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Looking at the Skilling app, they may have a two-hour window to get most if not all of the game in, but it’s probably not until after 10pm local.

Yes, and, like, literally ill.

Uhhhhh …

Remember, not a genocide

Maybe my objection to the specific word “celly” is that it’s so close to “Belli” (sounds like “belly”), which is a nickname for Cody Bellinger that sounds weirdly sexual when applied to him, and doubly so when applied to him by Boog Sciambi.

I would be proud to tell you so, but thanks for saving me the time! 😁

Related to this, I'm just about giving up on anything Jason Beck writes. It feels as though practically all of it is specifically PR for the organization. Yes, I understand he works for mlb.com, but there are ways to position things without looking like a complete shill.

I don't think there will be too much of that segregation of thinking. If you're solidly pro-choice, you're not setting that aside to vote for MAGA. You are either anti-choice, or agnostic on the issue (e.g., pro-abortion only when one will make your own life easier).

My wife tips the owner of her salon because she did my wife's hair while an employee at another salon, and my wife followed her to her new place. I'm sure that happens to customers all the time.

New baseball pet peeve: calling what they do in the dugout after a home run a "celly". I had never seen that word until this past weekend and now I've seen it half-dozen times since.

If Florida is in play, then Georgia and Arizona are definitely gone, North Carolina is probably gone, Texas and Maine-2 will be on the bubble, and even Alaska and Iowa will be interesting. If Trump ends up losing Ohio, it should be an electoral bloodbath.

I did not find my maid in a competitive marketplace and stack up her potential against that of employed Molly Maids. A friend recommended her to me. She was with us from 1999 until COVID. I paid her the fee she herself set, and I tipped her only at Christmas. It did not seem to affect our relationships, either personal or business. But if being a "wage slave" is the criterion, and everyone is ultimately a wage slave because they have to compete against everyone else for their income even if they are a lone entrepreneur whose price is influenced by what those in the employee sector make, then I guess everyone should get tipped, right? And hey, what about the guys who changed the oil in my car today? I mean, that's a service, right? And they're "wage slaves", right? So, what ... go back, introduce myself, and tip them? Or no? And what about an employee at a furniture store who showed me some options in easy chairs, and I end up buying one there? Did this "wage slave" not provide a service by presenting options to me that led to a purchase? So, 15% extra to him on top of the cost of the chair? Yeah? And what if he's the proprietor of the store, an independent furniture store, and he's just starting out so he is limiting his draw from the revenue so he can live modestly, as a furniture store salesman just starting out might, while he works to build his business? He has made himself a temporary "wage slave" in this scenario, has he not? So ... tip him for his service? I'm not asking for guidance here—I know where I draw my line. I'm asking, where do you draw yours?

Really, there would be no other practical way, since the alternative would be to blow off two different concurrent off days for both teams later in the season, and what a nightmare that would be.

Yes, I too am thinking we might not go 162-0 ... 😉

There's a DH every game. 😉

The Mets are off on Thursday so I imagine a doubleheader would be in order.

Nothing like proximity to Secaucus, N.J., however temporary, to raise your national profile.

His situation is exactly what the concept of garbage time was created for.

That’s what modern pitch-shaping can lead to.

Well, what do you know! The web site that sells Fileback is still active! https://www.maxoutput.com/FileBack/

I have backed up locally to my own external drives for some 15 years now. I use a utility called Fileback that is no longer available and, in fact, the guy who created it is long dead. But his utility lives on and continues to survive new Windows OSes, and I back up literally every night because the utility is scheduled to do so. I keep files on my laptop, plus I have three redundant backup destinations so that if my laptop and one or even two drives go tits up, all at the same time, I’m covered. And it’s happened. I have Lotus 1-2-3 sheets from the 1980s still, as well as entire ZIP drives of every file from jobs I quit as early as 1991. Not because I need them. Just because I like the idea that they’re still there. Anyhow, I recommend getting your own utility and a couple of external drives. It’ll cost about the same as a year or two of a cloud drive subscription, but one distinct advantage would be that no outside source will have any access to any of your most sensitive files.

Whichever one you can most afford to get hurt out there, I guess.

Valenti calls him that.

Nice of the Tigers offense to pull A.J.’s ass out of the jackpot in the tenth. He’d emptied the bench and if someone like Javy goes down with an injury, like there was half a chance he would after the foul ball, A.J. would have had a hell of a time trying to figure out what to do. Pitcher in left?