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This is a pretty lazy rhetorical trick. Some Christians can simultaneously hold the position that it is good to take care of those in need along with the position that our Government is ill-suited to the task and is at best inefficient with the resources it receives. Some Christians can simultaneously hold the position that everyone should bear a level of personal responsibility to care for their neighbors and community along with the position that this personal responsibility should not be diffused to the government nor mandated under the force of government penalty. Some Christians can simultaneously hold the position that we all have a personal responsibility to care for or neighbor along with the position that the best way to exercise that personal responsibility is to vote for government policies that might be able to have a greater impact at scale than they could personally have on an individual level. These are not unreasonable positions to hold in tension with one another. I appreciate people like Talarico who challenge traditional conservative political positions with the teachings of Christ. However, I think it goes too far into partisan politics and cheap rhetoric when anyone says that "You can't be a Christian and vote for/against issue X". I feel the same for those who use this exact rhetoric for pro-life positions. It's just so disheartening that our political discourse in this country has been reduced to gotcha sound bites and memes to "own" the other side.

Maybe we can convince Youkilis to come out of retirement.

WGAF if you are on with a base hit, walk, or error? Altuve has the 10th best batting average in MLB and is in the top 25 for OBP. He is also in the top 30 for wRC+. Like I said... you are applying insane standards. Tony Gwynn only had an ISO above 160 three times in his career. He also only hit your magic 60 point differential between BA and OBP four times in his career. His career ISO was .120 and his career diff between BA and OBP was only 50 points.

His BA is 32 pts higher than the current MLB average,

You have insane standards if you are counting 2024 Peña as a weak hitter. The MLB batting average is .244. Peña is more than 30 points over that. He has a WRC+ of 106 and 2.5 WAR on the offensive side.

Welcome back, JV. Here's an L for you.

His name shares 5 of 7 letters with garbage.

Well, we substituted 12 Bregman/Altuve ABs this series for Cabbage/Dezenzo/Dubon. But you know... rest.

Wow. Two horrid ABs by the big bats in the biggest moment.

Holy shit. Can't believe Espada pulled the PH trigger in the 7th inning. But fuck it all if we can't get anything out of this inning.

Hear, hear. Don't brackish my bidet. Keep your gray water off my brown eye.

Fixed.

Holy shit, Jake!

Nope. Would not have advanced to 2nd on the fly out to right. Would have still been on first. Dubi owns that run.

Dumbass play by Dubon.

I don't think he's landing the point he thinks he's making. You can just throw the UNO reverse on it, ergo If it's OK for the government to regulate price controls for consumer goods, then it's OK to regulate woman's health decisions over her own body. This thought process and logic train needs to cook a bit more.

A little shocked (but not really) that only one person has called you on this bullshit. It's a straight up racist slur. Doesn't matter that it's directed at someone who shills for the wrong side. Fuck outta here with that.

Periodically, this Emo Phillips bit will invade my consciousness and the only way to get it out of my head is to share it with others:

Not a sweet play by the kid.

Sweet play by Kikuchi.

Well fuckity fuck.

Y'all... this might finally swing Brisket to Harris:

What starts at the 2:05 mark is going to trigger some folks in this thread...