This time of year I always feel like my legs are moving but I’m not getting anywhere. Spring Training will be here before we know it, though, and the scenery will finally start to change again.
Meanwhile, the A’s are obviously content to run in place with a good-but-flawed roster, hoping that the arrival of the young starters is enough to make up for a failure to even try to improve from outside with anything above Tony Kemp level. Such is life on the cheap. At least they aren’t actively tearing down, yet…
Between my declining interest in the Raiders and the poor performance from the Tar Heels and Sharks this has been just a terrible sports time. Spring training can’t come soon enough.
The Quakes suck.
The A’s are going back to being cheap asses not trying to win.
Niners lost the Owl.
Dubs have everybody injured.
I just want ONE of my sports teams to be good. It’s bullshit.
Thanks, and go As.
I mean…the Niners made the Super Bowl. The A’s will improve from a 97 win team. The Dubs still have a top 5 player and two top 30 players. Of those 3 teams, I think today is probably the collective best those three have been in my recollection.
The only time they might have been higher is late 80s with bash bros, run TMC, and Montana-Rice, but that was before I was a sports fan (or even in existence!).
And as for the Sharks and Quakes…at least they exist?
I worry about what 5aces said. Krush and Piscotty are gonna magically be better, Montas isn’t a flash in the pan, I mean… are we really going to pretend Grossman is the answer at LF, and Tony Kemp is gonna be a 2B on a playoff caliber team
Thanks, and go As.
Not the Tar Heels’ year.
That was such a screw job, Ted Valentine is the Angel Hernandez of NCAA officials.
I worry that the FO has this idea that no one is going to regress, and that everyone that had a bad 2019 (Krush, Piscotty) is going to go back to 2018.
That does seem to be the plan, along with Montas putting up a whole season like the couple of months he had, Manaea staying healthy, Diekman not sucking…
What if, and bear with me here, they’re not allowed to spend money.
Thanks, and go As.
The Angels are getting Joc Pederson and a decent pitcher and a prospect for Luis Rengifo??
Thanks, Mitt. Sincerely.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall…
Seriously. The most depressing part of this has been the failure of even one Republican elected to put principal ahead of self-interest. While one obviously isn’t enough, Mitt at least showed that it’s a theoretically possible choice someone can make.
We shouldn’t forget Justin Amash. He’s not a Republican anymore, but that’s only because he quit the party over its covering up for Trump.
In the debate about whether to impeach last year, one of the arguments was that the inevitable acquittal in the Senate would be a boost for Trump and the Republicans.
I was a little worried about the opposite effect: Susan Collins (e.g.) would have the opportunity for a consequence-free way to boost her (largely fraudulent) credibility as a principled non-partisan. This doesn’t really apply to Mitt, since his seat is safe anyway, so it seems my fear was unfounded.
I was also afraid he’d get a couple of Democratic senators to vote for acquittal. Glad that didn’t happen either.
I suppose another argument against impeachment (and the inevitable acquittal) is that it was something that realistically could only happen once, and now that it has been used the law-breaking has just become more brazen.
For me that wasn’t an argument against impeachment exactly, but an argument for dragging it out as long and as painfully as possible before voting on articles.
JFC, if he doesn’t stop it after this article, there is no way to insulate him from it
i say fucking you say christ, jesus.
The scene of a bunch of hipster assholes from Williamsburg and Silver Lake descending on Des Moines to hang with the working class while listening to Jarvis sing about how “everybody hates a tourist, especially one who thinks it’s all such a laugh” is pretty great.
I’m just trying to keep in mind that this is a small number of absolute dipshits.
Not un-FKing-believable. BART and VTA – the crown jewels of Bay Area transit (with a little hate thrown in for AC Transit).
I’m not holding my breath that I’ll be able to take a five-minute walk from my front door, jump on a light-rail to Milpitas and transfer to BART to the Coliseum any time before the A’s build the Howard Terminal ballpark.
bookmarking by sharing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
We are so fucked. I find myself rooting for a solar flare or Kessler event, but probably those would just bring on martial law and make things worse.
The WSJ blows up Jeff Luhnow’s spot.
He’s so fucking scummy.
More from the WSJ
Uh huh.
