The Twins claimed David Hale off waivers, sending Aaron Slegers back to Rochester.
Hale is thirty and has made 67 big-league appearances over five seasons, most of them with Atlanta in 2014. Twenty of his appearances have been starts. Overall, he's 10-10, 4.43, 1.46 WHIP, 4.32 FIP. He's also made 67 AAA appearances, almost all of them starts. There, he's 12-25, 4.72, 1.52 WHIP. He strikes out about six batters per nine innings and walks about three.
My guess is that they'll use Hale as a groundskeeper. It enables them to keep Slegers pitching regularly and as a starter. That way, he can take over when the Twins give up on Phil Hughes, which may or may not come after tonight's game. Nothing against Hughes--I'd love for him to fool me--but I don't see anything to indicate he's ready to help a big league team or that he ever will be.
I think I heard he was claimed from the Yankees. Pitched against the Twins earlier in the series. Must be weird leaving on the visiting team's plane.
Can you imagine how pissed he probably is, what with how that series turned out?
Or, he could be thinking, "Well, at least I know I'm going to get a chance to pitch."
Hmmm, good point. Let's compromise, he was probably thinking that and pissed.
I found out recently that my friend and director of the workshop Im affiliated with in Ireland was likely cooking the books and skimming off the top. It’s a strange thing trying to put together the idea that this person could be capable of doing this. Ugh.
We had our He had his reasons, I'm sure.
I’m sorry, meat. Reconciling disappointing behavior by people we admire is neither easy nor pleasant.
I have no idea whether this applies here, but I've known people to just sort of slide gradually into stuff like this. They're a little short one month, and they're getting desperate, so the think, "Well, I'll just take a little to tide me over. Next month things'll be straightened out and I'll pay it back and no one will ever know." But they never quite get it paid back, and then a few months later they're short again and do it again. They still intend to pay it back, but they never do. It gets easier to do it each time, and pretty soon you don't even think about what you're doing any more.
I'm not trying to justify it, mind you. But it can be very tempting to do things we know we shouldn't when we don't think anyone will find out.
I know the guy from our office who served time for embezzling started slow because he needed some cash.
Against his defense, he needed the cash to pay off some illegal gambling debts, and I got the feeling that the embezzling itself became a kind of gambling to him.
As I assume was the mistress in his secret apartment, and the other girlfriend that he got pregnant. (While he was still married to his first wife.)
We had an employee embezzle. I asked his manager, "Divorce, gambling, or substance abuse?"
It was all 3.
We all do this kind of rationalizing, even if on a smaller scale than embezzling.
I'll have this entire pizza tonight, but tomorrow I'll make up for it and exercise...
I'll just take a quick look at the wgom and get back to work....
of course, not quite the same scale of perfidy as felony embezzlement. 🙂
Says the guy who ate all the ice cream.
But seriously, that’s definitely truth. The hard part to figure is that this guy really, truly built something special, and it’s in danger now that he’s under the lens for having taken some cash. Very contradictory feelings.
Heh. I will eat a half bag of Doritos in the evening as a reward for not having any as a snack earlier in the day. Chips are my kryptonite.
I can tell you that there have been times in my life when I've been pretty short of money. I never did anything like this, but had I thought that I could do it and get away with it, well, who knows what I might have done?
One of the points I find myself making over and over again in various debates is that there is basically (with very few exceptions), no such thing as a "good person" or a "bad person." We're all just people, capable of good acts and bad acts. Those who are "bad" still have people they love, treat well, sacrifice for, have causes they support, etc. Those who are "good" still tend at times to hate, offend, act selfishly, ignore, etc.
All this talk about rationalizing bad snacking habits makes me feel even better about having just gotten back from a good forty or so minutes now ride with my son in the bike trailer. I got a bit of jelly legs going right now, though. I'm hoping this is the start of a three to four day a week commitment to getting out on that thing and losing some girth. (to be better next year with curling.)
Of course, I'm gonna reward myself with a handful of beers later tonight.
what I'm doing today: trying to figure out how to connect a woman from out of state to services for her brother who is going on trial in-state for a felony (brandishing a knife). She notes that her brother has been "hearing voices" since he was a young man, but has never actually been diagnosed (because perhaps never seen a mental health professional?). And now she's worried that he is about to get a third-strike conviction rather than getting the mental health services he really needs.
we don't really do this kind of stuff, but....
Don't know what your/her state offers, but in Minnesota you'd want to have a conversation with the brother's lawyer to get an assessment about competency to stand trial and possible referral to mental health court.
