs anywhere. If they don't want the hours and stresses at Amazon, there are numerous companies that will hire them. They might be paid less, however. I'm not as sure about the warehouse workers. But I imagine if they hated it, they'd quit and work at a comparable place (Walmart, UPS, etc.). Maybe they don't have that option during Covid, however, which is lamentable. Pre-Covid, unemployment was at record lows and job postings were at record highs.
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    Shockingly, you still haven't acknowledged any error. Just say you made a mistake and move on. I I'm happy to read the article and respond - if I have anything to respond to (I'll read later tonight). Without reading, I think bathroom breaks should be allowed.
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    I don't know what the important part was. You made a few claims. At least one of them was false. When confronted, rather than acknowledge any error, you discarded your false claim as unimportant.
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    I don't think this is accurate. The below article is from 2018. Did Amazon not follow through or were you referring to pre-2018 practices? Amazon Sets $15 Minimum Wage For U.S. Employees, Including Temps : NPR
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    I don't get all the animosity towards Bezos in this thread. He's created one of the most iconic companies in the world that has contributed trillions towards global GDP, wealth, and development. I hope he's able to advance space exploration, carbon reduction, or whatever else he's interested in to even a thousandth of his success with Amazon. The FTC enforcement action is not good. I doubt Bezos was personally involved in the tip structure for flex delivery drivers. If you're operating one of the biggest companies in the world, you're going to have occasional slip-ups, lawsuits, government entanglements, etc. That's part and parcel of operating a multinational.
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    Yeah, I realize it doesn't matter as I randomly pick every week (except for my one lucky number ticket), but I thought the app would give users the ability to choose which tix to contribute and which tix to keep personal.

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