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I said 100% of women are at risk because it can happen any day.

100% as on any given day, it can happen.

I just find this topic entertaining. Instead of Democrats saying they were wrong on this topic (which would be a net win for them), they keep minimizing it and laughing when it's brought up. The fact is, this is a bigger women's rights issue than abortion is. This affects EVERY woman, everywhere. Its not only about athletes, but in everyday life. Abortion only affects a very small portion of women. If they abandon the trans movement, they lose no one. There's no one on the right who's picking up that banner, so the trans community's only recourse is to stay in the LGBT conglomerate and pretend to be marginalized just like the L's, G's, and B's. The Democrats win because they can still pretend to care about all women's rights.

Communist party still upset by this, I see.

Congrats! Good for them.

R.I.P.

UConn didn't make it. I thought getting to the conference championship game would've locked them in. Guess not.

My comment was more of a joke, hence the laughing emoji. The dude is doing something so great, that based on his prior accomplishments, it's considered mildly disappointing. Something like that is rather awesome to achieve and something we should all hope to be at, at some point in our lives. With respect to my WAR comment, yes, WAR can go up or down, but you can't expect someone who had a great year over a period of 23 starts, to be near that number after only 12. Right now, Skenes has the 2nd highest WAR (2.8), in the league (baseball-reference.com). He's on pace to be at 5.37 for 23 starts. Last year, he was a 5.8 for 23 starts... that's less than a .5 difference. Luzardo is first at 2.9. To note, Wheeler is 3rd at 2.3 and like Skenes, has had 12 starts. Using Fangraphs, Skubal is #1 in WAR at 2.6, Luzard #2 at 2.4, and Skenes at 2.3.

WAR is cumulative as the season goes on, so obviously it's down. Imagine being 22 years (23 as of yesterday), and someone tells you that while you are still producing as one of the 10 best people in the world at your craft, that you're "mildly disappointing".

Not really. The game is in KC. In 57 road games, Skubal is 20-19 with a 4.07 ERA. Last year was the only year where he had a road ERA under 4. This year, in 5 starts, he's sitting at 3.38. Not saying that 3.38 is bad, just that he's not the same guy that he is at home. If the game was in Detroit, then I'd side with you that it would be "ballzy".

Heard last night, during the Pirates/Diamondbacks broadcast that Paul Skenes has an ERA of 2.012 (yes, .012... that 3rd decimal place matters), in games pitched as a 22 year old. Dating back to 1915, only 1 pitcher has an ERA better, Babe Ruth at 2.011.

I liked Caglianone and had hoped he fell to the Pirates. He struggled in his first minor league romp, but meh, it was after a CWS run and playing with a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds that were a step down from what he was facing. Dude lit it up in his short stint in spring training and continued on in AA and AAA. I think that production can continue. He's a legit "true hitter", that has a ton of power. That's why I was hoping he fell to the Pirates. He'd instantly make our lineup better. That said, I'm loving the kid we got, Konnor Griffin. At 19 (just turned 19 only 5 weeks ago), he's hitting over .310 in A-ball and with an OPS over .880. In 41 games, he has 8 HR's and 20 SB. MLB Pipeline thinks he'll be up in 2028 and scouts have made comments that he could be on a Mike Trout pace. Trout was drafted in June of '09 and got to the pros in July of '11. Griffin was drafted in July 2024, could be up in Pittsburgh in August of 2026 is the comp they're saying. Now, this is the Pirates, so I don't think they're going to bring the kid up in August next year if they don't need him. They'll slow play him (like they're doing with Chandler), and probably not bring him up until 2027. Still, that's a year sooner than projected.

Exactly. You notice that ever since they pushed hard for abortion and transgender rights as well as the COVID vax, they've somewhat abandoned the "trust the science" mantra they always tried to shove down our throats?

Yeah, sorry. I meant the quote from the article. The part where Gutterboy purposefully left out because of his agenda driven stance. It's why I don't really reply to his crap all that much. I think removing healthy pregnant women and children from the list is the right thing to do. Those cases should be handled by the doctor.

So what you're saying is that RFK is handling the COVID vaccine perfectly and leftists don't like it?

I think the people who used to say "Trust the science", called this kind of thing "evolution". That's not a money grift like "Climate Change" is, so they switched gears.

Only when I was going to a special occasion with a woman. Just making sure she didn't get rained on.

Stop it dude, people are going to the games to watch her!

Definitely a better show than Around the Horn.

I used to watch it when I watched ESPN. At the time, I thought it was pretty good. Obviously, haven't watched it in at least 10 years.

This.

I didn't even know she was still putting out albums.

I think if you want fantasy relevant information on this, you might need to pay for it. Listening to the fantasy sports channel on SiriusXM, the guys from fantasypoints.com (John Hansen), talk about their separation stats a lot. I went to check out their website, and obviously this stat is behind a pay wall. No problem with that, but to get that stat, you need to pay $200 for that subscription. Yeah, ain't happening.

Depends on who the one is that pulled the trigger on Richardson. Oddly, Richardson has a winning record as a starter and Steichen is .500 as the HC. They've been at worst, league average over the last two seasons on offense, but bottom tier on defense. I don't think Steichen's job is at all tied to Richardson... even if it were him that campaigned for him. If it were Ballard, then I think Steichen is definitely safe. I think Jones is a better fit for that offense anyway. He's closer to a comp to Hurts than Richardson is. If Jones shows to be a competent QB in training camp, he might win the job and as long as the defense doesn't stink, they should be at worst, a 9-win team.