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Benetti off doing Cubs today.

After back to back jacks, I gotta say I’m OK with Verlander being out today.

Is it that the approach is strategically bankrupt in general, or is it that we don’t have good enough hitters on the team that can execute it?

It was one of those things where, in the two or so seconds before the ball came down, you knew 100% he was going to jump up and rob the home run.

The minute Sean Spicer falsely claimed, against all the visual evidence, that Trump had the highest attendance ever at an inauguration, we should have known that would be the order of things for those people.

No doubt. Luckiest bastard ever.

Anyone else hear a trash can banging before that Dubon homer?

I don’t know about that, since Meadows ran through a stop sign from the third base coach in the bottom of the ninth with two out and down three to make the final out of the game at the plate in Toledo tonight. So …

Isn’t decimating the stability of the federal government through its finances the feature of the idea and not the bug?

Has Trump’s usefulness diminished for them? I ask because as far as they’re concerned, doesn’t it come down to the choice between Trump, who will do anything for them to keep them on his side—if for no other reason than he can hobnob with them and bask in their relatively clean hands glow—and Biden, whom they view as actively hostile and antithetical to everything they hold dear? Which, really, boils down to one thing. I have a feeling the CEOs will be quietly on the Trump train come November, and they will proselytize out of public view for the election of him to anyone they talk to.

Wow, Alex Lange came in for the seventh, gave up a cheap double, struck out a guy, and was promptly escorted off the field by the trainer.

That middle paragraph is one of the least-kept secrets about him.

This idea, right here, should have a whole commercial campaign devoted to it.

I saw my first ABS challenge. Not a great decision by the batter. IMG_2219.mov

Greetings from beautiful Toledo, Ohio!

Thanks for posting. I think Tork needs to do more than just "get a little better". Reading between the lines some, I get the feeling that he believes whatever approach he brought with him to the majors is the approach he's going to stick with. And maybe that's what he needs to do. Maybe he's a guy the coaches need to leave alone instead of working with him to tweak whatever. Who knows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

If a reliever comes in with the bases loaded, walks the first three guys he sees letting three runs score, then gets the next three guys out without giving up a run, he has given up zero runs and his ERA drops.

When I coach third and I want the runner to stop there standing up, I want hold up my left hand in a stop sign and point to the bag with the other hand.

You sure it's deep down? Because the contempt seems to me to be really on the surface.

A direct political broadside at Republicans?

Fragmented media silos that algorithms build for us.

So glad I got people on the Alarmist Non-sense train with me!

I'll see your IVF and raise you this completely bonkers idea:

I agree with your last part. But honestly, I don't think Joe not pardoning Hunter is driving them crazy. I think they expect that of Joe. Those at Fox News, at least, know Biden enough that they would be genuinely surprised if he acted out like Trump would. Instead, their simple strategy will be to willfully ignore that part of the story, which shouldn't be hard to pull off since rank and file viewers aren't going to question them about it, anyway.

Whether the requirement is six months, or a year, or two or three, and however narrowly or broadly the term "service" is defined, the main problem with it will be the inequities built into the system, in part related to exemptions for those who grow up in the upper 1% or so and cushy comfortable assignments for those in the next couple or so percent; and in part related to unfair distribution of punishment for those who go AWOL where harshness correlates to poverty level and class. That would likely lead to public confidence in the system collapsing at some point.