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This is all true - from the roster perspective it is the way to go. The question is how risk tolerant are they about not having a backup SS until McK gets back? I suppose Lee can stand there in an emergency but game logs say he hasn't played any short since 2023 and only 7 games then so we might not get much more than him standing there!

I'm not sure this analysis is complete. Creating minority districts generally favor the GOP overall because it concentrates higher numbers of Dem voters into fewer winnable districts - IOW exactly what GOP gerrymanders try to do. Spreading out Black votes could actually create more swingable districts. In any case the outcome is going to be more complicated than this byline implies. It will certainly hit minority representation, but that's not the same thing as hurting the Dem party.

It's probably less a matter of whether he could than that Hinch is loath to be without his Swiss Army knife roster.

actually that's probably the piece I saw. MLB net and ESPN BBTN always seem like the same place to me.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures at $104/bbl as I type this.

ridiculou$

it would be a little comical since Harris was just on ESPN saying more or less that Max wasn't going anywhere for a while as they had plans for what they wanted him to work on. Well, the best laid plans and all that....

Mize gonna be at least a month as well no doubt.

for sure if not now, probably never.

yeah - but can he pitch?

Torkelson needs to stop that one

whatever it was, Casey knew he was done.

as Benetti noted, Casey is a guy who once pulled a hamstring walking down off the mound.

you never know when it will end, but so far Casey is dealing. Braves' hitters had no chance that inning.

That 'arrogant ass' being another great character portrayal by Stellan Skarsgard, BTW.

This would be the biggest self own in history. By far the highest % of passport holders are the highest educated demo and that demo is about as strongly Dem as any.

glad mine is good for another 9 yrs.

I suppose there comes a time in every 'denialist' movement when the fantasy finally becomes unsustainable - at least for the majority. 'holic has a place in his heart for Babe the Blue Ox and maybe would love the world that truck represents to somehow keep going, and for all those hoping it could, Trump was probably their big hope, and when the real world has been shown to chew Trump up and spit him out, maybe that will finally break the illusion for some folks. And the thing is, I was there, that wasn't actually such a great world compared to this one anyway, it's a bill of goods.

What looks true here is the illusion. The US aint the world anymore - we are making ourselves irrelevant. The world is moving on, even if we aren't. More than 50% of new cars sold in China are EVs, 98% in Norway, 75% in freaking Nepal of all places. The EU and China together are much more of the real world than we are. And even here, gasoline consumption peaked in 2018.

a lot of things have happened that we've speculated would dent Trump's base that haven't, but Iran is the one that's doing it. I don't know if it's actually the war or maybe just gasoline prices. Hard to believe there were a lot of voters that believed Trump would actually be a peace president, but as long as they figure it out and take it out on his party in Nov I'll take it.

And Ford would even have had an excuse to be a Squeaky wheel about it.

This is about getting out of production quotas. At some point I suppose we may start seeing a race to the bottom by oil producers who see the end of an oil based economy staring them in the face and are deciding better to cash out now than try to keep the price high and see the market shrink even faster. I tend to think that when countries look out and see the US, the supposed guarantor of stability being the one screwing up the oil markets, it's sort of the last straw in the decision matrix to just get off oil as fast as possible. Nuclear is coming back, renewables are the vast majority of new utility capacity going in around the world, and the Chinese are ready and able to supply the world with cheap EVs. Now that said, a pipeline or three built to get around Hormuz and Trump off the stage, the pendulum may swing back, but for now, other than the US, the developed world is heading for the exits on oil & gas as fast as they can. And even here, Trump may keep the odd coal plant running here and there, but utilities are voting in the other direction with their investment dollars anyway.

Disney goes to court, the court quashes the order. It's more harassment.

yeah - I think there is a way to turn off car play in my car but I would not be able to find it without hunting through a lot of menus. I just turn off BT on the phone if I want it disconnected because I can find that. I generally don't connect my phone to the car's wifi at all - it's a redundancy I haven't needed for anything yet.

TBF, schools do make a huge effort in recent years to help athletes go to school if they want to, I'm sure that is as true at OSU as at UM. But while you can lead a horse to water....