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Putin couldn’t have been behind this most recent nerve agent attack because The Donald and Theresa May warned him...and he is so much more fearful of Trump than Obama or HRC. Honestly, at this point, we might as well install the Kushners as King and Queen and Donald Jr., as the Court Jester/Gaston from Beauty and the Beast comedic foil. Things could hardly be more embarrassing.

And for the 90-95% of Tepublicans who are too afraid to? Just punt?

The amazing thing is that the generic Congressional preference has only swung about 2% in favor of the Dems (8% total) over the last month...both sides are pretty firmly entrenched by now.

I’m pretty sure Greg’s Kansas (or Westboro Baptist) is not quite ready for Davids quite yet...that type of campaign works better with suburban soccer moms in Johnson County than outlying/rural areas. Sylvia Williams from Leawood is the seventh Democrat and second woman in the race. Like the other six candidates, Williams has never held public office. A recently retired banker who grew up in southeast Kansas, Williams says Congress needs people with financial experience but focused on the middle class. “They don’t care about the stock market," she says. “We need to get some policies passed that help small businesses. We need to get policies passed that help kids in college have better accessibility to financing for their college loans.” Williams says she does not want to arm teachers and she would support an assault weapons ban. She also says she supports women’s issues and embraces diversity. Also in the race is Sharice Davids, an economic development consultant, Tom Niermann, a teacher, Chris Haulmark, an IT executive, Brent Welder, a labor lawyer, Jay Sidie a businessman who ran against Yoder in 2016 and Mike McCamon who also has a technology background. kcur.com

What does 2019-2020 FA Class look like for top outfielders?

Trump’s political genius is this... https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/07/15/fareed-zakaria-gps-republican-party-ideals-malleable-sot-vpx.cnn Sasse calls Putin a “murderer” ahead of meeting https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sen-ben-sasse-calls-putin-murderer-says-trump-065804378--abc-news-topstories.html

What other choice do they have? It’s up to individual candidates to create the enthusiasm, however. Fwiw, the heart of the Trump Revolution was SE Minnesota, NE Iowa, SW Wisconsin, W-NW Illinois. That’s also why Cheri Bustos gets brought up over and over again, for being able to successfully speak to those voters. On the GOP side, it’s Will Hurd holding down the biggest Congressional district in the country, a Texas district that’s majority Latino while he is biracial (half white, half African American.)

Read he was consistently at 97-98 that inning...let’s hope he can sustain better than Giolito.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-futures-game-20180715-story.html article on Basabe and Cease starring in Futures Game

Winner: Immigration France’s unique beauty (in the World Cup) was its diversity – its distinct personalities and backgrounds, and the way they blended together. Les Bleus represented all of France – all cultures, all socio-economic classes. They were predominantly the sons and grandsons of immigrants, of Congolese and Haitian and Catalan and Martiniquais and Guinean and Nigerian and Italian and Cameroonian and Algerian and Mauritanian and Portuguese and Senegalese and Malian and Togolese and German and Angolan and Zairian and Moroccan and Filipino descent. A few were born abroad themselves. While some European nations that have historically maintained stricter immigration policies, and whose soccer federation have been plagued by explicit and implicit racism, failed to even qualify for the 2018 World Cup, France represented the powers of merit-based integration and inclusion. Immigration is not the reason France won the World Cup, per se, nor the reason Belgium and England made the semifinals with diverse squads. But merit-based integration and inclusion are reasons France has such an insanely talented pool of players to pick from. https://sports.yahoo.com/14-winners-14-losers-2018-world-cup-best-modern-era-200353611.html

https://news.gallup.com/poll/224864/football-americans-favorite-sport-watch.aspx https://finance.yahoo.com/news/handwritten-letter-tom-seaver-inside-business-baseball-nostalgia-143017186.html

Reminds me of the McAfee anti-virus guy or Papa John...everyone is melting down.

He never should have been called up by Boston, both his offensive and defensive struggles for a couple of weeks need to be taken with a grain of salt.

I guess Covey has as good an opportunity as anyone to make it out of the pen...you can list him and Fulmer as 1 and 1A from the “experienced youth” list. With Leury vs. Yolmer, it comes down to money and what Yolmer is potentially worth to another team (see Saladino playing a significant role in Mil). It always comes down to his not being quite enough of a slugger to hold down a corner, and his defense for whatever reason has regressed (might be the team-wide malaise.) With Avi and Jose, 12 teams out of the race already make it impossible to get a good/fair return this trade deadline. And Madrigal definitely ends up at 2B, pushing Moncada over to 3rd or the outfield.