Watching my first debate of the season and I am utterly perplexed by what Tom Steyer is doing up there. He seems like a perfectly agreeable Seacliff Guy, but like…why do this?
2020 is going to be my year, FYI. New job. New house. Chiefs won the Super Bowl. Picture me dancing around on a hill like Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
Excellent. Maybe while you’re at it, run for President?
Do not tell me she is 35 yet
Yes. Sorry.
I am exhausted from applying for SF schools. The older one wants to go to the public art school, and there are only 7 spots in his chosen discipline (creative writing). In december we had to turn in a packet with 2 5-page stories, 2 personal narratives, a personal essay, 5 poems and a 2-5 page school assignment.
today he had to go to the school and audition, interview plus writing prompts for 3 hours.
I had to listen to the parents in the waiting room talk about how driven their kids are, and how they have been reading and writing stories since they were 4. It was the same at the kindergarten open houses, at least one parent would ask about “advanced programs” because their child was and “early reader” (the kids were FOUR).
this city kinda sucks like that.
Oh my god exactly this. My kid auditioned today too (music). Luckily I was with other kid because I cannot stand being around the parents. The whole process has stressed my household out to an alarming level. I cannot wait for it to be over.
“You said there is rigor in the assignments, does that mean there is pressure? I went to stanford, and the pressure of competing was hard on even young adults, how is it handled here?”
LAUSD has this and it is a nightmare. All the “regular” schools are garbage so you have to try and get your kid into some sort of magnet or other type of school. And if they dont have some Stepford like desire to jump into something good luck.
We get decisions back in March and unless we get into 1 of 2 programs the youngest Ace is interested in we are probably going to move down the street some direction to get into one of the better districts nearby where you can just go to high school.
The offseason of weird Rays-Padres trades continues.
So the Betts trade seems to have fallen apart for now either because of a failed prospect medical or Red Sox shiftiness, which puts Joc Pederson-to-Angels in doubt. In the meantime, Pederson went through an arbitration hearing against the Dodgers and lost, with the Dodgers refusing to let him postpone the hearing until after the trade was finalized or canceled. Maybe with his price lower and that relationship ruined, it’s time for Beaneforst to swoop in.
I would love this
I don’t care enough to pay attention and a pox on all their fucking houses but why the fuck are the Sox so intent on trading away Mookie Betts?
They decided that it is more important to get under the luxury tax threshold than it is to have a good team.
The slegnA were originally slated to get Ross Stripling as well, who’s very underrated.
Between Pederson and Stripling, I’m fine with them not getting ~6 WAR in talent.
I don’t understand why it fell through, but I am happy about it.
can we get Perderson? we have lots of spare infielders around
There’s no way ownership would allow it even at his lower arbitration figure ($7.75 million). But he sure would be an upgrade on Grossman.
You would need to convince the Dodgers to take on Piscotty and his salary (~7 million). The A’s are not going to take on his full salary and the best they could do is probably add 4 million (difference between Pederson’s and Grossman’s salaries, if the Dodgers take Grossman). But the Dodgers would have no interest in Grossman.
Seems like you would have to dump the salaries on a third team. The Dodgers are trying to get under the luxury tax and clear roster space, as I understand it.
Hm, I vaguely recall calling out Mengden’s velocity loss mid last year and the brooks baseball data seems to concur. This would explain things:
New York Post, so appropriate cautions apply
So in 2019, the astros wait a week, while the A’s play CLeveland in OAK, the twins play Cleveland, the yankees host the rays?
Don’t like it. If it were any other team than the angels, I would like MLB’s efforts to get Mike trout into the post season
Astros would sit out, the Yankees get first pick among Rays, Clevelands, and Red Sox, the Twins get second pick, and the A’s get whoever is left. Yankees, Twins, and A’s would be hosting three-game series against those other three teams. There would be a TV show for the picking.
It turns out, I didn’t even read all of what you posted.
regardless, its dumb
I’m on board with almost any scheme that gets rid of the one do-or-die wild card game. But the pick your opponent provision is stupid. Id rather ditch byes entirely and have 8 teams from each league qualify.
The 3 game all-one-location concept is also really stupid. But I agree pretty much anything is better than a one game playoff, which is just absurd for baseball.
If you look at this from a perspective how they handle adding two teams and going to 4 divisions of 4, it makes some sense.
