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Their wombs have already dried up and they are thisclose to meeting Presbyterian Jesus.

"That's good, that's three, right? I think you said you [were going to do three] ..." Side whisper to producer: [Emmeffer], if you book this [c-word] on this show again, you're getting fired with extreme prejudice, you clear?"

I'm mildly surprised they simply didn't lie that he would stay on topic and then he just goes off, creates the news bite, and ignores the fine for contempt.

That likely will not cost Trump even a single vote.

The rest of us will know for sure.

We'll know for sure you're right on if the Tigers end up signing Mize to the 840 so they can both avoid the process.

I have a feeling letting Candelario go was not a Harris decision. I'm guessing Chafin was a Harris decision, though, and the relationship between the two was so ruined by it that Chafin came right back for less money and couldn't have been happier about it.

I think you might be right. They might land on 827.5.

You misspelled both "one" and "month".

I get it. What's Mize done for us besides cash an $8 million draft bonus check and pitch one year of average-ish ball? If he performs this year to even 85% of his draft day expectations, he'll get plenty good and paid in 2025.

I really do think that once we start winning, we'll get decent free agents interested in coming to Detroit.

At the end of my working life, I noticed an increasing bifurcation in comp between directors and associates. It went from making maybe double what your direct reports did to 4x or 5x. Basically, to paraphrase Rush, the principals want one person to talk to and the rest to sweep the floors, because it's cheaper. I can't imagine the gap has closed any since.

Also, baseball doesn’t pay basic analysts well since they bring in people right out of college for it. These are stepping-stone jobs with a lot of turnover. I would not be surprised to learn they make less than $50K.

We all saw that coming for almost all of them years ago. The surprise to me is how surprised people act about it.

Right on, sister! Preach! 🫰🫰🫰 Flip side, this is one of those ridiculous-but-close-enough things where they seriously want viewers to believe she’s a BCF asset, until they get called on it, then they can say it’s obviously a joke because come on, seriously? It’s all fun and games until some yahoo gets arrested for plotting her assassination in a bid to protect the children and make America great again.

Right. All he has to do is say he’ll do it and he’s a brave hero. When he doesn’t, he can blame the Biden Crime Family for preventing him from doing so and stepping all over his First Amendment rights which, in reality, is stepping all over your First Amendment rights.

Oh, for the love of

The downfall of Twitter continues apace.

I don't know if people who are apathetic and disengaged would listen to AM Radio fire-breathers like Mark Levin or Dan Bongino, and if they do, I can't imagine how they wouldn't become radicalized.

If what I’m saying holds any water, then I think that also naturally accrues to Biden’s benefit, because people who are into Trump have been conditioned to be switched on about him all the time, and not at all apathetic about all of this. People who aren’t paying much attention yet probably aren’t radicalized in the way Trump would prefer. So I don’t see how Trump picks up the additional numbers to whip Biden in November.

Yeah, it’s really disappointed how nobody, including the purportedly left-wing mainstream media, is even bothering to challenge the whole “open borders” canard. There is more open border between Canada and the US than between Mexico and the US. Fewer than 20% of border crossings from the south are undocumented; during the Bush Administration it was over half.

I think I can answer this one: no, they do not care whether America represents any kind of values based on internationalism. I would actually bet they care more that America doesn’t represent those, because America First, Last, and Always.

Greaaaat … I have a routine medical procedure next month. Thanks, pal. 😏

I wonder whether the appearance of apathy among the voting age people we know reflects more the fact that the election is not right now, rather than the idea that they will never, ever, ever care. We’re still some ten months out from the election, which is forever away to most people, so Joe and Jane Average don’t have to think about any of it yet. But I would bet that once the election is next month or next week or something like that, that’s when the people who hadn’t been thinking about any of it will start to pay attention, and that’s when they will start to internalize the stark differences between Biden and Trump, the reminders of what Trump did in 2021 as well as during his presidency, the grave threat he poses to our freedoms, and how deeply unqualified he is to be President. They may not be paying attention to any of that now, because Trump doesn’t show up in their video games, or their Tik Tok dance feeds, or on the Golden Bachelor, or in their kitchens or gardens or true crime podcasts. (Well, maybe Trump should be showing up in that last one.) But a dollar to a dime says they’ll be paying attention to it by November 1. That’s why I don’t take January polls seriously. The sampling for those is among people who are paying attention all the time and who do care all the time. But they probably won’t make up even the majority of the people who cast votes for this election. That majority of voters just aren’t paying attention yet. But I don’t worry that they won’t be when the time comes.

I don't think so.