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New York Mets fans are known for being reactionary and emotional. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it just shows you care about your team. The front office can't act this way, otherwise it would pull the trigger on all kinds of crazy trades and moves. I consider myself an extremely patient and level-headed Mets fan. I tell you this so you know I'm serious when I say: I need David Peterson out of my life.

I always feel the need to preface anything negative about a player by saying that this is purely about performance on the field. I have no reason to think David Peterson is a bad guy, and I wish him well. I just wish him well somewhere other than on the roster of my favorite baseball team.

Peterson has been getting slammed this year. After yesterday's mollywhopping by the Nationals, his record sits at 1-6. The lone win? An 8-6 victory over the Dodgers in which he gave up six runs in six innings. His ERA is 8.08. I looked it up, that's the area code for Honolulu.

I get excited to watch the Mets. Even if the team is underperforming, even if the Mets are downright bad, I still look forward to seeing them play. Until they're mathematically eliminated, I still believe they have a chance. Ya gotta believe, right?

That's harsh but true. Maybe if the Mets offense could live up to its potential, it would be a different story. They could outscore teams and have Peterson eat innings while winning 8-6. The reality, though, is that this team hasn't shown that it can win many 8-6 games.

Weirdly, Peterson is striking batters out at a pretty solid rate, 10.4 per nine innings. That's in line with where he was last year. When batters make contact though, they're hitting the ball hard. According to Statcast, batters are barreling the ball at the highest rate of Peterson's career, by far.

Opposing hitters are hitting .388 against Peterson's slider, meaning every time he throws that pitch, his adversaries become prime Tony Gwynn. For comparison, last year his slider yielded only a .175 average. In modern baseball, few players hit for average anymore. To give up hits at this rate with your second most-thrown pitch is untenable.

I'm aware that Peterson has been thrust into a difficult situation. He was the emergency starter last week in Cincinnati, rushing in from Syracuse to take Max Scherzer's place in the rotation on short notice. In an ideal world, he'd be pitching long relief, or honing his craft in AAA against lesser hitters. We've been through 42 games this season, though, and it's been clear that thus far, the 2023 Mets are far from ideal.

Who is going to take Peterson's place? Help is on the way. Carlos Carrasco pitched four shutout innings for Binghamton on Sunday, in what is expected to be his final rehab start. Carrasco was brutal before going to the IL, but I want to see how he looks now that he has a clean bill of health.

Max Scherzer came back and looked good on Sunday, delivering his best start of the season in an 8-2 win. Justin Verlander has taken the mound twice and given up just three runs in 12 innings. This should all work itself out organically this week.

This Mets rotation, though, is old and injury prone. There will come a time, quite possibly in the near future, where one or two or three of the Mets' best pitchers is back on the shelf. All I ask is to sign a free agent. Trade for a cheap starter. Hell, let Luis Guillorme work his magic.

Peterson is only 27. It's conceivable that he improves and becomes a functioning member of a good MLB rotation. For now, though, I just don't want to get bummed out every fifth day.

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GRAND FORKS Mark Dobmeier had no concerns about climbing back into his No. 13 black and yellow sprint car Friday night.

Not even after surviving a fiery sprint car incident in Arizona two months ago that badly burned his legs.

But after hospitalization, surgery and physical therapy, Dobmeier was back in his sprint car for the first time since that incident. And he looked as if nothing had happened.

Dobmeier won the River Cities Speedway season opener, taking the 30-lap feature that also served as the first leg of the Wayne Anderson Cup.

Dobmeier grabbed the lead from Jack Croaker with 12 laps to go and wound up taking the checkered flag by 0.698 seconds.

"It felt great to be out there," said Dobmeier in Victory Lane. "The last couple of months have been a little rough on us but I've got a great family and a great crew that stands behind me and gets me back to where we need to be."

Dobmeier, the track's winningest driver, said he had no concerns racing two months after suffering the burns during a 360 race in Arizona.

"I felt comfortable with my body and I knew I had to make some adjustments," he said. "I don't have the range of motion in my right ankle like I had before so we had to change the heel riser in the car to where it was comfortable."

It was a typical Dobmeier race. He started eighth in the 15-car field. Croaker led the first 18 laps before Dobemier went low in Turn 3 to make the pass for the lead. He held on the rest of the way as there were a handful of caution flags and a red flag.

"River Cities did a great job prepping this track," he said. "They tilled it up before the race and it changed a lot during the race."

Croaker, with a strong run turned in the fastest lap at 10.749 seconds.

Jade Hastings finished third, followed by Jordan Graham and Blake Egeland.

Dobmeier will race again Sunday night at Huset's Speedway in Sioux Falls. He plans to make a run at a season title at that track as well.

"We hope to give it a good run but had some bad luck right away with some motors," he said.

Three other classes were on the schedule Friday night.

Seth Klostreich captured the streets feature. Lance Schill, the dominant Midwest modified driver last season, captured the track's first feature this season as well, finishing 0.924 seconds ahead of Jory Berg.

Tyler Peterson won the modified feature.

Late models did not race Friday night at RCS. They'll be back on the schedule next week.

