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The surprise Tigers featuring AL Cy Young Skubal versus the World Champs featuring Blake Snell’s first Dodger start? Yeah, I think so.

I think he probably did.

I really do think it’s the result of a thorough brainwashing by that whole right wing/pro-Kremlin media system. We can all think of examples of people we’ve known through the years who were always conservative but who have completely gone over the moon for Trump. What that suggests to me is that their conservatism was entirely personality-driven, and not at all ideological.

A show election can accomplish the same result.

Based on sarcasm.

I had thought the same thing on a simplified basis, although as I think more about it, I gotta wonder how much down-ballot success is due to extreme gerrymandering than it is to their general message ex-top of ticket. The Dems did pick up three seats, but those were vacancies. The Republicans did not lose a single contestable House seat out of the 220 they held, and they actually picked up a couple Senate seats. So I'm not sure how much comfort I can take from the down-ballot argument anymore.

The whole Latin Mass kerfuffle is especially inexplicable, since basically every Catholic under 70 has never known anything but local language Mass, and I'm pretty sure those geriatrics aren't not banding together and leading the charge against everyone else.

We had trouble believing his story about it, too. And he wasn't even a black woman. 😏

This seems like a reasonable hypothesis. I doubt she’s a thug who simply wanted to hurt someone, since a similar incident would probably have come out way before this race in her now-finished running career. She may have had a loose cannon frustration moment that she immediately realized went too far, then exaggerated her arm motion afree wards after as if to communicate to everyone, “See? I swing my baton arm wild like this all the time. Not really my fault.” If she did have a similar incident before this, then the racer-vetting process for this event totally failed.

And I'm sure they will immediately refrain from accessing that data in compliance with this order. 🙃

Yeah, but even if everybody shares equally rather than Dodgers getting extra, the hierarchy of sales appeal still applies and drives the decision for Baseball in general.

I don't think there's much doubt that in terms of sales appeal among Japanese baseball fans, Dodgers Homes >>> Dodgers Roads >>> Cubs Homes >>> Cubs Roads.

If you didn't know about this strategy before, you know about it now.

Is this a guess or do you have a link to a source? Honest question, not trying to be a smartass here. I want to see what you're seeing on it.

True, but believe it or not, not everyone saw that as all that different. Or, if they did, they saw him as a possible solution to the problem they have been told for 40-plus years Washington fundamentally is.

I don't think there's much difference between #4 and #5, honestly. Only #1 really counts for anything for vast majority of teams, including us—unless we get a very nice surprise somehow.

This sounds reasonable on paper, but I find it difficult to lay the blame at the feet of an entire population of people who, as with generations of people before them stretching back millennia, are only responding to the incentives and attainable alternatives being presented to them.

ftfy AS OF NOW is not as far as it's ever going to go.

Owners will either get them backed unfixed, or never get them back at all.

And when the tolerance level to the high of merely hurting people kicks in and it no longer works, what's the next logical step to get that same high?

Relevant part bold-faced for your consideration. Electrek’s Take I have some experience in financial accounting, having learned the basics from the excellent Brian Bushee at Wharton, but I never felt that I was knowledgeable enough to make such an accusation against Tesla. Shady accounting at Tesla is something people have been pointing out for years, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it getting traction from a major financial outlet like the Financial Times. This is likely going to put pressure on Tesla and its auditors. However, for those hoping for Tesla to get in hot water for cooking the books, I would remain careful. Not only could there be explanations for this, but with Trump and Musk kneecapping the SEC, repercussions are unlikely.

In the meantime, a cabinet official speaking in his official government capacity is showing how it's OK for this particular government to pick winners and losers. Hopefully this is one instance which I hope the magazine with the hubris to call itself "Reason" gets right.

Does this mean you believe it makes more logical sense that Democrats are actually naive like children about the nature of their Republican adversaries who have been showing everyone their fascist cred for the last decade-plus, than that they can actually see what practically everyone else can but were just banking on the electorate rejecting them on that basis? You think the former is more logical than the latter? Or is there something else you see me "selling" up there that you're referring to?

Maybe once MAGA sees pretty white ladies are victimized, they will tweak the system to avoid that specific outcome. As for ICE detention being a business, John Oliver discussed this a couple weeks ago.

When people feel desperate, they will try anything to change their situation—even voting.