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Jesus, this whole A’s thing has absolutely moved beyond ****show proportions, and I don’t think they’ve hit bottom yet.

Christ Almighty, is there not one of these conservative right-wing organization leadership people who are not grifting mother****ers? Not one?

If by "they all suck" you mean "all politicians suck, full stop", then I wouldn't agree with that blanket statement at all.

Oh, well, that goes without saying. Thank you for saying that.

You're obviously no good with obvious things. 😁

Good idea. Cakes are cheaper than eggs!

"I was joking lol!"

I think Trump lawyers embark on a high risk-high reward path when they take the job for him. If things go wrong or upside-down, as they so often do, they suffer grave career injury and even their own indictments for acts they undertook on his behalf. But, if Trump wins, they believe they will be showered with gold and jewels and whatever other cartoonish riches they envision when Trumpism finally triumphs in America. Of course, they’re not good lawyers anyway, certainly in the bottom two quintiles of professional ability, so maybe they weren’t getting the jobs at great law firms they aspired to once they finally passed the bar on their eighth or ninth try.

Apropos of nothing, I do the midweek shopping for us since I am out and about on scheduled trips anyway. I frequently pick up eggs at Mariano’s on these trips and most of the time, they don’t even have prices on display with the standard eggs I get. Some premium-priced eggs do have prices and I see they cost three-something these days. But Mariano’s does have a lot of items without price tags throughout the store, or items routinely and persistently misracked behind price labels for other items, and, of course, palates of unopened still-bubble-wrapped inventory on the floor in the middle of the aisles during the middle of the day. I love living in Big Shoulders, but I gotta believe our grocery stores are among the worst of any large city in America.

I don’t think this story, or this kind of iconography, resonates with the evangelicals, who make up the plurality of red hats, at all. Evangelicals don’t believe in any special status for Mary: that she was a perpetual virgin; that she was raised into heaven via the Assumption; that she was immaculately conceived and sinless while on Earth; or that she should be venerated or even prayed to as the Queen of Heaven. In fact, praying to Mary is considered a blatant apostasy since all honor and glory should be reserved to Jesus Christ and him alone. Therefore, veneration of her is idolatrous heresy, and beyond that, it is a sore spot for them that Catholics believe all these things about Mary, and serves as a linchpin of their argument that Catholics are not even to be considered Christians. So attempts to appeal to their religious soft spot by using her in this example would probably fall well short of the mark. Mary is, more or less, just another woman from ancient times to them, albeit one who did God a solid.

Trasnlation: "Well, that's a hard one because I have no idea what the **** you're talking about."

I don't think they believe are close enough to throw bunches of years and nine figures at players. I am totally cool with their approach just as it is.

Careful, people will get mad if you ask that ... 🙃

It's not time to spend big yet. It will be when it makes the difference between close to the playoffs and definitely making the playoffs; or else, between squeaking into the playoffs and going deep into the playoffs.

I find it a little hard to believe that Tiger coaches didn't tell an 18-year-old kid coming into their camp to change this and change that, but hey, maybe they didn't care enough to. What seems unlikely to me is that they saw him throw and said, you're perfect, kid, don't change a thing.

Got it, OK. I asked because you said "Let's not overthink things here", which I reasonably took to mean, "here in this post".

I'm German-American, or so I was told when I was little, so, apparently, I'm already in. Buzzfeed: Which White People Support Trump?

The Marlins were the third part of the Tigers-Pirates-Marlins-Expos quadrangle that keep passing players, coaches, and front office personnel among themselves.

I agree that a team owner is supposed to give the players the things they need to perform to maximum output, and that includes not only proper, state-of-the-art coaching, equipment, and analytics support, but also the day-to-day amenities that leads players to really like playing and appreciate for them. I would also say that a lot of owners don't do this, including this very same owner until just recently, so I'll still give credit where I think it's due.

But at least we're going to get to watch a good and interesting baseball team out of it!

OK, I'll bite ... how am I overthinking things here?

But this is so hard to understand! Alzheimer Biden, though—that's easy.

"I hope you're right", she said at the end. Journalism without the "j".

I'll give them a chance to win me over with the new scoreboard. I'm semi-optimistic it'll be better on information.

I gotta wonder what “tweaks” the Tigers coaches of 2009 made to Turner’s delivery.