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[Nuclear power plan designer and operator]: We may have a problem.

[China]: You misspoke. There is no problem.

[Taishan residents]: 👀

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-happened-chinas-taishan-nuclear-reactor-2021-06-15/

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This is a serious issue, but I just look at the House Resolution number and just think NICE

https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1404893978621849608?s=20

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Nope NOICE

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Are there no B99 fans here?

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I caught it.

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Made indubitably better by the wonderful Cheez-it Bowl.

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I'll never forget that.

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Have you ever been arrested? Otherwise, what police encounters have you had?

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Jun 16, 2021Liked by SGBear

Weekend freight train hopping whilst in late teens, took it over the hump (Donner) from Roseville to Sparks, NV. Not the first time. Had trouble getting adequate type of "ride" for the return trip. Finally got on a car carrier, which we've ridden before, but usually avoided. We both got in new cars on the middle level. So far so good.

Train stopped just outside of Truckee, not always normal, then rolled on and stopped in Truckee...unusual, so we paid attention. I saw people & uniformed police walking along the train below. We both got out quietly and got under our respective cars, both Ford Mavericks. We heard yelling and shouting of directions including "Have you found them?". We planned to jump off on the steeper grades going up the pass, if we got out of Truckee. We didn't.

I heard foot steps on our level and looked down the car and saw a pair of cowboy boots approaching. The boots stopped right by us and I heard a "rustling" sound and we both stuck our heads and arms out....while the deputy was fiddling with his revolver yelling, "I got em, I got em!" We were handcuffed once off the train and spent 3 nights in the small Nevada County jail in Truckee.

One of those nights, the jail had an influx prisoners which they said was because around 4 young men, or hippies as the jailer told us, "had attempted to hijack a Coors truck". My buddy and I were taken out of our exclusive cell and put in with some older fellows aka vagrants and a "trustee" where we witnessed a fellow in the DT's. The trustee was studying a bartenders book and had us check his drink mixing knowledge by giving him quizzes (for hours) from the book. We heard numerous stories about other jails & institutions that were both interesting and disturbing.

Saw the judge. The charge was trespassing. He gave us a lecture and dismissed the case. I still have a copy of the record. A friend drove over to pick us up to go home. My parents were beyond reasoning with for a few days.

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Never been arrested but have been stopped for speeding too many times that I stopped counting. The most recent I was driving in Japan with international permit so never got a ticket but I had to sit in the backseat of a police car while being questioned.

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I guess you were going less than 180 km/h...Anything more and they can't catch you.

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Only about 140km in 60 zone ;p

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When I used to live in Mountain View, the police there had regular Coffee with a Cop social gatherings at Peet's to meet with the community. I went to one such event with my daughter, and had a nice chat with them.

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Yes. For soliciting after 6 PM without a permit. I was a Boy Scout (age 13) selling Christmas wreaths, garlands, and centerpieces. We did this annually as a fundraiser for our summer camp in the Sierras near Emigrant Gap.

We made it into a Herb Caen column under the heading of "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas".

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Heh...Would be a much different post if everything after "I was a boy scout" was removed.

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HA! No arrests, yet, but.....

*Around the holidays during the Pawlaski years, I was cited by BART police for distributing advertising leaflets on car windshields for my Dad's packaging and shipping business at the Lafayette BART lot after being warned by the policeman while doing the same at the Walnut Creek lot an hour earlier....I'm in the BART system...

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Never been arrested. Most of my interactions with cops have been traffic stops, in which I usually felt the cop was being more aggressive than necessary (like, I'm giving you what you want dude, chill out).

Once my wife (girlfriend at the time) left her car keys at the Pacific Film Archive where we'd gone to see a movie and we had to get a campus police officer to unlock the door for us so we could retrieve them. He was skeptical at first, but ultimately did help us.

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The most aggressive cop I encountered who cursed and intimidated me did not give me a ticket. The most polite and respectful officer handed me a ticket with the cleanest hand writing.

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Sometimes I think they just want a reason to yell at someone and don't even care about the infraction.

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Once, by the APEs (Air Police, on base) it was just plain dumb, and my dad was mad at me for not insisting that they call him right away.

