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Nah. Mitch believes in tradition. Like presidents serve 4 year terms and get to have their Supreme Court nominees have their day before the senate regardless of where we are in the election cycle. he also believes in the long established tradition that presidents in an election year can’t have their nominees for the Supreme Court go before the senate since it’s an election year.

Goff had one of the highest QB ratings in the NFL when Campbell was calling plays. Don't mess with a good thing. Promote Ben Johnson and let Campbell continue to call plays. If Campbell needs to give up play calling duties, I'm sure Johnson can handle it.

you know they were royally pissed off, because they provided a very long, very detailed explanation about why they were not pissed off.

Wasn’t it Reggie Jackson, talking about fastballs versus Nolan Ryan’s fastball, that sure he likes ice cream, just not ice cream being forced down his throat? Something like that? That’s kind of how I feel about home runs in the game. I’d like them to be a little less common and thus a little more special than they are now.

Not to brag or anything but I just want everyone to know that I am now “proficient.” It is of course a ringing endorsement that every man wishes to receive… 😬

LOL @ being a team player when you think a canadian's political opinions are more against the US than an actual insurrection against the US was

You're welcome! You're right next door for Pete's sake, pretty hard to ignore, and an extremely negative influence on the number of illegal guns in this country. If one has to be a citizen of a country in order to criticize it, let me know when you become Chinese.

Trump has no principles. He has no morals. He is a con man and has been for over 40 years. He is a digraceful human being who doesn't give a crap about this country or anything else but his own self interests. It's a shame that so many have fallen for his act. And what he did at the end absolutely shows that his self interests collide with the US.

he didn't say 'Him'. He said 'us'.

Romney’s argument that what Biden is doing is equal to what Trump is doing is a false equivalency if there ever was one. Making up claims of non- existent voter fraud /= combatting voter suppression. Screw him.

Glad to see Medicare For All is gaining support on the right.

Jesus Christ Boris Johnson looks sad and pathetic as he gets ROASTED in Parliament. I wish we had a Parliament like this.

Too many home runs and strikeouts. We need to bring back the art of the smart base running and the stolen base.

L. Cheney has walked back on some of the cultural warrior stuff - seems to have at least reconciled with her sister to a degree. To me the test for people who I oppose politically is are they loyal to the process. Everyone needs to be able to accept that on the issues you will win some and you will lose some. The frightening thing today how many people are out there for whom that is not good enough.

Add Liz Cheney to this list. I haven't forgotten who she really is.

Bah, humbug!

She was referring to kids, the exact quote: "We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators" https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/07/sonia-sotomayor/fact-checking-sotomayor-kids-severe-covid-19/

Here's something different. The Orioles want to DECREASE home runs. Most teams have been trending in the opposite direction in recent years.

My problem with gambling is that it incites the laboring underclass to dream of an escape from their just servitude. It’s getting harder and harder to find people willing to work for $7.25/hr. on my estate.

What does “going against the US” mean because I have it on good authority that to 40% of the voting public and nearly half our federal legislature that it’s not the US they are in support of but rather a guy who was on a TV show in the mid aughts. If the interests of the former guy and the US collide they are aligning with the orange fella.

that's BS. I am sitting right here and i'm available for cheap.

All of these reasons you give for your interest waning in the game are good and valid. To me, they pale against the big reason my interest in the game is in real jeopardy: the integration of gambling into the very fabric of the game. From showing odds and money lines on the MLB Network crawl, to programs about betting on that and many baseball team RSNs,to gambling-related drop-ins on radio and TV game broadcasts, and the eventuality of seeing sportsbooks physically erected within stadiums, the suddenness with which Bsseball has chased after the gambling buck has been breathtaking and appalling. I honestly fear what that might do to the competitive integrity of the game.

You're playing my song. How many years have you guys heard me advocating the idea that deadening the ball will solve practically every problem in the game that has evolved since Chicks Dig The Long Ball started? The reason is simple: pitchers are afraid of giving up home runs. So pitchers have to be super careful to every hitter in the order, because every hitter can take them out of the park. They are trying to induce swing-and-miss on every pitch with maximum velocity and movement, so they end up throwing more pitches per plate appearance and taking more time in between pitches to maximize the gathering of their strength. That might be layering an extra half hour onto game time all by itself. But batters are still trying to jack the ball, which means they're always trying to pull it over the fence, so the shift makes sense to employ on most hitters. Deaden the ball to 1980s-level, and you'll have fewer homers, which means pitchers can pitch to contact, which means batters would need to hit 'em where they ain't instead of hit 'em over their heads, which will eliminate the shift on all but the scariest power hitters. there would be fewer homers, fewer strikeouts, more balls in play, more action on batted balls. I bet fans would come back to see that.

he needs to win at this level.

This is also pretty epic. And yes, Rand is another moron.

Today, the catchers…

Another gem from The Ghost of Ernie twitter feed

Tom Matchick, who played for the '68 team died today. At the time, I thought his name was Tom Magic.