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Even if they fail to get the two corners they need? I mean, I don't expect them to sit on their hands this spring, but if they go into next season in the bottom quintile in secondary again, would you still expect that?

I agree Ichiro is not an inner-circle Hall of Famer based on his numbers, but he is an inner-circle Hall of Famer based on his level of fame. I'd be surprised to see him get a lower percentage of the vote than Adrian Beltre. He might even get 99%. That's looking just at his MLB numbers, of course. Technically, voters are not allowed to take his NPB numbers into consideration. But they will. Plus, he was so much fun to watch, and he was a great interview.

If Max Clark does what he is expected to do, he will probably have to get one of these eventually, too.

Holy Toledo! We’ve never done a deal like this before.

Given that New York was on the winning side of the War About Slaves, I’d say they have every right to remove a statue on their territory of a slaveholder whose philosophy about the sanctity of states’ rights likely helped foment the war in the first place.

I don’t see how you got that out of what I wrote. All I’m saying bottom line is that I don’t see nearly the same level of 10/7 truther that I see of 1/6 truther. Maybe we just travel in different circles.

Has Elon Dickhead made it literally impossible to log out of Twitter on an iPad? It’s easy to do on an iPhone, you just tap on your profile picture and a menu pops up on the left side. But you can’t do that on an iPad, at least not on the latest updated version of Twitter. I have two active Twitter account and I like to switch back and forth between them. Any ideas, anyone?

I use it in Microsoft Outlook. You have to find the set up for it in there but it’s there and it works. I feed FanGraphs through it plus a couple other things.

Hey, glad to learn there’s nothing wrong with being a lefty here! 😃 Granting that of course there are crazies like that on the left as there are crazies like the other on the right, I don’t know that, de facto, that means there are just as many, meaning as high a composition, on each side, or that the crazy left has anywhere near the influence on the general body politic as the crazy right. I understand that repeated and even deliberate exposure to anecdotes about these events can lead to the conclusion in people’s heads that there are and that it does, but I’d rather see some reliable data on actual numbers before I fully commit to the idea either way. Reputable polls about the issue would be a good start. I can’t help but educatedly guess that there is a well-funded communications effort to portray the entire left as being unhinged, or even as unhinged, in the same numbers as those on the right. But just surveying the general landscape, which I spend a lot a lot more time in than I do in any deep leftosphere, it appears to me that a huge plurality of the right—maybe a third or more—are actively consuming far right conspiracies, several of which I can easily name off the top of my head, whereas a far smaller, even minute, percentage, I’d guess in single digits, is engaged to the same degree in similarly-outrageous far left conspiracies, which, I’m not even sure I can name more than a couple. October 7 didn’t really happen? Is that even a real one? UN was in on the Hamas attack? Is that one? What are even some of the others? tl;dr: I don’t think the level of October 7 denialism on the left is even close to that of January 6 denialism on the right. It looks to me that for every Rashida or AOC on the left, there are maybe a dozen congresscritters similarly-positioned directly across the spectrum from them on the right. I’d like to see some reliable data on that, though.

At least thirty percent of the population in your city is Arab, which is literally the only decent-sized city in the United States with that kind of ethnic profile. I would think they have a vested interest in believing it. Outside of Arab-dominant population centers, I gotta believe the number of waaaay out-there lefties that are highly motivated to perpetrate disruptive political action on the Gaza issue is vanishingly small, like, low low single-digit percent.

Because they fund the Republicans for that exact reason, among other things.

It’s probably one of the reasons they want to throw every person of color they can manage into prison and throw away the key. The 13th Amendment allows for the use of prisoners as literal slave labor.

I don’t think Joe has to pander to anyone like that. People who believe this stuff would never vote for Joe, anyway. They are too far gone—they probably have always been too far gone—and, fortunately, there are too few of them to make much of a difference, anyway. I think the only way they could ever come to make any difference is if a Trump-like character somehow took over the “Democrat” party, which is the fervent fever dream of the Bannonites. I can’t even imagine who that might be—my best guess would be a yet-to-be-known white male version of AOC—but I’m sure someone in Moscow is working on that puzzle right now.

Republicans don’t want the solution. They want the crisis, because that’s where their power comes from. It’s basically the same reason they’re going to spend the next nine-plus months trying to crash that part of the economy that benefits the middle and working classes.

If anyone thinks American baseball can’t turn out exciting players, then they haven’t seen Corbin Carroll.

Because he is held to no standard at all, this will promptly be filed under W, for Who Gives a Sht.

If he were stateside his whole career he would not have been in the majors at 18, but he would have been as close to 4,000 hits as anyone.

Yes, his pleasantness was good for fans to see, and even more so, good for the media to deal with. That alone will win him votes, I'd bet.

CC has a ring and a Cy Young, plus four other top five CYA finishes. He also has six All-Star appearances and more than 3,000 strikeouts. For the sabermetric kids, he cleared the 60 bWAR threshold and his career ERA+ of 116 is certainly high enough to qualify. On top of all that, he was a pleasant personality and played his final 11 seasons as a Yankee. I think he's in first ballot next year, along with Ichiro and Billy Wagner.

I didn't think Beltre was going to be unanimous but I did think he would top 98%.

Which is why the whole PED thing is nothing but a cudgel to punish people who prefer to dance to their own tune than to that of Baseball and the running dog media.

"FREEEEEE BIRRRRRRD!"

I wonder how much the playing of first-shooter video games in which kids this guys' age take on villain roles with real-world impunity feeds some sense of invincibility among these young dumbasses.

Well ... Nixon did try to make it close ...

It does pass the smell test tho