My caveat would be that the the wild card series be a best of 3 with the division winner spotted a game. Only adds one day to the schedule. Top team in the league doesn’t sit too long, but gains the advantage of the team their facing either having burnt their top 1 or top 2 starters. Winning the division would still matter as that means you only need to win one of two games. Hell, even better, make the series a double header so there’s no days added. Division winner winning the first game means not having to play two. And wild card would be at a disadvantage of having to not only win two in a row, but then face your next opponent having burnt your top two starters.
I also think they should remove all mid-series day offs too and force teams to win with the entire team rather than truncate your roster to your top 2 – 3 starters.
Honestly it’s hard to make a convincing case that any one outing ended the career of a 29 year old journeyman minor leaguer. Still, go Mike Bolsinger, I’m rooting for you.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2020/02/10/mike-bolsinger-sues-houston-astros-says-cheating-changed-his-career/4712164002/
I don’t do torts, or civil at all, but I think there is something there, I mean, getting sent out in mid august immediately following the astros outing after 4 journyman outings is compelling. Hanging on a couple of weeks to september 1 would mean about $80k.
But because of roster rules, the Jays had to make a decision on his status.
Also, I cna’t wait to see the expert opinions on pitch type equivalents
They’ve changed the way A’s Access members buy discounted $10 parking. Now you buy for a specific game day rather than an undated voucher usable for any game. I wonder whether they’ll be exchangeable when one’s plans change, the way game tickets are.
I can’t recall ZiPS ever liking us this much.
The Brooks Robinson comp for Chapman is quite nice.
Sean Manaea – Tommy John
I was just glancing at the page when I saw this and had forgot the context. Threw up a little bit in my mouth.
500 PAs out of Laureano seems…high
What’s a replacement level team in wins according to ZiPS? If it’s 50, that’s a projection of 97 wins…
I think it’s around 47-48. Still though..
Looks like it’s actually 43. In any case, the good news is that we are projected as 5th best in baseball, the bad news is that is still almost 10 wins behind the Asterisks.
Amen to that shit.
Is Pecota more like it?
Kipnis hasn’t hit well for years. My impression (maybe wrong) is he’s a solid defender and at 33 maybe a brief renaissance with the bat isn’t out of the question. All in all probably better than Kemp but not by a lot.
Reading the zips projections, I was mildly annoyed to be reminded of Kemp. Having Kemp and Grossman around as guys who can’t be sent down is just ridiculous.
Pretty funny Athletic article in which anonymous Astros pin everything on Carlos Beltran.
this shit is so racist
Keeps getting funnier.
Tonight on a very special episode of “Saved by the Trash Can Bang” the kids find out just how difficult peer pressure can be…
“Just bang the can, preppie!”
also omg
omg
The 2020 media guide is available for download. I refer to that quite often during the season. In spring training, when Korach talks about a “back of the book guy”, they’re literally in the back of this book.
That is a tremendous resource. I remember Korach lamenting last year on one or more opponents who have stopped producing them.
The A’s have only had one AL player (non-pitcher) of the month since 2001.
The Oakland A’s are 9-1 in games of 17 innings or longer.
The franchise record for walk off HRs is 5, shared by Rickey, Reggie, and Matt Stairs.
I’m sure I’ve linked this boxscore here or on AN: 7/25/1975, one of the best games I saw at the Coliseum as a youthful soaker, with three comebacks to tie leading to one of those Reggie walk-offs.
Favorite game I attended from that era though was ending Gaylord Perry’s winning streak with Herb Washington tying the game on a very short sacrifice fly and then Claudell winning it. A World Series atmosphere on a Monday night in July.
As Upgrade alluded to in the first comment above it’s the time of year when it’s been four months since I’ve seen an A’s game, so pour a little alcohol into ole Soaker at night and he starts the nostalgic babbling about the good old days. I’ll be hanging around the Cactus League for a few days in early March, for the first time in several years, and I’m ready for it.
The latest Slusser podcast features an ad for KY lube (“for an experience so mind-blowing, it’ll leave you glowing”).
I don’t have anything else to say about that, just wanted to note it for the record.
remember that year the A’s were on KYCY.
and i kept thinking they were saying KY… see why!
