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It's not about getting Republicans to watch the Daily Show and then turning them away from Trump. It's about getting the Democrats and independents who watch the Daily Show to get motivated to go to the polls.

I love how Trump got momentarily freaked by a black guy coming up from behind him.

Of course she will, because Nikki Haley is not a leader. She is a follower. If she's not explicitly following Trump like a puppy dog as a sycophant in his administration, she is following the whims of the mob whose votes she desperately craves as a measure of self-esteem.

Even Obama can't campaign from the grave.

Should I book it under the Yamamoto and Hader signings? 😉

If only it did not make complete and total sense to the red hats ...

Which is why he is shifting gears on attacking Haley herself and is now attacking anyone who might support Haley.

I think of Morrissey as emblematic of the burying-crystals-in-the-garden-to-charge-them-with-the-Earth's-energy left. I should know. I had this one girlfriend ... Marianne Williamson is their candidate.

Something here, in a big liberal city? Yeah, I can see that.

Well, the media being the enemy of the people and all …

Yeah, he's 30 and he's not going to become an on-base guy with power, but if they mitigate to the point where he's .320 vs .270 on base with the same SLG, that would work out fine.

About time we started calling a spade a spade around here.

Yes, and more: it’s also about the active effort to destroy the system and its government so they can solidify the whole system of grift as the permanent basis of power. By the way: nice one on the political assassinations coming from Inside the house. I got filleted on the old board eight years ago for perpetrating “Alarmist Non-sense” by suggesting that’s an example of where things would go with that guy in power. Glad to see I’m getting company on this one.

I think you’re basically right, and I also think it’s more: it’s being seen to have committed to the choice, and once that happens, they can never admit they made a mistake because of how stupid it would make them look, so they double down over and over because better that everything literally go up in flames than to ever admit being wrong.

I don’t think there is any danger of anyone doing anything in Bannon’s name. The only prayer anyone has of succeeding Trump as the leader of the nihilist cruelty movement is to be anointed by Trump himself. I can’t think of anyone who ever succeeded the founder of a personality cult who didn’t come from the founder’s loins, and Donnie is too stupid and colorless to maintain this one.

The problem, beyond the idea that the Democrats would never allow that to happen to the people, is that, even if republicans could somehow force it to happen under Biden, he gets 100% of the blame for it.

Yeah, it ain’t gonna be about the money once that happens.

Mize has 3.111 in service time, so does that change your off the cuff calculation on that?

To be fair, Baez is in the best shape of 99% of other guys’ lives.

Hey, @Edman85, curious about your opinion on something: Suppose Casey Mize had come up, not get hurt so much, and been more or less an average pitcher throughout his first three pre-arb years in the big leagues. Say, right around 100 ERA+ and maybe 120 to 150 innings pitched per year. Not All-Star level, but not AAAA-level, either. What would you estimate his first arb year salary would have been? Then, if he repeated that performance for yet another year, what do you think his second arb year salary would be? Looking for a sense of perspective here.

Good morning: ... days until pitchers and catchers report.

Can't say he didn't get a fair shot here.

This might be only a me thing, but, here goes. When I am working out a situation in person or on the phone with a vendor—a rental car agency, for example—and they lay out what the situation is, I like to explain it back to them and have them answer yes or no to make sure I understand. Seems easy to me: "OK, let me play it back to you to see if I understand—this, then this, then that. Do I have that straight?" And they reply either yes that's right, or no this other thing instead. Then I play it back again with the correction to make sure I have it right, until we are both on the same page. Sounds logical and even easy, to me, anyway. Most of the time it works fine, but every once in a while, you get someone who simply can't do this, or who don't understand what I'm trying to do. I say, "Let me play this back to see whether I understand ...", I get one point into it, then they take over replaying part of the spiel and start introducing new information that didn't come out before. Then I say, "OK, let me see if I understand that ...", and I get one point into that, and then they say, no no no no you're not listening to me, and then start the whole thing all over again, perhaps with points they had made before now missing. Meanwhile, I'm going crazy because they're going all over the place and scrambling my understanding of the situation. It's maddening. It was even worse today because when I started explaining what I thought I understood, the rental car agent started talking over me, I was talking over her to ask her please, just listen to me and let me explain it to you so I understand, and she did not pause for even a beat from her obviously scripted spiel. As it turns out, when I finally did get through to her with my understanding of it, she had completely misunderstood both the return date and the return venue for the car. I imagine she was getting flustered and was retreating into the known spiel to anchor herself which, fine, I suppose I get that, but that doesn't help me understand the deal we're trying to work out. It had basically descended into a battle of wills. Some people apparently cannot effectively process changes on their feet. Everything they deal with has to fit neatly into whatever the spiel they learned is, or they withdraw or shut down. Those people should not have jobs facing customers.

"What's this 'WNBA' I keep hearing about? Do white people have their own league now?"

It's ending in their world, anyway.