That’s my favorite LOL!!!
Disagree. Totally. And they gifted him that spot in AA btw.
The difference between baseball MJ and basketball MJ is much smaller than the difference between baseball MJ and baseball Marine77 haha. That’s what I’m saying.
You should read up on that season. Also on baseball in general. People poopooing the minor leagues always tells me they don’t know and never really played the game
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Agree to disagree. The context was multiple intelligences. You posited; correct me if im wrong, that a gifted athlete would essentially excel at any sport they tried ?
Sure. CA grown for sure.
Like 7 foot cats going at it.
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Yes. And MJ played at an average level for a low class AA professional baseball player. That’s pretty damn good haha.
I just don’t wholly agree. He’d probably really suck at fighting like 99% of the NBA does. Hahaha
Charles Barkley was asked if he had any regrets after getting into a bar fight and throwing a guy throough a window out into the street:
“Yeah, I regret we weren’t on the second floor”.
I guess my question is why did the house vote to impeach if they didn’t have all the evidence they needed? The democrats withdrew the subpoena for Bolton before the court could even decide on him testifying, correct? Is Trump not within his rights to invoke executive privilege when it comes to his closest advisors testifying? I agree it may look bad, if you have nothing to hide, blah blah blah, but again, is that an impeachable offense?
I also find it convenient that everyone who comes out against Trump has a book deal or something similar pending.
And lastly, even if Trump told Bolton he wanted a quid pro quo, Bolton never relayed that to Ukraine, so once again can we impeach based on intent?
In the context of sport it’s still pretty good. The # of high school athletes that go to D1 NCAA is between 1-3% for almost all sports (ice hockey is an exception). The number of D1 NCAA athletes that go pro is pretty close to the same.
“Pro” in baseball usually means at least a couple seasons in the minors AFTER you’re drafted and sign a contract, with the top athletes being possible (but not always) exceptions. Ppl like No Jackson, Kyler Murray, etc. may skip the minors after contract signing, but most go there.
So basically regardless of his performance in AA, it means Jordan was in the top ~0.2% of all baseball players in the country after not playing baseball at all for 15+ years. That’s pretty dang good, especially considering how specialized a sport it is. It consider it excelling personally, given the lack of practice time.
That said, I fall more along the lines of multiple intelligences with a side of “the greater the genius, the more specific”. But I think the biggest problem is measuring a person in other spheres compares to their primary genius, as opposed to a general scale.
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I think differences in how religion acts in these regions is a big factor. In the south for example educated people attend church services at higher rates compared to the west.
Couple that with the brand of religion in the south for example vs the west. The brand of religion in the south is more fundamental and more political than in the west (meaning they convince their members to vote a certain way more often than in the west).
I live in Gohmert’s district and attend Southern Baptist church. Have never one single time, heard any directive to vote a certain party. Ever.
However, we do vote pretty overwhelmingly against politicians whose party platforms go insistently counter to the Bible.
I buy that. I was only saying in the south it happens “more often” than in the west.
I attended a fundamental baptist church school in the mid west. We had chapel 3X a week. They definitely pushed politics. Not specific names or parties. More like don’t vote for “pro-death” candidates. You can determine for yourself if something like that is political or not.
That is an interesting point. I grew up in the Lutheran Church (family was very active in it) and politics or policy were never a thing. But, Lutheran’s are notoriously laid back. We had female pastors, a flamboyantly gay dude as the musical director etc. Hell, during confirmation classes our pastor told us the only reason we were Lutheran or Christian was because we were born to Lutheran parents, it was pure luck of the draw. Pretty confident the large majority of the congregation votes liberal. But Lutheran is a long way from Baptist or Evangelical.
I wonder what other factors play a large role in the two seemingly identical demographics with opposite politics.
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Any bets on how long it will take Trump to torch Mitt Romney?
5…4…3…2…1…
I was talking with a guy at work today about good ole Mitt. He brought up something I was previously unaware of, that Utah has one of the highest ratios of Republican voters nationwide, yet didn’t support Trump anywhere near as much as most red states.
I wonder if it’s even possible for Trump to torch Romney without finding a way to get the officials running the party to officially disavow him
Let’s mix it up a little more, @pfury…
The Chairman of the RNC is…Mitt Romney’s niece!
Someone stated on this site once that Utah is very one-sided Republican…but there is “something” that make Utah Republicans “different” than say Mississippi Republicans.
Religious influence? Other?
(MAN this would be a great time to still have “PowerPuff” posting…!)
I have no idea.
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That is really weird. A Mormon from Utah that identified as Republican up until 2016 ran and pulled a fifth of Utah. Some things are just unexplainable.
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