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Out loud belly laugh that Real Women of Politics are selling something called koozies.

I’m coming round to the idea that the all-Republican government of 2017-18 was basically the dog that caught the car—not because they didn’t know what to do with it, but rather they knew it was a bad idea to do anything with it. Republicans as currently constructed is an “anti” entity—they get their power being anti-Democrats, anti-woke, anti-trans, anti-etc. So they need to be seen as being on the outside to maintain their power. If they started making decisions once they got power, they would not only be held accountable for those decisions, but they would also come to be considered insiders, which among that base would be a one-way ticket to the outside of the party. I think that’s why they did basically nothing even when they were in control: it was have been political suicide for them to do anything.

Fear and loathing gets better ratings than competence.

America the Beautiful.

The rot runs way, way deep. Gonna take a lot a lot of work to clean it up.

I just have to shake my head and chuckle at all the organizational concerns about third base and our lack of clarity about it, when for a few years there seemingly everybody Avila drafted or traded for was supposed to play third base.

It’s still April. A.J.’s got plenty of time to mix and match and see who can do what when where how. No need to land on a permanent lineup yet.

This is what I always hoped I would see when I was stumping all last year for Lange to be closer.

I like seeing my right fielder make a good play after communicating with the center fielder, and then seeing them share a laugh and a glove bump after.

Glad Baddoo got the walk, but that can’t remain his top offensive weapon and keep his job.

A.J. gonna figure out who can do what!

Robot umpires now.

Pinch runner, please.

Apparently not all of Schoop’s good defense was because of the shift. That was a hell of a play he made.

Totally agreed. My comment was about the hypocrisy and/or naivete of the tweet, that Murdoch acted out of concern that *ucker promoted the insurrection—something he had been doing for 27 months straight, along with numerous other air heads who have done the same and are still employed there at this very minute—as though he did/they are doing so against Murdoch's will. That is an asinine idea on its face, and this kind of coy, even cute mealy-mouthing in the face of such blatant obviousness is a big pet peeve of mine. If there is anything Murdoch is concerned about here, it is not about the coverage itself, which by allowing it to go on for over two years he's demonstrated he clearly had no problem with. It's only the blowback he cares about. LA Times should be better than that.

I was just coming in to post this very thing, minus the waiting a week part. *ucker would be an incredible get for them because he is already an established star there, and Murdoch would **** an entire brick because a third of Fox's audience would go to RT with *ucker. The only thing I can imagine that might prevent it is that it would shine a huge light on Russia's control ... or influence, if you prefer ... of America's right wing media in a manner way too obvious even for them.

That's a slow-boiling concern if it took more than 27 months for Murdoch to act on it.

Easy—just make Missouri an open-brandish state. Problem solved.

The speculation around MTG or Kari Lake or Kristi Noem, I don’t see how Trump chooses any of them because they all have their own heat, and that attracts heat away from Trump, and no way Trump allows that to happen. He might fantasize about them as VPILFs, but that’s probably as far as that will go. I think it’s going to be Nikki Haley. She’s fully on board with the MAGA fascism, but she’s also relatively quiet and demure, even attractish in a somewhat exotic way, yet still very accessible to unworldly MAGA voters, and of course she ticks the woman and minority boxes. The only minus on her card is that she’s a known flip-flopper, which could endanger her MAGA credentials, but there is no perfect good-looking woman VP candidate, at least at this point anyway. So unless someone new comes onto the national scene, which could certainly happen in the next year-plus, I think it’s gonna be her.

Are these Nielsen average minutes, or weekly or book cumes? Or maybe live-plus-sevens? That would help explain way Sunday Morning is so high.

Sad way to lose, on a suboptimal throw to the plate.

Las Vegas immediately becomes the smallest market in the majors and, to your point, a tough sell to tourists coming in to gamble. Unless they create a gambling paradise on-site where people who go there can leave the area of play to go gamble in air-conditioned comfort elsewhere on the grounds. I could see them doing deals with local casinos offering baseball/gambling package trips, where the tickets are folded into the package cost and not line-itemed out in the total cost.

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