$20 says Bret votes for Trump in 2020.

On one hand, I often wonder “do they know there are other bad baseball teams?” On the other, I’m glad they don’t put this microscope on my personal favorite bad baseball team.

This has got to be the baseball version of the Thunder having three MVPs and zero titles.

He also parlayed excellent clipboard holding form into dating Jewel.

I mean, I obviously have no idea what Caban herself thinks about this. But I do know a number of public defenders, all of whom would agree with you, and I assume she has a very good answer to this question. (My guess is it’s something along the lines of “yes, but that’s not a good reason to leave the DA’s office to be…

I’m not an expert on litigation finance by any means, but lots/most/almost all plaintiffs lawyers work on contingency. This is not that different from a lawyer working on contingency (and probably ends up with the plaintiff recovering a higher percentage of the award because of the scale).

At least he’s not Indian!

This is a great case study in how “bust” means really different things from the player perspective and the team perspective. For the team, 3rd overall is “franchise savior or at least multi-time all star”; for the player, it’s like “can I collect checks for a decade, even if I’m never more than average?”

All hail Clipboard Jesus.

they are the best team in CONCACAF, the 18th best in the world according to FIFA’s rankings, and always a good bet to play at least four games at every World Cup, even if they have Germany in their group.

Yeah, I’m familiar, know a few people who went there. Seems like a nice place!

Fun fact: Giolito was high school teammates with Max Fried and Jack Flaherty. I’m not sure they really ever played together (Giolito was hurt his senior year, Fried transferred in for his/Giolito’s senior year, and Flaherty was a sophomore that year), but that’s gotta be up there for the best collections of pitching…

The way the GOP constantly brings up that the 1860s-1960s Democratic Party was “the racist one” is so revealing with respect to the racism of the current GOP. They seriously think black people are dumb enough to prioritize the long-ago history of the Democrats being the party of racists over the happening-right-now…

Damn, this might be a better “apology” than Kevin Garnett’s legendary “I didn’t say you were a cancer patient...I said you were cancerous to the league” one.

Yeah, he’s had a couple of good bits (the Michael Jordan highlights one was great), but he’s very clearly a bad day away from some really overtly offensive stuff.

No worries, I assumed you just didn’t know.

Basically yes, but also no. Major leaguers have a limited amount of practice time, considering they play every single day. Bunting is very hard and not overwhelmingly useful, especially compared to swinging away. It’s almost certainly just not worth the time to try and figure out how to consistently lay a bunt down…

He’s the single worst hitter I could think of! Must be a nice guy, though, considering the impressive length of his career.

Eh, the shift was reserved exclusively for plodding, sell-out-for-power lefties until like five or seven years ago and now teams are putting on the shift for, I dunno, Adeiny Hechevarria and Jeff Mathis. It’ll take a longer time for hitters to completely relearn how to hit*, but, as someone above pointed out, it’s…

Point taken, but the key difference is that, after the ‘94 midterms, the GOP had unified control of Congress. Considering the whole point of this blog is that the Dems literally cannot actually pass any of this stuff into law, I’m not sure that Newt Gingrich’s behavior 20 years ago is an overwhelmingly useful guide.