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a sexual elk posted:
Wildflower yards are where it's at. We had a couple volunteer African Daisies and globe mallow plants I let be a few years back and now they're propagating on their own. Not quite as dense as that, but every year the field gets bigger.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Can anyone who follows MLB explain why it's so hard for them to fire Angel Hernandez? Why is the MLB's Umpire union so influential? I think MLB is using Angel Hernandez to break the umpire union and install robo umps
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Apr 19, 2024 14:57
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https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1781294777830432868?t=xpfDEwm2KJKY8gweJAQt8Q&s=19 Surprised it took this long, lol
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opposable thumbs.db posted:I was disabused of the notion of women's sports being kind many years ago I remember when that happened and I had some male friends who we aghast that I shrugged it off because it happens a lot. My Angel Hernandez theory is that he's got info on the MLB higher ups so they won't fire him. Or is on the take for sports betting and they don't want that scandal.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:13
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Can anyone who follows MLB explain why it's so hard for them to fire Angel Hernandez? Why is the MLB's Umpire union so influential? Dango Bango posted:I don't follow MLB closely, but umpires are the cops of baseball. If that helps answer the question. Oh so goons hate unions now, noted.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:20
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Hot Diggity! posted:Finally getting some friends down to our place for poker this weekend. Gonna smoke a bunch of wings and then win all their cash. Poker night with the friends is one of life’s delights. Good for you, my friend  Mixing card games with the messiest of snacks is a choice though lol
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Apr 19, 2024 15:34
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swickles posted:https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1781294777830432868?t=xpfDEwm2KJKY8gweJAQt8Q&s=19 They were also being cagey about how many they had sold so I think that’s the first solid number of units we’ve seen.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:42
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LeeMajors posted:There’s a big air show this weekend at Charleston AFB with the Thunderbirds that could be fun, but that’s pretty far from IOP. Charleston’s main draw is food, drink and beach and it gets a little boring sometimes. There are tons of nice breweries with good outdoor spaces. Check out the brewery trolley that should be running this weekend downtown. For food check out Xiao Bao Biscuit on Spring St, Lewis BBQ for brisket. If you’re staying east don’t sleep on the little bar and restaurant area on Sullivans. Poes is cool and has good burgers. Obstinate Daughter gets good reviews also. Two years ago my birthday coincided with a work trip to Charleston so I ate a lot of crabs on the company dime and I threw up all the crabs. T hat's my Charleston story.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:56
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Two years ago my birthday coincided with a work trip to Charleston so I ate a lot of crabs on the company dime and I threw up all the crabs. T hat's my Charleston story. If you knew how many tourists I transport for hangovers + elevated southern food vomits, you’d know this is just everyone’s Charleston story haha. “Hi I’m from Seattle so I drank 10 grand ma shots and ate a gallon of she crab soup, now I covered everyone on my carriage tour in curdle vomit” x10000
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Apr 19, 2024 16:23
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The guy who plays Yabushige in Shogun has a very good surprised face, which he gets to break out a lot because he’s constantly getting caught being a two-timing dipshit by Toranaga.
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Apr 19, 2024 16:45
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his little grunt noises are great
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Apr 19, 2024 16:47
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swickles posted:https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1781294777830432868?t=xpfDEwm2KJKY8gweJAQt8Q&s=19 wonder if my BIL will send his in.
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Apr 19, 2024 16:48
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a sexual elk posted:Also thinking of a decoration for the middle of the small garden. Powered waterfalls and bird baths are lame, so I’m leaning a simple cairn straight outta rear end creed. a while back i was doing a walk on the trail near my house and saw a couple cairns put together. was pretty cool.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Can anyone who follows MLB explain why it's so hard for them to fire Angel Hernandez? Why is the MLB's Umpire union so influential? Remember how it went when the NFL used replacement refs? For MLB it... it went much worse
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Freaquency posted:The guy who plays Yabushige in Shogun has a very good surprised face, which he gets to break out a lot because he’s constantly getting caught being a two-timing dipshit by Toranaga. 
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love to forget I have dough proofing in the oven and preheat it for something else 
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C-Euro posted:Oh so goons hate unions now, noted. Cop unions aren't unions, they are a specially protected cadre to enforce the will of the owner class and bust unions. I don't think any other unions recognize or ally with police unions. I do think umps should have a union though, but I also thinking having a strike/ball calls be automated is a good idea and its really dumb we don't do that.
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But is their union so strong that they can prevent ANYONE from ever being fired despite gross incompetence for years?
