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Of course it's a joke to them because they are making it all happen on purpose.

He is thisclose to dropping an n-bomb in public, after which there will be a pearl-clutching debate about it on mainstream news networks, jokes will be made about it on late night shows, and while everyone's paying all their attention to that, more cabinet departments will be further decimated and underreported on. Rinse and repeat.

Sounds like a merry mix-up due to accents.

Fun fact: Mary Talley Bowden is an otolaryngologist (ENT) and sleep‑medicine specialist, which does not de facto make her an authority on antiviral pharmacology or hantavirus. Her public statements about ivermectin and RNA viruses are not supported by infectious‑disease guidelines or virology research, despite that she is an actual physician. Her statements here are similar to a dermatologist giving cardiology advice or a podiatrist giving oncology advice. https://npiprofile.com/npi/1699858282

They want to be able to bomb people indiscriminately and just have it be normal everyday business, NBD. Calling it a "war" makes it a big hairy deal and, more importantly, constitutionally involves Congress, which the White House wants nothing to do with.

The Cubs have already had a ten-game winning streak and they're in the middle of a nine-game streak now. They are 7-12 outside those streaks.

Doesn't mean it's wrong. I also don't see the business advantage of outrageously lying about it. What's in it for Boras to do so? Skubal gets back when he gets back whether it's four weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks, or 2027.

I think this makes following the game as a sort of athletic ballet more enjoyable, since every play is a move that makes up the entire dance, and whether your team or the other team is making that great play, you can appreciate and enjoy it either way as part of the greater performance. That doesn't mean you can't be disappointed if your team loses—after all, you do have an established preference—but it's better if it's just a momentary bummer you're over as soon as you leave the ballpark than if you're stewing on the injustice of it all for the whole next day or even longer.

It's not necessarily required that you follow in that way every game of a bad team's season, but only that, when you do commit to watching a game, treat it as an important discrete event in that moment, versus ruing that it means nothing in the big picture. Keeping that in mind helps me enjoy the game in those circumstances.

Indeed it is! I saw an article in which Ernie Harrell was asked how he as a broadcaster can stay engaged while calling games when not only a team’s chances to win the division was loooooong gone, but they were mired firmly in last place, and he replied that you simply have to look at each game as a discrete event, one that’s the most important thing in the world right now, and you treat it as that in the moment. That makes so much sense to me, and remembering that helps keep me engaged with the team when things are going rough overall.

I don’t think bunts could ever get back to what it was in 1978. That was a hangover year in the AL from both the pitchers’ era (low scoring) and from pitchers have recently batted (terrible hitters), so managers were still conditioned to sacrifice outs for a single run.

We will learn pretty quickly whether it's a lie ...

The news so nice they had to say it twice!

I would if he is freer to spout this kind of nonsense on Fox Business than he would Fox News?

And to add to the week from hell that included a Skubal injury, a Valdez suspension, a sweep at the hands of a last-place team, and an unceremonious dumping of the AAA manager for inappropirate texts to women, this: Kevin graduated, and Max held his ground, but Rainer cratered to #71, Briceno fell off because of surgery, and Liranzo is simply gone gone.

Bleahhh

There’s no there there for Greene to be so publicly anti-Trump at this moment, so I am wondering whether her calculation is that Trump will inevitably crash and burn and she will be left standing to step in as leader of the movement once everyone recognizes the purity of her bona fides. This is not a prediction.

The Saudis are nowhere near the point where they just fall in line when Trump takes a **** from his mouth.

Or maybe they were looking for an excuse to part ways with him anyway? Probably not too likely, but if it were true, this is the kind of thing they might come down harder on with certain people than with certain others.

I won’t go so far as to say the Tigers are a bad team, because they are more hurt than bad, but they are sure playing dead on their feet. And the longer it goes on, the more that’s on A.J. There’s this weird mix of chaos and ennui surrounding the team right now, and he’s got to fix it, pronto. That’s why he makes the big money.

I don't see why they wouldn't!

It means whatever you meant it to mean.

I started reading the book and was disappointed to learn that it contemplated digital products like Amazon and Apple and Facebook exclusively. I had hoped the book would have a broader scope encompassing traditional products, services, and even government, because I do believe that the entire American food commerce ecosystem has be in en****tification mode for decades.

I don't know whether the Epstein issue is out of gas, but the fact that you're even asking the question suggests that it might out of gas with you. And if that's true, then yes, there's a chance that the issue is out of gas with the general public at least at this particular moment. But that doesn't mean it can't be resurrected once the MAGA fever breaks, and given that the nature of the charges likely transcends statute of limitations laws, it's going to be a long time before all the people who are in range of the long arm of the law die and escape true accountability for good.

I think it might be just a you're-the-one-responsible-for-your-pitcher-type thing.