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Good point. Maybe that’s why they’re going after old ladies and restaurant workers and children. They don’t fight back and are easy to subdue. Actual criminals would tend to give these guys a fight.

I dont understand why they don’t just build all these concentration camps in the Deep South, or upper Midwest or mountain states, or Arizona, instead of trying for blue states areas in Virginia? For one thing, the political climate is favorable for them there. For another, they would be able to weaponize the natural climates in these regions against detainees, which would further degrade the conditions housing them and probably save them some money operating the camps. Unless the underlying purpose is to make a show of forcing a blue-leaning county in a swing state to declare themselves to be anti-Trump by refusing to house the concentration camp, which presumably would mobilize the slack-jawed yokels to show up at the polls for them in a mid-term election? As part of a broader underhanded campaign, that kind of tracks, too.

One of the things I love about soccer broadcasts is that there are no commercial breaks during each entire half, and very few other on-screen ads or mentions. By contrast, the more frequent commercial interruptions during baseball games, including RSN crawls, bumpers, billboards, drop-ins, play sponsorships, betting odds, and between-batter commercials, has made our favorite sport that much less pleasant a viewing experience. You really notice it whenever you view a game from 50 or 40 or even 25 years ago on YouTube.

So this point just now really registered with me. Seeing how league minimum is already somewhere near $800,000, did you mean to say greatly increase league minimum to $2,500,000? Because hell yeah that would be a player win. Just trying to understand in the context of your whole post.

If the several ownerships I alluded to are basically harvesting their franchises, then I’m not really sure what could incentivize them to spend to compete, since they happily see revenue and valuation gains occur completely irrespective of the on-field performance.

Just saw that Al Cowens died an early death, age 50, from a heart attack. I could see him having the stress of being angry all the time. That takes a toll on your body.

Fair enough. The only possible cover they could have claimed is that Trump did not actually engage in this murderous activity during the first term. Now he has, everyone can see he had, and anyone who still supports him supports the citizen murder that has been documented during this term. There is no cover, no way around it, any more. Either you support discretionary citizen murder by your government for any reason it chooses, or you abandon Trump. There is no longer any middle ground to stand on.

I won't blame him for enabling fascist authoritarianism in America—it took millions and machinery to get us to that point—but I will blame anyone to the degree that they approve the public murders of people by shadowy militia figures employed by the government for doing nothing more than nothing wrong.

You have exactly right, except you also have it backwards.

I remember the Free Press running a picture Cowens and Farmer standing at home plate st Tiger Stadium shaking hands, in a show of burying the hatchet I guess, and they looked for all the world like they still wanted to kill each other.

Except Ty Cobb also had to learn the requisite skills to be able to hit the best pitching in the world to the level that he did. It was more than eyesight. I had 20-15 eyesight once. I couldn’t catch up to a decent fastball to save my life. OK, Ty Cobb is a bad example for me to defend. He started playing at age 18 in the early 1900s; there was no coached developmental path for the guys who played it; the game was not mature enough to filter all the best athletes who could have been pro baseball players toward it; it was not yet a truly national sport in terms of drawing talent; and large swaths of American were prevented by custom from playing it at the highest level. I’ll update my defense of the eyesight thing to Mike Trout.

All except Chicago—that’s a lost cause for Republicans. If we were to ever get to the point to which Chicago is contestable for the president, we’d be looking at a Nixon 1972-level landslide and, really, one-party rule.

Maybe you start one and I will hit like on posts within it?

I believe the effort to reduce payroll inequality among teams has to focus on incentivizing small market teams to start spending and become actually competitive, at least as much as clamping down on the biggest-spending teams. The ownerships of too many organizations are phoning it in because as owners they will get good and paid, with increasing franchise valuations, anyway, no matter whether they win eighty games or seventy or sixty. I don’t have to out which organizations—you already know who they are. Fix that end of it and they will fix a big chunk of the competitive balance problem—if Baseball even acknowledges there is one, or even cares, both of which are legitimate open-ended questions.

Sure, I said it in a flip way to be entertaining, and of course soccer is a sport that requires great skill to play at the highest level. I would never say otherwise. At the same time, a sport in which several players with multiple teenage years remaining can play in the very top league in the world can’t be as challenging to master at the very top level as, for example, baseball. Most of the guys who are athletically gifted enough to play big league baseball even in their early 20s are considered to be too inexperienced to play at the top level, requiring additional seasoning to master the sport so they can play at that top level.

“Soccer’s not a sport because you can’t use your arms. Anything you can’t use your arms can’t be a sport. Tap-dancing isn’t a sport … I rest my case.”

They should have had fewer athletic events and more baseball events. 😁

I don’t know who you think “we” is, but nobody else has been willfully mischaracterizing anything I’ve ever said about religion, or faith, or any of that. We’re not the only ones who will need to be careful, is all I’m saying.

I won’t argue against that, in terms of what the world prefers. But the fact that a 15-year-old is able to play in the Premier League—and not just as a one-shot Joe Nuxhall deal, but for multiple games while maintaining an active roster spot with the team at the top of the table—tells me everything I need to know about how difficult it is to earn a spot in the best soccer league in the world.

If “exciting” is the objective benchmark, then UCF has them both beat by an even wider margin.

No worries! The owners will come up with plenty of ideas to take money from the pockets of the best players and put it back in their own pockets where it belongs. 😉😁

Overpaying young players! Well, we can’t have that! 😉

Only Cash (leadoff) and Brinkman (cleanup) did not bat in those spots in any other game that season. All the other players had at least one other game in their slots.

Point is that being Jewish quislings helping the Nazi regime early on didn’t help them survive. To the fascists, your worth starts with your bloodline. After that, your actions can put you on the outs, but without the proper bloodline, nothing puts you on the inside, no matter how loud or proud or Trumpy your words or actions might be. We have all seen how Trump himself turned on people who initially tried to appease him with their Trumpiness, but had the temerity to share one rogue word or action. Also, remember this: America is the home of the one-drop rule. Not even the German Nazis did that. So no matter how far they go back, they find even a drop of “bad” in your bloodline, you’re out.

Also, she was just following orders.