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I assume that the light blue in Texas, Nevada, and Maryland means that whites are a plurality, as opposed to a majority as in the dark blue states.

Interesting how English and German intersperse throughout much of Michigan.

If European Borders Were Drawn By DNA Instead Of Ethnicity

How is it that Finland is so different?

He destroyed the East Wing for a purpose. It's a metaphor.

The horror of Trump on camera having sex with middle school girls is already baked in. It's got to be worse than even that.

I'm not an attorney and I don't even play one on TV, but it seems to me there must be a completely different legal question at hand here regarding the redrawing of district boundaries outside of common redistricting periods with the explicitly stated intent of rigging the election outcome.

Please don't disparage Tim Robinson like this.

Well, Trump has a super low bar with those people, so 42K has been recast as excellent to them.

I think the best outcome we could hope for is that the Supreme Court strikes down all discretionary off-census redistricting as a basic form of election fraud and we go back to the maps we all had after the census—you know, like during normal times. But seeing how this court is completely up Trump's ass, I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.

They did say Roscommon is a “market” rather than a “metro”, so, technically, that’s accurate as far as that goes. They are initially leaving the Flint and the Saginaw-Bay City-Midland markets uncovered, so I assume they will fill that gap pretty quickly. TC-Petoskey is also a pretty fair-sized market lousy with Detroit sports fans, particularly ex-pats. Also, not for nothing, I’m glad they used a picture of Dan doing Tiger games rather than Valenti’s ugly mug.

Millions of incels just melted into a puddle.

He’d be a lot cooler if he drank and did drugs. 😉

If one guy is doing it, others are also doing it, and probably getting away with it at the moment.

I have sort of the same problem in that one of my next-door neighbors has a humongous tree that must be over 100 years old. Some years ago I turned my postage stamp-sized front lawn into a garden with a tree that’s rather large itself, so even if I took that down, there would still be a ton of leafage courtesy of my neighbor’s tree in my front yard. If you know how tightly built together houses are in this city, you know why it’s bit of a problem.

I watched the first episode of Death by Lightning on Netflix last night, and it is off to a legitimately great start. I can hardly wait to watch episode two today.

I agree, I don’t really want to contemplate that either, but it is a strong consideration to plan for. A number of one-year contracts might be beneficial to a team that is loaded at certain positions in their system, such as we are at dirt positions.

Hypothetical question: who would benefit more from a conditional long-term deal that voids if there is a work stoppage? Suppose a team signs Bichette to, let’s say, 5/150. Could there/would there be any condition within which stipulates that in the event of a stoppage, the deal is void? I could see either side benefitting from that depending on what first year comp would be. If it’s front-loaded in Year One, that benefits Bichette by giving him more money and setting a higher market for him next time; if it’s flat or back-loaded, that helps the team more by preserving assets for a long “winter”. Flip side, if Bichette were to agree to a front-loaded contract—say, 40/30/30/25/25—that would peg his final market at age 34 to the lower number than to the average or higher number. Would the parties agree to a one-time payout if there is a work stoppage? Say, if the team insists on a flat 30 every year, would Bichette demand, say, a $5 or $10 million payout if there’s a stoppage to satisfy his desire for a higher value in year one in case of stoppage and sweeten the pot at the end to sign? Would a team agree to that? Would it even be legal to arrange for such a payout during a work stoppage? Of course, if there is no work stoppage at all, none of this would matter, but I think everyone in the business is planning for the stoppage. This idea has just flown into my head so I haven’t been baking it for long, and I’m just throwing it out there if anyone’s interested in picking up this ball. You might not even agree with any of my assumptions.

It might be something Bichette and other long term candidates worry about. They might not want to hamstring their future earnings with a pre-stoppage deal if the resulting deal substantially favors Players. Might we see a lot of high-dollar one-year contracts this winter for guys who would normally get a bunch of years? Something like that would open up the market to a lot more teams, particularly us.

Another reason not to lock up Torres to years is all the potential second basemen we expect to come up in the next couple years.

Perhaps another thing that will diminish everyone’s free agency is the impending lockout. Will teams commit money and future years to players when they don’t know what the landscape is going to look like?

He would definitely go. They might not make the offer to him.

And just in time for Thanksgiving. Tell you what: this sure didn't happen under Biden.

Including Trump, right? Because I posted that $3 billion heist post right before ⬆️ post

I don't know if it's Dodgers, necessarily. They have a lot of Cy Young-level pitchers there right now. But I bet it would be a team that was ready to contend for a ring before he gets there.