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Shocking News! Trae Young has declared for the 2018 NBA Draft. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 06:17 4
- Trying to avoid a similar fate to Melo Trimble. -- nm - MDH Mar 20, 06:33
- He's going to love trying to carry Sacramento to success. - Will Hunting Mar 20, 06:26 2
  - or Atlanta, or Phoenix, or Memphis -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 06:33 1
    - Basically his Oklahoma team at the Pro Level -- nm - budice Mar 20, 06:36
I am completely against the Yankees and Red Sox playing a two game series in England. - Krusty Mar 20, 06:13 20
- What if they use cricket rules? -- nm - Beast of Baron Mar 20, 06:34
- Who's going to contribute more to the internationalization of baseball? Nations with stakes already in the game, or nations that are untouched? - Will Hunting Mar 20, 06:29 5
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  - I don't care about that at all. I care about my team playing their games for their fans and not flying to - Krusty Mar 20, 06:33 1
    - They're not going to grow a fan base from people that don't play the game, ever. If they played at all then it might make sense but the only game - Krusty Mar 20, 06:38
  - pro sports here are dying to try a franchise in Europe. - groiny Mar 20, 06:31 1
    - Unless they've invented the teleporter, then it could work. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 06:39
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  - Thank goodness I was born in Brooklyn. :-) - Krusty Mar 20, 06:21 11
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      - That's true. I'm not a fan of change in certain areas, especially with baseball. Though, I do like the DH and would add it to the NL. - Krusty Mar 20, 06:27 4
        
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        Why Yikes? He was third in the Cy Young last year. He's our best pitcher and has nasty stuff. Did we watch the same guy last year? -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 20, 06:34 2
        
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        Come on. He's shown he's so much better than Hughes who also had health issues. Severino was our best pitcher last year and it wasn't close. - Krusty Mar 20, 06:43
      - just wait till they start putting a runner on second bas to start extra innings... - Beaker Mar 20, 06:24 1
        
        I read a very good argument for why it's a good idea but only in the minors. - Krusty Mar 20, 06:30
    - Just read Dawson's cranky old man posts throughout this board - ty97 Mar 20, 06:23 2
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        Aww, was nice knowing you then -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 06:37
Sign number 651 that i am old. I just wrenched my lower back while coughing. - Andie Mar 20, 06:08 8
- :( I hope it feels better soon -- nm - Epiphany Mar 20, 06:27
- GO TO THE ER! -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 06:13
- Sounds like a case of the rheumatism -- nm - prayformojo Mar 20, 06:12
- let me know when you dislocate a rib reaching behind a couch. -- nm - groiny Mar 20, 06:12 2
  - good times, good times - Epiphany Mar 20, 06:31
  - ...eating a rib behind a couch. -- nm - What ST read Mar 20, 06:13
- heh, my back almost went from sitting in Subway eating lunch this weekend. - Beaker Mar 20, 06:12
- :( -- nm - budice Mar 20, 06:09
new season of unreal? what?! -- nm - amanda Mar 20, 05:59 1
- started March 12th based on some awesome person's posts :) -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 06:13
shooting at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland -- (link) - budice Mar 20, 05:45 3
- "Thoughts and Prayers" -- (link) - budice Mar 20, 06:18
- Damn. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 06:01 1
  - In fairness, it's been days. -- nm - volnelk Mar 20, 06:01
EBay: 15% off everything today with code PSPRINGTIME -- (link*) - budice Mar 20, 05:42 6
- I never use these coupons. there must be something I need at ebay, right? -- nm - amanda Mar 20, 06:00 4
  - aaaand it doesn't work. -- nm - amanda Mar 20, 06:06 3
    - valid from 9:00 AM PST until 7:00 PM PST -- nm* - budice Mar 20, 06:07 2
      - mmmmmmm remind me later? -- nm - amanda Mar 20, 06:14 1
        
        done -- nm - budice Mar 20, 06:15
- . -- nm* - budice Mar 20, 05:49
IND signs TE Eric Ebron -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 05:27
Good morning Krusty. Forecast is now 12-16. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 05:13 19
- a friend I work with saw a line of 15 power trucks heading south today, so someone thinks somewhere is going to get nailed soon -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 06:25
- Ugh!!! -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 05:32
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  - I sure hope it's not. Over this. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 05:18 15
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      - nmbJackDawson rant - ty97 Mar 20, 05:40 13
        
        But you don't have to. You can be just fine staying in for the day. - Krusty Mar 20, 05:44 9
        
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        Ha! Bitch away my friend. - Krusty Mar 20, 05:55 3
        
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        I love it also. I go out and take pictures and enjoy the rare solitude you have being out in it. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 06:24
        
