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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.

They're definitely still in the game.

I have nothing against the family. It's a critique of Fanduel for romancing the kid's mowing down our team that first inning by showing his family cheering every time he threw a strike or got the out. He's the other team's guy!

Reinstating Rose would exponentially increase the encouragement and amp up the brazenness. Unless what you’re saying is that the encouragement of players and managers to throw games is already at its zenith due to Baseball’s partnership with gambling companies, and that reinstating Pete couldn’t possibly do anything more to add to that, with which I couldn’t disagree more.

JAVY WITH THE SLAM! He is all the way BACK! Come on, Fanduel, let’s see the Blubaugh family in the stands now!

Get Nido some oxygen after that sprint home on the sac fly!

If we were to ever learn that players and managers were fixing plays and games and baseball knew about it, and either willingly turned a blind eye to it or even backchannel promoted it in order to make more gambling money, then yes, I would weep real tears as I turn my back on the major league game.

College > high school as a tiebreaker.

When Harris took Max and Mac as high schoolers in 2023, we were building for the long term and probably didn’t expect to be in the playoffs the following season. Now that we’re that team, we need to draft top players who get here a lot more quickly. So I am guessing top-end college players are at the top of his shopping list.

Why doesn’t Fanduel Detroit show the Blubaugh family now, after the home run he gave up?

Colt crushes the other minor leaguer! Because BASEBALL!

Blubaugh #69 really is an unfortunate combination.

I don’t agree that this is only about a guy who did a thing nobody cares about a long time ago so who gives a **** anymore. We’re talking about players gambling on a game they have a duty to perform in—even worse, a manager who can implement strategy in the service of his own bet. If they allow Pete to ultimately get away with it, how can they stop anyone else from doing it, fixing plays or games or even more, just to satisfy bad guys they’re in hock to? Maybe you think it’s no big deal, but I would be really surprised if it were to pass unnoticed by everyone except you and me and maybe six other people, and is forgotten within a single news cycle.

I’m annoyed that Fanduel Detroit has to show the family cheer after every strike the kid pitcher throws, as though he’s on our team and it’s not our team he’s mowing down.

He is one step from saying, “the stock market doesn’t matter.”

They can’t bring Garcia back, no matter how many Supreme Courts tell them they have to, because if they bring Garcia back, then they can never extradite anyone to a foreign supermax torture prison ever again, and their ability to do so to anyone they choose, including you and me, is THE key to imposing their will against the will of the American people, which is the objective to help them attain their goal, that being ultimate and discretionary power over everything and everyone in the entire world.

I see this episode is from 2010 … fifteen years ago. Cramer was very much in the public zeitgeist back then. I wonder whether, if a Mad Money spoof were to air as a first-run episode today, much of the audience would miss what the joke was supposed to be. I would guess a high percentage of the viewers would think the idea is original with South Park.

I’m pretty sure one of the goals of the regime is to foment rebellion in the ranks of the police within large cities that are governed by mostly elected Democrats.

There’s a precedent for this: in the South, both during slavery and Jim Crow, poor rural white people had it very, very hard, but at least they knew they had the quality of whiteness going for them, and that made them feel that at least they weren’t the ones at the bottom of the pecking order, and that was a very important status for them to maintain.

I believe there’s no point to reinstating Pete Rose if the Hall of Fame is going to still keep him out. When it comes to that, I gotta believe it’s going to be a love me, love my Pete situation between Baseball and the Hall. No way the two entities are going to war over that.

Yes, and not just the old guys who were banned, but also, they could never permanently ban anyone for betting on the game today or in the future. If they can’t manage and control gambling by players within the game itself, how are we, the fans, supposed to trust the outcome of any game or season ever again? Or does that not matter at all because money today? In the end, I’m having trouble seeing how Baseball makes a lot more money by letting Pete back into the game, versus all the extra nonsense they will have to manage by doing so. Even having a Pete Rose-only exception is a fraught decision for them to make, and I think that’s got to be the least likely outcome, because if they did that, no one would ever believe or trust or fear them on anything ever again, especially the people within the game.