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Can you imagine the pharmaceuticals they are pumping this guy up with just to keep him going even as well as he is?

Seems like Aubrey Huff might be rough trade.

I could be talked into a subscription to this. We have gotten years and years of valuable free info from TR, so I don’t begrudge them wanting to monetize their USP. It’s only thirty bucks for a year. I have more than that sitting around unused in Apple Pay and Venmo accounts. The main thing I hope they don’t do is what Sean did to Stathead, and to Reference in general: double and triple the rate while plateauing the feature set, and in his case, even reducing functionality.

I don’t think we should have a primary DH until at least six other positions have been totally solved, that is, manned by full-time reliable guys. I think we’re getting closer. Right now I believe first base, third base, shortstop, and right field are still unsolved, and catcher is basically half-solved. So we still need DH open to work guys who are slotting in and out of those other positions to keep their bats fresh. But I think once we close up at least 2-1/2 of those positions, then we can entertain employing a full-time DH.

The joke was not about his being right wing. It’s about the idea of a school-age child listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading Heritage Foundation tracts. Not typically topics of conversation among the kids. If you’d said you listened to Radio Havana and read Das Kapital for fun as a kid, I might have said the same thing about you! 😉 😁

well, then, it must be zero.

Better than misspelling it as “DETOILET”.

Just for kicks, I wanted to determine the most common last name in the United States that has never had a player with that name in major league baseball. As you might suspect, the top ones are names that have become popular through immigration in the past half century. The top four names on the list are Nguyen, Patel, Tran, and Singh. Names a few spots down the list also include Li, Chan, Liu, Le, Wu, and Khan. I'm sure we'll get ballplayers with those names in the majors in the next half century, but probably not quite yet. So, at the risk of being politically incorrect, I am going to limit this to names that are not indicative of recent immigration trends—that is, names that are European. Can you guess what's the most common European-based name that has never appeared on the rolls of major league baseball? I am not counting negro leagues, because the top name on this list does have two negro leaguers with the name. While you're noodling this, here's a fun fact: the seventh-most common European last name not represented in big league baseball had been, before this season, Keith.

Jack Flaherty identifies as African American. I would bet Max is considered a bit of a political unicorn among white big leaguers, although he wasn't opposed to going to the White House after the 2019 World Series win as Sean Doolittle was. https://www.axios.com/2019/11/04/washington-nationals-white-house-visit

I think you might be right! If i had to guess the guy most likely to go for Kamala, I'd guess Stinky McStinky. And I wouldn't feel particularly confident about even that. Again, none of that matters. I can easily compartmentalize my baseball consciousness away from my political consciousness.

I just assume every white major leaguer is a red hat, and then I just dismiss the thought from my head altogether. That way, if I find out they're on this side, I am pleasantly surprised. Not that any of it matters at all in terms of how I enjoy baseball.

Imagine the reaction were the Harris campaign to hold her out of events because of "exhaustion". Also, if Trump is exhausted, doesn't this tell us he's not up a job that requires an inexhaustible occupant? Wouldn't that be a disqualifer? And what other job does this guy even have that this would exhaust him?

He might as well just flat out admit he's done the thing.

You guys must have been a riot at high school parties. 😉

Sure they have. That's what industry leaders are paying for!

I’m gonna give Trump the benefit of the doubt on that one.

Further to the point: … in the interest of consumers.

Libertarians should not be anywhere near the White House except if they’re on the paid tour.

Tucker Carlson works for Moscow, so of course he’s going to shït all over the United States and its people, same as Trump does. My impression is that even acknowledging the wide population gap between the two, the economic and military might of the United States outpaces those of China by a factor of multiples. Confirm or reject?

Had to get the girls from somewhere.

I think any attempt to ban and confiscate guns would be the most likely trigger for something close to a civil war, because a lot of those gun people trained for that very scenario.

Here’s another thing they have in common: they both helmed productive legislation and/or enacted presidential orders that did much to help ordinary people.

I think you know that’s not it.

As logical as this sounds, counterpoint is that Jack Smith did release transcript evidence that Trump knew he lost, and acknowledged as much, which suggests he knew the election was fair and square.

I fully expect the Weinstein Walker if/when Trump goes to court next time.