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Provience said:
approximately 50% of the USA as polled by a random sample support BLM as a movement, this is up from earlier in the year when it had ~40% support.
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Sure , you want to be the guy that says black lives " don't" matter ? imagine that.

FAWK those marxist bed wetters.:flipoff2:
 
FJC11 said:
Sure , you want to be the guy that says black lives " don't" matter ? imagine that.

FAWK those marxist bed wetters.:flipoff2:
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I regularly say that the only people who think black lives don't matter are the BLM movement, their supporters and [race] supremacists.

it was just a comment that the narrative has switched from earlier in the year when a majority said "don't support" and now a, albeit declining from peak, majority say "do support". but your point certainly stands as valid for polling bias
 
Provience said:
approximately 50% of the USA as polled by a random sample support BLM as a movement, this is up from earlier in the year when it had ~40% support.
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Do you believe in cycles? Or the Tao?

It’s all a pendulum. We’re at the top and going to swing back hard the other way. It’s nature.

Plus you offended the other 50%.

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Nice Dodger two game sweep over the piece of shit Astros.

Little harder when they don't know what pitch is coming. :mad3:

Only disappointment was Joe Kelly not getting the ball into Bregman or Correia's earhole
 
dntsdad said:
Nice Dodger two game sweep over the piece of shit Astros.

Little harder when they don't know what pitch is coming. :mad3:

Only disappointment was Joe Kelly not getting the ball into Bregman or Correia's earhole
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm8kMdom54g

Matt Antonelli analysed the inning. He believes that Kelly wasn't trying to hit Bregman he just didn't have control of his fastball, nor pretty much any of his other pitches, the fact that he got out of the inning without any runs was just good luck.

So you believe the possibility of perminate disablity or death is a way to get back at the Astros?
 
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Maskless and yelling no 2 meter social distance Amigo. All part of the game. Kelly is out for a while ya de dah . . . .

Is it safe to look at the standings ??
 
evernoob said:
Yes, I was meaning to get into baseball before all of this started because I have determined it's a great game.

But unlike trucks or fast food, you don't HAVE to watch baseball. They're making you a slave and holding your recreational time hostage. Doesn't that piss you off?

Don't you automatically want to go against people that do that?

They are holding something you love hostage and to get back at them, you should deprive them of your patronage. Hell it pisses me off that they are holding you hostage and I'm not a life-long baseball fan and you insult me every chance you get.
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You actually like something? What a strange concept:flipoff2:
 
bigun said:
So you believe the possibility of perminate disablity or death is a way to get back at the Astros?
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Works for me.

They didn't seem to care much going through seasons when they were padding stats, winning individual awards, and hurting opposing pitchers careers and negotiating numbers.

Fuck them. I honestly could care less if Correia, Aluve, Springer, or Bregman to one to the head.

They didn't cheat during the WS in 2017 according to them???? LOL

Kershaw was lights out in every game in those playofffs except the game in Houston. He threw 51 sliders and curves and got exactly ZERO swings and misses. Never happened before, never happened since. Impossible. Not a single one.

Like I said, Fuck those pieces of shit.
 
Watched the Rockies/Padres game tonight and saw something interesting the BLM sign had been whited out! Since I don't watch opening ceremonies I don't know if there are other referances to it.
 
bigun said:
Watched the Rockies/Padres game tonight and saw something interesting the BLM sign had been whited out! Since I don't watch opening ceremonies I don't know if there are other referances to it.
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Honestly, I’m not sure I have seen anything in the past few games. I haven’t been watching the opening ceremonies either though. Astros are going to have to call up more pitchers from the minors at the rate they’re dropping. Osuna left with an arm injury tonight.
 
Nice sweep of the sawks. I know they have 0 pitching depth but their lineup still comes to play. Glad to not be a 3-7 Metties fanboi.
 
Heard ealier today the Mets hadn't heard from Yoenis Cespedes


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/sports/baseball/Yoenis-cespedes-opt-out-rule.html

Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes Opts Out of 2020 Season


Cespedes had failed to show up to the ballpark in Atlanta for the Mets’ game against the Braves on Sunday, and the team did not know his whereabouts. After the game, they announced his decision to opt out.
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When Mets Manager Luis Rojas realized Yoenis Cespedes, one of his most powerful hitters, was not at the ballpark in Atlanta on Sunday morning, he sent his outfielder a text message and followed with a phone call. Cespedes did not reply.

