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Laken Riley was arrested? Who knew?

Not me. I have more than a clue about nutrition. RFK's power relies on ignorant people to whom nutrition is and always will be a mystery they can't solve, or at least can't reconcile with the paid messaging they're bombarded.

That's because you're getting old like the rest of us and you're realizing that 12 years is a blink of the eye. 😉 I miss the 70s when the Catholic Church was all in on hippie Jesus and folky guitar masses. I didn't leave in the 2000s because it was right wing—I left because it became soul-sucking drudergy more concerned with fundraising than soul saving. Yeah, I know, they were always like that, but by then they'd stop bothering to pretend. It was almost like going to a timeshare seminar. Maybe that's just the parish I crapped out of, who knows.

The Catholic Church is not the United States Senate and they have not proven themselves to be anything like the Republican Party overtaken by ultra right-wing thugs. Unless you have information I don't, I'm not going to take the unsupported leap with you that all the Catholic liberals Francis appointed must de facto have been co-opted by reactionary right wing forces in the Holy See.

Well, you go ahead, but I'm not going to worry about tomorrow or 2026 or 2027 or 2030 or any of that. That's for future me to worry about. Present me is going to enjoy having the best pitcher in the game today help us win a pennant this year.

You cut out the other part which mitigates that part you wanted to pin me on.

Example?

I would have trouble believing the majority of his appointees would change from liberal to reactionary like so. That’s almost Da Vinci-level conspiracy ****.

“Crooked Joe Biden cooked the books on crime figures.” See how easy that was?

Disagree. We are considered a viable contender for the AL pennant. CBA or not, trading stars for prospects should be completely off the table,

They ****ed him up first, and beyond repair. Either that or Pipeline has no idea how to properly value and rank prospects after all. Probably a little of both.

Can I just tell you how much it makes my heart hurt to see talk of trading our top talent for prospects again? Can’t we just get beyond that for even one year?

Man I totally forgot Daniel Norris was a top 20 overall prospect. Man, did the Tigers ever **** that one up.

The Tigers would sign Skubal for 7/210 to 7/245 every say of the week and twice on Sunday. The fly in that ointment is that Skubal would never take that because it would be the worst offer on the table by a mile and a half.

Totally agree and that’s what I left unsaid in my post—it’s the ability to gamble as easily as simply unlocking your phone. I assume betting apps have lockscreen alerts people can do one-touch bet rights from. People might reply, well, you can’t stop people from betting if they want to. And that’s true, you can’t, if they really want to. It’s the enticing people who never thought about betting in the first place that I think is terrible. People with genetically addictive personalities getting sucked into it and then never getting out of it. I think if people really want to bet, they should have to seek it out and then have to put some work into placing the bet. If it were a lot harder to do, I … ahem … bet that at least 80% of all people who have gambling problems today would have never even started doing it, or even thought about it.

Not that I’m defending Paramount, but prior presidents didn’t try to bleed tens of millions out of them tying them up in court cases like this guy is planning to do. It’s next level harassment that really kicks them in the pocketbook, so I can see why some would blink in the face of that. With any luck, the Harvard thing will somehow inspire Paramount to dig in and fight in the trenches.

The best thing he did was appoint the **** out of that Cardinal College. Like 80% of those guys are his.

I don’t care if I have to eat gray salmon as long as the taste and texture are the same.

Face, meet leopard.

I don't know, I'm having trouble seeing where the where is for that. I don't get any sense of the same kind of hate for Catholics these people have for Muslims or Jews.

The administration’s strategy might be to flood the news with so many disappearances in such a short period of time that the media can’t keep up, it becomes less newsy, they turn their attention elsewhere, the people eventually stop paying attention, and then the regime they can really ramp up the operation to numbers we can’t imagine yet.

I believe it’s one thing to have informal bets with your buddies, or even visit a sportsook to lay a bet, but it’s completely different for leagues to partner with gambling companies to try to get as many people betting as much money on games as they possibly can.

Man, i wish the Atletic would ask this of baseball players, because I sure would liek to know how they feel about gambling aprtnerships. I would bet that because of baseball's history, the "No" side would be more in the 50s than the 40s, although I don't know, maybe I'm off base on this. There's an entire article on The Athletic ($) about this: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6298159/2025/04/22/nba-player-poll-gambling-partnerships/

It doesn't matter whether you love 60 Minutes or hate it, or even whether or not you even watch it—this is bad.

Will Vest! And Brant Hurter! Although I'm wondering whether this is only a one day thing and not a whole season thing.