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I will be in attendance tonight as I have been every year since 1997. I can’t even remember the last time we won so sorry about jinxing our chances. Last year I saw Miggy in LA and he homered so all hope is not lost. A repeat would be cool as they say here. Still sounds funny to me.

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I would argue working in fast food just just as hard as working in a factory or warehouse. You are on your feet all day. They do more than just flip burgers. The kiosks are a response to labor shortages and simply a way to keep your staff focused on other things. When I worked retail having to deal with a customer was a pain in the ass because you often had other things you needed to be doing. CVS has the self checkout now so when I have to pay I don't have to bother the person stocking shelves who needs to stop what she's doing and walk across the floor so she can do what I can do myself. Boomers have aged into retirement now. Workers have choices and business has to fight for them like they have to fight for customers. Nobody's entitled to a labor force. I've seen too many business owners on TV whining about lazy people not wanting to work. They do. Just not for you. My son was arguing with my bro in law a few weeks ago and I was proud of him. A comment was made about "HS kids flipping burgers makeing $17 an hour". My son asked if those jobs were only for HS workers then why are they open during school hours? I think a lot of fast food places simply found out that most people don't care to eat inside anymore and it's not worth paying for more people to keep the dining room clean. OUr favorite middle eastern place became a carryout haven during COVID so much that now he cringes when people want to eat inside. It throws off his routine.

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Today is the 55th anniversary of McLain’s 30th victory. Some good color clips within this.

I mostly lurk but I felt like I lost a buddy that day…I was sick for two days…thanks for sharing

The Motor City Kitties will finish this season 9-7. 76-86 on the year. Fix the lineup and we’ll see that record inverted next year.

I learned things at KFC that I still utilize today. It taught me so much. Dexterity. Multi tasking. Planning. And if was a hell of a lot of fun.

Agree on everything. I would have to think the profit margin on a durable good from a factory would be more than a cheesburger. Fast food has to pass it on to the consumer and or cut costs. We talked before and I worked at KFC through HS and is was a crappy paying job then and I am glad it has gotten a little better.

I’m good with ski masks as long as next week CJGJ isn’t encouraging fans to come to the game in an old Ford panel van with no windows.

Boys raise your hand if you bought a Honolulu blue ski mask to wear at home Sunday. Anyone with me?

No need for a lockout. The Big 3 should give the UAW everything they want and then pass the added cost to the consumer by raising prices. Everyone else does. This is how big business operates these days in most other industries. Why bother with a sound business model with a supply chain and infrastructure that limits inefficiencies and waste when you have a consumer that will always pay more and won’t ever say enough is enough.

I have my physical in a few weeks and plan on getting both the flu and booster. Bring it on. Someone should make band aids with meatball Ron's face on it to put over our shot site.

How about a little Alarmist Non-sense to take into the weekend? https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/09/mitt-romney-retirement-senate-constitution/675327/ My colleague McKay Coppins has spent two years talking with Mitt Romney, the Utah senator, former Massachusetts governor, and 2012 Republican presidential nominee. An excerpt from McKay’s forthcoming book confirmed the news that Romney has had enough of the hypocrisy and weakness of the Republican Party and will be leaving the Senate when his term expires; other stunning moments from their conversations include multiple profiles in pusillanimity among Romney’s fellow Republicans. (I am pleased to know that Senator Romney holds as low an opinion of J. D. Vance as I do; “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more,” he told McKay.) But I want to move away from the discussion about Romney himself and focus on something he said that too many people have overlooked. “Some nights he vented,” Coppins wrote of their conversations; “other nights he dished.” And then came a quiet acknowledgement that should still be shocking, even after seven years of unhinged right-wing American populism: “A very large portion of my party,” [Romney] told me one day, “really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” He’d realized this only recently, he said. We were a few months removed from an attempted coup instigated by Republican leaders, and he was wrestling with some difficult questions. Was the authoritarian element of the GOP a product of President Trump, or had it always been there, just waiting to be activated by a sufficiently shameless demagogue? And what role had the members of the mainstream establishment—­people like him, the reasonable Republicans—played in allowing the rot on the right to fester? I think every decent Republican has wondered the same thing. (The indecent ones have also wondered about it, but as Romney now accepts, people like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have figured out that playing to the rot in the GOP base is a core skill set that helps them stay in Washington and far away from their constituents back home.) But enough about the hollow men of the GOP. Think about what Romney is saying: Millions of American citizens no longer believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. This is not some pedestrian political observation, some throwaway line about partisan division. Leave aside for the moment that Romney is talking about Republicans and the hangers-on in the Trump movement; they are also your fellow Americans, citizens of a nation that was, until recently, one of the most durable democracies on Earth. And they no longer care about the fundamental document that governs our lives as Americans. If Republicans no longer care about the Constitution, then they no longer care about the rule of law, secular tolerance, fair elections, or the protection of basic human rights. They have no interest in the stewardship of American democracy, nor will they preserve our constitutional legacy for their children. Instead, they seek to commandeer the ship of state, pillage the hold, and then crash us all onto the rocks. It would be a relief to find out that some of this is about policy, but for many of the enemies of the Constitution among the new right, policy is irrelevant. (One exception, I suspect, might be the people who, if faced with a choice between a total ban on abortion and the survival of the Constitution, would choose theocracy over democracy; we’d all be better off if they would just admit it.) The people Romney is worried about are not policy wonks. They’re opportunists, rage-junkies, and nihilists who couldn’t care less about policy. (Romney describes one woman in Utah bellowing at him, red-faced and lost in a mist of fury while her child stood nearby, to the point where he asked her, “Aren’t you embarrassed?” She was not.) What they want is to win, to enjoy the spoils and trappings of power, and to anger and punish people they hate. There is no way to contend, in a rational or civic way, with this combination of white-hot resentment and ice-cold cynicism. Romney describes multiple incidents in which his colleagues came to him and said, You’re right, Mitt. I wish I could say what you say. I wish we could stop this nightmare. And then all of them belly right back up to the table in the Senate Dining Room and go on pandering to people who—it bears repeating—no longer care about the Constitution. This is the seedbed of authoritarianism, and it is already full of fresh green shoots. And yes, at some point, if someone is clever enough to forge a strong and organized party out of this disjointed movement, it can become a new fascism. So far, we should be grateful that Donald Trump and those who surround him have all been too selfish and too incompetent to turn their avarice into a coherent mass movement. If you’ve ever served in the military or as a civilian in the U.S. government, you’ve taken the oath that requires you, above all—so help you God—to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Romney is warning us that many of his Republican colleagues and much of their base will do no such thing. They would rather turn their personal misery and resentment into mindless political destruction—even to the point of shredding one of humanity’s greatest political documents. I have written before that we can no longer indulge Republicans and their various media enablers in the fantasies that Trump is a normal candidate, that we are heading into a normal election, that the Republican Party is a normal party (or, indeed, a political party at all). How we each defend the Constitution is an individual choice, but let us at least have no pretenses, even in our daily discussions, that we live in normal times and that 2024 is just another political horse race. Everything we believe in as Americans is at stake now, and no matter what anyone thinks of Mitt Romney, we owe him a debt for saying out loud what so many Republican “leaders” fear even to whisper.

