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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.

Since new front office people like to hire people away from of their former employers, perhaps we end up getting Alex Cohen from the Iowa Cubs, or maybe even Johnny Doskow from the Sacramento River Cats. Holy Koudelka! Naaah, this will be Bally’s call …

Either that or stain the base down to the floor and keep the spindles white?

Interesting. What about the colors?

Willi Castro is playing center field in the ninth inning for the Twins tonight. Somewhere, A.J. Hinch is smiling.

Uhhhh … is that a dad joke about stairs?

No, whom … whom do you think the republicans are going to get democrats to vote for, if not another democrat.

I love how Bryce Harper stared down Orlando Arcia during his home run trots.

How do you think this looks?

Right. Just because we all hate Boras doesn't mean Harris won't work with him.

Bargain for whom, though? Whom do you think the Democrats and this moderate wing can agree on?

Any Republican caught talking to the Dems is gonna get kicked right in the nads. And that might not even be metaphorical.

Sold! I'm checking this out of the library!

Haven't they been emptying the prisons and the gulags for this war?

I can pretty much guess that Matt Gaetz is not one of them.

Which is probably the least surprising thing I could have learned about him.

I wonder whether God and country is a harder sell now that belief in religion and even God has waned over the centuries. Centuries ago, life for the masses was such a slog that dying in a war to ensure a spot in heaven might have seemed like a pretty sweet deal.

Nine of the top ten free agents are pitchers (including Ohtani), so we will not be remaking our offense through the market, and the one hitter, Chapman, is probably going to sign with a team that can win in 2024. And I doubt Harris will deal from the top of the system to get an impact bat. I wouldn't be surprised if we got one of those top ten pitchers, though. This team has a better rep for its pitching coaching, so pitchers may find this a more attractive destination than a hitter might at this moment. Lucas Giolito might be gettable.