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Mask usage is more like 20-25% here, but that is down from when we had the massive spike in cases this summer when it jumped back up to something like 65-70% again. To an extent, the combination of vaccination and dumbasses who will not avail themselves is the endgame here.... pretty soon we will all have exposure either naturally or through vaccination. Which in the long run moves us from it being a pandemic to endemic. I'd imagine the rules on masking, to the extent that certain regions even have rules/regs on masking, will evolve as this transition occurs.

That's not going to happen

"Ackshully, its not an actual gallow, it's just symbolism, NBD!" Pathetic

Yup. Just a massive ****up on his part. Which dovetailed into the following inning.

The Dodgers have just been phenomenal on the bases tonight...

Is it me, or have the NL playoff games so far generally moved much faster than the AL playoff games?

That's fair... also, when I came of age, they were making the playoffs yearly while still dominating cable via TBS. They arent the Yankees, but the heavy media dosage combined with their playoff success gave them the feel of a Yankees-lite which I never cared for. Although tbf, I never hated the Cubs in the same way despite their arrangement with WGN...

Its funny because the Braves cable dominance was always a reason I didn't like them 🤷‍♂️

I'd like to see Maxy win another title. So I'd be ok with the Dodgers.

The Astros may have already made an offer, but do we have reason to believe that they may not up the ante? Homers like the one last night probably up the pressure to some extent on the Astros to at least put forth an effort to try to keep him in the fold

Part of the struggle I see with Correa as well is that the Astros themselves may want to up their ante with him too. They will have to pay a ransom to get him, and honestly as much as I'd love to see him in a Tiger uniform, not at too steep a price. In terms of where he'd rather play, this is probably an overrated factor, but one selling point of coming to a Detroit would be that he would be THE guy here, not just another cog in murderers row with the Yankees. I dont know if that matters for a lot of players tho. Probably not.

That one additional run now looms large...

Personally I think it was not a swing, but to Ed's point, it's definitely a part of the game that is subjective and it's hard to see how to eliminate it. Without roboumps anyway

I had to check out early, but it was an instant classic it would appear

A lotta LOB going on tonight by the bay...

Regarding Virginia, while I know the race is closer than Mac would like, the Hacks guys spent their episode talking about how Youngkin was gonna win. Maybe he will, but haven't really seen data that would suggest he's favored at least

Yep. People gotta vote!

TMac 53-41 RV, 51-46 LV Past two public polls (CBS/YouGov) of Virginia paint a similar picture... a McAuliffe lead in RVs that narrows when the likely voter screen is applied. It's sort of similar to California, although I have no reason not to believe that TMac needs to generate more enthusiasm on the D side.

I'll go back to what I said earlier in the summer in our now defunct forum: mid 80s is definitely a reasonable goal for this team. Especially if they do make some investments in the roster. I am a little bit wary of some of the individual performances they got, particularly offensively (ie. Baddoo, Haase), so they'll need to perhaps offset some lost production with their improvements. But it is definitely achievable, especially in this division.

Hot take: Carlos Correa is oversold as a possibility and Corey Seager is undersold.

That kinda talk probably was a factor in the Georgia runoffs

The playoffs have been pretty enlightening in terms of how far behind the local broadcast is PBP wise. Brian Anderson and Don Orsillo are just lightyears better than ol' Shep.... and even the non-Buck Fox folks aren't too bad either.

Ya can't make it up folks

This isn't really political, but this is really skeezy.... reporters asking subjects of reporting for edits on their stories should ruin a reporters credibility.