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Only one encounter and it was many years ago. I was doing a loop around the Capitol on my way home from work. I saw a scrum of folks with microphones around someone. I stopped running and walked over to see what was going on and who was talking. A Capitol Police officer came over and shooed me away. I said I was just trying to see what was going on and he kind of threateningly said that I really didn't want to get into it with him. I was such a threat in my t-shirt and shorts. I shook my head and continued my run. I did not recognize the person who was talking.

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I've been detained once for something I deserved and falsely arrested once. I was detained as a freshman in Berkeley for riding around in the back of a station wagon with booze and creating a ruckus. We poured out the booze and were released when the cops were needed for something more serious.

I was arrested for credit card fraud, which was actually because Citibank put the wrong data on my replacement credit card. Hence, I know what the inside of a Hong Kong jail looks like and can attest to the discomfort of being handcuffed with your hands behind your back for half a day.

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Technicality, is it false arrest if the replacement card had wrong data? I mean you had a card that had wrong data.

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Martinique

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Went there on a cruise when I was 12, I only remember the snorkeling we did in a cave filled with bats and walls coated with colorful guano. Neat experience but it came with a horrible smell.

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Martinique residents are full French citizens.

I do not like that the US retains the vestiges of colonial and Cold War imperialism and literally has territories that do not have representation in the Republic. Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, North Mariana Islands, Guam and the District of Columbia have more Americans in them combined than Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

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Re: sailing to French islands, apparently no matter where you are in the world you can get delicious baguettes for dirt cheap at any French island

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yeah, we went to St. Martin – which is neither the French or Dutch spelling – and while the Dutch side is its own thing, the French side is EU. Lots of good restaurants downtown!

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PR and DC should be states, without question.

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Well, PR has voted on that before.

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And in the last referendum, the Ayes had it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

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Finally

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DBD Gym Time

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Saw a couple snapping turtles working on making more turtles on my run this morning.

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Turtle sex is so surprisingly aggressive.

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Finally weighed myself for the first time since starting lifting and have actually gained 2lbs. Hoping it's just muscle gains, but it looks like I'll actually have to incorporate diet more if I want to lose the weight.

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i think i gained 8+ lbs, not in a good way since my injury. i was hoping it would come off w/ being more active now, but i may actually have to start eater better ...

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Apparently those doctors, fitness professionals, athletes, etc were right all along

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damn them

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Yeah, losing weight is 80% food consumption, 20% exercise (at most).

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Very much this. Between 2015-2017 I lost about 70 pounds without doing anything to increase my exercise. It was all about calorie restriction.

I've since gained back about 30 pounds since I stopped tracking my intake (and quarantine didn't help), but I'm getting back on the program again, with a bit more exercise now.

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Achilles update.

Just saw doctor about 12 weeks from surgery. Says I am fully fine and don't need to come back. Still a few months for full strength but the rest is up to PT.

basically running, jumping, tennis will be the last things.

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DBD Av Club

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I watched the beginning of Bo Burnham's "Inside" last light. I found "White Woman's Instagram" to be really funny, but my wife thought it was a personal attack on her and stopped watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHotXbGZiFY

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Lupin Part 2 (Netflix), enjoyable end to the main storyline, but they tease that the show will be back for a Part 3 at a TBA date. I had the same issue as part 1 in that the main protagonist's ability varies to fit the storylines at times.

Because I have been watching a lot (but not yet most) of QI (Quite Interesting) during this past year, I finally got around to start watching Jonathan Creek, a whodunit starring Alan Davies (a regular panelist on QI) involving a magician's assistant who got pulled into solving crimes that spanned from 1998 to I think only a few years ago. Like a lot of British shows, it took some big gaps between certain "series". A few of the mysteries from the late 90s involved things that no longer exist now...corded phones, tapes in answer machine, and several mysteries that arguably would not be one with the proliferation of the Smart Phones.

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DBD Test Kitchen

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anyone tried making birria tacos?

was thinking of that for Sun afternoon cooking adventure.

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check my IG back a few months. I made some. Fed to an under appreciative audience.

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My 16 year old makes them occasionally but it's a bit of a fiddle, which leads to outsourcing.

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Pretty sure that's why God made food trucks.

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Our Crumbling Democracy

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Pompeo tries to make "fetch" happen

https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1404836432368312324

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Smoke crack to own the libs.

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I really do not like that smug prick.