Ya. I managed to find court records on him (boy, do court record databases suh-huck; I found a record for today's hearing on a charge from a specific date, stating that he was going to have a pre-trial hearing and bond hearing this morning; and a different, unmerged record for a different charge from a different date that noted that he was going to have a trial today on the first charge).
his county has both a probate/mental health court and a "collaborative court" that does, amongst other things, "mental health court" type cases. But for non-violent offenses. Not sure that this person would qualify, given the felony charge. Anyway, I tried to direct her to the appropriate public defender offices to see whether anything could be done to shift his case to a mental health court. Obviously, if the trial was happening this afternoon, it was probably too late. Focus would have to shift to getting him assessed and in treatment while in jail.
California has a ginormous backlog of Incompetent to Stand Trial cases, btw. That's a policy area that my agency is seeking to address, and is a priority for the current governor.
But you’re backstopping for them because you’re a smart guy with a good heart. Good on ya, Doc.
Working the week remotely in Scandia, and taking today PTO (me-day!).
After sleeping in, coffee and 4-egg Grand Marnier soufflé, I went birding at St. Croix Boomsite (just north of Stillwater) and hiking at St. Croix Savanna Scientific Natural Area (just S. of Bayport).
Pretty good yield: at the Boom Site hundreds of American White Pelicans, dozens of Common Loons, pairs of Hooded Grebes and Pied-billed Grebes, many Cormorants/Egrets/Herons in the colony, a Kingfisher, mallards, coots, gulls, river-day-skimmers (not sure what they are - fast skimmers low over the river during the day), some kind of martins/swallows. Also, hairy woodpecker, wild turkeys, turkey buzzards, red-tailed hawks, and hiked up to two Ospreys at their nest on a telephone pole.
I talked with a DNR dude at the Boomsite Landing for a bit - he said there were a thousand pelicans and a hundred bald eagles at the dam at Lake Mallalieu (N. of Hudson). He showed me a picture of the bodies of the half-fish lying about as the eagles are just biting off the heads.
I have one ticket to tonight’s Twin game available if you want to hang with me.
It’s Champions Club with full spread.
Interested?
Text me at
612 7o8 1114
I have a couple other asks out there. First come first serve.
Also, I’m at sturgill Simpson and the 610 stompers just left the stage. Fucking awesome.
If you’re unaware of the 610 stompers use the googles.
Nuff said.
The Twins claimed David Hale off waivers, sending Aaron Slegers back to Rochester.
Hale is thirty and has made 67 big-league appearances over five seasons, most of them with Atlanta in 2014. Twenty of his appearances have been starts. Overall, he's 10-10, 4.43, 1.46 WHIP, 4.32 FIP. He's also made 67 AAA appearances, almost all of them starts. There, he's 12-25, 4.72, 1.52 WHIP. He strikes out about six batters per nine innings and walks about three.
My guess is that they'll use Hale as a groundskeeper. It enables them to keep Slegers pitching regularly and as a starter. That way, he can take over when the Twins give up on Phil Hughes, which may or may not come after tonight's game. Nothing against Hughes--I'd love for him to fool me--but I don't see anything to indicate he's ready to help a big league team or that he ever will be.
I think I heard he was claimed from the Yankees. Pitched against the Twins earlier in the series. Must be weird leaving on the visiting team's plane.
Can you imagine how pissed he probably is, what with how that series turned out?
Or, he could be thinking, "Well, at least I know I'm going to get a chance to pitch."
Hmmm, good point. Let's compromise, he was probably thinking that and pissed.
I found out recently that my friend and director of the workshop Im affiliated with in Ireland was likely cooking the books and skimming off the top. It’s a strange thing trying to put together the idea that this person could be capable of doing this. Ugh.
We had ourHe had his reasons, I'm sure.I’m sorry, meat. Reconciling disappointing behavior by people we admire is neither easy nor pleasant.
I have no idea whether this applies here, but I've known people to just sort of slide gradually into stuff like this. They're a little short one month, and they're getting desperate, so the think, "Well, I'll just take a little to tide me over. Next month things'll be straightened out and I'll pay it back and no one will ever know." But they never quite get it paid back, and then a few months later they're short again and do it again. They still intend to pay it back, but they never do. It gets easier to do it each time, and pretty soon you don't even think about what you're doing any more.
I'm not trying to justify it, mind you. But it can be very tempting to do things we know we shouldn't when we don't think anyone will find out.
I know the guy from our office who served time for embezzling started slow because he needed some cash.
Against his defense, he needed the cash to pay off some illegal gambling debts, and I got the feeling that the embezzling itself became a kind of gambling to him.
