Nolan Ryan's 19-strikeout, 10-walk, 13-inning outing against the Red Sox from June 14th, 1974. (source: B-Ref, Stathead)

Dude, what?

I stopped going because everyone who goes now has eight kids who they homeschool and it stinks having to be around those people

Boy, it's a good thing my NFBC plan at 3B wasn't Bohm, Durbin, Josh Smith, with Friedl as a late 5/6 OF or else I'd really be in trouble

Quoted guy in OP got all his rage at the DC area from driving out to Huzzah to play Magic while in grad school

Should've paved the roads with the ground up remains of AOL CDs

DSA is a nightmarish combination of Model UN for adults who spend all day staring at their phones and megachurch for atheists

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Anderson De Los Santos just keeps hitting. His second home run of the year.

Now hitting .324 with 5 XBH, a 1.109 OPS, and 13 BB/10 K on the year.

Sure but I suspect Fetterman was broke, and that's why he became (among other things) the dairy and Israel lobby's strongest warrior in the caucus. Trump arguably was broke too, but different definitions of broke and all. I'm just saying Fetterman's pliability predates his preoccupation with Israel

Various reasons to dislike and distrust trust fund kids, but one advantage of Platner's family money is that it probably gives him some prophylaxis against becoming a new Fetterman

John Fetterman thinks you're too dumb to understand that vegan 'milk' isn't dairy The DAIRY PRIDE Act says it wants to protect consumers. In reality, it's trying to protect dairy farmers from economic competition.

I agree Fetterman's turn is about more than the stroke, but it came before that if you follow the minutia of his deep loyalty to the dairy industry and such (see link). I think he just really likes taking bribes (feel free to speculate as to why) and the stroke wiped away any real core beliefs

Pearls from the BAAy: Baysox vs SeaWolves Conor breaks down his live looks from Sunday's game, featuring Sebastian Gongora, Anderson De Los Santos, Brett Callahan, and more!

Prospect report from Sunday's Double-A game between the Chesapeake Baysox (BAL) and the Erie SeaWolves (DET) is up at @dynastydugout.bsky.social! Did a deep dive on Sebastian Gongora, Anderson De Los Santos, and Brett Callahan www.thedynastydugout.com/p/pearls-fro...

My entire family tree in the US, including the present generation, consists of Catholics marrying Jews and their kids becoming Catholics, who marry Protestants, and their kids becoming Catholics... it's almost like the OP has never encountered actually existing Catholicism

I take "wield a sword" to be metaphorical, he does not mean that nobody who wields a sword is on the side of Christ. After all there are depictions of angels with swords, so you see

And, for the last thirty years, this has been is the first thing anyone's said to me when I told them I'm from Albany. Cursed day

Big Al haters stay losing 👿

Tonight's Orioles-DBacks game is the third time on record to achieve this feat.

The other two:

Brewers @ Reds, May 7, 2016
Tigers @ Brewers, June 1, 2021

(h/t EWStats member Michael Mountain)

Any list like this without a single game you needed to load from DOS is bullshit

The Baltimore Banner is basically this and as far as I can tell has been really successful

Patrick Wyman made a point on his last Tides that it wasn't until recently in human history that a meaningful number of people held the belief that ownership and exploitation of another human being for their labor was morally wrong. I knew that intellectually, but it was stark to hear it laid bare

Also there's less than a thousand of them, which has always been one of the problems with noble savage primitivism. The indigenous peoples of the Americas who achieved urbanization and any density of note, including the horse empires, used extremely coercive labor practices like slavery and peonage

A lot of my interaction with administration officials has been an appointee with a faked resume and zero relevant background saying "you idiot federal workers, why didn't you think of this before" only to find out there was a reason why we idiots hadn't done it before. That's the principle here

As someone this would affect, I read the memo. Oddly, I think they were doing something reasonable in asking for usage data to audit if FEHB providers were charging too much. But they asked for unredacted files to avoid an unworkable burden on insurers, and the potential for abuse is then obvious

You're out of usage, resets Dec 23 1990

Hard agree

We might have to start talking about Creed Willems. He just hit a 2-run HR, his third of the season, and is now hitting .320 with an OBP over .400 and an OPS of 1.179.

Not at all convinced he can catch in the big leagues, but this production from a 22-year-old at AAA is noteworthy on its own.

Vermont's state-level Dems put up horseshoe theory MAHA types and their state-level GOP has an incredibly popular and competent flagbearer whose politics would be on the left side of the Democratic congressional caucus. Vermont politics are anything but normal by US standards 😂

Maine is far from northern West Virginia, but the primary variable is educational attainment, Vermont has the third highest proportion of pop with bachelors degrees and advanced degrees, while Maine is 18th (with the gap being about 10 percentage points)

I've felt like this for a long time, to the point where I stopped going to mass because I felt like it wasn't for people like me and my family anymore. I've started again, but it's tough to celebrate the sacrament around these people. Just wanted to say thanks for expressing this

I suspect a lot of people are largely unaware of the organization per se but hear the name and associate it with Bernie, who remains one of the most popular politicians in the party