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Or else, it is Tuberville's intent to try to get this pet bill of his signed in exchange for the release of DOD appointments. Don't negotiate with terrorists.

Q.E.D.

"Incandescently" goes really well with "idiocracy". 'Incandescently stupid': Ex-DHS official says Trump needed 'highly classified' memos dumbed down Former United States Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor recalled to Meidas Touch podcast host Brett Meiselas on Tuesday that he had to drastically dumb down national security reports to ensure that ex-President Donald Trump could interpret them. "This fifty-page memo that we would normally give to any other president about what his options are is something Trump literally can't read. The man doesn't read. We've gotta boil this down into a one-pager in his voice," Taylor said. "And so I had to write this incandescently stupid memo called something like, 'Afghanistan, How to Put America First and Win.' And then bullet by bullet, I summed up this highly classified memo into Trump's sort of bombastic language because it was the only way he was gonna understand," Taylor continued. "I mean, I literally said in there, 'You know, if we leave Afghanistan too fast, the terrorists will call us losers. But if we wanna be seen as winners, we need to make sure the Afghan forces have the strength to push back against these criminals.' I mean, it was that dumb and that's how you had to talk to him."

I can’t imagine Artie Moreno won’t decide to keep Ohtani and take a run at him in the offseason, especially given that Trout is out right now. That fan base would probably revolt.

They’d probably have to play a straight doubleheader, maybe starting at noon, to get teams out for travel at a reasonable hour.

I like looking at FIP- vs ERA.

Only a small percentage of them, and I didn’t start seeing this outside of those few gas stations until maybe since COVID.

I’m sure this will rise to the level of pet peeve as it becomes truly prevalent, but the new practice of businesses to charge an extra fee for you to use a credit card—in the case of the car wash this morning, 3.99%. Two reasons: It’s a way for a business to skim even more money from customers. VISA does not charge 3.99% in fees. They charge, at most, 2.4% of the bill + 10 cents a swipe, and probably most times less than that. So in the case of a $19.99 car wash, that’s 48 cents plus 10 cents equals 58 cents extra in fees, and they just charged me 80 cents. So, for no other reason then they can, they skimmed an extra 22 cents from me on the transaction. That might seem like nothing, but (a) it’s ethically wrong on its face, and (b) it’s free money for them for doing literally nothing more, even if it doesn’t add up to enough for them to buy a mansion and a yacht. It’s part of the same problem the concept of tips and taxes yields: they all work as hidden fees that the merchant does not have to show in the upfront price they promote. So, the car wash gets to promote the car wash as being $19.99 cheap, but in reality they charge an extra 10.25% in taxes and, now, an extra 80 cents for use of credit card. So the final cost ends up being $22.84, not $19.99 as advertised. Add in a 20% tip, and you’re walking out some $27 lighter, not, again, the $19.99 they get to promote. We’re used to it in America, but most of the first world sees merchants required to add taxes into the final cost as a GST, and tips are not a thing in many places. So what we see there is, whatever the cost is advertised at, that’s the final cost. It’s just a level of deception that we take granted in America that benefits merchants at the expense of consumers.

Probably won't if there's no yellow tape

I've got to turn off Twitter alerts during the game so I don't hear we've lost the game before I see it on my screen.

Great play by Rogers! Take THAT, Justin Verlander!

Tork, a #1 overall pick, flummoxes Mickey Moniak, a #1 overall pick.

And he converts it! We are TIED! That was a walkoff bomb in so many ballparks.

Holy ****, TORK!, this is your moment!

What are the chances the red hats will point to this as evidence that the mainstream media is complicit in killing Republicans by encouraging vaccine use, knowing full well Republicans would reject it precisely because the mainstream media encouraged it? I think we've seen that movie already, yes?

I'm not sure I know how to feel about the Republicans' chances for next year. On the one hand I feel like if three-time-loser Trump gets the nomination, he will lose, again, and by a lot, because people will truly be motivated to line up at the polling place at two in the morning to not miss their opportunity to vote against him; and also, middle of the road Rs are still not on board with him and his antics despite "Justice overreach", or whatever it's being called now. On the other hand, if someone like a Chris Christie or Tim Scott or Nikki Haley get the nomination, they may get middle of the roaders to back them enthusiastically, but they'll also lose millions of actually-apolitical MAGAs who would never show up at the polls for anyone except Trump. And that goes double for Haley and Scott, since a lot of them plus other right wingers would never vote for a woman or an Asian or a black. The only way I see out of this, at this point in time, for them is to find some candidate not named DeSantis who can combine the hard right cruelty with both a pleasant disposition and white maleness, a guy no one is thinking about today who comes swooping in seemingly out of nowhere like Obama did. No idea who that could be at the moment.

Either team will get smoked out of the first round.

Turnbull is one of those guys who, I wonder whether his state of mind affects his state of play more than average.

Exactly this. Any team going long on India is going to have to move him off second, and it can't be third, because he has a noodle for an arm. If he keeps going on his current trajectory, I think he's going to have a short career.

This is what I was thinking—if we are looking to build a organization containing hitters of the future, and we believe that Carpenter is a Hitter of the Future, then what are we trying to accomplish by trading him? What are we looking for instead of him? I mean, I get the idea of no one is untouchable and everyone is on the table—what are the chances that we can trade a Kerry Carpenter to help someone today and receive a younger, better, better-defending Kerry Carpenter in return who is simply farther away from the majors? I'm not getting what the there there is for either side in a move like this.

When people working at stores, ballparks, etc. feel free to try to grab your phone when you show them something on it they need to see, like an ID or a ticket or something, and that goes double for when they get all offended and make passive-aggressive remarks when you pull it back and say that’s OK, I can hold it for you.

It’s because the dog whistle is at too high a pitch for us to hear it.

Hypothetical fan reaction doesn't matter as to whether a team brings a guy up from the minors, which is why I didn't say it does. I mentioned it only as a point of interest, relevant to posts made in this forum in the past. I do think the Tigers have an eye on Meadows' future controllability—or rather, I would be surprised if they disregarded it entirely—so unsavory though that idea may be, it might be part of the call-up calculus. If this were the reserve cause era, maybe the organization could freely shuttle guys up and down for their first six years of pro ball without any restrictions (not sure whether that was true even then). But maybe in the era of free agency and arbitration and Super 2s, teams are more circumspect about when to call up a guy and what that means to the finances of the team in the present and near terms. We as fans can fairly rail against that very idea, because it's not really about on-field performance, but unlike the ridiculous idea of fan reaction dictating call-ups, which is easily disabused, the controllability of the player does factor into when the team believes the time is right to call a player up. Does this apply to Parker Meadows' situation? I'm an outsider, so I wouldn't know. But I do know enough to understand that these things do matter when deciding whether to call up a player, and if that is what's keeping Parker Meadows down on the farm, then that's the way it goes, and we'll just have to bide our time waiting for the front office to decide when the time is right for whatever their purposes are.

I agree with this if Meadows is an elite defender, which maybe he is, I honestly don't know either way. If he's merely better than average with the glove, or fails to make Quick Pitch with highlight plays, I think he'll still get raked for struggling at the plate. I'm not sure what the calculation is with the front office. Maybe they don't want a repeat of the Tork situation where he got called up too early. Maybe they have plate appearance or time benchmarks where they are telling him basically no matter what, you're not getting called up until September, or until 2024. I mean, yeah, he's doing all right with his 98 wRC+, but he's not putting up the kind of otherworldly numbers where he's destroying the door that's keeping him from Detroit with his bat. So it wouldn't surprise me not to see him this year. But I hope we do. I'm just as eager as anyone else to see how he does on the big club.