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So, Fox News is the mainstream news? You don’t say.

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Someone else pointed this out the other day, but Tork has really come crashing back down the earth. In fact this graphic indicates he is getting progressively (regressively?) worse, which is probably why he didn't start yesterday.

Yes, umpires respect guys who suggest to them they don't really know the rules.

This is an example of how customer service is generally better among companies whose base is easily identifiable and recurring customers, versus one whose customer base is largely anonymous and always turning over.

Most of the time, when you bring up an issue to one of these foreign-based CSRs, you can hear the clattering of the keyboard as they google the same answers you already did before calling. They are almost certainly contractors, not company employees, and they probably have several dozen different corporate clients they service, so none of the CSRs learn anything about the clients' products. But then, they don't have to, do they? All they really need are moderately above-average (say, index of 105-110) googling skills.

Oh, so now McDonald’s is expressing concern for consumers’ health? 😉

But personal and defensive is the red hat jam! 🤣

Patricians have never had any interest in democracy. The very idea of sharing political power on an equal basis with Joe Sixpack is nauseating to them.

At least they’re someplace that’s safe from journalistic interference by corporate overlords.

Newsmax viewers are already in the bag. He’s giving the viewers talking points to talk their libtard relatives down from the ledge.

I like this idea!

Customer service is an early-stage business imperative. When a business is first starting up, it’s crucial they openly cater to the customer, and they make sure the customer knows that, in order to get a foothold in the market. Once a business reaches its mature and late stages, after having established themselves among the top names in its categories, and especially once it becomes either a market leader or part of a collusive group of market leadership, customer service gets mere lip service, while actually getting pushed way way down the priority list, receiving minimum expense and effort. For a business with easily identifiable customers, those who share PII when purchasing the product, only the biggest spenders get at least some level of true one-to-one customer service, usually the minimum amount needed to manage them through a crisis; in a business with an anonymous customer base, like consumer packaged goods, there is practically no customer service, no matter how much anyone spends on the product.

Also happy to not have gotten swept in April. Not sure when that last happened. Probably 1984?

Which Marathon? Or …

I’m guessing they start out with odds based on some combination of recent and total history, and then apply AI to betting in progress from the jump to even the money bet on both sides. That’s how I imagine it, anyway.

Except the odds are bastardized by the gambling company to keep betting even on both sides. They’re not true probabilities based on anything besides business imperatives.

Then I apologize for misunderstanding your post.

Just remember that after the 1984 Tigers went 35-5, they immediately went 4-8. Although I recommend you push out of your memory the fact that after May 22 of that year, the Yankees had a better record than the Tigers. 😉

Yes, not in so many words.

Are we great again yet? Is this the great again part?

I couldn't give less of a **** about that.

You're lucky to have lost.

This guy is a Joe Blow content creator, but he does do a pretty fair job highlighting Javy's CF work in this sub-two-minute video.

Sounds like you've made your peace with players fixing games, and that's OK for you, I'm not criticizing you for it. Everybody is free to consume baseball in any way they like. But speaking only for myself, I can never and will never accept that. If players fix games and Baseball accepts, encourages, or promotes that, then I'm out. I love baseball for the competition, and fixing games is not competition. It's theater. If that makes me a sucker and a loser, then I'm proud of that.