Davy Crockett

The important thing to remember is that a 2-0 deficit in Division Series have been overcome much more often than 3-0 deficits in other series

It’s forgotten now but when the Nats were making their rise from the cellar to be the NL East Team of the 10s, their big rival was the tail end of that elite Phillies run, with the Werth signing and also the team finally chasing away traveling Phillies fans away from the ballpark being big deals

Phillies never beating the Curse of the 2019 Bryce Harper Spring Training Freudian Slip

“You Jinx my Rival!” “No, you Jinx my rival!”

My current Series plan is rooting for the AL team unless it’s the Yankees and rooting against the NL team unless it’s the Brewers. All the long drought teams first.

The real hot take is his death helped the legacy of his band and his bandmates by permanently foreclosing any depressing cash grab reunion tours

Lennon is weird because he dies right when he’s coming back to making music but the music he’s making is content middle aged dad rock of real quality (more listenable than most of his earlier solo career), so a Lennon who lives probably has a better musical legacy but a less political one

Yeah, it’s wild to think that his famous “Comeback Special” happened when he was…33.

Doing the business in France to turn a profit, Mr. Wenger would be so proud

Faith of the Heart - Wikipedia

Yeah, but is your theme song a cover of a Rod Stewart-Diane Warren collab from the Patch Adams soundtrack? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_o...

Nah, the airborne fought in Torch, Sicily, and Italy prior to D-Day, with the 82nd being involved in the latter two before being withdrawn to prepare for D-Day.

Honestly hilarious this website belatedly discovered a politician is very popular with actual voters and is now full of people equating that performance with a politician whose popularity is mediocre with actual voters but beloved with people on this website, saying both are equally good models.

But because the people who wrote there were and are in the Online Politics Media Club, the kinds of people who start things like The Argument don’t want to actually criticize them directly so it all becomes these elliptical arguments past each other because we’re all one big happy networking horde

But we did have a magazine that was driving Democrats Power Broker discourse the last four years, it just happened it was the American Prospect, it was full of paleoleftists who thought Obama a failure, and it helped drive the Biden Administration off a cliff.

In general the issue across all left and center left publications is to get in the door you essentially have to be Super Online and being Super Online means you end up prioritizing centering a narrow clique of socially dysfunctional people more than having a coherent vision of your publication

Part of the problem is there used to be magazines like that (The New Republic being the classic example) but those publications barely made money to start with and like all print media got hurt by the internet and as their prestige died they got captured by generic online hard left media cliques

It is genuinely astounding how the last ten months have not changed progressive “The Republicans don’t have an affirmative agenda! It’s only tax cuts and judges! The filibuster only hurts Democrats!” conventional wisdom one fucking iota.

Probably not going four for four though

Typical Episode:

Data: The asteroid is going to destroy this primitive alien civilization on a nearby moon.
Picard: Should we stop it?
Riker: Cosmic Plan says Moon Go Boom Boom.
Picard: No, that would be wrong. But Prime Directive. To the conference room!
Picard: Save the moon? *sigh*Save the moon.

It is kinda funny you got so much “Killmonger Was Right” discourse given his whole deal was the TNG Slippery Slope “If we break the Prime Directive to save this primitive civilization from an asteroid, that’s like if we take sides in military conflicts and invade” made into anvilicious reality

In general much of the debate around MCU Wakanda, even back in the original movie, amounts to those kind of bad TNG to Voyager era Prime Directive episodes where they blather on about how you shouldn’t help anyone ever because Something Something Cosmic Plan

On the other hand you shouldn’t feel too bad because they choked nearly as bad as you but were able to back into the playoffs anyway! And also easily could already be eliminated if the Guards hadn’t messed up the 9th yesterday!

Ahh, so this is the small ball Cleveland team I’ve been hearing about, checks out

…I see we’re just pretending that all the angry climate activist groups didn’t start as Bernie Supporter fronts so Matt can pretend his imaginary moderate Bernie was real instead of something he made up to justify hating the woman candidate again, huh?

Mickey Owen got a bum wrap

Labour’s unpopularity problem It incorrectly equates internal party discomfort with policies that anyone else likes and might aid the economy

The Starmer 'decisions that will not always be comfortable' line has absolutely sent me. There are lots of things I think Labour should do that Labour members would *hate* but I think they should do them because they would work. 'Labour members hate it' has become how this government self-soothes:

Alternately, you can kill him off in the first movie, then devote the entire second movie to bringing him back while getting rid of some of your new characters, and then that sets the stage for defeating the Empire once and for all with some cheeky time traveling to get some space whales.

NOPE

Skip shoulda been in ages ago, back before he passed away. One of the best smart asses in baseball history, and an iconic national voice in the days when the rise of cable made the Braves—even before their nineties excellence—‘America’s Team’

Eh, this isn’t really true if you have a majority, which British Governments almost always do? Unpopular dysfunctional zombie Governments have been successfully able to play out the string to almost the last moment in 1997, 2010 and 2024.

There’s been one successful no confidence vote in a century!