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yes but it's paywalled

It would expose their previous tributes as nothing more than marketing. I have some problems with what they've been doing regading Jackie Robinson. They haven't done enough to own up to the reason the entire country knows who he is in the first place. By presenting it as HIS accomplishment they are able to frame it in a way that doesn't tell the real story. This wasn't a guy who was just so damn good he worked his way into the leagues and finally a black player could play. MLB kept him and them out. They were all just as good. It was blatant racism. "Jackie broke barriers". No, Jackie had a door opened up for him that a bunch of assholes kept closed. His greatness beyond his play is in how he dealt with the continued racism and blowback. I've always felt MLB took themselves off the hook in how this was presented. and if MLB truly felt sorry about it and had sincere intentions they'd not be reconsidering this, if they are doing that.

I was thinking of that too.... would I have noticed? Yet once I am aware it stands out. I don't want to reflexively bash Chris Ilitch over this. There's plenty of other reasons to as to how this franchise is presented to the fans. Maybe Heather Nabozney told him he wasn't worth the hassle? Maybe the league wanted uniformity? Maybe the players didn't like it? I'm open to a benefit of the doubt here....

Wait, was Massie going along with it?

According to a photo posted by Ben Verlander the Tigers got rid of the pathway from the plate to the mound. It bothers me and I can’t give you a good reason why.

Our company gave it as a holiday when it was enacted but then immediately incorporated floating holidays. Part of the reasoning is good, why have Good Friday off but not Yom Kippur or an Eid or some of the Hindu holidays? And we can move them to a Friday or Monday.

The last one is definitely something they are itching for. “They already have MLK day”

A friends dad wasn’t even a US citizen. He was born in Canada, never became a citizen, joined the army, got out and slipped through the cracks somehow. The UAW guy either did some paperwork shuffling or nobody cared. Worked 45 years and is still going strong in his 90s.

I don't think Bill and Don were "good friends". They are NY people. That world has a lot of cross pollination. And Trump was always creepy, same as Bill, and we all know his history with real estate. But it wasn't until Obama's term and after the Apprentice that he went further into his conspiracy stuff. I don't know much about Tulsi but we have all seen how these people have switched to Pro Russia at a certain point in their career once they saw the opportunity. I don't know what the point of all this is. Am I supposed to hold it against Bernie b/c Tulsi went off the deep end? Should I quit watching Curb Your Enthusiasm b/c of RFK Jr's wife?

Yes. And those jerseys appear to be popular with the youngins.

In my job we deal with secrecy, both in terms of a proprietary nature and things that are not yet public knowledge and some things go beyond the standard internal understanding that you don't blab. We are a publicly traded company. SEC, etc. Meaning.... if we talk about subject A, we have to make sure the people in our audience are either NDA'd or asked to leave. When we have meetings we validate who is on the call. The meeting organizer is responsible ultimately but we all also do it. Nobody wants to talk to our lawyers. I've been involved in things I couldn't even discuss with my direct reports two levels up. I'm not saying that to brag or that I'm special... I'm not. I'm a non mangement grunt. But I go through these exercises and it's unbelievable that people at that level in our government are not doing, at minimum, the same thing. The invite was careless. I don't know anything about Signal but I assume you can see who else is on the chat. Everybody on that should have wondered who "JG" was.

I agree with you. I have tickets to every Friday game and that's when they wear them. So for me it makes me think of a nice evening in late May or June with a friend, thinking about the weekend, and where we'll go after.

And GenX will be the immediate losers. Face it, we're not young anymore. We're almost at retirement. Someone suggested going in and downloading your earnings statements. I have mine.

Does she represent any meangingful voting demographic?

But this president leads the branch of government charged with executing those laws and he himself was pretty much doing after his first presidency. Do we think Kash Patel of all people is going to be like "Ok boys, go get him." It's important and a big deal to people who care about such things but those people in charge of doing anything about it do not are about such things. What "we" want is irrelevant because "they" are the ones in a position to act. We can't make them.

There will be no fallout, except for the reporter.

I'm sure Congress will do their duty and investigate this.

If they don't win over those low information voters then the battle is already lost. The game is not played by the same rules anymore. The GOP are spread out shooting threes and fast breaking while the dems are doing set shots and pick and rolls. The purity of the game is lost.

On this day in 1965 Gemini III launched. It was the programs first manned mission. Gus Grissom, making his second flight and John Young making his first of six total flights. this was the first time we maneuvered a capsule to change orbits. It was a 4 hour mission. What made this flight interesting is Wally Schirra slipped a corned beef sandwich into the pocket of John young which he pulled out once in orbit for a few bites before crumbs began floating around. It was a prank but the serious people kn congress were not happy. It became a big deal. Crumbs are a no no. They can get in switches. Even today thy use tortillas for bread. Among space fans today is kind of a holiday where you eat a corned beef sandwich in his honor. John Young was my favorite astronaut. He dates back to 1962 and flew with Gus and he also flew the first shuttle mission which I remember watching. That gives me a link to the glory days. When you count leaving the moon he had 7 blast offs.

One thing about Mickey Stanley I learned is that this wasn’t something out of the blue that was down before the WS. That’s how it was presented to me all these years. Like Mayo Smith woke up and came up with the solution. They planned it down the stretch.

Dems need to stretch the truth and in some cases exaggerate in their ads. Show the DOGE headlines with the job cuts and presidents fat ass golfing. Show the plane crashes. The unemployment and market graphs. Quit worrying about being fact checked by a newspaper nobody reads or a TV show nobody watches. It works for the GOP it can work for the Dems.

It’s about who they are against. A variation of “own the libs”. They will support anybody who is the enemy of their enemy. They hate liberals more than they love people or Jesus.