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You did this by hand. right?

You do see how this works, right? First Trump "jokes" about gunning for a third term, then congressmen submit bills to allow Trump and only Trump to enjoy a third term, then Trump starts saying he's serious about a third term, then the pundit class seriously and earnestly discuss the pros and cons of Trump enjoying a third term, and by the time the courts bulldoze the Constitution it becomes clear that Trump will be installed for his third term, the American people simply shrug and say, well, everyone did say he would serve a third term, it's not like we didn't know it was going to happen.

Crashing the economy is on purpose.

How about we guess at a few more Executive Orders? EO mandating all federal elections, starting with the 2026 midterms, be administered by the federal government and not the states, under a newly constituted federal agency named along the lines of the National Elections Administration. EO decreeing that all foreign national students from a list of certain countries be immediate expelled from universities that receive federal funds. EO designating God Bless America as an official second national anthem. Come on, everyone, join in! It’s so super fun! 💩

This is turning into a slow-moving blowout.

Maeda’s first pitch of the season ain’t comin’ back.

Oh, Riley, Riley, Riley …

Wow, monumental ****up by Garcia and Freeman.

And that’s how Jake Rogers can hit a triple. EDIT: New York might overturn it and pull the Dodgers’ ass out of the jackpot. EDIT 2: Maybe a make-up call by New York to let it stand, not as much of a biggie for their favorite team up three late.

Not for the Tigers, since he was never coming here.

One batter too much for Reese. That’s a shame.

This is why I don’t gamble: if I had somehow made this same bet and Duke ended up losing the championship game on a half-court buzzer beater, I might end up jumping head first off a bridge into the Chicago River.

Team 8 still has four 9 o’clock games. I think you’re right: AI LLMs are not cut out for logic.

My guess is that the most common thing people use it for is to write things for them because they themselves can’t write for ****. I’ve tried inputting a few things a LLM to see whether it can improve on it on what I’ve written and they never can. I’m always hoping to see a dramatic improvement in clarity and style, but all l’ve ever seen them do is switch out my discretionary phrasing decisions for theirs. I assume I’m not a great writer as much as LLM is still in its toddlerhood.

Hey, man, don’t cheat Dan out of that 2/3 of a tenth of a point.

I know what I said. 😁

I am no longer pooing on Baby Doc. He’s won me over. I’m a convert.

Twelve teams going to the bank by pocketing the difference in spend. The Cubs is especially galling. Any goodwill the Ricketts might have had from the 2016 world championship is, as Ernie would surely intone were he here today, looooong gone.

Tork’s OPS+ craters by more than 700 points. Suck.

Well, that's a tell.

Or worse, Germany in the '40s. Ours will also become a bribe- and kickback-based economy, in which companies doing business with the Trump regime, or even we the taxpaying suckers, will have to pay someone a little sumpin' sumpin' for things like getting on the schedule in the first place, getting a place on some wait list, having someone actually show up for the job after we contract for it, maybe even to receive our income tax refund check at all. Won't that be a hoot. We are already seeing the beginnings of this as Republican congressmen engage in special pleading to protect government assets in their particular districts from being gutted.

Here's another way to look at the revenue vs payroll question as it relates to baseball teams.

Counterpoint: since the New York and Los Angeles DMAs make up 11% of the US population all by themselves, and the teams both have a fan footprint that straddles the country, it's in Baseball's best interests to privilege these two teams to maximize their on-field success and, by extension, Baseball's total revenue overall. The remaining 28 owners are mollified by the substantial profits they get from owning a baseball team that both throws off hundreds of millions in revenue and increases in valuation, and which they don't even have to spend on to seriously compete, because competing is a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

They're crashing the economy so they can game the markets along the way.