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TBF, a large portion of Trump voters do want this and are enjoying it tremendously, probably because librul tears or some such rot.

The flaw in this logic is the assumption that 100% of people who did not vote plus100% of people ineligible to vote want what we are currently getting.

If DOGE were truly concerned about big wastes of money, they could tell DJT that running a prison on an island is exactly one of those.

He wants this only because he thinks it is maximally cruel.

This one is easy: if Trump "runs" for a third term and wins, he stays in office Putin-style, and no one can say **** to stop it; and if Obama runs for a third term against him and wins, the Trump government will refuse to vacate because they'll claim Obama's victory violates the Constitution, every single constitutional scholar and jurist will agree, an actual constitutional crisis will ensue, Trump stays in office Putin-style, and no one can say **** to stop it.

True to a point, since I think he is highly resentful that he even needed due process for any reason.

I agree with all this, although I would only say that although it's true Boras works for Skubal, I think it's unlikely he's going to meddle much with what Boras does, or even provide firm guidance for what should be negotiated by Boras, who's been through this rodeo since way before Skubal was born so he knows exactly how this works, and Skubal has little if any idea about that. I think it's most likely that Boras drives the negotiation process 100%, and his clients' involvement is limited to following Boras's recommendation on whether to accept or reject any offer he presents to the player.

Cernowynk? Brady Cernowynk? Fifteenth-round, 440th-overall-selected Brady Cernowynk?That Brady Cernowynk?

This seems like a reasonable contract although, assuming you mean a team opt out, I do wonder whether he would not only flatly reject this structure because of team opt-outs, but also take us off his list because of the insult. (By "he", I mean the team of Boras and Skubal, not just Skubal the man.)

Sounds more artificial than intelligent.

And he is sitting down for the whole season at age 34 while the “juggernaut” Yankees scuffle along at 19-16. He also missed the whole first half of last year. He made about $50 million for the pleasure of doing so.

It definitely could have been a terrible movie in the wrong hands. Any great movie could have been much worse for the same reason, just as any number of movies that were supposed to be terrible got saved by producers and directors who took them seriously and made them sneaky great—like Major League, which could have been more like Major League 3 in the wrong hands. My Cousin Vinny is another movie like that which, nine times out of ten, would have sucked eggs with the wrong director or producers, because the premise was so ripe for phoning it in.

They will wait out the rain as long as it takes the get three games in by end of day Thursday, because the logistics of making up a rainout in Denver later in the season is so difficult. If they still can’t manage to do so, they might make up the game on July 17, the last day of the All-Star break, when the Tigers are on their way to Texas for a series starting the next day, and the Rockies are preparing to start a home series. They’d have to coordinate with the All-Star managers to not play them, at least much, during that game. It would probably be a late afternoon game, like a 4pm start, to maximize TV exposure for Tigers fans.

I can’t believe this is the first post in this thread to mention A League of Their Own. One of the greatest (yes, not just best) baseball movies of all time. The premise is absolutely riveting, and the actual baseball playing is top notch in Hollywood terms. I don’t know who the technical advisor was who managed to make even Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell look passable as baseball players, but that person should get an Oscar for their work on it.

It was the signature role Caesar had honed through his hundreds of performances on stage in the role. Something I did not know before looking it up just now: Denzel was original Peterson on stage as well.

One of the all-time great meta lines in any movie ever.

Point of order: Lary Riley's CJ Memphis was not the murder victim. That was Adolph Caesar's Sergeant Waters. CJ was the guy who Waters goaded into hitting him, then CJ was sent to the brig where he committed suicide, to Waters' delight. Waters got murdered by private "Pete" Peterson (a movie breakout role for Denzel) in part because Pete hated Waters for what he did to CJ. "A Soldier's Story" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I could watch it over and over. I have, in fact, had "A Soldier's Story" sitting on my DirecTV DVR fro something like five years just so I can flip over and watch it anytime I want.

Holy "chat", I can't stop laughing at this.

I have long thought that the Ken Burns enterprise should do a thing on Interstate highways. It's got so many aspects to it that are in his wheelhouse: pictorial and video history; Americana; racial inequality, and an overall sesne of "it's different than you even thought it was". They could get at least four hours out of it, and maybe even six. I have a buddy who's a muckety-muck in the PBS world who has met Burns on several occasions, and I have mentioned to my buddy countless times over the years that he should pitch the idea to Burns. My suggestion doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

It wasn’t just them. I was only in grade school, but I was scared ****ing ****less I would be drafted to go to Vietnam when I turned 18 and killed there. I remember I would spend entire days ruminating on it and I would even cry while contemplating it. The other kids had no idea what I was on about (but then, I was a special ed kid, so they already didn’t know what I was on about). I cannot adequately express the wave of relief I felt when I learned the draft was going to end and Vietnam was winding down. I could see the sun shining and the birds singling and the fly balls flying again. I felt like I myself had won some cosmic lottery.

Never mind asking about whether the Capitol Police officers’ families will get compensated for their deaths in the service of protecting the people there—we already know the answer to that one—but what about the officer who had to shoot into the crowd where Babbitt was in order to stop them from breaking in and possibly killing multiple congressional reps? Is he going to be executed and his family billed for the bullet? Or maybe the next three generations of his family will get sent off to “reeducation” camp?

An obvious national security threat. 🫤

Aw man, you got halfway through the post strong and then you dropped the ball. 😉😁

OK, now here's another question: have the Tigers ever scored in six of the nine innings, and all six innings they scored in were multiple (i.e., 2+) runs? I'm gonna bet the answer is no. EDIT: D'oh! It's only five innings they scored in, not six. That one is more possible.

And here's the answer: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET200905150.shtml Brandon Inge and Ryan Raburn with five RBI each in a 14-1 annihilation of the A's on may 15, 2009.