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August 22

So Cracker Barrel is rebranding. They have removed the dude and refreshed the sign a bit. MAGA Birds are losing their minds. That should tell you all I need to know. Let them boycott. Maybe I’ll be able to get some dumplings for a change

I think this nails it....The Supreme Court is allowing Trump and company to play CalvinBall.

First of all, I didn't mean to place this question in the expansion thread. Anyway, the past three seasons at least T-Mobile has offered customers free MLB.TV if the sign up at the beginning of the season. They make the offer during the first week of the season usually. That means free Tiger baseball since I'm outside the market. Includes minor league games as well. I am blacked out from the two "in market" teams. It's a real sweet deal. I'd hate to lose it

Is the ESPN/MLB.TV deal going to mess up the sweet deal I have with T-Mobile?

Wegmans can be a bit intimidating to those not shopping on a regular basis. The closest one to us is in the Richmond area (Short Pump) a bit more than an hour away. Not your average grocery run on a Thursday afternoon. It's interesting and better than what we find here (Publix, Harris Teeter, which is basically a Kroger) Food Lion) If we upscale a bit we'll hit Fresh Market or Trader Joe's. But bananas aren't cheap anywhere compared to 2024

For us it's almost worth the drive to Short Pump once in a while. I wish they were installing them in New Kent County rather than Buckees

Jason Stark has a new article in The Athletic on expansion possibilities. One takeaway https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6566172/2025/08/21/mlb-expansion-realignment-162-game-schedule/?campaign=14564710&source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&userId=213687

Jason's conversations sound a bit like mine and my son's when we go to a game. Used to drive my wife a bit crazy then. She's actually come around from the days when she managed the teams' radio networks and really wasn't into sports

PBP is mostly background/white noise to me. I'm usually doing a couple of other things at the time. I like Jason, Mario was like eating Vanilla ice cream. Jason is Mint Chocolate Chip with vanilla wafers on the side

August 21 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-21

Somebody needs to stick Miller’s head in a poopie toilet for long time.

We drove by there on our trip west. There is also a park nearby where they camped for a while. If I remember correctly it honors him. It’s also where Expedition members elected a new Sargent. The first democratic election west of the Mississippi or something like that

August 20 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-20

Take 'em any way we can.

It only took 120 years or so for the Confederacy to occupy DC. Thanks TACO

Cue the Rolling Stones

Welcome to DOGE City

Yep, I bet TACO has never been anywhere near areas like Anacosta (SE) or any area in the NW part of the district. Basically he's taking resources from other places to feed his ego. Nothing more. Maybe some enterprising reporter should ask him about that His so called department heads/ FOX Alumni are not much better.

All the high crime areas in DC. Once upon a time we were told to avoid DuPont Circle because of all the Hippies.

Raining there, but they are playing. PBP guy just mentioned to Clark out of the lineup. Possible injury

Just an aside, In Virginia's capitol of Williamsburg about 50% of the residents were African American. 50% of those were slaves. There were a number of free blacks. If we were taught the truth in schools, the thinking on this might change a bit. In states like Virginia, North and South Carolina the economy was largely agrarian. Negros had been imported to primarily work the fields, but also many worked in homes. By the time the Revolution came around the system was imbedded in the regions economy. Also by then laws, mostly set up by the colonies legislatures and approved by the English governing body made it nearly impossible to free the slaves without bankrupting the regions economy. It was one of those impossible conundrums. Yes the Washington's, Jefferson's Madison's and such were hypocrites and racists. It took the Civil War to begin to change things. BTW, I'm not defending it. Just telling the truth.

I remember nearly freezing to death (not really, but it was cold) one evening during a Spring Training game in Clearwater.