Scoring the first three runs without any extra base hits was a bit lucky. However, the slugs came through in the end.

And two homers later, they have six runs.

How the heck do the Cubs have 3 runs without any extra base hits? Well, if you cannot be good, get lucky...

True, but it is worse with monotheistic religions (e.g., Abrahamic ones) than with most polytheistic religions because monotheistic religions prominent in recent history have only a male god and thus no female divinity. But even most polytheistic seem to have an “all-Father” figure. Better!=good.

… fuel MAGA: many men were doing poorly (dictatorships hurt economies) and at the same time women were gaining more financial independence than they traditionally had. Women still had fewer right and often were in worse shape economically, but their gain was seen as coming at men’s expense.

Right, but that was about the African-American men. The Iranian Revolution was not a reaction to the Shah’s brutality only: it also was a reaction to Shah’s wife promoting women’s rights in Iran. Feminism was part of Western Decadence, after all. But it also created the volatile mix that helps…

What a moronic take. Whoever wrote it would be best advised to avoid ERs, as they most certainly would be declared brain-dead on arrival…

… and retracting some of the advice from his initial books; as chemists, this demonstrated to them that it was all nonsense as “real” science should find patterns like chemical laws. 🤣)

… hated was that people knew more than they realized about parenting and that it really was instinctive to some degree. So, he was pushing back against a view that everyone was naturally clueless about raising kids.

(My parents ignored his books because by the mid-60s they were contradicting…

Sort of. Infant parenting during the Baby Boom years was heavily influenced by Dr. Spock (the real one, not the Vulcan), and although he fell out of favor because he was anti-Nam, he had a lot of successors.

That said, one of the things that Spock supposedly stressed that pediatricians at the time…

Narrator: He actually wasn’t sorry about that at all.

Blocked.

Freddy stole the song from him, you know.

(That said, most of the Black men were released because they were viewed as oppressed & not spies; most of the women of all colors were released because the Ayatollah was Jerry Falwell in a doofy hat and believed that women weren’t up for being spies: he was very pro-oppression of that sort!)

Um, I think that Walter Cronkite taught me that when I was 14 or 15...

Without further comment.

Out-homer and out-double the opponent while breaking even on walks is pretty safe way to win.

Gone but forgotten…

Earl Weaver’s zombie is happy. 🧟‍♂️

Lol: this reminds me of when it became clear that many conservatives didn’t realize that Stephen Colbert was mocking them. The same thing will happen here.

This is one of the most damning statements about “swing” voters imaginable: they clearly just cannot remember anything from more than a few weeks ago.

An onion will do well for such a shift

The B52s mislead me a teen…

In mine, we give Grima multiple knives…

Also known as “real corals” to those of us that work in the Bestozoic, sorry, Paleozoic.

Gimli and Legolas wish that they could fight orcs more, too.

I would bet that the probability of them losing was about the same either way. At any rate, the probability of Busch driving in the runner from 2nd actually would be higher than Nico's: he is the Crown Prince of singling runners from 2nd to 3rd, after all.

? No, we're talking about why the Mets didn't walk Hoerner in the 10th.

… Conforto's double, the Mets were probably going to lose. And there wasn't much that any manager could do about it by playing with his pitchers because the Mets' offense is performing so poorly right now. (Regression should kick in sooner or later: but, man, it's taking its sweet time!)

Ah, intentionally walk him to avoid having him be the ghost runner? That's an interesting idea: and not one that the announcers ever considered! (I've never heard it suggested prior to now.) However, it probably doesn't get a win for them, so at most it cost them a small fraction of a win. After…