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Good to see the boys bleeding their Yankees’ ace a little.

Did Josh Donaldson really just blow a kiss to Gerrit Cole after catching that TORK! line drive?

Interesting how Gerrit Cole warmed up a bit in front of the Yankees dugout. In Japan, when a team is batting and has two outs, their pitcher warms up in front of their dugout so that he won’t have to throw so many warmup pitches when he gets to the mound.

Another pitcher to the IL, it looks like. Rony Garcia, we hardly knew ye …

So when do we start seeing this great defense we’re paying Tucker Barnhart to provide? 🤬

Honest question: how high does the vaccination/immunity rate have to be in order for you to change your thinking on this? Right now we are sitting around the 66% rate for full vaccination nationwide. Add a few additional points to that for unvaccinated people who have had and recovered from COVID, and in my view, that's high enough for me. Of course, I don't have children under 5, or otherwise vulnerable people in my everyday life that I have to be very careful around, so that's another data point for my feeling that we're far enough along to allow me, specifically, to forsake masking in all but the most necessary places (e.g., healthcare facilities). I can see where someone might believe this to be not high enough to go back to living as we did in the beforetimes, but my question is, how high would it have to be before you conclude, OK, we're far enough along with vaccination/immunity, time for that small minority who have to deal with unfortunate issues to take their own precautions to protect themselves in public, instead of mandating the vast majority who are themselves in the clear from hospitalization or death from COVID to take precautions to protect them? I believe we as a society have accepted the idea that we will always have COVID with us, so even in a hypothetical 99% immunity environment, there is still always going to be the possibility of encountering the 4-year-old sitting behind you who can't get vaccinated and may be on their way to see Grandma who is immuno-compromised. Do you still wear the mask in that 99%-immunity situation? Because if that's true, you've basically decided you'll be wearing the mask in public for literally the rest of your life. I'm not trying to be argumentative about this—I'm trying to understand if you have such a line, and if so, where that line is?

This is certainly true on its face, but on the other hand, how diligent are people these days about wearing masks correctly and in an airtight way when they do? A couple people here have pointed out how the masks come off in public when eating or drinking, and how some people are constantly adjusting their masks for both comfort and to get an unfettered breath of air every once in a while. I'm definitely guilty of that last one myself. I would guess that, granting how BA.2 is the most contagious strain yet, part of its virality in due in part to people dealing with mask fatigue two years in, even people who are totally in favor of enforced masking, where just one slip of the mask ("Oh, it won't hurt me to get just one nice fresh breath of air") is enough to take in the virus. I assume that people are not keeping their masks as firmly affixed in April 2022 as they did in April 2020, when the novelty of mask-wearing was still palpable and people honestly thought COVID-19 would completely subside within a matter of weeks. And this doesn't even contemplate that eyes are still exposed to the virus floating around, as well as to your wayward fingers.

That’ll let you keep five extra bucks a month in your pocket!

Franklin should of been president. 😉

It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

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Why pay any price for seditious behavior that’s been completely normalized?

I think the thing that might be confusing some people here, assuming they honestly believe that Trump is nothing but a benign businessman, is the idea of Trump wanting to overthrow democracy and become more or less a dictator. That can’t possibly be true, they might be reasoning, because Trump is not a politician. He’s a businessman who happens to be practicing politics. He has no real inclination nor acumen to be a political animal in Washington. His motivations are business-oriented, not politically-oriented, so his intentions pure and clean. Therefore, he can’t be trying to overthrow democracy, because that’s a political goal sought only by politicians, not businessmen. The thing is, Trump doesn’t have to be a political animal to want to overthrow democracy. He doesn’t have to have a grounding in political theory, or to talk the talk of the political “swamp”, to seek democracy’s demise. All he needs is the desire to take the decision of who becomes the leader of the USA out of the hands of the voters and into his own. That’s what Trump has be wanting to happen, and what he has been clearing the way for his minions at various levels to accomplish on his behalf. I would agree that Trump is not interested in the political theory behind any of it. To him, it’s all business. As far as he’s concerned, government’s only goal is to strip him of as much of his power to conduct business in whatever manner he sees fit as they can manage to; therefore, Trump’s opposing goal is to basically change the very structure of government by getting rid of the one that’s out to get him, and replacing it with a government cast in his own image, one that gets out of his own business’s way, and bonus, one he can also use as a tool to personally punish his enemies. Trump doesn’t have to be considered a Washington politician to seek all this and then act on it. All he needs is a cabal of enablers to make it all happen, and for the good people who oppose him, and who trust the system itself to automatically stop him, to stand aside and let him get away with it.

Here’s a reminder that Tucker Carlson really said this thing.

J. D. Vance must be an idiot to not understand that Trump is nothing more than a whiny bitch.

I just feel like the longer it goes without any news, the worse the news is going to be when we do hear it. I hope my feeling is wrong.

It's been almost 48 hours since Matt Manning came out of the game Saturday and we have not heard boo on next steps. Is that good news or bad news? I guess we'll find out soon enough ...

Uhhhh ...

True ... if God already has everything all planned out, what's the point of trying, or pretending to make any choices? After all, it's already planned out. Q.E.D. The omniscient, omnipotent God theology is also what makes praying pointless. Literally everything is already worked out in advance because God's plan. What makes you think God's going to change His whole plan just because you prayed to bowl a turkey in the tenth frame?

"Stupid libtards, you and your idiotic TDS, Trump is just a big nothing, I don't even like him ..." After Trump 47 leads the destruction of American democracy ... "Oops, I guess I was wrong about Trump ... soz!"

Sure, I’ll root for this.

That was, in fact, his intent: lose the election so he could start a media empire rooted in the grievance of having an election “stolen”. Then the dog caught the car and wasn’t sure what to do with it. Well he sure figured it out in a hurry.

Oh good lord I’m starting to think we are fated to declare shooting war on Russia. Good thing Ukraine is softening them up. But good god, the price …

They might be able to CGI them to look younger and slightly alter their voices up a key to sound younger. As long as they don’t have to get physical, like Scorsese thought De Niro’s character had to, they should be fine.