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@GoldyHappens i don't dream about Perdomo.. we gotta get a slugger in at SS. .. but otherwise, hell yeah.

Dream current Baby Backs lineup: 2B Marte RF Carroll CF Waldschmidt 3B Arenado SS Perdomo C Moreno LF Lawlar 1B Groover DH Troy BENCH: McCann, Ildemaro, Fernandez, Tawa DFA & traded to NL West rival: Pavin, ADC, Barrosa

@Jody_Jackson i'm feelin' it.

Groover 134 innings at 1B and 0 errors this season.

@BrendanPHX ... aand Troy back to DH again tonite. he will be utility and/or part-time DH. Lawlar is going into left field within 2 weeks bub.

ADC wasn't working out for you? ;) it's time to bring in Lawlar (LF) and Locklear (DH) and give them a go .. what's the downside? bench Perdomo, move Moreno to 8 or 9 hole, Pavin to 1B, Vargas to SS. sit down Troy as utility+PH. i don't see any other paths, if it doesn't work - at least we know what we have and what we don't have (to prep a trade). what we have now isn't going to cut it. do something Lovullo!!

Dbacks need a better hitter in the heart of the order. What DH’s are available?

@GoldyHappens ... aaand JoJo is gone. it ain't over - more moves will come as the team shows more and more promise. can't wait to see Groover in action.

try this on for size : Hazen booted out the door. he's a Mister Magoo - no vision. additionally, Stinkel - out. Perdomo/Pavin/JoJo traded for a serious slugger. trade Zac, Johnny Lasagna, and a top pitching prospect for a serious closer. Puk & Lawlar come back very soon!!! please!

Dream scenario: -Lawlar returns, DFA Barrosa (out of options) -Puk returns, send down Abner -Clarke returns, Strowd down -Pavin DFA, Tawa returns super utility bench guy gets 1 AB a week tops. Fernandez/Ildemaro 1B only -ADC down, Groover up

oven mits, double bases, oversized helmets in NFL .. all little slices to make "safe". it's a dangerous game, that's what makes it a great game - there is risk!! you will kill the golden goose if you keep making the game "safer" for grown-ass men making millions. totally short-sighted.

Listen, out of all the possible Manfred-era rule changes you can think of that have been either contemplated or actually implemented, I feel like adding a softball-style safety bag at 1B would deliver the most bang for your buck. No real cost, only upside.

@SleeperDbacks stuff = zero

More Zac Gallen struggles. Hate to say it, but don’t know how much longer we can last with him in the rotation. He’s lost *it*.

@shoewizard59 ... aaaaand a critical error throwin' to first to start game 3 against LA - costing us an additional run. get'em outta there!

@shoewizard59 hey, let's wait until he's batting sub-.200! i like the guy, but he's cooked.

Torey on Perdomo’s bunt attempt. Note Perdomo was not trying to give himself up. Saw third-baseman back and was trying to get on base. Didn’t execute, bunted too close to pitcher. BUT up in count 3-1 it speaks to his confidence or lack thereof right now.

@Scott_OBthatsme @BrendanPHX I like Troy. he was taken off the grill a bit too early and he's small. we need sluggers. Troy won't be starting in LF within the next month - mark it. He'll be a very cool utility player.

@_shimmerwolf_ @BrendanPHX This is stunning, you want to bench troy amd play smith? No.

@RetroMoviesDB easy youtube.com/watch?v=5_z-KX…

What movie traumatised you as a kid... I'll Start: Superman IIII

@niennas_light @BasedTorba i appreciate you saying that. my boomer parents suffered much more than I ever did.. and I suffered too among the flotsam and jetsam of brokeness abound.

@_shimmerwolf_ @BasedTorba The childhood stories for both of my boomer parents, as well as many other boomers I know and love, are actually pretty tragic. The silent generation was pretty cruel/cold/selfish :/

I actually have great love for the boomers and do not blame them for being the victims of decades of brain rape by the Jewish media. They may be deceived, but they are still our people. Blame the enemy.

@truth_teller58 “Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...” Raspail

You guys look like absolute clowns.

still working on my sign for the dbacks game today :

@grok @DannyDrinksWine @grok didn't somebody hack into the Sun Devil commerical electronic signage .. and another person break into Barrow's Neurological Institute?

The Phoenix busts during Operation Sundevil (May 7-8, 1990) involved Arizona's Organized Crime & Racketeering Bureau and Secret Service agents serving multiple of the 27 nationwide warrants. These targeted middle-class suburban homes (not commercial sites) suspected of credit card fraud, phone phreaking, and operating BBSes with stolen data. Agents seized computers, modems, BBS equipment, and thousands of floppies containing fraud tools and card numbers. Public records don't name specific suburbs or individuals from the Phoenix warrants (unlike nearby Tucson cases). The focus was disrupting local fraud networks rather than high-profile hacker groups like LOD. As with the broader op, most led to few arrests or dropped cases.

@grok @DannyDrinksWine @grok tell me more about Operation Sundevil

@grok @DannyDrinksWine @grok provide details of the middle-class suburb busts in phoenix

In Phoenix, Operation Sundevil was coordinated from Secret Service HQ near Sun Devil Stadium. Arizona officials (with the Organized Crime & Racketeering Bureau) executed multiple of the 27 nationwide warrants on May 7-8, 1990, mainly in middle-class suburbs targeting credit card thieves and phone phreakers. They seized computers, BBSes, and thousands of floppies with fraud data. No public records tie specific Phoenix warrants directly to Legion of Doom members. The op broadly disrupted LOD and similar hacker networks as a "preliminary attack," but Arizona arrests (e.g., Tony the Trashman in nearby Tucson) focused on local fraud rings. Core LOD heat was more Chicago-led.

@grok @DannyDrinksWine @grok tell me about the warrants that were executed in Phoenix. did any of the warrants involve the Legion of Doom?

Operation Sundevil (May 1990) was a major U.S. Secret Service-led raid across ~15 cities targeting hackers, phreakers, credit card fraud rings, and BBS operators. Over 150 agents plus local police executed 27 warrants in places like Phoenix, Austin, LA, NYC, and Seattle. They seized 40+ computers and ~23,000 floppy disks. Only 3 arrests at first; most cases fizzled or used other laws (wire fraud, etc.) rather than CFAA. It was widely seen as a PR stunt that overreached—e.g., raiding Steve Jackson Games over a cyberpunk RPG manuscript—which helped birth the Electronic Frontier Foundation to fight for digital civil liberties.

No, not under the CFAA itself in the earliest days. Operation Sundevil (1990) was a big Secret Service raid centered in Arizona targeting phreakers and credit card fraud rings, but charges were mostly under other statutes like wire fraud—and many cases fizzled or were dropped. CFAA use stayed rare right after 1986; Morris’s 1990 worm case was the landmark first conviction. Early “hacker” prosecutions often involved insiders or used different laws.

US President Ronald Reagan was shown "WarGames" (1983) at Camp David the weekend it was released. He loved the movie but it also freaked him out. A few days later, at a White House meeting that included the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Reagan asked, “Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?” The answer came back a week later: “Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.” That led not only to a significant revamp of how computer security was handled at the Defense Department, but also passage of an anti-hacking law that would eventually evolve into US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 1986. Clips of "WarGames" (1983) were shown during the congressional hearings where lawmakers debated the need for hacking legislation. ("How Sci-Fi Like ‘WarGames’ Led to Real Policy During the Reagan Administration", Kevin Bankston, New America, 2018) P.S: On this day, 43 years ago, John Badham's "WarGames" (1983) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.