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QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 03:55 PM) http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20170607 Looks like the DSL Sox won today, no LuBob yet. http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?g...ox&sid=milb Guerrero 1 for 4 with a double.

That is essentially validating terrorism as an appropriate tactic.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 01:56 PM) To be clear: i'm not saying Trump shouldn't be impeached. I would be all for getting rid of him. However, I think that's such a huge step in our democracy that it shouldn't be based on "ifs" or "maybes" or "this is what he meant..." It should be pretty concrete, otherwise we open the door to impeachment proceedings for every little thing. To me, his statements about Flynn are Blago-like act with the horse trading. Is it wrong? Yes. Are these sorts of things (protect your friends and put in good words for them) done all the time in politics? Perhaps i'm wrong, but I assume this is rather common practice. His more egregious act, IMO, was firing Comey, not asking Comey to be nice to his friend. But Blago is in Jail! To me, it's the fact that there was follow-up. But here was basically the line that turned the tide on Nixon (asking CIA to get FBI to stop going forward) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBvQ2bKW0AAY6Kw.jpg And we have rumors and I assume eventual testimony that the DNI was requested to also ask the FBI director to cut it out. FBI was supposed to be independent. Meeting alone with him and even discussing him is censure-worthy. But this is clear obstruction. Honestly to me it's more explicit than blagos.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 01:50 PM) And yes, firing Comey was the biggest, dumbest move Trump could have made. That is the big move that counters what i'm arguing. Seemingly Trump could have fired Comey simply for not being good at the PR game and pissing everyone in Washington off, but it sure comes off as Comey being fired for not "taking care" of the Russia problem for him. This part is crucial to me. You can't separate A from B He fired Comey and we know from Rosenstein he said he was going to fire him and asked for a memo for rationale Trump himself then said that the rationale given wasn't why, and that he was thinking about the Russia thing. These things don't need to be inferred, he did this. And I think he did them because he doesn't understand that the FBI director being independent means anything. He is the president, all work for him. Why should I not be able to tell him to stop investigating my friend? And just because he's obtuse doesn't mean it's dangerously wrong.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 01:48 PM) The problem is he asked Comey to take it easy on Flynn AFTER Flynn was let go and he never told Comey not to investigate his admn, he just kept complaining about the problem and wanted Comey to make it publicly known that he wasn't going to investigate Trump personally (or wasn't investigating him personally). Unless I glossed over it, I don't see Comey saying that Trump ordered him or inferred to him that he should drop all investigations. I guess if you take "lift the cloud" to mean "stop the investigation" then I see your point, but I don't think I can make that leap in light of the context of the conversation (Trump: "Dude, these people won't shut up about this and they claim I pee'd on hookers! Can't you do something about this?") I'm referring to the part where Trump cleared the room to talk about Flynn and ask that he let this thing go. Yes, he had been fired, but he was still under investigation for lying on his classification, for one thing, and his communication with Russia more broadly. "The President then returned to the topic of Mike Flynn, saying, “He is a good guy and has been through a lot.” He repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the Vice President. He then said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”" I don't understand what this means then to you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 01:43 PM) And if it were a Clinton, the Dems would already have their list of reasons why they weren't trying to influence the AG... er, Head of FBI. I too remember when Lynch met with Bill Clinton and then fired Comey to prevent investigation into her emails.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 01:41 PM) If this had been Clinton (or Obama or any Dem), Republicans would already be holding impeachment trials in the Senate. And they would be right to.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 01:37 PM) Honestly I took it as, this doesn't really strengthen the Dems' claims and in fact in a lot of ways makes them less serious (e.g., he never told Comey not to investigate him and Trump is actually right in that Comey did confirm to him that he was not being investigated personally), yet on the other hand, it clearly shows Trumps efforts to, at a minimum, push or influence Comey in his duties (with Flynn and with the Russia probe generally). Trump was also not using the appropriate "traditions" of going through third parties to talk with Comey and instead elected to speak to him directly on a number of occasions. I'm not really sure any of this is actionable though. Inappropriate, yes, but impeachable? Ehhhh. I was hoping for something more. Perhaps in isolation, I find it hard to see your point with the knowledge that trump eventually fired Comey and told Lester Holt that he was thinking about the Russia investigation. If he was just giving Flynn a recommendation of character by dismissing all from the room and then saying to let the investigation go, I don't find it necessary to then fire the FBI director. And again, Nixon was never found to have ordered the Watergate break-in. But I don't see how you could look at this behavior and not think that Trump is demanding that federal law enforcement will not be allowed to hold his administration to account.

