Missouri just this year raised the age for charging as an adult from 17 to 18. Too bad it doesn’t take effect until 2021, though.  And St. Louis County routinely fucks over black kids - even AFTER the Feds got a consent decree against them.

That’s cool. I heard it was something from the Apollo missions. A quick google brings up the John Aaron wiki page, which has the story.

This is lawyering shit. Somewhere in the code of conduct or handbook or union contract or something is the phrase “officer can be terminated for adverse conduct, including but not limited to...” and then a bunch of examples. “Shooting a dude” is probably NOT on that list, because ACAB. “Getting arrested” probably IS…

The crew sends a message back saying “Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man” and even the white boys in charge of the whole NASA situation room are like “Who’s Rich Purnell?”  Total stealth magic.

I thought that was the Mets from when he broke Ruben Tejada’s leg in the playoffs one year. I dunno, he might’ve slid dirty against somebody on the Redbirds, but I’m not remembering any beef off the top of my head.  Not like Brandon Phillips level beef, anyway.

Mikhail Lesin, Peter W. Smith, Sergei Krivov, and Vitaly Churkin would like a word - but they’re not going to get one.

It’s different from state to state, but many states have adopted some form of the “Missouri Plan” to select judges. How it works: nonpartisan commission takes applications from qualified candidates, picks a slate of three to send to the governor. Governor picks one from the slate and that person becomes judge. Public…

I wanted to work a Robson & Jerome joke in here, but instead, I’ll just point out that having Mastodon as Wildlings that get brutally murdered and then turned into White Walkers was super awesome.

That happened in 2016 and led to another Penguins cup.

I’m not going to type it out, but I’d suggest you google “white power numerology” or something like that. “14 words” would also give you a hint.

These biblethumpers (Presbyterian, IIRC) have been humping the flag since last year, when they announced they wouldn’t play sports against any school that let players kneel to protest. They also introduced a new freshman-level required course called “Patriotic Education and Fitness”

You said “Padres highlight”, but the most-viewed highlight at Petco is still Bartolo Colon’s home run.

The waiver system limits who can actually make a trade for a player. Before July 31, you can trade with any team anywhere. After July 31, you have to put the guy on waivers before he can be traded, and if you’re going to make a trade, you have to trade him to the team that claimed him off waivers. So every other NL…

Came in here to say this. There’s a whole bunch of hair-splitting on terminology that lawyers have been logic-chopping for decades on shit like this. Rape victims are “complaining witnesses” or “the complainant” until a defendant is convicted.

That team could probably beat the Mets.

Does Mike Matheny ever get another manager’s job?

Molina and Rolen both had better WS than Eckstein that year. Eckstein hit three doubles in a very tight Game 4, which was enough to put him over, but Rolen had an OPS of 1.2 something that series.

Cards fans have gotten stupid because of the sustained success thing. It’s this sort of midwestern superiority complex, like being super proud of how humble you are. Everybody in the country made a big deal of Griffey getting a standing O on Father’s Day in 2004 when he hit 500, and it was like the entire St. Louis…

This is the corniest shit ever, but it was the first time a punk-ass midwestern whiboy like me had ever even heard of Warren G:

One of those “before that” guys was Jose Oquendo, who actually threw three shutout innings before giving up the losing run in some game in the late 80s, IIRC.  I can’t remember if that was the same year he played all 9 positions or not, though.