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How much you wanna bet that at least one Republican who wins their election hurls charges of fraud against the Democrats because they didn’t win by more?

I have given very little thought to the notion that corrupt Republicans in power would use that power to punish corporations and people for not being 100% MAGA themselves.

Local stations definitely get time to sell time during national sports events, even the Super Bowl, including during the game itself. That's the whole point of getting affilaites excited to carry top national event—so they can sell local spots at the highest rates they will see all year. Fetterman could easily buy local time in Philly as well as the several other DMAs in the state, and he can also bump another advertiser by paying more money for the spot. So local availability is a non-issue for a motivated advertiser. Covering the whole state would be a wise move—every Fox station in the state could be bought locally, whether individually or maybe collectively through mutual rep firms. Only 4% of the country lives in Pennsylvania, though. If his true target audience made up at last third or more of the country, at that point it would make more sense to buy national versus paying premiums to buy spots by individual station. There's really no way that it makes better sense fiscally to buy nationally to hit 4% of the audience while wasting the other 96%. That's why I'm thinking the spot was meant for a national audience, and basically because of Dr Oz, who is a national figure. I think the spot was not only for Fetterman in Pennsylvania, but secondarily for Democrats around the country, since Oz has been such an effective foil nationally. I think they're banking on a Fetterman spot motivating D voters across the country to the polls. I wouldn't doubt if the funding for the spot came 100% from the DNC versus Fetterman's own war chest.

If he didn't intend to speak to people outside of Philly, then I don't know why he wouldn't have done a simple spot buy in just Philly?

Yeah, this is not going to end well ...

It also depends on the kind of business you have and where you have it, doesn't it? If you have a business that's high touch like, say, an insurance agency or a beauty salon, then you definitely have a vested interest in treating your employees well enough to retain them for years. To a fast food franchisee or car wash, employees are fungible so who cares how they're treated, because treat them well or treat them not well, they're going to be gone at the first other opportunity.

Do you mean money well-spent nationally?

Flipside argument: Sheila fired Quinn and Patricia because they were someone else's hires, not hers, so she took no heat for hiring them in the first place; so she might be more reluctant to fire Holmes and Campbell and thus will give them a lot a lot more rope, because they are her hires, she's responsible for that, and she will give them as much time as she can get away with hoping they will succeed.

Dusty Baker did not have a Hall of Fame career, but he probably will qualify as a manager, especially if the Astros win a ring for him.

Maybe, at least in its current form.

This is why red hats hate the media: Did CNN report that Trump had died? Nope. Does it matter? Nope.

By way of reminder, Trump is an overt litmus test for this campaign. His campaign-stealing is the #1 trait hundreds of candidates are embracing, and they are actively vying for his endorsements by clamoring to show up at his rallies. So please, let’s not pretend he is simply a retired statesman trying to live his life in peace and privacy.

I don’t have 31 minutes to kill and I am just going off the YouTube cover. Is the point all about how Americans are being wrongfully prevented from entering public spaces because they are not vaccinated or masked up? I haven’t been required to show proof of vax since I went to a play a year or so ago, and masks are becoming so passé in the age of mass vaccination and herd immunity (remember that phrase) that Illinois just recently dropped the requirement for healthcare facilitates. https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-mask-mandate-healthcare-covid-cdc-guidelines-today/12341273/ I’m guessing we won’t be required to wear masks again on a widespread basis until the next pandemic.

Pretty sure that ran nationally. My buddy in Boston pinged me to ask whether we’d seen it as well. They apparently have a bunch of money left to spend, plus it might possibly help Democrats in local races. The thinking might be, If they can on a national basis saddle Oz with being the goof that’s representative of the Republican Party, that might be worth a few votes on the margins for Democrats in other states.

A lot of things fell out of the sky and hit him in the head. They are called defensive linemen.

Then vote Trump! That’s the only book he’s ever read! 😉

At some point there’s going to be a reconciliation. It might take years and thousands or even millions may die, but it will happen. Maybe in 2030, 2040, beyond? That’s when we will see a Hands Across America again. Whoever comes through this will be eager for that kind of thing to happen.

Not that we pay attention to that stuff in Detroit, but Philadelphia also has their team playing in the MLS finals tomorrow night, too.

Also, seeing Christmas ads during the World Series is fucking bonkers.

JV needed this game for his legacy. If he got shelled again everybody would remember that about him. Not that it would affect his Hall of Fame credentials even one iota, but nobody wants that hung on his legacy.

Fascinating, thanks for posting. It reads as though there is a difference between discussing a minor league deal with a veteran—a guy with six-plus years and wants a lot of details ironed out about whether they get an NRI, getting added to the 26-man or 40-man by a certain date, what happens if they don’t break camp, when they otherwise might get called up, how much they get paid if they’re optioned back, keeping other teams informed of their availability, whether they need Foreign Inquiry language in case NPB or KBO come knocking, etc—versus talking with a guy who is young organizational filler and doesn’t have any real options available to him, so he just has take the deal put in front of him or the team will just move on to the next guy on the list. In the first case it seems like the conversation might go on for a few hours, perhaps across a few days; in the latter, it looks like it takes the couple of minutes the team needs to email a standard contract to the young player and then wait on the yes or no.

That sounds pretty good. How do they rank versus other teams?

Probably. How does it work?

MLBTR has separate transaction types in their database for "minor league signings" and "signings" which, I would assume by process of elimination, is major league signings. Let me know if you disagree.

There may be something to the loss aversion idea, too. A lot of us have hypothesized how badly he wanted to front-burner minor leaguers picked up in trades for All-Stars to the majors so they could prove he was right the whole time. Bad trait for a general manager in a major sport to have.