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but he has been a cultural icon in the culture that Red America is reactionary toward. In that sense, of course he doesn't influence red America.

right. If he's with the team he probably has a clean uni, or at a team warm up jersey in the locker room to put on. But I'd guess - especially for a 1st timer, he probably only had one uni-with him, and he's not going to put that back on after pitching in it.

And Stewart is exactly the kind of holier than thou lib that make Red America vote the way they do, so he could at least have made himself practically useful to the blue side, which he didn't.

Welcome aboard Bert!

You know it just struck me: Trump is the first AI President. When he doesn't know stuff, he just makes it up out of plausably related pieces! He is the man of his time!

Life is hard. He's now got Lauren's plastic surgery bills to cover, and bigger boats just keep getting more expensive!

just another dementia moment that will sail past the maga voter.

I generally liked Costas as baseball broadcaster. Sure he was(is) a NY slappy, but he knew the game and had a lot of history in his head to draw from.

Actually, if he's shopping the idea around instead of just doing it I would guess he's not sure of his ground and is trying to gauge how much push back he's likely to get.

LOL - was it you that posted the old line about the market being able to stay irrational longer than an investor can stay solvent? Tends to apply to these guys I guess.

I don't recall that he did either. I don't know if the two are exactly in parallel roles in the RW infosphere, but Rogan strikes me as at least close today to what Rush was then.

true. Probably only inertia at the lower levels that still makes this difficult. At some point lower on the food chain where the work actually gets done (the docs written etc) it's probably still not 'secure' enough, in the sense of Trump loyalty. Russia didn't attain that level of bureaucratic subservience in one Presidential term. Lets hope the US can't either.

Did Trump ever lose Rush in his 1st term the way he is losing Rogan now?

if only there were someone, anyone, in the GOP Senate that could begin to fill Howard Baker's pretty small shoes.

sick burn!

Island of misfit toys.

Shades of Eric C.

Maybe the Lightning draw a lot better?

LOLMAGA. They used to say the one advantage of being truthful is that it's a lot easier to remember your story. Trump told the tale, now he has to come up with a retcon.

No doubt - I think the strategy plays for multiple reasons: There are more bases available at more points in the game to take on 1st to 3rds than by stolen base. You don't always have a base stealer on base when you need the base. More players have good enough speed 1st to third than have the sprint talent for the straight steal or the quickness to get a big enough lead without getting picked off. Base stealing requires rarer skills than taking extra bases. Pitchers and catchers can do a lot to take away the steal when they are looking for it. Outfielders are not suddenly going to get more skilled when they are challenged. If anything you take them out of their comfort zone in a way that you aren't for a catcher - who probably wouldn't be there if he didn't at have at least a reasonable game throwing to 2nd.

Mengele maybe...

IRod and Mike Maroth? Those were days, eh?

Merrick Garland will go down as the Neville Chamberlain of the Biden Admin.

Nothing worse for a bad relationship than having more time to spend together!

McGonigle has been promoted twice in 600PA, three times if you count only staying at the FCL for two weeks, so it's not like he won't move a player that is showing enough. Probably more a matter of not moving players who shouldn't be just because you have a hole they can fill.