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I totally agree here, I don't get this idea the padres developed him. The guy was in the majors at 20, by the time they saw him he physically looked completely different. The sox DID see tatis play on backfields and they screwed up. Had they had him, he'd be just as good as he is now, I am sure.

I find it funny that sox fans hate Sammy Sosa so much (myself included) that he never finds his way to these discussions.

I don't think the first one was that bad, Deshields was pretty good, and I'm a little more forgiving on pitchers who just seem to find it all at once. He was the ultimate outlier as a short RH pitcher who ended up being so durable. I mean the Scherzer trade to DET was awful in retrospect but at the time I didn't bat an eye. People thought Washington overpaid to acquire Scherzer, then overpaid him on his contract. Pitchers are too weird.

Man the late 90s/early 00s when all the small market teams were just giving away their players to the big market teams was such a crappy era. That Kansas City had an outfielder at one point of Beltran, Damon, Dye and slowly wittled them all away. At least now they are smart enough not to wait until they are an expiring and getting true hauls for them.

interesting topic

Really not that malicious to advocate that your businesses not be forced to shut down without compensation. I don't have a problem with restaurants following the rules to try and survive, I have a problem with our officials trying to make public health messaging solve economic and supply problems. Them telling people not to wear masks in March was using a public health justification to solve a supply chain and production issue. Refusing to provide accurate risk assessment on different settings is using public health messaging to solve an economic issue, where we are refusing to step up to the plate and compensate businesses who have been forced to shut down and so we act like their modified openings are safe. The public health depts should say what need to be done, and the other govt functions should align to make that possible. It should not be other depts saying what's possible to public health, and then public health making up messaging to make that seem safe.

I was sad about this, he had a pretty nice 2018 and then last year it made it unlikely. However, I always thought that tier of guys like basabe would always be easy use for a middle reliever trade, but this year really makes that difficult.

It's not about protecting the people about Montrose Harbor, as much as countering the point that indoor dining is safe. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article I'm not a scientist, but in South Korea there was an outbreak in an office/residential building. 97% of those infected were on the same floor, with the infections mostly occurring on one side. Depending on how the air flows through an indoor setting, in a situation where you will be there for roughly an hour, unmasked and conversing, you are at high risk if you happen to be dining in the same restaurant as an infected individual. Now, your odds are lower to be dining with one, because there are less people, but if you are at a beach with infected people vs in a restaurant with one, I'd rather be at the beach. I wish to God that restaurants were given financial assistance to survive and I understand their plight, but the only safety as a community we are getting from the current standards is if there is an outbreak in a restaurant it only affects a small amount of people, which isn't that helpful from an individual risk assessment point of view.

You got me, did not realize you were 100 feet away, eating with 5 other people independently and not talking. Yes, perhaps we can convert all of our malls to a single restaurant where each seated party gets its own storefront, I agree that will be safer than Montrose. Now back to reality.

It has nothing to do with practices, indoor dining is not safe. There are some restaurants that have immense windows that open up and those may be the best shot, but that beach is going to be safer. Go into a restaurant and spray a bunch of spray-on sunscreen. Now do that outside. The dilution is immense outside. Restaurants should be required to have medical grade air filters to be open indoors, but there is no requirement that they even advertise that or let people know. There is no way to judge risk right now. But outdoors is not just greater it is >>>>>>>>>>>>> The tracing results just do not find many outdoor super spread events.

What change will you get at a restaurant? When people are sitting down and eating their masks are off. If you request to move farther away, there is no guarantee you are that much safer without knowing how the air is filtered and moves about the restaurant. The best thing you can do is remove yourself from the restaurant.

This is true, but the problem is how just unbelievably awful the communication on different types of risk has been. For an individual trying to avoid getting covid but committed to either a) going to the beach where there is a large gathering of unmasked people or b) going to an enclosed restaurant with 6 ft apart tables and they asked which is better to avoid getting COVID, I would tell them a so long as they themselves committed to keeping at a 6 ft distance and wore a mask themselves. The benefit to the city is if there is a super spread event at a restaurant now it is just a small number of people with reservations to track, vs 500 people that will be incredibly different to track. But they aren't tracking for shit anyways right now, they have not done anything to communicate the benefits of open air flow and just act like if you wash your hands and are 6 feet apart you will be safe. We are 6 months in, test and trace is only implemented in a handful of states. The benefit of open airflow is mostly well known in the general populace but the political leaders don't explicitly state it probably because it would affect businesses who are operating "safely" by their guidelines, so why should they then say "hey don't go out to restaurants". There is hope around this saliva testing in large samples. But everything is so slow to roll-out, and no guidelines ever get updated. We are now at daily case levels that make it impossible to contain and track, and our solution is just double down on saying "please wear a mask"? gmafb. The politicians obsess over the beach stuff because it is so photogenic and embarrassing, but go inside any restaurant right now and see something just as dangerous and sanctioned.

Actually this isn't bad. But I actually think he still has that rawness Bo had due to the competition left in Cuba and his year or so time off.

So that was the treasury, not the fed, and you can either have speed or precision. When the entire global economy is coming to a screeching halt, loans are going to go to companies that can be picked apart. But we already see the issue when congress starts to focus on precision, those that actually need the money have to wait months with no support so some vulnerable politicians don’t get hit with a negative ad.

Leury is insane since the season started. Honestly 60 game season is probably the perfect amount for peak Leury.

The new GT GOAT

Lol was just thinking that.

(November 1st 2020) TaylorStSox: I think it’s hilarious all you guys are sad there can’t be a parade for the championship.

Rodon is a gut punch, but this was very enjoyable, intense baseball. And just well played. One of my favorite pure baseball games since that Nats series last year.

Great baseball

That was a beauty

If we could post gifs you’d be getting some

Shitttt

Cool shot by the camera crew catching Abreu discussing the spin on that pitch.