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I think this is the case. As much as coaches want to get scoring from more than the 1st line, the Wings case is sort of unique in that so many of the current pieces do NOT fit together interchangeably, even though you'd like them to.

Probably correct. All self-directed stuff, so still 'unserious' with respect to having any outward impact, or in particular positive impact, beyond himself. When he bought WaPo, I think there was a hope it was evidence of a philanthropic bent, but maybe it was really just for the media strokes. Sadly, little evidence there are going to be many Andrew Carnegie types among today's generation of dot.com billionaires. Maybe Gates excepted.

I'm somewhat of two minds about how to run a newspaper in the US today. As much as every voice in advocacy and help 'the cause', I can see the virtue in trying to move a paper like WaPo away from being known for it's editorial page positions back to more of a straight news focus -because that is the only way to ever recover credibility as a news source in such a political charged environment. The thing is it is not at all clear if that is any part of what Bezos is trying to do or not. Frankly it seems at this point in his life he's no longer particularly serious about anything.

wasn't nearly what I was looking for. No fundamental re-alignment. Blue's ambitions have been beaten down so far they consider one chamber in 2018 a big wave? One chamber in the off year is more like a ripple on the body politic.

Sure -there is always hope for a midterm landslide, but after 2018, my expectations are lower - maybe one Chamber. Not that that wouldn't help.

We have to face the reality that his supporters know what he is and just don't care because he serves their purpose of being against stuff they don't like. David Brooks, now a WaPo refugee at the Atlantic, wrote a piece about the fact that American is now a culture without standards of any kind. We don't care about right or wrong or abstract morality or idealizations of good and evil - everything is transactional. There are no norms that anyone cares about violating. And if Trump gives Trumpers what they want, they could care less what kind of Ogre he may be. The only thing that can put Trumpers off Trump is that they stop seeing him as on their side. which is not the same thing as him being good or evil at all. There is some potential for that happening over the Epstein stuff but probably nowhere near enough to make a significant political difference.

yeah - "Trump innocent" doesn't solve the conspiracy at all. It would be fine if Trump were guilty circa 2010 as long as he were rooting "them" out today. There is a segment that doesn't care about his personal status in the whole thing - that has never cared about his guilt or innocence individually - that's what the left has never figured out, and why their stridency about Trump himself falls flat as effective messaging (at least to that part of the MAGA side anyway...). What the conspiratorialists want is Trump blowing the cabal out of the water - that's what they have all been primed for for 8 yrs. For Trump to turn around and say "Cabal? What Cabal? I never even met 'em. Nevermind" will absolutely not cut it. But again the question is how big a piece of MAGA land is that segment dedicated to the proposition that Trump is the answer to blowing the cover on the great conspiracy. And even if the numbers may not be huge, how much of the energy of the movement do they carry? That is probably out of proportion to their numbers. Which is because they are the one most dedicated to the political argument as just being a veneer over a great struggle of good vs evil, and because of that they are the ones who are most willing to see all the rules trampled.

So if I have the timeline right, it was Trump's DOJ that initially prosecuted Maxwell, though her conviction did not come down until after Trump was out of the office. Then again, but the end of his 1st term Trumps seemed out of the loop on a lot of stuff....

Fat (pitches), dumb (bats) and stupid (play) is a helluva way to go through the baseball season son.

well that too, but I meant from an engineering standpoint. Trying to rework that bldg on that site was going to be a major lift (figuratively and literally - they actually have had to jack up the building!) no matter who took it on.

I don't know whose I idea the rehab of the Fed's building was originally (i.e. - was it Powell or Bernanke?), but that was the original sin here. They'd have been advised to turn that site into a park and build from scratch somewhere else. It's a bad building on a bad site.

Torkelson is actually having a pretty good July (933 OPS) - maybe the only guy on the team. His slump came in June (under 700) but even that only with a 230 BaBIP that month.

Parker has been an easy out at the bottom of the K zone. Maybe going to take an off-season stance chance to fix.

LOL - yeah - that response was a classic example of being in a hole and not knowing enough to stop digging.

You put a superstar on a good team, you have a better team, you put any better player on a good team, you have a better team. You put a superstar on a mediocre/poor team, you have a better but still mediocre or poor team. The 'Super' part is super overrated. Superstars have toiled in futility all over baseball from time immemorial not being able to raise their teams to any success (recently Trout, Ohtani) and teams with better construction have won more after shedding their superstars (Seattle after losing Griffey and ARod). A good team is always the true sum of the total of it's parts, and two good players will win you as many additional games as one great one. Even from the clubhouse angle, the players that do have a talent for helping to drive their team mates are often not even the best players themselves.

he had a nice little run with 'Feel so Good' and "Bellavia". Went to see him live once back in the day - probably at Meadowbrook. Nice show as I remember.

i know. really dumb.

Unless he is playing through a sub-clinical injury, it's just not that likely a hitter at his age has lost the ability to do what he did as recently as last year. He's probably replaying his verson of Torkelson's travails of last season - thinking he hasn't changed anything when he really has let his approach drift.

The thing that is rich here is that he's invoking the 5th to protect himself - in 2010 Trump was nobody politically. But if MAGA views this today, given all the years having their powers of analysis dulled on Faux New and talk radio, the relevance of 2010 probably won't even register - and even if it does at some level, what they will still hear in the lizard brain is Epstein protecting Trump.

Riley has 1400 career AB with a K rate of about 27%. For him to continue as he is now at over 30% is not inevitable, I don't think it is even likely. But the sooner he fixes it the better.

I would guess Murdoch has people making this very comparison to Trump and asking if he really wants to push that $10B suit.

But it's gotten recently to where he's not hitting enough HR to compensate for the low OBP. His July OPS is under 700, which would make it his worst month of the season by far. He was on fire in June with only 29K in 109 PA = 26.6% K rate. He's is 32% for the season. So it isn't actually true that he has to K to get to the OPS. His best OPS month he had one of his lower K rates.

Pam with the Poison Pellet in the Penitentiary may be on tap as the newest Clue solution.

LA media is probably pretty easy compared to NYC. There is very little out there like the NYPost or the tabloids and ball players are just one more relatively small group of celebs within an already huge celeb culture.