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Indians have been one of the worst hitting teams in baseball for a whole month, and especially in the last two weeks. With all the injuries the Tigers have, we have nothing to buy for.

Welp, that puts the nail in the standing pat coffin. We are definitively selling even if we win the next four.

This happens to far too many series that have promising beginnings: they start to believe their press clippings, so they start producing self-indulgent nonsense.

I remember watching the movie, being bored out of my mind, and asking myself who the hell directed this mess, Ron Howard or Clint Howard?

I was just coming in to post that I will bet a dollar that over the weekend Trump kicks JD to the curb for the humiliation he is bringing to the campaign. Not because of the Diet Mountain Dew racism crack, or the cat lady crack, or the people with children should get more say crack, but strictly because of the couch-****ing meme. Trump doesn't care if people are enraged at him, but he definitely cares if people are laughing at him. Once he does boot Jorkin off the ticket, Mrs. Emhoff should hammer Agent Orange for his inability to figure out who the "Best People" are.

Do you really not get the "many people are saying" joke that's clearly about what Trump routinely says?

I agree, but there's a fine line between balancing the two properly and overplaying one's hand too much to the innocuous side. Couch-****ing sounds so ludicrous that it's easy to dismiss anyone engaging in it as a nothingburger. JD Vance would not be a nothingburger if he came into power, not even as vice president.

Man, I hate running out of likes.

That might be true, although I do wonder whether its effectiveness can benefit from message pulsing: focus on the original message until people are saturated with it, pause that message for a while and focus on some other message, then come back to the original message after a planned period of time at which point it will have impact again. We used that strategy in advertising media all the time.

Right, I would rather Vance be framed as a dangerous man we have to take seriously, versus a clown we can laugh at and dismiss. A lot of us did that with Trump eight years ago and how did that turn out.

Good point, but also, this:

It’s very clear that I framed the whole exchange with MB using a very common if-then rhetorical device: “if you’re saying that anyone who does not believe in Israel-right-or-wrong is a Hamashole, then I guess I’ll have to cop to that.” It’s very clear that was not intended as a serious admission on my part. But maybe that’s too nuanced for you. Maybe you really are being serious when you say you believe that I claimed to be a supporter of Hamas and against Israel. Maybe you really do believe you are not trolling. So, OK. Will you confirm here that you believe that anyone, including posters here, who is not fully committed to the idea of Israel right or wrong must be a full supporter of Hamas?

The furniture thing is stupid and hopefully it will pass so we can focus on his general awfulness. If the Russians told Trump to pick him because they wanted the electoral system here to collapse, it is failing spectacularly so far.

Telling us all you're trolling without saying the actual words.

I'm sorry, are you actually and without irony offering up the idea that because I am not "Israel right or wrong", that's evidence that I'm a supporter of Hamas?

I'm out of likes, but like.

Also, how many kids does she not have?

The crowd has spoken! 😉

Don't worry, Al Avila can't hurt us anymore.

Produce those receipts or admit you're trolling.

Shelby Miller with the save. Good for him! Good for us!

Can’t help but note the phonetics next to Kamala’s name, and remind me of something I think of every time I hear some right-winger—and it’s almost always a right-winger—botch the pronunciation as “Kuh-MAH-la”, and that include practically every right wing politician who can make their way to a microphone. They continually pronounce her name this way. Is it because they honestly don’t know how her name is pronounced? No, of course not. They absolutely know. It’s because intentionally mispronouncing someone’s name is a basic sign of disrespect. Like, you are such a big nothing to me that I can’t even be bothered to pronounce your name correctly. Not for nothing, they did the same to Saddam Hussein by intentionally mispronouncing his name “sodom” for years and years. In fact, we all did it, because we all hated him. But anytime he is mentioned now, 20+ years later, it’s sad-DAHM. Don’t believe me? Go back and check out some video from that time. Something to keep our eye (or, more exactly, ear) on, especially after she gets elected.

Maybe because these people in no way represent Democrats, which is 180 degrees different from the J6 insurrectionists absolutely representing Republicans.

Apropos of nothing, maybe we should consider figuring out whether we want to refer to her as “Harris” or “Kamala”, because every time I see “Harris” here, I think we’re talking about Scott Harris.