The Mets then sent a security detail to the team hotel. Cespedes was not there, and his belongings were gone, too.

Hours later, the Mets learned from Cespedes’s agent that the player was healthy and not in danger, but that he had decided to opt out of the 2020 season for what General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen called “Covid-related reasons.”

“It was surprising, without question,” Van Wagenen said of Cespedes’s decision after the Mets’ 4-0 loss to the Braves.

For the Mets (3-7), it was one more blow on a day that ended with a fifth consecutive defeat. As concerns about coronavirus outbreaks among the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals have forced players to reconsider plans to play a 60-game season, Cespedes became the 19th major leaguer to opt out, according to Baseball America. He was the first Mets player to do so.

Cespedes, 34, had been expected to provide power to the Mets this season. After missing the majority of the last two seasons with a variety of injuries, he hit a home run in the season opener this year to propel the Mets to a 1-0 win over the Braves. It was his first home run since his previous major league game, on July 20, 2018.
But he struggled in the days since, hitting .161 with two homers over all. On Saturday, Rojas noted that Cespedes was on the first bus to the stadium, and the manager talked to him about progressing to the point of playing left field after starting the season as a designated hitter, which is being used in both the American and National Leagues this year. In that night’s game, Cespedes struck out twice, finished 0 for 4 and left five runners on base in a 7-1 loss. Rojas said he did not speak to Cespedes afterward and had not told Cespedes he would not be in the lineup on Sunday.

“We felt with him, the more at-bats he got the more ready he was going to be,” said Rojas, who did not learn about Cespedes’s decision to opt out until after Sunday’s game. “No conversations about diminishing playing time or anything like that.”

Rojas did not believe his players or coaches would look at Cespedes, an All-Star in 2014 and 2016, any differently because of his decision.

“Everyone on this team looks up to Cespedes because of his ability to play the game and what he has done and the way he carries himself in the clubhouse,” Rojas said. “Everyone has a good relationship with him. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who was texting him trying to find out where he was pregame.”

But Saturday’s game may end up being Cespedes’s final one as a Met. His four-year contract expires after this season. The Mets acquired him from the Detroit Tigers just before the trade deadline in 2015 and rode his bat to the World Series before falling to the Kansas City Royals. That off-season, he signed a three-year contract worth $75 million to remain a Met. He exercised his opt-out clause the next winter after hitting 31 home runs and having 86 R.B.I.

Injuries followed. He had surgeries on both his heels and had what Van Wagenen described as a “violent” fall on his ranch in Florida while rehabilitating.

Still, Van Wagenen, who negotiated Cespedes’s contract with the Mets when he was a player agent, expressed disappointment that the team and its fans had not been able to see a healthier Cespedes for a longer period of time.

Cespedes was viewed as the perfect complement to Pete Alonso, the reigning rookie of the year in the National League, as well as Jeff McNeil, a utility fielder who emerged as the team’s most consistent hitter and made the All-Star team last season during Cespedes’s absence.

Earlier Sunday, the Mets traded right-hander Jordan Humphreys to the Giants for Billy Hamilton, a defensive-minded outfielder.

After the game Sunday, the Mets were already trying to look forward. Jacob deGrom, the team’s ace, was scheduled to pitch Monday in Atlanta.

“As we pick up the pieces here now, it’s a matter of going forward,” Van Wagenen said.
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There are rumors going round that say he was unhappy with the team sitting him yesterday, as he has incentives in his contract and he thought they were trying to "sabotage" any chance he had of reaching the at bat and games played numbers needed for his pay bump.
 
scooter2374 said:
There are rumors going round that say he was unhappy with the team sitting him yesterday, as he has incentives in his contract and he thought they were trying to "sabotage" any chance he had of reaching the at bat and games played numbers needed for his pay bump.
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Bowing out will certainly help him find a better paying gig next season:rolleyes:
 
Firstram said:
Bowing out will certainly help him find a better paying gig next season:rolleyes:
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Yeah I'm sure teams are going to line up around the block to sign a man of such character. I had heard about his antics all the way back with the A's but this is just comical.
 
Unfortunatly they have made it even harder to watch games this year, so we have been catching only one or two each week.
New TV offered a three month Apple TV but after you down load it you find out you have to have an Apple product to make it work!
We have been watching the college games much more enjoyable and you don't get PCed to death.
I used to say Fuck Rob Manfred till someone pointed out that he is hired by the owners so the destruction of the game is something they must want.

Oh Fuck the Doggies
 
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