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@susanslusser they need him to steal a few bases, not every time he reaches, but some...

Jung Hoo Lee is starting baseball activity today and tomorrow.

Memorial Day 2026 vs last year: ⛽ Gas: +28% ✈️ Flights: +20.7% 🐄 Beef: +16% 🍅 Tomatoes: +40% ☕ Coffee: +18% 🌭 Hot dogs: +11% 🏨 Hotels: +4.3%

Fidelity tracks more than 53 million retirement accounts every quarter. The average balances: IRA: $137,095 401(k): $146,400 403(b): $133,500 How does the average person plan to retire?

@BaseballJeff1 maybe you should total pitches seen during their abs

Top #SFGiants performers in today's 8-5 win over the White Sox Casey Schmitt: 2-4, 2B, HR, 3 RBI, BB Rafael Devers: 2-4, 2B, HR, 5 RBI Matt Chapman: 2-4 Keaton Winn: 2 IP, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO, W Erik Miller: 1 IP, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO Caleb Kilain: 1 IP, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, SV

@ENERGY @SecretaryWright push for a national high speed rail system, start with several regional ones w/ plans to connect them this would reduce the volume of fossil fuels for cars and planes and we could improve our grid along the way.

ICYMI: It is absolutely essential that we DRILL, BABY, DRILL! @SecretaryWright: "People just don't understand that the world runs on hydrocarbons…In fact in the United States we're at a record high, 74% of U.S. energy comes from oil and natural gas."

@ShaynaRubin sidebar, when was the last time the giants got 7 walks in a game? they need to get more walks, and use up more of the other teams pitches

@Playteaux1 family style breakfast. hand out the plates and cut me a portion...

Omg 🤤

This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.

🚨 The Trump DOJ has now moved to dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and several other Oath Keepers who participated in the January 6th insurrection — with prejudice — meaning the charges cannot be brought again.

@PaulTenorio @tombogert no luna?? 🤦‍♂️

BREAKING: Gio Reyna is going to the World Cup. He is on Pochettino's 26-man roster, per sources. Seb Berhalter, Brenden Aaronson, Matt Turner and Mark McKenzie also on squad. Diego Luna and Zavier Gozo are not on the team, sources said. With @tombogert. nytimes.com/athletic/73010…

“It’s costing us about $1,500 of cash per day to run 2 tractors.” Ohio farmer says skyrocketing input costs are hammering American farmers. “I spent many years buying potash for $90 a ton, and now it’s $670 to $700 a ton.” “Our big problem is the input costs.” “I haven’t seen anything this bad since the 1980s.”

The total value of Trump’s transactions in the first three months of this year—$750 million—is higher than the value of all trades by all 535 members of the House and Senate *combined* in an average year. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

@hankschulman who can they trade for a solid reliever? a reliever that will make 40-50 apps 40-60 ip this yr? who can get them 2-3 qs a month for the rest of the yr? mahle is not doing this right now. --- and hitters, just not hitting on all cylinders - all out of sequence

They're not going to sit Devers or Schmidt now, and (my speculation) they a) want Chapman to play his way out of his slump and b) honestly, that's a lot of money to be in a platoon. My prediction. Now that Schmidt has shown some competence in LF, he'll get more time there, ....

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump. There is no close second in our history. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

@CodifyBaseball so from between 1/3 to 1/4 starts to 1 every 250 starts both approximations

How Often MLB Starters Threw A Complete Game (9-Inning Games Only): 1974: 29.5% 1975: 29.0% 1976: 28.3% 1977: 23.2% 1978: 26.3% 1979: 23.1% 1980: 21.7% 1981: 20.0% 1982: 18.8% 1983: 18.9% 1984: 16.1% 1985: 16.3% 1986: 14.9% 1987: 14.5% 1988: 15.9% 1989: 12.4% 1990: 10.9% 1991: 9.6% 1992: 10.9% 1993: 8.7% 1994: 8.5% 1995: 7.2% 1996: 7.0% 1997: 6.3% 1998: 6.7% 1999: 5.2% 2000: 5.2% 2001: 4.4% 2002: 4.7% 2003: 4.5% 2004: 3.4% 2005: 4.1% 2006: 3.1% 2007: 2.4% 2008: 3.0% 2009: 3.2% 2010: 3.6% 2011: 3.8% 2012: 2.8% 2013: 2.7% 2014: 2.6% 2015: 2.3% 2016: 1.8% 2017: 1.3% 2018: 0.9% 2019: 0.9% 2020: 1.0% 2021: 0.8% 2022: 0.7% 2023: 0.7% 2024: 0.6% 2025: 0.6% 2026: 0.4%

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

WILD. Hotels across multiple 2026 FIFA World Cup host cities are reportedly seeing major room cancellations from FIFA itself. According to the AHLA, up to 70% of FIFA-reserved hotel rooms in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been released back into the market. The hotel industry says FIFA’s early block bookings created “artificial demand” that inflated prices and distorted expectations ahead of the tournament. Now, with just weeks until kickoff, some hotels fear the expected World Cup tourism boom may fall short.

@CNBC Who told him this bit of wisdom? Or did he come up with it on his own?

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

@AdamKinzinger How do clawbacks work on doj payouts?

Huh. Interesting