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@Stush9000 @notgaetti Yes gambling is for suckers Still, enjoy not wearing you seatbelt

@notgaetti Gambling is for suckers, but it's their right to spend their own money as they see fit. The government has no role on protecting adults from themselves.

It’s about time someone actually did something to combat the scourge of sports betting. (I feel like nothing will happen, but you never know.)

@notgaetti Prediction markets are legalized organized crime Old school mob bookies had more integrity Name should be Riggedmarkets Only real attractant is the sinister democratization that anyone can create a bet to manipulate

Skip Schumaker told Rule 5 pick Carter Baumler that he made the Rangers Opening Day roster during a mound visit 🥹

@OleTimeHardball He would still do it all without traveling like today's show poodles

Larry Bird would dominate today’s NBA

@DanClarkSports @BillShaikin Those are Disneyland prices At least there staying all day is an option How convenient that gimmick rule changes from MLB shorten games and reduce their value

A family of four attending a game at Dodger Stadium costs $413 and consists of: • cheapest tickets available • parking • one hot dog each • one beer per adult • one soda per child It is, by far, the most expensive ballpark experience in MLB. - via @BillShaikin.

Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1987)

@aakashgupta Congress murdered those pilots

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

Marvin Gaye’s voice isolated from music «I heard It through the grapevine», 1967.

@notgaetti Bloop doubles misplayed by the right fielder never will be a flex

We are doomed as a society

Journey - Only the Young (1985) 🎬 Vision Quest

Vatniks having a bad day 2

@AesPolitics1 Would make fantastic target practice

Bruh you bought a guitar signed by a sex offender?💀

@notgaetti There's no PED yet coconcted that can cure lazy

A lot of people just assume that steroids do all the work for you and turn you into a great hitter. Here’s one of the most compelling arguments to the contrary: • literal twins with the same DNA • same era, same opponents • surely both took steroids Why was only one great??

@BellaBaddie__ Except two months from when I want to watch it now it will be on Tubi but with the same three commercials reamed into it every fifteen minutes

Unfortunately the movie you want to watch is unavailable on your 13 streaming services You can rent it for $2.99 though

@PoliceThePolic1 Not for a second

SAPD Chief William McManus claims a man fatally shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a San Antonio police vehicle following a pursuit. Do you believe him? 👇

@NotAvgLiberal @Cubfan13241 Go get em Butter Biscuit

For Fucks Sake. Trump’s MAGA “Patriots” ready to goto war with Iran. The only thing at war here… His belt against his waist line.

monday comin'

@thetrueshelby @NotHoodlum Quite a strong take from deformed gimp

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “Things that we could have never gotten away with saying or responding with, are like the regular from the second term, and frankly I’m glad.” It’s racism and bigotry, y’all. The NepoGov just said the quiet part out loud.

@Will__Stern Doesn't need a license, unless the photo is from a wire service back when those existed in the 1900s

Listen. This card is awful. The hitter doesn't look like Ohtani. Unlicensed. Sticker auto. The auto doesn't look like Ohtani's. Absolutely terrible. With all of the amazing cards available worldwide, why would anyone choose this?

@BenMBurrows There might be a dead cat bounce by the time that he starts platooning for Pittsburgh with a WAR of -0.6

Jasson Dominguez might be the single best example of the perils of baseball prospecting in the hobby. His 2020 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autographs Superfractor 1/1 sold for $474,000 back in 2022. Yankees optioned Dominguez to Triple-A on Friday.