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I wonder how much of this is true believership and how much of it is a Hail Mary. She is a convicted felon, and for street crime, not business crime. Also, the husband is pretending he’d never heard any of the details of her crimes in his seventeen years with her, so that angle might be an attempt (in vain) to carve something out for himself if things go totally upside down for her.

“Cannabis farm”.

I don’t think this is a real response because I can’t find it below the actual tweet, but it would have been a pretty good one had he done it.

Seems pretty clear Riley is selling out for homers by increasing hit bad speed and his launch angle. It’s working, as far as homers go. As for overall hitting effectiveness regarding wRC+ and wOBA, if you believe small changes are significant it seems to be working for him. If you don’t believe so much in that, it’s a wash. I am a bit concerned about Riley’s taking a step back on his LF defense.

Fangraphs displays two types of pitcher’s WAR: fWAR (i.e., regular WAR) and RA9-WAR. fWAR is calculated based on FIP—which itself is largely made up of walk rate, strikeout rate, and home run rate, the things pitchers are assumed to have control over—and is meant to be predictive. RA9-WAR adjusts fWAR by layering on BIP and LOB and is meant to be more reflective. We can see all this side by side on a pitcher’s Fangraphs card. Reference’s bWAR is generally closer to RA9-WAR than fWAR, and to me, is not even necessarily needed as long as I can see RA9-WAR, BIP-wins, LOB-wins, and fWAR all side by side.

YMMV, but I don’t mind seeing the Atlanta Braves doing a complete face-plant this year.

I don’t see the part where I said ”every word” or “every action”. I say that only in regard to specific acts in the moment, for example, with the question to the Liberia president, I’m pretty sure Trump did not make a mistake, borne of honest effort, to compliment him. I believe Trump meant to condescend to him, and that he meant to put on a show about it. When it comes to that kind of thing, he knows exactly what he’s doing.

You need to provide the receipts showing me saying everything he says is for with a purpose. Take as much time as you need.

By “your” you mean Trump, right? That’s what my like is predicated on. 😁

lol man of the lower middle class working world. I’m talking about grown adults. People who never outgrow their middle school personas, which tracks with Trump, who talks like a middle school bully. That’s why they love him so much! I also think you might be overselling the intellectual calculation and nuance it takes to act ignorant to appease your audience.

Here are three royal proclamations I think we will see in the next year: All natural born citizens born to undocumented immigrants will be denaturalized and subject to deportation. Police officers at local, state, and federal levels will no longer be required to identify themselves as police. A national emergency related to elections will be declared, the federal government will seize control of the election processes on all levels, and an emergency redistricting of congressional districts will be undertaken in advance of the 2026 mid-terms by a centralized commission at the direction of the White House.

Does insincere flattery get you want you want? I would think having the power and might of the United States in your back pocket would be more effective. I would also think none of those leaders would ever interpret it as flattery, and I'm convinced Trump didn't mean it to be. This was not anything like a mistake, which implies honest effort. Trump may or may not have known English is the official language of Liberia—that's a debatable, and insignificant, proposition—but his condescending question was purposeful in his bigotry toward the “colored guy” and in the appeal of that to ardent true-believer MAGAs. You may not be aware of this because you’re surrounded by highly-educated academics for whom pursuit of high knowledge is its own worthy goal, but from firsthand experience, I can confirm for you that among certain people of the working class, it is socially advantageous to overtly demonstrate to those around them that they don’t know things that are considered eggheaded, such as what the official language of any given African country is. If someone traveling with that group were to show they know such things, they would—they do—get suspicious looks and comments from the people they hang out with, and it would—it does—actually hurt their standing with the guys (and it’s almost always guys), because then they can't trust that the undercover egghead is one of them. So it’s best to show, actively and overtly, that they absolutely don’t know stuff like that. And the way I see it, since a large portion of Trump’s fan base is made up of certain people of the working class, that appears to be what he’s trying to accomplish here. Trump doesn’t have to be a genius or well-educated to know that it’s advantageous for him to demonstrate his ignorance of that kind of thing. None of the guys I inexplicably tried to ingratiate myself with back in those dark days of my life were any smarter than Trump, and yet, they knew how to show ignorance of eggheaded things, even when I knew they knew such things. It's an integral part of getting approval from that crowd. And when Trump does this, at least that portion of his base swoon over it. This is an example of him knowing just what he’s doing in situations like this.

He seems to be the most expendable of the upper-tier prospects, although I'd like to be assured that Bryce Rainer is going to be OK before we offer up Hao-Yu in trade.

Kudos!

I will whether they will program it to run wokemobiles off the road?

Also, making a point.

For some time I have wondered why it isn’t standard on cars that when you have your hazards on and you put on a turn signal, the turn signal controls until you complete the turn and then it goes back to hazards.

Yeah, there were a lot of mudshark- and occult-related items that did not make the final cut. But it was really entertaining to hear how the whole project came together in the first place and those heady first couple months touring America. What a thrill to hear John Bonham weighing in from the grave.

I just noticed that Joe Jr. was one of the most recent big leaguers to make his debut as an 18-year-old. Of the 358 big leaguers to play at age 18 or younger, only 16 of them debuted after Joe Jr., and in fact, only one in the past 47 years. Kudos to you if you know who that one is without having to look it up.

A baseball nepo baby during an era when that was still pretty rare. RIP, Joe Jr.

Riley must have both the ugliest batting swing and ugliest running gait of any big regular position playing regular. It looks for all the world to me as though neither will age well, although I can provide no evidence or examples to back up my concern.

My favorite part of this post is how you made Lee the highlight of the trade for the best available controllable reliever on the market just hours after Lee disintegrated on the mound. Here’s hoping the Pirates’ front office sees it your way. 🥂

That’s another Apple show with a Freak and Geeks alum, and a pretty high quality one. I wonder what Apple will be doing with Linda Cardellini and Busy Phillips?

The Studio is one of the best shows of the year, although I wish against hope that they would dial down the slapstick, and dial up the absurdity related to professional intrigue. The Ron Howard scene is Exhibit A for this point. The way he eviscerated the Seth Rogen character in the conference room was utterly delicious, so amazingly against type—but once it evolved into a slapsticky physical fight, complete with faceplants into food, that really took the shine off it for me. But hey, it’s Seth Rogan, so I have to accept that as part of the bargain. I would be a nice surprise to see them ratchet down the slapstick for Season 2.