.315/.346/.389 might be the most Luis Arraez stat line I've seen in a minute

On Friday at Dodger Stadium I saw a family that brought in two whole sandwiches with side sauces in a ziplock bag so I think you're good with your bag of spaghetti

Dodgers pioneering the ablative reliever: calling a guy up, burn him by have him pitch one of the longest games in his career immediately after, and optioning him for the next guy

As a fan of the silly kung fu movie nonsense that the stories of the Mortal Kombat games as of late have been, Mortal Kombat 2 delivers on exactly that, so I'm happy

Feeling adventurous so I will try out riding the D for the first time. In an act of generosity, LA Metro has made riding the D free for the weekend so everyone can experience the pleasure.

Miz in the first inning against the Yankees:

Lol get fucked psycho

You can also get official "Ride the D" merch! shop.metro.net/collections/...

So great to see LA respond to something so nerdy as the opening of a subway line extension

Since the topic of the day seems to have returned to fighting over the best way to save the world again, I am finally remembering to share the best wisdom about the pitfalls and hypocrisies therein:

It's honestly remarkable how striking the similarities are between Roberts and Taney, both are partisans of a dead faction (Taney the last Jacksonian Democrat, and Roberts the last Country Club Republican) who thought One Decisive Judicial Writ that would settle a fundamentally political question

We need to normalize telling people "fuck you" to their faces

There are people who have spent a decade of Online in a mode where everything they consume has to fit into their political ideology and it just makes you say stuff like this. It’s a good reason not to do that.

Unengaged voters will never be broken of their mental image of him as a successful businessman that starred in his own reality show

At some point if this kind of change is happening everywhere and, as Daniel says, Asian parents are also defining the general trend, at what point does talk about affordability cease to explain what's going on here?

baby park do do doo do do baby park

H3VR is *the best* VR shooter hands down for just straight up combat, whether you want to count rounds in a mag or have infinite drum mags. @antonhand.bsky.social taking a big swing to revamp the game and design it for stand-alone VR headsets is so cool to see. Instant wishlist, highly recommend.

Yes, there have been some cringey on-cam moments from Rushing, who admits he’s gotta grow up as a pro. But the whole discourse seems more like 1) folks are—forgive me—rushing to find a face for the villainous, ruiners-of-baseball role since no other Dodger checks those boxes. And 2) content fodder

Forgive the tangent, but this makes me think about the Dalton Rushing “most hated man in MLB” dialogue. Seems a little dramatic/extreme when players like Valdez exist with a track record of actual baseball bullshit. Example(s): apparent willingness to injure players, including his own teammates!

If you need a Chromium browser but very understandably don't want to deal with Chrome, Vivaldi has done me very well and is pretty solid about cutting out the Google

Urge to cast out the money changers and merchants rising

Great discussion of ABS (automatic balls and strikes) here. ABS as it is now is a great example of how good rule changes add interesting decisions that create drama, while bad rule changes create obvious decisions or are boring. Always-on ABS removes drama and strategy, challenge-based ABS adds it.

The Jedi landing in the arena was the star wars Pickett’s charge send skeet

John Sterling cared deeply about the game and was one of the best at communicating that caring to the listener and making them care as much as he did. He was poetic in his own way about the game - no three words capture the game like "That's baseball, Suzyn." One of the greats.

Slightly diminish a book Cretaceous Park

"Man the Dodgers have been ass the last week or so, the Padres were right behind them surely they've capitalized" Padres and Dodgers on a dual 4 game losing streak, entire division lost their last 19 games combined, fuck yeah that's NL Best baseball

Maybe if the Dodgers hit at any point prior to the 9th inning we'd win more games

Having children act as loaders and assistant gunners both trains them to lead the gunnery team in the future and builds stamina and strength

Car maintenance starting off with drilling out a rounded and stuck skid plate bolt is good, right?

Today in packaging: what do you think is in this box?

Korematsu is part of a long list of SCOTUS decisions that show that the law contains no inherent morality we do not put in there ourselves, which is why I am so disgusted with law professor moot court naval gazing about real rights and cases. A coherent legal argument is not by default ethical.

It is worse. It only takes a non-trivial minority (I'd say 10-20%) of student LLMing their way through college to destroy the value of all newly minted degrees. We owe it to our honest majority of students to go HARD on keeping this crap out of the educational system. CS is especially bad...

I'd say that this is the most perfect metaphor for losing control of one's life due to outside pressures and bad influences but that is literally what happens here so it's not very metaphorical

damn that's crazy man California Republicans definitely have been saving up political capital for this moment and haven't spent the last 30+ years burning their reputation and popularity in the state to the ground

So. Which do you think is more efficient: 1) Solar panels in space, converting that electricity *back* into EM radiation, beaming that *through the same atmospheric losses*, recapturing it (losing some to efficiency/misses), and converting it back into electricity, or 2) solar panels on the ground

All hail the mouse nipple

This Mindseye DLC that is the cancelled hitman crossover turned into a thinly veiled story about killing the people who supposedly caused the game to fail sounds amazing in that “I want to read about it but never play it” kind of way

Since we're having "low info voters are dumb" again, I'm gonna point out that this is why triangulation is dumb. Trying to win by changing your values to cover the opinions of as many people as possible will lead you to adopt some deeply stupid things because the "persuadable" voter isn't coherent!

The only unifying ethos of the low info voter is "please do not make me learn anything about the world or politics, learning makes me feel dumb and I would rather stay uninformed than have to learn things and re-examine my opinions"

The Los Angeles Teoscars

Every game, at least once, Mark Prior comes out to the mound as the pitcher is struggling, and it always looks like the same conversation. "Hey, you feel all right? Everything good? You sure? Good. Fucking throw strikes." He then walks back to the dugout and the pitcher strikes the next guy out.

There are objectively worse people in the world (Hitler, Pol Pot, maybe others) but nothing activates a Pavlovian anger response in me more than adult men stealing home run balls from children

In honor of the final Jackass movie trailer, I present what I think of whenever an average guy thinks they can compete with top level pro athletes:

When you consider that Paul Skenes has thrown 5,568 career pitches, all to major league hitters, and allowed a homer (23) on .004% of those, any Tom, Dick, or Harry saying anything other than "give me the $50,000" is absolutely delusional.

Planning my Boston trip in September and what kind of loser books a guided pub crawl

Something I've really noticed while I salt farm through Mets socials/press is a *lot* of disrespect for the Colorado Rockies, which, like, yeah they were bad last year but if you just look at their record and stats, they're not *amazing* but they're a real baseball team, put some respect on them

May I ask… what is wrong with my colleagues? I should be able to vote and have it counted fairly and accurately. If you can’t defend that basic idea, you should quit your job.

So will the Phillies or the Mets be the one to panic and overpay for Alex Cora I'm not sure which will be funnier (Cora is deeply overrated in my opinion, he'd be an improvement on Mendy but I think almost anyone would be), but either way it's gonna be funny

The amount of people trying to blame the political moment on phones and social media is wild to me. The *prevalence* I agree is because of it - more eyeballs looking at the Everything All At Once machine - but the root cause is "things are complex and people want it to be simple" which is so old