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So the ball is placed at a spot before it was when the knee or butt hits the ground?

Raise your hand if you thought the Lions would take the lead less than halfway into the second quarter after the horrific S.O.L. start they had. Now lower your hand, because you’re lying.

Football 101 question: when a quarterback goes on a run and then slides before he is tackled or touched, at what point is he considered down? Is it when the knee under him hits the ground? When his butt hits the ground? Something else?

In all seriousness, this is some gangsta S.O.L. ****.

Disappointed now?

Yeah, something like that. I think it’s possible Tork may be one of those guys who can’t deal with information. Not everyone can. Of course, the see-ball-hit-ball approach works fine up to a certain level.

Somebody's in mid-game form!

What’s the record for most timeouts taken by both teams in the first quarter? Because that’s almost what it looks like they’re going for.

This I don't agree with at all.

No way the Yankees let the Mets steal Soto, and besides, there's nothing in it for Soto to leave the Yankees. Extra money? He'll already be on his way to being a billionaire by staying, and in the wider baseball world, Yankees >>> Mets, Yankees >>> Dodgers, Yankees >>>> Red Sox, Yankees >>>>> Cubs, and Yankees >>>>>>>>>> any other team.

The difference being making a trade doesn't typically put you on the hook for nine figures.

Money is speech.

You should probably contact them and let them know that's what they're doing. Try inquiries@democrats.org, that should probably get there. Or leave them a suggestion at https://democrats.org/contact-us/.

It’s very nice when you’re on vacation at a site and someone agrees to take a picture of you and your wife in front of the site, although it is annoying when they hand the phone back to you after and you see they have taken fourteen of the same picture, so you have to delete thirteen of them.

Riley.

I really doubt the Yankees can afford to let the kid who just won them the American League pennant in an iconic-optics fashion to just walk away from them to go to Detroit. They would never be able to explain that to Yankee Nation, and they wouldn’t live it down for years. They could not get away with taking that big a dump in the punchbowl. There is no one else Soto’s age in the game with such potential to end up an inner-circle Hall of Famer; he already is on one of the two teams that can comfortably pay what he demands; and he basically has them over a barrel. Soto will probably be their #1 star into the 2030s.

I wouldn’t doubt we see Jobe coming out of camp. You just know he’s going to have a relatively focused and intense winter. No chilling out in the islands for weeks on end for this guy. This is the paying dues portion of his young career. I don’t think Montero is ever going to be more than just Mr. Right Now. There’s a good chance Mize ends up as Mr. What Could Have Been. Mazda might be simply done. I’m with you on the rest of your March-April rotation.

Right, pitching chaos was never going to be a roster-affecting go-forward strategy. It’s a fun label for the concept of making do with what you got.

Pete Alonso is what Tork can only hope to be. That’s his max upside. I’m not sure how he gets there with us. I think he’s one of those gotta-go-up-there-with-a-clear-head guys.

Hillary was up comfortably in all the final polls before that election. Biden was up eight points in the average of top polls before that election. What did these tell us about the election results? I don’t think polls matter anymore, except as entertainment value, and perhaps as evidence in the court cases seeking to overturn the election.

Weren't we posting this exact thing on the old board during his actual administration?

Colin from Accounts. Watch it.

I guess at that point I'll get my gun and my single bullet, since I am not interested in landing in any MAGA death camp. 😉

Am I the only person here who doesn’t give a flying **** about polls? So many of them are so compromised that they tell us literally nothing about what to expect from election results.

Blame the voters all you want for not suddenly snapping out of their zeitgeist reverie en masse, but it really does come down to a combination of a poor educational system that values worker bees over critical thinkers, and a fragmented media environment that make delicious conspiracy theories so goddamned accessible. People used to have to seek out Bircher-type content—now it comes into people’s inbox practically unbidden, and not exactly unwelcome. If you’re being honest and you want to blame the right thing here, you might just have to blame the whole idea of universal democracy in the first place, because this state of affairs is exactly what the conservative elites of the 18th Century warned against.