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Wow! I hadn’t seen that number for a while. In 2024 it’s like watching dinosaurs roam the Earth.
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Talk it up!
Wow! I hadn’t seen that number for a while. In 2024 it’s like watching dinosaurs roam the Earth.
Ethics Alarms 
Given the high speed gaslighting going on with the reimagining of Harris, I wonder whether the Dems have decided they can continue “Weekend at Bernie’s” with Harris as the corpse. They must figure, “Hey, it worked with Joe, why can’t we do it with a nitwit? At least she can walk and read a teleprompter! And the media will cover for her and us just like they did with Joe!” They mut have realized they were stuck with Harris because she’s of color and a woman (not that we can define exactly what that is). This was what dragged things out so long over the last few months. People were saying, “Jeeze, we have to stick with Joe. If we don’t, we’re going to have to run HER!” So, it was the “Keep carting Joe around” team, whose ace in the hole was “Harris is a blithering idiot” vs. “Joe’s too demented” team. The two opposing teams came to the conclusion they could satisfy both by simply putting Harris up as the new Bernie. Brilliant. And incredibly Machiavellian and sinister. And it might just work because … TRUMP!
I’d still like to know how much Dr. Jill was guaranteed. And if you think Hunter won’t be pardoned, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you.
Yesterday, I mentioned the possibility of Democratic Party leadership and VP Harris extorting the President to leave…
Well, a friend just sent me a link to this, posted on Twitter. I have no idea if there’s anything to it.
https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1816537599072436282?t=I5fkqEgdiWXUnZuvcdYmLg&s=01
That’s very interesting, Joel. I still think Joe was induced rather than extorted. An interesting legal analysis. An aggressive prosecutor can find extortion in any conversation. It can definitely be used as a trap or gotcha. The defense would be the cabal was well within its rights and were discharging a Constitutionally charged duty. I think.
I think Joe and the good doctor were induced because I think that’s how the Biden crime family works. They don’t respond well to threats. But they do respond very well to, shall we say, inducements.
You know, I get dozens of text messages every day, many with equally breathless statements. Of course, the ones I get are typically asking me to donate to (mostly) the Democratic party or politicians or sign a petition or some such.
Assuming Biden had enough of his wits about him to recognize that he was being ‘extorted’, he would also know what a weak reed the 25th amendment is for removing a president who doesn’t want to go.
If whoever this foundation is had actual evidence, they would be announcing it along with a public call for Congress to investigate. In lieu of evidence they apparently are sending nasty tweets….
And speaking of dinosaurs and things changing, I was watching the Diamondbacks play the Royals earlier this week. I noticed a player named Bobby Witt, Jr. “Bobby Witt” was familiar, so I assumed he was the son of a former MLB player. Later in the game, the broadcasters, Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenley, mentioned Witt, Sr. had in fact pitched for Brenley when the Diamondbacks won the Series in 2001. Then they showed a picture of Bobby Witt, Sr. holding a cute, towheaded one-year-old baby boy on his arm celebrating the Series win, which to me, still seems just like yesterday. But it’s twenty-three years later, and that little towheaded urchin is leading the majors in batting average (.344) and hits (141) and earlier this year signed an eleven-year, 288.7 million USD contract with the Royals. Time flies, I guess.
Yeah, Witt Jr. has emerged as a young superstar, maybe the mots valuable position player in the league. For a long time the belief was that he sons of MLB stars were never quite as good as Dad, like the Sisler boys, Mel Stottlemyre’s sons and others. Then Ken Griffey Jr. arrived, and in recent years, sons have been lapping Dad. Bobby Witt Sr. was a decent pitcher, but this kid is in his own league.
And he’s evidently a really outstanding short stop. He had a great line the other night when he was asked about coming up a single short of hitting for the cycle. He said, “I don’t know how to hit singles.” I guess “when you’re a ballplayer, there ain’t much to bein’ a ballplayer.”
That line reminds me of Joey Gallo, who used to play for the Rangers. For most of his 6+ seasons with the Rangers, he had more home runs than singles. He typically had about as many walks as hits, so while his batting average was low .200’s, the OPS would often be in the .800s.
Unfortunately, the Rangers were in a rebuilding mode in 2021. Up until the trading deadline that year, he hit .223 with 25 HR and 55 RBI, an OPS of .869.
The Rangers traded him to the Yankees, who were contenders that year, and his career immediately took a nosedive. Since then his batting average has been down in the .160s, OPS .600s or so. He is now with his fourth team since leaving the Rangers. It’s sad — Rangers fans loved that guy.
But…..such is baseball.
I confused Joey Gallo with Joey Votto, who I see is on the way out of baseball via a Blue Jays minor league contract. Did not realize he is Canadian, eh? Spent his entire career with the Redlegs. Rare these days.
And there’s evidently a Joey Gallo crime family member.