I am saddened to read that, and feel pretty cynical about it. This was a line I grew up thinking was the one thing that could not be crossed or tolerated. But it will be now.

Every year I go through the draft order and get mad at the competitive balance picks.

AAA Charlotte vs. Durham Pitcher: Danish AA Double Header Birmingham v Tennessee Pitcher 1: TBD Pitcher 2 : Cooper A+ Off A Kannapolis v Lakewood Pitcher: Blake Hickman DSL stats will post at a random time, started 3 hours ago Edit: http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?s...mp;ymd=20170607 Thanks!

No way it hit a catwalk, I thought they were saying it may have hit a piece like a wire holding up a catwalk. So weird. Get a real stadium.

Well they have been rewarded for not letting anyone deliberate on it, so that's a part of it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 10:07 AM) When I was in school coke was the rich kids drug, and the poor kids smoked pot. Heroin wasn't even a blip on the radar. There were certainly kids taking painkillers though to get high, stuff like vicadin. Makes the jump more coherent, but evenso, still surprising. Both of those seem rather social, and opiods seem the opposite.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 10:01 AM) I remember thinking how weird it was several years back when a few of my little brother's more distant friends or friends-of-friends were being hospitalized or dying from heroin OD's. That was unheard of when I was in the same high school only a four years ahead of him, and suburban Chicago isn't exactly the epicenter of the crisis. Would have been insane to hear of a classmate doing heroin when I was in high school, but was considered much more through the lens of using it with needles. Heroin was always the scariest due to addiction, but also the rather vulgar way of using it. I do wonder if it moving to pill form has removed a "scare" barrier that has led to kids trying it more.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 09:25 AM) People gotta die somehow. I wonder how many of these are assisted suicides? I would guess less than a percent. Addiction is complicated and terrible, very many of these victims would certainly not want to be overdosing. A good many more may have gotten addicted via a pain killer prescription that sent them down a spiral. I have addiction throughout my family, and I'm terrified of getting back problems. People deserve more respect than "gotta die somehow".

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 09:26 AM) I would read next to nothing from 3 games in the DSL. But, he's 17 years old and got a six figure bonus, so certainly he could be a guy. I know Maitan, etc, but do you think the Venezuela signings get deflated with less competition of scouts to see these guys?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 7, 2017 -> 09:12 AM) Speaking of Twitter, perfect timing... NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump may be the nation's tweeter-in-chief, but some Twitter users say he's violating the First Amendment by blocking people from his feed after they posted scornful comments. Lawyers for two Twitter users sent the White House a letter Tuesday demanding they be un-blocked from the Republican president's @realDonaldTrump account. "The viewpoint-based blocking of our clients is unconstitutional," wrote attorneys at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in New York. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The tweeters — one a liberal activist, the other a cyclist who says he's a registered Republican — have posted and retweeted plenty of complaints and jokes about Trump. Yeah that's actually pretty interesting. Kinda love when new tech needs to be defined for laws like that.

Is Anthony Coronado worth following? He's had a bit of a hot start and looks like he's 17 out of Venezuela for 150k.

It's going to pass.

Crazy and terrible. These are some high profile places for an attack.

Stay strong, Yoda. Praying for you.

Poor Kahnle gotten squeezed on obvious strikes. Now it's in his head.

In DSL Coronado was 4-4 with 2 doubles. J Guerrero was 1-5. Mieses had 3 hits. All of those were 2016 signings? I think.

I don't even really know where the rumors are, seems like typical politico garbage. I just don't think he's history's greatest monster.