that makes intuitive sense, but at the end of the day i think free agents go where the money is. but its better to have a good reputation than a bad one.

Imagine thinking it's a good idea to discuss strategy with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Finally grabbed that other cassette for your walkman from the passenger's seat, eh?

Vaping's not the worst consideration of what she does with that mouth

Bert is our Betty White. Protect him at all cost! P.S. Bert, I know you are not that old.

Here is a reenactment

Swift looked good last night. That was never the issue. He was a good back for us. The problem with him was he couldn't stay on the field. Now he could stay healthy all year for the Eagles and will look like a great trade for them although we really couldn't keep on waiting for him. It's not easy being a RB in this league although it was very frustrating as a fan with Swift. That being said, I am loving our situation at RB right now. This could be one of those trades that works out for each team. As of now, the Stafford trade looks like a similar outcome at a much bigger level.

minnesota could have 17 games with bad luck and turnovers and it still wont be enough to make up for their amazing luck last year.

The fumble in end zone touchback rule is terrible but I love seeing this happen to the Vikings.

Daniella has to stretch her arms when interviewing Elmer.

I’ve listened to this approximately 4,832 times. One of his older albums hit top ten status last week. I think I’ve bumped this single up a notch or two myself.

When draft dodging p**** Trump disrespected McCain's service by saying he was not a hero, I was sure that was it for him. What a disgrace.

Reminds me of the Royals double play combo. Graffanino to Grudzielanik to Mientkiewicz

Wasn’t it Swift who dropped a pass in his rookie debut here and likely cost us a game against the Bears?

I think if someone pushed a button that disabled all cellphones - you'd have thousands of suicides. It's an addiction as strong as alcohol or nicotine.

They said yesterday that it was the longest name in MLB history. People actually looked that up....

Cop is absolutely lucky the cars broke how they did on impact. If the offending car had hit the standing car just five feet closer, meaning front of standing car rather than left side of it, cop would've been flattened and we'd never see the video. Nothing he did helped save himself. It was all grace of God.

I just came here to see if McCosky was okay after the Buck Farmer grand slam

What was "weird" about Palin was that she didn't remain in the arena after her run. When she didn't run for the Senate or some other public service role and her daughter got all the plastic surgery and they did a reality TV show...all respect lost.

I'm guessing maybe less lionizing of Buck Farmer will ensue after today's outing?

I dont think Palin was what caused him to lose, I think what played a huge part besides Obamas awesomeness was when he suspended his campaign in the financial crisis.

So maybe he's Jeff Kent...not a great fielder, but a good hitter

Oh, and kids, that is how you wear your socks and pants.

Never forget that without Unions you'd literally be handcuffed or shackled to your desk/factory floor or the doors would be locked from the outside until your work day was over. In honor of the UAW negotiations I thought a little Pete Seeger would be appropriate.

This is an unexpected honor

Elon is a big asshat drug addict but whatever

He even has his lifetime ERA under 5.00 now.

Hey, this topic works great!

I don't have any faith that they'll get five good healthy pitchers from that crew. I hope they sign a couple of starters. I'd like to see Olson and Long as part of the depth rather than two pitchers on which they rely.

Love you forever estrepe1, you with the big goofy smile.

who the hell is brandon dixon?