        My IM wasn't about me but everyone that has no choice but to commute. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 05:56
        
        Stop making this about you! - ty97 Mar 20, 05:48 3
        
        It's about you and your issue with spending the day in your apartment. Man up and be lazy! - Krusty Mar 20, 05:52 1
        
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        ~don't you - don't you~ -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 05:48
        
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        I really do, I try to go for 1-2 hour walk every evening. -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 05:47 1
        
        is that before or after the early bird special - decline Mar 20, 06:39
Thanks to Inigo for linking the 60 Minutes piece on UMBC's president. That was pretty cool -- nm - prayformojo Mar 20, 04:39
Equinox? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 20, 04:23
Weinstein Co. bankruptcy may release victims from NDAs - zork Mar 20, 04:06
GOP lawmaker fired aide after he was found shirtless in car with teenager -- (link) - budice Mar 20, 04:01
Fifth explosion in Austin at FedEx facility. Last male northern white rhino has died. -- nm - zork Mar 20, 04:01 6
- a Trump killed it for a trophy right? -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 06:15
- Damn. :-( The rhino had just recovered from something. So sad. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 05:32
- not related events -- nm - zork Mar 20, 04:02 3
  - What was he even doing in Austin? -- nm - mafic Mar 20, 04:39 2
    - Checking out the music scene, duh. -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 04:44 1
      - NXNE was boring him to death? -- nm - zork Mar 20, 04:47
TV PSA: America's Next Top Model, NBA, Shadowhunters, Middle, Voice, Smackdown, Fresh off the Boat, Black Lightning, Blackish, LA to Vegas, -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 03:51 1
- Challenge, Rise, Mick, Another Period, Baskets, Chicago Med, For the People, Detour, Curse of Civil War Gold, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Mar 20, 03:52
Sarkozy has been accused of receiving money from former Libyan leader Gaddafi to fund his 2007 election campaign. -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 20, 01:56
Oh, I think I'll check out this Sing Street movie, since I heard so much about it. *Weinstein logo* Fuck. -- nm - con_carne Mar 20, 00:50
Mojave Phone Booth (random discovery with an interesting story) -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 19, 22:49 1
- This was my first great internet rabbit hole via deuce of clubs -- nm - Rollo Mar 19, 23:13
"Braves reassign top prospect Ronald Acuna to minor league camp" - David Mar 19, 22:07 11
- Meanwhile, Dansby is 5-for-27 (.185) -- nm - Strongbad Mar 20, 05:57 1
  - Or as Shohei Otani calls it, hitting amazingly well. - Will Hunting Mar 20, 06:01
- They get an extra year of him if he stays down 2 weeks. If that's stupid.... -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 20, 05:24 4
  - yeah, I would say they would be stupid if they did not send him down. -- nm - groiny Mar 20, 05:53 3
    - They learned this lesson with Heyward - Will Hunting Mar 20, 05:59 2
      - while the fan in me wants players up on opening day, the business side of this is the right thing to do. -- nm - groiny Mar 20, 06:01 1
        
        I am wondering what the fix will be on the whole free agency in the next CBA. - Will Hunting Mar 20, 06:04
- People who don't like him should watch this--- -- (edited) - Flavorize Mar 19, 23:34 [youtube] 1
  - A HR off Tanaka? That's rather common. - Krusty Mar 20, 05:47
- Not their fault that the CBA incentives for doing so are so heavily tilted towards doing so. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 19, 22:47
- One of Esteban Vihaio's Acuna Boys. -- nm - budice Mar 19, 22:15
3 in 1 Measure King...with a built in garrote -- (link) - Amoxy Mar 19, 21:33 [youtube] 1
- MUST HAVE! -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 23:10
Winning idea. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 19, 21:14 3
- *golf clap* -- nm - budice Mar 19, 22:19
- I want a vegan farmer/hitman who only kills with nature made weapons. -- nm - peglegpete Mar 19, 22:07
- *giggles* -- nm - Amoxy Mar 19, 21:33
Orphan Black season 2 spoiler - Amoxy Mar 19, 21:05
It begins -- (link) - mud Mar 19, 20:43
Xi: Taiwan will face 'punishment of history' for separatism -- (link) - mud Mar 19, 20:23 2
- ~History has its eyes on you~ -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 20, 05:36
- That’s comically mild. -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 20:51
Autonomous car killed someone today? -- nm - Bacon Mar 19, 20:16 16
- And non-autonomous cars killed roughly 12 people today. - Cuzzin Todd Mar 19, 20:50 9
  - Much higher actually. 2016 data shows 37,461 people were killed in 34,436 motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 05:49 3
    - I guess you mean just pedestrians which is about 16 a day. -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 20, 05:54 2
      - Yeah, should've specified vehicular pedestrian deaths. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 20, 06:25 1
        
