Fair points and good info. Thanks.

The greatest trick the GOP ever pulled was convincing working-class white people to vote against their own economic self-interests in the name of “terrifying” social issues like racial integration and equality (GASP!), decriminalizing homosexuality (MY STARS!) and gun control (NOOOOOO!), to give the wealthy elite at…

Someone to make it easy for them to carry out their civic responsibilities that doesn’t take away from them living their best lives on social media?

Exactly. I don’t read that as SBA being against enfranchising blacks. I read it as she would be in favor of that, but her push was enfranchising women. 2 people, each on their own journey for their own cause.

I love when keyboard warriors make it about race unnecessarily.

Except it’s a 6-hour drive from one side of Missouri to the other. Nobody is driving 3 hours for MLS, from any one part of the country to another. Meanwhile, from where I live, I can get to a Union game in about 20 minutes. There are 4 other teams, all of whom are within a 6-hour drive for me. St Louis and Kansas City…

But are there such things as MLS transplants? What fraction of the Orlando population developed a deep abiding love for their local MLS team in the last 10-15 years and then relocated? This isn’t 5 generations of a family rooting for Snotterhampton Towne United in soccer, or the transplants who follow any of the Big 4…

It’s a response to the original post deeming Orlando unworthy of a team but St Louis being worthy despite similar demographics. People have been saying how St Louis deserves a team for years. But how many rounds of expansion have taken place? If it was so deserving, why are they the 27th team in a league? Why did they…

Be that as it may, San Diego has more than twice the population of St Louis and a thriving soccer scene of its own. To say nothing of the Mexicans living within an hour of San Diego. Even if every man, woman and child in STL loved soccer, it’s not going be confused with London any time soon.

Exactly my point. I don’t see POC getting the opportunities robertogreen is hoping for.

St. Louis: 20th largest US metro area, 2.81M people

*Googles “distance from St Louis to Ferguson”*

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Likewise. It’s less a matter of ability, but one of comfort with the equipment. There was no reason to change what was working fine in most cases. I’ll figure it out, but it is a nuisance.

The hospitals where I work stopped ordering the thoracentesis kits I used since training and loved and gave us crapola that saved them money. But the bean counters weren’t the ones spearing old folks in the back. Grrr.

I already told my wife that’s how I wanna go. She’s OK with it.

I support this. The only World Series game I have seen in person was Game 5 of the 1993 World Series. Curt Schilling pitched a 5-hit complete game shutout in the rain against Toronto, the game before The Joe Carter Game. Following Game 6, you got the first hints that Schilling was a douche and people didn’t like him…

They’ve taken all the factories down. And they’ve taken all the coal from the ground. What else would you expect, if you’re living here in Allentown?

This is the most hyperbolic “record” going. Just 2 years ago, Rhys Hoskins “set records” for being the fastest to 9 HR through 17 HR in terms of games played. So, good on ya, Aristides. Dude looks like a beast who can rake but can’t we just enjoy a guy mashing taters without having to give it artificial context?

Hitters before the 1980s likely faced the same pitcher 4 or 5 times per game, and probably faced the same guy in 6 different games; by the later innings, they were gassed - and most of them weren’t touching 90 on the radar gun in the first inning to begin with. Today, you’re facing a new guy every couple at-bats,…