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I wonder whether she riffed about what was going on outside before her show? If I remember Kathy Griffin correctly, it wouldn't have been very good.

Isn't the entire state one big hash bash now?

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Karui Lake and Elise Stefanik are firebreathers who would continually expose themselves as, pardon the expression, shrews, and Americans hate shrews. Katie Britt is a national joke and doesn't have the gravitas to recover from that. Therefore, I would approve of any of the three.

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I guess that's right. As I re-read the slide rule ... When sliding into a base in an attempt to break up a double play, a runner has to make a "bona fide slide." Such is defined as the runner making contact with the ground before reaching the base, being able to reach the base with a hand or foot, being able to remain on the base at the completion of the slide (except at home plate) and not changing his path for the purpose of initiating contact with a fielder. The slide rule prohibits runners from using a "roll block" or attempting to initiate contact with the fielder by elevating and kicking his leg above the fielder's knee, throwing his arm or his upper body or grabbing the fielder. When a violation of the slide rule occurs, the offending runner and the batter-runner will be called out. Accidental contact can occur in the course of a permissible slide, and a runner will not be called for interference if contact is caused by a fielder being in the runner's legal pathway to the base. ... it doesn't appear to ban straight-on contact even if apparently intentional, which I thought I walked away believing it did after I read the rule the first time, so it appears that it was McNeil's responsibility to avoid Hoskins. Maybe McNeil himself misunderstood the rule and thought Hoskins had to avoid all contact. I wonder what happens when someone makes a legal slide within the letter of the law and ends up tearing a shortstop's ACL in the process. It's gonna happen, and it's gonna be interesting.

They kinda got themselves in a bind with the VP pick, I think. They can't have another firebreather like Trump going wackaloon at the convention, because that will drive away a marginal number of remaining moderates, but soft personalities like Tim Scott isn't gonna fire anyone up, either, even though Trump might pick him to try to bamboozle teh blacks. But yeah, if the speeches there are basically a parade of people calling in to Washington Journal on the Republican line, I would think they're gonna be toast.

I don’t know. I mean, based on all of our histories with baseball for the last half century or so, we all see that as perfectly cricket. But they did explicitly make a rule to ban slides exactly like that, and Hoskins broke that ban. On the video I heard Darling says he thought it was a clean slide, but he’s in his 60s, too, so he might not have internalized the memo completely yet. Hoskins did make McNeil’s knee buckle, so a serious injury could have ensued. And McNeil restricted his encounter with Hoskins to yelling, and Hoskins just trotted away like nothing happened, and didn’t reply to McNeil until he was 50 or so feet away. That’s a very 2024 thing to happen.

BASEBALL! Also: DUMBO!

Hope for his sake his name is pronounced “Winer”.

Helps when they all play each other … 😉

Agree. Clinton is definitely your father’s Democratic Party. Of course, so is Biden, but there are better proxies than Clinton, and Obama is one—although he might be close to hitting his sell-by date, too, so use him while you can. Trump doesn’t have Biden’s kind of network to tap into big money donors, but he does have networks like Fox, NewsMax, RSBN, OAN, etc., to tap into the rank and file. It might be interesting to see how it all comes out, but I feel pretty confident that the next seven months alone will cost Trump a ton of votes. I think the biggest challenge at that point for the Democrats will be to keep the danger of Trump high to avoid complacency (as opposed to apathy) among voters and still get them to the polls. One way they can maybe do it: gamify it. “Let’s run up the score and show Trump just how much America does NOT want him here.” That would be a tricky message to get across well.

I super hate that kind of thing. It’s a form of gaslighting: “I’m going to tell you I’m pledging while you’re paying attention, I’m gonna welsh on you when you’re not, and I’m gonna get away with it all.” We need people like you, and thank you for your service, but that’s also why I prefer to deliver packages on the ground instead. You don’t put up with gaslighting garbage, and bonus, you meet the people, and they’re all super nice.

Since it come down to vote, and Skubal is getting some early national love, maybe he wins on tiebreaker if it comes down to that.

Right, although this post was not at all intended as a criticism of Petzold or anyone else. I just found it amusing that it was headlined in such a matter-of-fact manner. You know, “Here goes Tarik Skubal starting his inevitable Cy Young season!” I think that’s great! 💀

Maybe in the story, but the headline is not quoting anyone.

Not putting too fine a point on this, are we?

I remember seeing him on TV and wondering whether in the future all men were going to be bald for fashion reasons, and I'm not far from wrong, as long as we're talking middle-aged white guys otherwise embarrassed about losing the hair only on the tops of their heads.

As long as we're posting links from unvetted sources and demanding the MSM report on it, when is the MSM going to report on this? CMV: Russian propaganda machine holds a major role in the pro-Palestinian movement 😉

You just can't quit me, babe. 💋

I guess it's not for nothin' they call him Orange Jesus.

Looks as though his BS (from MIT) wasn't enough to save him.

Curb is definitely going out at the top of its game.

True though this may be, given how invisible George has been for 15 years, I don't think he's the guy.

True as this may be, pursuant to my edit after you posted this, George Bush Jr. is not the guy.