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Right, it’s not so much about the holiday as it is about which holiday. Easiest prediction in the world: Juneteenth will be replaced by Flag Day/Trump’s Birthday as a federal holiday.

Well, this was kind of worst of all worlds. We had to settle for a split after a rain delay that happened just as we had all the momentum. We come back flat and lose. We burned almost our entire bullpen, and now have to fly a red-eye to Florida to start a series tomorrow night against one of the few teams hotter than we are, hottest int he American League in fact. Watch us beat them 15-2 tomorrow night, because baseball.

Tommy Pham in the middle of some ****? Checks out.

Man

Well, that was fast in not a good way.

Literally nothing is sacred. At some point we’re not going to need to use the word “Gestapo” to describe them any longer. “ICE” will be enough.

Only that amendment missing? That smells more like malfeasance to me.

They can try to tap into the summer tourist money that Tampa can’t get. That’s partly how Vegas and Nashville are going to work.

I can’t think of any reason the Tigers would not trade Cris Rodriguez for David Bednar, but I can think of at least a couple reasons the Pirates wouldn’t trade David Bednar for Cris Rodriguez.

Also they were completely covered by the overhang of the bleachers above them and facing south, so the sun shining into them was not much of a factor.

To the degree that the woman with the most votes in 2016 lost, and the woman who ran a truncated campaign in 2024 lost, if a woman runs in 2028 and loses again, you and I will not live to see a Democratic woman elected president.

If she's a complete warmongering hardass like Elise Stefanik, I can see it happening.

Split doubleheader tomorrow anyway. That's gonna be a little rough.

If a woman runs as a Democrat for the third time and loses for the third time, we won’t have a Democratic Party woman president for at least fifty years after that. I’m thinking we’re more likely to have a woman Republican become president first.

I know they think it’s great. It’s not. It’s terrible. Lives can be lost over sarcasm and “joking”.

You’d think they would play a straight doubleheader tomorrow if rained out tonight, but that’s a bit of a problem for a team that has to fly to Tampa for a series starting Friday night. One other possibility is a makeup game on Thursday after the All-Star game, since no one is scheduled to play that day and everyone (except the All-Stars, anyway) will have had a three day break. That would also probably have to be a day game since we have to fly out to Texas for a series starting that Friday night.

Once you walked into the bleachers section, you were fenced off from the LF grandstand and RF reserved seat sections. However, if there was a guy manning the gate at the fence, he would let you out of the bleachers and into the grandstands if you slipped him as little as a dollar. From there you could walk around to the rest of the ballpark.

I saw at least a hundred games in the upper deck bleachers during my late teens and early 20s, and the only time I ever saw anyone hit a homer up there was Jose Canseco, during the same game Cecil hit one over the LF roof.

Sure, I’ll call you Jingleheimer if you want!

You might be slightly misinterpreting the idea underlying my post.

I promise you someone is getting good and paid on this horseshirt. I don’t know the details—I only know it’s happening.

My spidey sense, which I acknowledge might be wrong, is that Trump and his people back in 2017 wanted out of the Iran deal because they needed Iran to be a rogue state they can reliably point to as a threat, but they also thought Iran was controllable since they were still many many years away from having a working nuke. Iran might have been closer than anyone on this side calculated.

Four off the tops of ours heads, anyway.

I don’t know, we are going on fifty years of personality-driven autocracy so there are a few generations steeped in it who know nothing else. Might be a tall order.