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So what's the story with him? I don't hear as much buzz around him anymore. Certainly not as much compared to Michael Harris.
 
A lot of it is a combination of him being rushed through the system, prospect fatigue, and COVID weirdness. He reminds me of Jordan Schafer. Great talent, cocky, huge will to win. Just needs to put it together. I think Pache leaving the organization might end up helping him, he seemed to start struggling once they were on the same team and Pache was a bigger deal at the same position.
 
As I recall the issue was approach.

I think people think he has all the tools. Even the hit tool.

But people went as far as saying he had no approach. Similar issues with Shewmake last year.

Riley's guru I think is out of the organization b/c of failure to comply to the vaccine mandate, IIRC.

My understand is what waters has to do is figure our a plan where he's only swinging at pitches he can drive. Is he capable and/or humble enough to make that adjustment?
 
Russ2dollas said:
As I recall the issue was approach.

I think people think he has all the tools. Even the hit tool.

But people went as far as saying he had no approach. Similar issues with Shewmake last year.

Riley's guru I think is out of the organization b/c of failure to comply to the vaccine mandate, IIRC.

My understand is what waters has to do is figure our a plan where he's only swinging at pitches he can drive. Is he capable and/or humble enough to make that adjustment?
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Jordan Shafer 2.0?
 
Dude strikes out 30% of the time, and hits for very little game power. That's not a useful player, no matter how badly folks want him to be part of the MLB team. Without major improvements in his ability to actually hit the ball, he is tracking to be a AAAA OFer useful only as organizational depth. This is why I was always so much lower on him than everyone else seemed to be. I can just imagine what it's like to play with a guy who thinks he's a star, but doesn't produce like a star...I bet the excuses make everyone roll their eyes daily.

Harris is obviously not the "LHH Acuna", but at last he can hit the ball. That gives him a better chance to make the swing changes required to stop hitting so many grounders.
 
msstate7 said:
Why should it be so hard to not get vaccinated?
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Because it's the only efficient way to build herd immunity, keep death and hospitalization rates down, and protect those who actually can't be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons.

I had to prove vaccination status for a suite of pathogens when I moved into the college dorms like fifteen years ago. That prescription wasn't controversial in any way, except amongst a few fringe wackadoos (mostly on the left at the time, ironically). It's unfortunate that something with broad medical consensus became needlessly politicized.
 
jpx7 said:
Because it's the only efficient way to build herd immunity, keep death and hospitalization rates down, and protect those who actually can't be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons.

I had to prove vaccination status for a suite of pathogens when I moved into the college dorms like fifteen years ago. It's unfortunate that something with broad medical consensus became needlessly politicized.
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Why no exemption for natural antibodies which are better?

ETA... it doesn't really matter. The left is running from these mandates now that they know they're killers politically #science
 
msstate7 said:
Why no exemption for natural antibodies which are better?

ETA... it doesn't really matter. The left is running from these mandates now that they know they're killers politically #science
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I'll tell you why, but the actual answer won't change your mind because you aren't actually interested in the real answer. But I'll go ahead and waste 2 minutes of my life anyways...

The strength of your immune response depends on the viral load in your system. So if you get a few COVID viruses from touching your sister's spoon and then touching your eye, you're likely to get a milder infection than if you made out with your sister for an hour.

Since nobody can control the viral load of their natural infection, there's no way to tell how strong your immune response is without getting tests that I'm quite confident the trumpkins will refuse to subject themselves to.

Conversely, a vaccine dose is specifically sized to produce a specific immune response. So they can confidently say vaccinated folks have antibodies within a certain range, while they have no idea what your antibody count is after you claim you had an infection.

But like I said, you aren't actually interested in the real reason, only the talking points that support your existing views, so this explanation won't even factor into your point of view.
 
jpx7 said:
Because it's the only efficient way to build herd immunity, keep death and hospitalization rates down, and protect those who actually can't be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons.

I had to prove vaccination status for a suite of pathogens when I moved into the college dorms like fifteen years ago. That prescription wasn't controversial in any way, except amongst a few fringe wackadoos (mostly on the left at the time, ironically). It's unfortunate that something with broad medical consensus became needlessly politicized.
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It reminds me of when global warming became politicized in the mid-late 2000’s. Global warming was accepted knowledge when I was growing up, and was in no way controversial.
 
Enscheff said:
I'll tell you why, but the actual answer won't change your mind because you aren't actually interested in the real answer. But I'll go ahead and waste 2 minutes of my life anyways...

The strength of your immune response depends on the viral load in your system. So if you get a few COVID viruses from touching your sister's spoon and then touching your eye, you're likely to get a milder infection than if you made out with your sister for an hour.

Since nobody can control the viral load of their natural infection, there's no way to tell how strong your immune response is without getting tests that I'm quite confident the trumpkins will refuse to subject themselves to.

Conversely, a vaccine dose is specifically sized to produce a specific immune response. So they can confidently say vaccinated folks have antibodies within a certain range, while they have no idea what your antibody count is after you claim you had an infection.

But like I said, you aren't actually interested in the real reason, only the talking points that support your existing views, so this explanation won't even factor into your point of view.
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I got the 1st dose of phizer. I'm hardly anti-vaccine. After I got the 1st dose, I got Covid before I could get the 2nd dose. Bc I caught Covid, I see no reason to get the 2nd dose. My job doesn't require it, and now places I wanna visit are dropping the mandate, so I won't get it. Again, I'm not anti-vaccine. I'm anti- make people get it.
 
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