Stephen

more proof shane gillis will never turn down a chance to be unfunny somewhere else he's woefully out of place

btw I'm self aware enough to realize that works both ways 😉

if I had to set a trap to bait one of my weird cars connections this is the bait and you are the person 🤣

*calls into imaginary Jake Tapper talk radio show*

me: hi jake, thanks for taking my call. 1st time caller. been a big fan since you shamelessly milked your kids' illnesses and drawings for clout points on twitter. anyhow, i'll just leave this clip here, hang up, and listen to your comments off air

keep thinking thru Thomson's decision to start Nola to figure the strategy & all I got is he's rather passive aggressive [as his actions & players say]. this is his way of telling the offense wake the f up or lose. Nola got little run support yrs ago, but that was a different team

idk 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Phillies

before Toyota turbo'd all the things TRD offered similar options for their V8 & V6-powered trucks

Stellantis looking over at the next kid's test & copying after the current administration gave everyone permission to permanently cheat

the US EPA under Trump 2.0 is trying to do this

want a canary in the coal mine economic prospect report for your personal situation?

if you're on linkedin [lucky you if you're not bc fuck that place] do some back of the envelope math on whether you've appeared in fewer searches lately

me: down 80%

[ymmv depending on your career/job demand]

they're a few bad play calls from 5-0 [and I mean obvious bad play calls even before the result]. they're technically "good" but coaching decisions scare me a bit

I think what makes them more impressive is the impactful missed starts bc of injury they've suffered on defense [it showed this week]

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

it's good to see that when Stellantis told its US division product managers to focus on incremental sales gains they chose to focus on the absolute smallest increments first

[I should clarify I was an analyst/consultant, not a member of the press]

I've been around long enough that I covered, wrote, and opined about the Phoenix Four in the press professionally

also, this is simply American style capitalism now. I'm just following the pattern

negotiate 8 figure options & bonus deal that requires 1 day of employment to vest

show up, do meet & greets, pick up some cool merch, attend Grace's - you know Grace, the nice person from door handle engineering - anniversary party, hide in the bathroom playing sudoku, retire @ end of day

profit

Castellanos complaining about the park being silent should mean he doesn't get on the plane to LA and never wears a Phillies uniform again

go home. enjoy the $20m guaranteed for 2026 while dreaming of perfect pitches in the dirt by your pool

this reminds me of that season of Married With Children where Bud Bundy was rapper Grandmaster B

[dating myself here & also betraying both my white trash roots & lonely teen years where TV was my friend]

Analytics prove that unless you're an outlier once you pass age 32 in baseball you're on your decline. All 3 of them are... 32! They may be better than many peers, but they're not better than their younger selves. Age catches up to all of us. I know as I'm 20 years older than all 3 of them 🤣

yes

yes we are

But I get what you're saying and it's one way

That's a hell of a fight brewing though, and I don't see a hard cap being implemented - maybe a more painful luxury tax or some Premier League style multi year revenue/spend cap

Seeing how that worked out for the Flyers who were jammed against the cap for years with little flexibility [they spent big & were against it for good reason lol], I'm not confident it's a guaranteed way out, especially since we do things like analytics & value so badly despite big investments there

Saddled with $77m per yr on just Nola, Harper & Turner thru '30 & yup we're stuck [Turner is thru '33!]

That's a huge commitment of $ that can't go elsewhere & no one will take any of 'em at those rates

Middleton is a billionaire, but he's a low level billionaire. His lux tax pain isn't unlimited

my dead serious game 3 Phillies lineup:

2B - Stott
SS - Sosa
DH - Bader
1B - Bohm
C - Realmuto
RF - Castellanos
CF - Marsh
LF - Kepler
3B - Kemp
P - Suarez

this is not my autistic sarcasm - tho I see why you might think that! - this is how I see it

I'll hang up & listen to your comments offline

YouTube video by Wills Gillan Seinfeld - Costanza and the World Series Trophy

Phillies Rob Thomson sending Robertson back out in the 7th in game 1, calling for a Stott bunt in game 2, announcing Nola as the game 3 starter

think I figured out his plan

Rob Thomson has a tee time for Thursday afternoon at Merion #Phillies

Phillies top three thru 2 games:

* BA .095 [2 for 21, both singles, bad!]
* OBP .240 [add 4 BBs, 6 for 25, bad!]
* 11 Ks [44%, very bad!]
* 1 RBI
* no runs scored
* some defense issues @ shortstop

Turner, Harper, Schwarber guaranteed $709.5m on their current deals, about $72.4m this year alone

if it was a two-tone '83 Camry LE 5-door hatchback I'd have taken his pic regardless

or an All-Trac '90 sedan

or the dual-wiper '94 wagon

it is genuinely dumb how depressed i am right now over that

no surprise

sports are stupid and I'd do anything to shake my addiction to them

or even if you don't 😏

[fairly sure I could get a partner exemption lol]