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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.

They would be Foolish to do this on April 1st.

Regular OOTP is for laptop and not mobile, so I gotta believe it is way deeper and easier to manage than GO.

Speaking of which—great national article today by our local boy.

Devil we know!

So do I, and I think most of us. I just hope while we are cheering her for this, she doesn’t manage to slip some Trumpy bad governance behavior under our radars.

OK, but keep your eye on that gift horse from Troy.

If you stick around to the end of the credits, you will see that Shazzang is written not only by Smigel, but also Louis CK and Dino Stamatopoulos, one of the greatest and most prolific writers in TV late night and sketch comedy history and the guy who played Star-burns on Community.

Does this guy even know who he is anymore?

To whatever degree that this might be true, a player is going to bury that feeling deep, deep inside and never let it come out. Never. Ever. Remember, we're talking about 25-year-old marginal major leaguers being blocked by a 40-year-old Hall-of-Fame legend. These kids grew up watching Miggy their entire lives. He was winning a World series when they were in kindergarten. Miggy is a hero to them in a way we, who are 20+ years his senior, can't possibly imagine feeling about him. It is inconceivable to me that they would allow themselves to be seen complaining about it. What is that going to make them look like to their teammates and the coaching staff, many of whom also revere and even love Miggy? An equivalent to this might be you yourself coming up as an on-the-bubble outfielder with the Brewers organization in 1976 and Hank Aaron is keeping you blocked from getting a spot on the team, so you go back to Spokane for another year. You grew up idolizing Hank Aaron. He was the reason you pursued baseball in the first place. Are you really going to dare to whine to the rest of the team and coaches about it? If so, you're one of the few who would take that risk. I know I wouldn't.

This is an SNL TV Funhouse skit that really gets super dark in the funniest way.

This isn't exactly right. Because of Miggy, we won't be able to keep both Baddoo and Carpenter because we can't give the one who's not playing LF enough at bats at DH to keep him around, so we have to send one of them down to TOL where he won't really benefit from developing at the level they need to be at. They only way we can keep Miggy around and he won't be a prospect block is if he goes on the 60-day IL, which I actually believe there's a good chance will happen. That said, I do agree we simply cannot cut Miggy, boot him, give him the gate, etc. You simply don't do that to an inner-circle Hall of Famer who's going to wear your cap in Cooperstown, which is basically why Papa Doc signed him up for life. It also sends a terrible message to the rest of the guys—if they can treat one of the best players in history so shabbily, how badly would they treat me, a not-great (which is most of them), when it comes right down to it? So an outright release against his wishes is a complete non-starter. Miggy could start out 0-for-100 and they still won't clear a roster spot unless he goes voluntarily.

lol prosobiec podcast

I don't see how indicting Trump is political suicide for Alvin Bragg. Is Manhattan borough Trump Country? I don't think so. Who in Manhattan would kill Bragg's career for indicting him? Nobody I can think of. This looks like red hat wishcasting to me. If anything, going this far and then not indicting Trump would be political suicide for Bragg. The only reason I can think of he hasn't moved yet is that they need to make sure the case is airtight, because when they do indict, they have exactly one chance to get it right and get the conviction.

I do think they want to be accepted or respected, which makes sense, and I believe they feel neither is happening (and they’re probably right in some cases). I believe it’s that perception of neither happening which animates the fear and the loathing and the resentment and the hatred, and Trump is the embodiment of all of this for them. He displays all these cues of a lower middle class guy with his rhetoric and mannerisms and accent, and I think red hats identify strongly with that. And I can see them thinking, if it can happen to him, with all his success living the American dream, making billions—if it’s not about what he’s accomplished, but about who he is underneath it all—then what chance do any of us have with the elites? We can never win their acceptance or respect. And these people, these elites, they’re running the government and the media and the schools and the woke tech economy, and it’s un-American, so we have to take that all back. And when we do, we’ll make them respect us. I think that’s a lot of what’s going on.

Watching the game the other day and Greene at the plate, he fouled a ball off his leg and he hopped around a bit, and my heart just stopped briefly. I processed a lot of thoughts for those couple of seconds.

Well, whaddya know? Turns out you have to be smart and actually plan things out to effectively implement fascism. You have to actually think things through. Who knew.

I don’t think so.

I don't think that's true. Everyone wants to be accepted by the in crowd. They resent that they never will be, because they are laughed at and made fun of. That's what stokes the burning hate, it's what drives Donald Trump, and this is what attracts his most ardent red hat following. He is literally promising retribution and revenge on their behalf against the in crowd who spurned him! If all people wanted was to be left alone and have nothing to do with elites, they wouldn't care enough to hate them, let alone be animated enough to go to rallies to get riled up about them.

The fact is that the red hats would never ever find out Trump is not wealthy, because none of their media would ever tell them that. Only the non-RW media, aka the mainstream media, would reveal that he's not wealthy, and red hats would dismiss it as a typical libtard hit job, which "we" are perpetrating probably because we are all jealous of him and of the freedom that red hats enjoy of which we choose to deny ourselves, or something like that. They would also not regard Trump as a loser for getting perp-walked, because their hatred of libs is bound up in a weirdly-religious persecution complex because they're not rich enough, not educated enough, not beautiful enough, for the "elites", who they secretly long to be a part of, or at least well-accepted by. They would absolutely, and without irony or shame, equate a Trump perp walk to the passion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. And man, does Trump ever want that, because his support among that sweet reliable-voting evangelical base is starting to fray.

@1984Echoes, careful what you wish for here ...

Exactly.