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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve-O, check this out from Razib Khan at Taki's

--Senor Doug

4/9/09, 9:25 AM

Anonymous Anonymous Cubs Fan said...

The Peoria Chiefs actually have one of the Cubs top prospects at third now, Josh Vitters. (just an excuse to say "Go Cubs!")

4/9/09, 11:19 AM

Anonymous Shatnerson said...

The influx of Dominican males may have an effect on one other industry: adult films. While few adult movies, professional or amateur, are produced in the DR, for several reasons, Dominican males are particularly desireable as performers for two reasons: they tend-as in the famous example of Porfirio Rubirosa- to be exceptionally well endowed and they often have great endurance as well. (The "Cuban Superman" shows in Cuba before Castro, which were notorious, were primarily performed by Dominicans.)

When their baseball exploits are over, many of these Dominicans may do a little moonlighting in this, ahem, uplifting facet of the cinema before going home......

4/9/09, 12:03 PM

Blogger Ronduck said...

The COMPETE Act passed the Senate on Wednesday, December 7, by unanimous consent.

Pfft. Not even the conservative senators from the South registered any resistance.

4/9/09, 12:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eff major league baseball. I live in Minneapolis and I could personally give a rip about it. The sharks who own the effing team care about nothing but having the public pay for the stadium, which is mighty ballsy of them, pun intended. given the depression we are in.
Baseball used to be a game for kids and now it is a racket, but the game has remained the same, which means that for anyone beyond the mental capacity of a 12 year old it is boring.
I also could care less about watching monsters in spandex fall on the ground and giants in shiny bermudas play with balls. Screw the "Vikings" and the "Wolves"...send 'em to Las Vegas. They are a waste.

4/9/09, 6:36 PM

Anonymous clem said...

OT: I, robot — and gardener: MIT droids tend plants:

"A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants...."

"Even though robots have made few inroads into agriculture, these robots' creators hope their technology eventually could be used by farmers to reduce the natural resources and the difficult labor needed to tend crops."

You know, for the jobs which "Americans won't do" ... and which can, should, and will, be done by machines in the foreseeable future. Machines, that is, which will be designed by skilled engineers, and maintained by community-college educated technicians.

Where will that leave the Luddites, ditch-diggers, and other "real men" who need to do physical work in order to feel fulfilled, and who would gladly return our tech-driven society, and growth-through-increased-productivity based economy, to a manual-laboring one in pursuit of that goal?

"Let them eat tomatoes."

4/10/09, 11:03 AM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

But minor-league baseball is already a fraud, due to the "farm system". Your local team isn't independent, but a puppet of a larger, distant organization, which can pull your stars off the roster late in what you were led to believe was a pennant race.

Compare that to professional soccer associations abroad. Their farm system (youth squads, "under-21", whatever) is separate from their minor leagues (lower divisions). The former are subdivisions of major clubs, and are drawn locally. The latter are independent, represent smaller cities (or neighborhoods in large cities), and are eligible for promotion-- as a team, mind you-- to higher leagues through good play.

Importing foreigners at the highest level of play makes perfect sense. Importing them to replace the farm system, which is supposed to be a local pipeline, is obscene.

Minor clubs would fall somewhere in between. One or two "geniuses" to boost you up to the next level is fine, but by definition most of your squad should hardly qualify for genius status. You are in the "lower" division, after all, and there aren't that many geniuses to go around.

4/10/09, 11:21 PM

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