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58 years ago today, my grandfather died as a political prisoner in a communist jail. Wish I could have met him.

@JimA6to4to3 @DallasCroob Mike Trout says otherwise

@DallasCroob Nobody cares what you or others think or claim, simply because you look at #’s & say they’re accurate. Those who’ve actually seen it, know the timing in their mind & their eyes. It never leaves. It’s the training of a highly specialized athlete. Dismissing that is Ignorant!

List of the "Velocity is fake" culprits on this app & their career numbers(in a time with lower velocity btw): Jeff Frye - 91 OPS+ Matt Stark - 16 OPS+ Jason Michaels - 95 OPS+ Jim Anderson - 61 OPS+ Seth McClung - 80 ERA+ Doug Mientkiewicz - 100 OPS+ Gregg Zaun - 91 OPS+

@_Almaqah @guypbenson Guy was describing himself

@guypbenson @scastro87 "let's wait and see" to "embarrassing abusive misadventure" after they retreat x.com/guypbenson/sta…

On the Powell investigation: washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/441478…

@HistoryBoomer I moved into StuyTown in 2014 (out last year) and for years I wouldn't even lock my door if I was only gonna be gone for a short time (walking dog etc). Only started when my now wife and I moved in together in 2021.

How dangerous is NYC? In 2006 (when crime was higher), our kid made friends with a kid who also lived in Stuytown (a super safe area). I was surprised they always locked 3 padlocks at their apartment. They were shocked we used zero padlocks, just a latch lock. Same neighborhood, but very different perceptions of crime and what was needed to be safe. Is NYC safe today? Your answer depends on who you are and how you see the world. (Yes it is!)

Ended up being incredibly fun for my first game of the season after a near disaster. Also, the the 2nd walk off I've seen Jordan Romano give up against the Yankees. And fun to see both Judge and Trout hit 2 HRs each.

Logging onto twitter after being away for Lent and getting my news from the WSJ and the Economist is like stepping into a portal to a different dimension. This is a horrible place and I think I'll stick to my sports/baseball account as much as possible

@TheWARmonger_ This is my exact experience from playing OF (and still do in a men's league). CF is definitely easier outside of the physical demands of having more ground to cover

An excellent defensive MLB CF telling us corner outfield spots are more difficult to play than center, especially for newer outfielders. Based on his experience. Why are corners tough? Tougher according to many? -trickier reads, often with less time to make them -more side and top spin on batted balls -more interactions with the wall, side boundaries, and communication with infielders So why the positional scarcity for CF? SPEED. Few have enough speed to properly cover all the real estate.

@warthogboy09 @KasperStats This is for the catchers' benefit not the runners'

@scastro87 @KasperStats Maybe if they practiced sliding over and over again we would see less non-contact injuries from... "Professionals" sliding?

yes, this is commonly referred to as a "drill." if you look carefully you'll notice that there's also not an opposing team on the field or a pitcher on the mound

@xwanyex Maybe it's easy to say for you if all your family and friends live already maintained a level of material wealth that this isn't important, but there are other groups of people and families who have seen their material wealth improve and that matters a lot

I just completely reject that we are wealthier than we were 20 or 30 years ago in any way that matters. Whatever data seems to show that we are is very clearly not measuring what you want to measure. I don’t think burrito taxis matter. I think the phones have made us miserable. I don’t think the advancements in communication are important. I don’t care that the cars have more features. I don’t think any of this stuff matters like even a little bit. And I certainly wouldn’t trade my country for more of it. I think we long ago reached a level of comfort that’s sufficient. We aren’t hungry. We aren’t cold. We aren’t worked to death in fields. I wouldn’t trade my family for more stuff. I wouldn’t trade my country for more stuff. The people who see all this so-called material wealth and think that the opportunity costs are just too large to have children or that we need to give away the country to foreigners to keep the train rolling are in my view demented, deranged, lost. And their addiction to antidepressants and other mood-altering pills seems to confirm it.

@EPoe187 You can assert that the white matriculation rate would go up if black and Hispanic rates are still artificially high and that if they went went down but those are just assertions. It's also possible Asian rates are still too low

"White culture" may not exist, but anti-white culture certainly does.

@AliceFromQueens @conor64 @bumbadum14 They also often bring up the Henry Louis Gates issue when the worst thing he said was that the cop acted stupidly (which was true) and that wasntreated as such a faux pas that he had to invite the cop to have a beer. Different times

@conor64 @bumbadum14 It's all they have on him

A black kid was killed while beating a man to death and Obama’s response to this was “my son could’ve been Treyvon Martin”

@lost_nomad__ This is why Matt Walsh has the aesthetics of a 2012 hipster as @dieworkwear has said many times

Yesterday’s Coastal trends are today’s Heartland trends. It works on a delay, takes time to trickle inland Appalachia is kind of just now entering the late 2000s or so. Which can actually be cool - you can basically go back in time if you visit the right place

Social stereotypes haven’t quite caught up yet to the new reality You are far more likely to see blue hair dye now in a trailer park than a college campus

@TheWaltonWisdom @Timodc Yes equal time rules are stupid.

@Timodc So equal time rules are corrupt? Equality is corrupt? Aren’t you guys always preaching equality?

This rule would basically mean no presidential primary candidates in 2027 on network tv bc none of the shows are going to talk to all the loser alsorans. Can’t tell whether this decision is stupid or corrupt at this point, probably both,

@BasedLeopard @RichardHanania Why wouldn't they be able to give an opponent equal air time

@RichardHanania That’s not because of the Trump administration. It’s because they wouldn’t be able to give his opponent equal air time. You try so hard to have unique opinions / not fit in a political camp that you end up butchering 95% of what you comment on.

Colbert: “He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast." Of all the people you should have contempt for, people who pretend to care about free speech and still support Trump are near the top of the list. nytimes.com/2026/02/17/art…

@EPoe187 There are good historical reasons for the different reactions. most importantly, because there was a system of slavery and then codified discrimination in the US that was based on these identities

Compare elite reaction to these two sentences: "Black identity is empowering." "White identity is empowering."

@RyanRadia @bdquinn Was able it to get it to do it, though the labeling is a mess, at least the map seems to be real map and the names are actual names in the right spots. (Maybe more interesting is that it suggested the best way to get a good output itself)

@RyanRadia @bdquinn Tried this with chatgpt 5.2 and while the text list was pretty solid, the first attempt at the map was not so great

I tried someone's suggestion of emphasizing that it should use current state boundaries. Didn't help.

@shadyacres80 @NekoOjiSama @MattWalshBlog An Irish Catholic in NYC and megachurch evangelical in Arkansas share the same culture?

@NekoOjiSama @MattWalshBlog He means straight Christian Americans

If there is no white culture then there is no black culture, and for the exact same reasons. But nobody says that there is no black culture, which means nobody really believes that there is no white culture.

@TheYankeesBeard Judge would be a terrible GM based on what we know about who he's pushed the Yankees to sign

Self proclaimed “rational” Yankees fans. Are you going to cook your captain as much as you cook obviously idiotic Yankees fans? Or is that only saved for making your point easier?

@AndrewCFollett @RichardHanania Has the power of the federal government gone down in the last year.with fewer employees? No, it has not, not in the slightest.

@RichardHanania No single metric is perfect, but "More employees" definitionally equals "more government capacity." And its likely compounding in a democratic system, as public choice theory would state its in the nature of bureaucracies to expand to meet needs of expanding bureaucracy.

By the objective metrics... The Trump administration Richard loves denouncing did a better job of achieving libertarian goals than anyone else in recent history.