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He’s doing remarkable considering he’s totally lost the ability to strike out batters and has been really lucky on balls in play. I’d DFA him.

I bet Loperfido pitches an inning before this game is over.

Worse case? Or best case?

You appear to think the proposers of Harris taking over on this board actually like her. She kinda sucks. My advocacy for her is very much ONLY about winning. This is really cart before the horse, but even if she wins she probably fares poorly against a generic Republican in '28, presuming we all live long enough to see it.

Also, just wanted to echo that shitting on Portland and San Francisco is very weird. As long as you aren't poor both are pretty great places to visit and live.

That's exactly my thought.

End Game was 2019; they've been in a creative rut for 5 years and had the good fortune to have gotten a lot of credit for keeping the plane in the air after Favreau got it in the sky. I'm not saying they are terrible choices, they just wouldn't be my first pick to reignite interest.

Off-topic but best omelet in film/tv history belongs to Big Night (although the interwebs is correcting me that it was a frittata).

Obviously it's their story to tell as they will, but I really don't feel the need to experience cinematic labor yet again. Since you've been revisiting the Mad Men thread but I've been trying to compare to Don to Carmy as characters and asking why The Bear feels inert when Mad Men did not. Or perhaps I'm just not remember it well (I feel like everyone was struggling through the Megan episodes, although I personally liked them).

Basically everyone their team besides Giancarlo started hot and the national media anointed them a juggernaut prematurely, as they typically do.

You can find the same kind of thing composed of Aaron Sorkin scenes and he’s an Academy Award winning screenwriter. Hell, now that everything is recorded I bet you can find gibberish videos for pretty much any politician. Is your concern that she loses to Trump? The 2020 primary and running against Trump are very different match-ups. I’m also a little over the whole Dem “I only want to vote for someone that excites me” bullshit that makes everyone but Obama or Oprah seem incapable. You shouldn’t need to have rockstar charisma to adequately man the office and Biden has shown that you can do a pretty good job just by surrounding yourself with competence. Well said I’ve not made up my mind on it (man, if only there was a latino in a stronger position to run) but this was my hypothetical ticket last night and I love the idea of making gender so central to the argument of what we want the country to look like tomorrow. An older white man, even Kelly, just can’t make that break with the past so clearly.

This is emblematic of an opinion which I don’t think there’s any evidence to support, and that’s “if Harris or whoever had been campaigning a year ago the ultimate result would be better.” If Biden withdraws you’re going to see an unprecedented amount of media attention in a short span of time and I think in this particular case, it won’t hurt at all to have only been on the trail a couple of months.

Ah, so that cigarette is a last cigarette, that makes more sense.

Anyone listening to Fox News isn’t voting Democrat regardless of the candidate.

Well oops on my part, I was referring to lazy writing on the part of The Bear writing staff, not you or @henrygandorf. Although perhaps you thought my criticism lazy regardless, in which case touché!

Also he's the only DE currently committed. I'm sure there's a clearer path to getting on the field early.

I have been to Smitty's and Kreuz's multiple times, mostly as a host to out of town guests, and I've pretty much only been disappointed in the food compared to what we can get in Austin.

I just don't see Harris accepting anything less than being the nominee. I like @softlynow now's suggestion--if Biden is going to withdraw, resign now. The entire media will be talking Harris for the next month and it'll give her a good opportunity to shake off some of the negative perceptions of her if she's ready for it.

Lazy writing....they've set her up in opposition to Carmy, not because the plot demands it but to manufacture drama. Lazy writing.... Lazy writing.... Lazy writing...you only need one scene in episode two where she's brain storming her own entrees intercut with Carmy doing the same in The Bear's kitchen and it becomes about the frustration they both have with executing a Michelin starred menu AND it cures your problem.

Impressive he didn’t pick Oregon.

Sure-there’s zero reason for the campaign to float that he might be willing but I bet that conversation is ongoing. It might not even be about Biden’s willingness-if Kamala says “I want the big chair” and wants Biden to back her (which, come one, would be fair-Biden was rumored to have felt betrayed when Obama supported Clinton over his grieving VP in 2016) then it’s poised to have the kind of messiness that doesn’t line up for victory in November. Biden is only surrendering if he gets to pick the candidate and he thinks they can win. FWIW, in support of this version of what’s going on is her people are already putting that idea out there.

I’ve come around to the idea that switching might not be a disaster. I think most of the Biden coalition voters are baked into opposing Trump and the remainder are open to an alternative not named Kamala. Biden’s debate performance and the media fixation with it will provide the permission in most voters minds. Tell me who the VP is and it’ll re-assure me about viability. You almost have to pick an African American woman, both to re-assemble the coalition and to keep Kamala out of the contest for potus and delay coalescing around one candidate. I think either Newsome or Whitmer would be fine and the short campaign will help them not ring up body blows that inevitably turns off independents.

Maybe Kenny Baker needs to change colognes or something.

I actually just want Gausman and for Toronto to chip in on the ‘25 salary for someone like Melton straight up (I’m not a believer, sell high). That said, Gausman had a ROUGH June and might be hurt and we have plenty of those already.

Deploy the money cannon!