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That makes me wonder what kind of acting out is going to ensue once it’s clear Trump is off the scene for good. I don’t think it will be any sort of coordinated attacks, but there might well be a slew of internet-connected lone wolf acts.

You can't criticize a crippled governor. That's racist, man.

I love the idea of their cruel hearts being broken, that they are broken as humans. That’s a good angle to impact the people in the middle, especially around Christmas.

Because we’re trying to bring the world together, it’s others who are divisive. We’re not dividing people, you are. That’s the gospel of Roy Cohn.

Trump is becoming more and more of a comic book character.

I've always hated the word "entitlements" as applied for tax-supported welfare, which almost all the recipients themselves have paid taxes for either before or currently. And yet, not only do Republicans routinely use this term, but so do Democrats, the media, and basically just about everybody calls them, as though the people who qualify for them are entitled assholes or something.

So-o-o-o ... who's in for TSLA?

I was coming down here to say the same thing, but you beat me to it, so I'ma give you a like on that one. Dad humor FTW.

Well, that’s it. Sacked on third and three. See ya next year, boys.

If they don’t score a touchdown on this first possession, and with conviction, this game is practically over.

Media question: Chris Myers was one of the top ESPN Sportscenter hosts at one time. How did he drop to being the play by play guy on the eighth team for Fox?

The old Lions showed up for the game today. They are playing like a team that thought their press clippings were going to win this game for them and propel them to the playoffs. The same way the 1980 Lions thought that parodying a popular record when they were four-and-fucking-oh would be enough to take them to the Super Bowl.

Honolulu blow and dirty gray.

Oh noes, how can the Mets ever win 115 games without him?

Teammates on all his teams have always hated him, going back to at least UCLA. He’s one of those loner prodigies who marches to the beat of his own drummer. That’s fine as far as it goes, but he’s also a loudmouth about it, and as it turns out, people don’t like being around that.

Bauer is so toxic here, he might end up in Asia. He definitely is a ball rat, so if at all possible, he’s gonna play somewhere anywhere.

This is a good swing at it, although are the Mets looking for marginal salary relief? They just signed Danny Mendick to a million dollar big league deal just to stick him in Syracuse since he has something like four guys ahead of him on the chart.

Without doing any research on it, which I might try to do at some point, I’m guessing there are certain attributes on the Statcast cards that are somewhat predictive and others that are far less so. Going out on a limb here, I don’t think xBA and xSLG are all that predictive, and hard hit % might not be much more predictive, because they are the result of batted ball which has a high degree of luck attended to it. But I’m guessing K% and BB% are probably more predictive because they reflect more a pitcher’s stuff, the ability to pound the zone and elicit swing and miss. Again, that’s just going out on a limb and making a guess educated by looking at a lot of this stuff, and not taking into account any concerted changes hitters and pitchers make to address weaknesses that could change a guy’s card year over year.

Maybe it's because they need it to remain a live, unsolvable issue so they can continue to shoot arrows at Democrats over it? Because once it gets solved, that arrow disappears from their quiver, and then they'd have to elevate some other easy and reliable garbage issue to animate their low-information base with in its place.

I had assumed he was "donating" his salary to some fakety-fake hastily-registered P.O.-box-type 501(c)(3) that got funneled back into his pocket.

I think it's likely he gets churned.

Is true. They don't keep most players until free agency. Franco won't last anywhere near 11 years in Tampa. Longoria signed for ten years with them after the 2012 season. He lasted five there.