Tee Pup alert 🐶

Phils fan: rn rooting for Brewers-Mariners WS. Guaranteed 1st-time winner! Also Manfred & crew surely don't want a MKE-SEA series but it could be a really good one (like OKC-IND)
Once they get there not sure, actually. (My wife is from MKE but she's not a sports person & family is more into Packers)

Ben Sasse singlehandedly set this potential pathway back decades

And there is also this, which I learned about on here last year and I use when I want to do a google search:
udm14.com

Look, yes, “never stan a politician” is a very solid principle to live by, but this man is so f'cking good at this, just incredible.

a russ vought special

The well-known and extremely constitutionally legitimate crime of “being too close”

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

… following this line the A's, of course, tower above them all.

(My Dad was fully an A's fan as a young kid; it was never 100% clear whether his transition to Phils was due to Whiz Kids or only after A's left)

Okay the last thing is a good point. But Pirates are now much more the Rays than the Brewers are with *much* more history.

Wait, why? MKE is a decent baseball town* despite their lack of success; haven't watched much of their NLDS but if they go on would watch each Rhys AB as a full-on fan.

(*Source: married MKE native, go there annually. “Decent” is chosen on purpose since Packers rule over the more local teams.)

Rooting for Mariners-Brewers. Would have a never-before- champion either way, think it could turn into a sneakily really good matchup. The fact that Manfred & MLB brass would initially hate it only to potentially have an OKC-Indiana style classic on their hands adds to why.

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

Worked the pitch counts up to get Skubal out of the game faster and get to the bullpen

After the 11th rubber is moved one foot back every inning (will work out groundskeeping details of how to move mound itself back with it so pitchers don't hurt themselves later)

*But* that series had Games 2, 3, 4, & 5 all go to extras. Will go to my grave maintaining that it was the greatest LCS in MLB history, even though they were only five games then.

Fictional tweet Joe Buck is thoroughly disappointed, not even a third of the way there

Longest playoff game was 18 innings, Sox-Dodgers WS 7 years ago.

But this *is*, according to reddit, the longest winner-take-all game in MLB history.

Look Orion Kerkering might have saved us all this, watching six more innings only to lose in even more heartbreaking fashion.

hoping you are doing a proper Joe Buck "oh god yes"

To, uh, repurpose a phrase: Neither our rushing game nor our passing game are designed to deal with teams that actual watch the tape and know exactly what play Patullo is going to call next.

Smiling to myself at the smudged black ink scribble in the margins almost lost in the metal spiral binding of the notebook where I have written, “you must *fully* know and understand all of the animals before then asking him about the pokemon”