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Who the fuck is Steven Shaviro and why should I care about anything he has to say?

I think Biden is doing great, and assuming he still is by next November, I'll be happy to root for him to win again.

Maybe we should abandon the thing that’s been proven to not work and try something new that might work.

Also, 2012.

And that's when we start burning witches.

lol zerohedge

Sure, but as a tactic in the service of the objective to undermine effectiveness of and confidence in government in general, which is what the Banana Republicans want, might this not be a sneaky good one? There's no penalty among their base for acting the fool—in fact, there appear to be rewards—so it might be a low risk/high reward tactic for their purposes. I wouldn't doubt if they've at least batted around the idea.

This is great. Perfect way to get it all down on the record and in front of those American people who care to see it. Although I am struck by his being able to spool out his entire schtick uninterrupted, which seems remarkable in this era of bad feelings. I wonder at what point, when a congressman starts off on a thing like this, someone on the other side, e.g., a bombthrower like MTG, starts shouting them down, creating a ruckus, forcing the sergeant at arms to remove them from the room, and then going to their friendly media to loudly complain how the woke Congress of the United States suppresses free speech among duly elected representatives of The People, or something like that. That could be another norm they completely destroy in their quest to destroy good government and the rule of law overall. That’s gotta happen at some point, doesn’t it?

He's telling us exactly what kind of country he wants were he to become President again: one governed by the rule of baseball bat.

I agree the difference of not having it versus having it would not be tremendous, although I like the eight-second rule because it helps ensure an alert at bat with 100% concentration on both sides, versus whatever gamesmanship (Max notwithstanding) would occur with the pitcher trying to upset or fool the hitter on timing. I think it results in a more honest at bat. Just an opinion.

It occurs to me that the most important thing that happened that inning leading up to the Trout-Ohtani encounter was the double play Mookie Betts hit into. Remember how Jeff McNeil had walked to start the inning? Had that not happened—had there been a runner on with less than two outs—there is absolutely no way Ohtani would have challenged Trout twice in the middle of the zone, even with 101 in his pocket. With a runner on, the dynamic completely changes from a mistake ties the game to a mistake loses the game and the tournament in one blow. Up a run with one out to go, Ohtani could afford to take the gamble to try to blow Trout off the plate. Twenty-twenty hindsight said it was the right thing to do, but no one knew that going in. Even so, Ohtani still went three balls on Trout, including a wild overthrow for ball three, so with a regular out rather than a double play, it seems a likely outcome that there would have been runners on first and second with one out—an outcome Baseball, and we fans, were blessed to avoid.

I'm glad the pitch clock is at 15/20, I'm glad the batter has to be alert to the pitcher before eight seconds remain, I don't want any special circumstances in which they turn the clock off or expand the amount of time, I'm glad Manfred's proclamation this week didn't change any of these, and I hope they never change them.

Red green blue?

I had one of those! Wow, memories!

This is the spiral walkway outside of San Siro, home to both the AC and Inter Milan Fußball clubs. This is so fun to watch.

They would be Foolish to do this on April 1st.

Regular OOTP is for laptop and not mobile, so I gotta believe it is way deeper and easier to manage than GO.

Speaking of which—great national article today by our local boy.

Devil we know!

So do I, and I think most of us. I just hope while we are cheering her for this, she doesn’t manage to slip some Trumpy bad governance behavior under our radars.

OK, but keep your eye on that gift horse from Troy.

If you stick around to the end of the credits, you will see that Shazzang is written not only by Smigel, but also Louis CK and Dino Stamatopoulos, one of the greatest and most prolific writers in TV late night and sketch comedy history and the guy who played Star-burns on Community.

Does this guy even know who he is anymore?

To whatever degree that this might be true, a player is going to bury that feeling deep, deep inside and never let it come out. Never. Ever. Remember, we're talking about 25-year-old marginal major leaguers being blocked by a 40-year-old Hall-of-Fame legend. These kids grew up watching Miggy their entire lives. He was winning a World series when they were in kindergarten. Miggy is a hero to them in a way we, who are 20+ years his senior, can't possibly imagine feeling about him. It is inconceivable to me that they would allow themselves to be seen complaining about it. What is that going to make them look like to their teammates and the coaching staff, many of whom also revere and even love Miggy? An equivalent to this might be you yourself coming up as an on-the-bubble outfielder with the Brewers organization in 1976 and Hank Aaron is keeping you blocked from getting a spot on the team, so you go back to Spokane for another year. You grew up idolizing Hank Aaron. He was the reason you pursued baseball in the first place. Are you really going to dare to whine to the rest of the team and coaches about it? If so, you're one of the few who would take that risk. I know I wouldn't.

This is an SNL TV Funhouse skit that really gets super dark in the funniest way.