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US Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says the US should boycott the Beijing winter Olympics because... [checks notes]... they want to collect DNA samples from our athletes.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/558648-cotton-warns-of-china-collecting-athletes-dna-at-2022-olympics

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The entire GOP is just one collective Internet troll.

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and then they will clone them! An army of Simone Bileses!

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well not Simone Biles because she's at the Summer Olympics but I don't know any US winter sport olympians

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Chloe Kim!

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[smacks forehead] of course!

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Bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday unaniously passes Senate after Ron Johnson (R-WI) doesn't object like he did last time the bill came up. It should fly through the House and be signed by Biden.

Now do it for Election Day, MFers.

https://apnews.com/article/senate-approves-juneteenth-federal-holiday-58d4fbd343f17df0b03dd0d0a221e452

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Juneteenth yes, CRT no. What are we even doing here?

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Do we know if that goes into effect this year or next year?

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Clinton: Biden will reset U.S.-Russia relations after Trump 'emboldened' Putin

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/16/hillary-clinton-us-russia-relations-494819

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ABC's Rachel Scott has huge cojones and asks Putin a pointed question. I wonder if she likes her coffee with or without polonium.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1405202438542536705

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Putin looked depressed after meeting with Biden.

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To be fair, he is Russian.

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There's a great This American Life episode about cross cultural communication - one of the stories Ira tells is about a guy who went on a date with a Russian woman and the guy thinks the date is going horribly, so never contacts the woman again - she was unegaged, staring off into the distance, non-communicative. Then 3 weeks later the person who set the date up asks the guy why he hasn't called her again, she's been eagerly waiting for a second date, and she had a great time on the first one.

Also some stories about trying to train the staff at the first Moscow McDonald's on an episode of Invisibilia https://www.npr.org/transcripts/482339162

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That's a funny story.

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Here's the transcript. I got some details wrong but the gist is correct.

So she kept trying to fix him up with Russian women. And this one night, she had him come out with a whole bunch of people, including this woman Elena, who was going to be his date.

Alex Blumberg

And so I meet them for dinner. And we're at the sushi restaurant, and we're all eating, and everybody's telling stories, funny stories. And I'm sitting across from my date. And my Russian teacher is turning to me and saying, you know, tell them this story! Tell them that story! And so then I tell them this story and that story, and everybody's laughing, except for my date.

And so we leave the sushi restaurant and we go to this club. And we're all dancing. Like, my Russian teacher's dancing, and all of her friends are dancing, and everybody's sort of like, you know, exchanging partners, and it's sort of this fun scene. And everybody's dancing except for my date, who's just sitting at the table and sort of nursing a drink.

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And looking--?

Alex Blumberg

And looking bored. Really bored.

And so, you know, I keep on coming back from the dance floor, and saying, are you sure you don't want to dance? You want to dance? And then she will sort of smile bitterly, and just shake her head, and-- and so then somebody else will drag me out.

So finally I come back and I sit down, and I'm sitting next to her, and I'm trying to strike up a conversation. And you know, something about like, I guess you don't like dancing, or something like that. And she sort of looks out at the floor, and there's people having a great time all around. And she sort of like nods her chin towards the floor and she's like, "This is an American dance number."

And I drove away thinking, well, that was a horrible date. Like, neither of us enjoyed each other. And that was a disaster, pretty much. Like, we were not going to be seeing each other again.

I get to Russian class the next week, and my Russian teacher says, "hey, so are you going to call Elena? She said she had a great time." And I was like, I was floored by that. I was trying to figure out what that could possibly have meant, right?

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Today in Covid-19

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Delta variant (UK variant) is now 10% of US cases and rising. Fortunately, existing vaccines are effective against it.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html

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Delta = Indian

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That won't help folks who stubbornly refuse to be vaccinated. The only things that might help them is group immunity within a bubble and dumb luck.

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its called "Natural Selection"

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Pro

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the whole athletic reporting (and then Cuban denying) front office intrigue about the power struggle between Haralabob and Donnie Nelson and Luca is semi-interesting, but seems to actually miss what is the center of the power struggle. It's like it's just reporting on the effects, but not what is actually being fought over.

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Game #69: A’s stay hot with 6-4 victory

https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/6/15/22536303/game-69-oakland-as-los-angeles-angels-score-result

The weather is heating up in the Bay Area, and so are the Oakland A’s.

