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Is that where I'm scheduled to die? El ****ing Salvador? Christ Almighty.

I didn't know you were Chinese. 😛

That was Trump's situation before he became a politician. Now that he essentially owns the entire government, things are obviously different, at least indefinitely.

You misspelled "neighbours".

I have often wondered of all the planets in the universe that host intelligent (or sentient, if you prefer) life, in what stage of development versus the others is Earth? I hypothesize that out of however many planets have any signs of life at all—whether it's a thousand, a million, a billion, whatever it is—Earth is well into the 90th percentile of life development. I also hypothesize Earth is in the end stages of life, which probably means something like a few million years left versus billions, before it embarks on its own death spiral as a planet. I have nothing to base this on but my self-proclaimed educated predilection for being able to successfully estimate the relative values of objects similar to one another.

Note that they didn't call it a "surprising security breach".

Another huge stinkeroo. 💩

Greetings from beautiful Milwaukee, Wisconsin!

And he has the salary because he has a track record, and because he has a track record, he gets more chances to make good than Joe Blow on the minimum. So it’s all connected I guess.

What is the deal with Edge of Seventeen? It's gotta be only because of the guitar riff, right? Or maybe it's their mothers' favorite song?

That's what I assume as well.

I am there today, and lucky me, it’s a getaway game with a Keider Montero start! That probably means Nido at catcher, Kreidler in center, and Riley, Carpenter, and Keith sitting against the hook. Should be seeing Tork at first, though. We might have a Javy-at-short sighting, too, with Ibanez at third. With any luck, the game will be close enough to see some high-leverage pinch-hitting late.

That might have been what it was. I seem to remember a running treadmill in the show? I may be misremembering that. Something about it seemed too high concept, too “out there”, to me. If there’s another episode you can recommend that you think will hook me, I’m game. I’m hoping it’s closer in spirit to Twilight Zone than to Outer Limits.

Ah, OK, thanks. Not in my wheelhouse.

That will be the White House press release, yes.

The stupid leading the ignorant.

It will be reduced to a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue with him wearing a general’s uniform and fireworks going off in the daytime, since by that time there will be a national curfew of when the streets lights come on.

This is an anthology, right? I haven’t seen Black Mirror—i tried and crapped out on it—but I could go right to the Nick Offerman episode and not be lost because I haven’t seen prior episodes?

I’m a baaaad boy

Many of my peers and I—and those older than I—remember when some of the biggest boxing matches would air on ABC-TV in prime time, especially if Muhammad Ali was fighting and Costello was calling the action.

I’m thinking Lange will always walk batters. That’s just who he is, and he would have to become a completely different pitcher to not do that anymore. As for Foley: he’s always been a guy whose results have punched above his weight. He has trouble striking out big leaguers and his walk rate spiked last year. I’ll look forward to seeing him come back to the team at some point, although I’m doubtful whether he’s going to be the cavalry that saves our bullpen.

Do you think Harris and Ilitch would accept blown games and losses from Maeda just to save face by not eating a sunk cost?

Good question! Four of the Big Six teams are there, and top players want to play for them because winning and/or personal brands, so that might be part of it. Also, Arizona is an attractive location because so many players live there—Corbin Burnes famously just took a hometown discount to go there. San Diego, too, very sexy place for players to want to play. Phillies have been killing it the last few years, and the Braves are always a contender even despite the slow start. And Baseball finally got rid of the barrier to parity with the AL that was pitchers hitting. Probably a bit of all of that.

I saw Catch-22 the movie the other day and Martin Sheen looks like nothing more than a young Emilio in it. Charlie must take after mom.