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The FanGraphs staff is giving the slight edge to the Tigers to win the AL Central: Even though the projected standing on the site have the Tigers two games behind the Twins. https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings

Man, it's as though you're hovering over me while I bowl. I do look like complete **** these days! But, yeah, we are already down a guy and bowling a blind. Six-person team for four slots and three are gone today.

Found it! Thanks. Hope thirty seconds is enough. I was hoping to find a setting for 60 seconds.

The pitching staff is so strong and deep that, if they stay healthy for the most part, we'll be a top five staff in all of baseball. So, that by itself is going to make the early going interesting. I'd be satisfied taking one of three in LA.

Man, seeing that lineup and bench on paper, that looks a lot weaker that we thought it would couple months ago.

The way Avila broke the Tork glass case?

I don't Putin regards Trump as an ally so much as he regards him as a supplicant.

Republicans' #1 job now is to reduce that 60% number.

So the UN post never was about her qualifications. Check.

Now that they are a de facto monopoly, Amazon has no incentive to fix it, improve it, or even keep it from getting worse.

The chances Max Clark gets promoted to the Tigers this season is approximately zero, ±0.

My excuse is even worse: I have a bowling league on Thursday nights. Normally the game would be on in the afternoon, I would watch it, and then go bowling at night. But since it's Cy Young Skubal vs Ohtani and the world champs, the game got bumped back to a 6:10pm CT start for a national cablecast on, ironically, the football/basketball sports leader. At that exact time I will be on Western Avenue driving to the alley, with our league night starting at 6:45pm, and going through to about 9:30pm, well after the game will be over. And no way any of the TVs at the alley could be tuned to the game because, thanks to the genius of Rob Manfred, Opening Day is the same day the NCAA Sweet 16 starts, and everyone at the bowling alley has a bracket to follow.

Perhaps what he knows is that they disappeared at the hands of Russian soldiers who crossed over into Lithuania while bivouacking in Belarus.

Bringing manufacturing back is not their objective. Driving the economy into the ditch is the objective, because it will serve their true goal of a massive wealth transfer from the middle and working classes to the oligarch class, which he is the current leader of. It's why Trump is so smitten with the Gilded Age, the era he is referring to as that when America was great. There was no middle class during the Gilded Age—only robber barons and the great unwashed masses. This is what he—what they—want to return America to. Just wait until they change the official currency from the US Dollar to Dogecoin. Won't that be a hoot.

According to the article, FBI brass did a deliberate misreading of the term "copycat killers", obvious in context as referring to healthcare CEOs following UHC's lead in denying healthcare coverage, as meaning people who will copycat kill CEOs in general.

In case you're not hip to Celsius—18° C = 65° F.

Yeah, after the last few elections, I'm all polled out. I barely participated in any poll threads or sidebars this past election cycle. They just don't mean anywhere near what they used to.

Before they get to the rest of us, they have to dispose of the independent media, academia, community leaders, and opposition politicians—you know, troublemakers.

It’s a good transition to Asia, then Mexico.

Happy Opening Day!

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Rump knew nothing about this in the same way the Nuremberg defendants knew nothing about the Holocaust.

Well, Trump will put a stop to that all right … Obviously a bid to permanently calcify MAGA’s hold on electoral politics. Let’s say Tump succeeds in getting this done. If so, I’m a little torn on what I believe the effect will be. On the one hand, the obvious effect will be to keep people of color and others like them away from the polls by requiring documentation most of them probably don’t have, documentation they won’t have an opportunity to obtain because MAGA power will keep the places to get these IDs far far away from them. On the other hand, I would think a lot of the incel army and other transient red hat voters would also get caught up in a “law” like this, because they themselves are not loathe to make sure they have obtained the government’s latest device for identifying and tracking them. The wild card is how this will be implemented on the ground. If it’s left up to local officials, which it may very well be, than simpatico election workers will simply let in their red hat friends with the ID to vote while coming down hard requiring anyone they know or suspect are RINOs or dirty libs to pony up the ID. Another way MAGA power can shape implementation of this is to require some sort of electronic verification in certain districts that tend to swing toward Democrats, while being lax on enforcing this same requirement in solidly or even lean-Republican districts.

Very good points. I wonder whether it’s also that they did not want to generate antipathy from the black community for highlighting a white mans role in Robinson coming in. After all, it was always going to take a white savior to make it happen, which is an uncomfortable thing to highlight—and to your point, also highlighting Baseball’s culpability for keeping black players out in the first place.