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You have exactly right, except you also have it backwards.

I remember the Free Press running a picture Cowens and Farmer standing at home plate st Tiger Stadium shaking hands, in a show of burying the hatchet I guess, and they looked for all the world like they still wanted to kill each other.

Except Ty Cobb also had to learn the requisite skills to be able to hit the best pitching in the world to the level that he did. It was more than eyesight. I had 20-15 eyesight once. I couldn’t catch up to a decent fastball to save my life. OK, Ty Cobb is a bad example for me to defend. He started playing at age 18 in the early 1900s; there was no coached developmental path for the guys who played it; the game was not mature enough to filter all the best athletes who could have been pro baseball players toward it; it was not yet a truly national sport in terms of drawing talent; and large swaths of American were prevented by custom from playing it at the highest level. I’ll update my defense of the eyesight thing to Mike Trout.

All except Chicago—that’s a lost cause for Republicans. If we were to ever get to the point to which Chicago is contestable for the president, we’d be looking at a Nixon 1972-level landslide and, really, one-party rule.

Maybe you start one and I will hit like on posts within it?

I believe the effort to reduce payroll inequality among teams has to focus on incentivizing small market teams to start spending and become actually competitive, at least as much as clamping down on the biggest-spending teams. The ownerships of too many organizations are phoning it in because as owners they will get good and paid, with increasing franchise valuations, anyway, no matter whether they win eighty games or seventy or sixty. I don’t have to out which organizations—you already know who they are. Fix that end of it and they will fix a big chunk of the competitive balance problem—if Baseball even acknowledges there is one, or even cares, both of which are legitimate open-ended questions.

Sure, I said it in a flip way to be entertaining, and of course soccer is a sport that requires great skill to play at the highest level. I would never say otherwise. At the same time, a sport in which several players with multiple teenage years remaining can play in the very top league in the world can’t be as challenging to master at the very top level as, for example, baseball. Most of the guys who are athletically gifted enough to play big league baseball even in their early 20s are considered to be too inexperienced to play at the top level, requiring additional seasoning to master the sport so they can play at that top level.

“Soccer’s not a sport because you can’t use your arms. Anything you can’t use your arms can’t be a sport. Tap-dancing isn’t a sport … I rest my case.”

They should have had fewer athletic events and more baseball events. 😁

I don’t know who you think “we” is, but nobody else has been willfully mischaracterizing anything I’ve ever said about religion, or faith, or any of that. We’re not the only ones who will need to be careful, is all I’m saying.

I won’t argue against that, in terms of what the world prefers. But the fact that a 15-year-old is able to play in the Premier League—and not just as a one-shot Joe Nuxhall deal, but for multiple games while maintaining an active roster spot with the team at the top of the table—tells me everything I need to know about how difficult it is to earn a spot in the best soccer league in the world.

If “exciting” is the objective benchmark, then UCF has them both beat by an even wider margin.

No worries! The owners will come up with plenty of ideas to take money from the pockets of the best players and put it back in their own pockets where it belongs. 😉😁

Overpaying young players! Well, we can’t have that! 😉

Only Cash (leadoff) and Brinkman (cleanup) did not bat in those spots in any other game that season. All the other players had at least one other game in their slots.

Point is that being Jewish quislings helping the Nazi regime early on didn’t help them survive. To the fascists, your worth starts with your bloodline. After that, your actions can put you on the outs, but without the proper bloodline, nothing puts you on the inside, no matter how loud or proud or Trumpy your words or actions might be. We have all seen how Trump himself turned on people who initially tried to appease him with their Trumpiness, but had the temerity to share one rogue word or action. Also, remember this: America is the home of the one-drop rule. Not even the German Nazis did that. So no matter how far they go back, they find even a drop of “bad” in your bloodline, you’re out.

Also, she was just following orders.

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You think your Jewishness will somehow save you? It won’t. And you think your remove from your grandmonther’s Jewishness will save you otherwise? That won’t, either. You think proclaiming Jesus will …ahem … trump your blood Jewishness? Yeah, right. And you think narcking on all of our PII to the authorities will stand you in good stead with them for the rest of your life? As if. They won’t care how loud or proud you were with your Trumpiness, or what a quisling you were. All they will have to know is your bloodline. As far as they’ll be concerned, you’ll be no more like them than us, and no better than any of us. You’ll simply be one of us. Even worse, perhaps: you’ll be considered as someone faking their patriotism, trying in vain to somehow hide your true blood essence from them. They will know better, and they’ll know quickly. In fact, they already know right now. So, good luck to you on that. Just remember what your fellow travelers said:

Being a citizen who has never been armed, I’m pretty sure I’m gone in the first wave of ordinary citizens. My only hope to go out on my own terms, such as it would be, is to obtain a single pistol and single bullet, and drill with it to make sure it works as intended when it’s time. And when they come for it, and me, that’s when it’s time. I’m pretty sure my loved one won’t want a bullet for herself.

Those concentration camps aren’t going to fund themselves—at least not until they liquidate the assets and holdings of all the people being held within them. That’s how it was done in Germany.

All most people know going into leveraged ETFs is that they can double or triple their money. Even if that’s not how it works, that’s all they know about it. This is a prime example of “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”

Eighty percent of my social media, at least 80%, is this website right here. I never post at X or Bluesky, and I have stopped commenting on others’ posts; I post only travel stuff and comments on FB; and I have no presence on anything else. Even so, once they start pairing up our posts here with our PII—and it wouldn’t take much for them to do so, if they haven’t already—then you, I, and a lot of others here are done for.

I have wondered whether the word will achieve some sort of socially protected status, such that, perhaps, only members of the tribe should be able to use the word. There’s very little incentive for a gentile to utter it. Even saying the words “six million Jews” makes me feel kind of icky. I do feel perfectly fine saying “Jewish people”. It’s a little weird, I know.

It didn’t occur to me until just recently that of course the complete projection-driven personality of the maga elite would extend to 25+ years of “The Democrats are coming for your guns” was always going to end in the Republicans coming for your guns.