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If they can make this kind of progress with a team of schlubs, just think what they can do with actual major league-level talent.

If whoever was giving Craig Monroe scouting reports was trying to get him to memorize numbers, then they were doing it 100% wrong.

Maybe you're just a touch young to remember, but it was seemingly everywhere and seemingly everyone played it.

Asia by license plate:

This map shows the plan Germany had for Europe after they were to win the Great War.

Now this is super cool.

I understand what they're trying to put across, although it's still a bit hard to fathom.

I swear to you, every time I see her name, I follow it up with "man".

Racquetball was here to stay, too, at one time.

Always keep in mind that when Trump announced while he was president that there would be a crackdown on the mishandling of secret documents by former administration officials—specifically Hillary—he was telling us exactly what he was going to do once he himself got out.

I don’t think Christie is in it to win it. I think he’s in it to try to get enough votes on his side to influence the Republican platform next year.

True fact: I started an Elizabeth Warren for President thread on the old board back in 2011.

In the 80s, you couldn't take a piss without hitting a racquetball court. Now there are seven public courts in the entire city of Chicago, with five of them in modest means neighborhoods on the south side. That last part, I think, is pretty telling. I don't know even one person who plays. Do you? I'm not sure anyone who told me they are off to play a game of racquetball, or they recently played a game of racquetball, for at least a couple of decades now. And Wallyball! Man, I forgot all about that one, but yeah, I played that, too.

She was pretty darned cute in WWII-era long hair.

Assuming things on July 31 are roughly the same as now, I see getting the most for Lorenzen, maybe a top ten org-ranked prospect. I think Rodriguez is damaged goods in a couple of ways so I don’t see teams emptying the top of their systems to get him. He might be a get-whatever-you-can guy. I’m not sure what else we have that unlocks more than a Maton/Vierling level return. This is where prospect-level analytics to unlock potential really comes into play, so fire up Caesar and let’s get after that.

I don’t like that nobody was really calling the action. They were just reacting to what they were seeing—you know, like fans do. Maybe that’s the new thing that people want on their baseball broadcasts. Not me. I think it sounds unprofessional, and I’m already surrounded by unprofessional-sounding people all day, anyway.

They must’ve had some research that told them it was a fit, but maybe it was based on only a few focus groups, who knows.

Cody Stavenhagen was saying the same thing about Zack Short at the end of spring training. He thought Zack might get cut but we were hanging on to him, he thought, to swing a trade. Zack’s off to a nice little start, and he’s got good peripherals, too, which I like, but let’s talk again when he gets to 250 ABs.

By useless vets, who do you mean? Obviously Miggy and Schoop—who else?

TORK! did exactly what he was supposed to do in the 10th: hit it far enough so that even if it were caught, it would still win the game.

I like the concept, just not this execution of it.

One down … 😁

How long before pickleball goes the way of racquetball?

People wonder, in the face of all the surprising election losses of late, how the Republicans could continue to lean into more and more fascism. There are a couple possible reasons I can think of: (1) Their leaders surround themselves with sycophants whose continued employment depends on making the boss happy, and the #1 way to do that is to tell them what they want to hear. They also shun media defined by journalism and instead limit themselves exclusively to hot take opinion media. So the leaders are highly bubbled, and almost certainly believe that the majority of people in the world are on their side, because that's what they're hearing. (2) They believe that election results are not the result of the democratic voice of the people being heard, but of election fraud on a substantial scale instead. They believe if they can change the way elections are run, the true voice of the people will be heard and their faith that the majority of people are on their side will be rewarded. I think they have an actual shot on that second reason.