I am going to not web search this for multiple reasons, but the primary one is I don't want to find out it is not true

There is a certain joy taken in the pain required to be a Mets fan.

Having said that, they have two more World Series titles than my adopted-hometown team and object of my baseball affection, the Padres, have

LOL at the fact that the worst thing they can come up with about Mamdani right now is that he is ostensibly the cause of the Mets' losing streak

This is the Mets we're talking about. A butterfly flapping its wings in China could cause a losing streak

[Full disclosure: I am a reformed Mets fan]

While I love this stat, it feels like we've just been cursed. The baseball gods are unforgiving on shit like this

I literally LOL'ed at this one

I bet there are still plenty of NFL fans that don't think concussions cause long term problems

The conspiracy theory I believe: The NFL knew concussions were chronic for as long as
1.The tobacco industry knew smoking causes cancer
2.Exxon knew climate change is going to be a problem
3.Purdue Pharma knew Oxycodone is addictive
4.Facebook knew they are propagating lies
before admitting it

Uhhh... How can subordinates lock their superior out of a room and make decisions without them? Why not invoke the actual mechanism that would do this rather than doing it extra-legally? (Caveat: I am not a lawyer)

You're right, though, morale is still in need of drastic improvement

Profiting on others' sorrow is evil

A line of low riders parked near the beach

As a native East coaster, low riders are something I revel in every time I see them. I was told this is the Vicios car club

I need to flex

Jesse and Tony on the Padres radio broadcast are still advancing the bit I started last Sunday when they answered my tongue in cheek Question of the Day

Tony Gwynn has been chuckling at my joke on air for two weeks in a row

💪🏽

Maybe not a true flame war. I'm no expert on social media lingo

Now I'm trying to be humorous. It's in the thread for your original post

I think this is my first time starting a (minor) flame war on Bluesky. Thanks for that! 🤣

Now I feel like I need to withdraw my concession 🤣

While not a great reader of the bible myself, I'm imagining his usual mispronunciations and word replacements might be interesting

I will concede that respect is the wrong word

I am in awe of the audacity of posting such a precise prediction...

with the disclaimer that this is NOT an endorsement of the method used to come up with it

But I, for one, can't help but respect the audacity

Additionally, many (most?) of the people doing terrible things with Epstein are probably still doing them with a different conduit, yielding institutional resistance. Our best recourse, in my lay opinion, is unbearable and persistent pressure and replacing corruption with service-oriented leaders

I now aspire to someday have such a pathos-and-ethos-ridden photo taken of a situation I'm trapped in

The list of people who surreptitiously consorted with Epstein likely includes many more leaders in society than is generally talked about, IMHO. I believe this is why files are being hidden: not to protect one man but to protect a large number of 'important' people. I still pine for accountability

Similarly, cool to see Jose Soriano absolutely killing it in historic ways. But Halos fans be warned: it can't last forever

One of the things I love about baseball is everything can be going fantastic (see my Padres) and you can still be pessimistic: "Well, they can't keep winning like this the whole season."

Also one of the things I hate about baseball.

If you quit your religion after a couple of days of the leader of your religion saying things consistent with the philosophy of your religion I am going to assume your commitment to your religion was less than steadfast all along

On repeat baseball encapsulated

How do you challenge whether a stolen home run is a catch or not? What the heck is Suzuki thinking?

This is becoming a habit for Merrill

Skeet of the week nominee

This analogy is unfair to crows, who are smarter than your standard Congress-empowered idiot