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George Straight would appreciate this part of the thread.

This is absolutely perfect, and perfectly true. I would further stipulate that there is nothing red hats love more than when rich people come off as not smart. That’s the coolest thing in the world to them, because it is essentially a rebuke to smart people.

I could be wrong.

I can think of one guy here who might.

I would bet that if Drew Anderson proves he is much better than Verlander, Hinch and Harris would make him the #5, rather than Verlander for primarily legacy reasons.

Verlander? Or is he written into the rotation in pen no matter who does what, because Verlander?

Maybe Trump is trying to drive Iran out of the market so the US can gain a greater share of it and achieve greater pricing control? I’m not saying anything like that would work, I’m just saying that might be his thinking, and as we all know, no amount of expertise could ever dissuade him from his own assessment of the situation.

If he were in The Big Club, he would have gotten a cabinet post instead of a criminal conviction.

You misspelled number five.

I don’t think there is much chance for that. I think the far bigger danger for Skubal than going bad is getting hurt.

Not if you never connect it to your internet. Or so I am led to believe.

He is obviously not in The Big Club.

Trump kept Noem onboard because she turned certain cities into militarized war zone, and because she kept certain kinds of children in concentration camps, and because she was arresting and deporting certain American citizens, and because she racially profiled people of color indiscriminately, and because she posed in front of certain kinds of people in foreign prisons, and because she failed to respond to floods that killed people because it saved the government money. These aren’t things he merely tolerates—these are things he explicitly demands. She got fired because she started getting negative coverage in the RWM. That kind of coverage in the MSM is a plus. Not in Fox or Newsmax.

Spring training is about working on process, not stats.

This gave me the idea to ask Claude what the opening day roster should be, based on ZIPS projection for 2026, and this is what it came up with: Remember that ZIPS is kind of a blunt instrument and doesn't take spring training into consideration, but this ain't a half-bad-looking roster. Verlander isn't on it because Claude sees him as a starter only, and he is the seventh-best starter according to ZIPS. Interestingly, Reese Olson projected as the #6 starter, behind Drew Anderson from Korea. ZIPS thinks this would be close to a 100-win team even without a projected superstar.

I can still press one button and just start watching, although my remote can turn on both the TV set and the DTV box at the same time.

It’s humiliating only if they are actually shamed by it.

Also there’s a good one panel comic that could be made of Gen Z kids watching their streaming sports through their phones while making fun of what a dinosaur a Boomer/Gen X guy is for being uncool enough to watch the exact same event through their satellite or cable on their 80” 4K TV.

That’s one of the things I like about being a dinosaur with DirecTV satellite: it has never logged me out for god knows what reason and forced me to painfully input one character of my very long password at a time through a TV remote to get back in.

No doubt. That’s what I’m crowing about. 😁

Also, Dan + Dirks >>> Benetti + Dirks.

People will be interested in the beginning of the season if Kevin McGonigle is on the team and we’re beating the hell out of National League teams out of the gate.

Atlanta has been drawing upscale knowledge workers over the course of the past 20 or so years in a way Dallas and Houston have not. That’s been enough to shift the politics leftward.

Someday the story will come out about what leverage Mamdani wielded over him to completely bring Trump to heel, and I hope I live long enough to hear it.

Probably what’s left of their voting rights.