The part of your comment I have the most trouble believing is that anyone was watching the Padres game.

So basically, in Ohtani, Trout, and Pujols, the Angels now have 1918 Ruth, 1957 Mantle, and 2001 McGwire on the same team.

The first time Ohtani tweaks a quad or something during BP and misses a few starts that’ll be the end of the trend.

Yesterday we saw a home run in an elevator shaft drop in the infield and cost the Padres a game partly because after high school in the US pitchers somehow stop being one of the best athletes on the field and need to be hit for and aren’t allowed to catch fly balls. I realize this is a gross over-simplification but…

I want him to win both a Cy Young and a silver slugger for dh in a single season.

Tickets to today’s game were about 3 times the normal price. It was worth 10 times what I paid. Dude is so good and put on a show.

Kevin Ware in the Final 4 is the worst I’ve ever seen.

If Paul George and Gordon Hayward were like 9, I’d say this is a solid 8.

Unfortunately watched it live, I feel like this is going to be one of those moments I’ll never be able to get out of my head. Almost as bad as Hayward’s compound fracture start for the Celtics this year (just happy I didn’t have to hear audio of the bone snapping this time around, to put it lightly).

chris you sound like my girlfriend talking about me

I’ll replace that marginally better Twitter video once I get something better.

What trolls? Who’s hating on him, here or anywhere?

Who is this even directed toward? I’ve never seen anything but fascination for this dude.

Agreed. Sinclair can broadcast essentially whatever message they want on the stations they own, but the anchors shouldn’t have allowed the company to use them and their relationship with viewers to allow the message to be better perceived. In one of the instances I mentioned in my original post, that’s essentially…

The fact that you see no difference between reporting local news and being forced to read a script provided by the national corporate office illustrates that you have no idea what journalism actually is, so I don’t feel particularly compelled to respond to anything else you wrote. It is telling, however, that I didn’t…

If you are standing there reciting a speech that you disagree with and presenting it as if it is your opinion then yes, you have sold your integrity.

No, fuck that. They deserve the scorn and should be held accountable. I spent ten years as a broadcast journalist before a career change and twice got to the point of being willing to walk—once even drafted my letter of resignation—over bullshit ownership mandates. It would have been a huge hardship to quit a job with…

Way to illustrate the author’s point. In essence, these people are captives with a gun to their heads.

Yup. Sinclair should get the vast majority of the ire, but the anchors are complicit. It sucks that this country doesn’t allow the mobility for them to just up and leave, and it sucks that they signed horrific contract terms to land a job in a high-competition field, but that doesn’t change that they are knowingly…

It’s about the contract they’ve signed, not standard employment law. Still not fair, but it’s not as though this is how it works if you, to use Nick’s example, work at Walmart.