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I don’t know that it’s even meant as a compliment, ignorant or not. Usually when someone gets called out for making some odious conclusion about an entire class of people like “Jews are good with money” or “black people have natural rhythm”, they’ll protest that it’s meant as a “compliment”. Yeah, right. The idea that Jews have some built-in racial or genetic trait that nobody else has that naturally makes them good with money is too icky to seriously contemplate. I do think it’s fair to hypothesize that there might be a cultural or educational tendency that gets passed down and taught through generations of families, but when people with certain beliefs refer to Jews being “good with money”, that’s almost certainly not how they mean it.

They also had the second best run differential/pythag record in the league (96-66).

It’s a real question. If there’s someone else better we should get instead, then who is that? If there’s no one else, then should we have stayed with what we have on the team/in the system instead and keep Holub plugging away at A+ or AA? Or will Canha do for a year, instead? This was the set of options in front of us when it comes to getting a RHH in the outfield.

I just look at Wacha’s Ref card and he has what is probably the most complicated set of options I have ever seen. There was a $16MM team option and a $6.5MM player option for 2024, and since the team declined their option, Wacha can still exercise his option. If the team exercised their 2024 option, there would be another $16MM team option and $6MM player option for 2025, but since the team option was declined for 2024, if Wacha exercises his 2024 player option, he has the player option for 2025. But if the team then exercised its 2025 option after Wacha exercises his 2024 player option, then Wacha would lose his 2026 player option for $6 million. But if Wacha exercises his player options for both 2024 and 2025, then he would have a 2026 player option for $6 million at his disposal. Got all that?

Who would you rather have seen us get instead?

The Padres have a lot of non-utility star players and they are a one-county market, so they could probably use some more fans. 😉

FWIW, Brewers fans hate hate hate the deal.

I like Canha on the Tigers for a year. RHH outfielder to balance the LHH glut in the OF. Controls the plate, especially avoiding strikeouts. Very good contact skills, doesn't chase. Maybe a little too patient, though—takes a lot of called strikes. Has been very clutch this year. Good on-base although not much pop. Doesn't hit the ball hard and he hits a lot of flies, which tends to hurt him. It would be nice if he could hit more line drives. So-so range and a bit of a noodle for an arm, but he'll catch the ball if it finds him.

Eduardo was also the only other guy on the team from Venezuela.

This is quite touching.

The truth is resilient.

Also her red velvet cake.

Remember this? This is how people get all misty-eyed about the bravery of their soldiers and the valor of war in that part of the world, pesecially since the battles happen right there. Yes, this is Got Talent in Ukraine, not Russia, but they both feel the same way about the massive sacrifices: it is to be honored throughout history, and even something to strive for as a legacy.

Do we even have that kind of time? The two historical things working against it that I can think of are that the war is still super popular because Russia has a history of superpatriotism, and also of giving up tens of millions of their boys and men for the Motherland. They all know what they’re getting into when these kinds of things start.

I would think anything above maybe 4% would be callable so yeah, get it while it’s hot.

Aunt Tara is a dirty commie libtard? Who knew?

I'm just wondering whether these superannuated NTs are going to even see this spot online while they're parked in front of their local CBS affiliate watching crime procedurals.

Subtracting the Never Trumpers and the committed red hats, I'm honestly not sure who that leaves in numbers great enough to swing elections. But, to your point, there may be a unique driver of votes in that particular district for which this might be effective,

That seems to me like a rather fine needle to thread, given were probably still talking about conservative people primarily over 50, but they must know what they’re doing.

Well then what are we even doing here?

Oh yeah, that’ll make a dent with the Boomer red hats … 😜

No TV or cable station has a slot exactly two minutes and twenty second long available, is my pedantic point. They budget every second in blocks of 30.

Right. There's been a lot of coding and inferences, and not so much apparent. Just looking for more apparent.

No need to. It may not have been an outright claim that the bucket of antisemitism the progressives carry is filled to the exact same degree as the bucket of antisemitism the right wingers carry. But there was at least an implication that antisemitism on the left has increased since Gaza, and that it's obvious and everyone can see it. I just haven't really seen that, explicitly. All I have seen is criticism of Israel by the left that is conflated with antisemitism, or incidents happening in bastions of progressivism where the antisemitism is assumed to have been by progressives, based on location. I'm open to the idea that all this is true, since I have no dog in that particular match either way, I'm just looking for something more concrete than inferences.

The point was never about whether progressives can criticize Israel, or criticize supportive statements about Israel's policies in Gaza. It's in part about whether the act of criticizing itself constitutes antisemitism. I don't see why progressives can't criticize what Fetterman said for reasons other than antisemitism—that is, I don't think doing so makes it de facto antisemitism. So unless there is antisemitism apparent in the critical statements being made about Fetterman, I don't see how it relates to that point.