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Can I jog your memory of the Tigers scoring ten in an inning against the Cardinals in the ‘68 Series?

I still think of 25Mb as a minimum benchmark for decent speed.

If he were 36 I might be inclined to agree with you, but given his age and his continued amazing output, I think Judge has a chance to catch Mantle, provided he doesn’t have a career-altering injury.

There is no shame in giving up a home run to Aaron Judge.

He informs on himself with every accusation he hurls at others.

The best part will be if/when MAGA goes into decline and the recriminations start, and the red hats will blame liberals/Democrats/you/me for being complicit in allowing a system to evolve to lead to a Trump being elected in the first place.

It only changes if the economic elites don’t benefit from it anymore. That’s the only way a bloodless coup could succeed. If things are going good for them but a change revolution emanates from the people, great numbers of people will die.

Elections will be mostly fair in most of the blue states and in a few safe red states. But as we can see from the redistricting fiasco, elections can be rigged far ahead of the actual voting. But in the end, if an actual blue wave took place with the effect of flipping either or both houses, I would think there’s a distressingly high probability that Trump and his minions would cause so much chaos around the results that the newly elected Democrats won’t be allowed to take their seats the following January 3.

I used to like Mike Downey a lot, too.

The magic number to win the division outright is 11.

Middle school-level insults have become acceptable. What a country.

Documented child sex slavery.

And there are a lot more sophisticated tools at this regime's disposal. And just because everybody thinks Trump is dumber than a bag of rocks sure doesn't mean that nobody around him knows how to use those tools.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I won't live to see things change back towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. Hope you do.

how can bessent be a thug hes white

I'm pretty sure there is, although I interpret the story as changing the test from something that is achievable and can be objectively scored to something subjective that is up to the person who's giving the test in the moment. That's essentially how the southern literacy tests for voting worked—as long as the loyalists were put in charge of the testing, the state got the result they sought.

This is why the whole fantasy of Trump being suddenly disgraced, falling out of power, and he and all the MAGA elite being publicly frog-marched to justice is just that: a fantasy. As with the traitorous southerners who were allowed back into national power in the late 19th century, and top Nazi scientists who fled to the US and were accepted into the economy and society here, there will be a spirit of reconciliation between the top MAGAs and the remaining American elite in the interest of reestablishing peace and normality, and the poison ideology would survive and merely evolve within whatever the new world would become.

I also think this is correct. The old bust-then-boom-then-bust-again ethos is a relic of past administration. I suppose there's always a chance Harris gets canned and Ilitch hires another analytics-agnostic type, and then we can slide back into that pattern, but I sense that won't happen for numerous years. It's certainly not going to happen this winter even if we were to somehow against all odds cough up the division to the Royals and miss the playoffs entirely.

Open an MLB-branded book and get all the young superstars of the game to promote it and give prop betting tips. That’ll keep the youngs coming back.

Lenyn Sosa isn’t that good. Sure, he has some pop, but he strikes out too much, can’t take a walk, and can’t field any position they put him at. IOW, he is a perfect starter for the worst teams in the league.

I have found, anecdotally, that folks from that part of the world make for the most ardent Trump supporters. I read that same thing as being true of people with roots in Germany, which is my people, which would explain some things. 😉

This is a fair and defensible assessment.

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Danger, Will Robertson, danger! What a catch by the kid! Full extension!