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Pet peeve! When something happens to New York City it gets outweighted media attention. In my almost 15 years in Florida, I've probably had about 30-50 days like this from being downwind of Georgia wildfires. Granted, I'm not always glued to national news, but today seems to be getting a lot more attention.

Not for nothing but it was always a major strike against him in my initial repulsion of Trump that he didn't like dogs.

**** Cheney/Rob Portman syndrome. They are all against it until they have some very close to them, usually a child, who comes out as LGBTQ. It takes a close, personal situation to make right wing politicians even be the slightest bit tolerant and udnerstanding.

PGA and LIV could fall off the face of the earth and most americans would not even notice.

Fun fact: this is the song playing in the elevator when the Blues Brothers arrive downtown to pay the tax bill for the penguin.

all the guys who have been on that list and then fallen off the list tella me that those lists mean very little.

Games in NY and Philly postponed due to poor air quality due to the Canadian wildfires. Is this the new normal? Does Canada just need to rake their leaves better?

The last couple of months have been so nice. Alas, here we are again.

I think I heard that story about Eddie Feigner, the umpire called a strike and the batter said "that sounded like a ball",

For Rob: screenshot from one of my security cams. My neighbor doesn’t have lawn irrigation.

Yeah - a lot of ways to drill even deeper into this and pickup some more specific things at maybe finer grain. There is solid research that GOP voters score higher as apprehensive personalities and living in cities probably can act somewhat to force an apprehensive personality into a higher engagement level with other people, which in turn might modify their world view, so I don't argue the base the premise, but I think you can break it down more. For instance, I don't know if the rural/urban fear axis is the best correlate. For instance, not all Midwest Farmers have always been conservative - out state dems were once strong in MI and you have the example of the Farmer/Labor party in MN. And TBF, many 'suburban' areas are the most strongly conservative even though life in those areas still involves a lot of public interaction - certainly much more than in truly agricultural areas. But the people that now live in US cities are from the same gene pool that lived in US rural areas before the urban migrations yet the segregation in US politics is clearly geographic so something is driving a clear difference in world views based on geographies as opposed to say - genetics: Two suggestions to narrow down subfactors: The first is very close to the original premise, but tweak it just a little. It's not population density - meeting strangers per se, but population diversity - meeting *strangeness*. By and large US suburban areas are just as segregated as US rural areas. So make the analysis not numbers of strangers in general, but strangers who also look/talk/feel different and I think the correlation between the politics and geography tightens. Or another way to put it is that living in segregation is going to condition people (mostly white) to a higher level of cultural discomfort around anything that departs from their Whiteness even in people who have no explicit ideological predisposition to overt racism. The cultural piece operates at a much more subliminal level. The idea being a more specific cultural kind of fear/disorientation rather than just broad fears of anything new. The second is religion. And I think there is some chicken and egg intertwining of the two effects, but white religious conservatism is strongly geographically correlated. I think here the original premise about urban living per se may apply more directly and again it goes to cultural segregation. It's easy to be religiously doctrinaire when everyone around you agrees with you. Harder when faced daily with people that circumstance forces you to acknowledge as your peers don't see any particular validity to your parochial truths - add the effect of cross cultural romance and marriage in cosmopolitan areas as another moderating driver. To me the effect is easy enough to understand, but I don't really have a good clue as to why conservative strains of Christianity have such particular appeal today in the West and Upper midwest rural areas. I don't know if that's always even been the case. In the South, ties between the 'Lost Cause', conservative religion and racism are easier to understand/trace. A little side note on that intermarriage point. The old Ottoman empire was a place with a lot of cosmopolitan cross interaction between different ethnic and religious groups yet people never overcame their prejudices about each other. I think the difference again being religion and the strict taboo against inter-religious marriage. Christians and Muslims lived shoulder to shoulder with each other in the Ottoman world for centuries, but they did not marry one another. The communities forced themselves to keep each other at that minimum arms-length distance where they could still more easily deny each other's humanity when it was politically expedient.

Part of it is that not many people use messageboards like this anymore. I prefer this type of interaction, but there are so many social media options now.

I owe you a coke Randy

Not sure if Philly is/will be any better but here's NY right now.

And to show how much I really do love them.... when we first moved in they had a party for us. They gave us a tree to plant. She asked if she could plant some stuff in our flower bed. This happened to be on one of those days I get off from work, like Veterans or Election Day, so she's out there in my yard doing that while I'm sitting inside having coffee and a donut in my robe... slacker. They're always willing to help with gardening or plant questions or to borrow a tool. They're great people. But man... take it easy. Making us look bad. Their daughter and family live across the street and we have a good laugh about how they make us feel lazy. But I suspect I will be that way in 10 years. Already I take personal days to work outside and just "putz around" as I call it. My dad was on disability my while life so that's what I watched him do growing up. Always tinkering.

Zion and his baby mama posted a gender reveal on Youtube. I guess that triggered his porn star side chick because she went on a pretty long Twitter rant. Her Twitter feed is pretty funny.

