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I think I saw you on a clear September night, from my back porch in Minneapolis, shooting up amidst the Northern Lights. Or perhaps someone laced my cigar with a psychedelic

I will dispute that McKinstry provides no value to the roster. 0.8 bWAR, 1.1 fWAR last year. Perfectly fine for a role player. This may not show up in the raw batting stats, but he was a plus plus baserunner and plus fielder. And the last time I deep dived WAR metrics, versatility wasn't really factored in. The fact that you can bounce him between 3-4 positions in a single game allows you to maximize matchups elsewhere. I'm not sure if there is a place for him on the 2025 team. The bar could be higher, and his modest raise in arbitration could play a role. But to say he has no value is not true.

5 LOSSES IN A ROW FOR THE JETS !!!!!

Goff benched!!

Fun game. So who are we firing this week?

Yeah..............**** CHRIS CHRISTIE !

How many games in a row have they won?

If Keith’s defense ends up anywhere near average, leave him alone. If you can keep his kind of bat in the middle infield, that’s an advantage.

I think George Carlin was the best comedian ever.

Tell you what, though—for an October where not only do I no longer have any skin in he game, but the teams that are left are two behemoths which is like rooting for Goliath vs. Goliath—this has been a hell of a playoff season.

TBF, 2012 Romad had a much better candidate to vote for. While I didn't vote for McCain or Romney, I wasn't in fear for my country if they won.

He was wide open, lol.

As a side, my son sent pictures of the line at his Westland precinct today. Very impressive. I also love the "I voted stickers" Michigan is using, he picked up the entire set since on one was manning the table.

I'll say this: if you are conservative in a swing state longing for a new and improved GOP after this, especially knowing that Kamala Harris will in all likelihood be constrained by a GOP Senate... What is there to lose? On a purely pragmatic level, how isn't the choice obvious?

Martin kinda makes my point: Allentown (and Lehigh County) are seen as suburban in nature outside of Philly, and Allentown is of outsized importance with respect to Puerto Rican population in PA. It's not your father's SEPA. And in a race where, based on reporting and his campaigns own words, he's depending on Hispanics to vote for him, these comments can make a pretty difference on the margins (at a minimum)

Oh, I fully see how they characterize centrist Democrats as begin "far left", and it drives me bonkers. It's all branding and it works with their base. But it's not true, and I don't know why Democrats don't address it it in a more visible way, because by appearing to ignore it, they're ceding that point to Republicans, and that hurts the Democratic Party with the middle.

Assuming you and I define the far left similarly, I'm sure you'd agree that the far left is barely even a minuscule fraction of the size of the far right, and with even less of a fraction of the power and influence on the body politic. If I had to venture a guess on the numbers, I'd say the far left makes up maybe two percent of the population, while the far right makes up thirty percent. That's a function of how the far right has completely overrun one of our major political parties. People like to equivocate and claim the far left has similarly overrun the Democratic Party, to which I can reply only, "come on." The Democrats treat the far left as a wild child who goes prodigal a lot. The party sure would like them to fall in come Election Day, but they can't count on the far left not peeling off in a snit and voting for Jill ****ing Stein instead (as if she were going to save Gaza from Israel). Democrats don't cave to the far left because the far left isn't reliable, and besides, most of what animates the far left falls well outside the Party's policy positions, anyway. But Republicans must cave to literally everything the far right demands, because they currently hold the entire party hostage.

Wow, I guess their strategy in these last 10 days is amp up the racism. I just saw one of the most racist political ads I have ever seen from John James. If people treated Blacks the way he treats Mexicans would he even care?

Who is that speaking? I know it's not Rob Schneider, but he's trying to be.

But yes, it's Kamala Harris that is inviting violence. GMAFB

and Aaron Rodgers loses AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL !!!!!!!!!!

It wouldn't be the first time they made a mistake.

Goff has 56 yards passing but 3 TDs and more TDs than incompletions.

Titans are so bad.

Is that the first DPI against us this season? I can't remember another one off hand.

Decker is an Ohio State guy. You can't trust him.

Lions might score 50 today. This game will be a good chance to get Tim Patrick some reps.

