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When you say Zelenskyy was a well-meaning fool, do you mean he was an actual fool, all unserious, or do you mean he was merely perceived as a fool and then showed everyone his true mettle?

I think what Zelenskyy has done to rally his country to war against the bully next door has been nothing short of amazing. And you can understand his frustration at Russia not being stopped militarily by NATO from pummeling Ukraine and those unfortunate citizens unable to get to a train going west. I’m with you, though: had Biden not stepped up and led the Western allies to arm Ukraine, Kyiv and Zelenskyy might both be a soldering pile of rubble right now.

Here’s what it was like elsewhere in the city: Driving home yesterday afternoon and turned into the alley to get to my garage. First, a gust into the shotgun-side door tried to tip the car over. You could definitely feel the side-to-side movement. But then as I continued on, down at the end of the alley, i saw two of those big black garbage cans being pushed by the wind across the alley, one tipping completely over. It helped that they were empty, but still, very weird scene not seen here by me before.

Wee Willie Reyes.

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Or else it’s this:

I do not work in the Dodgers’ front office. I’m a fan, too. I wanted to see Kershaw complete his perfect game, same as you. I wasn’t rooting for the Dodgers to take him out. All I was saying is that I understand why the Dodgers did take him out, for all the reasons I posted above. From their perspective, it made the most sense. They wanted to both protect him/his arm, and to protect the team’s chances in subsequent games by keeping him as healthy and available to start as they possibly can. To the degree the Dodgers would benefit more from Kershaw throwing a perfect game than from simply winning the game, they didn’t see enough of a benefit increase to risk the health of their ace, and the effect on the team of his being hurt, to take the risk. I can see why they did it, is all I was saying. I don’t know why I’m seeing it from that perspective. I can’t explain that. It must be my upbringing or something. It certainly doesn’t serve me well as a fan talking to other fans. I just do. It’s one of the many unique curses of being me. 😁

I'm fine with what the Dodgers did because, come on, what team wouldn't want the guy who just effortlessly mowed down 21 straight guys on 80 pitches to continue on exactly the same for two more innings, so he could get his guaranteed perfect game in which he comes out of it at 100% health? No team would ever turn that opportunity down on those terms. But the Dodgers pulled him instead. Why? It's obvious there was more going on than just that one discrete moment. Baseball had a super short spring training—basically half a training—and nearly every pitcher is not at 100% midseason form. Teams all around Baseball understand this. In the first 174 games of the season only one starting pitcher has gone 8, and only six have gone 7. In terms of pitches, only one has thrown even 100 pitches (Eovaldi, 101, against us yesterday). No one is stretching their pitchers at this point because teams need their pitchers to start additional games in a relatively healthy manner more than they need the super-cool headline in this particular game on April 13. Add to the fact that 34-year-old Kersahw's season was cut short by injury last year, and it might have been borderline negligence to let him pitch to even one more batter.

Just another way to persuade black people to stop showing up at the polls.

I'm in favor of both: expand the House, and shitcan the Electoral College. It doesn't have to be either-or. I think the House of Representatives should have 1,563 members right now. How did I come up with that number? The House was expanded to 435 after the 1910 census. There were roughly 92,200,000 people in the United states. That's one representative per 212,000 people. There are now roughly 331,450,000 people in the US as of 2020. At one congress critter per 212,000 folks, that comes to 1,563 critters in total. So, this is how many members should be in the House for each state, based on that number: State Population Reps Alabama 5,024,279 24 Alaska 733,391 3 Arizona 7,151,502 34 Arkansas 3,011,524 14 California 39,538,223 186 Colorado 5,773,714 27 Connecticut 3,605,944 17 Delaware 989,948 5 D. of C. 689,545 3 Florida 21,538,187 102 Georgia 10,711,908 51 Hawaii 1,455,271 7 Idaho 1,839,106 9 Illinois 12,812,508 60 Indiana 6,785,528 32 Iowa 3,190,369 15 Kansas 2,937,880 14 Kentucky 4,505,836 21 Louisiana 4,657,757 22 Maine 1,362,359 6 Maryland 6,177,224 29 Massachusetts 7,029,917 33 Michigan 10,077,331 48 Minnesota 5,706,494 27 Mississippi 2,961,279 14 Missouri 6,154,913 29 Montana 1,084,225 5 Nebraska 1,961,504 9 Nevada 3,104,614 15 New Hampshire 1,377,529 6 New Jersey 9,288,994 44 New Mexico 2,117,522 10 New York 20,201,249 95 North Carolina 10,439,388 49 North Dakota 779,094 4 Ohio 11,799,448 56 Oklahoma 3,959,353 19 Oregon 4,237,256 20 Pennsylvania 13,002,700 61 Rhode Island 1,097,379 5 South Carolina 5,118,425 24 South Dakota 886,667 4 Tennessee 6,910,840 33 Texas 29,145,505 137 Utah 3,271,616 15 Vermont 643,077 3 Virginia 8,631,393 41 Washington 7,705,281 36 West Virginia 1,793,716 8 Wisconsin 5,893,718 28 Wyoming 576,851 3 The total here is actually 1,562, so, eeny-meeny-miney-moe a state for the extra guy. Of course, this can never happen because Congress actually passed a law in 1929 fixing the number of critters to 435, regardless of population. The only way to change that is for ... you guessed it ... Congress to repeal the 1929 law. As if there were any way they would invite another 1,100 or so people to come in and split the spoils of government kleptocracy with them.

I was not at all a fan of Barnhart before we got him, but I am willing to give him some time to get his shit together.

This is the kind of late game fight we routinely saw last year, and—pointedly—not before that.

All right stranded the leadoff runner. Let’s score three and go to dinner!

OK, so that’s Soto. Which is fine, just … no walks, man, OK?

Got three. That’s big. Gotta hold them here though. It should be the best of our bullpen now, whoever that is at the moment.

Holy crap, plunked Meadows! 9-7! Buh-bye Diekman! He had struck out the heart of the Yankees order swinging all in a row the other night.

Chippin’ away!

Well, at least Miggy made only one out on the at bat.

Tying run to the plate, after being down seven runs late! Don’t go to sleep on these Tigers!

If Schoop can hit another bomb here that would make the game a lot more interesting.

Oh, so that’s what a Tork homer looks like!

He looks like the second coming of Harold Castro.

I remember TWIB coming on channel 4 as soon as Saturday cartoons finished up for the morning.

Next step: Required Carry. You watch. 😏

How about the city of Detroit? Do it at Belle Isle? Just throwing the idea out there, I have no skin in this game.