The Joey Gallo comparisons keep coming up but prime Gallo was uber-athletic and a plus glove, Murakami doesn't appear to be either of those

Would be the third past or future Oriole I saw play for the the Giants on my honeymoon in 2018 (an ancient Uehara out of the pen and Sugano being the other two)

Looking forward to being able to read a batted ball's exit velocity from the dolphin floor at the aquarium

This is such a cool heat map (helped by the fact I'm not a Leafs fan)

I think she's referring to the shutdown

The one that samples the NBA on NBC theme that also has a gospel choir

I think some could be won over by broad anti-corruption messaging. One of RFK's big attractions was that he was supposedly against industry and its ability to buy the health and nutrition policy it wants. This is taken too far, sometimes the public interest aligns, but the general thrust isn't wrong

Breaking the Annapolis machine is generally the Lord's work

Not Ray Wise's first appearance in the God's Not Dead Cinematic Universe

This is one of my favorites in your works (and really all of literature), but the character's follow-up critique of the poem about how the world isn't any more broken than it ever was makes it even more beautiful. There's hope if these feelings of powerlessness about the world transcend centuries!

Guy who's never had a real job tries to explain the real-world applications of measuring aptitude at a task in terms of turnaround time

Never have I interrupted a children's liturgy to pedantically explain this bit of historical trivia, I swear

I don't know what you're talking about, my wife left me because I decided to become a squid man to save the world

Biden's final approval ratings among Democrats were in the low to mid-70s depending on the poll

Democrats have a much harder time with own-party approval though so being in a statistical dead heat with late-term Biden for own-party approval and significantly worse with independents is a catastrophically bad place to be

AP-NORC had Biden at 39% approval overall with a breakdown of 72% Dem / 32% Ind / 8% Rep in his last poll. Trump's at 36% overall with 74% / 24% / 4% in this one (the OP had a sub-question, not overall job approval), so he matches Biden with his own party and is significantly worse everywhere else

He's lower among Republicans than Biden was among Democrats at the end of his term, which is something I honestly didn't think was possible

I'm not serious!

Ryan O'Hearn