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Kind of interesting how Head is noted here to be "a recovering drug addict". But that's probably not wholly accurate because he was, and might still be, hopped up on MAGA. 3. Jan. 6 rioter who dragged D.C. cop Fanone into crowd handed 7.5 years in prison Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Thursday sentenced a Tennessee man, Albuquerque Head, to 7 1/2 years in federal prison for the brutal attack against D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters. Head, a recovering drug addict, told Fanone he was trying to help him, then dragged him into the crowd by the neck, shouting, "Hey! I got one!" The mob kicked and beat Fanone, and someone repeatedly shocked him with his own Taser. Fanone suffered a heart attack and traumatic brain injury, and later left the department. Head's sentence was the second-longest yet for a Jan. 6 defendant, and the longest among rioters who pleaded guilty. [NBC News, The Washington Post]

Next one out: META? 3. 🙈 Meta has destroyed $800 billion in wealth Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals Current situation: Meta's 75% collapse since its September 2021 peak has destroyed more than $800 billion in stock market wealth.

You don't say.

I think it's a fluke. He lost six games in a seven-game span in 2008, and five games in a seven-game span in 2014. He'll still be a slam-dunk first-round inner-circle Hall-of-Famer.

Baby steps ...

Remember when Manfred said minor league players don't need unionization, or more pay, or labor protections, or anything along those lines because they all have that sweet, sweet bonus money they got when they were drafted, or signed as teenage AFAs? What a dick.

I thought players were paid once a month? Maybe I heard that about a specific team and they're all different.

Justin Verlander Spotlight Justin Verlander takes the mound for the Astros in Game One. This will be Verlander's eighth start in a World Series, but he'll be hoping for a better outcome than he's had in his previous seven starts. Verlander has an 0-6 record in the World Series, and his 5.68 ERA is third highest all-time among those with five World Series starts. Player ERA W L Don Newcombe 8.59 0 4 Carl Erskine 5.83 2 2 Justin Verlander 5.68 0 6 Don Sutton 5.26 2 3 Hank Borowy 4.97 3 2 Gary Nolan 4.96 1 2 Bob Shawkey 4.75 1 3 Clayton Kershaw 4.46 3 2 Burleigh Grimes 4.29 3 4 Hal Schumacher 4.13 2 2 See the full list on Stathead.com

Well, it did get amped up pretty recently. Remember this?

Maybe some on both sides? Maybe certain red hats who respond only to Trump would come out to vote instead of sitting on the sidelines because his name is not on the ballot. And maybe Trump back on Twitter would freak some people the fuck out and drive them to the polls to vote against Republicans. Either way, I think it would influence marginally higher turnout, rather than vote-switching. We're less than two weeks out from the final day to vote, so I'm doubtful such an October surprise will be unleashed in time for 2022.

"Hey, crime is random. Couldn't have been planned. Why would Republican voters want to harm Democrat leaders?" Next: "Democrat voters, on the other hand ..."

And so it progresses ... When is the first political murder of an elected Democrat going to occur? It doesn't have to be someone in Washington—it could be anyone in any number of ... ahem ... battleground states. Or maybe even a unicorn D in a deep red state. It's gotta be within the next 12 months, right?

Not the first time Cramer has done this kind of thing. Remember when Jon Stewart had him on his show and got Cramer to break down and basically apologize for his role in being a PR arm for Wall Street and leading investors into the teeth of the stock monster in 2008? Then Cramer went on some other NBC property, maybe the Today Show, the next day to talk about how unfair Stewart was and recast the segment as him putting Stewart straight. Net net: no lesson learned. And now we have this. I'm guessing Cramer will recast his apology yesterday into something self-exonerating soon enough.

The red hats are already convinced and are shoveling their money in Trump's direction, so SS guy doesn't have to testify.

What's twice a week?

How’s this for an October surprise! I honestly don’t know how Trump getting immediately unbanned from Twitter would cook the election.

The last franchise quarterback the Lions drafted yielded three wild card losses and nine playoff misses in his 12 years here.

Do you believe this? I don't.

Not only has the South won the peace after losing the war, they are apparently still engaging the peace.

If the Phillies can somehow manage to beat the Astros in the Series, they will be the team with the third-worst record to win a ring—and the team with the worst-record to have not beaten the Tigers on their way to the ring.

Leading to the Contract on America ...

Great. Just in time to hand it all over to the Republicans so they can claim credit, then crash it again and blame Democrats.

I was just thinking something like that ... "Too bad Meadows doesn't have a wife on the Supreme Court ..."

Indeed. I'm not advocating for a mandated set of criteria writers must use to vote on MVP. It's basically up to the individual writer. If I had a vote, I wouldn't take the team's record into account.