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The main thing Jake has to do when he comes back is to keep the bat unlocked. He does that and I think he’ll be at least in the conversation for All-Star bids.

Trout is arguably the most well-rounded great player of our lifetimes, but even the relatively small amount of time he’s lost is going to cost him slots on the all-time list. Although someone’s gotta do it, it’s almost impossible to become one of the all-time greats. Absolutely everything has to go right: exceptional tools, performance, versatility, peak, career length, health, luck. Being the performance leader of ring teams would be a tiebreaker. That’s why I think no one may ever supplant Babe Ruth at the top.

The frog is getting warmer and warmer.

And let Ukraine go entirely? Make a choice?

I’m starting to wonder what the US would do if Xi goes for Taiwan at the same time Putin goes for Ukraine. Those two have become pretty good friends lately.

Democracy slowly dying before our very eyes …

Pwn those blue counties.

I think they're called "Asshats" up there.

They could always ride their bikes through!

Yes, that was a good day, Ben. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN201206130.shtml

Ha ha, no shit. This is among the least surprising revelations, and I fully expect we'll learn that he both tried to destroy records and had records altered to hide criminality.

Or "Born in the USA".

Given that the Soviet economy precluded mass automobile ownership practically by definition, that's not a surprise to me.

I feel as though Bolton is one of those many people brought into that administration who naively thought Trump could be tamed, molded, and controlled, as though Trump has the wants, needs, and ambitions of a typical politician. That what I think when I see people like him and Pence speak out like they have. I also think Bolton is betting on Trump and Trumpism to lose in the end, and that things will go back to whatever normal existed in the beforetimes, and that the American political system is stronger than any one man or group. That strikes as definitely something a traditional conservative politician would think.

You might be. The price of gas shouldn't matter to me, either, but I definitely pay attention. I would travel the two extra miles I need to to pay 4.49 for gas instead of the 5.19 gas around the corner. The ten-dollar difference on the tank makes it worth it to me. Plus, I think not a few drivers gamify the whole gas price thing, too. Save a dime a gallon by going kitty-corner across the intersection to the other station and I feel like I've won that round.

And you're still coming across very hostile, so I guess that just about makes us even. 😏

Your first paragraph was a great answer, but I don't understand your hostility after that.

What was your strategy? Was it to avoid the vax until you got COVID, then get vaxxed? Or was it that you hadn't gotten around to the vax until you were motivated to get it by a COVID diagnose?

True as all of this might be, ya gotta admit that the picture is a bad look for Stacey Abrams, who was literally not reading the room and then felt she had to delete her own tweet after the backlash.

Right, to the degree that Ilitch forced Avila to dump JD for anything he could get, it's not his fault. Whether it would have been smarter to keep JD for the fans depends entirely on how much Ilitch values the fans versus how much he values pocketing the $4-ish million.

What is the lowest draft spot possible for a league-worst team>

But then Ilitch would have had to pay him millions.

Appreciate that, thanks.

Unless you are WFH, definitely NSFW.

Good job chasing me around with this. Stay classy, brah. I said neither that you were making it up nor did I say that you were exaggerating, so you obviously believe you can read my mind, which, actually, doesn't surprise me about you.