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There’s only one thing the Trumpublicans can do to stop a massive loss in November.

Ummmmm … progress?

Going down a bit of a rabbit hole, I found this championship game on YouTube, to give you a taste of what it looked like:

The Caesars used to play their home games in a park in East Detroit. I think it was called Memorial Park? It’s was also the first time I had ever heard the Queen song “We Will Rock You” in a sports context. Or maybe it was “We Are The Champions”? One or the other—the songs are connected and were only months old at the time. They played it after hitting a home run, which was, like, a dozen times a game. I also remember a home run hitter they had on the team named, I believe, Rick Trudeau? I can’t believe I remember so much stuff about them since it’s pushing a half century ago.

I have never trusted anyone with haircuts that shave along the sides and leave hair on top. After all, this is where they got the idea. I mean, do chicks really dig this look? Or does it not matter since they just force themselves on women and girls anyway?

That's basically what he was telling us when he said of the Democrats win November, he'll get impeached: that he will going to use the power he will have amassed by that point to prevent that from happening. Does anyone really believe he is going to take his chances on free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028 to let the chips fall where they may? He has all but said in so many words that elections are inherently illegitimate.

Yeah, it makes some sense. It’s a bummer. They’re not very bright, though, so, hopefully it backfires on them.

Here’s a hoary old chestnut for you: “Did you know that Derek Jeter’s favorite food is spaghetti? It’s true—during every Yankees broadcast, Michael Kay will refer to him right in the middle of a play as ‘pasta-diving Jeter.’”

lol “drove up grocery prices”! Clearly she saved the worst atrocity for last. 😂

I think this goes way beyond purported ideological differences that everyone presumes divides the Trump/Elon faction and the Clinton/Summers faction. After all, they’ve all shared in the same wicked experience. Did anyone else happen to notice on materials released on this very forum that the Sinaloa cartel were also named among the Epstein island visitors? The ****ing Sinaloa cartel! They have no politics, but, apparently, they have been considered members in good standing of the rape chain gang. The thing that binds them all together is not political like-mindedness, but the thrill of sharing in pure, uncut depravity, along with the knowledge that no one can flip on anyone else because they’ll be flipping on themselves, providing mutually-assured immunity. That’s the current thinking, anyway. Will that finally, FINALLY fall apart?

FINALLY. A fairly major media outlet finds the balls to report on this. This stuff was out there years ago. I believe someone (not me) posted it here in this forum within the past couple of three years. But, yeah—FINALLY. Now if only some major media outlet will give the same attention to the murder part, maybe we will actually get somewhere on breaking the spell.

Sexy funny women always made me melt. Catherine O’Hara and Teri Garr back in the day, definitely. Mary Tyler Moore before that. Kristen Bell in recent years. Sabrina Carpenter has that potential if she wants to … ahem … tap that. Catherine’s passing is a little shocking because she’s been so active so recently. She had a great producer character in The Studio, and I considered her part of the core of the secondary cast on that show. I was looking forward to seeing more of that from her in the coming season.

Yes, that’s so true. I assume they use that line of questioning specifically so they can weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in their beloved corps. The product or service itself, though? That reflects on leadership, not rank and file, so feedback on that is a non-starter.

There are these three guys on my softball team who curl during the winter, meaning, an actual league in an actual suburb, like, Buffalo Grove or someplace else way out there. I’ve never curled and expressed interest and they said I should come out and try it and they’ll let me know when.

Have you seen bowling on TV lately? Now it seems all the pros are wearing flashy colors—the more the better—and talking trash to opponents. PBA is trying to attract a certain type that likes watching that kind of thing.

There’s no right way to want and root for a team in a league. Some people love dynasties; others want new teams winning every year. Neither is objectively better than the other, right? The one constant is that everybody wants their own team to win a lot—but even then, I can see where a Braves fans in the 90s and 00s, and also just recently, would become blasé, even bored, of winning the division and making the playoffs every year. I think it’s good for the soul of a fan base to see their perennial playoff team go through a reset every once in a while. Cardinal fans are going through that right now. They’ve been “struggling” for a decade and even when they’ve made the playoffs, they’ve gotten wiped out fast. Not that I am rooting for Cardinals fans, necessarily, but going through rough times makes you really appreciate it when you get back in the thick of things. That’s why I’m enjoying the Tigers right now. We have a legitimate chance now, whereas we didn’t before.

The Premier League—most pro soccer leagues, in fact, with at least one glaring American exception—is a purely capitalist enterprise. There is no revenue share for the purpose of keeping clubs afloat for the league, which makes sense, since the league has a different makeup of clubs every season. But none of the lower leagues help keep their clubs afloat, either. Leagues don’t stress out when one of the clubs playing within is having existential financial troubles, since any failing sides are replaced with another side waiting in the wings. As such, as a purely capitalist venture, football clubs can and do “wind up”—meaning shut down and go out of business. Ten different clubs have wound up just in the last 35 years, and Reading FC is on the verge of doing so right now.

As you imply, I don't object to the question itself, but rather it's positioning as the first question asked. Ask it at the end, after you've given me an opportunity to feed back meaningfully on your product.

To be fair, baseball was a pay to win league well before the free agency era. The Yankees and Cardinals paid big money for decades so they could win. Some of the money they spent even went to players.

I would never wear a Skubal jersey because his name is on it, and I will not wear another man's name on my back. Exception: anyone who was a professional athlete when I was 11 years old.

I'd guess it's more likely that MeidasTouch and any other professional media organization that distributes these screenshots will get sued for libel.

OK, there's the something worse, in that screenshot on the right.

That's a good point your post raises: how much at hand here is honest ignorance, how much is willful ignorance, how much is denial, and how much is acceptance/embrace? Taking a WAG, I'd figure it's something like 10-40-30-20.

The way to free oneself of a troll is to proceed as though they're not there, which includes not only blocking then, but also, not unblocking blocked posts to engage with them, or even referring to them in other posts. I myself have been guilty of both. Attention, any attention, even the level of attention in this post, is oxygen.