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I think you know that it's not just him that I'm talking about.

Just what I wasn’t looking forward to.

See you again in 2024, Matt.

Not for nothing, I think this may be why Republicans are willing to sign onto legislation tightening up the electoral certification process for presidential elections. In the same way they want us to forget they are for total bans on abortion during the election cycle, they also want us to forget that they are actually anti-democracy during the election cycle, until they can safely eradicate democracy once they take democratic control of the other two branches of government.

It's starting to occur to me that Bernie prefers Republicans to be in power because then he gets more attention for his socialist megaphone. He needs the country to go extreme to the right so people will take his extreme-to-the-left rhetoric seriously. But as long as centrist Democrats are in control and making things happen for the people instead of the plutocrats—things like student debt forgiveness, infrastructure law, climate change action, gun restrictions, anti-hate and -violence laws and the like—as long as things are going in the right direction, the people who like those things aren't as receptive to Bernie's turn-everything-upside-down-and start-over message. This is what I see behind Bernie's sandbagging the Democrats this late in the cycle.

That's kind of what I thought when I heard about the charging stations along the interstate. They'll make some of them like toll road oases with multiple fast food joints and a c-store.

At the point I believe Schoop will hit somewhat better and defend somewhat worse next year, and will end up around 2 WAR, which is passable for a team looking to compete but not yet contend.

I agree, and I’m excited to see who goes!

Batting leadoff: The one thing I still object to when it comes to buying a fully electric vehicle is right in this article: By year’s end, drivers could start seeing expansions and upgrades to existing highway EV stations in states such as California, Colorado, Florida and Pennsylvania that now feature at least four fast-charger ports, enabling EVs to fully recharge in about an hour. "About an hour" ... that's way too long. If I am driving across the country and I have time to make, I don't want to have to take one hour in every five waiting around for my vehicle to fill up before I can keep going—and that's setting aside the idea that all the chargers might be full once I get there and I'll have to waiting possibly hours to get charged up in the first place. They've got to get charging down to 15 minutes or less to get me really interested in going 100% EV.

I'm not sure whether this has strong enough legs to carry as its own political topic, but I figure with the approval to build an EV charging station network, as mentioned in the following post, plus the fact that most of us are based or have roots in the car capital, I would think there will still be a lot of political wrangling about this issue in the years to come ... as well as a lot of funny and relevant tweets about the topic we can repost here.

Debbie Downer says: When the Republicans do systematically steal an actual election, it will be impossible to overturn because of this bill, since it will still come down to partisan votes in the chambers. That's right. "When".

This may or may not be funny to you. I rather liked it.

Like I say, Aaron Judge seems like a fine fella and it's nothing personal. I'm just not looking forward to the garbage moral takes about "clean".

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I have nothing against Aaron Judge personally—he seems like an OK-enough guy—but I am actively rooting against his making 62 or even 61 home runs. Part of it is Yankee hate, sure, since the national media will crow that it always was a record that rightfully belongs to the Yankees, because barf. But the bigger reason is that I am not looking forward to the unseemly moralizing about Judge getting the "real record", i.e., one that people haven't discounted because of the so-called steroid era. The media will wax idiotic about how Judge is "clean", the way Pujols is "clean", and the way any other home run hitter writers personally like are declared to be "clean". And, by definition, anyone who exceeded 61 home runs since Maris is "dirty". We will be hearing about that incessantly for the rest of our natural lives. I realize I'm hoping against hope that he will fall short, because he almost surely will not fall short, but speaking only for myself, I'm not looking forward to the moralizing that will attend to it. This is only my opinion and you may not share it, and that's OK.

You're right, and I also believe that it wouldn't matter so much if Trump was saying all the same knuckle-headed MAGA garbage in the exact same words—if his voice sounded like Bill Buckley's while he was doing so, he would not be nearly as popular. We may find out with DeSantis whether this hypothesis holds water, although it's also possible that his tone and voice will be adjusted to connect with the red hats more viscerally.

In their last 30 games, the Dodgers have gone 20-10. That stretch reduced their season winning percentage from .699 to .693.

I don’t think this gets acknowledged much, but I do believe a big part of Trump’s appeal is that he talks like a Queens stevedore, something he leveraged on his TV show to spike his popularity among the people who like that type of show. It sounds like tough talk, which is basically the only thing red hats respect. If Trump sounded like Bill Buckley—or, in this case, Ron DeSantis—I don’t think he’d be nearly as popular.

I’m sure there’s some perfectly valid, law-abiding, law-enforcing reason Paxton is fleeing the law. Too bad Bunker isn’t here to tell us about Paxton’s socialist, baby-eating, Manchurian candidate election opponent.

That’s because they figure girls don’t need STEM to raise kids, bake cookies, and clean house.

You’re right, I missed one. D’Oh. Pujols started in 2001 when Harold Baines was in the game Baines started in 1980 when Willie McCovey was still in the game. And so on …

And a clear bonus is that if you have to recite your number to a worker, there’s no way they recognize the number unless they are white people between age 50 and 64.

I would bet Schoop comes back. He just had a season of elite D, plus a super low BABIP that might be driven by a receded EV and barrel rate that’s more a symptom of poor swing mechanics and timing than eroding raw power—i.e., he might be fixable. He’s probably not done done, and we’re not going to DFA him or anything like that. I also don’t see Scott Harris “alaviling” Schoop away in trade, although if Harris can swing a trade with actual decent return, given the potential for Schoop’s bat to be fixed, that’s within the range of outcomes, too.

There sure is a lot of wishcasting about A.J. getting axed among Tiger fans in multiple forums.

We can do a whole six degrees with this: Pujols started in 2001 when Willie McCovey was in the game McCovey started in 1959 when Enos Slaughter was still in the game. Slaughter started in 1938 when Waite Hoyt was still in the Game. Hoyt started in 1918 when Bobby Wallace was still in the game. Wallace started in 1894 John Montgomery Ward was still in the game. Ward started in 1878 when Al Spaulding was still in the game. Spaulding started out in the 1871 National Association. There’s our six degrees.