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Justin Verlander Spotlight Justin Verlander takes the mound for the Astros in Game One. This will be Verlander's eighth start in a World Series, but he'll be hoping for a better outcome than he's had in his previous seven starts. Verlander has an 0-6 record in the World Series, and his 5.68 ERA is third highest all-time among those with five World Series starts. Player ERA W L Don Newcombe 8.59 0 4 Carl Erskine 5.83 2 2 Justin Verlander 5.68 0 6 Don Sutton 5.26 2 3 Hank Borowy 4.97 3 2 Gary Nolan 4.96 1 2 Bob Shawkey 4.75 1 3 Clayton Kershaw 4.46 3 2 Burleigh Grimes 4.29 3 4 Hal Schumacher 4.13 2 2 See the full list on Stathead.com

Well, it did get amped up pretty recently. Remember this?

Maybe some on both sides? Maybe certain red hats who respond only to Trump would come out to vote instead of sitting on the sidelines because his name is not on the ballot. And maybe Trump back on Twitter would freak some people the fuck out and drive them to the polls to vote against Republicans. Either way, I think it would influence marginally higher turnout, rather than vote-switching. We're less than two weeks out from the final day to vote, so I'm doubtful such an October surprise will be unleashed in time for 2022.

"Hey, crime is random. Couldn't have been planned. Why would Republican voters want to harm Democrat leaders?" Next: "Democrat voters, on the other hand ..."

And so it progresses ... When is the first political murder of an elected Democrat going to occur? It doesn't have to be someone in Washington—it could be anyone in any number of ... ahem ... battleground states. Or maybe even a unicorn D in a deep red state. It's gotta be within the next 12 months, right?

Not the first time Cramer has done this kind of thing. Remember when Jon Stewart had him on his show and got Cramer to break down and basically apologize for his role in being a PR arm for Wall Street and leading investors into the teeth of the stock monster in 2008? Then Cramer went on some other NBC property, maybe the Today Show, the next day to talk about how unfair Stewart was and recast the segment as him putting Stewart straight. Net net: no lesson learned. And now we have this. I'm guessing Cramer will recast his apology yesterday into something self-exonerating soon enough.

The red hats are already convinced and are shoveling their money in Trump's direction, so SS guy doesn't have to testify.

What's twice a week?

How’s this for an October surprise! I honestly don’t know how Trump getting immediately unbanned from Twitter would cook the election.

The last franchise quarterback the Lions drafted yielded three wild card losses and nine playoff misses in his 12 years here.

Do you believe this? I don't.

Not only has the South won the peace after losing the war, they are apparently still engaging the peace.

If the Phillies can somehow manage to beat the Astros in the Series, they will be the team with the third-worst record to win a ring—and the team with the worst-record to have not beaten the Tigers on their way to the ring.

Leading to the Contract on America ...

Great. Just in time to hand it all over to the Republicans so they can claim credit, then crash it again and blame Democrats.

I was just thinking something like that ... "Too bad Meadows doesn't have a wife on the Supreme Court ..."

Indeed. I'm not advocating for a mandated set of criteria writers must use to vote on MVP. It's basically up to the individual writer. If I had a vote, I wouldn't take the team's record into account.

The other thing with Pudge is that he played on a 1/10 with the Marlins in 2003 and then demanded a 4/40 to re-sign with them, and they countered with a slight pay cut instead. With a publicly established floor of 4/40, and the Tigers the only organization to make that offer, he basically had to take our deal, I believe to more or less save face.

A baseball player’s inability to single-handedly will his team to victory light after night, despite being surrounded by mediocrity, is a key reason I don’t think a team’s record should factor into his MVP vote.

Diana Sare is running for governor for the fucking LaRouche Party, so ... yeah.

I hadn't heard that. Zero chance.

I have a mild ... mild ... concern that the coverage of the debate, if not the actual debate itself, will cast competency aspersions on Fetterman enough to either move independent votes to Oz or keep easily-embarrassed D voters home, tipping the scales to Oz. That in itself would be bad, but in that case the downhill effect might also be to tip the governor race to Mastriano, who gets to hire his Secretary of State beholden to him, which allows them to fix the 2024 election for Trump/R candidate, that is the difference in R winning the presidency. Very, very small possibility, although ...

I know we’re in the middle of the moment, but that is by and large a bad take. Almost 55 million students are enrolled in public and private schools. There have been 121 students killed in schools this year. That’s about a 1 in 450,000 chance that a student will be killed while at school. That’s a far lower chance than the average person has of being killed in America regardless of locale. But in an era when the news business model is “scare the hell out of everyone”, it’s the prevalence of this kind of reporting that leads to bad policy like arming teachers and on-duty cops on campus.

It was a very, very bad look for her to blame staff for putting it out unvetted. It was so transparent when she said that that it was a bare-faced lie.

Agree.