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Baseball / Re: The World Series!

« on: October 29, 2021, 10:48:49 PM »

The TV ratings don't align with your perception of people's walking away from the game, even if it also doesn't show folks running to it, either.

Numbers still suck compared to 2003 or even 2015, but they are better than last year and in many cases better than 2019. The loss of the Dodgers and the Red Sox hurt the WS numbers a lot.

https://deadline.com/2021/10/2021-world-series-opener-rises-atlanta-braves-bachelorette-slip-1234863389/

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2021/10/mlb-postseason-ratings-lcs-viewership-dodgers-braves-game-6-tbs/

he average viewership for the 2021 MLB postseason through the division series was at its highest marks since 2018. Viewership is up 89% from the 2020 MLB playoffs and there is a 3% spike from the playoffs in 2019.

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2021/10/boston-red-soxs-wild-card-game-win-over-yankees-was-most-watched-mlb-game-on-espn-since-1998-delivered-198-rating-in-boston-market.html

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!

« on: October 29, 2021, 09:33:23 PM »

Houston dodged a bullet. Only 1-0 for the Braves.

Garcia's thrown a lot of pitches for 3 innings, but a couple short ones could help him make it through 6, perhaps.

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!

« on: October 29, 2021, 08:28:07 PM »

checked swing, miscalled

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 29, 2021, 06:26:18 PM »

Rutgers professor violates school policies of inclusion with her comments on white people.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-professor-on-white-people-i-want-to-say-we-got-to-take-these-motherf-kers-out?yptr=yahoo

https://inclusion.camden.rutgers.edu/resources

Haters gonna hate, but they shouldn't be paid to do so by the State of New Jersey.

She needs to go.



Read the comments from her students.

https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1872742


Cursing at students, intimidation tactics, grading issues. Anger management issues.

Needs to go. Guess we know why she's still employed.

Tenure.


The people that want to teach kids about America and how racist and oppressed everyone is are the real racists and oppressors, Wallace said.

yeah

Sure

LB would defend Amin.

No, but you would defend Trump. And do.

And Robert E. Lee.

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!

« on: October 29, 2021, 05:11:19 PM »

What happens when a ridiculous figure like 3.5 trillion dollars enters as a serious thought -

The 400+ million that this would cost seems small

heh

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/murphy-letter-cabinet-secretaries-horrific-decision

Whatever will the Braves do, now?!!

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 29, 2021, 02:30:13 PM »

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!

« on: October 29, 2021, 02:15:14 PM »

https://tht.fangraphs.com/estimating-wind-effects-at-suntrust-park/

The winds tonight are not supposed to hit 10mph during the game and only maybe tomorrow night.

While it will make things chillier, the direction of the wind is not likely to add to the scoring, except maybe Sunday.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 29, 2021, 01:58:33 PM »

Straw Man?

Guess you do not read the latest news from across the pond.


Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing

But there are winners as coal furnaces are relit and reliable natural gas are called upon.
Shares in American suppliers of liquified natural gas have risen nearly 50 per cent

Informative.  Thanks.

Misinformative.

https://www.bruegel.org/2021/09/is-europes-gas-and-electricity-price-surge-a-one-off/

Of the WSJ article, somebody wrote "This article seems to be trying to turn a story about unprecedented highs in natural gas prices (mirroring surging post-covid commodity prices all over) into a story about the wind sometimes not blowing."

They recommended this article:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/expensive-winter-ahead-europes-power-prices-surge-2021-09-10/

The keys to wind as a major part of sustainable energy are (a) international power sharing and (b) storage systems. While in any given area, there may be a lull in wind power, it doesn't happen everywhere and won't until the Earth stops revolving, whereupon we will have far bigger problems than our wind power. This is why power transference is vital.

Storage is both a simpler solution and a much shorter term solution at any given moment, but it provides back-up and as our storage solutions (for wind, for solar, for water) improve, it will become a less short term response to periodic lack of wind, etc.

If it were just a matter of reading the news from across the pond, that, too, would be simple.

But we need better systems of transference of knowledge, development of understanding, and storage of and access to interconnected information.

That was one of the most politicized "news" stories from WSJ in a while. They usually keep most of the editorial slant out of the news, but this one swallowed it up and spat it out.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 29, 2021, 12:35:36 PM »

Skip nukes. Go straight to solar and wind. You will have a better life.

Solar and wind are not enough by themselves, yet.

Nothing is enough until you build it.   As long as the wind blows where you build them. A necessary condition that is lacking in a lot of places.   

Please name a place on earth where the wind does not blow.

Ward's head.

It's hollow, but he had the various entrances sealed, to avoid any risk of knowledge acquisition.

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!

« on: October 29, 2021, 08:55:32 AM »

Factor this in to the pitching over the next few days. MLB hates rainouts. They'll make them play.

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Atlanta+GA?canonicalCityId=508c6a2d4ca8386de1772c4316073b1448fb270ee2d264d01c7b2a4b33073688

There's nothing in that weather forecast that should preclude their playing. Showers tomorrow night, not a deluge. And Saturday night has no rain in it.

EXACTLY the problem for the pitching staffs, josh. NO DELUGE. A deluge would allow a reset for the team's staffs, but those rain delays that are likely would cause more use/overuse of the BPs.

So, when I wrote that you should factor this in to the pitching over the next few days, I thought anyone with a modicum of understanding of what is really going on in this series would get that.

Apparently, you're not someone who knows what is really going on in this series.

