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Not saying it's not possible. In the fog of early war, especially, anything is possible, and I'm sure we'll hear more about this, at least until an even more horrific video pops up. But whether it was a Russian tank running over a Ukrainian civilian driver, or a Ukrainian tank heading off a Ukrainian quisling car bomb driver, we can both agree than had Russia not invaded Ukraine, this would not have happened.

Hmmmm ... perhaps there is a private enterprise solution to the problem of unreliable postal service? 🙄

I could see an unvetted video commenter saying that.

It makes me chuckle every time I see someone suggest reducing the schedule to 154 games, specifically, as though that were the one and only magic number written on the tablet that was handed down to Baseball Moses from Baseball Yahweh. Other than history, what makes 154 such a magic number? Why not 156 or 152? I'm not actually pitching a bitch about this—I just find it genuinely amusing that this is the magic number everyone always brings up. To me, this makes sense only to people who actually attended games at Ebbets Field. Personally, I like 162 games. I'd rather have more baseball than less. Hell, I'd be up for expanding the schedule to 168 games! How fun would that be? But I do agree with you that, perhaps after expansion, they will probably end up reducing the regular season schedule (although I wouldn't doubt if they brought it down to 144 or even 140 so they could clear the entire month of September plus October for an expanded playoffs of all best-of-seven series involving 16 teams). Given how revenue in the sport has moved from primarily gameday receipts in the east-of-the-Mississippi 16-team universe to multiple league-wide revenue streams split among all 30 teams, the business imperative for every team to host as many as 81 home games has been dramatically reduced.

So, you want socialism. Do we have that straight?

Anti-car at that moment. 😢 Just fucking horrific.

So, “kih-yeev”? I can hear that in my head being said out loud.

Isn’t one of the underlying ideas for expanding the playoffs suppressing the need to spend in order to make the playoffs? It’s easier to fund a team to make the playoffs as a wild card with 85 wins than to fund a 95-win division champ.

Oh, wait, that’s right, stuff is still happening at home! How soon before the red hat media ecosphere hammers Biden for slipping the pick in hoping it goes unnoticed while everyone is concentrating on news of impending world war?

They’ve been pushing the “keev” pronunciation over “kee-ev” for at least a decade now. I think it actually closer to “kee-eve”.

This is a bona fide war crime caught on camera. Not for the faint of heart. 😭 And yet, the world must see this.

Chinny chin chin redux. This one was especially tricky, in that they tried something new to stump you. Wordle 251 6/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I sold WMT to cover a loss in HFC, which an ex-advisor put me in eight years ago and I’d been too lazy to be concerned about it until it went underwater a couple years ago. HFC is oil so I’ve been waiting for it to break even to dump it. It shot up since January to a chart high and I sold it last week to take a small loss (still up a bit after in eight years of dividends and adjusting for inflation). Since I sold it HFC has tanked by a third in just a week. Glad to finally shake it off. I also sold off maybe a quarter of my position in VOO on Tuesday for a minor loss (dips I’d been buying the last few months) to further balance the WMT profit, then injected maybe a quarter of that back in VOOV and VOOG on Wednesday. I’d been thinking lately of diversifying that, too.

How long before the red hats become Ukraine invasion deniers?

"Stop me before I spend again!"

The concern is that outlier teams that spend outsized amounts of money on their roster will force payrolls up for everyone. They feel it's better to keep everyone constrained.

Nate's glass is half-full on this one.

How hollow is all this ringing today?

Your mental state is marginally better off for that.

Close! They just pushed it back to 1:30pm without pushing it up at all this time.

So, short sidebar here: what TV or radio hosts do you think are out there who reflects your current views? Is there anyone?

Probably true.

Honest question: how reliant is Putin on American intelligence basically stolen by Trump and given directly to him?