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Man, Wendell just went downstairs and took that out. That was a ball.

It’s becoming clearer that the goal is to prevent anyone from ever coming to the United States ever again, I guess so we can become Trump’s hermit kingdom. Next up: restrictions and/or prohibitions on Americans traveling abroad. Book it.

It sounds good to ignorant people. But, also, it takes the spotlight off the Epstein story and all the truly larcenous things he is doing in plain sight that we’re not talking about instead.

Here's an even better one: America’s Drunkest & Driest Counties Based On Excessive Drinking. Are buying Wisconsin? The map above shows the drunkest and driest US counties based on the share of excessive drinkers. The drunkest is Gallatin, MT where 26.8% of people are excessive drinkers. And the driest is Utah, UT where only 9.04% of people are excessive drinkers.

Here's a good one.

The down side of being a good team.

It’s alarming because the people fleeing government to get away from the changes are in so many cases the same people who would fight back if they stayed.

Beat journalism is more than just describing the game and getting player quotes afterwards. Some of it entails hearts-and-minds stories meant to connect fans on a personal basis with guys they read about all the time but will never meet.

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By way of reminder, we also had a decent shutout lead late in yesterday’s game, too

Carp knows Wheeler, too!

Colt Keith starting to make that contract pay off! OK, Tarik: you got your run. Now go nine by reducing your reliance on strikeouts and getting weak groundball outs instead. Just a suggestion. 😁

At this rate he'll have 27 strikeouts on 117 pitches.

This is such a clinic. I wonder whether Skubal is extra amped up facing another ace like Zach Wheeler.

The most alarming thing about this is that, apparently, it is impossible to stop it. 1 big thing: Trump authoritarian streak Photo illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images A five-alarm fire tore through the economic establishment yesterday after President Trump ousted the government's top labor statistician, accusing her — without evidence — of "rigging" a weak jobs report. Why it matters: It's just one glaring example from a week that bore many authoritarian hallmarks — purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition and demanding total institutional loyalty, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. Vast swaths of society are falling in line. The Washington Post revealed this week that the Smithsonian quietly removed references to Trump's two impeachments from its presidential exhibit. 🔭 The big picture: The overwhelming, all-consuming nature of Trump-driven news cycles makes it difficult to discern partisan hysteria from true democratic backsliding. But apply any of these five developments to a foreign leader — or even a past U.S. president — and it reads like an authoritarian playbook: 1. Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, a 20-year government veteran, after BLS announced massive downward revisions for job growth in May and June. "We're doing so well. I believe the numbers were phony. ... So you know what I did: I fired her," Trump told reporters, without explaining why he believed past jobs reports were credible when they were positive. Larry Summers, Harvard professor and Treasury Secretary for President Clinton. Screenshot via X William Beach, who led the BLS during Trump's first term, blasted the firing as "totally groundless." 2. Eager to shift scrutiny from his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Trump demanded his Justice Department prosecute former President Obama for "treason" over the 2016 Russia investigation. Top Trump aides are engaged in an all-out effort to rewrite the history of "Russiagate" and exact revenge on Obama-era intelligence officials, including through criminal referrals. 3. In his crackdown on liberal power centers, Trump has extracted more than $1.2 billion in settlements from at least 13 of the most elite players in academia, law, media and tech, according to an Axios tally. The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing up to $500 million from Harvard and $100 million from Cornell, paving the way for a cascade of other universities to follow suit. 4. Dozens of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador's notorious CECOT megaprison say they were beaten, sexually assaulted and denied access to lawyers or medical care, a Washington Post investigation found. 5. Trump's months-long campaign to oust Fed Chair Jay Powell, or at least pressure him to cut interest rates, is still lingering. White House response: "President Trump is holding the federal government and elite institutions accountable for their political games, longstanding corruption, and terrible incompetence," White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said. With regard to CECOT, a White House official told Axios: "These are criminal terrorist illegal immigrants and the American people are safer with them as far away as possible." Trump's consolidation of power comes at the same time he's attempting to unilaterally reset the global trading order — with tariff rates set to his personal whim. Brazil now faces 50% tariffs — among the highest rates of any country — due to its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, which Trump has denounced as a "witch hunt." The stakes of Trump's centralized command were accentuated yesterday, when he ordered two nuclear submarines repositioned in response to saber-rattling by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Share this story.

I assume we are responsible for paying the bonuses to Paddack and Montero once they reach those benchmarks, regardless that most of the innings came with other teams, correct?

Because the fans’ intellectually capacity is under the control of a sophisticated media apparatus that’s unmatched in its ability to disseminate propaganda and, fortuitously, in an environment that’s basically self-hermetically-sealed by its own target audience. IOW, Fox News and their fellow travelers have the luxury of being able to tell anything they want to their audience, who will believe anything they hear because they refuse to obtain any information from anywhere else—in fact, it is by now considered practically disloyal to do so. The American RWM learned from the best in the business.

And bigger picture, they want to kill off what remains of the working middle class and restore the Gilded Age’s impoverished unwashed masses, which gives the upper crust control of even more of the available money and makes them feel more exclusive.

That’s a big reason why the game and its many of its broadcasts are lousy with gambling.

Well, that was horrific.

“Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences.” That’s ****ing rich.

The whole idea is to destroy the credibility of the numbers—not just economic numbers but all the numbers the government has traditionally been responsible for—so that business will have to rely solely on the discretionary goodwill and largesse of the Trump government to succeed, instead of working as independent entities within a system as before. And they will have to pay the price of admission to obtain that goodwill and largesse, both in terms of money and willingness to comply.

They could buy it Colbert for way way less than $30 million and just ****can everyone else and save a couple Ms. If it’s about the money.

Man that pitch Realmuto swung and missed on for strike three was literally up around his eyes.

I think Morton is a better pitcher than Montero, especially lately. But if Morton breaks a hip while on the mound, Montero can be the backup starter.