The green-and-gold won their fifth game in a row Tuesday, by a 6-4 margin over the Los Angeles Angels. The A’s fired on all cylinders as they’ve done all month, with a balanced offensive attack from top to bottom, good enough pitching, and highlight defense.

This game was similar in spirit to last night’s victory. The Angels scored the first run early, but Oakland charged back to take a lead in the middle innings, and then the A’s bullpen made things interesting but ultimately held on for the save.

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Giants grant Diamondbacks a 7-run handicap, win anyway because that’s the season those respective teams are having

https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/6/15/22536278/san-francisco-giants-mike-yastrzemski-grand-slam-diamondbacks

You’ve heard these stats before but I’m going to tell you them again. Because you need to hear them again. You need to really internalize them. Inject them into your veins, as the kids say (disclaimer: McCovey Chronicles and Vox Media do not encourage injecting anything into your veins, unless administered by a healthcare professional).

Entering Tuesday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants, the Arizona Diamondbacks had lost 11 straight games. They had lost 28 of their last 31 games. They had lost 20 consecutive road games.

The last time the DBacks won a game outside of Phoenix was when Madison Bumgarner threw a seven-inning no-hitter on April 25.

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D'backs GM Mike Hazen is on leave as his wife seeks treatment for brain cancer. Rought times in Phoenix. Thoughts are with them.

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I went to bed with the score 8-3, D'backs in the top of the 6th. I was close to nodding off on the couch by then.

But I KNEW in the very depths of my soul that the Giants were gonna win this one. Don't ask me how. I just knew.

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YAZ!

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Love love love Yaz. Hope he stays a Giant forever.

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Mookie Betts finally gets his moment in front of a full Dodger Stadium crowd

https://www.truebluela.com/2021/6/16/22536007/mookie-betts-home-run-dodger-stadium-capacity-crowd-reopening-day

A lot happened in the 16 months since Mookie Betts was acquired by the Dodgers, who snapped a 32-year title drought in the superstar’s first season with the team. But in nearly a year and a half since first joining the team, Tuesday was the first time Betts got to play as a Dodger in front of a full Dodger Stadium.

Betts’ seventh-inning home run off Ranger Suárez broke a tie and delivered the Dodgers what became a 5-3 win over the Phillies on what was dubbed re-opening day in front of 52,078 at Dodger Stadium.

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Tampa Bay Ray ace Tyler Glasnow has UCL injury (will avoid TJ...for now) but openly blames MLB's foreign substance on ball enforcement for changing the way he pitches...thus leading to the injury.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31639015/tampa-bay-rays-say-ace-right-hander-tyler-glasnow-partially-torn-ucl-flexor-tendon-strain

I am all for leveling the playing field so that all the pitchers are using the same sticky stuff and no one is using the really sticky Spider Tack, but this midseason "rule change" is going to be rather problematic.

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Judging from the two MLB game balls that I got this year (thanks in part to just 2000-4000 in attendance and a lot of luck) compared to the very few game balls that I have got before, both balls this year had slight torn on the skin of the ball (basically near the sweet spot). I am not accusing that Trevor Cahill and Carlos Rodon are using the super-sticky stuff, but that does look consistent with gripping the ball so tightly that part of the baseball skin comes off. This is distinctly different from an MLBball that I have gotten in the past where a pitcher clearly picked at the seam (which was a common past form of doctoring balls).

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Glasnow's complaint is utter garbage.

Mid-season "rule changes" are how baseball rolls. Not being problematic is problematic for MLB.

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Trevor Bauer had two interesting points about Glasnow. 1. Bauer noted that there isn't really a change in rules but rather a change in enforcement of rules. 2. Less grip could mean that pitchers have to grasp the ball harder, over-activating forearm and elbow muscles.

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Just apply a rule that nothing stickier than N joules. Simplify it by having a weight (eg, a standardized piece of plastic shaped like an everday object - like a comb with a handle) since gravity is a constant. Put the surface perpendicular to gravity since you're looking to measure shear force. If it falls off, no problem. If it sticks, then ejection. Plus, you get the excitement of calls like "Uh oh, the ump has brought out his comb."

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This is actually a perfect solution.

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I love it.

Problem is, such a solution can't be understood in simple terms by MLBPA and MLB would shy away from a solution they didn't come up with themselves.

