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Guadaloopy

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  1. I fail to comprehend how an Astros fan in 2025 can be nervous about a series in the first week of July. We’ve been in a golden age for a decade. It don’t make a shit until September.
  2. Another series win. Keep it rolling, boys.
  3. We’re not even in the top half of the league. https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/runners-left-in-scoring-position-by-team-this-year
  4. At first I was like, "what a crummy lineup." Then I looked at the bench...
  5. Cui bono? It makes no fucking sense that the medical staff would lie about player injuries. There's no benefit to it. Y'all need to grow up and realize that in the real world, medical diagnoses and treatment plans have a measure of uncertainty and error.
  6. Yes, because this is all an exact science with rigid timelines and no one ever has a setback.
  7. Prompted by an article I read this morning about how red hats fetishize the Declaration of Independence and are planning public readings of the document this week, I gave it a re-read this morning. It's fascinating as a historical document, but people forget that it has no role as an establishing document for our government. One aspect of the document that caught my eye at this particular moment in our history is the listing of grievances and evidence of tyranny presented against King George III. Couldn't help but notice some striking parallels with our wannabe tyrant: He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither... Concerted effort to delegitimize birthright citizenship He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices... Though he hasn't been completely successful with this, it's clear that he considers the judges he appointed beholden to him He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance... DOGE He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures... Mobilizing the CA guard without consent from CA governor or legislature For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us... Marines in LA For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world... Tariff war For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.. Tariff war For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury... Suspension of due process for deportees For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences... El Salvador prison - but this one's a stretch I guess since Trump offers no pretense of a trial He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us... January 6th Except for the last one, this is all in just the last 5 months.
  8. Too bad we are done with the Cubs...
  9. Way easier to find examples of this than teams that have mashed their way to a World Series win.
  10. Can't even list all of the times this has happened. A mediocre offense that finds ways to score and two lockdown starters. The two that come to mind immediately are the '01 D-Backs and (GODAMMIT!) the '19 Nats. It's like having a lights out defense and serviceable QB in the NFL.
  11. A pair of aces will get you a long way in baseball and poker.
  12. I mean, you highlighted that word in the post where you called him racist. That’s pretty strong context.
  13. Not defending RK. I can’t defend his lack of empathy and general assholery. I just think we are all better served by being a bit more judicious when labeling something as racist. “Gypsy” is a word that we would all do well to remove from our vocabulary, but there is a LOT of education that still needs to happen on that front. In modern American English, that word has come to be associated more with an itinerant lifestyle rather than with the Roma people directly. I don’t immediately assume racist intent when I hear someone use it. It’s usually complete ignorance that it has any pejorative connotation at all.
  14. Islamist and Christofascist are equivalent terms. Both seek a return to religious fundamentalism and religious control of government. Islamist has been a pretty standard term in geopolitics for more than a quarter century.
  15. Kinda strange that “Islamist” is a term that trips the breaker for some when “Christofascist” is perfectly acceptable.
  16. We execute photo ops that were more complex than this bombing run was:
  17. Also, I have not heard anyone say thank you.
  18. As a retired military officer, I'd much rather leave the enemy with a sense of dread and a question of "how the fuck did they do that?" than get praise in the papers. When the press asked FDR where the bombers in Doolittle raid launched from, he simply said "our new base in Shangri-La." OPSEC continues even after the mission is complete, meathead (Hegseth).
  19. Got me a movie, I want you to know Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know Girlie so groovy, I want you to know
  20. Cautionary Tales podcast had a "Jaws at 50" episode last week. It goes into the dynamic between Shaw and Dreyfuss quite a bit. There is a theory that Shaw was going really method to generate actual tension between the two so that it would come through in the performances. Once they filmed the Indianapolis story scene, Shaw's antagonism of Dreyfuss stopped completely.
  21. The fuck is wrong with people?
  22. Eh... there's a lot of hindsight factored into this point of view. There's a lot to be said for being able to hire a personal trainer and manage nutrition very early in one's career to accelerate development and maximize earning potential. Tatis got all those benefits at someone else's expense. He sold equity in his potential earnings to an investor. If he gets injured or flames out early in his career, that investor has to eat the loss. He signs a $340M deal and everybody wins. I'm a Tatis Jr fan, but I have very little sympathy for him here. He has an AAV of around $24M. Between his agent and BLA, they probably take around $2M each, leaving him with around $20M before taxes per year for the next ten years. Cry me a river.
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