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Loperfido is 25 already--I don't think there are any service time manipulation considerations. He's not on the Kyle Tucker career path. I think it's more likely they see that last year he had his first taste of AAA but only played 32 games there and had contact issues. He's pretty clearly trying to lift the ball more (as a senior sign they likely re-worked his swing) and he's really only had two years in the minors. Getting a few more games in at AAA gives him more time to face pitching he couldn't hit last year, more time to evaluate whether Abreu is fully cooked or just mostly cooked, etc. If they do sign Belt it probably correlates with their evaluation of Loperfido's readiness.

My prediction is they want to get Loperfido 25 games or so in AAA and then make a decision. There’s a pretty good chance he’s better than Belt going forward and has more defensive versatility.

I’ll tell you one other thing they still do-they remind (or don’t have to) the families of African Americans players that they integrated before UT* and African American cultural groups occupy a key part of campus life in way they just don’t at UT. I don’t think it’s even based on number of students, but it’s a factor for AA families from north Texas. *I actually think they officially desegregated around the same time but UT didn’t make much effort to make AA feel welcome and it might just be a historical accident they found a home at OU and they had kind of a first to market advantage. All of this is far less surprising, to me, than anyone from that community looking at A&M and thinking “this place feels welcoming.”

I think mine was Avatar in 3D but this one is pretty great. Pretty much the only film I’ve ever seen at the Bullock IMAX and hated was Rise of Skywalker.

Also, @Wulaw Horn, bright side is those 10 deals you locked won’t be calling you and saying “look Gabe, I like you and all but I know the market improved and this other guy is beating you by .25%-I’ve got to do what’s best for my family.”

5.5 coupon down 94

Getting closer…

Um, Max, we’re gonna need to go ahead and move your locker downstairs and into Gregory. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

I don’t know anything spoilery but I think something is off-the hand shakes, the fact that he’s impossibly good at everything, the fact that Mark Protosevich (show-runner and EP) and Simon Kinberg (EP) have a background in sci-fi. I don’t think you can tell a story like The Matrix again but I’m expecting some kind of reveal.

Troxclair is more Ron Paul. Fitlump isn’t obviously anything but good at reading the room. It’s not like her district is going to elect a Donna Campbell.

Who was it that had a jihad level of hate for her on the old board? @Gardner Barnes maybe? I’ve always found her kind of attractive but NIMBY shrew mom is my fetish.

Let us know what they say-I don’t think they’ll show it because true IMAX screens are such a rarity and they are booked out a year in advance. It sounds like there is going to be several re-releases nationally this year to account for all the strike disruptions on the production side.

You make it sound like he has a choice. I guess he could resign but he’s a political animal.

I would support a "no-ginger" rule with those spots going to pretty much anyone that doesn't sunburn in five minutes.

It seems like if you have elbow soreness of any kind it’s going to mean Tommy John at some point.

I don't disagree with the premise (that African American's are under-represented at the University level), but I don't think it's on the face true that having a DEI program is a requirement to get there. No one will say this out-loud today, despite the hostile environment for it, but about ten years ago I was told (by a dean, no less) that the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement was a Bill Powers/Dr. Vincent project and it was mostly just for show. I'm sure it's had a chance to evolve in the interim, but a program with 350 staff members seems like a lot bureaucratic bloat. From a public policy perspective, we'd probably be better off taking that same head count and creating an enrichment coordinator or guidance counselor at the 350 high schools with the greatest proportion of African Americans with the main job of pushing average or slightly better achievers towards college*. That's likely where you could do the most good. I'm sure they/you might not feel this way, but to some degree the African American scholars at UT are closer to the "haves", in that most have been admitted because of their grades and test scores, which is a product of good study habits, raw intellect, support at home, school quality, etc. *yes, I know the state government is not making that choice. If you study the history of the US' world renowned higher ed, it's mostly a story of federal research dollars flowing into them.

Third university after four high schools. Maybe he only likes the beginning of things.

Finally caught up this on Paramount plus-super fun.

That kind of superlative is only appropriate if they sign with A&M.

This-I’ve heard Straus speak a couple of times and he‘s subtle about it but not hiding the fact the Texas GOP is in thrall to a minority.

Looks like they showed it at the Bullock Imax last year, now I’m disappointed I missed it.

Just turned on the game, Jesus.

I thought he had already had it before. Maybe I'm confusing it with another medical issue.

Another highlight of the scooters, in my opinion, is that they mostly occupy the bicycle lanes and they are even bigger assholes to the bicyclists than cars and pedestrians.

That was kind of my point but I also don’t have deep insight into what UWM and Rocket may have done to mitigate this. In 2007 lots of banks were alive yesterday, dead today because they really didn’t have assets to speak of-they were middle men that sold aggregated loans to other entities. If those entities aren’t buying or in smaller quantities it can cause cash flow problems super quick.