My cynicism knows no bounds.

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I like it! This could become another colorful part of baseball history.

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Doesn't seem like Paramount+ sprung for the best announcing team.

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Why did the goalie not pick it up? Is there a rule that the goalie cannot use his hands for a back pass?

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he can't pick it up if the pass comes from his team. If he does, it is immediately blown dead and the other team gets an indirect free kick from the spot. Since that is usually near the goal, it can lead to some insane set ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWZVoIje4SU&ab_channel=DNpro

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Who gets credited for that own goal? The goalie who made the mistake or the poor defender who initiated it with the back pass?

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looks like the keeper got the final touch

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That's what I saw. So, the goalkeeper gets credited with an own goal?

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Uh, credit?

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In the world of sports statistics, yes, the goalie is credited with an own goal.

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As in, whose name is entered in the box score as scoring the goal?

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Chris Paul got COVID, out indefinitely. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31644110/phoenix-suns-chris-paul-indefinitely-placed-nba-health-safety-protocols

Kawhi Leonard will miss game 5 and possibly the rest of the series with the more standard problem of a knee injury.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31644076/sources-la-clippers-kawhi-leonard-miss-rest-series-knee-injury

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Saw speculation that it is an ACL tear for Kawhi

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Dang

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This is a very Chris Paul kind of story.

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And also a very Clippers kind of story.

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It may be a contact tracing thing.

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oh...this series just got even more interesting...

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I think CP3 will probably be out of the protocol whenever the next round starts for the Suns. With Leonard, Jazz might just take the next two games to finish the Clippers off (it was a mild surprise that they bounced back in their past two games).

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Kevin Durant is pretty good.

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That just felt unfair.

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Other College

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Fox Sports' George Wrighster says Arizona State football might be in big trouble due to compliance.

https://twitter.com/georgewrighster/status/1405188750074814465

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a friend of a friend of a friend posted something about Pac-12 football recently and what he knew about the level of cheating that goes on. Most schools are pretty clean but Oregon has gone full SEC/ACC and is throwing money around like crazy and ASU is doing it with certain players. SC will occasionally participate in bidding wars for 5* guys but usually doesn't. Washington doesn't do it much anymore. Everybody else is largely playing by the rules. But there is a reason why so many more players have been leaving California/Pac 12 footprint for the big names the last few years and it sure isn't because of the perceived increased level of competition. NCAA isn't doing anything about cash payments so certain schools are taking advantage. It'll be interesting to see if NIL changes this dynamic or if its just another layer of cash for the star recruits/players

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You only have to look at SC's performance to know we're not paying most of those guys under the table. Maybe they should hire a cheaper coach and start the payment pipeline again... although they'd probably do some stupid shit like public Venmo transfers

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Mykel Williams (-$8,000)

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P.S. 🙈🙉🙊

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I had no idea what this was about until I went on twitter late last night

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It's not worth it unless you get free tattoos, COME ON

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So... we go to the Rose Bowl if everyone else is ineligible? I'm fine with that.

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except it won't be the Rose Bowl anymore

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The two sweetest words in the English language! De-fault! De-fault!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvIISDoarU

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Sneaking in in any way possible...

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Title of your sex tape.

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"Perhaps this McDonald's bag full of coupons for Fat Slice will change your mind. Don't worry... your mom is getting coupons too."

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Lots of rumors that it will be a massive scandal that will shake the landscape of football in the West. Next week. PleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCalPleaseDontInvolveCal

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Nothing Cal does is likely to shake the landscape of football, in the west or anywhere else.

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exactly. Even if the NCAA hammered Cal on level I violations, no one outside of the Cal fan base would see it as a seismic shift in the football powers out west.

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I dont see Cal on here so list is invalid. 15-0 BITCHES

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Cal

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Go Bears!!!

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Watch out SRV Wolves. You're up against it now.

https://twitter.com/cjandersonb22/status/1404924824816742401

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In Baltimore right now, highly recommend Ironage in Catonsville (west Baltimore county), it is a Korean BBQ place and I tried it for the first time and MY GOODNESS it was good.

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Maryland and northern VA have a surprisingly broad selection of really good Korean restaurants.

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Never been, but we have friends in Catonsville and love going there.

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IIRC, there are a ton of Korean BBQ places in Ellicott City, which I believe is right by Catonsville.

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