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Agreed.

Clyde - what do you propose we as a society do with this information? Not trying to be a smart alec, I'd really like to know your opinion. Data is just data. It's how we react to it that tends to separate us philosophically.

The rosters & schedule should be on the website shortly, but until then, here's the first week of games: 3/19: Var @ WV, 5:00; JV WV @ home, 5:30 3/20: Var Camp Cty @ home, 5:00; JV @ Camp Cty, 5:00; Frosh Brossart @ Pendry, 5:00. 3/21: Var @ Conner, 5:00; JV Conner at home, 5:00; Frosh: NCC @ Morscher, 5:00. 3/22: Frosh Camp Cty @ home, 5:00. 3/23: Var Bellevue @ home, 5:00; JV @ Bellevue, 5:00. 3/24: Var @ PRP, 1:30 & 3:00; JV @ Beechwood, 12:00; Frosh L-Ville St. X @ home, 11:00.

They are young relatively speaking, but there are now kids at all grade levels very serious about the game of baseball. Impossible to predict results, but I'd be surprised if you don't see some improvement this year.

What the....? :idunno: You do realize this is a Highlands thread, right?

Small companies can operate in this fashion because they can change direction rapidly. If it doesn't work, tack back or in another direction. Big companies don't have this flexibility. It takes so much effort to get them moving in one direction that if that direction is the wrong one, all can be lost before correction can be made. America is a very big company.

Big picture: In this day & age, everything is a slur. We have become way, way too sensitive as a society. Your question: In this case, it seems like she's using it as a slur.

Exactly what he said. Not sure why my posts have come across as partisan. This is why I sometimes don't like blogs. I think if Clyde & I were in the same room we'd understand each other no problem. But I would like to touch on the "new" & "creative" thing. I think somewhat by definition, conservatives generally are skeptical of ideas new and creative. We believe there are fundamental truths that don't change with the times, and that messing with those truths is a big part of what has gotten ours & other western societies in the current trouble they're in. So it's not surprising to me that Will's solution goes back to things Buckley said 40+ years ago, and revisiting those things can help us keep perspective on the current.

If the three classes in front of them are any guide, some of those 8th graders who chose not to come out for baseball this year will come out as freshman. Not sure why they do this, but my guess is that as middle schoolers, they might be a little intimidated stepping into a high school team. The current soph class has one very good baseball player who didn't come out until his frosh year, and has actually picked up a couple more kids this season who sat out their middle school & frosh years.

So obviously this piece didn't capture your attention as a liberal, but it holds a strong message for conservatives, namely one of not letting your disgust with Obama take your eye pff the big picture. I'll admit that my knee-jerk reaction to Obama has often been to get the most conservative republican possible into the White House to counteract all the garbage he's done, but that may not be what's best long term for the conservative cause.

Conservative goal number one: advance conservative agenda. Don't say the goal should be "what's best for America," because conservatism is what we believe is best for America. Conservative goal number two if goal number one is not possible: don't allow advancement of the liberal agenda. If you want to call this extreme partisanship, so be it. I agree it's a fine line to walk. Will is saying that we, as conservatives, must do what's best in the long run for the conservative movement. In this case, it may be to focus on a more winnable Senate majority than to spend all resources on a loosing race for the White House. Win either one, and we're able to stop the progressive march. Loose the White House & not gain majority in the Senate, we're still in trouble.

George Will's column from a few days ago about how Republicans should be looking at the upcoming elections is, in my eye, very, very good. Republicans can stop Obama, one way or another - The Washington Post

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! :thumb:

Are there things at play here besides just sports? I have nothing to do with SK or any other Kenton County schools, but isn't SK kinda seen as a "rural" school, with Dixie a little more "urban"? That would have had a large impact on where I chose to go to school, sports or no sports.

Turner, Thurston, Saunders,...again no lack of size there.

