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Batting leadoff: The one thing I still object to when it comes to buying a fully electric vehicle is right in this article: By year’s end, drivers could start seeing expansions and upgrades to existing highway EV stations in states such as California, Colorado, Florida and Pennsylvania that now feature at least four fast-charger ports, enabling EVs to fully recharge in about an hour. "About an hour" ... that's way too long. If I am driving across the country and I have time to make, I don't want to have to take one hour in every five waiting around for my vehicle to fill up before I can keep going—and that's setting aside the idea that all the chargers might be full once I get there and I'll have to waiting possibly hours to get charged up in the first place. They've got to get charging down to 15 minutes or less to get me really interested in going 100% EV.

I'm not sure whether this has strong enough legs to carry as its own political topic, but I figure with the approval to build an EV charging station network, as mentioned in the following post, plus the fact that most of us are based or have roots in the car capital, I would think there will still be a lot of political wrangling about this issue in the years to come ... as well as a lot of funny and relevant tweets about the topic we can repost here.

Debbie Downer says: When the Republicans do systematically steal an actual election, it will be impossible to overturn because of this bill, since it will still come down to partisan votes in the chambers. That's right. "When".

This may or may not be funny to you. I rather liked it.

Like I say, Aaron Judge seems like a fine fella and it's nothing personal. I'm just not looking forward to the garbage moral takes about "clean".

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I have nothing against Aaron Judge personally—he seems like an OK-enough guy—but I am actively rooting against his making 62 or even 61 home runs. Part of it is Yankee hate, sure, since the national media will crow that it always was a record that rightfully belongs to the Yankees, because barf. But the bigger reason is that I am not looking forward to the unseemly moralizing about Judge getting the "real record", i.e., one that people haven't discounted because of the so-called steroid era. The media will wax idiotic about how Judge is "clean", the way Pujols is "clean", and the way any other home run hitter writers personally like are declared to be "clean". And, by definition, anyone who exceeded 61 home runs since Maris is "dirty". We will be hearing about that incessantly for the rest of our natural lives. I realize I'm hoping against hope that he will fall short, because he almost surely will not fall short, but speaking only for myself, I'm not looking forward to the moralizing that will attend to it. This is only my opinion and you may not share it, and that's OK.

You're right, and I also believe that it wouldn't matter so much if Trump was saying all the same knuckle-headed MAGA garbage in the exact same words—if his voice sounded like Bill Buckley's while he was doing so, he would not be nearly as popular. We may find out with DeSantis whether this hypothesis holds water, although it's also possible that his tone and voice will be adjusted to connect with the red hats more viscerally.

In their last 30 games, the Dodgers have gone 20-10. That stretch reduced their season winning percentage from .699 to .693.

I don’t think this gets acknowledged much, but I do believe a big part of Trump’s appeal is that he talks like a Queens stevedore, something he leveraged on his TV show to spike his popularity among the people who like that type of show. It sounds like tough talk, which is basically the only thing red hats respect. If Trump sounded like Bill Buckley—or, in this case, Ron DeSantis—I don’t think he’d be nearly as popular.

I’m sure there’s some perfectly valid, law-abiding, law-enforcing reason Paxton is fleeing the law. Too bad Bunker isn’t here to tell us about Paxton’s socialist, baby-eating, Manchurian candidate election opponent.

That’s because they figure girls don’t need STEM to raise kids, bake cookies, and clean house.

You’re right, I missed one. D’Oh. Pujols started in 2001 when Harold Baines was in the game Baines started in 1980 when Willie McCovey was still in the game. And so on …

And a clear bonus is that if you have to recite your number to a worker, there’s no way they recognize the number unless they are white people between age 50 and 64.

I would bet Schoop comes back. He just had a season of elite D, plus a super low BABIP that might be driven by a receded EV and barrel rate that’s more a symptom of poor swing mechanics and timing than eroding raw power—i.e., he might be fixable. He’s probably not done done, and we’re not going to DFA him or anything like that. I also don’t see Scott Harris “alaviling” Schoop away in trade, although if Harris can swing a trade with actual decent return, given the potential for Schoop’s bat to be fixed, that’s within the range of outcomes, too.

There sure is a lot of wishcasting about A.J. getting axed among Tiger fans in multiple forums.

We can do a whole six degrees with this: Pujols started in 2001 when Willie McCovey was in the game McCovey started in 1959 when Enos Slaughter was still in the game. Slaughter started in 1938 when Waite Hoyt was still in the Game. Hoyt started in 1918 when Bobby Wallace was still in the game. Wallace started in 1894 John Montgomery Ward was still in the game. Ward started in 1878 when Al Spaulding was still in the game. Spaulding started out in the 1871 National Association. There’s our six degrees.

Tallest m*****s in the circus.

His voice is the least of my critiques of Monroe, behind his general lack of insights, his clubhouse-y rah-rah demeanor, and his inability to build on anything Dan says.

I know this is probably weird, but one of the things I am excited to see is whom Scott Harris will shitcan this winter. Almost as much as whom we will pick up to replace them. I think I might be disappointed if more than half the guys I named were on the 40-man next April.

QAnon.

Based on my understanding of the public information we all have, I agree with a few things in your post. For one, I agree that Baby Doc is a more hands-off owner than Pap Doc was, so he’s unlikely to force something silly like another 8/300 extension for Miggy. I also agree that obtaining impact free agents, as opposed to stopgap free agents, is something we can benefit from right away even if we believe this is not the year to contend. And I agree that even if they don’t make a move this winter, they can cobble together 70-75 wins assuming all the luck levels out on bouncing balls, injuries, and the like. I don’t agree that Miggy’s contract will be bought out and that he’ll be given the gate. Not only will a significant portion of revenue-producing fans object to that, I think a lot of the players, the Latin players in particular, may take a bad message from him being basically banished from the clubhouse. They may not play him, but I do think they’ll find either roster spot or an IL spot for him which will keep him in the dugout during games. So I think we can plan on zero wins from him, as opposed to -1 or -2, in 2023. As for who’s going to stay and who’s going to go … I need to think on that some. I think Brieske, Hill, Cisneros, Hutchinson, and Alexander might all be gone. Norris too, of course. On the bat side I see both Castros, Reyes, and of course, Tucker being shown the door. Maybe there will be more, I don’t know. But my impression of Scott Harris is that he will not be sparing when it comes to making decisions on who to cut and replace.

Most people are in bubbles, so your theory checks out.

Its hard for me to see how candidates can believe the majority of voters are so cruel that they’ll be motivated to go to the polls on statements like this.

We already have a bunch of guys who hit like Miguel Andujar. He’s been WAR-negative since he’s turned 24. Pass. Maybe he can land on the Rockies next year with Tucker Barnhart where they can both revive their chances for a career.