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In all this kerfuffle, I will never forget how excited I was to be taking a California coast driving trip in April 2018 to see ball games in all five stadia there, including the Angels’ Opening Day in Ohtani’s first season, and mother****ing Mike Sciosia SAT OHTANI FOR THE WHOLE GAME. On OPENING DAY. THAT’S how the Angels rewarded their best fans after signing one of the most impactful players of the free agent era. The Angels deserved to lose him. **** those guys.

That’s basically robbing certain states and cities of the income tax payments they deserve from Scherzer plying his lucrative trade in their jurisdictions during the season.

Karen. Yeah, I have a type.

It would be nice to have the luxury of dealing from strength. One day …

should’of stayed

Also: Betty Cooper over Veronica Lodge.

Betty seemed like she would get freaky with the night shift guy down the street.

I remember when I was a kid, Ginger was a scary grownup lady and Mary Ann was like a pretty girl in class. I took a close look at Ginger when I became a grownup and … awww, yeah.

i like Bailey’s vibe more than Loni.

I'm one of those rare people who started watching the Simpsons back when they were a Tracey Ullman short who didn't give up on the show in disgust after Season 4. I still watch it every week.

MLB Network, I mean the whole network, is kind of a general pet peeve for me because it is so obviously and offputtingly marketing-driven, although I do like the show MLB Now, but only when Brian Kenny is on it. In fact, if he were to leave the network, I might stop watching it for any reason altogether. But my specific peeve today is any MLB Network countdown show about top plays. They have these throughout the year: Top Plays of the Week and Top Plays of the Month, and in November, it's Top Plays of the Season. I had gotten about halfway through this year's Top Plays of the Season when I simply couldn't stand to watch another second, because fully 40% of the top "plays" they show are hits, with all but one of those being a home run. And a home run is not a play. A play involves decision-making. You have to decide how to react to the action, what route you take toward the action, and the specific response you make. That's why plays, in general, are defensive in nature. You have to make a series of decisions along the way: what direction to break in, what spot you're moving toward, what you do when you get the ball, where you throw it, maybe deking the runner along the way—all that goes into what makes a defensive play a play. A play is something you make happen. That's why a home run is not a play. You don't make a home run happen, because while a play is process-oriented, a home run is an outcome. And there's not too much process you can put into a swing, since you are usually reacting to how the ball is arriving to you. But a home run swing, really, isn't even a reaction—it's a decision to swing as hard as you can on whatever the next pitch is. That's why we see every player swing as hard as he can and miss the ball entirely a lot. If the player connects with the ball just right, it'll be a hone run. But miss the ball by just a centimeter, and it's a long flyout, and nobody would ever confuse a long flyout with a top play, even though it frequently results from the exact same kind of swing a home run does. But a defensive effort that fails to get the out can still be a great play if the defender does everything exactly right and still misses the runner by just a hair. I can prove to you that a home run is not a play: when was the last time you heard an announcer say something like, "Here's the pitch to Carpenter, and there's a loooong fly ball and it's outta here! Home run! What a great play by Carpenter! He made an outstanding play on that home run swing!" Don't bother, I'll answer for you: never. It has never happened. Because a home run is not a play. 😁 But, the offputting marketing-driven machine that is MLB Network will continue to include home runs in their top plays programs, because the majority of all the on-field events they market to us are home runs, because Chicks. They're never going to change that, but it's still going to bother me every time I see it, and I will complain about it every time, which makes this the platonic ideal of a pet peeve.

As I look at the most recent few episodes, they are not interviews with Lucy from the 60s, but modern-day personalities doing "re-imagined interviews" with Lucy, which is self-indulgent and just dumb. Dig a little further back into episodes actually recorded with Lucy at the time and hear her speak with people like Jack Warner, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Hedda Hopper and the like. Lucy here is nothing like her on-screen persona.

Matt Groening. The Simpsons changed the way comedies were written, and not just cartoons.

Jamie Lee Curtis apartment bathroom scene in "Trading Places".

Do you hate her personally or do you hate her comic persona? I ask because there was posted last year sometime a podcast consisting of her 15-minute radio talk shows from the 60s, I believe, and she is just brilliant in these. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-talk-to-lucy/id1579178174

Do I need to be more scared? 😉

I think it's worse than his devaluing himself—I think he had no value as it relates to belonging in Congress in the first place. He's just another performance artist who rode his own irrelevant-for-the-job fame into Washington, and now he's trying to make a name for himself there in what he's too ignorant to realize is the wrong way in terms of establishing a respectable legacy. Of course, if Trump gains power and upends everything, then Tubby will be showered with power and riches, which he can use to dispense patronage to his own sycophants. And really, isn't that what all these swampy MAGAts are striving for, anyway?

The bigger point, I think, is that Tom Tubby is no Benedict Arnold, since Tubby is all treason and no valor.

He turned down a 15/440 from the Nats, and he'll be only 26 next winter, so I think 12 years is practically a foregone conclusion. They were already talking about him a year ago being the potentially first 500 million contract, so now with Ohtani in for 700 million, 500+ for Soto is all but certain. I'm gonna take an early bet on 12/630 for him, and it'll be the Yankees, who are publicly disparaging analytics and going back to being the make-it-rain Evil Empire.

I will put a dollar on he gets more than that.

Anyone on a campus who uses the public square to call for the genocide of entire classes of people should be dealt with in a manner up to and including expulsion from school and prosecution for incitement speech, and administrators who acknowledge the presence of such action on their campuses and who do nothing about it should be dealt with in a manner up to and including dismissal from their posts. Now I would like to see firsthand accounts of people on campuses using the public square to call for the genocide of entire classes of people, and I would like to see examples of administrators who acknowledged this happening on their campuses and doing nothing about it. Hearsay and secondhand accounts will not be enough.

Now just multiple these people by 10 million and you might see an actual voting bloc.

Because in a land where the ignorant leads the ignorant, they didn’t do anything wrong.

Well, good to know. I feel better about it all now.