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His market was ****. That's why he fell to Cincinnati for a single year. At least the team is a devil he knows. I for one am glad Harris didn't sell the farm off to get him last year.

Explain?

He may be short of 60 WAR right now, but I think if Jose Ramirez were to walk off the field Moonlight Graham-style today, he'd be in the Hall of Fame within a couple or three years. And if his career continues and then concludes on its current trajectory, he'll be a slam-dunk first-ballot inner-circle Hall of Famer.

Bowling is definitely one sport in which I can agree that analytics leading to lane and ball optimization should be strangled in the crib. Flip side: higher scores = more bowlers = more revenue.

That's what you get for living on the edge (of the lane).

That should be a fait accompli in a healthy, or at least functional, democracy.

Feature, not bug.

I see, OK. I never felt that when I voted with those machine, but I can feel why people would feel that way.

Projection Exhibit A.

Can you share with me why those machines are untrustworthy? I don’t know anything about them, specifically.

Of course we had voting machines going back decades and elections went off just fine. Just better, actually, because their advent made it harder for election officials to doctor paper ballots after the fact and make sure their candidates appear to win.

Between this and the other thing you posted, please tell me that the so-called leftists are not going to become publicly outraged that Epstein and Trump are racist because don't wanna **** underage black girls.

I think this is probably true. He's closing it well in advance of bulldozing so it falls off everyone's radar, people stop talking about it entirely, and then, suddenly, the bulldozers show up without warning or announcement. By the time people look up to see what's happening, the building will be half gone, the institution will have been abolished, and a grotesque replacement designed as a paean to elevating lowbrow culture will rise in its place.

Maybe not. Although they seem pretty comfortable with Noem calling shots. To be continued ...

For anyone seeking to become the first trillionaire, $10 billion can never, by definition, be enough.

I think the thing with MTG is that she is a true believer in a way that transcends Trump. She still believes that QAnon is real, that Democrats are evil baby-blood drinking monsters who are embedded deep into the Epstein rot, that there are Jewish space lasers, and more. But her true belief is not subject to Donald Trump's whims as it is with maybe, I don't know, 90 or 95% of the other people we regard in that camp as being "true believers". She was willing to completely break with Trump in support of her true belief. That makes her dangerous in a different and possibly worse way because she has a force of personality that has the potential to rally millions of crazy low- and no-information people to her cause. She can't do that today, obviously, but once Trump dies, those people are going to be looking for a new avatar, and I promise you they won't rally under the flag of Just Dumb Vance.

And they actually let him out!

Same here. I’m glad I saw it, but I can definitely wait to see it again.

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.