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I definitely want to go in the first wave, since the living will envy the dead.

There's the context. Perfect, thanks.

This happened to me twice on our just-completed long driving trip. I'm in the left lane driving something like 14 over the speed limit (i.e., 84 in a 70). Seems to be a decent sweet spot speed at which highway patrol will let you keep going. Typically speaking, I like to be as far right as possible, but if there are several cars in the lane to the right of me that I'm driving faster than, I will stay in the left lane until I pass them all, and then once there's a bunch of daylight ahead of them in their lane, I will move over. On two separate occasions on this trip, a car behind me sped up to tail me closely. Seemed obvious to me that he wanted to pass me. But I was also passing a bunch of cars to the right of me, so not much opportunity to move over unless I squeezed in between two cars in a barely-safe manner. So I'm going to keep driving, while the car is tailing me, until I see the daylight in the other lane. Once I see it, I move over, expecting the car that tailed to to zip past me. And darned if I didn't move over, and the tailing car keeps driving the same speed, instead of zipping past me. And I'm thinking, why the hell did you drive right up to me and tail me if you weren't signaling to me that you wanted to pass me? I think it was G2 who articulated here the idea of the magnet driver, the driver who's most comfortable driving behind a target car and going as fast as the other car is going, whether it's driving 50 mph or 95 mph. I get that it's a thing, but I'll never understand the mindset. A friend of mine does that, I asked him about, and he either couldn't or wouldn't tell me why he does it. He just shrugs and says "i'n'know".

Are you terminally ill? Because that's the only way a Trump win won't matter to you.

Under. Way, way under.

Is that a lot?

I tripled my investment in NVDA in a little more than a year and got out with high four figures in my pocket. Not a bad move. I stand by my sell. I'm doing even better with PLTR, and I'm hanging onto that one for the super long haul.

This reads as though Alberta believes in his heart that Kamala will swamp Trump, but he is hedging his words in the same way the MSM pollsters appear to be hedging their models so he's not left hanging out there if it goes different.

ERA+ is OK, although I do prefer ERA-, which goes in the same direction as ERA, meaning lower is better. It’s also directionally the same as FIP-, and makes comparing the two much easier.

That sounds on brand for him. He strikes me as a guy who wouldn’t care if one of the morally-unacceptable candidates won and stripped the country for parts, as long as he can tell his god that at least he had nothing to do with it, and that he would be offended if the other “morally-unacceptable” candidate won and kept the country operating as is for four more years, which will keep him writing screeds for another four years.

If it happens, ask whether they’d be willing to change it, or at least turn off the volume. The worst that can happen is they say no, and they’ll be at least cordial about it—even in Jersey.

If this is a free and fair election, I have pretty high confidence Kamala beats Trump. My fear is that one of the lawsuits makes its way to the Supreme Court and they find a way to install him in the White House regardless of the vote—or least make a ruling to that effect, which might lead to something like a collapse of the government, because such a ruling would require full compliance with the ruling by the system for it to work, and that might not be forthcoming, and if that were to happen, then it’s all hell all the time.

Look at it this way: He walked away from one more year at $30 million and into four-plus years at $30 million per year. He nets three extra years by opting out now. And besides, there’s no guarantee if he plays it out that he’s going to kill it in 2025 and get the same kind of contract the following winter. So, really, it’s a no-brainer on his part.

For you and me, sure, but for him, it’s not.

He called a whole bunch of seasons for the Padres way into the 2000s.

All Snell walked away from was one year. After the years he had last year and this, he’ll get four years easy and way into nine figures.

I remember what was probably the last time Ernie appeared on the air during a Tigers game. It was a TV game, he was basically coming by to say goodbye, and the PxP guy, who I believe was Mario at the time, coaxed Ernie into calling a batter. Ernie protested a bit and Mario insisted. Well, Ernie gamely complied, but oh my lord, he was so out of practice, he sounded so halting and uncertain and just old. And in that moment I wanted to drive to Detroit just so I could go punch Mario in the face for putting Ernie in that position in the first place, and for making that the last memory I’ll have of Ernie.

Plus, 2011 was a completely different team. Who was on both teams that made an impact for both? Verlander, of course—who else?

Plus they’re all 70 or older, if they’re still alive.

I’m hip. I’m seeing a lot of episodes from various pods in the last couple of days talking about exactly how Trump would strip America for parts, and I can’t bring myself to listen to them now. For. One thing, yeah, I already knew. For another, just hearing content along these lines right now, with actual Election Day so close, would send me into a zombie-like stupor.

Crossed wires across the generations.

It could be even worse than that: they might keep Trump in there and let him just deteriorate in front of the nation’s eyes while they fulfill every increasingly insane whim unquestioningly until he actually drops dead. Who knows how much Alarmist Non-sense could arise from that circumstance?

I could see Trump starving Illinois and especially Chicago for the same reasons.

True, although TBF, vast majority of women in Iran today never had it in the first place.

This is exactly why I stopped looking at polls!