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  1. Not just small, but a very shallow pocket, really shallower than shown there. I never played any infield except 3B, but the two guys mentioned above basically caught most things two-handed and used the glove to kind of "knock down" the ball to have it drop into their meat hand for the throw. Especially apparent with Jamie's really old school glove.
  2. Addendum to this. So much of the docket is under seal, but the government and Abrego Garcia have been going back and forth about the adequacy of the government's responses to discovery. The court has ordered the government to respond and cure the deficiencies, which is a prerequisite to obtaining sanctions. They seem to have been through this drill several times. So, sanctions seem to be on the table for repeated instances of disobeying court orders. The government has "incrementally" responded to each court order, not quite complying and offering new excuses and justifications for less-than-full compliance. For example, they originally resisted discovery not on state secrets, but some sort of separation-of-powers, this is the executive's sole prerogative shit. They didn't raise state secrets until the second or third go-round, and then they did it in a conclusory fashion.. So that seems pretty well teed up for something. What exactly remains to be seen. Sanctions on the government are pretty rare because a) they're usually pretty good about obeying the rules and doing what they're supposed to and b) the government ostensibly represents the public interest and is not "made of money" (the usual or first sanction). The quality of advocacy here is pretty low. The briefs may be decent, if disingenuous, but the behavior is really over the top. But exactly the kind of shit you expect from Trumpy lawyers.
  3. Rule 37 provides for sanctions for improper responses to discovery, I.e. "discovery abuse." This differs somewhat from other sanctions that a district court can deliver, for bad pleadings (Rule 11), and general vexatious conduct by inherent power and by statute. Under Rule 37, it depends on what the abuse is. The first "line" of sanctions is paying the other side's attorneys fees and expenses in securing proper answers to discovery. beyond that, the rule provides for: the court where the action is pending may issue further just orders. They may include the following: (i) directing that the matters embraced in the order or other designated facts be taken as established for purposes of the action, as the prevailing party claims; (ii) prohibiting the disobedient party from supporting or opposing designated claims or defenses, or from introducing designated matters in evidence; (iii) striking pleadings in whole or in part; (iv) staying further proceedings until the order is obeyed; (v) dismissing the action or proceeding in whole or in part; (vi) rendering a default judgment against the disobedient party; or (vii) treating as contempt of court the failure to obey any order except an order to submit to a physical or mental examination.
  4. Coach to Miss. St.?
  5. Welp, there it is.
  6. In oldlaw, which is still mostly viable for the present, for non-public figures, belief was irrelevant. For public-figure defamation, knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for truth is required. So, belief can be relevant, but only if it is a well-founded belief.
  7. Raises interesting question. Seems like it's similar to diesel exhaust. https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-020-00690-y
  8. There was a time in the not too distant past when conservatives were up in arms about eminent domain and confiscatory zoning regulations.
  9. The scientific name is "condensation trail" or "contrail," as noted above. I suppose you could make an argument that jet exhaust, which forms some of them, has some polluting shit in it, because being a hydrocarbon combustion product, it assuredly does. But, wingtip vortices produce most of them I think, as evidenced by the WWII era photos above. And ain't nothin in those cept dihydrogen monoxide. Longer than you think, Dad! Longer than you think!
  10. csb/Our high school shortstop played with his Dad's glove from the early 60s. His Dad played at aggy and for the Dodgers. It was a lot bigger than that, and very heavily padded. Very flat. Easy transfer, probably hard to scrape a ball off the ground. A lot like this Less of a pocket, because I guess that's an outfielder's glove And before you snide lil whippersnappers chirp up, this was in the 80s. Our 2B played a small HOH Wingtip, but he'd broken it it in so flat it probably played really similar. They were the two best players on our team./csb
  11. Yes. The only way it makes any sense at all is a relatively narrow focus on intercepting the kind of threats we actually might face, including hypersonic missiles. We're already half-decent at that, but I think things had stalled out a bit over the last 20 years or so.
  12. Thumbnail. "Golden Dome" is Trump's masturbatory fantasy of implementing Israel's Iron Dome air defense system, which is geared to protecting a much smaller landmass from aerial attack from low-trajectory artillery and short-range missiles, I.e. weapons fired by neighbors. Attempting to implement it here is foolhardy, both because of the size of our landmass and that we won't be attacked with artillery or short-range missiles.
  13. Send him off to the puzzle factory.
  14. If it was proven to be knowing, then it probably would be. If merely negligent, grounds for some kind of discipline, probably technology CLE and payment of a fine/attorneys fees of opponent. The courts are just starting to figure out what to do here. The bars will be lagging the courts. The more we find out AI is complete dogshit if you're actually concerned with facts and reality, the use of AI at all will be sanctionable.
  15. The bitches must be kicked. -R. Joseph.2008
  16. My recollection is that he used small ball pretty selectively, when we needed to manufacture a run, and also sometimes as a psychological thing with a particular player, e.g. boost them in a slump, give them a dose of humility. I think you are probably right that there was a tad more small ball in the post-season, because runs could be harder to come by.
  17. Yeah, although I'm sure the existing associate had something lined up somewhere else, that's walking away from a mid-six-figures job. And, saying something salty like that on the way out is not free of risk, even at another firm.
  18. And then, actual experts will compare his deal to Obama's and declare it objectively worse. And will be dismissed as deep state or RINOs or some other shit. Pretty in-depth explainer, here. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Joint-Comprehensive-Plan-of-Action Never had that crop up in a search before. Looks like good shit.
  19. Her arm's not going to seize up and fall off like a baseball pitcher's, but throwing her all three games (if necessary) would take a toll.
  20. She also looked quite distressed in the dugout. Understandable, but showing some vulnerability.
  21. Looks like the speedster might could have scored on that.
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