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Looks like it’s coming primarily from India, which is Modi I guess. He’s pro-Trump, right? In any event, this might force Taylor Swift to come out for Kamala sooner than later. She has a history of supporting positions contrary to Trump and the Republicans, and besides, she’s not going to let this thing just sit out there, is she?

Google is coming up dry on this.

So that’s the kind of ground game they’re focusing on. ****ing A.

Home plate umpire is on board.

My guess is he’s very emotional and gets carried away with his emotion in the moment.

I was just telling someone, I would not be surprised to learn that not a single Little League player is rooting for the Tigers over the Yankees. Front-running little bastards. 😁

I strongly disagree with automatic send on two outs.

Seriously, mother**** Joey Cora off this team already.

Only the math figures. 😉

High praise, my man! Although in my "defense", as it were, my English scores in the Iowa and California assessments tests in grade school were way up into the 90s with my math scores. It was the science portion that I face-planted on.

I have no idea how the Trumpublicans think they are going to square this circle enough to win a general election.

It's essentially bribe culture-lite.

Eighty-four wins, here we come!

Maybe? I'm not sure he even belongs on a good team. Kind of like Bobby Higginson.

Yeah, I am not looking forward to the narrative nature of the broadcast of a New York City team playing a flyover city team in upstate New York and presented by a broadcaster located in suburban New York City. A solid Skubal win could go a long way toward shoving that back up all their butts.

You and practically everyone else, a key reason general level of service quality has cratered in the past decade or so. If they get the same tip regardless, if you're trained to expect it as your due just for being there, what's the incentive to be nice to the customer, or even cordial? My buddy I referred to earlier gives tips approaching 30% regardless of the situation, whether it's someone serving him multiple rounds at a decent restaurant, or someone who merely opened the beer can for him at a ballpark grab-and-go. I mentioned to him once I found that interesting, in practically those exact words. He basically tip-shamed me in reply. That was the end of that conversation for good and ever. Do what you want, Dan, I'm still leaving a single dollar bill for the beer guy at Wrigley and that's it. All I will say here is that other countries have figured out how to have restaurant servers make a decent living without shaming customers into tipping them, instead baking their income into appropriate menu prices and paying them standard wages, and they all seem to like that just fine. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The woman sitting next to Kamala apparently can't believe her good fortune that she volunteered for phone bank for that shift.

Actually, I am interested in anyone Harris does pick up, even waiver claims. He has a type that works well with the on-field strategy we are putting in place and I think we are starting to see some successes from players we thought little of when they came on board, or even actively hated. I can’t think of any real whiffs he made on his pickups. Even the so-called “McStinky” has his moments, and at the very least is acting as an effective bridge from the old days to the playoff days. Believe me, if we had better major leaguers on board, “McStnky” wouldn’t be here. But this is all a process, and processes do take time.

I would be absolutely floored if Harris were to sign either Verlander or Scherzer.

Remember, Foley was an undrafted free agent, so he has already had a much better career than anyone could have imagined when Avila signed him in 2016. There’s a reason Foley went undrafted: he just never had shutdown stuff at a decently-high level. And he still doesn’t. He can’t strike out enough guys and keep enough batters from reaching base to be a backend bullpen piece for a playoff team. He’s a fingers-crossed “here you go, hit it and get yourself out” guy. He’s Mister Right now for this organization, and he has been very serviceable during his time here, but his ERA has always outperformed his FIP, and is that the kind of thing a team can plan success around?

Here’s what I don’t know: how closely do waiters/servers scrutinize customer tips and then discuss them with colleagues after the fact? How big a topic is this? I imagine “very closely” and “very big” are likely answers, but I don’t know, maybe not. Anybody here with personal experience in that?

I do generally go 20%-ish on $61 checks as well, although on very large checks at really nice places, like $200+, I tip a lot closer to 15% on the pre-tax amount. There’s a not-insubstantial difference between $30 and $45-plus.

I’m with you in principle, although if you have to tip before they make the food and they believe you’ve under-tipped them … 🙄

Maybe she gets dismissed by old-timey politicos because they think she looks like one of the hookers they used to bang up in Spanish Harlem when they were going to Columbia or King’s College back in the 70s and 80s. They are also disoriented because they expect someone who looks like her to talk like Sofia Vergara.

I don’t think AOC is any worse at “governance” than any other congressional rep with her level of experience. I do think she is more than smart enough to embrace the realpolitik needed to carefully craft her asks to get something close to what she in her heart wants, and I also think she is smart enough to become a respected party leader at some point. I hope to live long enough to see some evidence of this.