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A.J. just announced that Maton has been optioned, so, there we go.

Partly because teams wield their power by withholding access to punish beat people who turn out to be apostates. See Fenech, Anthony.

I thought keeping Willi would have been a defensible decision, too, but as with Jeimer, when the mob is pounding down the door with their pitchforks, you tend to cave to them.

It's hard to win when you don't have talent, and when an incompetent organization spends six years essentially stripping and starving its system of talent, this is what someone hired to come in and clean up gets.

Fun fact time: As of this morning, Nick Maton is 22nd among 22 qualified third baseman in offensive runs and 21st in defensive runs, and 22nd in WAR by a country mile. Jeimer Candelario is 7th in offense, 2nd in defense, 3rd in WAR. And the icing on the cake: Isaac Paredes is 1st in offense,19th in defense, 4th in WAR. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=3b&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2023-01-01&enddate=2023-12-31&sort=22,d

OK, that's that. Fire Nick Maton already.

Nick Maton is a versatile player. He can lose games for you on both sides of the ball. 😏

I don't think it's a nude Kate Winslet he would have wanted to drawn. Otherwise, I see what you're saying. It was super ungrammatical and I had trouble cutting through it.

This is the big thing from the Trump Playbook for Right Wingers: control the narrative by breaking the unfavorable story with your spin on it. Get it out there first. It’s also what Justice allowed Trump to do when he got indicted: he announced it, and established the initial narrative.

Don Biden has not visited east Liverpool impeach

So what anymore

What is he even saying here?

No one with critical thinking skills need react to this because they are not the target. It is ignorant people without critical thinking skills but have a vote who are.

I would have gone with “What a bought-and-paid-for Putin stooge”, but “idiot” will suffice, I guess.

It is worth using your one free article a month to read this on NYTimes.com.

Of course they do—that’s why they care against getting rid of it!

At least you're not asking me for investing advice, which I would be glad to provide you if your goal is to lose money!

Flip side, I hate going Krogering to Mariano's (or "Krogerano's" as I like to call it) because they are continually SKU'ing out line items I've been buying for years. Gatorade G2? Gone. StarKist EVOO tuna? Gone. Siggi's Yogurt? It's now a third of the shelf space it once had so that's on its way out. The latest? Cascade dishwasher powder! CASCADE, FOR GOD'S SAKE! Literally the best-selling dishwasher detergent brand in America! They don't carry the powder anymore! Everything now is liquid or pod-based at twice-plus the price per wash. I challenge anyone to go to their local Kroger to see if you can find it. Over the past decade especially, America is becoming less and less the land of plenty we happily bullshirt ourselves into thinking of it as, and more and more the land of line consolidation and outright shortages. We can blame COVID for it all if we want, but really, it started long before COVID, which just accelerated the the slow-motion conditioning of the American consumer to expect less while paying more, while continuing to insist we're still the only land of milk and honey on the planet. We've already come to expect garbage customer service, so that's what they give us. They conditioning us to expect product shortages, too. This is especially true of middle-of-the-line items. Everything anymore seems to be either cheap off-brand or private label stuff, or fancy schmancy overpriced stuff, some of which is of dubious quality anyway. It's basically an allegory for the disappearance of the American middle class altogether. Here in the Land of Opportunity™, you either you got all the money, or you got nothing. </rant>

That means the Democrats will need to target their efforts at states that will make the difference. BTW: you know how Republicans are always against getting rid of the electoral college because they say only big coastal cities would make any difference in elections? My response to that is, how is that any different than a system in which only two or three states make the difference?

That makes me four for four! “I would not expect to sign any position-player free agents until after we start playing spring training games. I'm fairly confident we'll get somebody, but probably not a somebody that anybody here really wants on the team as of today. It's going to be somebody we're not talking about now, and who comes here because he needs a job. Think along the lines of Johan Comargo or Cesar Hernandez or Jonathan Davis or Jake Marisnick.”

I did not personally contribute to putting Trump in power because I voted for Michelle Obama in 2016. Running up the score nationally makes no difference. He will still not win Illinois.

Biggie Smalls/Notorious B.I.G has now been dead for longer than he was alive.

I shouldn’t laugh, either.

Every grocery store has eight or ten or twelve available checkout lanes, and at any given time you go, exactly one of them is open as you get into a long line waiting to check out.