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I continue to be dumbfounded by the various supposedly savvy pundits referring to Trump’s actions as “mistakes”. That implies Trump is making an honest effort to maintain the traditional world order but is merely failing short—in this case, that he is trying to end the war while maintaining Ukraine’s dignity and sovereignty. Do these pundits really believe that? I don’t believe Trump as making mistakes. I believe Trump is doing exactly what he is setting out to, in the service of someone he accepts to be greater than he.

Bernie Sanders nine years ago. 2022 pre-stroke Fetterman. Cool. Where’s the Rashida Tlaib contingent in your posts? I was hoping you’d show me millions of votes for dozens of candidates like her. If the dangerous far left has the Democratic Party in the same level of thrall as the dangerous far right has the Republican Party, that should be a cakewalk. I mean, come on, we can all name over a hundred elected MAGA christoextremists prepping the world for the end times practically off the top of our heads.

Feels kinda good to go 5-5 in the last 10 games, which no team avoids doing at least a few times during the season, and still gain on three of the four teams in your division, and lose only one game to the other one.

It’s the grifters who command them that I think we should be concerned about.

I was going with it.

Wrong again, bucco! 😂

OK, now I am going to ask you to tell me who you mean and how many votes they get. Meaning, name names and give me their votes totals so we can add them up on a spreadsheet. I want to see confirmation that they received millions of votes.

I’m not trying to be a dickhead, and I certainly don’t mean 100% of all military people, which, I could see why you’d take that from what I posted. But as you know as well as anyone, not everyone who swears an oath to the Constitution embraces all its principles. After all, this president and his personal party’s elected representatives all swore oaths to the Constitution. How seriously do you think they are taking that oath? The military itself is anything but a democracy. Nobody is asking grunts for their votes on how the military should be run, and that’s the way it should be, because of the unique role the military fulfills. But that certainly must also be a big draw for a high percentage of the leadership who would like to impose the military’s brand of dictatorial command-and-control on the civilian population as well. Michael Flynn is a pretty good example of that. That’s what I meant to imply by what I said.

I wonder if that change is due in part to the change in the buffer zone that effectively shrunk the strike zone. Walks are up and strikeouts are down, and hitters are taking more pitches labeled as being outside the zone and making more contact when they do swing. Launch angle is also down a tick which might explain part of the drop in HR/FB percentage. If they are making the ball deader, that’s not the worst thing even from the offense’s point of view, since stolen bases and bases taken are up and it’s easier to score runs stringing together hits now than it was before the bases ballooned in size.

“Who do you work for, Bet365?!”

Can’t fault Javy there. Hope it fires up the rest of the team.

Military people are not generally the biggest supporters of the idea of democracy.

The kind of extreme left politics you’re talking about will never, ever, ever be the platform of the mainstream Democratic Party. That’s just hair on fire thinking. They will always be a fringe element that will never rise to the numbers that MAGA has.

Rosenthal probably wrote that column because he’s offended by the idea that Skenes is being wasted in Pittsburgh.

Fun fact: Maddux could have been on this list in 2000 since he had 13 strikeouts on 81 pitches, but he got yanked after seven, probably because the Braves had a 10-0 lead. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MON/MON200009230.shtml

Yes.

I’m hoping for a scratch single since we opted to not go to today’s game and drive home instead.

The unexpected aspect is MLB not being 100% anticonsumer instead of just 90%.

Sucks for me since I am driving across the state now after the kickass weekend my wife set up for me as a Xmas present. By the way, I am using this as an opportunity to relive my youth by listening to the game exclusively on broadcast radio and changing stations as I pass through cities. Right now I am going through Ann Arbor, home of WTKA 1050 AM, Washtenaw County’s news leader. Next up: Jackson.

Benetti calling the game on the radio. I wonder if Dan wanted or needed the day off. I don’t dislike Benetti, really I don’t—but I like him less now after hearing him call last night’s game neutral for the Fox national audience and sound excited when Cleveland scored on us.

Manning is not even in my consideration set anymore.

Yeah they’re on a good run and we aren’t.

That’s Randy Wolf from 2015.

Better hitter?

That was my issue with the play Jake made. I don’t think he was in the wrong spot necessarily, I think his positioning was fine. I just think he caught the ball too far in front of the play because then he had to sweep behind him to try to get the out and he was never going to catch up to the runner that way. I think he needed to let the ball travel closer the runner before catching it so he’d just put the mitt down for the out.