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I agree that if a person is outside of your house and running away, it's no longer OK to shoot. Someone in the house is fair game though. You shouldn't have to take time to evaluate a threat level.

In Indiana, if you are committing armed robbery in conjunction with one or more other persons and one of those other persons dies at the hands of a third party due to justified self-defense, you can be charged with murder.

You could just give the pitcher half of the credit for what happens with balls in play and you probably get closer to the truth than B-R or FG.

I'm thinking that EJ gets some starts in September, so it's likely Sale doesn't even have 9 more starts.

Chris Sale (LHP) 11-7, 3.32 vs King Felix (RHP) 14-7, 3.65

Sorry, that was supposed to say 7:05 PDT.

My mom is looking for an extra Pods bobblehead. She has an extra Sale or Kittle to trade or she will buy it.

Q (LHS) 6-10, 3.62 vs Nick Tropeano (RHP) 1-1, 3.00

You used entire team pitching stats. I was looking at starters stats since the OP was specifically talking about starting rotations.

In MLB in 2015, Sox starters are: 3rd in IP 3rd in K/9 7th in HR/9 9th in BB/9 8th in FIP 11th in HR/FB So how is a starting rotation with those numbers only 13th in ERA? 26th in GB% 25th in LOB% 29th in BABIP Translation: While the starting rotation is excellent at striking guys out and not walking them, a very low percentage of the guys they don't strike out are hitting the ball on the ground. Compound that with poor defense and you have an extremely high percentage of ball in play ending up as hits. That is compounded with the fact that the rotation seems to get a lot worse once guys are on base. I think WAR is probably overvaluing the role that poor defense and luck play into the elevated ERA and undervaluing a bit the role of the pitchers themselves, but there is no doubt that the rotation has pitched better than their ERA shows.

Maybe not even Alexei. A team could claim him and then buy out his option and not be on the hook for too much money. Almost certainly Danks, LaRoche and Melky. Possibly Duke. Maybe Robertson, though he wouldn't be moved anyway. I don't know why Albers wouldn't get claimed. He's not owed much.

I don't treat rape or any other crime committed against prisoners as OK, but at the same time, I think there are limits to how much human/financial resources corrections departments should spend in trying to prevent these crimes.

If you are correct that he has options, then this is a pretty rare occurrence. Almost all DFA's are guys who don't have options.

Sox AL OPS Rank by position: 2B - 14th SS - 14th 3B - 14th RF - 13th DH - 10th C - 9th LF - 8th CF - 6th 1B - 6th I'm not a huge fan of Flowers, but if you find a way to get even league average production from 2B/SS/3B/RF/DH, the combined productivity of Flowers/Soto is not going to be the difference between making and missing the playoffs.

Johnson probably gets 5-6 starts in September while some combination of Sale/Rodon/Quintana get skipped to limit innings.

You can't claim a guy who's been DFA'd and then stick him in AAA. If you claim him, he has to go on the ML roster.

There's really no risk of having the QO accepted. The window to accept or reject is only a week, and there's no way he will know enough about his market value within that week to risk accepting the offer.

Making a QO to Shark is a win-win for the Sox. If he rejects, the Sox get a comp pick. If he accepts, they get him back but are only committed to him for one more year.

If Sale spends 6 more years in a Sox uniform and those years are even somewhat close to his 2014-15 numbers, then he will be the greatest pitcher in Sox history by far.

The people who devote the most time and money specifically to the pro-life issue wish very much that they weren't so tied to the religious right for that very reason. True, devoted pro-life people want there to be means to care for these children after they are born, whether that be through adoption, goods/services provided through donation, or, if necessary, public assistance.

Oh joy . . . http://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/...en-more-likely/

A victory today would clinch the cup, don't know about any ceremony though.

I'm not so sure that there aren't 41 Senators who would filibuster a CR that funds PP, even if leadership doesn't want the shutdown.

I think the PP issue f***s up any CR the same way it would an actual budget.

It's becoming increasingly likely that the PP issue is going to result in me getting an unplanned vacation beginning October 1.