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I don't know for sure either way so i will defer to your experience. As an outsider using critical thinking skills, I would think that even if a staffer glommed onto a new elected representative, they chameleonize themselves to become simpatico with the new boss, which might change some of the approach they had had to the job, or maybe the nature of the power they'd had changes, or the way they can work with other staffers changes. Otherwise, that would suggest that the new elected official, the new boss, is a cipher who has no influence over the staffer, which makes little sense to me, but again, I'm an outsider.

I can't imagine how good Miggy could have been had he actually worked hard on his game instead of skating by on talent alone.

I don't have $120 to subscribe so I can read it. Can you bottom line what it says?

Isn't Greg Gania a radio guy? 😉

Don't political staff get rotated out when an elected representative leaves office? Unless you mean staff not tied to specific elected officials?

Kudos to the guy who didn't blink, Michael Cohen, who almost certainly had threats on his life, if not actual attempts, while he stuck to his guns on it. I'm actually just a little surprised we are not seeing judges, DAs, witnesses, Democrats in general, etc., meeting their untimely ends due to "accidents". Maybe Trump doesn't have quite that kind of juice ... yet.

Because Trump trumps the Constitution, the Bible, Jesus, all of it. He is the sole benchmark by which they judge the entire world, and the only lens through which they see the world. If Trump were to say he's going to go to Hell because Satan is a winner and God is a loser, millions of red hats would gladly follow him.

Expansion to Nashville is a no-brainer. Let’s stipulate that upfront. I’ve thought about Indianapolis, too, and how that might make a decent big league market. They’re growing pretty decently and they’re a #25 market, larger than six current big league markets, and they have decent median income figures. But they are also only two hours drive from Cincinnati, and I don’t think the Lords would allow that at this time. I think Big League ball would have to expand to 36 or 40 teams to get to Indianapolis. I don’t think Portland gets one, maybe partially because of the recent political situation, but also, they are by far the largest US market without any affiliated team at all, and they seem to have been happy enough with that state of affairs for a couple of decades now. They don’t miss baseball enough to be on the short list for big league expansion. I always thought Charlotte’s population was too diffused throughout the area to draw 30,000+ fans every night, but that was some 15 years ago I started hypothesizing that, and things have changed since then in that actual attendance has been really de-prioritized in favor of other, more certain revenue streams. So, maybe. But Charlotte might also be deemed too close to Atlanta, in that it is only a four hour drive, and if level of proximity were to make expansion there a non-starter, then that also eliminates New Jersey, San Jose, San Antonio, Orlando, and a few other potential markets in the crowded eastern and central parts of the country. It’s not an issue of attendance, it’s an issue of proximity for the purposes of TV. Montreal, of course, has all kinds of problems because they are practically a cultural and economic island in North America that barely depends on the rest of the continent to thrive on their own terms. Favorable history of the game or not, Baseball wants nothing to do with going to Montreal, or any second Canadian market for that matter. The chances may not be literally zero, but they are practically zero. Any team in any other country is going to have all those instability problems that a team in Canada would have, plus the other countries nearby have way, way less money that fans and the local business community can put toward the team, its media markets, its merch, etc. So forget Mexico, Puerto Rico, or any other Caribbean Rim nation. If the A’s weren’t going to Vegas, I think they would be the second slam-dunk expansion market, but if the A’s are going there, I guess I would put my money on Nashville for the one, and East Bay California for the other, which would probably be Oakland, but which might include San Jose or, long shot, even Sacramento. There is already a precedent for Baseball moving a team from a city and then immediately putting a replacement expansion franchise in that same city. East Bay not a virgin market, which is probably sweeter as far as the money goes, but I would think the ramp-up to getting a team in place there would be smoother because the area has experience with it. Sure, the Johnsons would be unhappy, but they will be good and paid in compensation for allowing another team in their backyard again.

BTW, to be clear, pro-Russian political party = the Republican Party, aka the party of Joe McCarthy. This is what America has evolved into.

And he has not already been doing all of this how, exactly?

Anyone gives you that line of sht that they're giving up a good income in the private sector in order to do the God's work for the public by going into government, just remember that they actually live high on the hog on the public dime, like this.

I agree with your comment as presented, but I'm also going to go out on a limb here and assert that the radical fascist right wing of the political spectrum represents the basic platforms of today's Republican party, and in far greater numbers, than those on the radical anarchist left wing of the spectrum represent corporatized Democratic Party, few if any of whom would even cop to being of the party. Maybe, like, 10:1.

Well, gee, I wasn't even rightish on this one, was I! 😜

Ooooh, high bar for me ... any way you can lower that just a smidge?

As are you! 👍🏽

I had thought the dugout could call pitches via PitchCom as well.

I see no evidence that he was active in the Democratic Party. Just because he's anti-Trump or even anti-Republican does not make him a Democrat. There are other alternatives, after all. Bernie Sanders is one of those alternatives. The gratuity of the shot is not against the the shooter—because who gives a fck about him—but against the Democratic Party and Democrats, since the congressman was suggesting that the shooter was acting on behalf of the party by calling him a "Democrat terrorist". He basically says the Democratic Party harbors or even employs terrorists. To which, by the way, I might reply, "Projection Junction, what's your function ..."

Well, the congressmen did refer to him as a "Democrat terrorist", suggesting he is operating on behalf of the Democratic Party. Unless you're suggesting it was he taking a bit of a jump?

Was the shooter a Democratic Party operative? I never heard that. The only connection to Democrat that I could find for the guy was that his hometown newspaper was the Belleville News-Democrat.

It's not often I am called "right" here, and I'm not sure I have ever been accused of being honorable. 😉😅

They have to figure out what their marching orders are here, since they just assumed there was no other possible outcome except Democrats taking their bait, voting against the CR, voting for McCarthy, and taking the blame for everything.

Is it guaranteed to be limited to that, and not able to be used by a person with no official duty to perform who might be situated outside the field of play? I don't know either way, but it strikes me as possible until I hear why it's not.

OK, so, how is it OK for teams to use technology so someone perhaps not on the field of play can relay instructions to players, but it is not OK to use technology so someone not on the field of play can steal signs from center field and relay instructions to players?

The night Obama won in 2008 he had a victory rally in Grant Park and I rode my bike down there at 10 at night because it was well over 70 degrees. We don’t get that on March 20-whatever.

It’s no worse than starting the season in several cold locales on March 20-whatever.