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Rump knew nothing about this in the same way the Nuremberg defendants knew nothing about the Holocaust.

Well, Trump will put a stop to that all right … Obviously a bid to permanently calcify MAGA’s hold on electoral politics. Let’s say Tump succeeds in getting this done. If so, I’m a little torn on what I believe the effect will be. On the one hand, the obvious effect will be to keep people of color and others like them away from the polls by requiring documentation most of them probably don’t have, documentation they won’t have an opportunity to obtain because MAGA power will keep the places to get these IDs far far away from them. On the other hand, I would think a lot of the incel army and other transient red hat voters would also get caught up in a “law” like this, because they themselves are not loathe to make sure they have obtained the government’s latest device for identifying and tracking them. The wild card is how this will be implemented on the ground. If it’s left up to local officials, which it may very well be, than simpatico election workers will simply let in their red hat friends with the ID to vote while coming down hard requiring anyone they know or suspect are RINOs or dirty libs to pony up the ID. Another way MAGA power can shape implementation of this is to require some sort of electronic verification in certain districts that tend to swing toward Democrats, while being lax on enforcing this same requirement in solidly or even lean-Republican districts.

Very good points. I wonder whether it’s also that they did not want to generate antipathy from the black community for highlighting a white mans role in Robinson coming in. After all, it was always going to take a white savior to make it happen, which is an uncomfortable thing to highlight—and to your point, also highlighting Baseball’s culpability for keeping black players out in the first place.

I guess you’re not the only one caught by surprise on this. A Cubs fan friend set that to me and I had to admit to him I wasn’t gonna lie I knew nothing about it.

Careful, now ... you don't want to out the guy and get his busted and deported ... 😉

That would definitely be a big swing that needs a firm plan and literally everybody on board.

This will definitely fire up the MAGA overlords and their red hat troops.

This isn't worth a whole thread, i don't think, but maybe we have a little fun and try to guess some of the outlandish executive orders Agent Orange is going to grace us with in the coming weeks or months? I have three off the top of my head: Rename Lake Ontario to "Lake New York", or better yet, "Lake America". Declare that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Declare that Juneteenth is no longer a federal holiday, and threaten to withhold federal funds from any state that maintains its status as a state holiday. Replace it with Flag Day as a federal holiday. Two reasons: (1) it's his own birthday; (2) he's horny for the flag. Anyone else wanna play? The only request is that there has to be a puncher's chance that he would actually do it, which, as I think about it, opens it up to practically anything.

At this rate, it might be tough for the Tigers to repeat as winners of the PBATS MLB Athletic Training Staff of the Year Award.

This is more a pet peeve than it is amusing: I'm wondering whether Amazon is starting to lose it. Three recent incidents: I ordered two boxes of Gimme Seaweed Snacks in late February. When I opened the bag, they looked and tasted musty, as though they sat in a warehouse for a year. Which they probably did: they were expired by a few weeks by the time I'd gotten them. Amazon did do a "one-time courtesy" (or something) refund of the product on the spot. There is an inexpensive disposable personal care product I buy on a regular basis, and I always used to just go to my Buy Again page to find it and order it. Except last week: the product was no longer listed, not only on my Buy Again page, but not even in my order history at all, and I did an exhaustive search for at least fifteen minutes looking for it. After all, how could I misplace that? It always was where it was, for a couple of years at least. Until it wasn't, and as of today, still isn't. I had to buy a different product from the same company, which is now in my Buy Again—for the moment. And now, this week, I learned from Amazon themselves that a food product I ordered back on March 4 "may be lost". No, seriously. See screenshot below. (Yes, it's another brand of seaweed snacks. I like seaweed snacks. So sue me.) When you click on "return or replace items", you learn that this particular item can be neither returned nor replaced. Also, there is no easily-findable link on the Amazon page for customer service or chat. I had to Google "Amazon chat support" to get to it. And I cycled through three different reps (i.e., Sachin had a technical issue. Please wait while we transfer you to a new associate) trying to get a refund, which, they ended up saying they could not issue because it's a third-party seller, so they apparently reached out to them on my behalf to contact me. We'll see where this goes. I do think Amazon is starting to lose it, by which I mean, the "it" of customer care that is emblematic of a company that operates in a competitive marketplace where they fear losing your business. Welcome to your brave new world: canis caninam non est, so, caveat emptor.

Our future center fielder is at least two years away from everyday starting, so if Parker is done done—no, I'm not assuming, just saying "if"—then I guess it's the Wenceels/Margots of the world this season, and a one-year stopgap along the lines of Bader or Michael A. Taylor next year.

Back in your bad old day, a high school dropout could walk in the front door at Ford's or Chrysler's and get a job that would support an entire family. 😉

I could be talked into orange jerseys, as long as they have white pants. It's bad enough the current Connects look like PJs—I wouldn't want to see my team looking like clementines in the next iteration.

Right—with the quote made without center field explicit within, or in direct response to a question about center field, it is at least 50/50 that Petzold broadened the context of a statement Harris made when he might have been thinking about his infield work, versus Harris making the statement in an unqualified way. All that said, even though Kreidler played two innings of CF in 2022 and one inning there last year, there's probably a good reason he hasn't played any more innings there, so I would be surprised to see someone Harris regards as an "elite center fielder" have his time so limited there. I'd bet it's the same situation as Baez getting reps in center: we need a third or fourth option to play there if we see many more better options go down to injury. I think the idea of kicking the tires on Moniak is interesting, although he is essentially a left-handed hitter, which we are lousy with, and there's probably a reason a team much worse than we cut bait on him.

I didn't see where Harris said that Kreidler is an elite center fielder.

Fire Harris, too. 😜

That sounds good on paper, but Whitewater worked because nothing bigger or more horrific happened to replace it. With this regime, something will happen within a week that will dwarf this and make us forget all about it. It seems unbelievable and even impossible, since this is an existential national security issue, but really, just wait and see.

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Within the thread: This incident has the potential of ... ahem ... signalling the beginning of the end of the free press in America. How can this be stopped?

There's always that probability, too, since she is starting to get the publicity she needs to goose her follower numbers.

Fire Hinch. 😏

I've given in on the concept of City Connects. I just really dislike this version. I would like to see them change it to a sleeker, less cartoonish look, as the Astros have.

I think he cares, and I think he's on top of them, but in order to achieve different ends than we would normally expect from our president. They're not stupid, and they're not making mistakes.

I've stopped short of believing this was a setup to entrap the MSM, but I am totally believing that the regime will use this incident to openly clamp down hard on all MSM.