Pete Brown

@PaulCubbage23 @Wadlez2 He's an aluminum bat hitter. Many of his hits came on pulled hard grounders and HRs to straightaway or opposite field. In the majors, those LSU hits are likely outs. He needs to learn to pull the ball in the air to have success in the bigs.

@Wadlez2 Just so hard to understand how a guy can go from a 182 wRC+ in the SEC in his draft year to a 128 wRC+ at Double A (sometimes comped to being SEC pitching level, tho I think it’s above that) and 106 wRC+ in Triple A one year later.

Dylan Crews being a bust (which I’m by no means suggesting is what I think will happen) would absolutely blow my mind. How can a player as good as he was in college just never reach anything near those levels again, not even really in the minor leagues either.

@davis_the_wavis @kausmickey Stop .. Obama removed people at the border and called it a "deportation" ...Trump is left with interior enforcement since the border is more or less closed

@kausmickey Obama deported people at the same rate as trump without this. If your prefer what’s going on not, it has nothing to do with immigration, you just like that there’s more cruelty and death.

The local protestors do not want the illegals deported, period. Even if the ICE force was incredibly well trained, wore white gloves and followed Waldorf-Astoria rules of etiquette, if they are effective local dissenters will press forward with resistance until it produces confrontations and some violence. (That's the way it worked in the antiwar movement I was part of and in practically every protest movement that's not non-violent in a very disciplined way, including January 6, no?)

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I was not in Congress when all this Obamacare, “Affordable Care Act” bullshit started. I got here in 2021. As a matter of fact, the ACA made health insurance UNAFFORDABLE for my family after it was passed, with skyrocketing premiums higher than our house payment. Let’s just say as nicely as possible, I’m not a fan. But I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district. No I’m not towing the party line on this, or playing loyalty games. I’m a Republican and won’t vote for illegals to have any tax payer funded healthcare or benefits. I’m AMERICA ONLY!!! I’m carving my own lane. And I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year. Also, I think health insurance and all insurance is a scam, just be clear! Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!! Our country sent $30 billion to Israel in 2024 alone killing countless innocent children and sent HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to Ukraine in the past few years. By the way, I voted NO to all of that murder! America has funded the Ukrainian government, Ukrainian, pensions, and Ukrainian businesses during this entire stupid war that America should have nothing to do with. All our country does is fund foreign countries and foreign wars, and never does anything to help the American people!!! It is absolutely shameful, disgusting, and traitorous, that our laws and policies screw the American people so much that the government is shut down right now fighting over basic issues like this. Again, NO FUNDING FOR ILLEGALS AND ANY BENEFITS FOR THEM, BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ABSOLUTELY INSANE COST OF INSURANCE FOR AMERICANS. You don’t HATE your government enough. I’m here in Washington DC this week to meet with anyone who is AMERICA ONLY and will work with me on a plan for AMERICANS ONLY!!!

@DaveJageler @NatsRadio @JoshWhetzel @CharlieSlowes Is Charlie coming back?

Today @NatsRadio is selecting the contract of @JoshWhetzel from AAA Rochester to fill in on the homestand for @CharlieSlowes. Join us tonight at 6:15 for Nats On Deck. We will have a convo with James wood to recap his all star game/home run derby experience.

Where to start? The leaflet referred to here—“A Last Appeal to Reason,” by Adolf Hitler—was dropped en masse on August 1, 1940. By that date: 1) Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force ahead of an invasion of Britain was already in its fourth week (on July 10, 1940, 21 days before the leaflets, 120 Luftwaffe bombers hit British ships in the channel, and 70 Luftwaffe bombers struck dockyards in Wales—from that date on, raids were staged by the Luftwaffe every day and night); 2) Hitler had already issued Directive No. 16 (July 16), which formalized plans for the imminent invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion); and 3) Nazi Germany had already conquered France, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and had begun (in July 1940) to make plans to invade the Soviet Union—with which it had signed a non-aggression pact!—and to murder tens of millions of its supposedly subhuman people (see: Himmler’s memo of 25 May 1940). Cooper’s causation is false, too. Five weeks after the leaflet was dropped, Nazi Germany started bombing London and other British cities in a campaign known as the “Blitz.” But this did not happen because, to his great regret, Hitler’s friendly little leaflet campaign had failed; it happened because, by that point, Hitler had realized that Nazi Germany was losing the Battle of Britain, that the air superiority he needed prior to an invasion was going to elude him, and that a new tactic was necessary. In a sense, the Blitz was an updated leaflet campaign: the purpose was to turn the British against the war and leave Nazi Germany with a free hand to do more of what it had done since 1937. As for the idea that Churchill magically had all the leaflets collected? The Nazis dropped five million of them, in literally every part of the country. So, while efforts were indeed made in cities to clean up, and the British government, indeed, didn’t like it, hiding them all wasn’t remotely feasible—or even attempted in earnest. Even in the 1990s, when I was a kid, there were so many of them in circulation that you’d see them at garage sales and antique shops, and old people would go get them from their attics to show them off. To cast Hitler as Cooper does here—and, by extension, Churchill—you have to ignore that, when this leaflet was dropped, Nazi Germany had taken over pretty much all of Western Europe, and was in the process of attempting to destroy Britain’s air defenses so that, in Hitler’s own words of July 16, Germany could “eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely.” If you are able to read those words and buy their implication that Germany was merely acting defensively, then you’re a total bloody moron. x.com/martyrmade/sta…

@ChuckTaylor1973 @Nationals Brzycky actually looks like he can be decent. The others are ass. Loutos was DFA'd earlier by the Dodgers. Rizzo claimed him off waivers. Another dumpster dive.

