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I’ve been watching Amazon’s FreeVee for Mad Men reruns. The show has natural commercial breaks built into it and, of course, the commercials come mostly mid-scene, even mid-sentence. And, also of course, the same spots endlessly. The only lemonade in the situation is that they must have client-side frequency caps in place, so once you get deep enough into a show, or a second episode in the same night, the breaks are more like 30 or even 15 seconds, versus 120 or more seconds.

Today’s the big day we find out who gets tendered and who does not. I’m most interested in seeing whether Alexander and Candelario are on that list, especially Jeimer. I don’t see where we would get his projected production by anyone else in our system or on the market, outside of a trade which, sure, I could be talked into that.

Well, I for one didn’t want to see Twitter burn. I think it was useful in the form it was before all this started crumbling. I like the instant news aspect, and I think it served as a good forum for dissenting viewpoints on all sides. I think exposure to toxic right-wing posts on Twitter may actually have contributed to higher Democratic turnout. Without that exposure, the anger against the Republicans may have been a lot more concentrated and muted. I’m guessing something will take its place, but I worry that it will be two separate services fragmented between right and left with little to no crossover, possibly enforced. One of the might actually be Truth Social. That would suck badly. FWIW, my life and brain haven’t been ruined by Facebook, either, which has also been a net positive in my life because of the way I use it.

lol “space Karen”.

No collusion. You’re the collusion.

I think this is true on balance, since we still have more reasonable people than wackjobs in this country and their numbers are not growing—although I also think we will be gobsmacked when we learn that the investigation is revealing nothing actionable, while their media plays everything up as the unimpeachable impeachable truth.

Castro is versatile in that he can and does play infield positions, if not all that well. Put it this way: he is more valuable playing six positions than Clemens is playing three. Besides, Clemens has a noodle for an arm, and it’s not going to age in the right direction for him. Castro is probably never gonna be a star, but if he can find a way to optimize his talent, he might be a valuable depth piece for a second division team—including us in 2023–for maybe another three or four years.

Projection junction, there’s your function.

He sure did fool everybody, didn’t he?

Obviously the kid lunged at the officer, since police department accounts always confirm that's what causes cops to shoot civilians.

Depends how you define “success”, right?

Well, he's definitely not well known, since he's not winning his own name on Google.

What's "Bernie Porn"? I definitely missed that running joke here ...

I guess he's saying "countless Blacks" are qualified to be US senators because of their accents?

Every business building they are tearing down in the Big City here, they're replacing with "luxury" residential condos running in the mid- to high six figures and targeted to first-time buyers. This has been going on for years and many units built in the three-to-five-year-ago range still sit empty, along with practically 100% of their first-floor storefronts. I've long wondered whether there is more than just the hope of making a profit selling them that's motivating the feverish pace of building—specifically, whether local government grant money is factoring into guaranteed profits for builders.

Oops ...

Can a commercial spokesperson contracted by a company be held liable for the company’s malfeasance? They’re just hired hands, and not permanent employees.

Imperfect, indeed.

After two rings and two Cy Youngs, not to mention that they actually fixed him after we allowed him to break, I think the verdict is in.

Yeah, I still think he's trying to destroy the company.

Good thing we never had Bartolo Colon on the team, then ...

I think this is pretty close to the truth, although I also wouldn't be surprised if he's a little shocked when he finds that some aspect of our system is even worse than he imagined it could be.

Tucker the Garbage Pitcher is gone, too!

Also, better and more versatile.

Not a variety show bit, and Just Shoot me wasn't one of the best all-time sitcoms, but David Cross did a great turn on one episode as Slow Donnie, a guy who fell out of a tree when he was a kid and then faked having subsequent brain injury for the sympathy and easy living it afforded him.