Its wild how awful everything we were told as kids is for gloves.

I have two gloves. One I got in high school that I followed all the "old age" tricks for and one that I learned better from. My college baseball glove is over 10 years old now and its in mint condition.

All that oven baking back in the day just pulled out all the moisture and fucked the interior. https://thehittingvault.com/how-to-break-in-a-baseball-glove/#:~:text=Don't%3A%20Microwave%20or%20Bake%20It&text=So%20let's%20keep%20the%20glove,hot%20air%20in%20an%20oven.

Thank you for sharing this information. As someone that's lived in Baltimore for nearly a decade, but grew up in Ohio and still jokes about its funky green water (summers at lake erie swimming in algae haha), this information is really appreciated.

Based on what you shared, the opportunity could have helped both states, but my heart also wishes Ohio would get more of its sh*t together on its own, too! :/

Maryland was a plantation state, and with that came all the aspects of an agrarian way of life including weak/few cities and towns. Baltimore's rise as an industrial city countered that mostly in the 19th century, but all the area around the city was sparsely populated or developed until post WWII. As with many Eastern cities Baltimore's infrastructure was usurped for use in building the suburban sprawl around it. Add to this until the 1950s Baltimore was the older wiser sister to Washington DC, sharing many things, but after the 2nd war Baltimore became the old maid while DC the jet set younger sibling. Most people in the DC area have never been to Baltimore. Baltimore has many firsts, in the country, and also is known for its quirkyness. Possibly due to its earlier industrial days and the mix of immigrants with Appalachian folks.

I lived in Philly for a short while and had to venture into NJ for work. I think you as a native of NJ, will find Baltimore very comfortable.

Proof?

We need state help for our water and sewer system. I live in Southwest Baltimore, Saint Agnes Violetville neighborhood. Six of the twelve rowhomes on my block flooded with sewage during the last rainstorm. My home and the others that didn’t flood are only safe because we got grants from the old neighborhood association to install special valves and pumps. Vacant homes on the next block also have sewage in the basements, and homeless people squatting in them. We’ve had no help from the city for two or three years, the squatters have open sores I’m sure are worse from contact with sewage, the area smells horrible when it’s warm, sometimes you can see “floatables” like human feces and wet toilet paper in the alley after rainstorms. No sane person would buy a home here or make a business investment. We need the state to take over to push the fixes for the water and sewer system, the city DPW and city council aren’t doing anything that I can see. I’ve written to Governor Moore asking for help.

For all of you who get your pay check in the city and take it to the burbs, This is part of the Faustian bargain you made.

Be brave and deal with it.

That duplex looks pretty structurally sound---I thought the building would have been an eyesore. I wonder how much funding it would take to make the units habitable. Ideally, these would become affordable (or market-rate) housing, given that Hampden is one of the city's more in-demand neighborhoods. I also wonder what Wine Source's math is re: actually quantifying how lack of parking capacity impacts their revenue and how the addition of this lot is expected to improve revenue.

That said, this is the mindset (cars over everything) that Baltimore's generational lack of significant transit & micromobility infrastructure fosters among many of its citizens and politicians; and I hate that for us. It's hard to see this scenario playing itself out in any leading transit-oriented city in this country or abroad.

I heard on NPR this morning that at the time of the payments the city only had one full time employee in the payroll department and a team of contractors that didn't understand the cities payroll software. I couldn't find the article on WYPR's website, but here is a quote from Fox (I know Sinclair):

"In a response to the report, Department of Finance Director Michael Moiseyev revealed that Payroll only had one full-time employee that was supported by a team of contractors. Those contractors lacked detailed knowledge of the city's payroll configurations, according to Moiseyev's letter."

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Just assume traffic is always bad in downtown Baltimore. It’s a direct result of decades of decisions to devote the city to easy car access and reduce public transit options. Larry Hogan needs to rot in hell for cancelling the red line. Ride a bike.

I believe part of those rights include legal counsel or at least enough time to put together the victims' thoughts and arguments or pleas or whatever they get to say. It might just be that Mosby needed to get the zoom option approved at a certain level. I haven't read the whole opinion.

Also, I've just now found one source (AP article via BG Daily News) that says Adnan "will not be taken back into custody."

This strikes me as funny. Every glove I've ever owned, all of my efforts went into breaking it in and making it less new. Whether it was shaving cream and tying it around two balls or sleeping with between my mattress and box spring.

Naw dawg, opening day is only for us. They can come any other day tho.

Thanks so much! I'll be back with my Qs when I actually move next week

How much do you pay monthly if you dont mind me asking

There's never any traffic if you walk or ride a bike ;)

Ah I see. That's fair. I am arguing from the stance that they do have the right of counsel but am basing that on other people quoting/summarizing the relevant statutes (or the correct legal term here).

If this thread of comments is correct and the father attended via zoom but syed has to go back to prisom because a different judge interpreted zoom as not adequate as a substitute for being in person…that just doesnt seem like blind and impartial justice

Well, we’ll see if this vacating of the vacating passes muster by the Supreme Court, or whether we’ll end up with a vacating of the vacating of the vacating kind of situation.

Those were extenuating circumstances that involved public health considerations and staffing concerns. There was no reason aside from whatever was going through Mosby's head to deny the Lees their legal rights.

I was not part of any of the legal discussions regarding zooming hearings and trials, so please don't take my arguments as gospel! I'm just trying to logic this out.

Sadly there is a pumping room so they won’t defer you longer than 6 months. The shitty part is you have to go ask for a key and then hope it’s not occupied. Also, I have no idea the condition of the room. A coworker dealt with this recently. I feel someone with young kids you should be exempt from jury duty if you have any child under school age.

Sure. But if it's not the right guy, then you're just committing a second crime.

Is it Thursday? That's the home opener for Camden Yards.

I get that, but justice is supposed to be blind and dispassionate. If the law was broken to get him out of jail, that is not a furtherance of true justice. That's more akin to vigilantism. If his case crumbles within the legal framework, it super sucks for him but is at least legal.

It's like defense lawyers of the most hated criminals and suspects. Emotionally, defending them seems terrible, but even the worst of the worst are constitutionally guaranteed a vigorous defense.

You could visit Tandy leather down in Essex and get some saddle soap and mink oil to clean and soften the leather. They’ll also have some suggestion for you.