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God, please tell me we’re not going into another 1-12 stretch.

I was disagreeing with the idea that a major broadcaster would not edit it out. When you say “would not be edited out”, you can only be referring to the professional editing crew of a major broadcaster, since individual users are not expected to engage in editing of the sort, for reasons such as propriety, that major broadcasters must. YouTube doesn’t engage in that sort of editing per se—their only recourse is removing the video from their platform, which is censorship rather than editing.

Without either Benetti or Dan, it is a very bland broadcast on both sides of the spectrum. The kind of thing many franchises have to withstand every day for years.

I disagree. It would totally be edited out today, I think perhaps even more likely than it would have been 40 or 50 years ago. There's no way MLB would allow a similar incident happening today to be shown in all it's gory, and their media partners would all comply, and actually agree, if for no other reason than to mollify antsy advertisers. Sickening their viewers is bad for the media business. That's partly why during wartime, as in Iraq, embedded media did not show combat as they did during Vietnam. User-generated videos would be a different case. If someone happened to catch an entire attack like that on video, it would probably show up on YouTube, and in that case I would doubt that YouTube would take it down.

for all we know

Fair point.

I was responding to a post worded specifically so. I didn't mean to suggest whistling past graveyards, but I can see how it was taken as such.

I would I could hide certain threads.

I don't disagree at all, but the reaction by the pearl-clutching S.E.B. is out of proportion to what's going on in the video. So, I wouldn't trust the integrity of their own pro-Israel Gaza position, which is likely predicated on more than what's actually happening in Gaza, any more than I would certain protesters' pro-Palestine positions, for some of whom it is likely predicated on generalized ideological purity. I don't know where the lady they escorted out stands on it, I'm speaking in general.

the tweet appeared to be focused on the one hard-garbed lady who was apparently lodging the protest. That's what the two twitter accounts were getting in a snit about. Their math appears to be: One lone protester = "Netanyahu was not protested to this degree".

RFKJ is fully cooked, but he’s also following the boss’s orders.

They think all people have to do to get off drugs is pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get a goddamn job. These crackheads don’t need government money to get a little gumption. The new federal government guidance is going to be: it also wouldn’t hurt to give your life over to Jesus.

I think most people could see this definitely brewing during the Bush Jr. years. A lot of us could see it starting during the Reagan years. The irony is that today’s younger MAGAs, who call themselves Republicans and even “conservative” (as if), think of Reagan not as a icon of the party to be revered, but as an irrelevant relic of the past to be discarded, the way people during the Reagan years thought of FDR. To them, Reagan is not a hero—he’s the original RINO. Young MAGAs actually revere Nixon as Trump’s true predecessor.

“Don’t look over there, look over here!”

I learned this from yesterday’s Foul Territroy podcast. Maybe you did, too. In mentioning it, Scott Braun and AJ Peirzynski were praising him for his courage, or something like that, and saying “god bless him” for running. It turned my stomach. I’m half motivated to write and beseech them to keep the political stuff like this out of their pod.

I think it’s at least 50/50 she knew there were undercover officers on the removal list.

They’re not really going to dismantle it, are they? They’re simply going to ignore the court order and keep shoveling people into it, aren’t they? Isn’t that their jam?

You may have to find a way to metabolize your rage about this topic, because it’s not going to stop here, and it’s not going to get better as long as these jabronies are in charge. Otherwise, you may start to develop stress illnesses. I get that this is a topic that’s hard to be zen about, but you gotta try, especially since you’re at a tipping point age.

Pursuant to the map just above, I dug a bit into the Pew study on relgiious belief and found this interesting table below. In it, 28% of Christians believe in reincarnation. The entire idea of reincarnation is, at least implicitly, rejected by the Bible. And yet, this. It just goes to show that for a high percentage of people, their claim to being Christian is a cultural or political identity, and not a spiritual or religious identity. It also suggests that to them, their bible is merely a totem and not an actual guide, something to be wielded by too many of them as nothing more than a cudgel against their enemies. And that’s why this thread is in the Political Forum. 😉

The protester in the head garb who was escorted out of the room is a candidate for governor? Who is she?

The remainder of the season after the deadline date is, practically by definition, a small sample size.

I honestly have no idea what you're on about with the 5th catcher prospect thing, but the three players in the example you provided are helping us win now, this season, more than the three guys Harris did not pick up would have with their subsequent performances for their new teams.

Maybe those other teams held firm on certain non-starter prospects from the Tigers before caving on their asks in the waning minutes of the deadline period. I'm not inclined to look up individual trades, I'm just saying that's pretty likely. I'm happy with how Harris did at the deadline.

I don't understand the pearl-clutching response to one single protester at a random town hall, and though it exposes the rot and disease within the Democratic Party. Unless that woman is the chair of the DNC. Then you have my attention.