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He won’t be in the outfield next year. This is only for 2024, anyway, not for ever.

I don’t know how they think they’re gonna get 218 votes for Gym. There may not be a half-bad chance McHenry is still interim Speaker by Christmas, which is probably to be expect, since the Trumpies made an art form of appointing interim everything during that administration.

I also think this particular Republican regime we have, which credits itself for its muscularity as well as its disregard for what it perceives as the weakness of diplomacy, is leading the entire America body politic rightward when it comes to military response in general. I think they’re all in on what’s basically a kill-em-all-let-god-sort-em-out approach. I believe the Biden administration feels truly differently about it, and perhaps even Netanyahu is on board with proportionality and distinction, but I don’t think our local right wingers are all that concerned with the killing of however many Gaza civilians are in the way, and they can lean on the Hamas-looks-like-civilians excuse as their get-out-of-jail-free card on it.

Here are is a page of the TV work Mike Ferrin wants you to hear, so make your own judgment based on this: http://www.mikeferrin.com/tv-mike.html His pipes are not high-pitched, necessarily, but quite reedy, which I feel like works well for radio, especially minor leagues or college. He sounds a bit like the main Cubs TV guy, Boog Sciambi. It’s also hard to get a feel for how Ferrin lets a whole game flow, or how informative he can be, from just these examples. He did include a chemistry clip here, so he wants us to know that yukking it up with his partners is solidly within his skill set. He seems like he would be a perfectly serviceable hire for a mid- to low-level team. His chances might depend on how well he can make love to Bally promos, plus how little the Tigers will object to him.

He goes to left and plays alongside with Parker and, for now, Carpenter. Although Bigbie will probably get a long look this spring since he’s 24, in the AFL now, and is Rule 5 eligible after next year.

Well, that was predictable.

Oh my god, the Phillies are going to ask Gregory Soto to close out the series for them.

No? Not possible?

Jordan’s not gonna get the speakership, is he? He’s just this side of institutionable.

Wasn’t it just people with a hard-on for Jordan who scuttled it? How many of those are there?

Nick Castellanos is basically taking the Phillies to the NLCS.

I did not expect to find this out today.

Some would say there is some randomness to whether a team ends up with 85 wins or 105 wins.

lol a franchise valued at $1.4 billion is a “little guy”.

I guess I'll "root" for the Phillies if they come out of that series. If the Braves win, I won't care either way. I guess I'll "root" for the Rangers, too, because I don't want the Astros to win during the remainer of my life. The only thing I'm truly rooting for, though, is a seventh game that comes down to the tying run coming to the plate in the ninth inning.

I think casual fans are far more likely to know what place their team is in than how many games they've won, and the battle is only for the casual fan, because they already got you and me. They gave up on 12-(and 14- and 16-) team tables way back in 1968 when Joe Cronin was quoted as saying, "You can’t sell a 12th-place club."

Brush. Spray would have required complete coverage of everything around it and I don't trust myself to do that right! All the doors and trim were builder wood color with gold knobs. We wanted to update everything to white. We went back and forth on the staining and how much of the bannister to cover. She won. Happy life.

We achieved this particular color by staining first with a cherry color, then finishing it with a coffee bean color. So stipulating that it's the right color of stain, are the right parts of the bannister stained? Which would you stain and which would you paint white?

Although if anyone can get the religious right off the Israel tip, despite what their bible tells them, it's Trump. The only reason evangelicals fetishize Israel at all is because certain parts of their bible says they should, and also because Jesus was born there. But when it comes right down to it, all Jews are going to Hell anyway since they don't accept Jesus as their personal lord and savior, so fck those guys.

Nor can one preserve or protect without supporting.

This will not bother anyone who believes our country is a republic and not a democracy, not will it strike them as antithetical to the Constitution itself, since they will draw some sort of semantic distinction between "preserve, protect, and defend" and "support", a distinction they will fail to even be able to sufficiently explain.

Not difficult to do it as much as challenging to remember to incorporate it into the routine and stay on it. Thank for the input.

I hear you on all white and it would be nice. We went with dark stain because we didn’t want to make handrails all dirty across years of use.

It’s going to be eight divisions of four teams, guaranteed. No owner is going to want to finish in eighth or seventh or even sixth to fifth place anymore. Too hard to sell late in the season. Wanna take a hack at what the playoff situation would look like then?

That might be true if he gets another Astros ring this year. Despite his being out in 2020 and 21, he will be considered to have been there for all seven playoff runs, plus five pennants and three rings, versus five playoff runs, two pennants, zero rings in Detroit. Add to that two Cy Youngs there versus one here, a .756 WPCT vs .616, a 2.36 ERA vs 3.49, 179 ERA+ vs. 123, 11.1/1.6 K/BB ratio vs 8.5/2.7, and the narrative might end up being that the Astros fixed what the Tigers couldn’t fix or even broke, and how good would he have been with a great team his whole career. It’s also possible that they split the difference and he goes in with a blank hat, like Greg Maddux, although the CHC/ATL innings split for Maddux is a lot closer than for Verlander. Either way, if he wins a third ring in Houston, I think I’d be surprised if he went in with a Tiger hat despite most of his best successes coming in Houston. And this is predicated on if he were to retire right now. If he pitches until he’s 45 and stays in Houston the whole time, that might tip it even more.