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Just finished DTF St. Louis and even though they telegraphed the ending (or the whodunnit) it was still a very impactful ending.

I lack confidence in the American people to do the right thing when it really counts. They failed us in ‘16, ‘18, ‘22, and ‘24 despite all the handwringing from th Lincoln project and bulwark and podcasters. Remember when Graham and Cruz and Collins were going to lose? Dobbs was supposed to end the GOP. That’s ancient history. Yes it’s cute when an R district goes from +47 to + 18 or a Democrat wins dog catcher in Montana. Until the House and Senate flips and then the White House goes D I’m not getting excited. This country elected Trump again after ‘16 and Jan 6. It’s who we are. It wasn’t an outlier. We are at the mercy of idiots.

what make you sure he'd refuse? He's the guy who has publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the org. Athletes generally want two things, to get paid, and to win. As he he starts seeing the end of his career come into focus, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Larkin wouldn't welcome a trade if it got him to an org with a legitimate shot at a Cup.

No knock on the brave dedicated people who worked this project, but objectively, this mission was mostly a reprise of re-purposed, warmed over 80's rocket tech. A broken down thespian mounting a production of Hamlet when he's 70 just to prove he's still alive. We fall back on these kinds of demonstrations whenever national confidence wanes. I wonder if they make any difference,

Yes, forgot about Frank. Same thing. That stuff matters. If you play everyday and see all these hard throwing farm boys and all of a sudden this dude's serving up grapefruit sized balls - we get great big eyeballs because we are going to hit it over the roof - but we just screwed ourself into the batters box while missing it by about 10 feet. The speed just dicks you up. That's why on doubleheader days they would put a junk-baller game one, and a flame thrower game two, as the belief was they were more tired the second game. As sadists pitchers (established above :-)), I would think the junk ballers get a bigger kick out of making us look stupid because they are throwing junk at us. OK. That's fine. Think what you want. A good hitter fails 7 of 10 times. It's a humbling game. And the greatest game ever. But they keep trying to **** it up.

just shuffling the deck chairs. no thanks.

Don't be fooled. it's actually Trump sucking the life force out of another of his poor supporters to keep his rotted corpse from decomposing on the spot.

Tanana's career was fascinating. He was a young fireballer early in his career, lost it and then re-made himself into a crafty lefty. He wasn't the only one to do that, but I don't think too many pitchers had quite the contrast in his career that he did. It would be like Skubal losing it and then becoming Kenny Rogers.

There's a big difference between character/locker room concerns reflective of bad judgment and a legitimate accident. This sounds like a legitimate accident. He wasn't drunk, high, or driving recklessly. He was just at-fault in an accident, it happened on a freeway where everyone is going way faster than they consciously realize, and it tragically cost someone their life. I would sincerely hope it never happens to anyone I know, but I think a tragic accident could happen to anyone. I have no reason to doubt he's not sincerely sorry about it. And I don't think this is the kind of thing that gets guys removed from our board.

Offensive on so many levels... so many levels

Who wasn’t doing that back then? The music was fantastic.

Having a normal one

Certainly think we need to be vigilant, but whatever the risks are, I think the fear and anxiety that I see from a lot of corners is frankly counterproductive to actually going out and winning the election before us. Would just add as well that given how elections are run and administered in this country (ie. basically thousands of individual elections spread across 50 states), it's not clear to me how exactly they can be "nationalized". Obviously understand the changes they are proposing with the SAVE Act and oppose them, but the federal government isn't going to administer elections in every municipality in America

Name checks out. Late career Tanana was similar to Kenny. Age and guile killing them.

Our enemy is us, and has been since Moby **** was a minnow.

Jan 6 happened. Trump is actively trying to nationalize the elections. I think we have ample reason to fear he will do illegal things to stay in power. I agree taking stock of our fears is counter productive sometimes but risk assessment both negative risk (the crap that can go wrong) and positive risk (the risk of what you give up if you do not act) must be assessed equally.

You go Donnie!

You can't walk into a room to negotiate - esp with Middle Eastern people, plop down a proposal, say take it or leave it, and expect anything positive to result. It just goes to show the depth of the ignorance of the people on our side about what they are doing. 1st rule, learn something about your enemy.

There were rumors at the time Pujols spent most of his day in his office watching the Weather Channel, not sure if they were correct or not

It was being discussed in the World Politics thread because it applies more over there, but I do think we need to think a little bit about the rhetoric leading up to this campaign and all of the fears that people had (not unfounded fwiw) about what Orban would do if he lost, or how he would steal the election, or how they would throw out votes, you name it. The election came, Fidesz got their asses kicked, and Orban and went out there and whined and cried but, in the end, conceded. The fears, legitimate as they may have been, did not come to pass. To be clear, I know there are differences. The biggest one being that Orban is a rational actor and Trump is not..., but there's a lesson here in that we all have anxiety about what the President or Republicans in Congress will do in the event that they lose in the Midterms. We create wild scenarios in our heads. Some realistic, and some less so.... but that fear and anxiety does not help, it only paralyzes. That's what Peter Magyar and the Hungarian opposition taught us today. People need to stiffen their spines and be vigilant, but not constantly in fear and not treating Trump like he's a force of nature that can't be reckoned with. And that politics are over and do not matter (they clearly did in Hungary under a much more consolidated authoritarian system). And, as I've paraphrased Ulysses Grant many times saying, we all gotta stop worrying about what *they* are gonna do and start thinking more about what *we* are going to do.

I won't waste time on charts, but WTI crude is, as I type, $104.95 the S&P (emini futures) are down a tad over 50. Back into the trading range from October of 25.

When you are a bulldog against sexual predators and all of that you have to be clean. If he was doing this stuff or even other things questionable then he’s an idiot. Of course those in power think they are invincible.

Baseball was my life for many years. I was a pitcher so my bias is there. I love to watch guys like Skubal. The battle between the pitcher, catcher, and batter (and how we are approaching this matchup), and of course the neutral party - the ump. Now maybe an electronic one. I'm old. I played in the day when they beaned people and didn't think a thing of it. But the game is still the same, they just don't do that anymore. 🙂 I watch the games with the sound off. Skub, with his unhittable stuff is so fun to watch. And he does some incredible stuff working the batters over the course of the game. Sends a guy to the bench a couple of times on low outside change-ups (and a dandy at that), then last at bat, this dude is looking for that pitch again - and he gets a 98 mph 4-seamer inside on the hands. Go sit down big boy. Someone said somewhere in the baseball stuff that pitchers were sadists. Yes, and we want them that way. Their job is to get you out. Period, end of discussion. Skub is a treat to watch. I used to love watching Kenny Rogers. He was the absolute master of his craft IMHO. IIRR, he pitched a beauty in one of Detroit's playoff runs. ON EDIT: forgot this. Skub and Kenny are two entirely kind of pitchers. Skub is a power pitcher, Kenny was a junk baller. Couldn't bust a window.

I like the way it lines up for Detroit. They sweep any of the 7-10 teams. Sweep or 4-1 Toronto. 4-1 maybe 4-2 against Cleveland. Then it's probably the winner of NYK-BOS. I think they beat the Knicks but Boston worries me. Two stars, great role players, excellent coach. That is a very difficult series. The Pistons can beat them, but I think I might Boston might be a slight favorite.