Wow! Hockey-ref lists him as born there and drafted at age 18 in 2021 but doesn't mention HS, only that he subsequently went to Harvard and played for an amateur team in Chicago. Couldn't have been at Harvard for long because he played his first NHL game at age 20 in April of '23 Not a big guy by to...

Y'see, this is part of the problem. Dems go from winning six of seven national elections in Iowa to losing three straight by increasingly large margins and decide that losing states they used to win regularly can't possibly be due to their message and/or their messengers. No, it must be because the ...

Among this year's Free Agents, only Cincy/RHP Nick Martinez accepts the offered QO ($21.05m)
Declining are: Willy Adames, Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman, Corbin Burnes, Max Fried, Teoscar Hernandez, Sean Manaea, Nick Pavetta. Anthony Santander, Luis Severino, Juan Soto

And on the AL side of the ledger, Cleveland's Stephen Vogt becomes the fastest to go from active player to manager of the year.
Joe Girardi had previously been the quickest from active player to MoY. Vogt's last game as a player was 10/5/22 (he HR'd in his last AB)

In '22 - '23 the Boston Bruins had a (sort-of*) record setting regular season earning 135 'points' on a 65-12-5 record (Wins x 2 + Overtime/Shootout Losses x 1) before being bounced from the playoffs in the very first round after jumping out to a 3-1 lead. Last year they had a good season [47-20-15]...

Phillies also want in on the action ... and why not?

Mo matter what one thinks of GLORY DAYS as a stand alone song, this video helps to cement my opinion
that more music videos detracted from the song they were meant to promote than enhanced them.

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It's a source. If the source wanted to go record then Klapisch would have told us who it was. But he/she obviously doesn't and so it's just a kernel of information that's out there, along with other nuggets and speculations, and we can think of it however we choose. I understand why we'd want more i...

Klapisch specifically says there IS a source to the "all in" mindset.
How you want to consider that source is up to you, but that's not the same as saying there isn't one.

Ichiro, and I'm going to ponder over King Felix and C.C.


His acceptance speech will be the first time most of the baseball world will ever hear Suzuki.
Reportedly his English was always better than he let on but only in close quarters.
He remained a cypher to the public for his entire career.

When I was there about 22 or so years ago it was called Minute Maid but the seats had an Enron E on the side of them. Yes, you may recall that that was a VERY quick change of naming rights so they probably hadn't gotten the chance to start ripping the E's off yet. And I'm going to guess that this n...

F@$%ing auto-correct!

So no more 'pumpkins (as Keith always called them) on the train behind the LF wall.

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Final Des Moines Register poll shows Harris leading Trump 47-44 in Iowa. Let's just say if she wins Iowa it'll be an early night...... If that's even close to accurate it would be big. "J. Ann Selzer is retiring from election polling just weeks after her once-respected poll showed that Kamala ...

Charlotte? Nashville? It would be a shame if they wound up leaving the Tampa/St P area especially given as how it's been such a hotbed of talent over the years. But MLB moved there in the first place seemingly for the sole reason that they pre-built a (bad) stadium designed to lure in some outside t...

Sam Arnold > Aaron Rodgers
Geno Smith > Aaron Rodgers
Zack Wilson ??? ... but at least he's still 25 years y/o, not 58

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Would hardly have mattered if I did.

With all the full time participants currently sitting between +3 and -3, this round has been there for the taking if anyone ran off even a decent string of games, but no one has. A tough back nine is one reason as we were collectively over par on each of the 11th thru 14th holes. But even the better...

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I'm back to not seeing the 'easy' ones and finding the supposed hard ones easier.

Instead of having the exact same picture (as competing papers often have) the three Alvarez covers appear to be all the same angle but just fractions of a second apart. I went with GREEN LIGHT as the best of the three I like the way they worked the text and sub-heading around the action in SNAKE CHA...

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metirish wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 11:59 am Sims is 71 , not that it means much

Which means the Yanqui radio booth just got younger by about 40 years!!

MFS62 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:10 am We heard later that Duquette thought he was getting Carlos Zambrano in the Kazmir deal.
That is unforgivable for a GM.

I don't believe there's a shred of evidence that that's true