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I agree a lot of them don’t, but I honestly think a lot more of those R-brand Congresscritters are true believers in his magic than we might imagine. Maybe a third of them or even more.

A big part of his problem is his control is back down to what it was before last year, he’s throwing strikes to try to make up for it, and he’s getting hit. Plus his curveball was crazy good last year and he was never gonna keep that up.

Yeah, he’s off yet again. He must be our #2, ‘cos that’s what he’s pitching like.

Republicans stick with Trump because he is the one and only power source. There is nothing like that on the Democratic side.

Chaffetz is playing Racist Trope Bingo. Although he kind of botched it a little when he said “root beer” instead of “grape soda”.

Trump has made the various policies he’s for at any given time synonymous with being pro-Trump. He’s shifted the entire political conversation to focus on him. Being anti-Trump is a valid response, because his is the face of all the terrible things he’s doing. For better or worse, the Democrats’ best shot is to highlight how terrible his policies are, how they are hurting ordinary people, and how they would be different, and point to successes by Biden and Obama. They can’t just pretend Trump isn’t happening and talk only about positive Democratic policies. That ostrich **** won’t work. They have to tackle him head-on. There’s no other way. As things stand, people don’t yet know how bad they’re about to get ****ed because they’re not paying that kind of attention, so at the moment, anything the Democrats say is going to be sour apples. The policies have to take effect and they have to prove to be bad for rank-and-file red hats. There’s no other way I can see it working for Democrats. And the way the Trump people can overcome that is to make sure they give special privileges that rank-and-file red hats want while punishing blue cities and states and their uppity snooty voters. If that happens, then it’s practically game over for D, and that’s even before the institutional election fraud kicks in. It’s a pickle, all right.

The “Alarmist Non-sense” is thickening.

You’re first wave gas chamber, then.

It will be Somalia, and you will not have a choice.

And so it begins.

They’ll get paid. Our tax dollars hard at work.

I don’t think “staying out of jail” is one of his concerns anymore.

Oh, yeah, I love Young Frankenstein. Scared the hell out of me.

Right. They're negotiating.

I’m in Alaska right now and watched her spot on the 10pm news where she basically trashed a Trump program that raises costs for her constituents. This maybe one minute after Mark Begich ran a spot crowing about how far his head is up Trump’s ass.

Yeah what about the dumb-o-crats

Michael Fulmer is a Devil They Know!

Awww, yeah, best moment ever

And blame Biden for it.

****, man, now Casey’s down? ****.

Paul Skenes is under team control through 2029, which is four full seasons after this one, and he’s making the minimum this year and next year. Do you really believe the Pirates want to get out from under the money they would pay him through the end of next year just to give that same money to some rando they call up from AAA? Saving that money only makes sense if they want to reduce their active roster to 25. Or are they legitimately so worried about what they expect their situation to be in 2027 that they simply have to save that future money today? I gotta think even the Pirates must believe they have some chance to make the playoffs in the next five seasons, at which point they will need the ace in their pocket. Every team thinks that. Even we thought that in 2019. Unless you’re telling me that the PIrates are so blatant about not giving a s*** about winning at all that they’ll sell off their golden goose to save future money in exchange for bunch of worse players in return?

Pitcher doesn’t make the error while pitching. He makes the error while fielding. Fielder’s’ errors don’t count against the pitching record. What I have been questioning for some time is when a pitcher gives up a boatload of runs after two outs plus an error, all the runs scored after that are considered unearned, even if the pitcher gives up a bunch of homers along the way. That idea is sounding less logical to me as I go.

To differentiate it from an error on a ball the batter puts into play, which catchers are also subject to do.

A corollary to “s*** rolls downhill.”

Three words I never imagined I would see in this order on this forum.