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Is everyone else seeing these Smalls cat food commercials? I see them three or four times every game. I have no idea why a cat food company would spend so much on MLB baseball, so I gotta wonder whether it’s a local pod where you see ads for merchants in your town, while on Extra Innings we get a national insert from DirecTV?

That’s one way of showing leadership!

So funny you say that because I realized just today how many pieces we’re missing that will prevent us from getting there!

Keying in a bit on your item #3, the return for Jack Flaherty is now going to be a lot less than we were hoping a couple weeks ago it would be, so we might be in qualifying offer territory now.

Somebody should find their way into whatever Invision bulletin board these Biden people use and tell them they need to grow some balls, change their soiled underpants, and move on. 😉 1 big thing: Biden's staff panic after debate Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios President Biden's debate performance has left many of his own aides worried about his mental fitness and angry about what they see as a lack of candor from Biden's senior advisers, Axios' Alex Thompson reports. "Everyone is freaking the f*** out," one official said. 💥 Behind the scenes: Senior White House officials addressed the president's lackluster performance with staffers last Friday, the day after the debate. Many officials felt they were given talking points, with no real explanation of why Biden appeared unable to string sentences together or articulate a case for himself over former President Trump. The lack of answers from senior aides has continued this week, leading to growing anger and resentment among many inside the White House and the Biden campaign. 👀 "It's dark," said an official involved in the campaign. "It feels like there is zero leadership or information. People are being told to keep their heads down and keep working, but they're not seeing the president or being given any reason why they should have faith in him." 💬 The other side: Many of Biden's most trusted aides believe the debate was just one bad night and expect it to blow over. It would hardly be the first time he's defied critics even within the Democratic party who say he's too old, they note. "We have a lot of experience keeping — and spreading — the faith in moments where we're counted out; by staying focused on delivering for the American people and building on the most successful record of any modern presidency," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. Go deeper.

Yes, I did that! Although, to be fair, I was not the one here who came up with "punched-in-the-mouth look". But I liked it! Also, I didn't realize you were one of the cool kids who uses dark background. Mad respect, bruh.

And item 1 is not? 😏

I believe we touched on this one the other day: even setting aside the two years lost to injuries, Casey Mize is a pitcher from another era, a guy who relies on hitters to chase splitters falling out of the zone, and they don't, so he gives in and then he gets crushed. Not all the time, but more than a former 1-1 pick should. He simply can't blow away guys with 99 or better up in the zone, and those are the pitchers teams want, and he may never become that because, especially with his injury history, he doesn't have the building blocks to make that transformation. That's why he will probably always be middle of the rotation for a bad team, and back of the rotation or spot starter for a good team. Heck, a good team may not even want anything to do with him.

Right, but this was asked and answered years ago, so no one gives a s*** anymore. It jumped the shark once it slipped into the realm of fodder for late night jokes. Please don't get me wrong: I'm not seeking to minimize the horror experienced by the children caught up in this. It's just that I really want this to matter, and it won't, because not only is nothing being done about it, it has actually passed into the cultural zeitgeist as a common source for humor. You know, hey, there's Trump and Epstein dancing around in a 90s video, ha ha, what else is in the news? This is how far we have fallen.

This is actually old. Been known for some time. I think I might have even seen it referenced here.

I knew all those write-in votes for Michelle Obama didn't go to waste! 💀

Do I? Who? Share a post with me if you have it.

OK, so, Craig Monroe was ordered to leave the ballpark within minutes of the post coming to light, even though the post was deleted in those minutes between when it was posted and when he was sent packing. That tells me pretty conclusively that the Tigers and Bally were waiting for any opportunity to get rid of him. I can't hazard a guess as to what else might have been happening between the scenes, but I could see during the very first broadcast that star jock Craig Monroe was big-timing Jason Benetti, the nerdy gimpy new kid with the googly eyes, and I gotta believe that had at least something to do with it. The thing from the story that practically shocked me was that Monroe was not even an employee of either Bally or the team, that he was a contractor working on a game-to-game basis without health or any other benefits, and without any guaranteed minimum of games. I don't know whether that's common for in-game analysts for the Tigers, or for teams in general. Point is, though, we have most definitely seen the last of Craig Monroe, and speaking only in terms of his performance on the air, I couldn't be happier about it.

This is what news as a profit center looks like.

How do people you know look when they hit 84?

From the Department of Careful What You Wish For:

And yet despite it being there and available to all, the impression voters have is still that Trump is way more physcially and mentally fit to be president: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/24/voters-views-of-biden-and-trump/ And I promise you these top two numbers are no better for Biden now than they were in April. So ... now what?

Oh ****ing A, it's gonna get overturned on appeal for sure, isn't it? Damn it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/nyregion/trump-sentencing-hush-money-trial.html?emc=edit_na_20240702&ref=cta&nl=breaking-news

But he doesn't look like he is, and that's the whole ball of wax, isn't it? You can rant and rave at voters on this point all you want, but they're still gonna vote based on it, so rather than shaming them for feeling it, the age/health thing has to be positioned in some way as being a non-issue, which most would agree is a tall, tall order.

I wouldn't say no one, in the absolutist sense, but I would say those who are committed are amping up the commitment, and that's a positive.

Considering who authored the op-ed is the most important thing a reader can do to properly frame what's been written—even more important than where it's published.

As I think about it, it makes total sense that donations would spike, and not fall. Biden's objectively horrific performance exposed huge fault lines in our democratic republic, the kind that could end the whole thing in the wrong hands. It scared people straight about how this election could slip away, and be perhaps the last free and fair election we ever see. Backs are against the wall, and when an animal gets cornered, thats' when they become the most dangerous. And make no mistake: between this, the Congress, and the courts, we are cornered. IOW, as someone once said ...

It's still ironic and funny.

Speak for yourself, asshole ...