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Regardless of Trump's state of mind while using it, the danger in the vermin comment is less about what he consciously, literally and specifically intends to do by using it, and more about what using it gives the millions of his most ardent followers permission to do.

Probably separate broadcast rights prevents it. I don't think Bally's or even MLB would countenance Dan Dickerson doing live reads for radio advertisers like Trex composite decking or Wallside Windows on a TV broadcast.

I would bet there is periodic malfeasance with politicians pressuring small local businesses for favors, payoffs, etc. here in America, but I wouldn’t bet that it is endemic to anywhere near the degree it is in many other countries. But I also wouldn’t bet on the state of affairs remaining exactly the same in future America, either. As with everything else, it depends who ends up running things.

But … but … if National Socialists aren’t socialists, how else can right wingers fairly call Democrat socialists Nazis?

Men are not angels, so government is necessary. Angels do not govern men, so external and internal controls are necessary.

I don’t know, maybe? I’m not sure Benetti got this many games off with the Sox. That said, I’d be actually upset rather than merely annoyed if someone like Greg Gania were the backup. I know people here like him, but he really is a minor league announcer. At least with Dan—who I would prefer stay on radio for 162, but whatevs—we have a seasoned big league pro as backup.

This is rich: In the spirit of the current approach among right wingers, they will announce the reform but not actually do anything about their conduct, figuring that simply announcing it will be good enough, that their MAGA supporters will parrot the line that they’ve reformed even though they haven’t, and that everyone else will get off their backs about their conduct. Let’s see how well that all works.

I'm more interested in the Rule IV draft.

I look up words, too, although I don’t do it so much to find a word I need that I don’t know, as I do to see whether the word I am thinking of using is the exact right one for the sentence at hand. I’m a stickler for rhetorical exactitude.

Yes, you most definitely will. Night, meet Day.

Someone did the New York Time crossword this weekend! 😅

I like Benetti as an announcer as much as the next guy, but I don’t love that the Tigers will be his second priority. That feels to me like he already has a foot out the door coming in, and I had the sense while he was in Big Shoulders that he wants to be 100% national. That said, Tigers could do worse than Dan Dickerson as the backup on TV. For as long as it lasts, this is a complete win for Tiger fans.

To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn turn, and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time for nonchalance, a time for Alarmist Non-sense …

And as we all know from investing, past results are a perfect guarantee of future performance. 😉

Well, I don’t think Trump would believe they’re so innocent, since they are fascist Communist Marxist Democrats bent on murdering all Republicans and therefore keeping America from being great. After all, Democrats run a corporate medical fascist tyranny, so red-blooded Americans have a duty to kill Democrats before they steal all the elections.

There will be less of that when we are actually in full contention mode.

Although had that happened, they would still be here! 😱

Right, it doesn’t matter what he says. He will do what he will do when he gets elected: destroy the government bureaucracy, fill the jobs with loyalists, deputize the military to act as police, gut the judiciary, suspend the Constitution, and eventually cheer while MAGA militias murder people who look like they might be Democrats, perhaps starting with college campuses in small Midwestern cities.

Agreed. It strikes me as more like a business-like effort to try to exploit an opening in the Republican market.

I was just talking about this with my buddy yesterday. He gets the newspaper delivered every day (New York Times, go ahead and judge him if you want), and that where he gets the majority of his news, by choice. I told him I miss getting the Free Press and the News and watching the network evening news and the 11 o’clock news and getting updates on NewsRadio 95. I felt so much better informed in general now, because nowadays, I keep trying to drink from the firehose on the Internet, and to your point, I find myself skimming a boatload of things and reading deeply less than I would like, and that when I try, I get antsy and I want to get back to skimming. I know my brain’s been rewired by the Internet, I don’t like it, and I have seriously considered trying to figure out a way to go back.

That's one of those movies where I totally skip over all the non-baseball parts.

You know that I meant the client approved of the agent asking for the year, not that the team didn't approve of the ask.

That’s a pretty good level. I could also see them trading for a good starting pitcher, maybe someone like Corbin Burnes. Brewers are having a fire sale and he’s a reliable top of the rotation piece with a year left until free agency. We might get him for relatively cheap and maybe sign him to a decent extension roughly what everyone wanted to give Eduardo. The potential downside is that he’s already losing ticks, but then, so has Eduardo, and Burnes is younger.

The Law of Absolutes may suggest that anything can happen and maybe the agent acted independently of and even against the wishes of the client, but Occam’s Razor says that the agent acted with the client’s approval.

Makes sense. Anyone paying half attention could have guessed this would be the case.