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So, five years ago. At least you're getting a little closer to the present day. But is Bernie really is your idea of the Jew-hating Free Palestine far left you are basically claiming is on the precipice of bringing down the entire Democratic Party? Setting aside whether I agree with your characterizations of some of the six congressional reps you named as being part of the Jew-hating Free Palestine far left, we're talking about 1.5 million votes cast for them in the general election out of almost 71 million votes cast for Democrats. That comes out to 2% of all Democratic votes. Two percent of voters are going to destroy the Democratic party and its traditional brand of center-left liberalism? Seriously? And your highlighting candidates of that ilk who actually lost their primaries—who never even got to the general election in the first place—weakens your case even further. In the meantime, at least a third of all Republican voters cast their ballots for nihilist MAGA christofascists dedicated to literally destroying democracy in this country basically because it does not comport with what their preachers tell them an ancient book of anthology says. That's a third versus two percent, which is roughly a 16:1 ratio. How on earth is that even close to being equivalent? You are way, way, way overblowing the danger of the Jew-hating Free Palestine far left to the Democratic Party. Which basically makes you the Bill Maher of this forum. 😉

It’s practically irrelevant whether Donald Trump is misjudging the motivations of nearly every other world leader. Those are not the leaders he cares even a little about. He might care about what they think of him specifically as it relates to his place in the world, but he sure doesn’t care what they think about how the world should and should not operate. The leaders Trump cares about are motivated by the same lust for power and material wealth as he. That’s why he gravitates toward them and disparages the rest. I do agree he doesn’t understand either side of the conflict to any reasonable level of depth, but I’m pretty sure he does understand what his prime objective is.

I continue to be dumbfounded by the various supposedly savvy pundits referring to Trump’s actions as “mistakes”. That implies Trump is making an honest effort to maintain the traditional world order but is merely failing short—in this case, that he is trying to end the war while maintaining Ukraine’s dignity and sovereignty. Do these pundits really believe that? I don’t believe Trump as making mistakes. I believe Trump is doing exactly what he is setting out to, in the service of someone he accepts to be greater than he.

Bernie Sanders nine years ago. 2022 pre-stroke Fetterman. Cool. Where’s the Rashida Tlaib contingent in your posts? I was hoping you’d show me millions of votes for dozens of candidates like her. If the dangerous far left has the Democratic Party in the same level of thrall as the dangerous far right has the Republican Party, that should be a cakewalk. I mean, come on, we can all name over a hundred elected MAGA christoextremists prepping the world for the end times practically off the top of our heads.

Feels kinda good to go 5-5 in the last 10 games, which no team avoids doing at least a few times during the season, and still gain on three of the four teams in your division, and lose only one game to the other one.

It’s the grifters who command them that I think we should be concerned about.

I was going with it.

Wrong again, bucco! 😂

OK, now I am going to ask you to tell me who you mean and how many votes they get. Meaning, name names and give me their votes totals so we can add them up on a spreadsheet. I want to see confirmation that they received millions of votes.

I’m not trying to be a dickhead, and I certainly don’t mean 100% of all military people, which, I could see why you’d take that from what I posted. But as you know as well as anyone, not everyone who swears an oath to the Constitution embraces all its principles. After all, this president and his personal party’s elected representatives all swore oaths to the Constitution. How seriously do you think they are taking that oath? The military itself is anything but a democracy. Nobody is asking grunts for their votes on how the military should be run, and that’s the way it should be, because of the unique role the military fulfills. But that certainly must also be a big draw for a high percentage of the leadership who would like to impose the military’s brand of dictatorial command-and-control on the civilian population as well. Michael Flynn is a pretty good example of that. That’s what I meant to imply by what I said.

I wonder if that change is due in part to the change in the buffer zone that effectively shrunk the strike zone. Walks are up and strikeouts are down, and hitters are taking more pitches labeled as being outside the zone and making more contact when they do swing. Launch angle is also down a tick which might explain part of the drop in HR/FB percentage. If they are making the ball deader, that’s not the worst thing even from the offense’s point of view, since stolen bases and bases taken are up and it’s easier to score runs stringing together hits now than it was before the bases ballooned in size.

“Who do you work for, Bet365?!”

Can’t fault Javy there. Hope it fires up the rest of the team.

Military people are not generally the biggest supporters of the idea of democracy.

The kind of extreme left politics you’re talking about will never, ever, ever be the platform of the mainstream Democratic Party. That’s just hair on fire thinking. They will always be a fringe element that will never rise to the numbers that MAGA has.

Rosenthal probably wrote that column because he’s offended by the idea that Skenes is being wasted in Pittsburgh.

Fun fact: Maddux could have been on this list in 2000 since he had 13 strikeouts on 81 pitches, but he got yanked after seven, probably because the Braves had a 10-0 lead. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MON/MON200009230.shtml

Yes.

I’m hoping for a scratch single since we opted to not go to today’s game and drive home instead.

The unexpected aspect is MLB not being 100% anticonsumer instead of just 90%.

Sucks for me since I am driving across the state now after the kickass weekend my wife set up for me as a Xmas present. By the way, I am using this as an opportunity to relive my youth by listening to the game exclusively on broadcast radio and changing stations as I pass through cities. Right now I am going through Ann Arbor, home of WTKA 1050 AM, Washtenaw County’s news leader. Next up: Jackson.

Benetti calling the game on the radio. I wonder if Dan wanted or needed the day off. I don’t dislike Benetti, really I don’t—but I like him less now after hearing him call last night’s game neutral for the Fox national audience and sound excited when Cleveland scored on us.

Manning is not even in my consideration set anymore.

Yeah they’re on a good run and we aren’t.

That’s Randy Wolf from 2015.