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Hotel Artemis was a very.ambitious film...didnt quite get there, but it's definitely worth checking out. Jodie Foster is always good, this was a strange role for her to wait five years in between films.

Funny to see Trey M. hitting cleanup for the Barons...three new lineup members in Booker, Basabe and Call. Any updates on the Charlotte weather situation?

At least in MLB, you can sign older international free agents...in the NBA, you’re pretty much stuck with the draft or being the best at “winning trades” consistently, which hasn’t exactly been the Bulls’ forte.

He was so overshadowed by Bagley that he tended to become a bit stagnant and float around the perimeter as a secondary scoring option. He’s not flashy, he’s a solid pick for sure, but I can also understand fans wanting a game changer. He’s certainly not going to sell any tickets by himself, for some reason he reminds me of Drew Gooden, actually.

Carter is the Jose Abreu of this draft...

Sexton is a bundle of talent...will be interesting to see if he or Young becomes the better player. He definitely checks off all the physical/athletic attributes and can really score the ball, although he’s not yet consistent from deep outside.

Call out Rutherford and Adolfo, they deliver instantly...wish the major league team could do that.

Looks like Adolfo is still in the game? Sucks that Gonzalez just got promoted but nowhere to play...btw, Robert grounded out in his second at-bat. Sheets still in the low 700’s in terms of ops, 724 to be exact. Rutherford and Adolfo (barely) below 800 now as well.

Meltdown in Duluth: Trump yells at protesters and 'elites' at rally https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/meltdown-duluth-trump-yells-protesters-elites-rally-130345147.html Twice, Trump paused while security forces ejected protesters. “Get ’em outta here!” Trump roared. While the second one was being given the bum’s rush, Trump sneered, “Go home to your mommy, darling! Get him outta here. Out! Was that a man or a woman? Because he needs a haircut more than I do!” It was like a 1960s flashback, with law-and-order politicians like George Wallace yelling about long-haired hippies. Trump’s anger at the protesters was revealing. I’ve watched nearly all of his rallies, and he has never been this intent on seeing any sign of protest erased. He really lingered on watching the protesting people being removed from his sight — he stared silently, glaring. It was as though Trump resented any disruption in the last place he can get unconditional love anymore — he feels beleaguered in the current state of his presidency. At another point, his stream-of-consciousness riffing led him to this nugget about his perceived enemies: “They always call the other side ‘the elites.’ Why are they the elite? I have a much better apartment than they do. I’m smarter than they are. I’m richer than they are. I became president and they didn’t.” Aside from being the sort of childish brag a child would be embarrassed to be caught saying, does someone actually need to tell Trump it’s his side that calls liberals “the elite”? And when I refer to “his side,” I of course include Fox News, which was airing the rally. Indeed, it was the only cable news outlet to do so, and Fox really wanted you to know it. The channel put this unusual chyron onscreen beneath Trump: “Trump Rally Live & Only on Fox News. Other Networks Ignore Presidential Rally.” I’ll give you the rough translation of that: “Fearless leader speaks: State television must broadcast.” Trump ranted and raved with unusual bitterness this night. It’s clear that on this, the evening after he was forced to back down from his new policy to have some migrant children removed from their parents detained at the border, he was feeling besieged. It led to forced jollity — “Is there anything more fun than a Trump rally?” he asked — and there was a strained quality to his unceasing self-promotion. Toward the end, he interrupted his own thoughts to bellow, “It’s the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of American politics: Make America great again!” It was a clear case of a man trying to convince himself that things aren’t as bad as they seem.

Ivanka saved the day again! What a moderating force for good.... After Trump's Capitol Hill meeting, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., said the president "mentioned that his daughter Ivanka encouraged him to end this. And he said that he does recognize that it needs to end, that the images are painful." As he signed the executive order Wednesday, Trump stressed that he had heard from his daughter, saying, "Ivanka feels very strongly" and "I think anybody with a heart would feel very strongly about it. We don't like to see families separated." White House spokesman Raj Shah said Ivanka Trump had made calls to congressional leaders, advocating for a fix. She was at a meeting Wednesday between Trump and lawmakers at the White House.

