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@RightOnRangers I have been saying Latz at closer he is CJ Wilson.
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Jacob Latz might be a little more closer-ish than people want to admit.
I know, I know. He’s not the 99 mph, classic closer. But the Savant page is pretty loud: 1.70 xERA, .135 xBA, 94th percentile fastball run value, and he doesn’t hand out free passes.
With the complete lack of consistency over the last year+ in the 9th inning, give me a guy like Latz that just keeps finding a way.
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The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.
So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
Aaron Ng@localghost
"Man won't fly for a million years" – NYT 1903
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@Evan_P_Grant Not really the expectations are high in Boston they didn't meet those expectations and got fired. That's the difference in Boston and Arlington the media fans and owners expect winning here we're oaky with winning and we accept losing way to easily here. No pressure on owner GM
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@C33D335TDS @_RyanFowler_ Slow and unexplosive = athletic. Got it.
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@SportsSturm Hope that game isn’t a runner that you really regret stranding…
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@BringLukaHome_ @NewbergReport Not certain you know what “seeing-eye” means
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@NewbergReport Does Joc hit anything other than seeing eye singles?
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Carter draws the LHP start (Smith and Joc and Osuna do not).
Texas Rangers PR@TXRangersPR
Rangers lineup for April 25, 2026 vs. the Athletics
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Trump’s own words last week: “We can’t take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.”
This week, he says he’s ready to bail out the United Arab Emirates.
The man who ran on America First is telling American families they’re on their own while offering a financial lifeline to a wealthy Gulf state whose sovereign wealth fund has poured billions into his family’s businesses.
Can’t afford day care.
Can’t afford healthcare.
Can’t afford to help families keep the heat on.
Can afford a bailout for the UAE.
Tell me again who America First was supposed to be for.
nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…
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In a very MAGA part of north Texas, this homeschool sports league hired a known child sex offender and this was the waiver they tried to get parents to sign acknowledging this. You’ve really got to read this
Amy Smith@watchkeep
Can you imagine having to sign a waiver for your kid to play baseball because the coach is a child sex offender? @JohnRHuffman
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@masters_do82355 @nut_history I'm sure I could find dozens of over-the-shoulder basket catches. But over-the-should DIVING basket catches? That's ridiculous. Edmonds>>>>Mays.
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It's not debatable. Edmonds catch is far superior and far more difficult. Every player in the game today can make the Mays catch. Very few are even attempting the Edmonds catch. Sure they'll make the run, but they diving blind like that it's a completely different thing than the sideways dive they'll all do.
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