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God damn it, this post was supposed to jinx the idea, not prophesy it!

Keider is giving up loud contact.

Either Parker or Javy catch that ball to CF.

I think Riley could have stayed on his feet for that one.

Here’s one that happens to me all the time, and I don’t know how common this is: I will catch a snippet of a song I’ve never heard before, frequently part of an ad jingle, and then I will fill in the rest of the song in my head, basically writing it as I go, and then I get into a repeating pattern with the part I heard going into the part I made up, over and over, and that becomes an earworm for several minutes at least. Occasionally, I will “write” the rest of a song in my head based on a snippet I heard, maybe after I pause a show playing an outro theme so I can go to the bathroom or something, then I come back and push play to see how close the song I “wrote” in my head matches the actual rest of the song, and it literally never matches.

Also, how is Seattle out of challenges already? Is it one and done in the first inning or something? Or did Benetti fumble that one?

Surprised they didn’t overturn that because it looked like Rodriguez hit the bag before the ball settled in the back on Tork’s glove, but my question is, did Tork stretch the right way for the throw? He was not at full extension and also he was stretching on an angle, and not directly toward the throw. Looked like a footwork fail to me.

Indiana = Florida - weather.

That’s fine and it makes sense, but I would think if Bezos wants to put the Post totally in the bag for his president, he would direct the news editor to keep a tighter grip on what they report on so as not to upset friends in the regime. Because it’s not “fake opinion” the trump people rail against.

I have a question about this characterization: when they say “protesters clash with ICE”, they make it sound like protesters initiated the confrontation. Did they? Did the protesters start it? Or did ICE attack them first? Because if it’s the latter, it’s not exactly protesters clashing, is it? I don’t know who “teesferalmind” is, and they almost certainly are not a journalist, but proper phrasing does matter when it comes to getting across a point of view. Unless teesferalmind’s point of view is pro-ICE, which in such a case makes the phrasing understandable.

That’s as solid a batting order as I’ve seen in a long time. Consequently, they’ll get shut out on two hits. 😉

It’s been a mixed bag with Kenley. Elevated walk rate and four bombs in 15 innings gives him a bad ERA and even worse FIP, but he was on a bit of a heater before he blew that last save: six innings in six games, no runs two walks, 10 Ks, 0.78 FIP. He had also gotten two guys out on nine pitches during the game before he got hurt. He seemed to find himself and now that he’s thrown a bullpen session yesterday he might be back within a week, and I think he’ll be welcome.

Also, not for nothing …

First of all, I don’t understand the presidential political angle to this story. But whatever. Secondly, this is way worse than Giants and Jets moving to Jersey because a high percentage of Bears STHs live in the NW suburbs as well as Lake and DuPage counties. This would add at least 45 minutes to their travel each way. Which is fine by me, I’m not a Bears fan by any stretch. It’s a debate whether this is short-sighted on the Bears’ part for playing hardball with Illinois to such a degree that the state would bail out on negotiations with them, if that’s what’s happening here. But yeah, I’m totally fine with making Indiana residents pay the bill for the new stadium instead of me. Mazel tov to them.

There is a long, long way to go, and even finishing .500 after a 22-38 start would be a literal historical first in big league history. But this is a nice start to a recovery.

Man, you are setting yourself up to really, really hate Scott Harris on August 4. 😉

This might be it.

Bullying and threatening people is the gold of the process! I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s doing on this one.

May bad, June good

If what you are asking is, did Trump put on a green visor, put pen to paper, and spend hours going over spreadsheets and creating flowcharts and call plans? I would guess no.

Dry run for November, December, and January. Work out the kinks now.

Oh, I think it did, sweetie.

Trump engineered the gerrymandering of the House through a pressure campaign, and after Callais, no fewer than eight states redrew their maps in his favor that experts estimate should pick up 10 to 12 seats overall, while another estimate says they could gain as many as 16 to 18 seats if all the aggressive redraws were to fully materialize. Link I don't know what the benchmark would have to be for you to acknowledge it as a success, and maybe it can be argued that he did not get a 100% uptake rate on the re-draws, and there may be some way it all still falls flat for him in November. But at this point, I don't believe it can be reasonably argued that he did not succeed in his quest to engineer a gerrymandering of the House.