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Spent 10k on a tasty round steak too

Ok Stan. 😃

True, but it was even better on March 6, 2016.

I mean, the same is true for me in the first paragraph, but the fractured family and social circles are something I would pay all that money to amend.

you are not crazy, you are observant.

Good statement

Why didn't he win in a landslide in either of the past two elections?

Third round draft pick out of Vanderbilt. Good power potential. Some people had him going in the second round. Drafted as a SS, but he's too big for the position and will probably end up at 3B.

https://x.com/mynamehear/status/1765403262633570355?s=46&t=76Y1aNflZsD8yrwQrvLC2g

Meanwhile, down here in reality….

Four years ago:

Some of it may just be getting older and being more guarded in discussing politics, but the Trump years (especially post-COVID) has kinda made discussing anything political with parts of my family similar to walking on nails. I don't have too much of an issue avoiding those topics, I just don't care enough to engage anymore.... but it becomes difficult when it comes up organically with another family member and you have to diplomatically manage it in a way that doesn't cause anything to escalate or anything like that. I just wish it could go back to the days when it wasn't like that.... when politics was a lower stakes topic that you chatted about for a few minutes before moving off onto football or baseball. And while we can all try to be the change we want to be in our own lives, in the bigger picture, I don't see it happening anytime soon.

like I said, people keep telling me its meaningless

I got a text from a colleague on March 16 reaming me for telling an employee of his who shared a supervisor with me that we were good to go home. You will never believe that colleague's vaccination status.

Javier Baez is not going to take a penny less than $98 million, so if the Tigers want Baez to just go away, that’s what it’s gonna cost. The bigger question is, who do you replace Baez with? Eddys Leonard is a darling right now, but he’s still an unknown quantity you can’t just hand the everyday shortstop job to right now. Otherwise, you’re looking at Ryan Kreisler, and when he comes in fielding worse and hitting worse than Javy, then what?

Well those were the big 3 we were excited about in 2021, and it seems like the whole obligatory injury thing that all young pitchers go through is over. Manning, though, not an arm injury. When's that coming? Feels like a rite of passage at this point.

I will say life was better for us March 6, 2020. That answer will change if you move forward a couple weeks.

He has a NTC and told them he only wanted to play in Florida. UFA at the end of the season so they wanted to get anything for him.

i'll take gibson over wiseman.

This just seems to be a reasonable conclusion, to me.

Baseball is hard

Trump doesn't want to negotiate. He wants to humiliate people and then have them come beg for favors. He has done it over and over. So many people have no self respect at all.

Not only was that show conceived of AND subsequently put into production, it also is somehow popular enough for that long run on Broadway as well as now community productions. I chose to believe it is actually an elaborate hoax where people just came together to agree that it was good and see how far they could take it, and it snowballed from there. I am actually more concerned that your wife's cousin seemingly voluntarily chose to try out for the production. And now you have participated in perpetuating the ruse by attending and supporting the event.

Just my two cents, but the reaction from 2016 (and confirmed to an extent in 2020) has, for many commentators in elite media circles (think Damon Linker, for instance), been to assume the absolute worst case scenario for things happening outside of whatever their circle of life is like. It's like the reverse Pauline Kael, where they are too self-aware of how different their environment is that they make assumptions of what things are like elsewhere. Life in rural/exurban America is complicated.... yes, it is Trumpier, but that doesn't mean everyone who lives in these areas is Trumpy. And there's a geographic split as well, whereby these areas in northern states (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc) are more secular or mainline Catholic/Protestant vs. evangelical (like in the south or in states like Indiana), that has an impact on how voters vote in these areas.

From living in a fairly conservative, exurban area, my only real observation is that this election cycle seems a lot more low-energy than 2016 and 2020 so far. Whether it remains that way, we will see.

Haley would be wise to just sit this one out and not attempt to pull a Chris Christie if she has any political ambitions in 2026.

He kind of reminds me of John Huntsman.

Agreed, my 'stupid or silly' comment was directed at the circumstances, not Biden. It's ridiculous that we're at a point where being 'stupid or silly' is actually sound advice...yet here we are.

