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@Jose Abreu I'm just at that point in life where everything between 16-25 just runs together. Only off by a decade!

I am not at all shocked that KW was profiled and ticketed for jaywalking back in the 90s in Seattle. SPD is outta control.

These are dark times for a lot of people and Manfred is determined to extend that to baseball fans. Fuck off dude. Passan is spot on. Time to get off the pot. You've already shit all over the bowl.

They grabbed two guys that are top 20 talents on paper at the weakest area of the club (pitching). I don't really care how much they had to skimp after those guys to get it done. They got aggressive and nailed it.

The owners. It's clear that the owners think they are above downside risk. That's horse shit.

Gone ask me about CHAZ? Seriously though, baseball kinda last thing on my mind. I was talking to my friend back in MI online earlier, first thing he said today sox owned the draft. Seems they did well from what I can tell but time will tell. I def think it was smart to target a weakness in pitching, usually it's not, but it lined up this year. I see we got a kid throwing 100 from the left side? Chris Sale 2.0? As for Seattle. I'm right in this shit. It's kinda amazing to be a part of and not half as bad as some say. Think for yourself on the coverage for sure.

We're all watching baseball die in real time. Of all the horse shit going on in this damn country we also have to put up with Manfred as the leader of our favorite sport. Sickening. We can't catch a break guys!

Rob Manfred is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. He's squandering a once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase baseball. He is going to kill the sport.

I'd imagine Cooper would be incredibly high risk. Dude sounds like he's abou to croak on his best days. That would a difficult decision for him.

FWIW beat writer Shannon Dreyer is saying on the radio right now out here that she's hearing spring training 2 in June + July 4th start is gaining momentum with the 3 division alignment.

Well that de-escalated quickly. Fuck.

If the play starts in July or a bit earlier with the divisions proposed the Sox make out like bandits imo. They'd be playing mostly stinkers while a team in the west or east would have to run a gauntlet, especially the east. What's the playoffs in that scenario two wild cards and then the 3 "division" winner with best record faces the WC play-in winner in the "semi finals" and the other two division winners square off in the other?

I think "cautiously optimistic" is the mindset to have as Hogan does up thread. Seems like baseball is willing to get creative and that's probably what it will take. I think the idea of only playing in Florida and AZ is a non-starter for the players but if it's the only option they will probably come around. Players want to play, no doubt.

Hospitals are so swamped right now that they are telling people with fevers under 102 in most cases to STAY HOME, even if it's likely they have COVID-19. Even if magically tested everybody in the USA tmr and 100 million were positive there's nowhere for them to go except self quarantine at home. If they start to heave problems breathing and a fever over 102 then they will be admitted and hopefully there is a bed and vent ready for them. We have death panels in the US right now, in one way or another. So. Much. Winning.

That cracks me up. People social distancing at a protest in a snow storm that is (at least ostensibly) partially about Whitmer's decision to close gardening stores. In a snow storm.

If you're God you really couldn't have written a better script than having Ronald Reagan say the four most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the Government..." and then 30 years later you have essentially a situation that can only be solved by strong, steady, good Government. One day perhaps more Americans will realize that the Founders were big believers in Government. And for good reason!

I bought 50 N95 masks back in mid February (was hard to find them even then) planning to either use them or sell them (I paid $150 for the box). After seeing all the PPE news I contacted an ex GF and she helped me donate them (she's a nurse), so I feel good about that. I could have sold the box for $3000 or more. People are paying $50 a N95 mask on clist. Oh well, wasn't the right thing to do.

Def not a bad idea but for me personally just walking isn't enough. Need my gym endorphins. Not a jogger never have been. Might get into cycling a bit tho.

Struggling today personally. Just kinda feel deeply lethargic.

Until we have testing we're in this fog of war. Lamentably, the Feds are already acting like this is over and we don't need to expand testing. It's insane. As of today the Feds estimate they have tested 64K Americans. Maybe Reagan was partially right, the most terrifying words you can here as a American in a crisis are "I'm a GOP POTUS, and I'm here to help you in a natural disaster".

There isn't a single Democrat that has called for "open borders". Like most fever dreams of the perpetually fantastical GOP this is a myth on par with the "welfare queen" driving her Cadillac to the corner store to buy her prime cuts with EBT. Experts, (something in short supply these days) told Trump that closing the borders would do very little if anything to prevent the spread. But, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Trump has a few "go tos" in his political playbook and one of them is jingoism. Closing the border to China did nothing except virtue signal to Trump's core of 38% or so of Americans that back him. Amazingly, the only demographic in which Trump maintains more than 50% support is among white men over 50. Think about that. You're in that category I'd imagine from your posting history. Fair play to you I guess. Anyways, back to COVID: the soft lock downs seems to be working but we have to keep it up at least for another two weeks and likely into May. As we are seeing in Europe quite a few people are getting re-infected but are asymptomatically passing it on to others without antibodies, potentially killing them. Oh, has any single SB owner gotten a relief loan yet? I know I haven't, my bank is dragging their feet.

I have quite a bit of hands on experience with voter rolls. The "voter fraud" claims of the GOP are absurd on the face. Let's start with the fact that when you register to vote you have to put down a home address. In order to commit massive voter fraud you'd personally have to registers hundreds if not thousands of addresses already in your county. You'd then have to go into your polling station, in your district, with either thousands of different people to "cast their vote" or you'd have to come up with a thousand different wigs so you could fool the (granted usually not the most on the ball folks) poll workers and watchers. And every polling station is well watched by attorneys and legal folks on both sides in my experience. It's absurd. As for "mail voter fraud", again, there is a paper trail. If you somehow stole a thousand mailed letters and changed the votes in all of them you'd have to route every letter through the legit sorting system. So I guess not only do you sneak into everybody's mailbox for a month straight leading up to the election you then change the vote and DROP IT BACK IN THEIR MAILBOX FOR THE CARRIER TO PICK UP NOBODY THE WISER. And every single changed vote would be a mail fraud felony. NOBODY IS DOING THIS. What the GOP likes to b**** and moan about is people that don't always vote -- so mostly younger folks and minorities and poorer people -- getting kicked off rolls for inactivity. This mean when they do go to vote, they find they aren't registered because of a needless purge. What most people don't realize is that the voter files themselves are handled by the State but are hardly a secret! YOU can request a voter file and get one for a processing fee. This is not some conspiracy it's in plain sight. I used to process voter files all day long for my job. Most of the folks putting these things together don't know the difference between a PDF and a CSV. If there are mistakes -- like dead folks on the rolls -- it's incompetence, not malice. That the POTUS is up there, without any evidence, claiming massive mail in voter fraud and Democratic voter fraud in general sickens me and is a disgusting Fascist attack on US Democracy. You know who does commit election fraud? The GOP.

That would be great. Like in some sort of community plex the team hosts?

Oh yea do some deep fake holograms in the stands.

"It was one of his favorite phrases and he often repeated it: "after awhile, you could get used to anything". -Camus It will take about a week of games with no fans before everybody has "gotten used to it".