Tim Jackson

Abel when he's on is awesome. I hope it works out for him. Feels like people were ready to write him off before his debut because it was so rocky getting there

Maybe the counting stats look different but the contact profile ticked up as he swung harder, and he already swings harder than just about everyone. I think he might just be a monster

And in case it's not clear, it's the writer's responsibility to express this. It's extremely hard to give a pass on it

You wanna feel a certain way or hold a certain opinion on the matter, fine. But don't act like it's not a legitimate legal process in service of a larger body and purpose, or that the miniscule number of trouble cases are worth revising said purpose

Take one look at the comments of the original piece and see how it fomented anti union sentiment, despite a purported effort to be neutral in the name of fairness

These kinds of details are also why labor-first talks are so critical. This is all info people should know. Instead we've been so anti labor for so long that we immediately go to the real American idea firstl: punishment

Eugene gets at why the piece on Profar and steroid penalties at large can't be more immediate, swift, or excessive

What will they be showing

You really can't find a more endearing quote than one from a TV show by a guy who ate a lizard to win a bet because he was bored during a game? And you're a national reporter for one of the only big-time outlets that still exists?

I'm trying to think of another word instead of "lazy," but I think that's it. It's a straight-up opinion column that your sources agree with, clamoring for data that never shows up. There's nothing to do but dismiss it

There have been tens of thousands of player seasons since the two used for evidence for the writer's take. Effectively zero percent of player seasons in that time.

The evidence for this take is two examples from 10+ years ago, with quotes added from a player in the union whose background could easily be littered with anti-labor sentiment and a star player whose team was involved in a massive cheating scandal and explicitly said he didn't do enough to stop it

Rare audio of Neil Sedaka and Carole King: Teenagers singing in the Klein Family Living Room, circa 1958.

"We Belong Together"
Songwriters: Robert Carr, Johnny Mitchell & Hy Weiss

MySpace bio cranked to 11

Hell yeah

I am Payton Tolle pilled

While I'm here I'd like to advise everyone against double-fisting the Pod Save guys and Platner. A classic "I could spend my time on so many other things" moment

Tonight's surreal West Wing moment is a US "peacekeeping" effort that mentions Gaza before anything else and doesn't include acts of aggression with missiles

I still can't believe it

That's once like every 3.5 minutes. Baseball rules

I just had to look it up, but if you're wondering, they say "shit" in Major League 29 times

This morning I used my phone flashlight to add oil to my wife's car, unwittingly slammed the hood on it, opened the hood a couple minutes later when I realized it, saw my phone fall down inside the car, and fished it out to find not even a single scratch. This is today's big win

Not trying to scorekeep or make a point, this is all the same disgusting beast, and it does, in fact, suck tremendously, every day

We go through school drills now that kids struggle to be quiet during at times because they're so casually imbued in their experience, it's all they know

Seeing lots of people frame my age bracket as growing up with 9/11 as a defining moment that has greatly influenced our whole existence. They're not wrong but my first memory of a newscast is Columbine

Fuck

I missed a prime chance. You took it over, easy

Frambio got your brain on the fritz

BP has a bunch of little notes on him up today, actually. A bunch of us like him and I slapped a Brantley comp on him. LD% is usually not reliable but his is wacky, and Ben Clemens had a piece last September that explained a lot