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You misspelled "Please".

I don't wear a helmet when I bicycle. Bunker must think I'm a real man.

But he is very loud and angry at brown people, so that's manly enough for the red hats.

Yup. Fascism the term might be only a century old, but fascism the idea is ingrained into the condition of power thirst.

These people don't give a shit about the United States, the one that embraces the principles laid out in the Consitution. What they care about is "America", the one with the slavery and Indian genocide and the Jim Crow and the McCarthyism and the going on offense into foreign wars and the ubiquitous prisons. That's the America they're trying to preserve with all the might they can muster.

A lot of good bands discarded the art for the money. When that happens, that's fine, there's other music I like better elsewhere.

I want to live on your planet.

It's disappointing that they decided to do zombie runners for the 10th inning, instead of starting them in the 11th, but there's nothing in it for Players or teams to make the game any longer than they feel they have to, so I can see how they arrived at the decision. So far, they're saying it's only for the 2022 season.

Looking ahead to a 32-team league in 2028, or whenever, I can envision: Other league: four against "natural rival", three against everyone else, 49 subtotal. Same league/other divisions: six against each, 72 subtotal. Same division: 13 against each team, 39 subtotal. That would make for a total of 160 games, which would provide a couple of extra off days for Players and one less April home games for teams, so I think both sides could agree on that. They could go whole hog retro, cut down in-division games to 11 per opponent, and make the 154-game schedule the ultra-traditionalists continually pine for, but I don't think either side wants that many fewer games, necessarily ... unless they can make it up in expanded playoff revenue that accrues to both all teams and to Players, which feels unlikely to me.

As far as the new schedule layout is concerned, I'm fine with it. Baseball went all in on interleague play a couple of decades ago, so they were never going to de-emphasize or get rid of it, and that goes double for expanding to 32 teams, which would be the perfect opportunity to leave interleague in the rear mirror. IOW, they ain't gonna. So I guess it's way past time for me to stop whinging about it already. So, as long as interleague is going to rule the day in any event, then I actually like that every team is going to play every other team outside their division the same amount. It removes any advantage a team might have had loading up on the weak division in the other league in any given year. And now every team has the same six-game home-and-home schedule against non-division teams in their own league, so that evens things out some. If that costs me the chance to see an extra five games against the Guardians or Royals or Twins, I can accept that. The only thing I dislike about it is that the Tigers come only twice to my city and not three times, but that's my personal problem, so oh well.

Looks familiar ... 😁

The thing that pisses me off about the zombie runner thing is that they talked about delaying it to the 11th or 12th inning, and yet they still applied it to the 10th! Arrrrghhh! I’ll bet the players pushed for the 10th.

Who is their employer?

Sure this is normal. Everything is fine.

I think this is less about favoring the Yankees and more about protecting the game from any whiff of scandal whenever possible. Scandal is bad for business.

This is probably as good a time and place as any for this. Open the article in a private window if your browser is blocking you from it.

Here's another newsflash: both union organizing and union-busting were always political at their core. It was always about class struggle. Always. "Unions weren't really political." Ha. That's rich.

Are they promoting the product effectively? If so, they're sticking around. Don't fight it—just sit back and enjoy it.

Well, it's hard to make young Joan Collins look bad, but that hairdo is working hard trying to make it so. I remember the Polish ladies were more likely to have that one, like Mrs S across the street. Picture that hair on the face of a gym teacher. That's how I remember her and neighbors like her. My mom and her bridge club ladies all had the hair I showed, throughout the 70s.

They’ll do their dirtiest work while we’re not looking as long as we’re focused on Ukraine.

I did have a nice comeback on TQQQ, though. Bought it Tuesday when it butted up against support, sold it Friday after it rose to butt up against the 50-day line. This might be one of those rare chart-based wins.

Like this? I’ve seen pictures from the 1950s of young women with this hairstyle, but by the time I was alive, only middle-aged women wore this, so I think of it as Old Lady Look. Even this model: she might be in her 20s here, but to me the hair makes her look like she’s in her 40s.

Pretending Trump was concerned only for the American people is so precious. Fact is, Trump wants as close to a lawless frontier as he can manage, because his style of business wins in that environment.

Are you implying that Leave It To Beaver isn’t a documentary after all?

It seems to me it would be super difficult to pull off an effective assassination of Putin that results in a smooth transition to a pro-Western regime which would immediately halt the invasion and then re-ingratiate Russia to the established world order, which would essentially cede whatever remains of Russia's position as a world power to reckon with. Hard to imagine how any cabal could get close enough to Putin's inner circle and still carry that sort of secret desire and will all the way to the top like that.