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OK, I’ll have to try to remember to watch these ladies next year and see whetehr they’re actually bolting like this as the pitch crosses the plate, which is the rule in slo-pitch.

lol i keep forgetting that’s how BP is used around here. There’s another one used like that around here, I forget which one

And, more importantly, not getting paid for long.

Llol Alanna Rizzo No Ohtani. No Judge. No Goldschmidt. Trout #8. Salvador Perez even being on it. Apparently based on criteria other than baseball playing.

Speaking of base running techniques: one inexplicable thing I will never understand is anyone who leads off from the back of the base. A lot of women I play with in softball, especially those who have team experience from their school years, do this. I will never, ever, ever understand it.

I still play and I still do it the same way I always did: clipping the left lower corner of the bag with the outside edge of my right foot on the turn. That probably cuts a foot or so off the distance versus trying to clip it with my left foot, since that way most of the body is over the bag versus my way where the none of the body is over the bag.

I think the base line is meant only for running through first base so batter-runners can’t run all the way to the stands to avoid a tag. I believe once the ball gets into the outfield there’s not need to stay within that lane.

I’m pretty sure we signed Miller to do more than throw batting practice. I like the signing as a good bullpen depth move. Miller added a splitter last season and was crushing hitters with it, although the flip side is that his already high-ish walk rate spiked. Maybe the Whisperer mentioned seeing something he could work with and that why they went for him. Miller’s also going to get a chance to close some games early on since his contract has incentives based on that. It may or may not work, but might as well try him there because who else we gonna put there? Lange or bust?

Manafort. https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512613-five-takeaways-from-final-senate-intel-russia-report/ You’re welcome.

I’ll never forget his 2008 meltdown live on Fox Views. 👨‍🍳💋

News flash: your “Democrats could” is not the equivalent of the actual “Trump did”.

The difference being that no Democrat ever incited their followers to storm any capitols to overturn elections that Republicans won.

It just proves that Biden wants illegals to flood the streets with fentanyl.

The Electoral College is why Trump TKO’ed Hillary. More people voted for Hillary to be president than voted for Trump.

I think a lot of it has to do with the black-and-white version of the world people are brought up in. Right and wrong. Good and evil. God and Satan. It's either all one or all the other. They don't learn about shades or gray when they're little, probably because their parents and teachers don't know much about it, and when they're confronted with it as adults, they get confused and annoyed and suspicious and reject it. I think that's why so many people fall prey to charlatans: believing in the absolutism of good and evil yields easy answers, and when charlatans merely cloak themselves in the trappings of what's considered good, simple people accept them without question. I think America, as a society with a high percentage of its people steeped in judgmental religion, is more susceptible to his line of thinking than most countries, or at least most first-world countries. It's almost as though we're a first-world country with a third-world culture, and even people who aren't religious, or who reject religion, people who consider themselves educated and worldly, are affected by it, I think. It's mostly harmless, until the moment it's not.

That's because you're super emotional and can't think your way past that.

Sure, i would expect that, but they don't know any better.

Meaning there are people who truly believe Biden stole the election working in various state houses and whatnot. Horrifying as being a true believer in this is, it's dishonest only if they know for a fact it's all a lie. If they truly believe it, they can be said honestly argue their case. That's what I mean.

They may actually, perhaps even honestly, argue Biden's entire presidency is an insurrection against a free and fair election that Trump won in 2020.

It's not escaping my notice that no actual Muslim leaders are even mentioned in the press release, so its provenance is, at the very least, suspect. This might as well be a missive straight from Trump campaign headquarters, aka the Kremlin. Not for nothing, the guy's X feed is extremely pro-Trump.

That's kind of the part I'm concerned about—that this entire episode is going to convince people who were on the fence, or maybe even some on the margins who had left him, to conclude that the despotic Biden government is abusing its power and they must elect Trump to stop him.

2024 Angels = 2022 Tigers.

Same here. I was in what they called "special ed" at the time so there wasn't much baseball discussed among the kids at school or with me at home, but once they got into the World Series even I had to become aware of them. Then when I discovered how much numbers were a part of the game—basically like crack to an almanac maniac like me—I was hooked. I couldn't wait to play it myself!

I think you underestimate the increase in fear of Trump and the Republicans in general since 2016, and you might be whistling past the graveyard believing that since things have always been calm and under control no matter who's in office, that things will always be calm and under control no matter who's in office. Granted, there are a lot of ignorant people who know no more about Trump than they did eight years ago, and who don't care about him because he doesn't directly impact their own lives. To that, two things: (1) there are a lot fewer of those people now than there were in 2016; (2) If they never knew or cared about him, they're not going to vote anyway. I like Biden and I am not a "Dem loyalist", and I have posted here after not voting D. But I can see that he and his administration are doing a great job of getting this country back on track. Everybody can point to this thing or that where they don't like how Biden is handling it, but on balance, he's one of the best presidents of my lifetime.