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She was in high school during Trump, probably in an area where people love Trump, so she probably wasn't even paying attention and maybe thought he wasn't really a bad guy because that's not what she was hearing.

Speaking of SNL, I think Jost and Che are in the conversation for best Weekend Update hosts ever, and this from this past Christmas was arguably their best-ever joke swap segment.

We haven’t talked about this for exactly one year now, but it occurred to me recently that SNL has transformed itself from a performer’s show back to a writer’s show, in that the scripts are the main thing (writers) and not the recurring characters (performers) which, really, I don’t think this cast has any at all, and I much prefer that.

You misspelled “minutes”.

But also, to Kapur’s point, Trump has revealed that his whole strategy of any-election-I-lose-must-be-fraud to be completely full of ****.

Not saying it's untrue, necessarily, but this is pretty much what we could expect a story about a national DCCC-commissioned poll that doesn't provide any link to the questions to report. There is a chance it's just an endorphin story.

I understand it's not the point you are making, but if Jackson Jobe were elevated to the majors today, it would not be the four youngest players all named Jackson, since Evan Carter is younger than he.

This was probably my favorite:

I was just gonna say that Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown are probably stabbing him over and over right now.

Looks like we are quickly closing in on the "and they lived happily ever after" conclusion to the story.

And honestly, two games in one day feels like too much. It's not because I don't have six hours I can devote to it, but rather, there are other things I like to do with my day as well.

Ah, got it. Makes sense.

I tried!

I wonder what percentage of pitcher contracts are successfully insured? How common was the Strasburg contract situation? That would give us an idea of how far things would have to go to wake up the owners. Maybe that’s one reason hardly anybody was getting super long deals this winter—teams couldn’t get reasonably-priced insurance, so enough of them said no to drive down the market on pitchers and other players with injury history. Not the Dodgers, of course, because they have funny money. And Nola and Hader have both been horses so it was probably easy to insure them.

If you’re going to eventually spend it anyway, why not just spend the money now wherever they accept Apple Cash? Then if it turns out it is someone you know after all, you can dig into your bank account to make them whole.

I’m afraid I have no advice about budget software, but I can totally co-sign onto this sentiment. I had spent the first half-century of my life buying the cheapest option possible (or, just as commonly, the second-cheapest option because of a presumed quality boost over the cheapest) just to save money. Once I turned fifty and started realizing I was going to have to start keeping things literally for the rest of my life, I started buying the highest quality stuff almost regardless of price, and I have never regretted that. It took another ten years to get my wife on board with that, and I’ve got her almost all the way there.

Mr and Mrs Smith, anybody? If you like “Atlanta”, you’ll like this, since many of the same people work on both, and they both have the same feel and approach to photography and dialogue.

Even worse, Ttump appears to be running our foreign policy.

What’s in it for Fox News to allow this woman to lay a big stinking turd on Judge Jeanine’s set?

Are these direct contributions only, or does this include dark super PAC money?

I’ll be impressed when the responsibility extends to the white principal, too.

That might help on the one count, although I’m not sure it would help keep balls from flying out of the park, so pitchers would still need max/max effort on every pitch to avoid that outcome.

Which leads to the $64 question, how does the game get restructured to lead to this? And bonus question, when needs to happen for Baseball to care enough to address it?

It doesn’t much look like they’re gonna get tonight’s game in, and they don’t have a workable common off day until September 23 (unless Thursday after All-Star Game is on the table), so they may have to play a doubleheader. That would make seven games against our key division rival in the next ten days. This might set the tone for the whole season, right here.

I've been giving this a good deal of thought, and I realize that it's possible that the pitching coaching is just far ahead of the hitting coaching. But from a smell-test standpoint, I find that less likely than another hypothesis I've been gravitating toward: as a group, our hitting prospects are simply not as good from a big-league standpoint as our pitching prospects. It's not as though all players are tabula rasas that can all be molded into Hall of Famers under the right circumstances and coaching. Different players have different ceilings. Some will indeed top out at the Hall of Fame level; others top out at the minor league level. When it comes to groups of people, that's just the way things are. My hypothesis is that when it came to player acquisition through the draft, international, minor-league free agents, trades, whatever, the Avila regime may simply have had a better idea of how to acquire pitching talent than hitting talent. I think it might have had something to do with the types of pitchers and hitting they preferred. Avila was known to draft pitchers for speed and spin toward the end, perhaps resulting from the data analysis Jay Sartori put together. But when it came to hitters, Avila always did like scrappy guys who were more run manufacturers than he did on-base guys or big boppers. That's why our system was lousy with that kind of hitter, at least until last year and this. So maybe it's not that the Hinch coaching team is incompetent when it comes to working with hitters. Maybe it's that they simply had less to work with when it came to the hitters they inherited than they had with the pitchers. Here's some more sample size fun for you: this, from FanGraphs, shows all Tigers hitters with at least 20 plate trips, ranked by wOBA: There are twelve such hitters on the Tigers. Five of the top seven are Harris acquisitions. Of the two that aren't, Carpenter was a 19th-round pick so I wouldn't consider it an Avila coup; and the other is Riley Greene, a slam-dunk 1/5 pick. All five at the bottom are Avila pickups. They have all working under the same hitting coach team who all report to A.J. Hinch since February. Again, sample size, so maybe this means nothing and will be completely disproved within the next few weeks. And TBF, this is a blunt table that doesn't take into account the commitment Harris has made to bottom-fiver Colt Keith. But I think this is at least worth watching over the next year or two.