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This guy is a shut-down closer if he can get those walks under three.

That sounds about right. EDIT: Dag, man, two hours too late. It’s still close enough to seven bills, though. He’ll make up the difference when he finishes top five for NL MVP. 😁

lol Bernie and the Squad killing European-style socialism in America. Conservatives have been arguing against any whiff of that since presidents had moustaches.

I don’t think that not sharing MTG tweets in this forum, which we do purely for the batshit entertainment value of it all, would have even one iota of effect on her. I would agree that news outlets should not routinely share her tweets in news stories, beyond those instances in which the tweets make actual news.

I'd hit that.

Just from going to the National League, he should get a boost. Nationals Park is more favorable to LHH than RHH, so they'll have to fix that part of him. Not sure whether they can, since the Nationals are still a bit of a retrograde organization when it comes to data science.

Al Avila could have had a V-8.

I agree with this, and I'm OK with Miggy coming back to the team as a special advisor to the CEO, or even as a bigger-than-life mentor to Latin players. Something ceremonial or low-level along those lines.

I interpret this to mean that the actual number of worker deaths runs well into the thousands.

The happens to us on occasion, maybe three or four times a year or so. Our doorbell is right next to the front gate, right by the sidewalk. Probably more than ten thousand people walk by it every year, and it’s so easy to just reach out and ring it and keep walking. I’m a little surprised it doesn’t happen a lot more often.

I agree that Holy Grail is better for kids—at least for middle and high schoolers—although Life of Brian is the best Python movie by a mile. It teaches you more about life in Judea around 0 BCE than any gospel can. I remember a lot of years ago being in a group at a house party at Ferris State College talking about movies we loved. Life of Brian had been out maybe a couple years and I mentioned it and one of the other guys said oh yeah, he loved that movie. I started quoting lines from it like “wolf nipple chips, get ‘em while they’re hot, they’re lovely”, and he looked at me like I was nuts. He said I don’t know what you’re talking abut, but Life of Brian is the only movie that ever made me cry. Turned out he was thinking of Brian’s Song.

Yes, this. Attempts of facts and logic actually has the opposite effect, because doing so bestows legitimacy on trolls and recasts them as honest actors.

I’ve been surprised by how quiet the noise about “voter fraud” has been, but as we get closer to the moment of truth, the noise is getting steadily louder, and its effect is getting closer to the actual levers of power. January 3 is going to be a mess.

The TV station seems to be perfectly OK with it all since they accepted footage from and credited the retrograde organization that admitted they were behind the whole thing, and then amplifying support from normal-seeming sports fans.

As if God gives a shit about America.

I'm not sure how this relates to my post? In any event, I do think Harris will take the steering wheel for the first year, in order to establish his own philosophy and processes on a system that's beyond broken, and will hire a GM to slide into that system once it's well-established enough.

What, no FA Cup thread? Where else am I gonna talk about Dag & Red’s stunning 1-1 draw against a clearly superior Gillingham XI?

I'm not sure what you're trying to lead me to?

The streets and avenues here in The Big City are routinely cracked and broken, and stay that way throughout the spring, summer and into the fall. There may be some patching up here and there, but they go mostly untouched as the year continues to unfold. Riding bicycles on these streets can be a real horrorshow (e.g., Milwaukee Ave between North Ave and Wabansia). Then, all of a sudden, starting in early October, as if by magic, road repair crews start descending on all parts of The City en masse, engaging in a feverish flurry of activity. You can hardly go more than a mile on any major thoroughfare before you see entire sections of road closed off, or lanes barreled off, for blocks on end. Traffic halts to a standstill even on low-traffic days and times as crews actively shut down access and egress for several minutes at a time to allow this dump truck or that loader to ferry broken asphalt and dirt from this point to that. This goes on all the way up to December 30, at which point, as if by magic once more, everything related to road repair evaporates completely from the scene, leaving nary a trace save for some still-blocked-off roads that will remain as such well into late spring, at the very least. You're a savvy person. I don't have to tell you why this is. The best part of all this, of course, is that we get these brand spanking new roads, smooth as glass, in place just in time for the coldest months of the year, during which they buckle and break as the temperatures careen from sub-zero to thaw levels to sub-zero and then back again, until they can present themselves as freshly-cracked and -broken streets and avenues to my bicycle once I pull that out of hibernation in late April or so.

Mize is a really interesting case. He was the consensus 1-1 pick a few years ago, so Avila can hardly be blamed to selecting the guy literally everyone else would have selected. But there were also biomechanic red flags he was throwing up, both in body motion and pitch selection, that posters on the old board flagged right away. A lot of us knew surgery was only a matter of time, but now with another guy in charge, one who is also installing his own team of executives and coaches, a fresh set of eyes will be cast on Mize to determine whether he really is an ace, or more like a serviceable 2/3 on a bad team or a 4/5 on a good one.

He'll probably get there eventually but I would guess that for the first year, Harris is going to be point man on a lot of decisions, including relatively minor player moves, so that he explicitly establishes both the change in culture and the benchmarks by which subsequent hires will be expected to hew to.

lol weather

I suppose, albeit “old news” that serves us well be to reminded of on occasion.

To be fair, it is one of the stories.

Apropos of nothing, it would be so fun if the not-properly-vetted staff screwed up an invitation to Stephen Miller to attend one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago spyfest shindigs, and Stephanie Miller showed up instead.