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They don’t hold a candle to Harriet or Edna.

Why would Hinch check how long ago it’s been?

Man, Finnegan just can’t throw strikes reliably, and when he’s missing, he’s missing by a lot.

Well, Joey got his kill after all, but not after we get our fifth run.

Oh my god, Joey Cora tried to send Wenceel to his death at the plate and WENCEEL WASN’T HAVING ANY OF IT!

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

So they can bring the hammer down on anyone else who tries.

It would not shock me to see Jake go into somebody's camp next year, two years, whenever, and try to re-fashion himself as a knuckleball specialist. He'd probably have to add a few ticks to his 80-mph throwing speed for fastball separation, and even then he probably wouldn't succeed, but marginal guys will try just about anything to hang on by their fingernails to the bitter end.

Too much money for too many people while Trump enables it for that to happen. I've been wondering how much the various republicans are having their beds feathered just to stay on board and shut the **** up. Things are probably happening right out in the open, but just try reporting on them without having it rejected as fake-newsery.

I wonder whether the 100 million rank and file red hats are falling in line with this rhetorical strategy? @Tigeraholic1? Any insight from on the ground there?

This guy.

Plan B, since the Plan A of merely telling the press that Ukraine has already lost the war hasn't seemed to work.

Does that mean we go in and start bombing Pakistan?

Riley, Tork, Torres already playing every day. So is Kevin, he was splitting SS with Javy when he was available. Kevin at third with Javy at SS and Wenceel in center with Javy SS. I don't think you and A.J. are that far off.

Get back on that horse.

Now we are engaged in a great civic war. Who knows whether this nation will endure.

OK, Kenley, this is what we hired you for.

STOP WALKING GUYS

Never mind this boring ****, talk about Trump's face on passports!

God help us if McGonigle gets injured tonight, because as far as I can tell, he's the only shortstop we got now. And he's already in the bottom quarter of shortstops league-wide.

I agreed that I thought at first we might call Max up, not that Kevin would play shortstop every day. But let's set that aside. A.J. Hinch has been fired. You've been named manager. This is your roster. How will you deploy it? I assume you start with Kevin playing shortstop every day. What next?

The Corrine Brown example cuts the other way: Florida’s mapmakers used race and partisanship together, and when Black voters were cracked out of the district, Black representation fell and Republicans benefited overall. But the VRA was intended to prevent minority vote dilution, not to engineer “competitive” districts for Democrats. Without Section 2, legislatures would have far more room to crack or pack minority voters until they no longer have a realistic chance to elect candidates of their choice.

This seems backwards to me. Majority-black districts are not just “pack Dem voters to help Republicans”; Section 2 exists because Black voters were already being cracked and packed so they couldn’t elect their candidates of choice. A fair opportunity district can be both legally required and politically Democratic-leaning, but that doesn’t mean it’s a GOP-favoring gimmick. Minority representation and partisan advantage are related, but they're not the same thing, and the legal question is vote dilution—not whether Democrats lose a seat somewhere else.