In the end, who do you want? Tito, who treats his team like buddies and/or adults who need to take care of their own fucking lives, but is an absolutely brilliant strategist; or Maddon, who understands that sometimes, even adults need someone to kick their ass into gear, but uses Aroldis Chapman for more than 2…

And why did he carry all the Rust Belt states that Clinton lost?

Share of 2015 real GDP by county

Toronto was 15-28 in 1 run games in 2015 and won the AL East by 6 games. The Angels were 35-17 in 1 run games in 2015 and finished 3rd in the AL West. Houston 21-29 and they made the playoffs, Atlanta 28-18 and they lost 95 games.

Trump is a fucking imbecile, and I shudder to think of what he’s going to do in his four years at the helm. But he got those votes - votes that were legitimately up for grabs - because he didn’t minimize the troubles of middle america. He didn’t give any concrete plans for improvement (because I don’t think he has…

I laugh and laugh and laugh at those LOOK AT HOW MANY COUNTIES VOTED TRUMP maps I see the rubes on the right passing around.

I am glad he is the Cubs manager and not Terry Collins or Dusty or whoever else is out there.

Impossible to quantify but I don’t think the 2015 Cubs make the playoffs, let alone win the WC game and NLDS without Maddon 

When if you ask them they clearly want to work. They don’t want free shit.

Brown vs. Board of Ed was 1954 though.

I’m forever angry about how he pissed about the 2008 Series and how badly he botched coming out of the snow postponement.

Ranks by fWAR of that team

Never.

I’d say Bochy and Francona are in that elite tier, maybe Buck too but he’s lacking the rings.

Some of the best top to bottom rosters in baseball. There’s a reason why Andrew Freidman got a $35M contract.

Overrated is probably a better wording.

Is it a hot take to say that Joe Maddon isn’t a very good manager? Kinda slots nicely in the Joe Torre tier of winning with supremely talented rosters in spite of himself no?

Cool, so act exactly as shitty as they already expect you to, and that will definitely convince them that they made a mistake. Perfect. Solid strategy.

I just don’t get it. What do these people want?

I can only imagine that the oh-so thinly-veiled disdain liberals have for certain parts of middle America is in no way responsible for their unwillingness to vote for liberals.