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George Bush Jr. up to #29 with a bullet!

My word was not "found". I thought everyone got the same word every day? Have they changed that recently?

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There is definitely pressure on the players to simply cave. I don't think they do that, at least this week. But who knows.

Maybe they will. Scot Boras seems to be agitating for that.

Or maybe Soto and his agent want to give the Nationals the next three years to demonstrate that they are going to put a long-term winning organization together that can rival the Dodgers and the Yankees. That’s a real possibility, too. Soto is already going to make a record first-year arbitration amount whenever baseball gets back on the track. There’s no pressure to take all the money he’s ever going to make right now, or else.

Maybe Soto would rather wait to get 350 million from the Dodgers or the Yankees later than take 350 million from the Nationals now. There’s no reason to believe he won’t get at least that same amount in three years.

Right. As a kid.

What are the chances that Fox is strategically allowing these kinds of commentaries on an occasional basis as a defense in potential future court cases brought against them? You know, so they can claim fair and balance because they air both sides.

Maybe someone should check the IP address of Lyin’ Ted’s tweet.

Seems like their only real goal is to break the spirit of the union. If playing the games were really important to the owners, they would have the season continue while they continue negotiating the new CBA, instead of locking the players out and forcing games to be canceled.

Was it better for her job that she does hate sports, so she couldn't be unduly influenced in some way?

Low bar for what constituted “entertainment” in 1986.

Looks fine to me. I think four-team divisions, instead of eight, is a forgone conclusion for a couple of reasons: (1) Four-team divisions gives more teams more opportunities to be in division races and playoffs, which should be attractive to gamblers. (Oh, and I guess sucker fans, too, whatever.) I don’t think Baseball cares about sub-.500 teams playing in the playoffs, even if they pretend to care in press conferences. More teams in it means more interest. And (2) nobody wants to try to market a team that’s languishing in seventh or eighth place after the All-Star break. I know some people completely reject the entire idea that teams care about that, but they certainly do. Avoiding high-number finishes is one of the reasons they went to divisions back in 1969 in the first place.

I assume Angels will just do what they do in the NL when the hitting pitcher comes out of the game: if the game is within a slam, they’ll double-switch their way out of having the pitcher’s slot come up, and send up a parade of pinch-hitters if/when it does. In late-inning blowouts, they’ll just have relief pitchers stand in the back outside corner of the box and take three pitches down the pipe for the out.

Logan Webb might go down in history as the last pitcher to homer in a big league ballgame.

Object lesson, right under our very noses.

Be sure you get one of the new Divvy bikes to ride when you’re here. Here I am on my own bike, pushing hard to maintain 16 or so MPH, huffing and puffing, sweating my ass off, and I still routinely get passed up by middle-aged ladies out on a Sunday ride on these newer-model Divvys, not even breaking a sweat. Makes me question my very existence when that happens.

Oh yeah, and Putin's got it all.

Got it. Clear as mud. 😉

The sentence that ends the Mediaite story: "What an incredibly embarrassing moment for Fox News." I disagree with this take, because you can't be embarrassed if you have no shame.

There you go, that makes sense.

I meant Trump being quiet while the Democrats agitate loudly to get him to testify, which could successfully portray him as being persecuted by the elites. He probably won't do so, but he could benefit politically with squishy Republican moderates if he did. Those people are eager for him to become "presidential" so they can support him with a clear conscience. But I do think you're on to something regarding being quiet or even meek in court. I remember Trump being interviewed by Colbert before the 2016 election early on in the CBS show's run. Trump was the opposite of bomb-thrower on the show. He was quiet, gentle, measured, borderline meek and "aw shucks", perhaps because he was in the presence of someone who qualifies as being "the elite"? I can't say I know this for certain but that's how it struck me. That comports with my own experience because I've seen plenty of instances of working class red hat-types who rail angrily against "rich assholes" to each other, but then go very quiet and passive when in the presence of someone they perceive to be that, behaving very politely, almost like a supplicant.

Perhaps because Democrats don't feel as threatened by the burning of certain books as Republicans feel by the presence of those books? People egenrally respond to threats accordingly.

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