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I’m 100% in support of his position, but TBF, Hizzoner is being disingenuous here. It’s one thing to own the inflammatory nature of the comment he made, which I think he should and, again, I’m totally in support of it. It’s another to deny that what he said was even inflammatory in the first place. It clearly was, and he knows it was. It would be more honest for him to acknowledge its flammable nature while saying that even so, it doesn’t even nearly rise to the level of murdering his citizens, and that the truly heinous post-shooting act here is the equivocation of the two by the regime, or worse, the elevating of his f bomb as being worse than the murder, which is definitely happening. That would be honest, and fair.

Never seen any stories about a rash of windshield wiper theft. I would guess it’s a random prank. It happens. I went to the movies here in Big Shoulders maybe 20 or so years ago, came back out to my car, and someone had heaved a big ol’ rock through the passenger window. Nothing inside was stolen. Just random vandalism, I guess. Hasn’t happened since, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see something else equally random happen in the future.

With all the money the Cubs are throwing around, I’m wondering whether hampering themselves in RF defensively with a platoon guy to save $9MM is on their wish list? When I said earlier that I’m coming around to the idea they keep Shaw and trade Hoerner, I’m not saying that’s what they should do, I’m saying that’s what I was thinking they end up doing. Personally, I believe it would be asinine for them to pick up five wins in Bregman and then trade away five wins in Hoerner and replace him with whatever Shaw would give them out of position at second—maybe a win, maybe two? Maybe none? Or maybe he gives them five wins there just with his bat? Who knows. It would be a huge risk for them to go all in at third and pitching only to potentially kneecap themselves at second. They are arguably the favorites for their Central right now.

I’d rather focus on drafting hitting and go to the playoffs than focus on drafting pitching and lose 98 games a season. That said, you can’t draft 100% hitters in the high rounds in perpetuity. You have to draft pitchers up there at some point.

Just another in an unaccountable number of times proving Trump is simply ****ing with us. From a CNN alert I got: News Alert: Trump weighs potential military intervention in Iran President Donald Trump is weighing a series of potential military options in Iran following deadly protests in the country, two US officials told CNN, as he considers following through on his recent threats to strike the Iranian regime should it use lethal force against civilians. "Should [Iran] use lethal force against civilians." Mother****er.

Dweezil also fronts an awesome Frank tribute band whom I saw last year (or was it two years ago now? Everything rushing by so fast) that's focuses on the Roxy jazz-rock music from 1974.

I promise you that if X/Twitter were owned by a liberal and their version of Grok was doing this, they would be shut down, their top people would be arrested and put on show trial, and the rest of the liberal social media ecosystem (e.g., Bluesky) would all be sanctioned or worse right along with them.

Wait, what? Is he low-key threatening the rest of us with continued extrajudicial murder by ICE officers if we continue to question their extrajudicial murdering?

Is there even such a guy? Do a google search for "irgc colonel mahdi rahimi" and all that comes up are social media posts on X, Reddit, Facebook, and something called "Yeshiva World News", which was "established in 2003 by Judah Eckstein as a news aggregation blog." It is "[b]ased in Monsey, New York" and staffed with "freelance contributors". I'm putting my early money on "there's no such guy". There was a real guy named Mehdi Rahimi, a name that is suspiciously close enough to ting a bell for people who are not actually close to Iranian affairs.

Now do the Chicago Skyway.

Doubtful they would include Cade Horton. I'm also coming around to the idea they keep Matt Shaw and his five years of control and instead send away Nico Hoerner, whom we can't use so much, and his final year before free agency. If the Cubs were to make an offer for Skubal, I could see them offering Nico, Jaxon Wiggins, and lottery tickets. Pretty sure we would turn that down. I suppose we could include Gleyber in exchange for them adding someone like Kevin Alcantara. That would probably get us closer to something worth a return.

I would bet players would have less tolerance for deferred money from the Tigers than they would from the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Cubs, or Giants.

This is pretty good, although I think all the red hats still believe they are the ones collectively treading on everyone else, and that’s what they voted for.

For as long ago as Bob Weir was famous and as entrenched a name as his has been in rock culture ever since, he was still under 80 years old when he died. This is borderline amazing to me.

Yeah, Frank was definitely an inward person, if not exactly a loner. Form the time he was rich enough to build his home studio, he would spend every waking hour in it working on composing and arranging music, which was the only entity outside himself he had any passion for, to the detriment of all the other people in his life. He probably had some diagnosable condition leading him to withdraw, but he was also intelligent and insightful enough to seek help for that if it ever bothered him, which to all appearances it didn’t, since it led to his fame and fortune. There was a very good Washington Post article from a couple years ago about how his kids are divided from one another, and Frank does not come off looking good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/interactive/2024/frank-zappa-family-feud-moon-unit-dweezil/

Not weird at all. I have the same peeve about people being able to see into my house, and as soon as dusk start outside, down the shades go. Even the back shades, since I live in a dense city neighborhood and my dining room would be visible to at least half a dozen neighbors behind me.

Ex-player rakes organization for not giving an active player all the money he wants? Dog bites man, indeed!

Are we not amused? 😁

Looks like Bregman‘s gambit of doing the high-AAV short contract with opt outs last year worked out for him after all. I don’t think there was any ghost of a chance he would ever get $215 million over six years last winter.

That should spell the end of Matt Shaw in Chicago, although if the Cubs end up trading Nico Hoerner instead, they deserve to miss out on the playoffs next year. I don’t like Matt Shaw the person, but maybe Scott Harris should go after Matt Shaw the player to play third base for us. We have the prospect capital to pay for him.

He will hit in Wrigley.

No wonder the red hats all still think Trump is the bee’s knees.

I don't know, I don't think a back-of-the-rotation pitcher controllable for only one more year would get us much more than a team's #10-#20 prospect as the headliner in a volume return. Is that OK with you?

Based on this self-documentation from ChrisCo himself, I'm guessing Trump is a huge fan and gives him mad props.

We appear to be moving in that direction, yes.