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The 1974 American League probably came the closet. The Orioles had the best record at 91-71 (.562), the Angels the worst of 68-94 (.420), and a whole lot of clustering around .500, especially out west. The 1983 NL was almost identical, with the Dodgers through the Mets occupying almost the exact same numbers, and the 1968 NL was also pretty clustered, especially beyond the Cardinals. That 1968 NL “race” might be a pretty good indication of how the league table format, versus the divisional format, really fails the business in September once the one and only pennant race is already wrapped up: from an average attendance of 19,182 the week of June 19-25, patronage cratered to an average of 7,775 for the week of September 18-24. The 1909 National League probably had the highest STDEV. The third place Giants were 18.5 games behind, fourth-place Reds were 33.5 behind, and three different teams were 55+ games behind, with the Doves (yes, the Doves) bringing up the rear at 65.5 games behind the first place Pirates, who nevertheless still needed seven games to dispatch the Tigers in that Series.

Is this is the Alarmist Non-sense point? Are we there yet?

If some of my Canadian acquaintances are any indication, they don’t care to hear me say I don’t like Trump either. They prefer I just shut the **** up and wear my guilt by association like a cilice.

lol "hopes"

Wait until they still stiffing the families of their survivor benefits because their loved ones' deaths are off the books.

Straight from the horse's mouth: they were behind the Paramount deal.

"The Rothschilds" ... I haven't heard about them pulling on the control levers of the world since, like, 1918.

Trump is almost certainly ... ahem ... making a killing on Russian stocks lately.

Projection. Perhaps they're going to start rounding up Muslims before Muslims can round them up? Just spitballing on the excuse they're gonna use.

I am getting more nervous about going to Europe in May. I had held off going last May because i didn't know how the Trump presidency was going to affect things between us.

I like the WBC, full stop

Do we know yet about the West Bloomfield guy?

Despite that this is on the CBS News website, this story will not make it into MAGA’s newsfeed. All they know is that there was massive voter fraud in Nevada.

FWIW, Trump finds "The Donald" to be a very flattering nickname.

Maybe, although a lot of people hate Jews, for some reason, so possible suspects could entail a lot of other types.

well, natch

Why is the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia there? What's her role in all this?

It was in response to the point of playing too many games against the same teams over and over.

I was thinking more "stated goal" than real goal. 😏

Any number of old-timey baseball fans and media—most of whom are dead by now—would wax idiotic about how the 1950s were the golden age of baseball. Thing is, those people were basically New Yorkers. But go back in a time machine and ask fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates or Philadelphia/Kansas City A's or Washington Senators how golden that era was, especially during August or September of any one of those seasons. They were playing each of the other teams 22 times a year and it's no surprise that by the end of the season they were drawing 2,000 or 3,000 spectators a day.

That’s OK, because regime collapse is not a stated goal of this war. Nor is nuclear containment. What is the goal? Does anyone know?

I grew up in Warren and even I knew what Adray Appliance was.

So, one Democrat out of 3,500+ elected Democrats at the state and local levels? Doesn’t seem like an Earth-shaker. On the other hand, all the Republicans who left the party, including Javadi of Oregon and Kiley of California, plus the wave of Republicans retiring because they know staying n the party is an election loser for them, far outstrips the elected officials leaving the Democratic (with an “ic”) Party.

OK, I lied—I'll say one more thing about ⬆️⬆️⬆️: You know how we have long said here that gas prices aren't the president's fault, whether it's Biden, Trump, or whoever? Well, that's definitely not true in this case. This is pure, uncut Trump.

'Nuff said.