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Speaking of Mercator distortion ... 😝 But seriously folks—Russia is legitimately 115 times the size of Bangladesh, which is about the size of the state of Illinois.

We were the first in 1776 (actually, 1783 but whatevs). It took about 140 years for the next country to do so. Countries That Have Ever Gained Independence From The UK

I think most of us have seen corrections to the Mercator map before. I'd seen this one, too; in case you haven't, check it out:

You don't think anyone signs Torres for more than a year?

Also, kakistocracy, a word I learned in January, 2017.

The equation is something close to: 3(Clinton) x 5(Nixon) = .1(Trump)

I was fashioning some questions into a list. There were 18 questions overall, although some questions were actually two or three questions in the same little paragraph. So I asked it, how many question marks are in this document? And it said something on the order of, "there are 18 questions on the list, so there are 18 question marks." The only thing it left out was "duh". There was obviously many more than 18 question marks in that document. Also, the AI was still not capable of going into the document and changing all the instances of first person singular I had mistakenly put into it and change them to first person plural. AI might be OK at helping you ideate, but it sure ain't good at counting things, and it's not willing to help you correct mistakes. And it still can't put together a softball schedule to specs.

Vlad hits a home run off Shohei. If that’s not the perfect encapsulation of this World Series so far, i don’t know what is.

I’ve been thinking about checking in to see what the Evening News looks like but I’m afraid to look.

And if you yourself don’t need a food pantry, consider volunteering for one. Pack food, deliver food, distribute food, whatever. Inquiries have more than doubled just in the last couple of months. People know it’s coming.

God bless the Chicago Public Library.

I agree. I'm just pushing back on the idea that Vlad was robbed of an at bat had he held at third. He was never going to get an at bat either way—just a plate appearance at most.

Chip shoot? Comp shoot? Cusp shoot? Clap shoot? Am I close? 😉

Maybe he's trying to put some distance between himself and his family of criminal illegal aliens so he doesn't end up going to slave labor camp with them.

The difference is that Biden and Obama's own voters would slam them for engaging in shenanigans like that, but Trump 's voters think doing this is making America great.

It feels as though she's just stripping the network for parts until she goes inside the White House in a communications role and help the regime strip the rest of the country for parts.

I'm sure the number-crunchers would make sure any deal made would generate positive revenue versus expense. Maybe Mike would have demanded an extension by fiat, but it's not his team anymore.

TBC, Skubal does not walk for nothing unless we fail to make him a qualifying offer.

They might get a multi-year right fielder, if anything, but they probably won't get any infielders for more than a year.

Assuming your numbers are correct and looking at this in a vacuum, I would look at this as, you're paying $17.5MM for the baseline pitcher, which is totally worth it based strictly on his performance, and the other $22.5MM for incremental gameday ticket revenue. Of course, there is incremental gameday revenue outside of actual tickets his pitching days sell, not only concessions revenue on his gamedays, but incremental sales from days he's not pitching as the team is better and a better draw overall for having him on it. That would end up funding more than the remaining $17.5MM, I would guess.

There is that, plus there's frequently team-related revenue that they can shuffle to another part of the balance sheet, such as parent company-owned parking under a different business unit, to make the team look less profitable, or even like a money loser.

Even if he'd been safe, the Dodgers would have walked Vlad with first base open.

She makes a good point. Can you imagine if Kershaw had let the runner get on, losing the lead in the process, had to pitch to at least two more hitters, and stood to lose the game? I mean, this was a huge gamble with his legacy. I doubt we see him again except in the circumstance Epstein suggests.

I went to a Reds-Dodgers playoff game back on October 1. It was a ****storm trying to get out of that parking lot, and we left before maybe 75% of the crowd. They funnel everyone coming from a dozen or more directions into three lanes to pick up the freeway of your choice, and you have to be aggressive in staking your slot in the scrum. I'm surprised I saw no fender benders along the way, and really, if you do bump somebody, you probably shouldn't get out to examine the damage because people behind you would probably get out of their own cars and firmly persuade you to get back in your car and keep going. I guess it all made sense in 1960.