GalagaGuy

Leyland has looked the same for the last 40 years.

I don't get why MLB doesn't have someone come out with a tablet between innings to show the ump any problematic calls. Seems like it would help the umps and they would probably even appreciate the input.

Calling it now, if the Tigers lose tonight, they lose the division.

The Comedy Central executives have to be sweating. 🤣

Absolutely the politicians shouldn't have a say, I've already said that. As for the lawyers, there's no way that's ever going to happen and these maps are always going to be challenged in court. Just another reason to support my idea of eliminating congressional districts all together. 🤔

The Texas map sucks and they want to make it suck even more, I'm not defending what they're doing at all. My point has been that independent redistricting doesn't seem to really work, at least in California's case. We seem to be doing pretty well with it in Michigan but I think in our case, there isn't nearly as much overlap of Democrat and Republican voters and there are a lot fewer pieces of pie to cut up.

Funny that this explanation of the job numbers being revised showed up on Fox Business but not the main site from what I can find. https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/why-does-labor-department-revise-jobs-reports-here-three-reasons

We've got the same record as the Yankees since the All-Star break, 7-11. Luckily we've still got a 7 game lead in the division while the Yankees are half a game away from being out of the playoffs.

There are 12 with a spread of less than 5 points and 5 of those are Republican leaning seats. In total, there are 13 seats in the state that Republicans have a shot at winning and only 3 of them are +7 or more in favor of Republicans. Democrats have 35 districts that are at least a +7 and most of them are +18 or greater. Basically Democrats are guaranteed to win 67% of the seats before a vote is cast.

This just pisses me off.

Using Michigan as an example, maybe you have people vote for 5 people from the party of their choosing. Doesn't need to be ranked choice as you've already declared the party you want representing you. Once the votes are tallied and the state knows the split, they take the top vote getters to fill the seats. Obviously this is just a silly idea I came up with, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. I've already mentioned how this would give every person in the state the representation they want, but there's also another benefit. Lets say you have an issue or concern and need to reach out to a Rep. You have the option of contacting the Rep you think can best help you or who will be most receptive to your concerns.

Everyone goes to the polls and votes as to which party they want representing them. At the same time, they vote for reps from that party. After all the votes are counted, you look at the results and select the reps to represent each side. People would then end up with a team of representatives. That's a better solution than having a single representative that you don't support.

Sure you do and you'd still be able to do that by voting for reps of the party you support. Right now it's all about which people they want to throw you in with and call it a district. I'd say this is infinitely worse.

Diddler on the Roof will be the funniest thing I hear this week.

I said to eliminate districts, not redraw them with some generic grid pattern. Let people vote for which party they want representing them and then divy up the reps to individual voters rather than a plot of land. Yeah, it would be a mess but at least everyone could say they were being represented by a member of the party they chose.

Politicians shouldn't have anything to do with redistricting, I was just making a point that independent commissions aren't some magic fix all to the problem of equal representation. The only way to really fix things would be to eliminate congressional districts all together and have representatives assigned to voters instead of plots of land.

I would have to question the independence of their independent commission.

Regarding the redistricting nonsense going on in Texas..... Texas has 38 seats in the House and 25 are currently filled by Republicans. That's 66% of the seats in a state where between 55-60% of the vote for President goes to the Republican candidate. Now lets look at California. They have 52 seats and 9 are currently filled by Republicans. That's 17% of the seats in a state where 35-40% of the votes are for the Republican candidate for President. Seems that both sides are just as bad when it comes to gerrymandering. At least we're playing fair here in Michigan. 13 seats with it currently being 7-6 for Republicans.

And the Mets just imploded in extras. 🤬

Guardians blew a 5-0 lead and just had the go ahead run at third in the ninth and didn't score. Mets batting in the bottom of the ninth.

Keith was safe by the dirt on the bottom of his cleats.

No idea what Zack was thinking there. He saw that the dude had the ball while he was still 15 feet from second.

So tired of the runner on third coming home on contact as if it's a rule.

Twinkies really gonna blow this three run 9th inning lead. 😬 Twinkies hang on for the 5-4 victory! 🥳

Twinkies get a lead off double in the 9th and can't score the tying run.