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It costs nothing to just say of course he would have won, because we'll never know, but I'm with you. I wonder as well.

I'd have a different opinion about all this if the national popular vote mattered in presidential elections.

A person of color didn't run for president as a Democrat the last election. A white man did. I think you knew that, though. As things stand today, I believe Buttigieg would lose enough conservative Democrat voters to overcome his own white-manness and lose the election. Maybe it'll be different by 2024, but I wouldn't stake the party on it.

I know this is a terrible thing to say well into the 21st Century, but I'm an old man with a bit of leeway, so I will: if the Democrats run anyone with an identifiable minority trait—woman, person of color, non-Christian, non-heteronormative, certainly any combination of two or more—they will probably lose. If there were any one candidate with one or more of those traits whom I think would have any decent chance to beat Trump, it would be Al Franken. I can think of no one else at this time. No woman. No person of color. Not Chuck Schumer. Not Pete Buttigieg. No one. At least not as of today.

I found the source of the problem: it was because of an add-on called DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. There is a specific setting within that blocks the rendering of tweets on other websites within Firefox: Change the setting and the tweets are allowed through. So ... there you go.

I probably should have known this, but B-R has a Stathead option to compare up to six players against one another, and for wither individual season, portions of seasons, or entire careers. So here are the five big shortstop free agents since 2018, all in one nifty screenshot.

The main down side I see here is that if they kill it for us they opt out and begin killing it for someone else, and if they're so-so or worse they'll just re-up and we'll pay for their back half.

I wouldn't say that I would not be as happy if we were to sign Correa, but I would be more nervous. In addition to oblong's legitimate concern about carrying his dead weight for the last several years of a 10+-year contract, he has also missed a month or more of games due to injuries on at least four separate occasions during his career. I don't think we know for sure that he is out of those woods. Sure, there's no guarantee Baez or Story, or any player for that matter, won't miss big chunks of seasons due to injury, but the difference is they have no established history of that, and Correa does. We can sign Correa, but we can't say we weren't warned.

I could be happy with either Story for 5/115, or Baez for 4/80.

Teary-face emoji. Nice touch.

Yeah, what about what ****oty lib**** “artists” would hypothetically do! Why aren’t we talking about that more!

So, Columbus is off the hook a third time?

So, it wasn’t really his genocide, but there wasn’t really genocide anyway, so Columbus is off the hook twice?

This would happen to me occasionally at MTS but now I see it happening here, too: tweets are not rendering properly in Firefox on PC. It started happening just today. This is what I see in FFX: And when I open the same post in another browser, like Edge, I see the tweet rendered: I tried disable some of my blockers like uBlock and Adblocker and Malwarebytes for just this website and that didn't do the trick. I logged out, problem still there. I cleared my MTF cookies, still happening. Any feel for what about Firefox might be causing this?

Columbus definitely was not a genocidal maniac bent on the immoral destruction of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. He was actually a stateless mercenary freebooter committed to the complete conquest, economic exploitation, and enslavement of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. The genocide was merely a disciplinary strategy to keep the locals in line. It was so effective a strategy that subsequent conquerors of the Hemisphere had to import enslaved people from halfway around the world to do all the work, since 90% of the indigenous people were wiped out within the first century of European domination of the Americas.

I don't think Joe's mental acuity is as debilitated as Trump's, not by a long shot. But I'm not sure I want nearly-82-year-old Joe to be my main alternative to Rump in 2024.

So, $65 billion for high-speed broadband. Because if there's anything that can fix what's ailing America right now, it's giving more people more access to more Internet.

And here I thought I was the only one.

Plus. imagine how much fun it would be to have both Baez and Baddoo on the team at the same time. That would be magic.

That's fine, there are other options out there, too, and maybe we will get one of them. I'm not arguing that Baez is the best option—only that he is a good option.

What, you don't like the dancing guy? 😏

I wouldn't mind picking up four or five years of Javy. I think he's a good bet for 3-ish average WAR for that period. He may not be my first choice but I definitely wouldn't despair of the future of the team if we signed him.

Two-time All-Star. Three-time 29-homer hitter. Top ten defender at the most important position on the diamond. Plus-plus slide and tag skills. Lifetime WAR of 23.4 and still under 30. The Tigers could do worse than that.

This, as well as their tepid offer to Correa, essentially removes the Astros from the bidding war.