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We talked about it on the old board. Now with the guardrails down he can follow through on it. How does Trump drag along the 70+% of sentient adults who want nothing to do with quitting NATO, without them kicking and screaming and creating a fuss on a non-stop basis? Because there is no way the regime will allow constant noisy yammering opposing it in the press, on social media, or on the streets indefinitely. What are the most logical ways they can put a stop to something like that?

I need the help of some tech geniuses here because I am flummoxed. This started out of nowhere maybe Thursday or Friday. All of a sudden, Bluesky posts are not being embedded in MTF posts on my iPad only. It doesn’t matter what browser it is—Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari—bsky posts are a no show. On my laptop, though, they show up just fine. But the weird thing is, on my iPhone, they also show up just fine. For a couple of days, I would turn off my VPN on the iPad and the bsky posts would show up. But starting this morning, they do not show up even with the VPN off. But again, on iPhone, they show up no problem, VPN on or not. I tried restarting my iPad, and no dice. Both the iPad and iPhone are on 18.3.1, so that’s not the issue. I have no Internet security programs like Norton antivirus or firewalls on it (that I know of), and I don’t have any Adblock programs running on the iPad. My last resort was copy the URL from the bsky app and paste it into the address field, and again, it was a no go only on the iPad: but perfectly fine on the iPhone. I am simply completely flummoxed and I have no idea how to diagnose this beyond this. I don’t want to do any as drastic and reformatting my iPad. Any suggestions anyone can give t further troubleshoot this?

Just another example in a long line of Republicans doing things the vast majority of the American people would never want.

I completely agree with all of this, which is exactly why they cannot reinstate Rose back into the game.

I hate that, too. But even with that in the game, there is still a bright red line between partnering with gambling companies to allow fans to gamble on games, and allowing players to get away with gambling on a game in which they have a duty to perform.

You have to care. The integrity of the whole sport is on the line here. Without that, it’s nothing more than the WWE. It’s theater. Then what’s the point?

Oh. My. Effing. God.

Cue the flying monkeys ...

I say what now?

I think that’s part of it. Another part of it is that strikeout rates are basically double what they were in Kaline’s day. The rate was 11.4% when Kaline won the batting title in 1955. Last season it was 22.6%. If a guy has 600 at bats, it’s the difference between striking out 66 times and 132 times. Those 66 times he would not have struck out would result in something like 15 or 20 extra base hits. That’s something like 20 or 30 points of batting average difference right there. That’s partly why entire leagues hit .245 now and not .270. There is some correlation between the lack of exposure to the same guys over and over and the strikeouts, but a lot of the reason must also be that the velocity and spin are so much more than in Kaline’s day. I think if 1955 Al Kaline were magically transported to 2025 to face today’s pitchers, he’d bat maybe a buck-fifty. That’s not a criticism of Al Kaline.

You’re not waiting to hear about it on Fox, right?

I acknowledge people like to blame Hinch without blaming the level of talent he has had to work with, but I'm willing to give the philosophy a fair chance to work as he gets better talent in house.

He could have put a third L in there, too.

They are showering him with riches, too.

Destroying the world in the service of a debt.

One month in and I’m already tied of the winning.

It might be as simple as different approaches work for different guys who have different talents for hitting, and that Tork can’t do much with a pitch that’s not exactly where he has to have it—at least not last year.

I have my money on "live boy."

Plus they got their English-as-an-official-language EO conveniently timed to redirect their attention away from this, so, win win win!

Fox has stumbled in the heat of the moment like this before. January 6 is the most obvious example. They just need a little time to formulate their talking points with their товарищи, a few days or maybe a week to field test it in the minor league RWM outlets, and by next Friday it will be as though they never had trouble getting behind the meltdown at all.

The following line from Zelenskyy is Bob Uecker-Major League-level brilliant: "Maybe something like yours, yeah? Maybe something better, I don't know?" ... and the "reporter" appeared to totally miss it.

Yes. Well, that and Ukraine is the enemy of his friend.

Seriously, it wasn't going to end any other way, was it? This was just the most public way we could have imagined. Zelenskyy may well be dead inside a year. Putin will not stop at Poland, either. He might stop at East Germany. Might.

Honestly, this is among the lowest of hanging fruit for the red hats.