Balta1701

Caulfield please stop making me agree with raBBit it feels icky.

Now this is how you do it.

And btw, Consumer Financial Protection bureau drops its investigation into how Equifax lost the personal information of half of America.

Pennsylvania Republicans have launched an effort to impeach the 5 state Supreme Court justices that voted to overturn their Gerrymander. Thanks to the Gerrymander they have the 2/3 majority necessary to successfully impeach them if they vote together.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 06:48 PM) Trump sabotaged his own markets....50% of it was overheating the markets (and inflation fears) with the tax bill and the Nunes nothing burger/Constitutional crisis talk. I don't believe this has anything to do with anything you just said. The market has been on a roll because the economy has been improving for a number of years; a slight overshoot followed by a correction is normal. The Nunes Memo is not the primary driving force affecting the economy, and there's little evidence that the actual wage growth is being significantly driven by the tax cut yet as most of that is going into share buybacks. There's no surge in business investment from the December or January numbers available yet, just the same level of business investment seen over the past year. Just because other things are going on at the same time as the stock market doesn't mean the wild stock swings are caused by those other things.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 05:06 PM) I think the main point of everyone is you don't need to write him off but it's okay to acknowledge he's not on same, steady progression of our other prospects like Hansen and Kopech, and he needs to legitimately show next year or the year after. Don't pencil him in for 2020 basically. One other thing that crosses my mind - we've got a bunch of guys like this. Collins, Cease, Rutherford, Adolfo, Burger - there's a ton of talent in some of these guys. Several of them are fringey top 100 guys because "some person at some publication likes them a lot". They're very unlikely to all succeed, but they're also unlikely to all fail, unless we have something systematically wrong with our scouting. If a couple of them succeed, then in a year or so we're talking about 2 more top 50 guys, in addition to our pick this year.

QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 03:11 PM) Wow.. that's an amazing comp. Another more hopeful comp could be Kyle Tucker of the Astros. 18 year old out of the draft in 2015 he put up a .647 OPS, 19 year old in 2016 improved to .798, 20 year old in 2017 improved to .874 to make him a major prospect. The home runs went from 3 to 9 to 25 those years.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 05:36 PM) I don’t think this is fan service, his bad history with Jabba got him frozen in Carbonite. I think it is just telling the story That's not how it seemed from Episode 4. In Episode 4 it was "Han my boy" from Jabba, at least in the scene that was edited out of the original. He was a regular smuggler for Jabba and then he got boarded and had to ditch a shipment, costing Jabba a lot. They were slightly hostile but that was Han too, always a little hostile but also willing to flatter. "I'll give you something a little extra for your troubles". Han then didn't pay him back for the lost shipment after episode 4, instead running away with the Rebels to Hoth. Han was still talking about going to pay Jabba back with the money he had at the start of Empire, but the evacuation, chase, and failure of the hyperdrive prevented that, so he got caught by Fett before he ever got around to paying Jabba. They seemed like they had a decent business relationship, at least for smugglers, at the start of ep 4.

QUOTE (BrianAnderson @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 04:14 PM) Totally forgot about him! True, you add him back into the mix? You are probably just one FA or trade for another strong arm from being right in it for 3-4 years. That really sent that team into a tailspin. A quick check of last year's stats found them 7th in the bigs in position player fWAR but 28th in pitching. That supports your statement very strongly.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 5, 2018 -> 09:11 AM) What's the picture? I can't see it. The eli manning/odell beckham handstand

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 08:03 PM) I get the newspaper for the 4th biggest city in the country. There was a week of headlines about how the Republicans have a memo that is going to prove the corrupt FBI has it out for Trump. There were 0 headlines about it being worthless, and basically the only analysis we got today was "There's a war between the FBI and Trump". If you got your news from that, for example, you basically are RaBBit right now. My local TV news was worse. Tonight's news report: "Sunday talk shows filled with Democrats and Republicans discussing a controversial memo". Republicans say the public has a right to know if the FBI process was corrupt, Democrats say the memo is an unfair attack on the FBI. Then a summary of how the memo suggests that the Dems helped pay for the Steele Dossier and that was used as evidence for the surveillance and a comment by the President about how it's unfair - with no mention of any other evidence that the guy was a russian agent, no mention of the fact that they disclosed that it was paid for in part by political parties, no mention of the fact that they had repeated warrants for him even without the dossier. Then an appearance by Trey Gowdy saying that the use of opposition research in a FISA application was "Somewhat unprecedented" - WTF that actually means God only knows, because either there's a precedent or not. Then a "the Democrats want their memo released too" both sides. Without the center content, it comes off as the memo release being fair and yes the FBI is totally corrupt in the report.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 11:31 PM) He was awful. He and Michaels reviewed that Ertz touchdown catch way too long. I don't blame them for overdoing it after the season we just watched. Fix that rule this offseason.

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That was the most yards in any NFL game ever. Regular or postseason. Jesus.

He took like 3 steps and was going to the ground after that catch. They'd still call that back based on the rules this year. 3 steps after catching it and then a leap.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 10:13 PM) Have the Pat's had a single penalty called on them yet ? Gronk had a false start in the first half. They said it was the first penalty on the Pats offense in the entire playoffs.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 10:11 PM) I do too. He had the ball just adjusted his grip on it not because it was coming loose . Adjusting the grip on the ball has been more than enough to have it not be a catch all year.

Based on all the calls this season that wasn't a catch. I think it was an obvious catch.

So wtf, both teams actually had the "throw the pass to the QB" idea?

Good work, Australia.

Well the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would like you to buy a Dodge truck. Apparently 2 months after he gave that speech that same recording was used at his funeral. Great work Dodge! Your cars are totally worthy of using that.

This Republican also claims to be the former head of the American Nazi Party.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 02:14 PM) Can someone explain to me what the point of releasing this memo was? Outside of FOX News, which thinks this is the biggest story since Watergate, not one single news source thinks this helps the GOP in anyway. In fact, it seems to hurt them more than anything. What am I missing? I get the newspaper for the 4th biggest city in the country. There was a week of headlines about how the Republicans have a memo that is going to prove the corrupt FBI has it out for Trump. There were 0 headlines about it being worthless, and basically the only analysis we got today was "There's a war between the FBI and Trump". If you got your news from that, for example, you basically are RaBBit right now. My local TV news was worse.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Feb 4, 2018 -> 01:09 AM) Can you feel the anger if it was your daughter? Sometimes I feel there's no empathy on here. So why do you want him out of jail so badly? 5 posts in a row: "we get it, but the judge has to keep the extracurricular stuff under control or the case will be thrown out on appeal and he'll be released" The next post by Greg: "MORE EXTRACURRICULAR STUFF!!!" That can only translate as you really, really want him out of jail. Why do you want him out of jail so badly if you're afraid of something happening to your daughter?