It’s absurd he isn’t.

Utley is the first one to say he doesn’t go anywhere without Rollins. Utley will get in, maybe next year, and he will say that from the stage. Rollins gets in by committee.

One of my favorite things about the Willie Mays documentary—which was good, but not so much as it could be—was Bonds talking of hitting sky-high, 500 foot home runs in batting practice. “You’re going to be in a slump,” Mays said. Bonds was astonished. Mays said the ball should go on a straight line.

The value of the new statistics is Chase Utley. On the old numbers he is a very good player. On the new ones he is as good or better than any second baseman in the Hall of Fame. You have to know their value and know their limits.

Manfred just admitted on camera he never attended an Opening Day until he started working for the league.

You can no longer compare players from different eras purely using WAR The game has completely changed since the advent of advanced stats Ichiro, Gwynn, and Carew have lower WAR for their career, singles weren’t valued much, but they would approach hitting differently today.

It does over-reward good players on bad teams, yes. It also can't quantify a lot. It's useful as a rough measurement; 60 is usually the ballpark for the Hall of Fame. But to swear by it is nonsense. Mazeroski - who you could call the best defensive second baseman of all time - has WAR of 36.5.

As much as possible we will be concentrating on Pirates-Mets, White Sox-Brewers, Rangers-Phillies, and Guardians-Mariners.

As much as possible President Nixon plans to honor his traditional commitment that on Opening Day, March 26, he will limit discussion to baseball from midnight to midnight in the east. He points out, however, that the fast-changing international situation may lead to deviations.

Mamdani, unknown less than a year before the election, got 50.78% against an opponent who admittedly made every mistake in the book, but had universal name recognition and was swimming in outside money. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jesus.

I’ve only ever seen Bill Clinton successfully do this sort of thing.

The Marines have a five-letter term for this sort of thing.

I am going to listen to Waldman and Sims. But the first ballgame of the year should be free to everyone to watch.

I am aware of the alleged reports coming out of Iran. As a private citizen President Nixon is not authorized to negotiate.

Yes. And as we've so often said, it doesn't need to be this way. If they spent money, they could've secured their futures for 20 years. You can't be Grover Norquist and Attila the Hun.

Once again this is why for 45 years specialists and any non-specialist who isn't illiterate knows you do not wage war in Iran.

Do you know what we do here?

This is beautiful and characteristic of him.

Of everything I suppose I would like to be remembered for the War on Cancer. But it will come to pass that I'll play a larger than expected role in humiliating Rubio twice. There are certainly worse things.

I know Newsom is from San Francisco, but he's even more West Los Angeles than San Francisco, and nobody who looks and sounds like West Los Angeles is ever going to be president.

I am not comparing Pritzker to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but that's the hat he's choosing to wear. Newsom's hat is "I can play your game, Donald." This tickles a certain type, but it rots fast.

"Nixon says Newsom confuses social media for politics." "Isn't he dead?" "No. In fact, he just wrote an article for Redbook Magazine." "The hell with him." "He says in terms of strategy Newsom is no better than Trump." "What did he ever win?"

Yes. The best you can hope for at the moment is to strengthen the ability of states to fight deployment; to give them power to stop new detention facilities; to slow hiring, and shrink the recruiting pool. The Democrat demands accomplish that. You are not going to get abolition now.

That is, if you want to kneecap ICE, the first step would be to strip it away from the larger bills. They have done so. That is a sign of real weakness on the Republican side. The next step, as I said weeks ago, would be to starve it. You won’t abolish it yet. Name your price, make them come over.

Ocasio-Cortez is biding her time in the House. She's right to do that.

Contrast this sort of thing, from Pritzker, with the quotes from Shapiro we shared earlier.

Shapiro is near the front of the 2012 field. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

This has made football often very difficult to watch.

Umpiring is an extremely difficult job. There are a lot of good ones.

I am for unions. I am not for unions that protect people like Angel Hernandez.

Realmuto says he likes it as a hitter and as a catcher he's suspicious. I think that sums it up. You notice too many umpires. You need something to rein them in. But I want pitch framing and so forth kept in the game. The challenge system as constructed seems reasonable.

This is essentially a two-year extension to his bargain $40 million contract at $65 million. It is still a bargain. It interests me for two reasons: as a signal to free agents/international players that the team takes care of its people, and as a signal Middleton thinks there will be a 2027 season.

Those of you who recall our comments when the bombing began will remember the prediction this was likely.

President Nixon's friendship and partnership with Calvin Broadus is based on a series of shared values. That is not to say, of course, that all values are shared.

I don't throw it around that he's nuts, old, and so forth. That's counterproductive. The most I've said is in manner he's obviously diminished from 30 or 10 or even two years ago. It's our job to keep an eye on the ball with regards to politics. I will tell you now how this intersects with politics.

I don't throw it around that he's nuts, old, and so forth. That's counterproductive. The most I've said is in manner he's obviously diminished from 30 or 10 or even two years ago. It's our job to keep an eye on the ball with regards to politics. I will tell you now how this intersects with politics.

I am not saying I like or believe in Platner. Only that Warren again contradicting Schumer is significant.

Did no one tell him Franklin Delano R

I said two or three months ago that flipping the Senate was possible. I am not prepared to call it feasible, but it is headed that way.

Because she thinks he can win. Equally as important, it's a finger in Schumer's face.

Van Hollen clearly wants Schumer's hide, but Warren does too.

I am not surprised Abughazaleh lost. I am interested she did as well as she did. She was the wrong candidate in the wrong place, she made mistakes, but there is something to be learned from her methods.

Don't read too much into it. Abughazaleh played tough. She lost for being a carpetbagger and because Schakowsky is well-liked and her word counts. You were never going to get a Sanders-backed candidate in the 8th, and in the 2nd it's hard to beat the Cook County Commissioner.

This is immensely sophisticated. It tells the story clearly and accurately, and in doing so invites the audience to make a lot of inferences.

As I said, I enjoy the WBC. I am not behind it like some of you because I remember how difficult and precarious it is to play big league baseball. If a player wants to play, good for him. If he wants to protect himself and his home club, good for him. www.inquirer.com/phillies/jes...

This has been addressed. - RZ

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