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:But is their union so strong that they can prevent ANYONE from ever being fired despite gross incompetence for years? Angel Hernandez is proof of that.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:But is their union so strong that they can prevent ANYONE from ever being fired despite gross incompetence for years? Evidence points to: yes
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Apr 19, 2024 17:45
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The umpires union is stronger than the players union right now, which lol
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that's that guy!?! wow I kept thinking the guy they cast as Yabushige has too kind of a face because in the book he is such a huge rear end in a top hat
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Apr 19, 2024 18:00
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someone just lit themselves on fire outside of the court for trump, it's on AP live feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8iZLie7mRE
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Apr 19, 2024 18:41
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a sexual elk posted:
Excellent, I'm super in favor of natives. These guys all want full sun though, you got a spot with that? They can do OK in partial shade but if you want this sorta glorious infill with a jillion flowers, full sun is the best.
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Leperflesh posted:Excellent, I'm super in favor of natives. These guys all want full sun though, you got a spot with that? They can do OK in partial shade but if you want this sorta glorious infill with a jillion flowers, full sun is the best. Yeah this spot, sun basically all day  Just a little less for the bit that gets blocked by the tree trunk
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Nodoze posted:The umpires union is stronger than the players union right now, which lol I wonder how much leverage the NFL scab refs debacle gave officiating unions in other sports leagues. I still have a pic saved somewhere of that contested catch in the Green Bay - Seattle MNF and the two refs giving totally different calls.
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Tate caught the ball 
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LeeMajors posted:Imagine being this loving stupid. Doesn't appear to be Trump related: Investigators are now fanning out to collect the flyers the unknown man threw into the air, another senior law enforcement official. A CNN team on the ground observed one of the flyers. It said "NYU is a mob front" and had various allegations of wrongdoings against the school. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-19-24/h_a0c5ea747751ddad7bc88749d2f559d1
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At least the USAF airman that immolated himself was specifically protesting Palestine.
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Might not be protesting anything at all. Could be a very public suicide attempt.
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I've seen images from the guy's social media and excerpts of their Substack and unfortunately it looks to be the endpoint of a massive mental break.
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He's a "one world government" conspiracy kinda guy... https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside
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Hot Diggity! posted:Doesn't appear to be Trump related: Yikes. Deleted.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:He's a "one world government" conspiracy kinda guy... Excited for Aaron Rodgers to tl;dr this for me during his next McAfee appearance.
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a sexual elk posted:Yeah this spot, sun basically all day That's more of a partial shade situation, from the wall and from the shadow of the tree canopy, but it's more on the full sun side than the shade side so I bet they'll do alright.
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The Angel Hernandez thing is an understandable bad result of how we do union/management relations in the US: 1. Even very good umps are going to make mistakes. Sometimes very visible ones! 2. The league gets a lot of pressure to punish umps for those mistakes. Baseball is a very flukey game, and sometimes a single bad call can change the game. Also, a lot of owners, managers, and fans are sore losers, and the baseball press is mostly just a bunch of local diehard fans with a platform. 3. The union takes protecting its members from that pressure very seriously. For one, it’s something every ump is conscious of, because the first step of that pressure is the managers constantly screaming in their face. But also, if there was a system for punishing umps for bad calls, it seems likely that it’d quickly get ramped up to be really bad for umps — that basically they’d be getting constantly punished for minor mistakes and even just marginal judgment calls. 4. It is very likely that those consequences would not be balanced among teams. Teams with more influence, or just with whinier management, would probably be able to get you in more trouble as an ump. So umps would, effectively, be punished for not biasing calls towards those teams. And of course that works the other way, too: teams would have a pretty clear incentive to push harder to “hold umps accountable”. And if this punishment involves suspensions, you’re also talking about bringing in a lot of less-experienced umps. So there are some real arguments that a regime like that would be very bad overall for the league. 5. All that said, there are definitely a few umps with a long history of inexcusable calls who probably shouldn’t be in the league anymore. It would probably be better overall for the umps if they admitted that and didn’t close ranks to protect bad actors like Angel Hernandez. But when unions have this sort of adversarial relationship with management, it’s really hard to make that kind of decision; and the union actually has an affirmative responsibility to protect every member to some degree.
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My favorite thing about Angel Hernandez is that he filed a discrimination suit against MLB because he wasn't getting assigned to the World Series. So the league walked into court and basically said "Your honor, he sucks poo poo so we don't want him to work the most important games of the year" and the court agreed. So now it's a matter of US legal history that he is bad at his job
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rjmccall posted:The Angel Hernandez thing is an understandable bad result of how we do union/management relations in the US: Ok yeah yeah, but there's no review or grading process that the union and MLB have agreed upon? MLB ump can't be some kind of lifetime appointment, these guys must have contracts that the league can choose to renew or not. The NFL gives each official a grade after every game, and it determines if they get to do playoff games and if their contract is reupped. If the MLB had something like that in place I don't see how Angel Hernandez would still be around.
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Rogue Elephant posted:My favorite thing about Angel Hernandez is that he filed a discrimination suit against MLB because he wasn't getting assigned to the World Series. So the league walked into court and basically said "Your honor, he sucks poo poo so we don't want him to work the most important games of the year" and the court agreed. So now it's a matter of US legal history that he is bad at his job  this is incredible
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