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I liked Morgan a lot at the time because he could articulate the nuances of the game on the field in the moment better than most. There was no SABR-versus-Old School thing at the time. Jon Miller was still with the team when I lived in Baltimore in 95-96. It was cool being able to hear him any time I tuned into an O’s game.

I don’t know for sure if Omar is bad. People always say how bad she and AOC are, but I don’t see either one throwing bombs, or monkey wrenches into things to gum up the works like Cori Bush or Rashida Tlaib do. I think people just generally hate the people they are and what they stand for, because they aren’t the kind of people we grew thinking congresspeople “should” be. I also think other congresspeople in general don’t want to be seen with her because she’s visibly Muslim and they’ll lose votes and support over that.

Apropos of nothing, I loved watching Sexy Beast for that character. So fascinating. Hated the ending.

You can’t do this with phones—well, at least not iPhones—but if you have a laptop, you can direct your VPN to someplace like Chicago or New York and get the broadcast on MLB.com that way. I do that when the Tigers play the White Sox, directing the VPN to New York or Dallas.

That’s incredible to me because I first became aware of him on the ESRN baseball broadcasts of the nineties (alongside Joe Morgan—good team), and I would have sworn Jon Miller was older then 40-ish at the time.

Do you do eulogy work? 😉

And this is why obsessively trolling the waiver wire is a good thing. Forty-nine out of fifty won’t work out. But one will.

And Tyler Holton pulls our ass out of the jackpot.

Beau Brieske has got to be ****ing livid right now.

It might have to do with their feeling so marginalized and persecuted—even though Christians are a supermajority in this country—that any representation in above-ground media is like catnip they just have to keep going back to over and over.

I think it’s more they got $354MM in media donated to them, and they ran media valued at $351MM. It’s an accounting thing, I guess, but point is, all the charity seems to exist for is to generate attention unto itself. Ever been to a playoff game where you are supposed to write the name of someone you know who has had cancer and flash it at the televised moment of silence or whatever it is in the fifth or so inning? That whole exercise felt so icky to me, I didn’t do it, even thought my mom and brother both died of cancer.

Remember when games out west would start at 11:05pm? It’s 11:05pm and it’s now the top of the sixth inning in this one. I like that better.

You have to get screwed on pre-pay only once to get religion on this.

I just tuned in and Keider Montero has kept the M’s to just one run and thee hits with seven strikeouts in his first five innings? Nice little start.

The Russians are trying to reframe the entire concept of free speech, among other thing, to strip it of all meaning so people have no idea what it even is anymore. Are we going to let them?

This shït is so 1984 to a tee.

I pay them to do that, too, but I have a little nut I control and most of it is in stuff they wouldn’t put me in, mostly AI and quantum computing plays, and those are getting crushed now, but i should put a little more in some of them. I did sell NVDA at about 125 a couple or three weeks ago, after purchasing it at around 35 a year and change ago. How ya like me now.

I wasn't going to sell, I just wanted to check out how much money I was losing!

Yeah, I'm not going to go through 83 pages to try to guess which posts you think are antisemitic. That's just another version of "Have any examples?" "There's the Internet, look it up for yourself." I would hypothesize, based on my readings through the years and decades, that those leftists who are antisemitic are not at all representative of today's Democratic Party, whereas a distressingly high percentage of right wingers who are antisemitic are representative of today's Republican Party. I would also hypothesize that evangelical Christians by and large care only about the Jews to the degree that they are useful tools for bringing Jesus back to Earth, and that Christians do not respect the Jewish religion and in fact believe Jews, by dint of their faith, have punched their one-way ticket to Hell, as confirmed here and here.

I don't understand what this post does to advance your point that the left has an antisemitism problem, but again, I think of them as exceptions. I'm open to any data you can provide showing, for example, that x% of leftists are antisemitic.

Great, thanks. I don't think of her as being representative of a broad swath of antisemitism among "the left", "leftists", "liberals", whatever you want to call them. I think of her of something like a three-sigma exception among Democrats, which really, she barely even seems to be. A picture of her here is certainly not the equivalent of hundreds of right wingers marching with tiki torches, who may not represent a majority of Trump voters, but who I would safely bet represent a far larger percentage of those types on the conservative side than there ever will be on the liberal side.

He may or may not have brought antisemitism back to the right wing forefront, but he is the tip of that spear and at the vanguard of the permission structure for it.

The endorsements are better, unless you believe that endorsements from AOC and Machin will drive more people away from Walz than bring fellow travelers of theirs to Walz, which, I would have to agree to disagree on at this moment.

I'm not disconcerted about it at all. I'm rather concerted, if that's the antonym. I think it's great.

Example?