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I'm coming around to the idea that hitting has not been our problem. 😏

Tork is definitely amping up his trade value! :ducks:

Lee! Hao Yu!

I hate Ann Coulter, but this is hilarious.

Aaaaaand here we go ...

From the article: It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night. How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing. How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day. Nobody ever stopped me and asked me anything. I have never shown my I.D., except to the clerk who checked me in; I have never been searched or frisked when I checked in, or moved in and out of the hotel. To get down from my room to the dinner, I simply flashed my ticket. It could have been a photocopy. The only time I went past a checkpoint was at the same magnetometers that Cole Allen, 31, sprinted past with his gun. Another colleague was outside; I texted them a copy of their ticket. That allowed them to get into the hotel as far as those same magnetometers, entirely unchecked. How on earth could that be considered safe? And how could agents not have realized, after they knew who Cole Allen was, that the gunman had been a hotel guest, and that even after he had been neutralized, that other people might be in danger? How could it take three hours—yes, three hours—to wonder if the bomb squad should come round? The Washington Hilton has seen the attempted assassination of a president before. I walked past the plaque commemorating that spot a few hours before the shooting. I didn’t expect that I would be living through history again, in the room beside 10235. 🤔🤨

nm, wt

I'm going to go out on a limb and just declare that Hinch's heart is in his job here.

So could that have been the whole idea behind this? Take the pressure off Trump about the ballroom? That seems too facile.

Because of this, we are going to learn everything there is to know about this Allen guy, his name is going to be famous all over the socials and RWM, which will associate him with the Democrats and the mainstream media, all while nobody remembers anything about the guy in Butler (quick, without looking it up, do you remember his name?) because a "public statement from (then) FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described [the Butler shooter's] activity on social networking services as including comments that 'appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes'", which is inconvenient since those views align with those of Trump's base.

Surely fake but a pretty funny joke

Shot: Chaser:

OK, that’s fair.

Just because the effectiveness of such a tactic might have lost its edge in particular circumstances doesn’t mean a largely incompetent and unstudious regime, looking for any edge to change the conversation and increase their popularity through any means, including through orchestrated sympathy, won’t continue to try it. In any event, we now are talking about this event, which was weirdly under enough control to allow them to keep the president in the building for almost an hour after the noise, and not about something else. I would just say we might keep our eyes peeled for something really horrific that’s going under the radar while we continue to focus on this.

Wait, why is the idea of Hinch leaving the Tigers and going to Boston showing up in multiple threads all of a sudden? I do a search on the idea and there is zero coming up about it. Where is this chatter originating?

Even with a Tigers win today, looks like this 1940 World Series grudge match goes to the Reds.

Are you more like afraid A.J. Is going to quit his multi-year contract and leave his two-time playoff team well into fulfilling its plans to become a perennial contender, with some of the best young players in the game due to join the roster in the next few years? Or are you more like hoping A.J. is going to leave?

I can accept the idea that the Reds were so bad during that era that they had to somehow identify the tallest midget to honor, but if it was the steroids era’s fault that they had no choice but to honor a four-plus ERA, at least his ERA+ would be closer to 115 or 120 than 103.

The only two I can ever remember is that UK is 44 and Canada is 1. I also did not realize that Greenland is in Africa. 😉