Perhaps it really is that simple, that he is here to emit waves of bilingual benevolence that create a nurturing environment that cultivates the development of Starlin Castro, Javier Baez and Jorge Soler, along with Kris Bryant, Albert Almora and Arismendy Alcantara, and that the baseball decisions somehow just take care of themselves.

Candidates were subjected to a barrage of rapid-fire strategic and situational questions over hours, then placed in front of the hot lights of a press conference and observed there, like some kind of science project.

Watching tape, potential managers were graded on their real-time explanations of decisions under simulated game conditions.

Sources told WSCR that the method changed drastically

The top-down structure of the organization also means that a skipper won’t be asked to reinvent the job.

Absent hotness, your daughter's over-reliance on the passive voice condemns her to a lifetime of menial jobs.

"We have no idea who or what Rick Renteria is, but that's OK because I said so and the GM is Theo and he is really smart and, hey, did you also know that I have sources?"

They've made the claim, emphatically, that baseball mgrs don't matter at all....yet Rich R. "Hasn't said anything profound" so he's a dope, a horrible mgr and the Cubs are doomed.

Worst show on the Score.

I think you're confused with hitting instructors.

waves of bilingual benevolence
-- that create a nurturing environment
---- that cultivates the development

Why, I don't think that's very simple at all!

I'm sure a few have, but not as many as there should be.

Arizona is just the worst, the worst, the worst. It's the worst of California and Texas combined in one smog-filled, sprawled-out, gun-clutching shithole of fear and loathing. Everything they do is wrong.

Oh, and good to see that the NHL, the sports league that has had the longest and closest association with anti-homophobia initiatives, went to such great lengths to keep a team in metro Phoenix just in time for their businesses to refuse service to gay customers. Fuck Arizona.

I liked Terry's question. Why is AZ like this? Seems very strange. A lot of people retired should be happy and relaxed in the warmth. There is a lot of Hispanic population a couple very large universities where you think there is a liberal base. I just don't see how some of this shit goes on. Whether reelecting Sheriff Joe all the time or this law. Things just don't add up to me.

because these dumb motherfuckers are all gonna run out of water pretty soon, and then what.

to do whatever they want but not for other people to do whatever they want, for the government to stay out of their business but also to keep laying down that asphalt out and out and out and out and out.

Well, U of A is in Tucson, which does tend to be more liberal, but when we talk about "Arizona," we're really talking about Phoenix and the outlying suburbs: Scottsdale, Glendale, Tempe, Chandler, et al. I don't know or care what goes on up in Flagstaff.

I think what you see in Arizona is this kind of unholy coalescence of retirement culture, Southwestern culture, and suburban culture. You have older people who should be happy and relaxed but can't have their happiness and relaxation until they know that no one can bother or offend them. You have a part of the country that has always valued having guns more than other parts. And you have an area that has been allowed to develop into oblivion, where everyone wants their private space at the expense of public space. It all mixes together into this weird soup where everyone wants to be left alone but also wants Law And Order, to do whatever they want but not for other people to do whatever they want, for the government to stay out of their business but also to keep laying down that fresh asphalt farther out and out and out and out and out.

It's culturally untenable, but it might be physically untenable, because these dumb motherfuckers are all gonna run out of water pretty soon, and then what.

The folly of trying to build Las Vegas into a traditional metropolis is going to shine through when Lake Mead dries out. And let me tell you, the water level there certainly isn't going up.