@Development_PL @Nationals You're right. I think all of them are trash. Truly. Not a single reliever on the team inspires any confidence.

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@ScottChoppin Are you still building your 5 BR section 8 specials?

Multi-Bedroom Build-To-Rent Is Growing Scott Choppin Note: This trend of increasing bedroom count and square footage in the build-to-rent (BTR) marketplace is being driven by two main trends: First, the increase in the US population that traditionally and historically lives in multigenerational households. So families from Mexico, Central and South America, and from Asian countries, that traditionally live in a multigenerational household environment, increases the demand for multi-bedroom (and multi-generational) housing. Second, economic pressure on all households driven by constrained housing supply (increased rents/house prices) and general inflation (see second graphic). A natural defense mechanism is to combine incomes and expenses across a larger group, i.e. families and roommates. We call this “economic sharing” where the burden to all households costs are spread amongst a multi-generational family. There are other versions of economic sharing in housing: roommates, co-living, congregate care senior housing, all demonstrate this sharing methodology. Bottom line: The graphic you see below demonstrates the development industries response to these lesser known yet powerful trends (Green markup is mine). The dual economic pressures of housing supply constraint and inflation are not going away anytime soon. Add to this, the potential declines in employment opportunities driven by AI. Multi-bedroom BTR is the future of rental housing. ”After steadily rising for decades, the median square footage of new single-family homes peaked around 2015 and has gradually declined since. Ironically, while for-sale single-family homes have been getting smaller, single-family homes built for rent have been getting larger.”

@ChuckTaylor1973 @Nationals Nah...Loutos and Salazar are way, way worse

@Nationals The data is there for Brzykcy. He cannot be on an MLB roster. This is another game Davey has thrown into the trash.

@TalkNats It's tough because either they draft someone who's no good at all like Elijah Greene or someone who maybe possibly could be good but whose goodness is realized by another team bc Nats can't develop him. Which is another way of saying I think it's time to move on from Rizzo.

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Not sure why the import adjustment tax idea not been brought back..

@grok @CodifyBaseball Pauley was with Padres then however

The hitter in the video is Graham Pauley, a Miami Marlins third baseman. The play involved a pitch hitting Pauley in the face after he swung, resulting in a strikeout per MLB rules, which state a swing nullifies a hit-by-pitch. The "brutal" label reflects the play's painful and rare nature, though its historical significance is subjective.

maybe the most brutal strikeout in baseball history

@gomni1807 @ShannonJean Probably a 3/4 bath to .75 rounded up to .8 because of some govt listing convention, if I had to guess. And a 3/4 bath is a thing. I'm sitting on the can in one now.

@ShannonJean What's a .8 bath? 8.8 is just bizarre

I keep reading about how expensive houses are. Not where I shop.

@ShannonJean You do need to check for tax liens and mortgages you know?

@melissasavenko @soccerbil The point of post is if capitalism loses credibility w/enough people they'l turn to something else, despite parents' assessment of whether that thing "works" or not. We have an economy that works really well for people who own lots of assets. Much less well for everyone else..

@soccerbil Socialism just doesn't work. I think that's the bigger issue.

How a socialist becomes the next Mayor of NYC.

@DominicJPino @NRO When does our tax system tax people on income they don't have the use of (or not income at all)? This argument by Pino is more anti-government libertarian bullshit

The argument for the SALT deduction boils down to saying, “Because I pay more for state and local government services, I deserve to pay less for federal government services.” You don’t. New from me @NRO nationalreview.com/2025/06/why-re…

@YahooSports @Nationals @grok I'm watching the nats game and I don't see Bruce the Bat dog retrieving bats.. what's up?

Bruce the Bat Dog has arrived for his MLB debut 🐾 The Nationals' top pawspect joins the lineup after breaking records in Triple-A ⚾ (via @Nationals)

@Mark_E_Noonan @DominicJPino @NRO We didn't. But Dominic thinks you don't know that

@DominicJPino @NRO When did we have spending reforms?

Conservatives have used the debt limit as leverage for spending reforms for 40 years. Elizabeth Warren knows that, which is why she wants to get rid of it. Republicans would be foolish to listen to Trump and do it for her. New from me @NRO nationalreview.com/corner/trump-a…

@DominicJPino @NRO This is dumb..nothing of consequence has ever been achieved by debt brinkmanship... Warren is right ( I can't believe I'm saying it)