Welcome back to Gwinnett Kolby Allard! The Bojangles by the park still has the best fast food chicken around but the area has grown. There is even a Top Golf just up the road.
The trade of Odorizzi has a similar note to the Paxton entry: the former just informed ATL that he was accepting his player option for $12m and change. The buyout was about $6 so his bet was that he would not get $7 on the open market. ATL is sending TEX about $10 for them to take Jake off the team’s roster.
Happy birthday to Jack Clark; please don’t buy yourself any more cars. Happy birthday to the late Norm Cash; in his honor I will cork my keyboard to improve my posting. Happy birthday to Keith Lockhart; he probably still has The Pictures! And happy birthday to me!
I want to say Paxton accepting his player option to stay in Boston was because he owed it to the team to pitch in 2023, but it’s probably as you say, he doesn’t think he’s healthy enough to get more than that from another team.
Thank you, millennials and Gen Zers, thank you! Can we lower the voting age to 16? Though it would have been if more of you lived on Long Island, where two Democratic seats flipped red. Not terribly shocking since Lawn Guyland goes back and forth between conservative Dems and GOPers. But I miss the brief period when there wasn't a single Republican elected at the federal level in pretty much the whole tri-state area.
Is it obnoxious to say that God's victory gift to DeSantis is another hurricane? I mean, it's affecting millions of people, none of whom deserve to have their homes destroyed by a pernicious god. But the timing is interesting, if you believe in such things.
MLB doesn't have a diversity problem. It's only a problem if you care about such things.
Everyone knows Ohio's mortal enemy is Michigan. Seriously, I am used to Dems running weak campaigns by tacking to the right but this is a new one for me.
ETA: One item of note I saw. John Henry might be interested in buying the Washington Commanders. Maybe that is why he wants to sell Liverpool.
While the rest of the country may have beaten back the Red Wave, my rural county in Maryland got flooded by it. In a county that still has a slight Dem registration advantage, most GOP candidates won by 15%+. We have a County Executive-elect and several new Board of Ed members who posed for photos with a neo-Confederate white nationalist after he hosted a seminar locally last year, they didn't deny it, and 60%+ of my county's voters decided, "Yup, that's who I'm voting for!"
The Board of Ed people have sworn to eliminate any diversity or equity efforts to help students, and have labeled equity as "Marxism". Their phrase "unearned equity" in regard to students is 1) incredibly dumb and 2) heart-breaking to read. They think 6-year-olds have to earn the right to be treated fairly.
They're gonna do dumb things that will lead to the state of MD to withhold 25% of of state education funding. They're gonna make it impossible to simply exist as a gay or trans student in this county. And they're gonna dismantle the few resources we have in place to help those students who need it most.
So if the forces of good won where you are, celebrate and do not take it for granted. Because for many of us, the future just got even more bleak Tuesday night.
Actually, I was diagnosed with one last year. It's a birth defect in my case, so I've had it 54 years and they found it doing a cholesterol study of my heart last year. I aced the cholesterol study. No symptoms, and as long as it doesn't get any larger, no impact at all on my life.
Re: political thoughts four and five, what was that song lyric Trump liked to quote during his rallies? "You damn well knew I was a snake before you brought me in," right? Seems apt.
Craig, there’s a little bridge between your Fourth and Fifth Thoughts. DeSantis might show a move away from Trump the person. But a move to him is most definitely not a move from Trump’s poison. DeSantis sees that his opening is with white Christian nationalists, and there’s no sign that any successor is moving away from that.
At some point Democrats are going to learn that the "I'm a less crazy Republican" campaign doesn't work. Democratic voters are turned off by it. Current Republicans view crazy as a feature, not a bug. Nobody wins.
Nov 10, 2022·edited Nov 10, 2022Liked by Craig Calcaterra
Re: aortic aneurysms I will say only that this is the condition Jefferson Hope has in 'A Study in Scarlet' so as a person who is already planning on spending a significant amount of time in England, I hope that this is not part of a revenge plot against some wealthy Mormons.
EDIT: (had my Holmesian heart conditions mixed up in the first version of this, apologies)
"Wait until you read who the New York Daily News gave column inches to in order to deny that Major League Baseball has a diversity problem."
Here in UK, the NYDN say "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country." Or fortunately, as the case may be.
I guessed Pete Rose, but it seems to be Alan Dershowitz. Presumably Ghislaine was unavailable for comment.
Welcome back to Gwinnett Kolby Allard! The Bojangles by the park still has the best fast food chicken around but the area has grown. There is even a Top Golf just up the road.
