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Snake Diggity

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  1. Thats a trade I am more than willing to make.
  2. Does she know Fauci served at Trump’s discretion? He was part of the Trump administration! There’s no appropriate name for her, but she’s horrid.
  3. Vitello or Schlossnagle or keep Pierce another year.
  4. as much as the Court sucks, I do consider it a good sign when Trump turns to them for help. He seems to only do that when he knows he’s proper fucked (like when he lost the 2020 election).
  5. Your point boils down to who is to blame for our problems: politicians, or the people who elect them? What makes a “good” candidate? I believe Biden has had effective, realistic, positive policy goals; to me, that makes him a really good candidate who gets dinged for his age. He’s not a perfect candidate, but voters who can’t discern have to be held responsible for their part. I suppose a prerequisite for a candidate to be “good” is to win elections, so the fact that Biden looks to have a chance to lose to a fucking shitbird like Trump might make him a “bad” candidate. But again, I blame the voters. Somebody like Rubio or Hogan would have been every bit the candidate that Romney, Kerry, W (who actually won), McCain, or Ford were. Our electorate problem is far worse than our candidate field.
  6. I’m going 15-10, 40-43. But it also wouldn’t shock me if they ripped off a big streak and went like 20-5; the rotation is pitching well with Brown and Arrighetti throwing rounding into form, the lineup is deep with Alvarez and Breggy waking up, and the bullpen has really pitched well all season (with some bad luck fucking up their era). TAP (The Abreu Predicament) could fuck it all up tho.
  7. LoL I don’t know which side of the ledger Georgia falls on, but I guarangotdamntee you NY would be totally cool giving up all federal funding if it meant keeping what their state contributes to federal revenue.
  8. Interesting idea. If Chas doesn’t pick it up, optioning him, releasing Abreu, and going with Dubon and Loperfido as everyday players might give the offense a boost.
  9. That turd is like the Mel Kiper Jr of political commentary. I fucking hate him (and fuck Mel Kiper Jr too).
  10. Saw this quote in a USA Today article: “In a nation ruled by laws, not men, no one is above the rule of law,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University. “Not even a president.” Will be interesting to see if she loses her job.
  11. Their position players have put up a combined 9.3 fwar and a 111 wRC+. That is on par with their best teams in this era. The rotation has put up 7 consecutive good starts. Martinez is the only pitcher with a meaningful role who has an xfip over 4.58. Nah. Verlander, Pressly, Abreu, and Altuve are the only guys firmly on the wrong side of the aging curve. Brown, Arrighetti, B Abreu, Diaz, Pena, Tucker, and Yordan are all well before any likely age related decline. This team has sucked because their SP gave them too many uncompetitive starts, their bullpen has melted down in high leverage, and their offense has had very poorly timed production. Whether that’s bad luck, poor management, or some kind of quantifiable “clutch” metric, who knows. But this roster is still relatively stacked.
  12. 6.5 games back in the division and Seattle has a good farm; the Mariners are going to get a lot better at the deadline. This series was devastating for momentum and Houston’s odds of making the playoffs.
  13. Georgia is very easy to see going back to Trump, and I consider that likely. There is too much smoke that black voters are not as energized for Biden this round, and that is what carried him in GA. That gets Trump to 251. PA gets Trump over the line but it’s hard to see that happening and hard to see Michigan going for Trump either. To me, Trump’s path is to win GA and then get Wisconsin and Arizona close enough to have the Supreme Court decide for him. It’s pretty unlikely. But not impossible. I would say it’s more likely Biden wins 2020 plus NC than it is Trump gets to 270.
  14. I hope nobody reading this is that stupid, but anyone thinking the outcome of today’s events will be Trump in jail and/or ineligible this November is really really setting themselves up for disappointment. Even if they come back with a guilty verdict (HUGE IF), he will appeal and tie this up until past the election. The earliest possible solution to the Trump problem is if he loses this fall, but far more likely not until he dies, which could be a decade or more away.
  15. Late on 94. Late on 95 right in the sweet spot. Looking on down and away. Fucking pitiful. Sit your old ass down and think about how much you suck.
  16. Rottenhouse = white teenage George Zimmerman
  17. Jake Meyers gonna fuck around and make the All-Star team.
  18. That lady has zero place in the GOP; WAY too introspective, intelligent, and reasonable. She seems smart enough to figure it out soon enough. I think there’s a common misconception that when Trumpism inevitably dies, the GOP will do some kind of pendulum swing back to the party of Eisenhower and anyone who openly supported Trumpism will be denigrated and cast out. In my opinion that is extremely unlikely. Yes, they might (MIGHT) embrace less destructive policies/candidates, but theyll just shrug off Trumpists as a blip and not-representative, without at all alienating those voters. They may not pander to the crazies, but they’ll do enough to keep them in the fold.
  19. Seems like Altuve’s slumps are pretty brief when they happen. And this is the first year I ever recall feeling like Yordan is in a slump, and he’s been fairly productive even thru this one. Tucker has been rock solid the last 3+ seasons. I think Meyers and McCormicks down periods have been injury related more than classic slumps. I can’t recall how Pena has been, although I’m sure he had prolonged slumps last season; eta: he’s been bad in Jun/July in 2022 and 2023. Diaz is still adjusting to the majors imho but I guess you could call his May performance a “slump”; he didn’t play early last season then kicked everloving ass in Jun-Sep, and hit well in April. May has been his first down month as a big leaguer. Bregman is the one who seems to have prolonged slumps every season. And Jose Abreu has been in a slump ever since he passed away in 2022 (RIP).
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