The problem is they only have one ‘real’ young player (Swanson) on the roster, he wasn’t even a Braves prospect, and the surfeit of veteran leadership has not helped him and his .162 average.

It doesn’t help when you get swept by one of the most forgettable and cruddy World Series champions of all time (the White Sox).

Ron Lynch (comedian and Mr. Lynch on Home Movies/Ron on Bob’s Burgers) used to have a bit on Dr. Katz where he would only talk through a tiny puppet who was being operated by a larger puppet who in turn was operated by Lynch. I am saying Spicer is the tiniest puppet, Trump is the larger puppet, and Putin is Lynch.

What I’m saying is that the Braves really haven’t fully committed to the house-cleaning, maybe in order to not bottom out completely before trying to sell people on the new stadium. Which means the “Stars of 2008" lineup is only delaying the inevitable.

I’d call them the 90s Atlanta Braves of hockey, but at least those guys won one title. More like the 90s-00s Astros: great talent, constantly stymied, got through once, were swept so fast that barely anyone remembers their championship appearance.

In any event, their ‘rebuilding’ (or ‘long con’) seems to be the evil twin of the Astros’, who just beat them twice and are 11-12 games better: throw the young talent in the fire first, see who emerges (Bregman/Correa/McCullers), add veterans (McCann, Beltran, Reddick) later to plug holes.

I assume the Braves being ‘younger guys’ is facetious because I’m naturally charitable this early in the morning, but they’re the oldest team in baseball (averaging 30.4 years), and only part of that is Bartolo Colon being 67.

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This series (outside of the Northeast and DC) must have Nielsen ratings like A Couple of Dons.

She’s been in almost everything, I think growing up I remember her as the hard luck DA who always got beat (prescient of the OJ trial) by the yuppie douchebags who worked at Leland Mackenzie (LA Law)

Indy 500 Schmoozee: “Steve Penny.. where have I heard that name?”

If they had an all-Wire crew, including Wee-Bey, Kima, Herc, Rawls, Amy Ryan, weird-looking Ben Affleck guy and Slim Charles, then I would have been down for Prometheus, no matter how terrible it was (and it was terrible).

“Ever since Trump acted poorly towards the current FBI director, I’ve been willing to forgive the FBI’s executing Black Panther leaders and blackmailing MLK.” Sure, I could totally see that happening. BUT DON’T DO IT, PEOPLE! DON’T FORGIVE THE BAD THINGS! Crisis averted.

A secret to Alien’s success: actual 70s actors who looked like real people (Yaphet, Ian, Harry Dean, the non-Ripley chick) instead of grime-free, antiseptic refugees from a fashion shoot (Fassbender, Idris, Charlize, Noomi) who coincidentally had to mouth just shit-poor dialogue.

I have no idea how this franchise got rebooted three times, it’s not like they made a trillion dollars merchandising Lance Henriksen action figures and xenomorph plush toys.

Yes, that’s exactly the thing we need to be thinking in response to something nobody’s thinking. All day I think of hypothetical responses to arguments that were never made and wouldn’t go anywhere if they did.

If they were smart, BORK TAKES OVER should have been the headline, it sounds like something out of The Day The Earth Stood Still.

At least Trump seemed to take his one historical lesson from Nixon’s interview with Frost, to wit: “If the President does it, it is not illegal.”

But let’s be fair, the Broadway production of Shanghai Surprise plummeted to a nadir not even seen by the film.

Not to be confused with oil company executive Eric Carlson, who puts Senators in his pocket.