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Red Sox now tied with the Dodgers for the fewest runs allowed in MLB.

Nice to see the Weissert from the WBC showing up in a big spot.

I did not have Monasterio having the second-best OPS on the team at the end of July on my bingo card.

He's been a real weapon as a pinch hitter, which is a tough role. Pretty sure he hates the role, but he's good at it.

If Fauci had come back with "I'm a guy who would never ignore his son-in-law beating the shit out of his own daughter," I'd have asked for his hand in marriage.

im really learning a lot about medieval jewish magic and wow i did not realize shaman-rabbis were a pretty regular thing in jewish communities. they basically dealt with demons (my house feels creepy, im barren/impotent, my husband won't stop drinking - demons are your culprits)

It was the first Johnny Clegg & Savuka song I heard, in the early 1990s. A friend played it at a gaming session, back when "world music" was still seen as kind of exotic. I love that my teenage daughter enjoys it just as much today as I did then, but I hate that it's still just as relevant.

That seems like astonishingly few runners in scoring position for 10 starts.

apparently the New York Times' photo editor has had to endure one too many elevator rides with Ross Douthat

Nowadays, the Republicans locally who are being pushed out for not being Trumpy enough are actually the teabaggers who pushed out the last of the actual principled Republicans a generation ago.

It was for some of them. It's easy to overstate how much they cared about it and how much was hype, and it was never anywhere close to a majority of Republicans, but there were enough who took it seriously that a group of Republican Senators told Nixon he had to resign.

it's very strongly targeted at college-age men, often with state support

The University of Colorado at Boulder gets IIRC $80 from one of the big sportsbook outfits for each student who downloads their university-branded sports betting app.

SF is eagerly awaiting news of whether or not they can trade us Arraez.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

That gets more into "New York Girls," where, after a lot of verses, the sailor in question wakes up with all his money and possessions gone. But a very catchy tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqS...

Chad Gadya is a personal favorite, but if you want to get the whole plane involved, I'd go with something like "What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?" which also has an infinite number of verses.

The first couple books of Paradise Lost would be amazing, until the fundies discover that Satan has all the best lines...

I think one reason that prisons, and by extension the entire criminal justice system, are able to be as barbaric as they are is that prisons and prisoners are for the large part invisible. That's why I think PJP is so important for those inside as well as for humanity at large

Not sure you can entirely blame the pitching when they're being asked to throw to MLB hitters in a PCL park.