DANG - stay away from the P&R forum for a few days and look what happens - 10 pages on Rush Limbaugh! At this point there's no way I can read each post, but some themes I picked up & my thoughts on them: 1) Impact of Rush on the news/radio industry: Rush almost singlehandedly altered the dissemination of news in this country forever. Love him or hate him, the impact he had on the movement away from the mainstream media simply cannot be overstated. You may not think what he provides is news, but honestly, it doesn't matter what you think, it only matters what his listeners think, and there's a whoooooooole lot of listeners. 2) Impact of Rush on politics: Again, the impact can almost not be overstated. Nobody from either side has more captured the listening audience of their political affiliation more so than Limbaugh. Again, love him or hate him, but there's been no better mass-communicator since 1970 with the exception of Ronald Reagan. 3) If you get your health insurance through your employer, it is your employer who decides what will be covered, not the insurance company. The insurer will cover virtually anything that your employer is willing to pay them to. Don't like co-pay rates, talk to your HR department, not your insurance company. 4) Obamacare makes what is covered in anyone's insurance policy the business and interest of everyone else because in one way or the other they are paying for it! Every mandatory coverage item from Obamacare impacts what insurance costs everyone else. Take this analogy: one person decides he doesn't feel safe in his car & want's the gov't to raise side impact crash worthiness ratings. The gov't agrees, and passes corresponding legislation - or better yet - regulation. It's not only the worry-wart's car that now costs more money, every buyer's costs more. Sure we're all safer, but why should I have to pay more for things in a car I don't value just because Mr. Worry was able to convince a bunch of unelected bureaucrats that it was a good idea?

This, IMO, is the most under-reported & underappreciated aspect of the entire bailout. When the housing bubble burst decimating the residential construction industry in places like Arizona & Las Vegas, it eliminated a major source of jobs for illegals. This not only reduced incentives for new illegals to come here, but actually caused some to return.

How about setting the law-breaking precedent of bypassing establish bankruptcy law. There's no other way too look at it. The administration stole from legal shareholders and gave to the UAW and others. Is this an accomplishment? Last I checked it was never the govt's job to steal from one set of constituents in order to give to another. At least taxes generally have legislation that created them. Or how about the precedent that if you're a very large American corporation employing loads of Americans, you can be as lazy as you want, for as long as you want, because the Federal gov't will come along to rescue you with tax-payer dollars in the end. Oh, and they'll give you additional help by sicking unelected bureaucrats & their bureaucracies on your competition, who had been working hard to make a superior product all those years you'd been sitting on your collective arse.

Given the length of that list of schools, I wonder if there are some dynamics at play in Maryland different from KY. Otherwise, I can't imagine why that many schools wouldn't want to play for their state's championship.

It's the new bat performance standard replacing the older BESR rating. The NCAA started using it last season, and KY high schools this year. It dramatically reduces the "pop" of the bats, which of course reduces the speed of the hit ball. The changes in college ball were fairly dramatic, although the stats posted above don't necessarily reflect it. The BBCOR bats appear to very closely resemble the performance of wood bats. In fact, many college players last season complained they would rather just use wood.

2011 was the first year for BBCOR bats in college baseball. Not coincidentally, the single season ERA record was broken in 2011 by UCLA's Trevor Bauer.

I ask this in all sincerity, what's it going to take for you to reach solidly into the middle class? I've been reading your posts for a few years on here now, and you're obviously way above average intelligence. What do you want out of the Federal gov't? Is there anything that could happen between now & November that would take your vote away from Obama?

In my opinion, it's not about drugs, prostitution or any other specific commodity or service, it's about where as a society do you draw the line? A commonly heard statement is "you can't legislate morality," but what else are laws & regulations other than moral judgements encoded into a society's rule book. Alcohol yes, weed no, cigarettes yes (at least for now), cocaine no, men marrying women yes, men marrying men depends on where you live, $7,500 tax-payer subsidy for the Chevy Volt yes, tax break for the Chevy Suburban no. These are all judgement calls made in theory for what's best for our society. Do we as a society want to tell our kids drugs are acceptable? Do we want to tell them it's OK to buy sex? I'm not sure. But I do know one thing, we tell them something with every law passed, whether we've thought in those terms or not. The utilitarian line of thinking when applied to drugs can make a lot of sense, but is it the best way to make all judgements of legality? Will using a cost/benefit analysis lead us to where we want to be? Or are some principles so important, so core to what we believe a human being ought to be, that we must stand by them at all cost? Just like a sports team, every society must decide what they're about. Our founding fathers helped make some of those decision for us with the Constitution. The question is where do we go from here?

There are lots of laws on our books that are partially effective at best and end up costing society boatloads of money to enforce, drug laws being one of them. I'm not saying I'm against legalization of drugs, but where do you draw the line? What about prostitution? Human trafficking has become a significant problem in this country, and we could probably eliminate 98% of it by legalizing prostitution. It's all consensual right? Nobody gets hurt who doesn't want to. No impact to the rest of society, right?

A strong GOP candidate beats him no matter what happens with the economy (as one would have the first time). There is NOT a strong GOP candidate, so, IMO, the Republican's only chance of victory is if the economy falters or there's a terrorist attack. Either of those two things happening before the election takes the win away from Obama. Modification - Egypt exploding between now & then could spell trouble for Obama also.