As I assume was the mistress in his secret apartment, and the other girlfriend that he got pregnant. (While he was still married to his first wife.)
We had an employee embezzle. I asked his manager, "Divorce, gambling, or substance abuse?"
It was all 3.
We all do this kind of rationalizing, even if on a smaller scale than embezzling.
I'll have this entire pizza tonight, but tomorrow I'll make up for it and exercise...
I'll just take a quick look at the wgom and get back to work....
of course, not quite the same scale of perfidy as felony embezzlement. 🙂
Says the guy who ate all the ice cream.
But seriously, that’s definitely truth. The hard part to figure is that this guy really, truly built something special, and it’s in danger now that he’s under the lens for having taken some cash. Very contradictory feelings.
Heh. I will eat a half bag of Doritos in the evening as a reward for not having any as a snack earlier in the day. Chips are my kryptonite.
I can tell you that there have been times in my life when I've been pretty short of money. I never did anything like this, but had I thought that I could do it and get away with it, well, who knows what I might have done?
One of the points I find myself making over and over again in various debates is that there is basically (with very few exceptions), no such thing as a "good person" or a "bad person." We're all just people, capable of good acts and bad acts. Those who are "bad" still have people they love, treat well, sacrifice for, have causes they support, etc. Those who are "good" still tend at times to hate, offend, act selfishly, ignore, etc.
All this talk about rationalizing bad snacking habits makes me feel even better about having just gotten back from a good forty or so minutes now ride with my son in the bike trailer. I got a bit of jelly legs going right now, though. I'm hoping this is the start of a three to four day a week commitment to getting out on that thing and losing some girth. (to be better next year with curling.)
Of course, I'm gonna reward myself with a handful of beers later tonight.
what I'm doing today: trying to figure out how to connect a woman from out of state to services for her brother who is going on trial in-state for a felony (brandishing a knife). She notes that her brother has been "hearing voices" since he was a young man, but has never actually been diagnosed (because perhaps never seen a mental health professional?). And now she's worried that he is about to get a third-strike conviction rather than getting the mental health services he really needs.
we don't really do this kind of stuff, but....
Don't know what your/her state offers, but in Minnesota you'd want to have a conversation with the brother's lawyer to get an assessment about competency to stand trial and possible referral to mental health court.
Ya. I managed to find court records on him (boy, do court record databases suh-huck; I found a record for today's hearing on a charge from a specific date, stating that he was going to have a pre-trial hearing and bond hearing this morning; and a different, unmerged record for a different charge from a different date that noted that he was going to have a trial today on the first charge).
his county has both a probate/mental health court and a "collaborative court" that does, amongst other things, "mental health court" type cases. But for non-violent offenses. Not sure that this person would qualify, given the felony charge. Anyway, I tried to direct her to the appropriate public defender offices to see whether anything could be done to shift his case to a mental health court. Obviously, if the trial was happening this afternoon, it was probably too late. Focus would have to shift to getting him assessed and in treatment while in jail.
California has a ginormous backlog of Incompetent to Stand Trial cases, btw. That's a policy area that my agency is seeking to address, and is a priority for the current governor.
But you’re backstopping for them because you’re a smart guy with a good heart. Good on ya, Doc.
Working the week remotely in Scandia, and taking today PTO (me-day!).
After sleeping in, coffee and 4-egg Grand Marnier soufflé, I went birding at St. Croix Boomsite (just north of Stillwater) and hiking at St. Croix Savanna Scientific Natural Area (just S. of Bayport).
Pretty good yield: at the Boom Site hundreds of American White Pelicans, dozens of Common Loons, pairs of Hooded Grebes and Pied-billed Grebes, many Cormorants/Egrets/Herons in the colony, a Kingfisher, mallards, coots, gulls, river-day-skimmers (not sure what they are - fast skimmers low over the river during the day), some kind of martins/swallows. Also, hairy woodpecker, wild turkeys, turkey buzzards, red-tailed hawks, and hiked up to two Ospreys at their nest on a telephone pole.
I talked with a DNR dude at the Boomsite Landing for a bit - he said there were a thousand pelicans and a hundred bald eagles at the dam at Lake Mallalieu (N. of Hudson). He showed me a picture of the bodies of the half-fish lying about as the eagles are just biting off the heads.
I have one ticket to tonight’s Twin game available if you want to hang with me.
It’s Champions Club with full spread.
Interested?
Text me at
612 7o8 1114
I have a couple other asks out there. First come first serve.
Also, I’m at sturgill Simpson and the 610 stompers just left the stage. Fucking awesome.
If you’re unaware of the 610 stompers use the googles.