I haven’t see Liz Cheney shill any Democratic Party policies. All I have seen her do is draw the line between a normal candidate and a Hitler-loving fascist who, not for nothing, is not anything like a conservative. She appears to me to be a conservative who is will to put up with Democratic policies instead of allowing the country and its Constitution to collapse into the dustbin of history. Maybe you don’t want her to do so, but I sure do.

Jared Goff chants have been replaced by MVP chants. What a world.

I agree completely here. It was a singular failure for the Dems, and the gift that has just kept on giving for bad politics in the USA, that the Dems couldn't draw the line when Clinton lied under oath. I don't care how venal the sin actually was, how popular he was, and how craven or unjustified Starr was, that was a line that should not have been crossed, and once it was, crow-barred open the door for where we are today.

Wasn’t this widely considered to be a pretty open playoff field with no real obvious favorites? I think the lack of any 100 win teams probably had something to do with that (on top of the fact that it’s baseball and chalk doesn’t always apply). And here we are, 1 seed vs 1 seed.

This is true, and I'd be lying if I said I was completely at ease during those times. Honestly, I first thought of moving to another country in the 80s, but stayed because all of my family was/is here. I regret not going-if for no other reason than that I'm unlikely to get a chance to even travel now. I feel as if every year we're faced with rotting infrastructure, cuts to already struggling transit, never-ending increases in housing, healthcare, and education costs... not to mention cuts to education that causes already struggling parents and often teachers to buy basic supplies every year. And this is in Massachusetts, which is considered true-blue. Lack of pensions, having to save up for healthcare and retirement starting in your 20s, these are just two of the costs that eat into people's paychecks. And while the gains we made in past decades to get cleaner air and water are holding for now, protections that were in place are in danger if not already gone and we're in danger of going back to earlier pollution levels. Trickle-down economics took decades to get us here, and it's going to take time to reverse it. Sigh....

Why did you have to go ruin a great post with those god awful first two sentences.

Loveland should be suspended a game for his role in the fight. The rivalry needs adults to be re-injected and 6-6 seasons present the perfect time to claim a moral high ground.

I think there’s a good chance it’s less that Trump doesn’t remember what happened during whose administration, and more that he totally remembers and he is merely rewriting history on the fly. Because how many times have we seen red hats claim the same lies that Trump does even after clear debunkings? It getting to the point where we don’t even express mild objections anymore because the world is taking a Trump-will-be-Trump attitude to him.

I wouldn't have minded Mitt for himself, but by the end of Bush II, I was already soured on the GOP in toto and have been wanting/hoping to see that party crash and burn completely enough so something useful could could re-emerge ever since

You know nothing can ever compare to the strange psychological and emotional cocktail that was flowing through my veins for our last 50 games of the season. I thought the end of this game was interesting, but I never felt my head was going to explode or rainbows would start shooting out of my rear end to propel me into orbit around the Earth like when the Tigers were rampaging this year.

Bad as they were they go into the half with a lead. Kind of shows you had bad MSU is too.

If they were truly stifling their opinion staff, why have the following articles run? If anything else, this has allowed their pages to show more pro-Harris editorials and drawing attention to their opinions page to read them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/26/washington-post-endorses-kamala-harris-satire/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/post-editorial-board-wapo-endorsement-2024/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washington-post-presidential-endorsement/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/post-columnist-no-endorsement-2024-trump-harris/

I've been seeing this take a lot from journalists in the wake of WaPo's **** up... But if consumers aren't satisfied and want to send a message, what other means are there to get it acrossrd? Journalism is very important, but the industry's inability for self-reflection is a big reason we are here.

Penn State crowds always welcome sexual deviants.

great pics!

We had a great time. The girls (and us) got to scream “JACK” all night.

and I will tell you that as a woman, I didn’t say a word about a sexual assault that happened to me until 50 years after it happened. edited to delete my second paragraph, and to say, the hell with this. Sexual assaults happen. Sometimes with witnesses, more often without… and because you know that the pushback and ridicule you encounter if you dare bring it up, often you just bury it in your own mind.

He looks like a hitter. So many of them don't, but he does. He has that classic balanced stance, stands tall with square shoulders and the bat seems quick. Of everyone who posts here I am by far the least qualified to assess talent, truly, no one else is even close.