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They won't want to move to Russia—well, maybe some do, but most won't—but they would certainly be cool with great gobs of nice, white, Christianity-adjacent Russians moving here.

Sorry, Luke, I'm going to have to throw my professional experience trump card on this hand. Most of my career entailed working in media planning in ad agencies for clients who ran primarily on TV. I had close professional contacts with TV stations and networks for the better part of a couple of decades. I promise you they spent almost no time debating whether to run a Charlie Kirk tribute on their air versus actual revenue-generating programing. We can fairly debate whether we think they made that decision to not run the Kirk thing on its air even before announcing they would do so—I personally think they did—but there is no debate about who pressured the network to end the Kimmel show, and you obviously know who that was. As for the advertisers, they usually don't care so much about losing ad time in this specific show or daypart on such and such a specific date, as long as they get generous makegoods that run within their planning window to achieve the point goals of their overall buy with the network. CMRivdogs knows what I'm talking about.

Tork got the most out of his limited rage on that play!

If you have never been in a situation where your direct reports went around you to your boss to work directly with them on a project that cuts you entirely out of it, then you probably will never understand. A.J. did not want the Astros doing this. He showed his displeasure a few times by smashing the monitors that were being used for it. This is well documented—that was detailed in Baseball's investigation into the scandal, and also appears in the documentary I shared. But he couldn't stop his bosses from working directly with his players to make it happen, and despite players' BS statements in the investigation to the contrary, he could never have stopped the players from working with his bosses on it. You can believe A.J. is guilty for being behind the whole thing because he didn't stop it. You can even believe he lied to investigators while under oath and that he's a slimy mother****er who should be fired by the Tigers and banned form baseball for life. It would be your prerogative to believe that, if you did. But that would not comport with the facts in the case as revealed by Baseball in their investigation.

Wait! What just happened? A run scored?

What? No runs given up in the first inning? Do I have the wrong game on?

Because they can’t make any money on it. But they can make money on celebrity family feud reruns.

Here's the explanation: The point was never for Sinclair to actually run the special during a salable daypart on their valuable, irreplaceable air. The point was to announce they would run the special so they could win MAGA credits for it. Credits will not be deducted for not actually airing it—all anyone in MAGA world cares about is that Sinclair announced to the rest of the world that they would run the special which, to everyone in MAGA world, is just as good as actually running it. The main thing needed from Sinclair was the appearance of bending the knee to the regime, which satisfies the regime's ego, and also, effectively maintains a favorable business environment for Sinclair. In that light, mission accomplished, one hundred percent.

At least when Patel trolls Congress with ignorant lying horse****, he's doing it for an audience of one who directly recognizes and appreciates his efforts. I don't know what anyone trolling here is trying to accomplish. Endorphin rush? That's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with.

Fake news. Everything is totally great again. Just ask him.

Isn't trolling seven dudes on an internet message board the best way to honor Charlie?

The what class?

It’s a little of everything. Walk rate is down so his wRC+/OPS+ is down. Base running is worse. Fielding is worse. Plus he played less CF this year, so he loses a couple tick for positional. FWIW, Fangraphs has him at 4.0 last year and 2.9 this year.

I think he’s referring to a passionate episode in the locker room where things gets smashed with bats and players yell and drop f-bombs to the media.

There’s only a ghost of a chance we trade someone as valuable as Carpenter over the winter, but there’s no chance Riley, who’s also controllable for the next four years, gets traded as a sell-low dumping, unless Harris gets fired and Ilitch brings in someone else to conduct a full-on rebuild.

We don’t have to worry about paying to retain Carpenter, since he is controllable through his age 32 season.

The front office went around A.J. directly to the players because they knew he wouldn’t play.

I pulled muscles a lot to Cheryl Tigers back in the day.

It was explicitly stated in the Frontline documentary about the scandal. Anyone interested in seeing for themselves can see the whole thing for free right here.

Actually, I don’t disagree with this at all.

Maybe they keep losing scriptwriters to better paying jobs.

If people think there’s no way they would ever come after us here, in this forum, for things we’re saying today—and stretching ten years into the past—then they’re just whistling past the graveyard. Even MTS’s archives exist somewhere. If the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine can make snapshots available to us, then someone has the whole thing. So it’s probably too late for a lot of us. Oh well—we might as well as continue to hang together before we hang separately.

I don’t understand. Did I miss something here?