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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump signs executive order designed to SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS from a financial arms race - Athletes can only transfer schools one time before they graduate without having to sit out a season - Athletes can only play up to 5 seasons in a 5 year window - Aug. 1 effective date - Federal funding can be STRIPPED from schools who do not comply Trump just followed through, this is what he promised!

Great article: My addendum would be, that we stop allowing a global market price on #oil. Let every nation price oil competitively. We all know between the US and #Venezuela we could control the price and the market. Let Asia fight it out with the Middle East. Let Saudia Arabia fight it out with Iran. thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/europe…

"Good? Friday - I don't know, God paying the ultimate price as a sacrifice for each and everyone of us, including me, and defeating death, so that we can have eternal life. Seems pretty good to me. Even in this world, nothing "good" can be achieved without personal sacrifice. #GoodFriday

This is so frickin' obvious. Anti-gun nuts who promote "No gun zones" to the peril of our servicemen and school kids, are blind to reality. Its a TDS like problem.

#Artemis It took 11 Apollo missions to safely land on the moon. Today we'll do it in 4. We all expect instant results. We are an "I want it now society." There's not only reasons of testing, safety, and practical experience in the process; there's also the waiting. Waiting is valuable in both our earthly endeavors, and our spiritual ones. Why didn't Jesus rise from the dead the next day? I don't think it was because of the Sabbath. It's in the waiting that our hope matures. And endows and strengthens our patience and persistence in what needs to be done to reach the goal.

@SteveDeaceShow Not understanding the basis of tradition and not knowing the source and purpose of that tradition, is a dereliction of his God given purpose.

The sifting continues.

Clean it up and round them up. Make it even more public! #Fraud #JDVance thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/just-t…

THE OLD RUGGED CROSS AS SUNG AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY “So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it someday for a crown.”

Yes and no. Whose drawing that line? So much crap as altered the game unnecessarily already; and no one could stop them. You will have to get rid of umpires, because they are already becoming tentative in their calls. Replacing humans with technology has become too acceptable. In most cases it doesn't make anything better, just cold and impersonal. Example, robo taxis.

@joeepopp @mark_shapley @benzornes I mean demanding that the sports get officiated properly and throwing out the human element entirely are insanely different things

I want to go on record to say that I hate this vehemently. This orients the sport to the tediously precise algorithm, instead of the judgement and skill of the humans playing it, umping it, and watching it.

A lot of people missed this earlier today, but Justice Jumanji heavily implied during oral arguments that if you sneak into her office and steal her robe, that makes you a Supreme Court Justice.

@AuronMacintyre Another reason for a Constitutional Convention.

We aren't going to escape the cycle of regimes and the only question is how long it takes enough important people to figure that out and how bad things are going to get before that happens

Taking the human element out of the game and handing it over to emotionless algorithms. Sure, that's not a slippery slope. Sure, nothing can go wrong, right Hal? Thinking there can be "perfection" in human sports, played by and officiated by humans. But if we take one human element away we now have perfection? Have you had a discussion with AI?

Honest question how close are we to robot/AI umpires? If we have self driving cars couldn’t we have umpires that are essentially 100% accurate? Look at this missed call. Every pitch now could be AI. Feels inevitable:

@GuntherEagleman And what about foreign diplomats? Like today's UN?

JUST IN: Justice Thomas asks the key question: how much did immigration feature in the 14th Amendment debates? Sauer answered directly: The main goal was citizenship for freed slaves. The framers also took it as a given that children of tribal Indians were not covered by birthright citizenship. Multiple mentions of temporary sojourners in the debates cut against automatic citizenship for those without full jurisdiction. Even Wong Kim Ark involved lawfully domiciled Chinese immigrants with permanent residence, not illegal entrants. The opinion mentions domicile three times in stating the legal principle. The original meaning was never universal citizenship by geography alone.

@ScottWRasmussen Cannot govern or fight wars based on polls.

Support for the war in Iran has dropped five points in a week... including a nine point drop among Republicans

@clowofficial @mark_shapley @benzornes Mob rule.

@joeepopp @mark_shapley @benzornes Supply/demand

@srpierce14 @benzornes Okay. I'm absurd. Thank you for playing.

@joeepopp @benzornes This is an absurd line of reasoning. Basically you’re fearful that if we replace umpires with technology, some day we will replace the players as well?

@actuarymarc @benzornes Whatever.

@joeepopp @benzornes ABS captures the strike zone consistently - exactly as it’s defined. It’ll make for better hitters and improve the game.

Those first examples where more as the game was developing. I don't mind changes, although I think nixing every change from the last decade would be fine. The pitch clock, limiting the shift, not making a pitcher throw an intentional walk, the ghost runner, etc. ignnored the true traditional uniqueness of the game. Baseball is the only game where the defense controls the ball. So many of these changes takes that fundamental uniqueness away. There is a reason for the game the way it was, a symmetry, a "you have to earn it" mentality, all being lost to so called fan's short attention span. Why does the baseball have to be pristine on every pitch? What a waste. Did you know you used to be able to steal first base? I'd love that. Wild Pitch/Pass Ball, runner leaves the batter's box, he can be tagged out or steal first. I like the new rule where the batter not being able to leave the box, except for one time out. With that, I don't think you needed the pitch clock. Now the pitch clock is controlling the pitcher. That, to me , is fundamentally against the uniqueness of baseball. Yes, a pitcher can waste time. But he's in control of the ball. The whole point is to fool or overwhelm the batter. A pitcher can't even quick pitch anymore. I could go on. Point being there are ways to change things without destroying its fundamentals, humanity and immediacy.

I get where you’re coming from but I don’t miss 4 hour games. I guess I just don’t love the game as much as you. As for asterisks next to stats and records, that’s a fair point too but the alternative is to never change anything and I don’t like that either. Do you want to go back to a 154 game season? Do you want to get rid of the pitcher’s mound and rubber, and go back to the pitcher’s box 45 feet away from home plate? I’d be willing to bet there people at the time those changes were made who cried about ruining the game. Nevertheless, the changes were made and simply became the game over time. Again, I understand being a “purist”. I have some of those tendencies myself, especially when it comes to interleague play and the postseason format.

No self awareness or comprehension skills, I guess. "Do you even watch sports." What would you call that? "You have a fundamental misunderstanding of why people watch sports." Give me a break. I see more than the supposed "right and wrong." Some can't see beyond their tunnel visioned black and white. I didn't say official's mistakes are a reason to watch. That is not a discussion on the merits. Its provocation. Go bother someone else.

@joeepopp @mark_shapley @benzornes I didn't say anything disrespectful. I wasn't being condescending. I asked you a question based on your comments. If you are a sports fan, you're the first one I've ever come across who considers mistakes by officials as a reason to watch.

Of course not. But shit happens. No one died. Can you remember, without looking it up, who threw no hitters in 2009? 2011? Last year? But you remember this one. Does the result make his performance any less? I think all the stolen bases the last couple of years should have an astrisk next to them, since the pitcher can only try to keep him close 2 times and the bases, because they are bigger, are closer together. None of these changes are good for baseball, a sport based on tradition. they are only appeasing the casual fan who doesn't love the timelessness and traditions of the game. Who doesn't care about choices players make in the moment and how they are made by the actions and results prior. They have the attention span of a gnat. Personally, I don't care about them. I love the game.

@joeepopp @benzornes I’m with you on the ghost runner and having to throw the ball on intentional walks. But not the rest. Do you think it’s a good thing that Armando Galarraga was robbed of a perfect game and baseball immortality in 2010 because of the bad call at first base?