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The extortionate pricing may be in part why, during my days as a media client, many of the vendors who invited us to suite games laid out only boiled hot dogs, one-ounce bags of Lays, and Miller Lite. I remember Diamandis (Car and Driver, Road & Track) use to spring for really nice spreads with dogs, brats, sliders, chicken tenders, several brands of beer, even liquor. But no matter what, every suite experience culminates in the dessert cart. Mmmmm …

We may find out how old Pujols really is when it’s time for him to claim his MLBPA pension.

It can be easy to forget now how much greater acceptance there is of the more advanced fielding stats now, but at the time Jeter started, those were just a twinkle in Bill James’s eye, so baseball people were leaning almost exclusively on traditional fielding stats. In his early years, Jeter was frequently among the league leaders in fielding percentage, putouts, and of course, games played. So back then a lot of baseball people looked at those stats, as well as his acrobatic highlights (which he had to generate to make up for his poor positioning and lack of jump, which almost no one recognized about him back then), and concluded yeah, Jeter’s a great shortstop. Tellingly, though, he was almost never in the top ten in assists or double plays turned.

Fox News viewers' minds.

I’ve seen the lottery described two different ways. In one version Baseball wants to limit it to three teams in the first round while Players want eight teams. In another version every non-playoff team makes the lottery (which makes sense to me), but Players want the lottery picks to go eight rounds while Baseball wants to limit it to three rounds. I seen both enough where I’m not clear which one is right.

They also overrated Pete Rose (#34) by at least twenty spots.

And obviously the only Christian person in the CCCP, which is why Jesus chose him to lead.

You know who else had five rings for the Yankees? Joe Collins. Apparently you can deny five World Series rings.

This tells you everything you need to know about ESPN, in placing Jeter some sixty slots above his true level: "Overrated or not, you can't deny the five World Series rings." You don't say.

ESPN leaks.

Have the russophile right wing media like Fox and their fellow travelers alarmed their viewers with visions of nuclear retaliation if we don't give Putin what he wants?

If Jeter is not listed yet, then he’s either too high or too low. He ranks 94th in lifetime WAR and tied for 79th in JAWS, so he qualifies for the Top 50 in neither career nor peak. The higher they list him, the more credibility ESPN leaks.

I just meant you’re the guy with more inside dope than all the rest of us combined, is all. You know actual stuff. As President of the United States, if you can’t win them over by force of personality, win them over by force.I would think in a situation like this she could rely on the former more than the latter. There’s no way to know for sure, of course, but I’m thinking her success level right now would have been at least the equal of Biden’s. Can you imagine having the other guy in the White House at this moment? Holy shit, the mind boggles.

Not to seem dismissive of your authority on the subject, but I had seen in multiple sources that Putin did not want Hillary to be President specifically because she was such a tough-minded adversary at State, and that she had the ear of all the major European allies. I believe one of the places I’d seen that was in one of the first books released early during the Trump admin. Not true?

We will not stand for the normalizing of Rudy Giuliani.

I think Hillary would have responded in similar fashion, with the same or even better cooperation from allies. Given her tenure at State, this kind of situation seems right up her alley.

Maybe Putin is believing his own press that says Biden is weak and is making America a laughingstock. If so, catching him flat-footed on that is working for us here.

The irony … it burns … So, like, wasn’t the whole idea behind crypto to free money from the yoke of oppressive government stewardship and the tyranny of their stabilizing influence on fiat currency?

lol this is going in the opposite direction of what I was saying so I don't know why you'd think I'd like this.

Too convoluted. I would prefer direct election of presidents.

Had no idea. Will take that under consideration on future posts.

"Uninformed voter"is code for "people who vote for the other guy."

As opposed to the current system in which California, Texas, Florida, and New York can STFU and accept the president Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, both Dakotas, Rhode Island, Delaware, Kansas, Montana, Idaho, Maine, and West Virginia elect for them?

This is why I wrote in Michelle Obama in the last two elections. Even though I bet she's make a fine president, of course she could never win, because the state is already inthe bag for the Democratic candidate anyway, so why does it matter. Certain people here like to criticize me for doing this and say I should vote D anyway to run up the national score, or whatever. But what good is that when one candidate can win the national vote by millions but still lose the election to the guy who got the second-most votes anyway? It's borderline pointless. In the end, every vote an Illinoisian casts for president is completely thrown out, then a delegation of 20 people go to Washington and cast 100% of their votes for whoever the D candidate is. How does this qualify as democracy in action?

That would be the traditional outcome.