The trade of Odorizzi has a similar note to the Paxton entry: the former just informed ATL that he was accepting his player option for $12m and change. The buyout was about $6 so his bet was that he would not get $7 on the open market. ATL is sending TEX about $10 for them to take Jake off the team’s roster.
Happy birthday to Jack Clark; please don’t buy yourself any more cars. Happy birthday to the late Norm Cash; in his honor I will cork my keyboard to improve my posting. Happy birthday to Keith Lockhart; he probably still has The Pictures! And happy birthday to me!
I want to say Paxton accepting his player option to stay in Boston was because he owed it to the team to pitch in 2023, but it’s probably as you say, he doesn’t think he’s healthy enough to get more than that from another team.
Thank you, millennials and Gen Zers, thank you! Can we lower the voting age to 16? Though it would have been if more of you lived on Long Island, where two Democratic seats flipped red. Not terribly shocking since Lawn Guyland goes back and forth between conservative Dems and GOPers. But I miss the brief period when there wasn't a single Republican elected at the federal level in pretty much the whole tri-state area.
Is it obnoxious to say that God's victory gift to DeSantis is another hurricane? I mean, it's affecting millions of people, none of whom deserve to have their homes destroyed by a pernicious god. But the timing is interesting, if you believe in such things.
MLB doesn't have a diversity problem. It's only a problem if you care about such things.
Everyone knows Ohio's mortal enemy is Michigan. Seriously, I am used to Dems running weak campaigns by tacking to the right but this is a new one for me.
ETA: One item of note I saw. John Henry might be interested in buying the Washington Commanders. Maybe that is why he wants to sell Liverpool.
Now I want Aortic Aneurysm merch in the CoC shop. I’d wear the hell out of that T-shirt.
PS Speaking of voting, my colleagues at the US Vote Foundation are fielding a short survey about peoples’ voting experience in 2022.
EDIT - LINK UPDATED - You can find it here: https://www.usvotefoundation.org/2022-Election-Survey
That Vance photo was a tad too harsh for my eyes this early in the day.
Thinking of Lauren Boebert reading that tweet...as The Baseball Project so eloquently put it, you gotta fly high to fall this far.
While the rest of the country may have beaten back the Red Wave, my rural county in Maryland got flooded by it. In a county that still has a slight Dem registration advantage, most GOP candidates won by 15%+. We have a County Executive-elect and several new Board of Ed members who posed for photos with a neo-Confederate white nationalist after he hosted a seminar locally last year, they didn't deny it, and 60%+ of my county's voters decided, "Yup, that's who I'm voting for!"
The Board of Ed people have sworn to eliminate any diversity or equity efforts to help students, and have labeled equity as "Marxism". Their phrase "unearned equity" in regard to students is 1) incredibly dumb and 2) heart-breaking to read. They think 6-year-olds have to earn the right to be treated fairly.
They're gonna do dumb things that will lead to the state of MD to withhold 25% of of state education funding. They're gonna make it impossible to simply exist as a gay or trans student in this county. And they're gonna dismantle the few resources we have in place to help those students who need it most.
So if the forces of good won where you are, celebrate and do not take it for granted. Because for many of us, the future just got even more bleak Tuesday night.
Aortic Aneurysm is the name of my next band.
Actually, I was diagnosed with one last year. It's a birth defect in my case, so I've had it 54 years and they found it doing a cholesterol study of my heart last year. I aced the cholesterol study. No symptoms, and as long as it doesn't get any larger, no impact at all on my life.
Re: political thoughts four and five, what was that song lyric Trump liked to quote during his rallies? "You damn well knew I was a snake before you brought me in," right? Seems apt.
Craig, there’s a little bridge between your Fourth and Fifth Thoughts. DeSantis might show a move away from Trump the person. But a move to him is most definitely not a move from Trump’s poison. DeSantis sees that his opening is with white Christian nationalists, and there’s no sign that any successor is moving away from that.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-new-ad-ridiculous-dangerous-rcna55773
At some point Democrats are going to learn that the "I'm a less crazy Republican" campaign doesn't work. Democratic voters are turned off by it. Current Republicans view crazy as a feature, not a bug. Nobody wins.
Re: aortic aneurysms I will say only that this is the condition Jefferson Hope has in 'A Study in Scarlet' so as a person who is already planning on spending a significant amount of time in England, I hope that this is not part of a revenge plot against some wealthy Mormons.
EDIT: (had my Holmesian heart conditions mixed up in the first version of this, apologies)