Joey Votto: guaranteed Hall of Famer. It’s fun to look up the “Similarity Score” season matches to Gallo: guys like Rob Deer, Dave Kingman, and Chris Carter who all walked, hit a homer or struck out. Kyle Schwarber is in that class too, but he’s much better than the others. Before Bill James explained the value of walks and OBA, guys like this were impossible: you couldn’t stay in the majors with an average at or below .200.
Yes, I have to admit it could be frustrating watching Gallo, but with the Rangers he had been one of the league leaders in drawing walks.
I looked at a Yankees source just now, who said he made zero adjustments during his year with NY — but he didn’t make adjustments with the Rangers either. I have to believe he could have been a much better hitter if he hadn’t focused exclusively on home runs, but such are today’s hitters.
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Just checked on the players Texas got for Gallo — Glenn Otto and Trevor Hauver don’t appear to be in the majors. However Ezekiel Duran did well last year as (if memory serves) a utility player. Josh Smith has blossomed this year into one of the teams better hitters, batting #3 or so.
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This trade also illustrates why baseball is so much of a numbers game. You just don’t know if a player is going to do well year after year (if he’s not Mike Trout, of course), or have a good season or two and then flame out.
Not sure if this is an ethics issue or not, or whether it matters, but it’s something that has puzzled me and for which I haven’t found a definitive answer.
Is NY judge Juan Merchan, of Trump Trial fame, a U.S. citizen?
He was brought into the country (legally?) at the age of six (his actual year of birth seems unconfirmed) by his parents, his father being a Colombian army officer. Legal immigration as a child without a US parent would not have made him a citizen unless other steps were taken. Although I see people claiming “Of course he’s a citizen!”, I can’t find a trail of proof.
Wim, Wim, Wim. Since when does not being a citizen bar anyone from doing or being anything in these United States?
On MSN, I just now noticed [because I rarely if ever go there] they only count the “thumbs up” for their left leaning headlines and stories. So while you will see 550 “liked” this article that I shared the link to, there is no count of how many disliked it. If you click on the thumbs down, it just states, “Fewer liked this”. It never ends with these fools…
‘Did you not hear?’ Fox’s Peter Doocy gets swift scolding from Karine Jean-Pierre (msn.com)
Am I the only one who finds it strange the FBI wants to interview Donald Trump? Another irresistible shot (so to speak) at a “lying to a federal officer” trap? What can Trump possible tell them of any value? Grandstanding by the FBI? I just don’t get it. Weird.
Trump should tell Chris Wray to pound sand because he cannot be trusted. End of discussion.
isn’t it ironic that the keynote of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony was peace, love, and tolerance-one of its theme songs was the drippy “Imagine”-while over in this corner we have the Israeli soccer team and Israel’s national anthem being booed with heartfelt hatred. Not since 1930’s Germany has anti-Semitism (and that’s what we’re talking about) been so bold and so confident. “J’Accuse!”
Oh no! Not “Imagine”! I would have tuned out the second that piece of brainless, anarchist, utopian drivel started.
Every so often EA discusses times when newspapers offer retractions for errant reports, editorials, etc.
Here’s one I learned about at the Hutchison, KS Cosmosphere:
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102849484
Which is even better that Goddard was proven right simply because the editorial couldn’t just say “we think he’s in error” but that they added a bit of mockery at the end.
Nice article. Interesting discussion about the possible ice deposits on the Moon that they feel could be used in a fuel refinery.
The obvious problem with that is that it would still be at the bottom of a gravity well, albeit not nearly as steep as Earth’s.
Another possibility that’s been discussed is the idea of mining asteroids and comets. Comets are believed to be mostly water ice. Asteroids contain all sorts of minerals including (I think) water ice — different asteroids would have different concentrations of various minerals and ores.
Think of building giant smelters and blast furnaces in Earth orbit. Once you can reach them, send spaceships to an asteroid of interest. If it has water ice, you can set up a small fuel refinery there, hook on a motor and use the fuel to send it to the refineries orbiting Earth.
Not only could it give us access to more resources, but think of the pollution and land despoilation that could be off-shored into orbit (if you have a few millions tons of useless slag, just send it into the sun for disposal).
SpaceX is one way to get started on such operations. Hopefully there are industrialists thinking of processes that can be done better in space or in zero gravity than on Earth, and if they can make money doing so, could likely contract with SpaceX to haul what they need into orbit.
A dream? Perhaps. But if we had actually invested in space instead of abandoning it after Apollo we might already be there.
I should’ve found an article more focused on the Goddard-NYT apology
Schmuck of the week – Keith Olbermann for his uber hypocritical desire to erase the Cardinals and implode their stadium after the alleged Trump support salute. Even though he was mistaken in his interpretation he has the gall to write “stick to sports?”
That award is long-lasting, because Olbermann proudly wears his schmuck all year round…even at Christmas and Easter.
KO is more like “Schmuck of the Century.”