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And it took Dombrowski until his fifth full season to achieve his first winning record; his tenth full season to win his first division title and second playoff appearance; and his eleventh season to turn in his first consecutive playoff appearance.

Jack Morris has among the softest career numbers among Hall of Fame pitchers. He is in because he won back to back rings with different teams, “proving” his impact on winning, and because of Game 7 in 1991.

It would have cost the team revenue had they sat Miggy for ineffectiveness in his final seasons.

As a still-active outfielder myself, can I just tell you how annoying I find it with a player runs to catch a ball, makes the play while still clearly on his feet, then makes the dive and gets the cheers of the fans and the incredulous announcer treatment?

I think of these as explanatory ways to describe the idea that Lou Whitaker doesn’t fulfill the “Fame” requirement to get into the Hall of Fame. Neither do Grich or Buehrle or Stieb or probably anyone else you could have added who had great careers based on performance but are not in the Hall. They have no MVPs, or sexy season or career stats, or big games attributed to them, and if they have rings, then there are teammates who get more credit for the team winning it all that year instead of them. But Jack Morris does have big games, and rings attributed mainly to him, so despite his lackluster overall numbers he’s in, even though he is far more suited more for the Hall of Famous than the Hall of Fame.

Also, casual fans might mutiny if the franchise superstar they identify the team with is being benched for ineffectiveness, which would cost the team revenue. I think that would have been the case with Miggy here.

Option B.

Assertions without evidence is their explicit jam. That is exactly the regime’s strategy, the idea being they don’t need no ****ing evidence, asshole.

Could they have made the guy’s big black face any bigger?

Illinois is a bifurcated situation: an active upscale city population, a sedentary rural downstate population.

What, is it 1984 already?

It’s a cult built on their peculiar brand of Christianity and the place Trump has assumed within it. Cult members look forward to dying for their cults as the purest expression of devotion to their leader, which presumably provides them entrance into their version of heavenly eternal life. That’s why they don’t simply snap out of it.

Share those tips with he and I.

Probably because it is literally never going to happen, if it doesn’t with this guy.

I don’t click on anything in FB I don’t recognize, so the only right wing garbage I get is from people with whom I am still “friends”.

Before long the founders are going to be dismissed as “woke cucks”.

This is a big payoff.

It wasn't bait, honest. More of a hit and run joke. I honestly fretted that you might misunderstand and up the ante somehow, because I didn't want to have to deal with it. Appreciate that you didn't.

This is surely part of it, but I think there's even more than that. How many times have we seen Republicans respond to a Trump atrocity with condemnation in the early aftermath, only to quickly shift gears and pledge their support instead? They already hated the same people going into their initial criticism before abandoning that, which itself tacitly admitting they were wrong. I think they might be getting drastic threats coupled with big payoffs, the latter of which ensures they are in on the crime, so they can't flip or they'll experience the former, which doesn't necessarily have to be a mortal threat, maybe more of a criminal prosecutorial threat, the threat of prison, meaning not country club jail. Threats + payoffs = mobster ****.

Let's go back in time and give them an eighth-grade final exam from 2025 and see how they do.

I've long liked her. They need characters like her in that party.

Because WAR is a cumulative stat. A pitcher with a 4 WAR in 180 innings is not as good on a per-start basis as one who has 4 WAR in 120 innings, although that's not necessarily a bad thing—there is value in good volume, too.

I'm not sure he would want 5/300 if he wants to re-enter the market, since he would be age 35 doing so. I'd think he'd prefer something like 8/400.

No. That’s wrong. Donald Trump is way, way, way more dangerous than the guy on the bus yelling out loud to himself. I believe we should be using language characterizing him that acknowledges that, rather than language that reduces him to a mere run-of-the-mill annoyance.