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Let's hope the Yanks get Bryce who proceeds to pull a Chris Davis

Some team is going find use for him as a 4th OF/DH/pinch hitter/utility. He's going to be way more valuable to a team that wants to make the playoffs and needs help in OF than the Orioles. Right now considering his defense, he's barely above replacement level, and given his age and likelihood of declining he might garner 2/16m, though I think a 1 year deal more likely. Edit: 2/16, or anything 8/year is probably way too generous for Jones. That would be if he's a +1-2 WAR Considering he's replacement level (0-1 WAR), he'd be lucky to get 5-6m/year, more likely 3-4m/year

Its pointless to bring Jones back. He'd just be eating salary and blocking prospects.

Best case scenario for this season, is that any of Cobb, Cashner, or Bundy start pitching really well and we can deal them to a team with a need for starting pitching. Gyvens and O'Day also might be worth something coming out of the bullpen. I don't think we have any position players that would garner anything at the deadline.. Trumbo a remote possibility.

The only mystery to me is how long Chris Davis will last. Does he get out of Spring Training?

If you put sausage in seafood gumbo, its basically a wet jambalaya

Its not that crazy when you think historically, there was a draft because the Army (and sometimes Marines) needed alot of bodies. And then you have lots of nations (including the US) that used mercenary groups. Volunteer non-citizens (properly screened) are going to beat involuntary citizens. Its sort of like the French Foreign Legion, except the US doesn't segregate its forces like that.

I bet May convinces the EU to kick the can down the road for another year or so. Not thats going to solve anything

Not sure if you're disagreeing, but look at the Republican candidates who won the nomination in every election cycle since forever. All older white men. I think Romney was the youngest at the time he ran. 40-ish year old governor? Yeah, no. Edit: Can't believe I forgot about GWB. Still he was 55 when he ran/assumed office. For some reason I thought Romney was younger.

Way before that ... I thought it started dropping off in quality about halfway through Season 4, though alot of that was driven by one single flaw, that I didn't find Conway a realistic or compelling canidate for POTUS.

Last Kingdom is pretty good, although they did play out a particular plotline one too many timesn , although that is ended by the end of season 3.

Not really a "show" but Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is awesome.

Why go through all the trouble when you can keep it simple. Do you have a cat or dog?

I know I've brought up this in this thread before, but how is the UK supposed to leave the EU, and also not have a border between NI and ROI, or some type of internal border between NI and the rest of the UK? Kicking the can down the road is not a solution. If they don't have a border, Brexit becomes nearly worthless, as an easy way to circumvent it would be to ship goods to Ireland, they move them to NI, at which point they could move to the rest of the UK. The same goes for people, granted they would be immigrating illegally and therefore couldn't legally work/reside in the UK. If they can't figure that out, the most sensible thing to do is to cancel Brexit. Honestly I think they should call for another referendum, due to this one issue. Its the elephant in the room that makes everything else really irrelevant.

Does it have a end ? Or is it half finished like ASoIaF ?

Has the Northern Ireland mess been sorted out? My understanding is that Northern Ireland doesn't want hard border with the Republic of Ireland, and neither the UK nor NI want any type of border (customs or otherwise) between NI and the UK. But yet, without either of those, how the heck is the UK supposed to separate itself from the EU given that Republic of Ireland is in the EU?

"Prime Minister Theresa May Live Shortly" I just realized how confusing that phrase probably is to people who's first language is not English

In the case of Massachusetts, I'm not sure there would be way to draw that map such that you could get a Republican elected to the House. Democratic canidates got at least 60% in almost every race. Trying to find a breakdown by county but its hard info to come by Ironically Massachusetts just re-elected a Republican Governor (Charlie Baker), who even had more votes than Elizabeth Warren. In Virginia's case though, when you totalled up all the votes it was clear that Democrats should have had more seats. On top of that, you had Democrats winning all the recent state-wide races (Governor, Senator, President) yet the House remained tilted to the Republican side.

In Texas, dog shoots YOU (Well New Mexico, but close enough)

Curse is for championships, not regular season. Caps appeared the playoffs regularly for 10 years but couldn't get past the second round. Were still considered cursed.

Luke Cage didn't necessarily become the villain, just the Kingpin. I imagine if they did season 3, it would revolve around a "least of all evils" theme, where LC would look the other way at certain crimes (drugs, etc.) but they are certain rules which LC enforces. Like maybe no dealing to kids or pregnant women. And the conflict would be to how much he could ignore. I thought Season 2 was better than Season 1. Alot of people liked Cottonmouth as a villain. The problem was why didn't Cage just simply break into Harlem's Paradise and whoop his a$$. Its not like anyone could have stopped him at the time. At least until he got that magic bullet, but Cage didn't know that.

Melting of free floating sea ice has a neglible effect on sea levels. But its not free-floating sea ice that is the problem. Its ice thats locked up on land in Greenland and Antartica, which definitely does effect the sea level.

Washington Post reporter and US resident was killed for criticizing the Saudi government (KSA) by the Saudi government. US is also nominally allied with the KSA. It would be like if we lured Snowden to a US consulate in Russia, and then killed him

One US airline I can vouch for is Hawaiian. If you leave in the morning, they actually give you a decent hot meal. Not sure what people have against Dulles now, besides the long distance from terminal to the gate. Worst airport I have been in would be LAX. Not so much the airport itself, but getting into and out of it. There is always a traffic jam. Uber/Lyft will take like 15-20 minutes just to pick you up. And then another 20 minutes just to leave the airport.