I don't think the predicted possible showers will even get them a rain delay during the game tonight, Ham. And no rain during game time on Saturday or Sunday.

You missed my point altogether.

I think you are flat wrong about its being a significant factor unless the forecast changes or is in error.

And why every little disagreement means the other party must not understand what is going on in whatever scenario you are discussion, in your never humble opinion, is illuminating. Speaking of people who can never let go of a thing.

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Baseball / Re: Major League Baseball

« on: October 29, 2021, 08:47:29 AM »

Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer and Robbie Ray highlighted the list of those who claimed Players Choice Awards for the 2021 season. The awards, announced Thursday on ESPN, are presented by the Major League Baseball Players Association and are voted on by the players themselves.

Ohtani and Ray were named Outstanding Player and Outstanding Pitcher, respectively, for the American League, while Harper and Scherzer claimed Outstanding Player and Outstanding Pitcher for the National League, honors similar to the MVP and Cy Young awards that are voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

I think the MLBPA should vote on Outstanding Baseball Writer of the Year.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 29, 2021, 08:43:46 AM »

We via ScoMo might've have been able to persuade him to change...but you removed him from office.

Nobody but Ivanka ever got him to change his mind about anything and she managed it rarely.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 28, 2021, 11:28:19 PM »

I am not the biggest Cornel West fan, but I think he hits the nail on the head in this WaPo piece:

Josh,  The article says that these courses will still be offered, not abolished. As for the removal
of a classics department, I would guess it has more to do with finance and class enrollment, than it
does an abandonment of the western cannon.  Good read by Prof. West.

Deej, after 30+ years of watching colleges, ditching the department leaves the individual courses to the vagaries of those separate departments and as the step-children they are, they drop rapidly by the wayside.

This is just the latest step.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 28, 2021, 11:26:50 PM »

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: October 28, 2021, 08:44:34 PM »

I am not the biggest Cornel West fan, but I think he hits the nail on the head in this WaPo piece:

From Cornel West, who defends Western classics as he condemns Howard University's decision to abolish teaching the Western Canon. 

s decision to abolish teaching the Western Canon. 

Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Defying unjust laws, he read in secret, empowered by the wisdom of contemporaries and classics alike to think as a free man. Douglass risked mockery, abuse, beating and even death to study the likes of Socrates, Cato and Cicero.

Long after Douglass's encounters with these ancient thinkers, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would be similarly galvanized by his reading in the classics as a young seminarian -- he mentions Socrates three times in his 1963  "Letter From Birmingham Jail."

Yet today, one of America's greatest Black institutions, Howard University, is diminishing the light of wisdom and truth that inspired Douglass, King and countless other freedom fighters. Amid a move for educational "prioritization," Howard University is dissolving its classics department. Tenured faculty will be dispersed to other departments, where their courses can still be taught. But the university has sent a disturbing message by abolishing the department.

Academia's continual campaign to disregard or neglect the classics is a sign of spiritual decay, moral decline and a deep intellectual narrowness running amok in American culture. Those who commit this terrible act treat Western civilization as either irrelevant and not worthy of prioritization or as harmful and worthy only of condemnation.

Sadly, in our culture's conception, the crimes of the West have become so central that it's hard to keep track of the best of the West. We must be vigilant and draw the distinction between Western civilization and philosophy on the one hand, and Western crimes on the other. The crimes spring from certain philosophies and certain aspects of the civilization, not all of them.

The Western canon is, more than anything, a conversation among great thinkers over generations that grows richer the more we add our own voices and the excellence of voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America and everywhere else in the world. We should never cancel voices in this conversation, whether that voice is Homer or students at Howard University. For this is no ordinary discussion.

The Western canon is an extended dialogue among the creme de la creme  of our civilization about the most fundamental questions. It is about asking "What kind of creatures are we?" no matter what context we find ourselves in. It is about living more intensely, more critically, more compassionately. It is about learning to attend to the things that matter and turning our attention away from what is superficial.

Howard University is not removing its classics department in isolation. This is the result of a massive failure across the nation in "schooling," which is now nothing more than the acquisition of skills, the acquisition of labels and the acquisition of jargon. Schooling is not education. Education draws out the uniqueness of people to be all that they can be in the light of their irreducible singularity. It is the maturation and cultivation of spiritually intact and morally equipped human beings.

The removal of the classics is a sign that we, as a culture, have embraced from the youngest age utilitarian schooling at the expense of soul-forming education. To end this spiritual catastrophe, we must restore true education, mobilizing all of the intellectual and moral resources we can to create human beings of courage, vision and civic virtue.

Students must be challenged: Can they face texts from the greatest thinkers that force them to radically call into question their presuppositions? Can they come to terms with the antecedent conditions and circumstances they live in but didn't create? Can they confront the fact that human existence is not easily divided into good and evil, but filled with complexity, nuance and ambiguity?

This classical approach is united to the Black experience. It recognizes that the end and aim of education is really the anthem of Black people, which is to lift every voice. That means to find your voice, not an echo or an imitation of others. But you can't find your voice without being grounded in tradition, grounded in legacies, grounded in heritages.

As German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer emphasized in the past century, traditions are inescapable and unavoidable. It is a question not of whether you are going to work in a tradition, but which one. Even the choice of no tradition leaves people ignorantly beholden within a language they didn't create and frameworks they don't understand.

Engaging with the classics and with our civilizational heritage is the means to finding our true voice. It is how we become our full selves, spiritually free and morally great." -Cornel West