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Bats right, politics left.
Likes a bewildering variety of music.
Played Zork on a system running RT-11.
Never expected to end up in technical sales, but been doing it for over 30 years.
Upstate NY guy, Red Sox fan, grew up in Western North Carolina.
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And Will Flemming goes full John Sterling with the silly nickname. He was so good last year and sometimes this year he seems unable to just be himself.
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And...not yet, at least. There are still bleacher seats available for <$30.
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My Roman Anthony lottery ticket (to the #RedSox game Wednesday) came in! Need to look at Ace Ticket and see if prices for the game jumped. :-)
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Which is reason #457 that I hate, hate, HATE the way virtually all the "how to" information on the web has pivoted to video.
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I really wonder what would happen if the next ICE event was met by a delegation of members of Congress backed by 100,000 or so of their constitutents.
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Let's hope "enjoy" is the right word. :-) I'm buying a Roman Anthony lottery ticket for Wednesday since I'll be in Boston and the weather looks good. :-)
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Perhaps you’re not as good at delivering it as you think since I wasn’t the only one who didn’t get it?
No, the problem must be other people.
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Can’t explain anything to someone who’s determined to argue against what they imagine other people said. Hope that works out for you.
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More places are doing vote by mail than are doing boat on the weekend, so if there’s anything that hasn’t been tried, it’s your suggestion and has the other poster pointed out. It doesn’t help people who have to work on the weekend.
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He’s not saying “Tuesday isn’t a problem”, he’s saying “moving it to the weekend doesn’t solve the problem”. And he’s right.
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Right now he’s hitting better than Duran and playing better defense, and he’s two years younger. The only knock on him is the platoon split, and we have Ref on the roster to help with that.
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...to make the team better without giving something up. Bad management gets paralyzed in those situations. Good management realizes they have to break the status quo, makes a choice and explains why. You can see which we have so far.
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...or whether they just have a hard time catching and throwing what they get to. This team just seems so relentlessly mediocre while looking like they should be better; that's where a lot of the frustration comes from, I think, and why management is in a tough spot. There's no obvious move...
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Errors are easy for in-game reporting. I like TZR for a better metric, but it's really tough to say how a particular play affects that in the moment. I don't have a problem using them, but it's good to try to show who has a lot of errors because they get to a ton of balls...
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He's been streaky, but overall his OPS+ is 123 this year. It was 116 last year and they're letting him hit against lefties a little bit more this year.
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Duran's error ties him with Story, Campbell, Abreu and Bregman for the team lead.
Here's the difference: by TZR, they rank (best to worst) Abreu 8, Bregman 5, Duran 0, Story -5, Campbell -8
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I have never been so glad that I was teaching fencing lessons instead of listening to a baseball game.
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I don’t know why. He’s fun to watch but he’s only had one really good year and he’s already 28. I’d be more upset if they traded Abreu.
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That’s unpossible. I’ve been assured that the invisible hand will severely punish any such hijinks.
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“People won’t vote for my candidate because they’re stupid/uninformed” is not a useful way to approach politics.
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NY resident here. There are a few exceptions in the House (AOC and Tonko, who’s my rep and pretty decent) and Tish James is good as AG but for the most part, guilty as charged.
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I love NYC but I really don’t understand it.
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This team is bad at fundamentals. I don’t mean “small ball” kind of stuff, I mean basics like catching the ball, baseunning, and finishing off hitters with 2 strikes. They’ve been that way for several years now. This is a systemic problem.
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The appropriate response would seem to be “I’ve read all of his works that are worth the time spent reading them.”
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Actually understanding pretty much anything is disqualifying for appointees in this administration.
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Dobbins has been terrific the first time through the order. The Sox should consider using him as an opener -- give him 2 innings, then bring in Fitts, Giolito, or Bello and let them start probably at the bottom of the order.
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At this point, they should leave Fitts out there for 75-80 pitches just to save the bullpen.
#RedSox
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Here. Its easy. Re-post & spread.
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Apparently, Frankenstein is the essay author.
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Evidence of a TBI?
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Lot of good stuff there, to be sure.
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And there’s no “the community” of homeschoolers. There are a number of communities who are homeschooling for different reasons. None of them alone are “the homeschooling community”. Even in my local area there were two communities, one religious and one secular. We had little in common.
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I’m offended because you basically accused me and a lot of good people I know of being abusers out of your own ignorance. Not that I owe you any explanations, but I never had any use for HSLDA.
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You’re assuming I isolated my kids. I didn’t. They grew up with friends who were homeschooled and friends in public school. They had no issues transitioning to college and are both functional adults now. So fuck you for telling me I “stole” anything from them.
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I haven’t denied that there are cases where this happens. It is not the norm, though, and you’re not going to get a representative sample from a subreddit. You simply don’t want to accept that what happened to you is not the norm, but it very much is not.
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Roughly 3% of American school aged children are home schooled (2022-23 data). Do you seriously expect people to believe that the main reason over a million children are homeschooled is so they can be abused?
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This isn’t “mansplaining”. This is someone with direct experience of homeschooling who researched it before starting telling you that your generalization is invalid, incorrect, and insulting to a lot of people including me and my children.
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And you didn’t learn about confirmation bias, either? How many people do you suppose you’ve met who were homeschooled and you didn’t know it?
Look, I understand that you had a bad experience. But it’s not the common experience of homeschooling families.
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And your education was such that you think you can validly generalize from “everyone I knew”?
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Just to be clear here, are you saying that is the norm for homeschoolers?
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Home schooling was a thing in the 60s. It was adopted by racists in the 1970s, but they don’t deserve credit for inventing it.
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#AT40 Good god, 1975, what were you *thinking*?
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#AT40 Not embarrassed to admit I own most of their albums, and this is the best of their chart singles.
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#AT40 not great Chicago, but good Chicago.