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And the guy with the thread gave examples of people leaving those states and also others not coming to those states for those fascism reasons, so that's another data point in that hopper.

Maybe because it was before Cal was in pain all the time from pushing his body through every single inning of almost 1,000 games.

When abortion rights were upended last year, we talked about a brain drain from these traditionally economically-hot states that lean into the MAGA fascism with their legislating and rhetoric, like Texas and Florida, but also wannabe-hot states like Georgia and Tennessee and Idaho, and maybe even Virginia and the Carolinas, and I think we’re starting to see that happen, aren’t we?

Sununu said on Maher that he will vote for Trump again in 2024. That plus guns, so he’s still one of them.

Granted.

Not only are people saying this kind of thing out loud, they are doing so on camera, and on the record. Proud to look cruel. They must think it makes them look tough and cool. That’s what their Jesus would do, I guess.

Well, we already knew coming into the season that this team was going to be not only bad, but also not being even close to the team they’ll be trying to compete with in a couple or three years. In addition to a dying Miggy and a few awful veterans either marking time or simply out of their depth, we have a lot of green guys still getting used to the majors in the first place. Of the 31 guys who have taken the field for us so far, 17 of them have (parts of) only two or three seasons in the majors, including this season, and one more guy is Mason Englert. A couple, maybe a few, of them will make it long term. Most of them won’t. It’s part of the new process most of us are excited to see finally happen—maddeningly slower than we’d like, especially given the past seven seasons, but there’s only one Detroit Tigers, so it’s all we got. I’m unhappy about the incompetence, sure, because it sucks to see it happen before my eyes, but I don’t feel like I can carry any of the unhappiness much beyond the game. I get mad in the moment, then I’m over it. You know me, I’d been existentially angry about this organization for years, and I will do so again if/once it appears the Scott Harris approach has failed and it has to all get blown up all over again. I don’t think that will happen, but that’s what it would take.

The Orioles themselves did it a couple weeks ago, and more maddeningly, they got more hits than we did plus a couple of homers with 10 walks and still lost. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA202304150.shtml

There is a distressingly lot of popular subculture that feeds this particular fantasy.

Do you really think someone is going to give Eduardo five years and nine figures this winter? He’s going to be 31 next year, he hasn’t had a really good season since 2019, his health is not great, he might have long COVID, and he bugged out on the team for a good part of last year. Does someone really want to take a chance on him for five years?

Todd Jones is a Grade-A word salad guy. Perfect fit for this broadcast.

Well, at least Schoop made only one out there.

Vierling walks to load the bases. If Schoop hits into a DP, we should give him his walking papers tonight.

Miggy with the whiff. Of course.

Just about anyone but Cabrera here. Edit: Orioles announcers, talking about Cabrera, as though he’s a threat to go deep. They must know that he’s not, I think they don’t want to tempt the woof gods or something like that.

Jeez even when Schoop knocks in a run he doesn’t earn the RBI.

That would never be a majority of people who would vote for him and elect him as president. Ordinary people who want nothing to do with a guy like that—which is most people—would have to be drugged to do it.

But he didn't win. That's the point I'm making. He skated in once, but he didn't do it again, he won't be able to do it again (unless he can figure out how to steal the election), and Musk would never be able to do it. I see no way someone who is disgusted with Trump—which is most people—come back around and say, gee, I was wrong about Trump, I like the cut of his jib after all.

Comforting though this might be, I have my doubts as to whether this is immutable law. Someone somewhere is going to turn this assumption on its ear.

Wait until this Supreme Court reinterprets the First Amendment to extend responsibility for it beyond just government to media. Wouldn't that be a great day for America.

I'm mildly surprised that MTG didn't just shout down Rep. Garcia during his admonition of her attack on the witness, that she just sat silently for it. Or maybe I should be surprised by myself for actually expecting to hear it and being surprised that it didn't happen. The norm of allowing other representatives to speak unimpeded is another one that might get busted at some point. Someone like an MTG would just need to volunteer to take a few bruises for being the first to do it, but after that, it would get easier and easier until there's no penalty for it at all.

This is why Russian-wing media are going ape**** over phantom violent attacks by trans people on freedom-loving Americans or something.

"Apparatchiks". Perfect.

Which I think demonstrates the sheer power of being outnumbered. I don't believe that goes unchallenged on a 5-4 court, in either direction.