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I determine eligibility for public assistance programs for the County of Sacramento. Currently, I am working in Foster Care, but I have worked in all assistance programs, Food Stamps, Medi-Cal, General Assistance. Not my dream job, but I get to help out people in need and that makes me feel good. Plus, I make pretty good money and my health benefits are badass. No complaints from me.

That was my first thought as well.

I say fuck SF in everything they do, but I would be a fool to think that Sabean and company aren't really fantastic guys at running a baseball team. I enjoy their approach to the personnel side of things.

Great fucking call on "Big Iron" and "Mama Tried".

Lots of stuff I would have already mentioned, but here is one that I always thought set the perfect tone for the rest of the record.

Alright alright!! Let's get this season started!! I still haven't decided if I am going to go down to AZ and catch a couple games or not. I really want to, but my wife just had a baby, so we might not make it down. ST games are too goddamn fun. I love seeing all the young blood scratching for a spot. What a fucking bummer about Tony Phillips. Super young to go of a heart attack. I had lots of good times watching him in OAK.

New Day Track jackets on the Shopzone now. They look more windbreaker-y than they do the Adidas style of thick nylon. Someone inform Niners Fan, he was asking about them a few months ago.

I will never waver from my support of the Dodgers, but having grown up in San Jose, my Dad and I went to hundreds of A's games and I took quite a liking to guys like Dwayne Murphy, Carney Lansford, Alfredo Griffin and of course, who can overlook Rickey? I don't actively root for the Athletics, but I don't want to see them lose, either. I don't mind it at all if folks have two clubs they root for, but I do think it is extra silly if they are in the same league.

Dodgers make a couple deals, Joe Wieland to SEA for an IF prospect, and then Tyler Olson and Ronald Torreyes to NYY for Rob Segedin and a PTBNL or cash.

I lost it right there, what a fucking thing to say. Pretty great stuff.

Oh, that I had not heard. That adds another level of skullduggery to the situation.

Less a hacking, and more a "Luhnow didn't change any passwords" sort of deal is what I remember reading. Not real fucking bright, for sure. And yet, pretty smart about baseball type stuff. It's like that friend you have that can do complex mathematics, but can't remember to turn off the stove after using it.

Any word on potential sentence? Obviously, everyone above him in the STL organization will probably skate because there's likely no way to prove they were aware of his actions. Weird situation, that whole deal.

Yes because 6 or so heads with their own opinions are better than 1 Obviously, the game has evolved from when Connie Mack could make every baseball decision from personnel down to concession stand prices. Three heads in a FO making decisions independent of one another but still allowing the other two guys to have their voices heard seems like a pretty good thing to me as opposed to one guy's word on everything. AA supposedly rejected TOR's extension because he wouldn't be allowed to operate with the same freedom as under the previous regime. Why would he take a new job that put him a situation anywhere similar to that?

Confirmed as of a few minutes ago. Fuckin' A that's a lot of top tier brainpower in the FO now. I love on-field moves, but I get pretty excited about making the team stronger through executive hires as well.

Waylon and Jessi Colter plus 1986 NWA sounds like every one of my dreams come true, that's awesome. I don't think I knew that all the GAB tour shows had musical guests.

The deal is weird, but it's fucking genius. 8 years, $24MM , and then loaded with incentives for like $10-12 per year. Upfront cost including the posting fee, if assumed to be the max is $44MM. Those dudes in the Dodgers FO are pretty crafty. I don't have a bad word to say about the way they have put this team together in their time in the job.

I haven't watched any lucha in forever, when did Alebrije become some evil skeleton?

And the all LHP rotation is now a thing!! Well, until McCarthy comes back in July or so. Kind of a weird deal, but whatever. I don't give a shit which side the ball comes off, as long as these dudes get outs.

Super weak. 57 years old, that's tremendously unfortunate.

The deal fell apart because BP used his 10-5 veto power after they wouldn't extend him was what I read.

That Liger / Sasuke shirt is fucking amazing. My personal favorite shirt in my collection has got be this one: I don't wear it anymore, I put it away before it got too fucked up so that my son can wear it in a few years.

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does this mean? Does the ABC have any real swing when it comes to MMA rules and regs? And if so, does their apparent adoption of new weight classes mean that the Unified Rules are being modified to include the new weight classes? That's actually a good question. Yes and no. They do have many of the commissions meet and convene over different rules and regulations. However, their thing is mostly providing a framework and improving record keeping. They can influence commissions since the commissions send representatives along with other major figures from the sport. The thing is that the commissions can pick and choose since the ABC does not regulate anyone. The state of California has more resources at their disposal than say Louisiana or wherever. So if California decided to ramp up drug testing and also drop the hammer on extreme weight cutting, that doesn't mean that everyone has to follow suit. However, the other places can see what California is doing to solve those issues. It's the same pretty much with the weight classes. The idea of new weight classes has been tossed around for several years. However, the UFC has been seen as the leader of everything MMA. So if the UFC doesn't use those new weight classes, no one else is going to use those weight classes. However, if smaller regional organizations start experimenting with them leading to bigger regional orgs doing so, the braintrust at Zuffa might pick and choose what new weight classes to add. I just don't expect them to completely reshuffle their weight divisions since most of them are completely ingrained with the fanbase. The reason I posted Gift's tweets is because that's really the first time I've seen the UFC and the ABC be in somewhat agreement. From Greg Savage's reports of being at those meetings, the UFC usually just ignores them and acts like they don't really exist. This is a good example of that: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/ABC-makes-new-rules-UFC-says-no-thanks?urn=mma,92637. Hence why the ABC's most credible department is record keeping. So sending Jeff Novitzky is a step in a whole different direction. Thanks for helping to understand that, much appreciated.

What a bunch of horseshit. I fucking hate national games because I get blacked out on MLB.TV. I have my internet set to show that I am in Austin, Texas so I can get around the local blackouts on LAD-SFG games (and avoid the homers that SFG employs as a broadcast crew) on LAD-SFG games, and then they end up on Sunday Night Baseball, totally ruining my plan. I mean this really for another thread but how many teams DON'T employ homers? Fair enough, very true that the vast majority of announce crews are going to be guys with a vested interest in the club. LAD's road crew is pretty good about it, but when Steiner and Monday are together on the radio, they can be a little much for me. I'm spoiled by Scully, you can tell that he enjoys watching the Dodgers, but he comes right out and says exactly when they are playing poorly, and points to what they are doing wrong, all while praising the things that the other team is doing right. Orel / Nomar / Steiner are doing a pretty good job of maintaining semi-neutrality, but Orel gets pretty stoked about a good day for Dodger pitching, and it comes through in his broadcasts. I like the Mets crew in the handful of games that I have heard from them, and I really liked Tommy Hutton. I guess I just want guys to hold the team accountable when they play poorly, and not go apeshit when something goes right for the club.

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does this mean? Does the ABC have any real swing when it comes to MMA rules and regs? And if so, does their apparent adoption of new weight classes mean that the Unified Rules are being modified to include the new weight classes?