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Braves do not have a hit that’s landed anywhere on the field.

Dan is all but calling MLB out for being in the bag for the Braves.

And what if anything did they do for Sue? 😉

Oh man, it is just not gonna be easy, is it? I was just saying I’m nervous about Finnegan coming in, not because I know anything specific, but because it’s the first appearance after an injury, and you never know what you’re gonna get.

TORKBOMB! Looks to me like we’re back on the horse!

Did FD just run a Feiger spot and a Mike Morse spot back to back? If I were either one of those advertisers, I’s be pissed at airing right next to a competitor. I would have thought FD would grant at least pod exclusivity.

That Melton boy has some serious ups! And people will disagree, but plays like that is an indication of increasing energy the team is showing. Something to build on.

Almost! McStinkbomb!

He already threw strikes. Twice.

It's sure looking more and more that way, isn't it? I mean, this game is the most must-win game I can remember in a long time. They lose this one, they might get so freaked out that it will be impossible to turn things around. Hell, this team might be there right now.

Aaaaand here we go ...

They won't want to move to Russia—well, maybe some do, but most won't—but they would certainly be cool with great gobs of nice, white, Christianity-adjacent Russians moving here.

Sorry, Luke, I'm going to have to throw my professional experience trump card on this hand. Most of my career entailed working in media planning in ad agencies for clients who ran primarily on TV. I had close professional contacts with TV stations and networks for the better part of a couple of decades. I promise you they spent almost no time debating whether to run a Charlie Kirk tribute on their air versus actual revenue-generating programing. We can fairly debate whether we think they made that decision to not run the Kirk thing on its air even before announcing they would do so—I personally think they did—but there is no debate about who pressured the network to end the Kimmel show, and you obviously know who that was. As for the advertisers, they usually don't care so much about losing ad time in this specific show or daypart on such and such a specific date, as long as they get generous makegoods that run within their planning window to achieve the point goals of their overall buy with the network. CMRivdogs knows what I'm talking about.

Tork got the most out of his limited rage on that play!

If you have never been in a situation where your direct reports went around you to your boss to work directly with them on a project that cuts you entirely out of it, then you probably will never understand. A.J. did not want the Astros doing this. He showed his displeasure a few times by smashing the monitors that were being used for it. This is well documented—that was detailed in Baseball's investigation into the scandal, and also appears in the documentary I shared. But he couldn't stop his bosses from working directly with his players to make it happen, and despite players' BS statements in the investigation to the contrary, he could never have stopped the players from working with his bosses on it. You can believe A.J. is guilty for being behind the whole thing because he didn't stop it. You can even believe he lied to investigators while under oath and that he's a slimy mother****er who should be fired by the Tigers and banned form baseball for life. It would be your prerogative to believe that, if you did. But that would not comport with the facts in the case as revealed by Baseball in their investigation.

Wait! What just happened? A run scored?

What? No runs given up in the first inning? Do I have the wrong game on?

Because they can’t make any money on it. But they can make money on celebrity family feud reruns.

Here's the explanation: The point was never for Sinclair to actually run the special during a salable daypart on their valuable, irreplaceable air. The point was to announce they would run the special so they could win MAGA credits for it. Credits will not be deducted for not actually airing it—all anyone in MAGA world cares about is that Sinclair announced to the rest of the world that they would run the special which, to everyone in MAGA world, is just as good as actually running it. The main thing needed from Sinclair was the appearance of bending the knee to the regime, which satisfies the regime's ego, and also, effectively maintains a favorable business environment for Sinclair. In that light, mission accomplished, one hundred percent.

At least when Patel trolls Congress with ignorant lying horse****, he's doing it for an audience of one who directly recognizes and appreciates his efforts. I don't know what anyone trolling here is trying to accomplish. Endorphin rush? That's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with.

Fake news. Everything is totally great again. Just ask him.

Isn't trolling seven dudes on an internet message board the best way to honor Charlie?

The what class?

It’s a little of everything. Walk rate is down so his wRC+/OPS+ is down. Base running is worse. Fielding is worse. Plus he played less CF this year, so he loses a couple tick for positional. FWIW, Fangraphs has him at 4.0 last year and 2.9 this year.