A photo of Nison (aka Max) Miller stares out from the screen, sullen and stern, in faded black and white. “Order of Court Denying Petition” is the title of the government form dated “14th November 1932,” to which it is attached, the one in which Miller is applying for naturalization as an American citizen. And beneath the photo, the reason given for his denial: Ignorance. Nison Miller is the great-grandfather of White House adviser Stephen Miller, who has taken credit for being one of the chief architects of the administration’s family separation policy. And this 85-year-old document is just one bit of ammunition in a campaign being waged by the unofficial band that goes by the hashtag #Resistance Genealogy. Believing that the past is prologue, they search online archives for nuggets about the ancestors of public figures and politicians who disparage today’s immigrants. They use tools they developed as a personal hobby to make the point that people like Miller are holding newcomers to a standard that their own forebears could not meet. “Unless your ancestors came on a slave ship or you’re Native American,” you came here as an immigrant, says Jennifer Mendelsohn, who created the #resistancegenealogy hashtag last summer after Republican congressman Steve King or Iowa was quoted as saying “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” So she went on a genealogy website and quickly documented that King’s own grandmother was one such baby, arriving in 1894 from Germany as a 4-year-old, along with her infant siblings. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-aide-stephen-miller-meet-great-grandfather-flunked-naturalization-test-203424658.html

Name the last time a prominent political or military leader was actually jailed for #1. Did they jail General Petraeus? Shouldn’t all the Trump administration officials using personal emails for government business/consulting with lobbyists also be under investigation? In what world would locking up Hillary Clinton or George W. Bush (prison torture/related coverups/totally misrepresenting the case for the 2nd Iraq War to the UN) actually lead to a positive result? Do we want to set the precedent that the party which controls the WH should exact revenge on the other side every 4 years and set out to undo every past policy enacted?

He conveniently bypassed the Reagan and GW Bush moves...but I actually prefer the video of HFC leader Mark Meadows shouting at Paul Ryan over the two immigration bills that are political hot potatoes pending in Congress today.

Thought I would try to keep the battle for #1 draft pick going... Luckily for Hahn, we just missed Frankie Montas by one start (4-1, 2.41 ERA) but we do get our old friend, Chris Bassitt (0-2, 2.45 ERA). Can Giolito get his ERA back under 7? Exciting stuff! Dylan Covey starting against his former organization this weekend will be another prominent storyline. Other than Brandon McCarthy, most former Sox starters are actually going pretty good: Junior Guerra (3-5, 2.89 ERA), Gio Gonzalez, Q (better the last month) and of course, Chris Sale. You could even construct a semi-decent bullpen out of Addison Reed, Devenski, Logan and Hudson...

Thad Bosley, is that you??

Thursday, June 21 Game 10: Florida vs. Texas Tech, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) Friday, June 22 Game 11: Mississippi State vs. Oregon State, 3 p.m. (ESPN) Game 12: Arkansas vs. Game 10 winner, 8 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, June 23 Game 13 (if necessary): if Game 6 winner loses Game 11, a rematch (ESPN) Game 14 (if necessary): if Game 8 winner loses Game 12, a rematch (ESPN) College World Series Finals Game 1: Monday, June 25, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Game 2: Tuesday, June 26, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Game 3 (if necessary): Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m. (ESPN)

At least he made contact...haha...put the ball in play and force the defense to beat you.

11-6, pouring it on now, they’ve got a ton of talent too, but a very resilient team. UNC pen wore down from the pressure, stuck with Daniels too long arguably.

I know they’re the home team, but playing for the tie with OSU lineup turning over again in the 9th seems to be a dubious call. Have to play to win in an elimination situation. Datres retired, he had acculumated 7 bases worth of hits prior to that flyout. From my lousy iPad feed, looked like that last ball made it to the warning track in LF, but an out nonetheless. Madrigal up again. Insurance runs time.

7-6 OSU...bases loaded walk unties it. Madrigal, btw, leading off the top of the 9th with their 3 other studs following him. Still have to get through bottom of the 8th. Heimlich didn’t last long in this one, either. All hands on deck in the pen.

Wow, Rutschman comes up huge there (bases clearing double) after Larnach k’d with the bases loaded. Impressive. Tied 6-6.

Oregon State attempting to rally, first two runners reach base in top of the 8th...including Madrigal single to CF. Down 6-3 after taking early 3-0 lead.

Gonzalez returned to earth (hard) this year.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/immigration-family-separation-immigration/index.html How the Trump administration botched up the family separation policy so badly

Trump’s self-made Katrina. Stuff like this is going to haunt him forever with female voters (read mothers), any Millennials not already in the Dem camp, the Hispanic vote will look like A-A for Obama in 2008. He just gifted the House back to the Dems, and pissed off a subsegment of his own base for caving on their #1 issue.