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So it's preseason, but the bulls defensively are ATROCIOUS. Just incredibly, incredibly bad.

Not sure the sox are deep at any position other than OF. But players like Nunez if they somehow did turn corner, could well be a 3b, same with Sosa if he develops power.

Even when pats score 50, not that exciting to see 15 straight completions of 4 yards to a running back

I feel like this is a common view from STEM majors, but I majored in Journalism, my wife majored in English, we both have technical-ish (or at least, numbers driven) jobs in banking/tech industry, and both of us would say we use our majors every single day. Now, I wish I would have studied this or that, and known now what I knew then, etc, but when people study things they like the most important thing is they dive in and learn how to work and enjoy that process. Sociology majors leave with great research and stat backgrounds that are very useful in many businesses right now. English majors have great communication and creative thinking minds that can take on different tasks. The idea that there is a skills mismatch after employment is down to 3.8 and essentially non-existent among college grads is just not backed up by much.

I may go back on this (in other words, I'm not confident what I'm saying is true but I do think about this a lot), but I feel like rodon would be better suited with a different pitching coach.

Well this is gonna be a tough bridge to cross then, as I think more democracy is on average better than less (extreme bad example being california's governing via props) The issue I have with minority government is it creates a perverse view of thinking the government is being more representative when it is responsive to your needs over others needs, instead of requiring that bargaining. Small states think they would not be a part of the bargaining without this extra power and I think there are few examples of this in US history to say that would be the case. I suppose they would bring up the city/downstate relationships but it's quite different.

Nobody said it was easy and I'm sure that there are a variety of recovery times, but on one hand you have the writer saying this deficit is larger than expected and it has not improved since he began pitching, and on the other you have you who are saying tommy john is hard and it doesn't matter just because it's october. The value in burdi being a great reliever and just a reliever is a really big deal. The sox improving rapidly goes through a dominant, organic bullpen. Burdi not recovering to his top velos would be another blow to the rebuild effort.

Literally bolded it for you. I’m not sure why spring training is some magic cure all, he had TJ 14 months ago. He’s been pitching since August. He’s lost 4mph off his fastball.

There is nothing I hate more than when tweets are read over a broadcast when something big happens.

Yes, I'm a bit surprised this didn't panic some more folks. Fegan would be more nuanced if he needed to be, this was a pretty clear "things are bad" statement.

The track record of college 1b the last ten years has been so bad I think you have to factor that in, as some aspect of it may be predictive. These may just be big guys that matured quicker but lost athleticism along the way. So while they are the best hitters in their age now, others have more room to grow and can surpass them.

Note from the athletic today ? https://theathletic.com/571707/2018/10/08/a-tour-of-white-sox-instructs-provides-a-snapshot-of-the-rebuild/ This is a monster article of notes, so I highly recommend: Had stuff on robert, madrigal, stiever, dunning, lambert, bush, weaver, sosa, nunez, gonzalez, rutherford, zangari, basabe, hansen, puckett, steele walker, and more.

That would be a strange stand for a GM to make, I wonder if it was a behavior issue.

The Suns just fired their GM. He has not performed well, however, strange timing for performance firing.

Also interested a bit in the grading and how it was used, were they like "Hey, this is a job for a grade 5 criminal, don't be sending that grade 2 criminal out there!"

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/ When I saw there was an FBI investigation in MLB's latam operations, I'll admit I didn't think much of it. I thought some fines would come through and some reforms by MLB. It seems based off of this that some significant punishments may come down, especially on dodgers front office, who actually kept a spreadsheet on how criminal some of their contractors/employees were. Great work by SI here: https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/02/fbi-investigation-mlb-atlanta-braves-los-angeles-dodgers Thankfully, the sox previous criminal executive means sox are very likely not a part of this, but I have a hard time believing MLB won't respond to this with a draft which means union will need to figure out what exactly they want to receive in return.

Wow what a dropoff.

I think it was dominik who made the point previously that vaughn maybe one of those players that is advanced now (and good), but the lack of athleticism and positional versatility means he could hit a ceiling that others catch up to and surpass.

CBS thinks I would rather watch a 9-6 browns ravens game than watch Patrick Mahomes just because it’s a blowout. They are wrong.

Absolutely embarrassing.

Term limits is only thing that makes sense to me for revamping SCOTUS though, not a fan of making it a vote (I hate local judge races)

Exactly, campaign finance reform, voting rights, parts of healthcare law: all prevented by scotus in last decade

I’m not sure your second paragraph sounds that bad, it’s the filibuster that obscures it. if from here on, Congress was straight majority rule, that seems fine, and if a party gets majority in all three (exec, house, senate) they should be able to implement big or whatever changes. The issue is institutional rules have been changed last decade. So a party 8 years with a president was allowed virtually no judges for 6 of them, then two years in the new party overturns all of those restrictions and puts in hundreds, that’s not something I just shrug at. I want to balance that, as aggressively. But is Congress worse off without filibuster and without hastert rule applied by each speaker? I have hard time seeing that it is moving forward. Seems stronger. edit: said three branches, meant house/sen/prez

The rules were already changed.

It would amend the constitution, if they amend the constitution and it passes across states they could easily apply to existing judges.