What?

There have been about 22,000-23,000 big league ballplayers since 1871.

It likely was. God knows what Counsell said in private, but he now has another reason to feel like a jackass for leaving Milwaukee.

Counsell was close to Uecker, who'd go to the ballpark even when the team wasn't there. He'd help cut the grass.

Reaching the big leagues is the most difficult thing in sport. Staying there is even more difficult. Regardless, you never, never, never, never abandon the team. Never. Not short of your wife and children or mother. Never. It spits in the eye of every man riding buses in Iowa.

I disagree. On pure baseball terms nothing exculpates it. I don't care whose so-called funeral it was. Players complain all the time they miss weddings, that sort of thing. They're right. But they do what they do and any real ballplayer would rather cut his arm off than abandon the team.

Shaw can go to hell. He is a rookie third baseman. His position is not secure, and his club is in a playoff race. This sort of thing offends professional ballplayers whatever their politics. Second, bereavement per the CBA is limited to immediate family. Some teams are willing to -

I am not bothering with the Kirk thing because the majority of people don’t care, and the ones at least open to it will be confused, sickened, or both.

Reese is famously cutting when they play badly. He did not hold back in the first half. This is a great call, among his best.

Philadelphia won that on coaching. My God.

Strength.

The rules are the rules and a win is a win.

Yes. Just don't look stupid. They are looking at it like the goddamn Zapruder film.

Slowing down the "tush push" to look for error is garbage. There is holding and so forth on every play if you slow it down.

Of course the president can't be seen to say that, and if the president was anybody else, one who did different things in different ways, so that this wasn't one of a thousand fires of varying sizes, something might be done about it.

It will be a hell of a thing to ban a clean football play just because no other team has Jeff Stoutland coaching its offensive line. It's like lowering the mound because of Bob Gibson.

I like @dicknixon.bsky.social take on this

I said it was a summary of their business interests, not an appeal for sympathy.

This is a good summary of Disney’s business interests as to the Kimmel thing, and it is in line with all that we’ve heard.

Patience has nothing to do with it. Van Hollen—who is nothing like a socialist—nor is Mamdani when you look at it—backing him says to the party, “Back the nominee or get out of the game. What the hell is wrong with you?”

For several years his legal pleadings have read like he dictates them. I am not sure which lawyers were on this, he has so many, but when you have Florida real estate firms and so forth suing the Times, it would almost have to be the case.

Don’t watch polls now. You’re still at a point where familiarity is everything.

Van Hollen interests me because he wants to be the son of a bitch on the Hill. He already is a son of a bitch on the Hill, but he’s never gotten to take the gloves off. He should he in House leadership, but you know how that goes. He’a never going to he president, either.

It’s no surprise given his pulpit but Warnock is one of the more impressive speakers I’ve seen in person. I spoke with him in Chicago. Even in private he uses the old ways of true rhetoric, I mean classical rhetoric. Not in a false way. It’s how his brain works. Dr. King did that.

Dolan is 75 and was therefore forced to resign. Francis was alive, but ill. I'm sure it gave him pleasure in any case. Francis's death slowed things down. But time has passed now. Look for it.

You can't have a candidate at the top of the ticket who says he'll turn up the temperature where warranted next to one whose business is turning it down.

It's too soon to tell, but Whitmer is out, Beshear a non-starter. Moore could play himself in.

Dolan has nothing to lose now.

Buttigieg is talented. I have said so. She didn’t choose him because he’s gay. If he wasn’t, be honest with yourself—things being as they are, how politically smart is it to ask the country to shut their eyes and put it all on someone who’s never been anywhere close to the top?

One of Leo's first acts, remember, was to say it is permissible to avoid Mass if you have fear of deportation, and clergy should escort asylum seekers to court and in general appear with them in public whenever possible.

I don't think people elsewhere understand what a mess the Democrats are in New York. They are held together with chewing gum. That they have any hold at all is thanks purely to New York City. Not the party in New York City but the city. That's all. As a political organization they are a disgrace.

It turns out Harris's opinion of Shapiro as an arrogant, two-bit county commissioner is exactly what I said it was.

I said before the last general election it was not a pro-Labour vote and Labour had better move fast or else.

Spanberger is going to win by a fair amount in Virginia. Sherrill will win New Jersey. Whatever the margins on either side there will be a leap to take it as a sign for the midterm. Don't do it. Not much. The wind can change in a year, and both VA and NJ are more federally Democratic than elsewhere.

Harper says it. Schmidt says it now, even if he didn't before. Vermeil, Bob Clarke, and so on. Anyone who succeeds there. A certain kind of athlete thinks, "Your heart's in it as much as mine. You're not always right, but neither am I. I want to be pushed."

I think Sherrill does win but she is not appearing in South Jersey like she needs.

Years ago when RN was anonymous & there were rumours he was important, she dm’ed him & begged ‘him’ to come out in NY. I did not. I held her at arm’s length, & before RFK she freaked out at my criticism in DM. I reminded her of this, told her I don’t consort w/ unethical apologists, & blocked her.

Wait and see. She isn't good on camera, and she is the sort of woman a lot of other women instinctively don't like.

That's it. You don't just give yourself up like that otherwise. Or foreshadow to the family.

Send his man down to the corner for a bottle of Old Gra

Klein might talk himself into a stroke.

In other words, exactly Francis's position. Perhaps Francis was personally open to these things, perhaps Leo is. I don't know. As monarchs they could wave a hand, but as politicians they can't. Rome doesn't have five-year plans, they have 25, 50, 100 year plans.

If you want to use the term I think he always was, and Rove speaks in principle. But in fact I think Kirk's murder has more in common with Hinckley shooting Reagan than anything else. They are saying the girl friend and so forth, there is that, but what is it really? They want to be great men.

Nixon's plan for China - mostly ignored - was to offer them carrots from the market & use the stick to make them open civil liberties. This was important to him.

I remember during the DeSantis thing you had one side saying Disney took a stand for equality and the other saying they were poisoning kids. I said Disney does what's best for Disney, and they always win.

Brad Lidge had some interesting things to say about Jhoan Duran. He sees hitters coming in confused and scared, gripping the bat tightly and simply trying to make contact. But the movement on Duran's pitches is such that if they do make contact, they'll break the bat or strike weakly.

Who said Bluesky wasn’t perfect. This is fucking art by @ohrobin.bsky.social and @samthielman.com I may get it as a butt tattoo I love it so much

Charles has cancer. He looks remarkably well for that.

A lot of people would commit murder if they felt they could get away with it. They don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

“Terrifying.”