Tiger337

I wouldn't take the opinion of any writer seriously for something like this.

I have long believed that professional sports is filled with narcissistic "alpha males" and that I wouldn't enjoying hanging out with most of them on a regular basis. They are not my friends though, so it doesn't matter. They are great entertainers.

About 40% of undocumented immigrants came here legally, but their work or student visa expired. I understand the overstay is still illegal, but these aren't rapists and drug dealers. In fact, only a small percentage of undocumented immigrants are serious criminals. I don't think many would protest if they quietly removed that small percentage. That does not require invading cities and disrupting and endangering the lives of everbody in the city

Yes, people accused marothformvp and Stan and Archie of being trolls in the past, but I don't think they were capable of being better. MAGAholic has always been prickly in this forum, but he was once a reasonable poster. Now, he has made a a conscious effort to agitate people with every post he makes and is deliberately just being a trouble maker. That is why he is the first person I put on ignore in a couple of years.

One of the students in the program in whch I work wrote a good article at WBUR about the dangers of AI potentially taking away our civil liberties: https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/02/25/ice-ai-surveillance-cell-phone-video-license-plate-readers-sarah-young-goldberg

FanGraphs projects them to finish 16th in the league in runs scored. There were more gains to made on the pitching side and I am not upset that they didn't acquire a hitter, but I am not going to pretend that they don't have potential weaknesses in their line-up. On the positive side, FanGraphs projects them to finish second in run prevention. Great pitching and average offense is typically a successful mix.

Sure, they never expected us to descend towards authoritarianism and to turn on our allies, but as far as personal behavior goes, they were right on target. Amereicans are loud, arrogant, self-absorbed, shallow, ignorant and unserious people. In that respect, we got exactly what we deserved.

We are living up to the ugly American stereotype for sure.

Newsom seems childish to me. I am really hoping somebody more serious emerges. I'm not going to hold my breath.

It will mostly likely be ok. What is certain is that nothing that happens in the first week of spring training has any bearing on the season at all, unless someone gets hurt.

They have the WBC tournament this year, so we might see more minor leaguers playing in spring training than usual.

not bold enough.

yes

They are just as capable of keeping up with the demands of playing every day as they have ever been. They have more off days now and no scheduled double headers for other reasons other than capability. One of them is having a strong union. The reason for bigger pitching staffs is that teams have figured out that having more fresh pitchers allows their best pitchers to throw at maximum effort and get maximum results. Then when they get tired, they have plenty of fresh arms to fill in the innings at the end of the game. Pitchers could pitch just as many innings as they use to, if they were not pitching at maximum effort on every pitch.

The players have more leverage now.