you live in a republic, not a democracy... for example, my alderman is a member of the Democratic party but he is a true “republican”, small “r” meaning he gets elected, does at he pleases, and is attitude is “if you don’t like me, then vote me out in 4 years.” ... with the power of incumbency in USA, he is in office…

Especially with such a stark juxtaposition between today’s ruling and tomorrow’s ballot. “WE NEED TO REALLY THINK CRITICALLY AND DEMOCRATICALLY ABOUT POLICE AND FIRE MONEY, LET’S VOTE. Oh, but a new stadium for a rich jackass? Yeah let’s just give him that”

I live in St. Louis City. I won’t get to vote on a stadium, but tomorrow, I’m voting on whether or not the city can be issued $180 million in bonds to upgrade equipment for police and fire departments, as well as improving streets, bridges, sidewalks, etc.

They don't call Cowherd out for race baiting, they call him out for being an unabashed racist.

What NFL coach doesn’t want total control of his players?

Wait. Deadspin reporting on how a couple of pretty good professional football players have hinted that Chip has issues with black people is an agenda? Or that some of the players let go definitely didn’t get the Eagles fair market value?

If he hadn’t, no doubt a Philly fan or 30 would have posted a ‘and we’re awful because of some snow balls in the sixties!?!?!?!?’ comment.

Yeah, they’re a team to watch. They maple a fast one on everyone. Waiting for it to happen will be tourtière.

Wait, are you defending the Mets or just insulting the Brewers?

This is my thinking too. My guess at the timeline: the GMs verbally agree to the deal, then Sandy Alderson gets one of the Wilpons on the phone to sign off on it. They tell him to see if the Brewers can kick in some extra cash. The Brewers balk, the deal’s off, and now the Mets have to save face.

I’m an Eagles fan and even I was rooting for Patton to shoot him.

some horrible bus accident that lops Eli’s head clean off, with his mouth still open, his face still looking like his mom made him try on a shirt he doesn’t like.

As a Mets fan, I feel this sort of self-flagellation is richly, richly warranted.

I’m certain that the Mets are somehow responsible for this fuck up — because they are always responsible for any fuck up they’re involved in — but it’s worth nothing that Gomez has been having hip problems for months. Sandy may be using this an excuse, but he didn’t just make up an injury.

I think all us Mets fans should start a fund to get the extra money to get Gomez. Here, I’ll start with $100 of my own dollars. Okay, now 10 of you give me $100 and I’ll put in this account I have with an incredible rate of return. If each of you can get 10 more investors, you’ll get AT LEAST a 50% return, AND 25%…

Brewers still want to trade Gomez. Obviously they want to counter the notion that he has a bad hip.

Mets sources are biased int he opposite direction. Taking either as gospel is dumb.

“It wasn’t about the money. It was about us not wanting to pay for his hip. (pause) Ohhh.... yeah, I guess it’s about money, then...”

Wilmer Flores cries tears, his team cries wolf.

To be fair, Reagan’s appointees have generally not been ideologically similar to Reagan himself. Both Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor were Reagan’s and both served as the ideological center of SCOTUS. The appointees since, though have trended with the appointing president’s political affiliation.

There’s been less…

No, because the court would have told them to wait until the appeals process had been exhausted before they could file suit.