Anderson Moncada Rodon Lopez Giolito (50/50) Maybe 5? Of the remaining players, you’re left with Narvaez, Palka/Davidson and Yolmer/Leury, probably at least 1-2 from that list...finally, Fry and Avi, I’d put the odds at roughly 10-15%.

Fake news!

Especially a Congressman with two decades of service, who hadn’t been challenged/primaried in 14 years and who had at least a 10-1 fundraising advantage.

Well, there are huge problems with IA Medicaid (surprise, surprise) but I’m not sure that’s a compelling argument for most independents...

Still think Cease has a chance to be the best of the bunch, at least while his elbow holds up. Maybe the new “market inefficiency” will be starters like Lester, Q and Hendricks (I realize he was just DLed) who rarely miss long periods of time due to injury...?

What minimum wage is she fighting for, since she has already rejected $15 as too high for Iowa...? As far as Blum goes, at least he does have some level of technology expertise (due to his internet ventures)...it’s the classic experienced (old/white) Tea Party businessman vs. inspirational (female) political ingenue. Iowans did give Obama a shot, but they also rejected HRC soundly and anyone under 30 running for statewide office isn’t going to have an easy time of it. It’s also not a race where you can easily make it all about getting out the women’s vote due to Roe v. Wade/Kavanaugh and Kim Reynolds both changing the landscape there. How much of Blum’s $15-20 million is he going to put into the race personally to attempt to retain his seat? OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The California Democratic Party snubbed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Saturday by handing its official endorsement and a badly needed boost to state Sen. Kevin de Leon, her longshot Democratic challenger. In backing de Leon, a majority of the party's 360-member executive board ignored Feinstein's calls to stay neutral in the race. Her allies had warned an endorsement would create an intraparty squabble that could detract from important down-ballot races. De Leon has long been courting party activists and appealed to those seeking a fresh face and a more progressive senator to fight against President Donald Trump. "Today's vote is a clear-eyed rejection of politics as usual in Washington, D.C.," de Leon said in a statement after the vote. "We have presented Californians with the first real alternative to the worn-out Washington playbook in a quarter-century." A total of 217 delegates voted for de Leon, of Los Angeles, while 22 cast ballots for Feinstein and 94 voted for no endorsement.

Booker can pretend to be a progressive all he wants. Trump would simply chew him up and spit himself as another version of Barack Obama, and 90% of the election would be fought along the terrain of identity politics, BLM and immigration. He’s accepted millions from Wall Street and other corporate interests in the past, taking the no-corporate-PAC money vow for the first time this year. He supports, and sometimes spearheads, ideas that are beginning to find widespread embrace among Democrats. He backs a $15 minimum wage and has introduced legislation to establish a guaranteed job pilot program in 15 communities. He also wants to see the Citizens United v. FEC decision overturned. The question, however, is whether Democratic primary voters will believe he is genuine about limiting his cash flow from Wall Street and Silicon Valley when his rise has been fueled by millions in contributions from those industries. “I’d start by saying he’s basically as bought and paid for as anybody who’s run for elected office. He’s inextricably linked with the moneyed interests,” Bertin Lefkovic, a New Jersey liberal activist who was a state volunteer leader for Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2016, said when asked how he would describe Booker to liberals not intimately familiar with his record. “From my perspective, he really has very little to offer anybody who considers themselves a progressive,” Lefkovic said. Refusing to take corporate PAC contributions won’t be much of a fundraising hit for Booker. From the time he first ran for Senate in a 2013 special election, Booker has received more than $2.6 million from the securities and investment industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog organization. Just $62,200 of that came from PACs, while the rest came from individual donors. Lawyers and law firms gave him even more, about $2.8 million — again, the vast majority from individuals. In 2013, his campaign was helped along by a super PAC funded by a few wealthy donors, with almost half its money coming from hedge fund executives, according to the Center for Public Integrity. In 2014 — Booker’s first reelection campaign — he was the single biggest recipient of financial sector contributions, according to CNBC. The donations, however, were for Booker’s two elections combined: his special Senate election in 2013 and his reelection for a full term in 2014. https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/07/03/booker-seeks-distance-as-corporate-donations-become-potent-campaign-issue-494360

MLB going crypto? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-major-league-baseball-going-crypto-134033104.html

They didn’t acquire Cain and Yelich NOT to win now...they’re going to double down on pitching, somehow.

Uh-oh, Madrigal 0/3 and then replaced. Hope it’s not the hamstring again. Talk about *MASH units this year.

http://ew.com/movies/2018/07/12/mission-impossible-fallout-review/ Some are calling the new Mission Impossible movie the best (summer) action film of all-time, 93% positive at RT. Skyscraper sucks. Hard pass. Finally, The Rider is the best movie of the year so far.