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LOL - I remember when Shep first started lack of completed sentences was also definitely a thing.

You don't see a guy hang around on the same team for 8 yrs with less than 1000 AB like Lynn Jones did much any more. He was probably also the tiniest Jones in the list. Officially 5'9" but I'm thinking that was generous.

I wouldn't say I ever rooted for Dallas, but in the dark years Dallas and SF were the two teams I followed so I would at least be familiar with a team I could watch play good football. 🤷‍♂️

was Shanahan the last ex-Wing the Leafs hired? How'd that work out? >he just didn't have the juice to be a head coach for that Wings tenure it seemed like. Yup- they did get a big lift when he started, but then they eventually started looking just like the team he took over from Blashill.

hopefully this is at least the end of the NIL charade. Note the NCAA still wants Congress to write all this plus more to an eventual statute.

Good baseball teams tend to be those that can get above average value out the typically below average value positions - esp catcher. Dingler is playing at about a 6 WAR season pace.

Brown has been kind of up and down this season - thrown some good game and some clunkers. He was good tonight and we beat him anyway.

I was thinking the same thing when I watched the replay - he underestimated the fade toward the line. But on other hand, it may have been a little easier to get the elevation off a run than if he was there and had to jump more flat footed, so it all worked in the end!

arg - lead off double. He's close to throwing too many strikes.

Tork pulled a good fastball. Good sign for later.

I can see the PR angle for the admin though. "Well see, you may have him back but NOW we're going to charge him - Ha Ha!" etc

I wouldn't describe Sinema and Manchin as fighting on policy, more along the line of grandstanding for ego and attention. YMMV,

Well they knew the court had ordered him repatriated - I would assume they wanted the indictment in hand for when that ultimately happened. With a Trump admin there is always some sideshow going that a distraction is useful for, and there is also some distraction they are cooking up because the next sideshow is envitable. So nothing here is actually out of the ordinary. 🙄

Mostly 2 small market teams I suppose? But I think the law of decreasing returns sets in. The regular season ended close to 2 full months ago. Most teams in the playoffs have been out of them for a month. At this point in the calendar, for the average fan these games have lost a sense of connection to the season. Same goes for the NHL. NFL gets to the SB in 5 weeks, that's probably long enough for a playoff to run.

TBH, this almost looks like it was a planned performance.

For the life of me I've never understood why they use such hard bases in the majors. I'm sure the umpires like that the surface can't move/flex, but how many arm, foot and knee injuries per year is that worth?

Biden's big accomplishment was something it was easy to agree on though (spend money in everyone's district!) - no real policy fight there like ACA was. But sure - I want the Dem's ambition as a party to be higher.

Mid term losses are standard, but lose of majority doesn't have to be. You have to win big enough to be able to lose some of the margin of your majority without losing your majority. Otherwise you really don't have a governing coalition nationwide. It's part of the wider aspect of why politics in the US is broken. When a party is at a point where it's own supporters are so conditioned they can't even think in terms of absolute majority wins as a reasonable target, you have party politics that aren't working. There are no doubt a lot of reasons - but whatever the causes, the symptoms are all there to see. It apparently isn't possible to construct a centrist party in the US anymore. The money isn't there, the energy is all at the fringes, primaries (and now social media) are too easily controlled by the extremes, we know all the diagnoses. So far we can't figure out the cure.

But 2009 was the last time they were actually able to enact any domestic policy, so that has to be target if you want to do any more than just be able to claim you are in office.

If you are happy with party I'm happy for you. Right now I'm just not very optimistic they can get back to where they were in Jan 20, 2008 even with Trump dead and buried.

Tesla has been that low recently and rebounded. Tesla stock has been untethered from the outlook for Tesla the company for a long time. It's a pure trade play stock now, more like bitcoin.

Surprised, not surprised. I thought this was possible earlier but when it didn't happen I assumed he was safe for the long run. But it's always also about the alternatives, Jones has been hot recently

IDK, but his best shot now is in relief. He's had some good and bad outings but with the added velo he has brought to working short, he has another chance. Hope for him as a starter has gone pretty much to zero.

I can't tell you if it made a difference or not, but B. Clinton did talk policy and policy goals and strategies all the time. He got nicknamed "the great explainer" for good reason. OTOH, folksy charm was definitely also a B. Clinton calling card, and one thing H. Clinton missed on big time when the cards were dealt.

Yup. I haven't read it since HS, but I remember Ray Bradbury's vision in Fahenheit 451 of a society so continually distracted/entertained that it had become completely hollow.