Balta1701

For Bryce Harper, beating Giancarlo Stanton's contract was another key part of making him happy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the work of Phil Jackson and Tex Winter.

The leadership here in Texas is not up for election this year and they were saying we needed to sacrifice the elderly for the economy back in early April.

And just remember...any of these things: 1. The voter suppression efforts 2. The Russian campaign 3. James Comey Easily could have accounted for those votes.

It also turns out that there does appear to have been a notable change in the protein spikes where the virus attaches to the cell, according to a paper (Pre-peer-review) available on biorXiv yesterday. While that doesn't necessarily guarantee that this version is more virulent, they cite several examples of places where the classical Chinese variant was the first one circulating and then it was rapidly surpassed in number by the newer Italian variant, including New York City. So it's possible that some of the early cases are coming from a slightly less aggressive strain.

Whole thread is worth your time.

No they don't. They're going to kill black and hispanic people selectively.

Shaq was such a different beast that I think he'd still be dominant. He wasn't just big, he was fast, at least in his prime. If you only saw 2006 Shaq, yeah he was mostly using size and strength, and that would still be a problem for teams to defend today, but back in the 1990s he wasn't just flat footed and in the lane, he was moving around a lot and could get himself up a lot. I think a lot of the strategy today would be to find ways to move him out to the 3 point line to defend, but that would leave your team weak on the glass as well.

Guys, you're missing the bigger picture. They've worked very, very hard to make sure that only the votes of certain people count in this country. Those certain people aren't just donors, they're the protesters who don't get arrested. https://civiqs.com/documents/Civiqs_DailyKos_monthly_banner_book_2020_05_r8c32an.pdf If you can make it that your voters are the only ones who count, you have to listen to those voters when they "Charge of the light brigade" it.

I think some of the big inside fighting guys have disappeared, because they can't defend well away from the basket. If you're a center now, you have to be able to adapt to the guy you're guarding moving away from the basket for an open shot, and then having a faster guy drive past you. That's removed the slow, tall guys because they're a major weakness defensively. I think a great example of this was Kendrick Perkins. With the Celtics team, he was a useful player, but even though he was only in his late 20s, when he got to OKC his defensive value started going down because he couldn't guard the type of lineups people were putting against him.

Congress is working to immunize people for this because if they don't do that then employers will be liable if their workers get sick, so that's the Republican's top priority in the next bill they pass.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-governor-greg-abbott-admits-dangers-of-reopening-state-on-private-call-with-lawmakers/ And now we're opening hair salons and gyms next week.

If i'm going to be sacrificed for the economy I may as well make a point of it on my way out.

The message I wish people would take is: Look at New Zealand, South Korea, and yes even China. China in particular started off in an absolute s*** situation because they denied it for too long, but they imposed strong controls, strong curfews, and regardless of how bad it was at the worst...after about 8 weeks, they dramatically dropped their case load and now have at most limited transmission. New Zealand has 0 new cases for 2 days in a row. There was a clear roadmap for how to do this. We could have limited the damage, if we were a great people anymore we could have had this at least on the downslope by now. The United States has spent what, 7 weeks on this, and we have managed to, at best, level things off. We've had as much time as China took to recover from one of the worst outbreaks, but we have made vastly less progress. Why are we so much worse at this than China? In Italy we had mayors threatening people with flamethrowers if they didn't get indoors, and Italy is now starting to actually reopen with cases under control. Why is it that New Zealand is able to take care of their neighbors, while we're at "The elderly have lived long enough - Dan Patrick" stage? We had to do better than we did, and instead we weren't up to the challenge, so now we're just going to see how bad it can get, and if people like me die...well phooey, I should have known better.

As a particularly at-risk person living in a red state...I'm still not ok with dying so that it hits home harder for my former colleagues/neighbors.

I knew this was bothering me when I read the first one, then I read the second one and... You want us in one post to "come together as a society" and in the other post "make a tradeoff and let lives be lost". I hope you can see how the people whose lives stand a good chance of being lost might not want to "come together to have their lives be lost". So whoever you blame...I'm not ok with my life being lost for a "happy medium".

One of the disaster scientists I follow has been pointing this out for over a month, now some press has caught up. propublica.org/article/trump-hasnt-released-funds-that-help-families-of-covid-19-victims-pay-for-burials-members-of-congress-want-to-change-that

Are there any other FAs that the Bears might have to consider using the Tags on next offseason?

1. The problem is - outside of New York, cases around the rest of the country have been growing at 17% per day for the past few weeks. New York coming down from crisis state has made the overall country look better, but "not much of a change" when things have been on a slow growth path means...continually increasing case numbers. So yeah, curbside pickup is nice, but it's only almost flattened the curve. 2. I haven't seen anything that makes me believe we have a good understanding of what types of behaviors are low-risk. We bounce from one statement about how long it lives in the air under certain conditions to another, there's just not been enough time to understand the lifespan of this thing. Furthermore, you can't just consider "opening garden centers increases risk one way", you have to consider the whole setup to assess that. Are more people going to the gas station? If they go to the garden center do they take more trips outside elsewhere? Were the landscapers moving in large or small groups? No state has had time to actually assess any of that. 3. When case numbers are already increasing, allowing slight increases to in-person interaction...well there's only one place that ends.

IMO- unless there’s something people are planning I don’t know about, you’re going to see some extra New York’s in the South by June, so if any state opens stuff up without getting their case numbers down first, well just watch what happens here. We are going to be the examples just like the governor said...just not in a good way my current plan is to go shopping tomorrow morning again and there’s a good chance that a week from now this state is in terrifying shape, to the point I’m scared to go out. The images of beaches, restaurants, stores here, when cases increased by 50% over a few days before things opened...I have no idea how I’m reading messages from people with good educations and jobs saying this is fine. We’ve created an ideal setup for this state to double in cases over the next few days.

The next step in this game is watching as the now open states see if they trigger explosions or not. If we do, then we will export cases to you on the roads. after that, you get to figure out if you can maintain the current shutdown for several more months to prevent explosions there, if you can’t get case numbers down.

I think it’s throwing in the towel on him and Foles is clearly their likely starter if a season happens. That 5th year is not guaranteed against him being bad, they could still cut him for that, it’s only an injury guarantee. It would be a lot of money if he got hurt, but if you had any confidence in him being a starter this year you pick that up.

so the guy who shared this says it’s a real photo and this might be the worst thing I have ever seen.

Dye was a year older and weaker, Podsednik was hurt a lot more and Ozuna played there a lot. But yeah, going from “this center fielder just swept the Yankees single handedly” in 2005 to the worst CF play I’ve ever seen for half a year in 06 was definitely the biggest part of it.

https://apnews.com/b3ef23cd1a7781ee388f1345477d91d8 These would all have been cases from several days before we started re-opening everything.