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Isn’t this the opposite of what fundamentalists believe? Isn’t it everyone is guilty because of Original Sin? 😉 I kid, I kid …

I would still vote for Swalwell—or Katie Porter, or Gavin Newsome, for that matter—than any candidate the republicans would put up there. BTW, what’s the problem with Katie Porter? Do we hate her now, too? I haven’t heard a thing about anything with her.

Throwing it for strikes so batters must swing and either miss it or fail to square it up properly is one way. Throwing it for called strikes while the batter spits on it because he thinks it’s going to be called a ball is another way. Throwing it for a ball and making the batter swing and miss because he thinks it’s a strike is yet another. Other ways secondary stuff can be good: pitches use same arm speed and angle as fastballs so batters can’t tell the pitch just from those cues; ball breaks so differently from secondary stuff other pitchers have, both when it breaks and in what direction it goes, batters can’t process it properly; speed differential from fastballs is uncommonly high or low so it screws up timing; throwing it out of common sequence so the batter guesses wrong; using seam-shifted wake so the ball breaks differently from how the batter perceives how its spin should make it break; using spin mirroring so it resembles a fastball’s spin to the hitter but breaks differently (probably related to seam-shifted wake). There may be some others but these are all I can think of at the moment.

I definitely did not say, or even imply, “question his career choices”.

Five outfield assists already! Wow! Either Max is super fantastic, or runners so super underestimating him.

No doubt. He must have his doubts by now about whether his career is going to pan out.

So galling that this kind of thing kills one party when it happen to them, but strengthens the other party when it happens to them.

There’s no way Orban would willingly just leave office and Trump just stands by and watches it happen, is there? Something is going to happen, and the US is going to be involved.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, Happy Friday, everyone! We are entering that weekly dangerous 12-or-so-hour period during which Trump times his very worst stuff to shield the markets from the immediate effect. So what fresh hell will we be seeing by tomorrow morning?

Ha ha ha! This confused me at first but now I see the issue—“part as friends” was the wrong way for me to put it! I meant to say just agree to disagree and stay friends. “Part as friends” means we’re never talking again. Definitely not what I meant! Sorry about that! I never disputed there were people on the left engaging in it. If there were only two people in the entire social mediasphere engaging in it, “people on the left are engaging in it” would still be technically true, so i could never argue that literally nobody is engaging in it. Scale and equivalence was all I was debating. The thing I believe we are agree to disagree on is whether it’s a real, major problem. I say the scale is so small, and their influence on the Democratic Party so absent, it’s only a minor problem at best, and then only on the fringes.

Stephen Moore has always been an intellectually bankrupt mouthpiece for the capitalist class.

Maybe the doctor would want to pitch in to “solve” the “problem” of fewer teen mothers? That would track with the ideology.

As has the Tigers’ snakebite career with the Meadows.

Not for nothing, the reason Pudge signed with the Tigers in the first place was that we were the only team that met his very public demand of a 4/40 minimum contract. It’s not as though he chose Detroit, which had just lost 119 games, over any number of teams competing for his services.

So what was the guy referring to when he said (snarked?) that "I bet they are eating it all up"? Was he commenting on stupid consumers who believe everything they see and read? That's kind of how it looks to me ...

Sure, but you know these guys—too much is never enough for them.

Oh, hell yeah, I would have been proud of making another kid eat baseball cards! That would have been totally badass of me in a way nobody thought of me back then! 😂

Holy **** on a stick, that's fugly. It looks like it belongs at the Bellagio.

This is where we part as friends: I don't take this as evidence that it's been happening more. I mean, maybe it's true. Maybe it is happening more. I just don't think this proves that. But even if it is happening more on the margins, I still don't see it happening among the largest, most active Democratic-aligned social media accounts to anywhere near the degree it happens with the largest, most active Trump-aligned accounts. In my opinion, scale and equivalence is where the rubber meets the road, and as far as I can tell, the rubber is still in the garage.

The more he does it, the more he's not called to account for it, the more normal it will become, until nobody bats an eye anymore when it happens. He already conquered his own voters a year or so ago. He's working on the rest of us now.

Haven't a bunch of them turned around and gone home? Maybe I'm misremebering this ...

The problem isn't that they're actually doing it. The problem is that they haven't been kicking any tribute upstairs to the Don.

Yup, this does appear to be one example of lying by a guy who hit the lottery on likes and reposts.

nm, the update broke my autofill