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Especially in a closed forum of—and no offense intended because I’m one too—nobodies.

Jomboy FTW, as usual:

Me, I think it sucks that the season doesn't start on Monday anymore. Now we have a situation in which every team has either Friday or Saturday as a scheduled off-day, rather than Tuesday or Wednesday. That just feels wrong.

Does anyone else read this guy's posts to themselves in a Russian accent? Or am I the only one?

Sure, that would be great, but you can't change that by passing a law, like we might could with guns.

I think the value we get out of McKinstry will be directly related to the amount of success the coaching staff will have working with him. I don’t think anyone is expecting he is going to step right in and contribute. I’m pretty sure he’s a work in progress. If he doesn’t pan out relatively quickly, I think he’ll pass through waivers and become organizational filler. On the other hand, at age 27, even if we do get improvement, I think he’s a short-term solution anyway, so I wouldn’t expect him to be here beyond a couple years at most, even if we get 100 wRC+ out of him.

And of course, its corollary: Hate - Guns = STILL LIVING

lol breitbart

Great. So the system works.

Who the fuck is Steven Shaviro and why should I care about anything he has to say?

I think Biden is doing great, and assuming he still is by next November, I'll be happy to root for him to win again.

Maybe we should abandon the thing that’s been proven to not work and try something new that might work.

Also, 2012.

And that's when we start burning witches.

lol zerohedge

Sure, but as a tactic in the service of the objective to undermine effectiveness of and confidence in government in general, which is what the Banana Republicans want, might this not be a sneaky good one? There's no penalty among their base for acting the fool—in fact, there appear to be rewards—so it might be a low risk/high reward tactic for their purposes. I wouldn't doubt if they've at least batted around the idea.

This is great. Perfect way to get it all down on the record and in front of those American people who care to see it. Although I am struck by his being able to spool out his entire schtick uninterrupted, which seems remarkable in this era of bad feelings. I wonder at what point, when a congressman starts off on a thing like this, someone on the other side, e.g., a bombthrower like MTG, starts shouting them down, creating a ruckus, forcing the sergeant at arms to remove them from the room, and then going to their friendly media to loudly complain how the woke Congress of the United States suppresses free speech among duly elected representatives of The People, or something like that. That could be another norm they completely destroy in their quest to destroy good government and the rule of law overall. That’s gotta happen at some point, doesn’t it?

He's telling us exactly what kind of country he wants were he to become President again: one governed by the rule of baseball bat.

I agree the difference of not having it versus having it would not be tremendous, although I like the eight-second rule because it helps ensure an alert at bat with 100% concentration on both sides, versus whatever gamesmanship (Max notwithstanding) would occur with the pitcher trying to upset or fool the hitter on timing. I think it results in a more honest at bat. Just an opinion.

It occurs to me that the most important thing that happened that inning leading up to the Trout-Ohtani encounter was the double play Mookie Betts hit into. Remember how Jeff McNeil had walked to start the inning? Had that not happened—had there been a runner on with less than two outs—there is absolutely no way Ohtani would have challenged Trout twice in the middle of the zone, even with 101 in his pocket. With a runner on, the dynamic completely changes from a mistake ties the game to a mistake loses the game and the tournament in one blow. Up a run with one out to go, Ohtani could afford to take the gamble to try to blow Trout off the plate. Twenty-twenty hindsight said it was the right thing to do, but no one knew that going in. Even so, Ohtani still went three balls on Trout, including a wild overthrow for ball three, so with a regular out rather than a double play, it seems a likely outcome that there would have been runners on first and second with one out—an outcome Baseball, and we fans, were blessed to avoid.

I'm glad the pitch clock is at 15/20, I'm glad the batter has to be alert to the pitcher before eight seconds remain, I don't want any special circumstances in which they turn the clock off or expand the amount of time, I'm glad Manfred's proclamation this week didn't change any of these, and I hope they never change them.

Red green blue?

I had one of those! Wow, memories!

This is the spiral walkway outside of San Siro, home to both the AC and Inter Milan Fußball clubs. This is so fun to watch.