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I don’t think Biden won it handily at all. He came out of the box rushing his words; he failed to stay on track and finish his sentences effectively; and he let Trump’s worst lies go almost completely unchallenged. None of these have to do with his looking old and vacant, except for the possibility that he knew right away he was really ****ing up and got completely inside his own head about it. He may have done better later in the debate, but by that point, it was just too late. You just don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.

Plus it is widely accepted that Humphrey was gaining so fast on Nixon at the end that he may very well have won, but for Nixon explicitly sabotaging Johnson’s agreement with Vietnam to end the war.

Riley was the consensus pick at 1/5, so Avila got the guy everyone else would have picked. Olson seems like a decent pickup although he was a 13th-round pick out of high school with control issues in the low minors who seemed to find himself when the Fetter team got hold of him, traded for a guy who was basically getting run out of town for poor results, so it’s fair to wonder whether he was a blind squirrel pick. Skubal was picked in the ninth round literally as a favor to Scott Boras, and Carpenter was a late-round guy who got passed over 561 times before we eeny-meeny-miney-moed him, which is why I am loathe to give Avila genius points for picking either. Call it Avila hate if you want, but if you really want to defend Avila as a competently average picker of players, I think these examples fall short of the mark.

This pretty much nails it. Back in 2018 breaking stuff was still considered put-away pitches. Six years later, only high cheese pushing 100 at minimum at the top of the zone can seem to get big-league batters out. Casey is basically a pitcher of a different era, with signature pitches today’s hitters know how to spit all over. That might be why his K/9 is not even as high as seven, even post-surgery. There are some bright spots in Casey’s performance. His FIP- is 91, which is a bit better than average, he doesn’t give away free passes much, and he kills a lot of worms. But he still can’t get swing and miss, can’t get guys to chase, and gives up too much on-the-button contact, and he isn’t better at any of that than he was in 2021 pre-injuries. We may be seeing the finished product right now, which would make him as good as he’s ever going to be. If anyone could theoretically benefit from a ball deadened back to 1980s level, it is Casey Mize.

Honest question: do we know he wasn’t a first-pitch-taker at Arizona State?

Ah I knew they had it the whole time 😁

Holy f***. From six-run lead in the ninth to tying run coming to the plate.

Malloy almost knocked out a couple teeth head-first sliding into the plate to beat the throw to the shortstop from the center fielder.

Point!

He's no HOF intellect, either, since he doesn't appear to realize that there is a fertile middle ground between knowing 100% what a pitcher is going to throw, which is impossible, and completely guessing or even thinking about what the pitcher is going to throw, which is impractical.

As are we here. So ... what?

This is the guy who correctly predicted Trump wining in 2016.

it can't be that they're all ex-Republicans because the "Pod Save bros" worked for Obama's White House, so this guy must referring to something else.

If I'm Russia, what do I want now? For Biden to stay in the race. If I'm Russia and I want Biden to stay in the race, what am I going to do? Flood the zone with info ops encouraging Biden and his followers to stay in the race. If I'm Russia and I want to flood the zone with info ops encouraging Biden and his followers to stay in the race, what would be a good way to do that? Put out bull**** polls right after the debate showing Biden's poll numbers are going up. I'm not saying this is definitely what Russia is doing. I'm saying this would be a good way to do that.

Let him. That would accrue to his detriment.

This was decided only to help Trump in his own court cases and in his campaigning, nothing more. That it also happens to help a few J6 terrorists—only those charged which obstruction, which the vast majority were not—is simply gravy.

Technically true, but if the Democrats throw Joe overboard and allow Kamala to run without a mate, they’ll look like they are in disarray. Yes, I understand they would actually be in disarray, but I’m spotlighting how it would look because that’s the only thing that would be relevant when it comes to voting among the choices.

The presidential stuff in the Constitution deeply, deeply sucks.

CNN wants nothing to do with that. Something about bias charges.

That whole pizza thing after the home run is so lame and joyless.

I’m a little more skeptical about this tonight than I was earlier today. I’ll wait to see whether the media pick it up. Either way, off the air since June 9 with an official tweet deflecting explanation to him doesn’t augur well for Craig’s future with the team. Why would a team in an MLB that meticulously controls its narrative just cede the narrative on his absence to him? What kind of sense does that make?

Is there any team that experiences more drama with its broadcasting situation than we do?

The game within the game …

That’s what happens when you can’t throw strikes: even when they clip the zone, you don’t get the call. Monumental blowup by Plesac.