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Plus it's the only city in the area you can comfortably append "-tucky" to the end of. 😉

I think it's just as likely that such voters twist themselves into agreement on various issues with their preferred party's candidate that they would find wholly objectionable if it was the other party's candidate. Not unlike this ...

Mama mia, that's a cutti petutti!

I played in a softball league maybe 20 years ago that had a safety home plate, set off a couple feet from the plate itself. That's the plate you had to cross to score. Once you got halfway to home, you were committed to go all the way, and then it became a force play. If you accidentally went to actual home plate instead, you were declared out. I thought it was a great idea, and I'm surprised no softball league I've been in since has used it.

Eighty-five percent of the time is almost exactly six days out of seven. That means you get one cheat day a week. Works for me. 👍🏼

Did they find something on your colonoscopy? I ask because my first one was clean and they told me to come back for ten years. Then they found a couple of blips in my second one and have front-burnered my next one to seven years instead of ten. I’m not asking because I want to know about your colon, necessarily. I’m asking because I wonder whether they are coming around to recommending colonoscopies every five years being the new standard. They did move the recommended age for first colonoscopy up from 50 to 45, and colorectal cancer is on the rise.

I usually smoke my bacon. Either that or the bacon factory smokes it for me.

I just checked out of the library ”Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II”. I am interested to see exactly how they transitioned from a warfaring shogun-oriented society to a peaceful western democracy.

Interesting—how are you weighting Reference vs Fangraphs? Is it different for pitchers versus position players? Also, are you using FG WAR for pitchers, or RA9-WAR at all? Sees to me it should be the former to match up with Reference, although RA9-WAR is much more results-oriented, which factors into Hall voting more than a WAR figure used more to project future performance.

Yes, the RFK admission was embarrassing, wasn’t it?

Good one overall, although I’m not sure I can agree that “good ideas tend to win elections” as much as we might like. Trump brought a lot of bad ideas the his campaign that a substantial majority of people disagreed with, but ended up winning mainly because of the weak candidacy of his opponent. Personality and popularity has always mattered when it comes to elections, and perhaps that’s even truer now. I do agree with your opening thought. Winning parties have no incentive to change their approach based on high third-party vote counts, because for them, the winning has validated everything they campaigned on. Same as when a candidate wins an election by the thinnest of margins, then claims a broad mandate to do everything they ever wanted for themself and their benefactors that is antithetical to the losing party’s voters. Just by logic, we can see that how many votes the losers end up with matters not a whit, so the whole idea of sending a message with a third party vote crumbles. Winners win and just do what they want anyway, because they believe they have earned that right. So when it comes down to it, voting for a third party candidate you already know is going to lose is an exercise in futility and, depending on how much you want to brag about your political savvy for voting third party in the first place, vainglory. I’s your right to do so at any time, and no one can prevent you from doing so. It’s just that there are times when the effect of your protest vote on the entire body politic, and body social, matters more than others, which should inform a voter’s decision on voting third party versus holding your nose and voting for the lesser of two evils.

I think Taylor has a claim for Michigan, at least for the Detroit area.

Or Burr Ridge.

It’s funny whenever you hear that someone everybody dislikes or disdains or whatever turns out to be the nicest guy. I interviewed John Sterling, erstwhile radio PxP for the Yankees, for a blog once and even though people would say how they despised him and the way he said “thuhhhh … Yankeeeeeeees … win!”, he could not have been a nicer fella to me during the interview. Very engaged in the whole thing, even though it was a crap blog. I was very impressed by what a mensch he was with me.

OK, I’ll bite: 67.5 what?

Point taken.

Randy Johnson

I mean, it's OK to talk about when the Trump regime loses and falls out of power, and that they will be brought up on Nuremberg-like charges and there will be trials and convictions and punishments and all that. Nothing wrong with talking about it. Just remember that they already know that's a possibility, if not probability, and they can hear us talking about it, and if we think they have no choice but to allow themselves to lose a free and fair election so we can set those events in motion, we're delulu.

Didn't Auschwitz hold 100,000 people, too?

So much for ICE efforts in Minneapolis winding up ...

From the Department of No Sh*t, Sherlock:

Ewwww.

I did not realize that many northern Michigan counties are more than 50% Amish!

Which city would be named most for the US?