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Apropos of nothing, I continue to maintain that Trading Places is the best Christmas movie of the last 50 years.

I think this is probably right. My four-year-older brother heavily influenced 11-year-old me to discover Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper and Cream, none of which I would have discovered on my own. I am of the impression that there are a lot of kids, meaning millennials and Gen Z, who like certain kinds of classic rock because their parents would play it. When I say “a lot” I don’t mean the majority, of course, but a certainly a far higher percentage of them like that than kids of my generation who liked big band swing music, which was basically zero. I would guess probably because classic rock sounds way closer in basic style to today’s pop music than swing ever did or could to 70s pop music.

Eddie Murphy is having himself a fairly decent late-career revival. Good for him.

Wake them when Biden is cheap-faked wandering around a Harris Teeter parking lot.

The ghost of Al Avila will haunt us for a few more years. Then he can’t hurt us anymore.

What a fun time to have celebrity encounters!

Who saw Maeda coming

Stupid iOS

Oh, that’s it, fire Hinch. 😁

It’s a fair response, and i don’t blame her. She doesn’t want to be caught saying something off the cuff that will become the star of the next news cycle.

There can’t be a unified response because the Democrats are not a unified party. They are a party of different factions with differing agendas. They are almost impossible to truly unify. Everyone wants their particular bed feathered. Contrast that with Republicans, who are monolithic in demography and ideology. That’s what a unified party looks like. Plus, Republicans waste no time when it comes to excommunicating apostates. With Democrats there’s no one at the top to pull that particular lever, so anyone can say just about anything they want and stay inside the tent pissing out. Since there’s no penalty for pay for party apostasy, there’s no incentive to unify, or more exactly, no disincentive to prevent acting out.

Gotta be!

What, is it April 2024 already? The Comeback Kids are back!

As I was saying … 🤬

Although to be fair, on replay, that was an absolutely perfectly-executed pickoff.

I hope McKinstry is saving his money.

Urshela is lucky Martinez made a ****ty throw to third.

Even better!

There are appropriate times to take risks. Designing a trade for your Cy Young candidate is not one of those times.

Not a chance. That was five years. This is only two. Cody Stavenhagen, a professional journalist, called Maeda’s contract an “albatross”. Talk about engaging in rhetorical inflation.

Colt Keith has been raking lately. Slashing .417/.462/.875 in the six games leading up to this.

This was fun to talk about, but in the end, I would be borderline shocked if we ended up trading Tarik Skubal this year. I would characterize the chances of that happening as low single-digits percent.

II agree that Mayo is not chopped liver, but we've already got a numbered prospect who is ticketed to play third base to start with but who will probably end up moving over to first eventually. We don't another one. We need a middle of the dirt guy.

Why, you clever, clever boy, you ...

I don't believe that to suggest that a trade of the current best pitcher in the American League, at the beginning of his peak and who's on the inside track to win the Cy Young, for two top prospects who, to be fair, have not even proven yet they can even play in the majors, is so far-fetched. Your window is right now, and those chickens of yours are still eggs yet, whereas our rooster is fully hatched and buck-buck-buckawing like crazy. But that's fine, we can agree to disagree on that. I offered Parker Meadows because Max Clark. Not that Parker is expendable, exactly, but in terms of making a deal happen, he could make a good lubricant. Giggity.