For every Texan that flips blue there’s someone red who moved in from California to take their place.

Not sure if he mentioned it in his piece (I don't subscribe, so behind paywall), but isn't the other 800 lb gorilla in the room here the fact that the last election cycle took place in the middle of a pandemic where, due to a bunch of people being at home, response rates (by age and partisanship) may have been much different in that cycle as well? I suspect that might explain a lot of how these polls show Biden/Dems doing significantly better with older voters and worse with younger and minority voters.... pollsters are likely reaching those high propensity older voters (who are probably more blue than the median older voter) a lot more easily and filling out the younger/minority pool (who are much harder to reach) l with whatever they can find.

Years ago I went Christmas shopping after such an exam, but I got frustrated because I couldn't read any price tags. I was about to leave the mall when I saw a crowd forming at a Gamestop. Since I couldn't see anyway, I went ahead and got in line. After being in line for awhile, I asked the person in front of me what we were in line for. She said that the store had a stock of Nintendo Wii available. I thought about it for a second and decided to stay in line and get one, even though I had not planned at all to seek one out.

Nate Cohn with another dive into polling issue in the Times. An interesting outcome he is seeing is that there is a split between web polling and phone polling and it tracks the age of the voter. Obviously pollsters don't like web polling because the sample self-selects, but ignoring the actual outcomes, Cohn says that in web polling he doesn't see any of the supposed drop of in Biden's support among <30-35 voters, that is only showing up in phone polls. I think it's just another bit of evidence that beginning with Millennials, phone polling now probably generates just as self-selected a sample as a web poll because the young generations do not have the same predisposition to answer their phone just because it rings that much of the older generations are still conditioned with. No longer being able to get a reasonably unbiased sample by just ringing phones at random is the 700 gorilla in the corner for the future of political polling.

Moseley won’t be ready to start the season, he might not be ready until halfway through the season, and at this point he is a toss up to finish the season. No, he will not be CB 1 or 2. He is a bet by Holmes who likes to buy low on injured players.

Moseley has played in six games over the last two seasons and he's torn an ACL in two of them... Even before that, he missed six games in 2021 and four in 2020... He's not a Plan A cornerback. He is about as low risk a signing as you can find in the NFL though, for incredibly high boom potential if he can return to pre-injury form. To put it simply, I would much rather watch Moseley guard Aiyuk in the NFC Championship Game than watch Kindle "stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night" Vildor take a Purdy pop-up to the dome again.

Somebody come up with a fake injury for Fontecchio. He plays the next 20 games like he has been and he is going to get expensive.

stat of the day from reviewing Northrups BR page: In 1968 a 770 OPS was good for a 129 OPS+

Interesting comp, but I believe you are right. Northrup was a solid defender at all three outfield positions.

California is a closed primary so those are registered Republicans. North Carolina is semi closed and Virginia is open. If independents are breaking for Biden that is huge. I wouldn't expect many of the Haley to Biden voters to be staunch Republican voters.

Its about ready and broken in backups that the player is comfortable with in the event a glove breaks or is lost, not anything to do with different gloves for different uses at the same position. They have backups for the positions they play regularly....likely more quantity of backups for the positions they play most frequently.

We all knew it would be a problem when they only let Shep go. There are some weak links left. I still like Petry and I think he would be a good straight man to Benetti's wit. I look forward to what Pena can do.

The Grey Fox was better and was a solid defender. Comment from the old guy 😃

Is anyone watching Shogun? It's ****ing brilliant and has one of my favorite actors of all time: Hiroyuki Sanada.

I went back to my sent items folder for that week. Looks like we went home on the 13th. I have an email to my boss on the 16th, a Monday, asking if we could get into the building b/c I wanted my docking station and I was able to "snag" a couple of monitors. Officially people were allowed 1, but you know...... I remember a few weeks later we were told to go get the office chairs if we wanted them and all of the desks had markings on them to indicate they were "deep cleaned", as if we would be back in a few weeks. Then in July we were told to clear out all of our personal belongings we had left. Now the building is being demolished.