        I was just having fun in figuring out the totals. -- nm - Krusty Mar 20, 06:40
  - but this is new and somehow different and scary! -- nm - Reagen Mar 20, 03:31
  - Including a woman asleep in her bed :( -- (link) - Meg Mar 19, 21:02
  - That sounds low. -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 20:52 2
    - For pedestrians it's about average. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 20:53 1
      - Pretty pedestrian if you ask me. -- nm - budice Mar 19, 22:04
- in Reno. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 20:24 5
  - Just to watch him die? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Mar 19, 20:43 3
    - That’s what all the cameras and sensors are really for. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 21:44 2
      - nm -- nm* - budice Mar 19, 22:05 1
        
        but if it gets home before midnight, it just might recharge tonight -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 20, 02:00
  - Oh, wait, no. Tempe AZ. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 20:24
Wait, KGB hosts American Ninja Warrior? How awesome! -- nm - David Mar 19, 20:15 1
- Hanging around, hanging around, falling into water, falling into water. -- nm - Teddy KGB Mar 19, 22:44
The Ultimate Deletion was utter nonsense and I enjoyed every minute of it. -- nm - Tim Mar 19, 20:15
Tesla autopilot handling a construction zone. While the car handles it, DON'T DO THIS! - TWuG Mar 19, 19:31 [youtube] 10
- Looking up all the YouTube vids now you got it? -- nm - budice Mar 19, 19:58 1
  - No, this one came through a site I follow and David wanted videos. - TWuG Mar 19, 20:04
- That is why I can't own one. - Spawn Mar 19, 19:58 4
  - "If I knife the tire, will autopilot still attempt to drive the car?" -- nm - budice Mar 19, 20:00 2
    - Nope. It knows the tire pressure. Most cars have tire pressure sensors now. -- nm - TWuG Mar 19, 20:06 1
      - I sort of imagine you as Homer talking about Thomas Edison now - Reagen Mar 20, 04:26
  - none of us would be safe -- nm - tree Mar 19, 20:00
- Pretty sweet ride--Unbelievable technology! -- nm* - Flavorize Mar 19, 19:46 1
  - That's an S in the video. A bit bigger than the 3 and the 3 doesn't have that instrument cluster. -- nm - TWuG Mar 19, 20:07
- TWuG's wife: If you don't come to bed right now, you can sleep in that damn car! TWuG: Really? -- nm - Mop Mar 19, 19:44
He botched Finn Balor's New Japan name but holy crap, Miz went there. -- nm - Tim Mar 19, 19:24 1
- Did he bring up his match at BGEast? -- nm - Dano Mar 19, 19:37
Looks like this thursday is the main chance I'd have to meet STers in toronto. Sunday I wouldn't be getting into TO until about 3, for an 8:20 flight - Beryllium Mar 19, 19:22 5
- your ticket will always be for the time zone the plane is in at the time. So for your departure from Toronto, it's Toronto time. - Andie Mar 20, 05:55
- Just show up Andie’s with little to no notice. She loves that. -- nm - Dano Mar 19, 19:43 1
  - “I’m just here to take photos of the couch. No, nothing on it. Thanks! I’ll boost the saturation in post.” -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 19:45
- oh, hmm, if I take the 403W I can drive through Burlington and Hamilton. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 19, 19:25 1
  - you don't want to do that. -- nm - Andie Mar 20, 05:55
The A"s pitcher just broke Justin Turners finger, maybe his hand. Thanks dude. -- nm - jnine Mar 19, 19:22 3
- Maybe if Turner didn't try to catch the ball - Will Hunting Mar 20, 05:39
- Dude -- nm - budice Mar 19, 19:26 1
  - Sounds like it's his wrist. -- nm - jnine Mar 19, 20:05
Weinstein Co files for Bankruptcy -- (link) - budice Mar 19, 19:22
Heard a new term today, "Spun monkey tired" -- nm* - Amoxy Mar 19, 19:21
sweet chart -- (link) - mud Mar 19, 19:19 1
- (kinda odd whatever happened Fri. March 9th at FoxNews there) -- nm - mud Mar 19, 19:29
The Jim Carrey documentary about Man on the Moon is very interesting. - Volnelk Mar 19, 19:18 2
- If you believe. - Spawn Mar 19, 19:19 1
  - ...there's nothing up their sleeves -- nm - mud Mar 19, 19:20
John Dean: ‘Trump is Nixon on Steroids and Stilts’ -- (link) - mud Mar 19, 19:14 2
- Longing for the days of Tricky Dick - Amoxy Mar 19, 19:28
- ... and without a haircut. -- nm - Spawn Mar 19, 19:16

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