Auto racing

Fridays results

Streets

Heat 1. Greg Jose; 2. James Meagher; 3. Tucker Pederson

Feature 1. Seth Klostreich; 2. John Halvorson; 3. Weston Ramsrud

Midwest modifieds

First heat 1. Jamie Dietzler; 2. Nathan Raasakka; 3. Tanner Theis

Second heat 1.Lance Schill; 2. Jory Berg; 3. Justin Olson

Feature 1. Schill; 2. Berg; 3. Olson; 4. Nate Reynolds; 5. Dietzler

Modifieds

First heat 1. Aaron Holtan; 2. Dustin Strand; 3. Ward Imrie

Second heat 1 Joseph Thomas; 2. Rick Delaine; 3. Tyler Peterson

Feature 1. Peterson; 2. Delaine; 3. Thomas; 4. Imrie; 5. Duray

Sprints

First heat 1. Brenden Mullen; 2. Zach Omdahl; 3. Nick Omdahl

Second heat 1. Jade Hastings; 2. Mark Dobmeier; 3. Jack Croaker

Feature 1 . Dobmeier; 2. Croaker; 3. Hastings; 4. Jordan Graham; 5. Blake Egeland

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He has been with the Grand Forks Herald since 1995, serving as the UND football and basketball beat writer as well as serving as the sports editor.

He is a UND graduate and has been writing sports since the late 1970s.

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1984 by George Orwell

Written over seven decades ago, this political novel is a timeless classic. It gives a bone-chilling account of a leader, Big Brother, taking complete control of a superstate, Oceania, through his Party. The totalitarian government implements violent forms of manipulation, mass surveillance and harsh measures to control the people of Oceania. The Guardian, a British daily, had described it by saying, Orwells novella is a warning for the human race.

Jordan Peterson on the book: I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish, Peterson said about Orwell and his works, according to Goodreads.

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Jordan Peterson has shared the reason why he believes Joe Rogan has proved to be so successful with his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.

Rogan started the podcast on YouTube back in 2009. By 2015, it had grown to become one of the world's most popular podcasts, regularly pulling in millions of views.

In December 2020, Rogan signed a licensing deal with Spotify for the platform's exclusive rights to broadcast the podcast. The deal was widely reported at the time to be worth $100 million, although The New York Times reported in February 2022 that the true number for the three-and-a-half-year deal was "at least" $200 million.

While Rogan has faced backlash over the years for some of the views shared by the host and his guests on certain episodes, the former Fear Factor presenter remains the jewel in Spotify's crown with the most listened-to podcast.

Canadian psychologist and media personality Peterson, who has been a guest on Rogan's podcast on a number of occasions, sought to explain the recipe of the broadcaster's success in a video that has gone viral on social media.

"So one of the reasons Joe Rogan is so successful, by the way, is that that's what Joe doeshe just asks questions," Peterson said in the clip. "He isn't trying to get something from his guests. He's not trying to become more famous. He doesn't need any more money.

"There's no instrumental utilization of language in his discourse. He's just a humble lunkhead, in the most profound sense, who would like to know more than he knows, and who asks all the stupid questions he can think up.

"And it turns out that he's actually very, very smart and very well educated now after talking to hundreds and hundreds of people and listening," Peterson went on. "And so the stupid questions he asks aren't stupid, and they're questions that are shared by virtually everyone who's listening. And he takes his listeners along on this process of exploratory endeavor, and it's the pathway to success."

The YouTube clip, which Peterson shared on Twitter on Wednesday, was met with widespread praise by his followers.

Peterson is known for his conservative views on issues, but he was once simply known as a clinical psychologist and professor. After working as an assistant and associate professor at Harvard Universitywhere he published several influential papers on familial alcoholism and other issuesthe Canadian returned to his home country with a position at the University of Toronto.

He wrote the best-selling books Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. His public stature began to grow as a result and Peterson was soon a well-known intellectual.

He became recognized outside the intellectual community because of his controversial views on transgender rights, which he laid out in a series of YouTube videos in 2016. Among his divisive stances was his refusal to refer to students by their chosen gender pronouns.

One especially notorious incident from 2016 came when Peterson was filmed speaking to transgender students. He argued to them that their activismand political correctness in generalhad a negative impact on society.

The video racked up millions of hits on YouTube, and Peterson was soon bragging to Rogan about how he'd learned to profit from controversy.

"I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to, because it's just so g****** funny I can't help but say it: I've figured out how to monetize social justice warriors," Peterson said on Rogan's podcast in 2018. "If they let me speak, then I get to speak, and then I make more money on Patreon If they protest me, then that goes up on YouTube, and my Patreon account goes way up."

Peterson has also faced backlash for other comments he has made. In July 2022, his Twitter account was suspended indefinitely after he refused to apologize for comments he made about trans actor Elliot Page. It was later reinstated when Elon Musk took over the social media platform.

In 2022 Don't Worry Darling director Olivia Wilde described Peterson as a "pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community" in Interview magazine. "Incels," short for involuntary celibates, refers to an online subculture of men who express extreme resentment and hostility to women in their online discussion groups.

When asked about Wilde's comment during an interview with Piers Morgan in September, Peterson responded: "You know, people have been after me for a long time because I've been speaking to disaffected young men."

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