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It's true about the clicks... I sometimes feel like they learned all the wrong lessons from Brexit and Trump and almost seem to yearn for hyping right wing candidates to drive readership. Conspiratorial, maybe, but setting aside left/right bias, we all know media companies also have a bias toward making money. Zemmour almost acted like a stalking horse for Le Pen to seem more moderate or sane in comparison (not sure if that's the case or not, but it kinda worked out that way anyway). And I dont know that it's a coincidence that Macron started gaining after the first round once Zemmour was off the stage... all eyes were on her and, though she did somewhat better this time, for the most part, she did a good job reminding a lot of French voters what they didn't like about her five year ago. As for the future, you are correct, with the caveat that it's more of a three wing system now with the Melanchon bloc of voters. They may not be quite as big as the other two, but it stands to reason in France's system, they could find themselves in the Kingmaker role frequently going forward.

A lot of Ws for liberal democratic values today

Not that Willi is a world beater or anything, but this is a bit surprising. Either way, its almost Chafin time!

I posted it in the other thread, but the coverage of the French election was complete malpractice by the US and international media. Macron, particularly after round one when he outperformed his polls and started gaining between the first and second round, was obviously going to be reelected. That would have made the obvious play to profile the voters who would vote to give him another mandate, or profile what he may have planned for a second term. Instead, we were treated out countless pieces discussing the 5% probability that Le Pen would be elected. Like, it would have taken by far the largest polling error in the history of the Republic, and one of the largest in world history, for that to have happened. Instead, it was covered as if it were more 60/40 that it would happen. I get that there is long memories of Brexit and Trump's first election, but we need to stick with the facts... not gin up stories that don't align with the facts because it sells papers and draws eyeballs. It just makes me feel that the media learned all the wrong lessons the past few uears.years

This is one of those games that you would expect they would lose even with a functioning offense. Even the best teams can have a bad start. But it just makes losing winnable games (such as last night's) even harder.

Gotta start somewhere!

I'll take that from Schoop... nice contact there.

Does Candy have options left? I know Schoop doesn't...

I dont want to be one of these guys who makes excuses, but there have been some good signs today. Barnhart looking more like the guy who was advertised, Robbie starting to get hot, Meadows mixing in more extra base power into his game. But they really need better production out of 4 and 5. Nothing is holding this team back more at the moment.

Not a bad half inning at all, unfortunately they have not cashed in much before that...

No doubt... could be rather that the high of his 3000 hit gave them a jolt that they wouldn't ordinarily have.

Lol, that's what I get for compliments

Credit where credit is due, he's having a good day today

There's an emotional element of Miggy's accomplishment... maybe a bit of a hangover from that

I'll stick with my 82 wins. Maybe even that's too optimistic, we will see.

I dont have a problem with playing Haase in left. But at some point, you have to move Tork up in the lineup. I get that he's a rookie and you're trying to protect him some, but if the goal is to win ballgames, its the right thing to do.

Despite my last post, I do agree with this. There is still long range risk.

Can I just say that the western press did an absolutely terrible job covering this election? Marine Le Pen did close the gap some by the runoff in head to head polling, but first round polling underestimated Macron and Macron gained a good 5-7 points in polls in the interregnum between the first round and second round. I know I will get the usual comments about complacency and whatnot, but once things started moving against her after round one, her goose was cooked. Yet you wouldn't have known it from how the Times covered it.

Signing Pineda could potentially be as big as trading for Meadows... so many people seemed content rolling with just Alexander. David Cone said on one of the ST Yankee Tiger broadcasts that you need at least 7 starters in today's game. Glad they are thinking more about depth instead of concerning themselves too much about how to pencil guys in.

Big win... polls underestimated Macron yet again!

OK, if Barnhart gives you a double with no outs, then you HAVE to score him guys

Sure. The lack of walks out of the current bullpen (while being down Cisnero and Funk) has been telling. Part of why I'm not sure the bullpen is totally flukish... these fact that the current composition fills the strike zone helps keeps the runs down one would think. We will see how it evolves as offense heats up around the league

Will make G2 and Casimir happy... 🙂 And maybe someone like Will Vest or Jacob Barnes too lol

Hes baaaack

It will also move Schoop/Candy down the order as well. Just wish he'd consider putting them behind Tork at the moment. It stands to reason that would benefit the team at the moment