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You might be right, although the “impordent” one is fairly a mid-Atlantic thing, and I lived in Baltimore so I heard that one all the time. But there is another issue attached to that word—the way Gen Z says it. Well, and Millennials and a good deal of Gen Xers, too. Over the last couple decades or so, people have been—how do I put this?—“clipping” off the last syllable of that word. It’s kind of hard to describe, but, I and everyone I know grew up saying it with my tongue pushing against the top of my palate on the last syllable, not really stressing either “t”, but enunicating both a bit. Seems like how it’s said today is with the tongue away from the palate, not touching it at all, with neither “t” being expressed at all, something like im-por-‘an’, where the “n” is also mildly expressed, rather than leaned into, and, again, with the tongue off the palate. I started noticing this maybe ten years ago or so, and I also think it comes from black cool culture, because I have noticed also that when I watch TV or movies made 30 or 40 years ago, the white actors are saying “important” (and words like it) the way I still say it, while the black actors are saying it the way young people today say it. Not of this is a pet peeve, or even a peeve, really, but it’s just jarring still to hear people clip the syllables on words like that.

No guarantees.

Sometimes 2024 is pretty swell. Our router took a dump today at 12:30pm. It had been a little wonky the last couple of weeks or so, losing its connection for 30-60 seconds several times a day before restoring. I had been looking at getting a new router probably this week, but the old guy forced the issue by passing on, being no more, ceasing to be, expiring and going to meet its Maker, bereft of life, resting in peace, running down the curtain and joining the choir invisible—in short, becoming an ex-router. So I hopped on Amazon to find a similar router, which I did, and purchased it at about 12:35pm. The delivery was supposed to take place same day between 2pm and 6pm. It arrived, in fact, at 2:40pm. I got it out of the box, followed the quick setup instructions, had it effectively hooked up to the modem by 3:00pm. Fired up the router app, which I already had on my phone, finished the setup sequence there, and by 3:15pm, it was fully, completely, 100% operational. And bonus: because I bought the same brand router and used the same SSID and password, all the other devices in the house that had been hooked up to the old router automatically hooked up to this one. No need to even set those up again, So, in about the time of an average MLB game. at least during the 2023 season, my old router had died and my new router was already operational, and I didn't even have to leave the house to go get it. Pretty swell!

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Someone, or ones, are going to swoop in to save his day with big money.

...days until pitchers and catchers report.

Why do you not agree?

Red hats will never hear this.

Fun fact: I am going to have fentanyl tomorrow when I go on the table for a routine procedure. Hope they don't overdose me! 🤪

I think Tork is going to have to come off the field completely before long, which, at age 24, that realization is a stark omen for his career. If he wants to get the big money, he’s going to have to rack up 40+ homers and 900-ish OPS year in and year out. He needs a bat that will win way more games than his glove will lose. And honestly, I think he might be too far along to learn to be much better on the dirt. Marginally better, perhaps. But I think Tork will always profile as among the worst defenders at first base in the game. In that light, I don’t think Tork is going to be a long-term asset for the Tigers. As long as the Harris administration is in control, I don’t see them giving big contracts of high single-digit years and way into the nine figures for a guy of his profile. Perhaps we might try to trade him, but that would be tricky for a team that’s in contention which, perhaps by the time we get to the point when it’s time to determining trade partners for him, we should be well into. And I don’t know what kind of return we get for an underperforming 1/1 pick while the team is contending for pennants. It’s going to look funny if we do that, and we’ll be lowballed for him. Perhaps, though, we’d just take what we can get for him at the time. The other likely approach I can think of is to assume Tork will clock his six years here and then Boras will take him onto the open market, and we don’t bid for him. In the meantime, the Tigers would have to plan for and develop his replacement, which we have until 2029 to do. I think this is probably more likely than just trade, but I also can see us taking what we can get for him sooner than that just so we don’t have to pay him for Arb 3 or even Arb 2. Then Tork plays out his career as a second-division star, still retires a hundred-millionaire, and is enshrined in the Hall of Very Good. Let’s check back in 2040 to see how it all worked out.

Whoa, indeed

When did people start saying the word "on" like ooawn, instead of ahn? I'm not sure I ever heard it before maybe a decade or so ago, except from people out east, like New York City. Now it seems like practically everyone is doing it, especially people under a certain age, and they are really, really punching the oo part, it seems. I hear it a lot in hip-hop, and like most black cool culture, it has seeped into general usage. Like I say, I always thought it was a New York thing, but when I started hearing people I know are not natives of New York use it—like west Texas native Cody Stavenhagen on his podcast—when I start hearing people like that using it, I'm thinking, OK, they're putting it on. I think he actually worked on it to try to sound cool, because I'm pretty sure that's not how west Texas people say it.

Good morning: ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

Good morning ... ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

I bet that 12 percent number among Republicans will go up sharply before the election.

The authors can't believe they weren't taught about Floyd when they were at (presumably publicly-funded) high school? I would be shocked if anyone at publicly-funded high school would be taught about him. It's a huge black eye for the United States, which all the Confederate states and their treasonous leaders were repatriated back into.

They've been saying the whole time it's Hamas's fault, and also, that dead Palestinians voted for Hamas the one time they had a free election seventeen years ago so, yeah, they deserve it.

It's a double-edge sword. I suppose it is possible with a closed-door deal that there would be no live grandstanding on CSPAN, although they could still grandstand for the Congressional record, which is a public resource, and leak (or even report) what their testimony was in a timely fashion anyway. On the other hand, in cases like the Hunter Biden subpoena, where R Congress wanted a closed door hearing, Hunter wanted it to be an open hearing because he claimed congressmen with a partisan agenda can manipulate and distort the facts and subsequently disinform the public. (Although Hunter has agreed to closed door testimony later this month, so I would assume they must have negotiated a deal on it.)

For a few bucks, the senators can make it all go away ...

I'd be a lot more impressed if Lindsey gave an actual sht about any of it.

Yet another issue that's more valuable unsolved than solved.

Why would Putin be freaked out about the discovery of that? It's not as though he's been doing anything to hide his wealth. Plus, there are million-dollar houses on my street that are four-bedroom, four-bath, 3,000 sq feet. Not much that's ostentatious about those, although maybe $-million goes a lot farther in Finland.

I guess so since I put a like on your post and you didn’t like mine! 😝

I think Rozema is throwing the ball in the air, and not very fast, which is why Wockenfuss doesn’t have his glove up and extended, although also, the ball is only about halfway there and big league players have great reflexes. I don’t think Gibson is necessarily busting his ass to get back to the base. Given this and the smiling casualness that everyone else—probably all pitchers being overseen by their pitching coach—seems to be displaying, I’m gonna guess this is the first pickoff practice of spring training in late February 1984. The ball on the ground is probably some other pitcher’s prior effort during this drill. The cap and lefty glove on the ground are almost certainly those of Gibson, who was conscripted for the drill.