The religious portion of the right wing needs victim status. That gives them a share sense of suffering, like Jesus suffered.

I think there is an element of misery to the right's agenda too. I see this in my dad. I see this in a lot of angry right-wing men and women, of all ages, but mainly over 50 right wingers. And that is, if my life is miserable or if I am expected to feel miserable, than I want everyone to be equally as miserable. If life dealt me a bad hand or ****ed me over, I'm gonna get back at you too or I'm going to hope life does the same to you. There's also a counter element of I don't want to help you climb the ladder because I've already made it up to the top and I don't want you to share in any of my success. Pull yourself up and while you're at it, get your own ladder. And if you can't afford one or life and circumstance dealt you a bad hand that makes it that much harder to obtain a ladder and get the skills and resources necessary to climb it, boo ****ing who. Work harder next time. Some of that exists on the left as well I think. But generally, even among the most progressive and leftist people, there is usually a sentiment of lifting up those who are downtrodden and helping those who were dealt a band hand by life and society. Sure, there is anger and hostility on the left, especially among the most fringe elements. But generally speaking, that anger and hostility stems from a belief that government, business, and society aren't doing enough to take care of people and meet their basic needs. Not out of greed or because they perceive the government as overreaching, doing too much, and taking from them to give to others as the right sees it.

"Today I'm going to power wash this old laundry clothes pole that isn't used anymore. Then when finished I'm going to make sure my chain saw works and is all oiled up. Don't need it right now but you never know"

if stafford were still a lion and goff were still a ram, this board would consider goff a middle of the pack at best qb and stafford as a top 5-10 qb.

I love my neighbors so this isn't a criticism but more in the spirit of a peeve..... they're always outside doing something in the yard! They're snowbirds so the first weekend back they clear everything out, clean up all the winter stuff, etc. Then each day it's some kind of project involving noise. No, I don't want them to stop. It's great to be active. But a part of me does hate the over reliance on watering/fertilizing/etc. Your lawn and yard doesn't need to look like a golf course or the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Let nature do it's thing. Dandelions are good. Weeds are good. Critters are good. Not every stick/twig or other errant thing needs to be picked up.

Colt Keith making noise with the National guys.

Would you rather bad and boring...or bad and a bit watchable?

There is one prominent reputable hitter in last year’s lineup that did correct to career norms. Unfortunately, not for us.

Interesting thread. Lots of sobriety.

Time for one of the worst draft analysts in the world. This guy had Killian Hayes as the #1 pick in his class. https://nbadraft.theringer.com/mock-draft

One behind…

Maybe that’s why the tornado sirens went off…..

The First Lady of Bossa Nova has passed away at 83. Astrud Gilberto was never supposed to be a star. When her husband Joao & Stan Getz were recording their first (and only) studio album, they knew they had an international hit with The Girl From Ipanema, but had doubts that it would be played on American radio with Portuguese lyrics and Joao, who didn't speak much English, suggested that his wife, who'd never sung professionally, but sang around him all the time, be the person to help translate and sing the English version. The version with her vocals launched a Bossa Nova craze in the U.S., the U.K. and other countries like Germany, France and Japan. It is THE standard for all Bossa Nova songs. After her divorce from Joao, she launched a solo career and sang songs in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Japanese. I've grown to love this music over the years, it's completely soothing. I love her voice. It was perfectly unpolished and warm, but slightly detached. An accidental Bossa Nova legend. Descanse Em Paz, Astrud.

The TV ratings for Game 1 and 2 are virtually identical to last years that featured the Warriors and Celtics so despite not having the sexiest of matchups in terms of franchise cache it hasn't effected ratings thus far.

I don't think anybody is defending how awful he has been at the plate, Helen Keller could see that but his defense has been elite leading all SS in outs above average. That doesn't make up for his horrible offense but it shows that he atleast brings something to the table. Plus another "defense" of his is that our system just doesn't have any other MLB caliber shortstops so if he were to leave we'd have to go outside the org to find a replacement and there aren't many good ones that our available. Our best hope to get a good one probably lies in hoping that Javy can be fixed, it's a crappy situation but unfortunately that's where we find ourselves at the moment.

Looks like Meadows rolled on fatty.

The good thing about Danny Worth was that as soon as someone told you his batting average, you already knew his OBP and SLG.

Don't get me wrong I really liked Polanco and he was a good player for us but I don't know if there has been a more overrated local athlete in the past 20 or so years than him. When we let him go you would've thought we got rid of Joe Morgan or something with the way people reacted.

Gotta love a guy with some heads up base running.

That steel plant that Ukrainians held out in for so long had a contingent that was part of a far right nationalist group, some wearing Nazi symbols. CNN was the first I was aware of to blur out those symbols while honoring those fighters. That said, you're talking about a small subset. Even in the US we have far right nationalist folks, ironically you support the same politicians that they do.

Ty Cobb Was Not a Racist Stadium

Absolutely insane.

gawww

Gawds this is horrible