R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱

Husband, father. Sports & political junkie. Individual freedom is paramount. Capitalism works. Collectivism always fails.
Where is John Galt?

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

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[Hashem @HashemAllMighty]

Reminder: Palestinians already have a state. It’s called Jordan 🇯🇴

Why won’t @KingAbdullahII let them return home?

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@Mike_Grant603 @athletnick @_DockEllis But getting credit for saving a run in your scenario is wrong.
It assumes the pitcher throws the same pitches in sequence & location with a man on base as he did with the base empty. Or that the hitter behaves the same way. Perhaps he takes a pitch, fouls off a bunt attempt etc

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@tparsi Look at that list of shithole countries. Between all 77 of them they can't put together a roster of Nobel Prize laureates, or inventors, or scientists, or tech entrepreneurs, equal to what little old Israel can.
A country tha's aided humanity more than those 77 combined

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@arianajasmine__ Scared of Mamdami? The Ugandan pussy?

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@cenkuygur Cenk, repeat after me,
"From the River to the Sea, Israel shall forever remain strong and free" 🇮🇱

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@FoodProfessor There must be a shortage of purple, pink, and blue haired, nose ringed, multi-pierced, super inked, gender confused, sociology grads, to fill barrista roles, denying patrons the full @Starbucks experience.

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@disintti Bossy and not Guy Lafleur? Not Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard?

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@Jimfrombaseball Remains my favorite pitcher of all-time.
He was also a great winemaker up on Diamond Mountain, too!

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@TheRoyGreenShow I'm sure the PM had an armada of canoes, kayaks, and pedal boats manned and ready along our shores. The army was ready, Timmies coffee and donuts in full supply. Our special forces are LBGTQ, as they're "just so special" aren't they? That'll deter an American invasion......

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

Bravo @CarolineGlick speaking truth to power, and like a good baseball umpire, "calling 'em as I see 'em." Nothing like eloquence when telling the hypocrites and Jew-haters to F-off!
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

[King David @KingDavid9y]

❤️ The woman with “steel balls”
Journalist Caroline Glick accused Britain, France and Canada of hypocrisy.
Israeli-American journalist and commentator Caroline Glick published an address to the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Canada.
Here is her statement in full:

“You sanctimonious, hypocritical cowards.
How dare you threaten the one Jewish state on earth — after everything your nations did to us!
You dare speak of ‘humanitarian values’ while standing on piles of Jewish bones your ancestors buried beneath cobblestones, cathedrals and the charters of ‘civilized’ nations?!

Britain.
Oh, Britain.
The empire that carved up the Middle East with a pencil and a gin-and-tonic.
You issued the Balfour Declaration and then slammed the door on Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis.
You handed chunks of Jewish land to Arab monarchs and let Jews die in the Holocaust rather than let them enter your precious Mandate.
You interned Holocaust survivors in Cyprus as if they were criminals.
And now you’re wagging your colonial finger at Jews for building homes on our ancestral hills?
Shove your royal hypocrisy back into Buckingham Palace and deal with your own collapsing society — where knife crime, antisemitism and Islamic extremism are more common than fish and chips.

France.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité — unless you’re a Jew.
You deported more than 75,000 Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust with the full cooperation of the Vichy regime. You let them be shoved into cattle cars from the Vél d’Hiv while Parisians watched.
And after the war?
No justice.
No reckoning.
Just decades of indifference and empty words.
Today Jews are stabbed in the streets of France, synagogues are under military guard, and you still have the gall to lecture us about morality?
You couldn’t protect your own republic from a van full of jihadists, but now you want to dictate to Israel how it should defend itself against genocidal terrorists?
You are morally bankrupt and culturally collapsing.

Canada.
Oh Canada — America’s cold, smug, spineless cousin.
Your ‘moral high ground’ is a snow-covered hill of lies.
You locked Jewish refugees out during the Holocaust.
The ship St. Louis begged for your mercy.
You sent them back — to die.
‘None is too many,’ your officials said.
That is your legacy.
Today your politicians pose for photo-ops in mosques that glorify martyrs while condemning Israel for fighting murderers.
You have turned your universities into Hamas fan clubs and your parliament into a virtue circus.
You abandoned the Jews when we were stateless, and now you want to punish us for defending our state?!

Here is our answer.
We are not the stateless Jews of 1942.
We are the sovereign people of Israel — armed, aware and unapologetic.
Your sanctions are a joke.
Your threats are meaningless.
Your moral lectures are garbage.
We do not need your permission to live.
We do not need your approval to fight.
We are not going anywhere.”

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@Jimfrombaseball Absolutely! Not only a great baseball biography, a great biography period.

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@dannogallagher7 He thinks he was paid for hitting 48 bombs in minor league parks in Covid-ball 2021? Is this a case of take the money and run or a case of a tone-deaf, pampered athlete? Either way, my lord.......

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@KeeganMatheson @MitchBannon Vladdy's theme Song has to be, "Take The Money And Run"
Steve Miller Band

[R M 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 @RMtaxg]

@CheriDiNovo The USA in its infinite wisdom is not a party to the Rome Statute and does not recognize the legitimacy or jurisdiction of the ICC. Surprised you don't know this, unless you're just playing your partisan political games.

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@athletnick @_DockEllis That's some of my analysis re: dWAR and its problems. There's more, but I'm typed out. I await your comments/feedback etc.

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@athletnick @_DockEllis Offensive stats stabilize quickly because players log hundreds of AB's a year.
Defense operates on a different timeline.
The Flaw: True defensive skill takes roughly three full seasons of data to accurately stabilize. Yet single-season dWAR numbers are cited in MVP awards, etc

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@athletnick @_DockEllis Defenders don't exist in vacuum, yet defensive metrics struggle to isolate individual skills from team contexts.
Pitchers dictate types of batted balls fielders face. Elite staffs give OF's less chances to build positive defensive value. Groundball staffs inflate chances for IF's

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@athletnick @_DockEllis A player like Keith Hernandez, arguably the greatest defensive first baseman ever, consistently finishes with a near-zero or negative career dWAR purely because the formula assumes first base defense carries minimal weight. This is egregious.

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@athletnick @_DockEllis The Flaw:
This creates massive baseline disparities. SS's get a big run credit, while 1B & LF/RF receive penalties.
Wrong Assumption: The metric assumes that an elite defender at an "easy" position contributes less to winning than an average defender at a "premium" position.