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But he can start dropping bombs on Iran. After all, Iraq didn’t have anything to do with 9/11, either.

Did you say you wanted to see Mickey Mantle’s first career at-bat? Well, here you go, then:

Trump dropped bombs on seven countries when he was president the first time around.

Похоже вам ребята пора начинать подтягивать свой русский.

You mean the Republican Senate that's utterly beholden to the leader of their party? That Senate?

I already tried this argument here. No takers.

Hey, the top tier basketball league in the world fields teams in Oklahoma City, Memphis, and New Orleans, and they are all smaller markets than Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek.

That's a sad field of study to excel in.

Yes, but there's more. It's not just that aging hitters have slower reflexes. It's also that the pitcher class they face as an old hitter is better than they did as a young hitter. Especially nowadays—pitchers are much harder to hit now, if nothing else than due to velocity, than they were fifteen, or ten, or even five years ago. I like to call it the Wooderson Effect: the batter gets older, the pitchers stay the same age.

More evidence supporting the hypothesis that Ricketts is all about going to the bank and not at all about winning an eminently winnable division.

I'd be surprised if those deferred obligations did not factor into the sales price.

Oh, yeah, they got a straight line to the White House on crypto, and they have the criminal history Ttump loves so much in his cohorts, so hells yeah they're coming back.

Yeah, really, who gives a f***? Except sore winners who are too insecure to just let that s*** go already. People who still crave the approval of the elites they claim to hate.

I don't think Ttump's going to allow Hegseth and Patel to go through nominations. They're going to be recess appointments. Granted, he won't do recess appointments for literally everybody. At least I don't think so—he may be beyond giving any s***s about that. But I can see him allowing low-stakes appointments go through the process for appearances' sake, people like Doug Collins for Veterans, Doug Burgum for Interior, even L'il Marco for Secretary of State. But the guys he really wants in there at all costs, the guys he wants to go in and just hollow out and effectively disable core government functions from within? I don't see him allowing them to go through confirmation hearings. Hegseth and Patel are two of those guys. RFK, Tulsi, Linda McMahon, and maybe Brendan Carr are a few others.

The only both sidings is the idea that this rises to the level of Trump inevitably and preemptively pardoning himself and his entire family and criminal inner circle for all crimes past, present, and future. ****, he'd already pardoned his daughter's FIL and just now handed him a plum ambassador role.

Good. Stick it right up Trump’s ass sideways.

Well, they don’t want to go back to all of the early 1950s.

Indeed. Preferably early 1950s.

That's an interesting idea. There's also the idea that Trump truly loves, respects, and looks up to Putin, because Putin has achieved power over an entire nation and everyone and everything in it in the exact way Trump dreams of, and to achieve that, he needs to stay on Putin's good side so Trump can continue to benefit from his generous counsel. Because remember: at his core, Trump is nothing like a man of immense strength and unshakeable decisiveness who can stand astride an entire nation like a colossus, fend off all manner of challenges with his sheer innate force of will, and chart his winning course irrespective of the efforts of anyone else who supports or opposes him. At his core, Trump is an insecure little boy with extreme daddy issues who is scared to death of ultimate failure, and he needs daddy for both success and validation.

That's because we all let Trump define it that way for us.

They don't think America is great. That's why they want to break it.

The closest he would come on such a flight is somewhere around the West Virginia-Ohio border, and that would still be the closest we get to him.

I’m sure the red hats will be totally cool with paying 50% more for crap products “Made in the USA” by immigrants shielded from deportation by manufacturers run by christian nationalists in league with the MAGA swamp monsters in Washington.

I agree with this in bold. Trump might be in the Russians’ pocket, but that doesn’t mean he can’t crawl out and go rogue on them. As for Trump backing Ukraine against Putin, I don’t see the there there for him to do that. Ukraine means nothing to him, except as a tool to potentially negotiate better terms of appeasement to the Russians, and even that might not be enough to move Putin off his mark and Trump out of his pocket. Oh, man, I am so going to death camp for posts like this.

That’s a pretty decent point I hadn’t contemplated before. The luxury tax may have been designed more to suppress top end salaries, which keeps the average and median salaries down over time, than to help teams be competitive against one another, since we have seen franchises like Oakland and Tampa and Cleveland win year after year with some of the lowest payrolls in the game. It may also be that TPTB prefer the teams they know will spend the highest, basically the Big Six, be those that actually do so, because those are the most popular teams that will sign the highest-priced, biggest-name superstars that will help grow the game worldwide. Of course, given the way franchises make money nowadays—through gameday media, the national network, licensing, merchandising, and digital more than through ticket sales, concessions, or (lol) winning—the “poorest” franchises are rolling in dough, the billionaires and hedge funds that own them are like pigs in ****, and their fans can all go pound sand. We are actually lucky, and no more, that the Tigers, seemingly against all odds, awoke to become a franchise that’s breaking out of that golden trash can by hiring Scott Harris, the catalyst move which is changing everything.