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Only one of this top crop of prospects has graduated, and on that measure, it’s looking pretty good so far.

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Best posts of May 2026, Back-to-Back Division.

Hard to gel with eleven of the 17 guys on your injured list would be on the active roster right now.

If you would choose to stop playing Tork, what would you do with him? Bench him and use him as a pinch-hitter like Jahmai? Exile him to the minors indefinitely? Trade him for whatever you could get? Release him outright?

I don’t think people give enough thought to the idea that the environment of a particular area might be a big contributing factor to the wide spread of certain diseases there. Seems like for a decade or more now, my wife would tell me about yet another person she grew up with who stayed in the area and who died of cancer in their 40s or 50s. She grew up in rural-ish Wisconsin half an hour east of Green Bay, where there has been a lot of industrial farming ever since she was a kid. I suspect the soil and ground water there have been polluted beyond belief. I think a lot of it has to do with the folks there being conditioned to be prejudiced against environmental action, which, I will just leave it there. But I suspect they don’t believe that’s a real factor.

I once read a critique of a critic (oooh, meta) who complained that Marlon Brando, playing Napoleon Bonaparte, had desecrated his performance by using his natural American accent instead of putting on the standard British accent. The critique did not miss the opportunity to point out that a British accent would not have been any more appropriate than an American accent, since Napoleon spoke French.

What, Walmart’s all out of solid major league starters? Bummer.

I totally remember that, and I still replay it in my head every once in a while!

Taking French in high school is certain to lead you to mispronounce “Gratiot”.

Are you done with Tork, then? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I could be talked into that, but then what do we do with him while his value is at low ebb?

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Sadly, none of it is helping anyone except themselves, in any way.

It’s even worse than that: they hated the prevailing norms because it did not explicitly privilege white Christians above all others. They wanted the norms destroyed so they could be seen and honored, even as they themselves don’t recognize it’s all just empty lip service. Who cares if the economy gets tanked, we become impoverished, and America gets stripped for parts? Jesus is coming any day now, anyway.

By the way, I think we can just go ahead and knock the S off the TDS. It’s just Trump Derangement at this point, because his behavior is completely out of range for normal presidents.

The question is right in the post.

Now you’re getting the picture! 😉😝

Gratiot Avenue.

I don't view Olson or Jobe nearly as optimistically as I view Max. A Pipeline-ranked pitching prospect is always viewed more cautiously than the same Pipeline-ranked hitting prospect.

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And that will be well and good if that happen, but it will only flip around when R takes the state back, which will happen not long afterwards. We can keep treating the symptoms, but nothing really changes until we cure the disease.

And you know it will strike a nerve when TrumpSocial starts calling for Hakeem to be hanged as a traitor.

Shocking—in that this is a rare case of Republicans engaging in repugnant and quasi-illegal political behavior that they did not accuse the Democrats of doing to them first.

It could be argued it's not a lie at all, because it is not a salary that he is taking.

I think we agree more than this exchange might suggest. My core point has never been that the left is blameless. It's that there's a meaningful difference between a party feeling electoral pressure on Israel policy versus a party being captured by antisemitic ideology. The former is happening with Democrats more so in recent times. The latter is what's happening on the right, and the two aren't comparable in scope or depth. That's my core point. I'll note here that your hope that a new Israeli government brings Democrats back does suggest that the break between the two, at the governing party level at least, is really about policy, not prejudice, and that's a distinction I've been wanting to draw all along.