Well hey, pitchers and catchers have reported! We’re gonna make it!!
Has Dr. ElAttrache taken a 6-week lease on office space in Mesa this year? Seems like that would be convenient for everybody.
I’m starting to wonder if the Astros just signed Dusty to be a media heatshield for a season before they go back to some morality-challenged Stanford grad.
that wasn’t express?
Yeah they also hired Click from Tampa (née BPro) as GM, the biz school analytics approach ain’t goin nowhere. Dusty gets to helm their lost season then retire “on his own terms.”
Some Stanford-ass shit right here.
He must be sincere, look at all those words
Non-denial denial.
Of course you don’t. You’re far too rich for accountability.
Just taking a page from El Trumpador.
The buck stops somewhere.
The organization isn’t accountable because it was purely player-driven.
And the players aren’t accountable because it was being done at an organizational level.
Sure. You weren’t involved. But your ignorance and incompetence as a managing partner fostered an environment that encouraged cheating. For that, he’s absolutely responsible for and needs to be punished for.
Sorry about the choices that were made by…me.
Just a hilariously awful press conference. Given the Osuna debacle, they’ve really learned absolutely nothing about PR.
It’s spring training. They’re working on things…
Best shape of his lies
I’d forgotten how much I love FK until just now.
They worked hard all off season for this moment. This. This right here? This them stepping hard on that clutch.
Of all the insults-to-your-intelligence things in the commissioner’s report, I find the most ridiculous conclusion to be that the Astros stopped cheating in ’18, ’19 after successfully cheating their way to a championship in ’17.
Win anyway and don a red hat in celebration.
Maybe mention it to the ump to see if they notice.
Creeping bothsidesism
“Read the transcripts!” he added.
Stealing a joke from Twitter: Senator Collins is sure the Astros have learned their lesson.
Doesn’t sound like he’s taking it on the chin there. So maybe he needs to take on in the back.
He looks kind of like Ted Lilly. Not a good sign.
Ray Fosse, master cryptographer.
“…whatever you do between your legs means nothing.”
And Ray fails the Turing test.
How great doesn’t it feel?
Good thing technology hasn’t changed the game at all in the last 45 years.
streak.
Sad
This far exceeds my recommended daily dose of bullshit:
This kind of dismissiveness/tech-shaming is a terrible approach for Kaval to take.
tbh, this is working in my favor.
won’t be long till the A’s is a podcast.
Are they going to at least going to announce a simultaneous increase in investment in A’s Cast programming? From my limited experience with A’s Cast last year, the biggest issues to me were
1. Not knowing when to expect actual live programming vs a replay
2. What the actual schedule of shows were (this site gives no details – if I wanted to listen to a weekly David Forst segment, can I and when is it?)
3. Townsend was the only host
If they want to position streaming as the future, fine, but they need to invest in this product like it is (i.e. hire more hosts, consistent 6AM-9PM live programming, etc).
Korach agrees with you
…
I endorse the joke, but still don’t like no terrestrial radio
I’ve been a fan of Kaval’s approach and attitude, the Giants trolling, the promotional innovation, and his consistently upbeat tone about the new ballpark. But his continuing blithe dismissal of the concerns of a large number of A’s fans on this issue is disturbing. I mean, yeah, Bruce Jenkins and Scott Ostler are both dour oldsters who often diss the A’s. But on this issue, they are voicing legitimate concerns that many A’s identify with. Read the room, Dave.
Totally agree. It’s pissing me off.
Appalling.
It’s going to be especially galling this season when the Giants are being simulcast on AM and FM for the first time.
It will also be galling when we inevitably lose Korach, who is a radio lifer and probably not excited to become a glorified podcaster.
Will it offend Vince too? Pls say it will offend Vince too…
Last week my (tech) employer elevated the (non-technical) head of HR to “Chief Innovation Officer.” That was also a very innovative move.
You must be very excited for all of the upcoming disruption!
Just another example of the penny wish, pound foolish approach that’s been a hallmark of this franchise.
Yes, it would’ve cost a hefty chunk of change to buy their own station. Yes, purchasing the air time on a station just for airing the games is probably a net loss in the short term financially. But the effects of ceding yet another share of the market to the team across the bay will be felt long term. I mean, for all intents and purposes, the other team controls two radio stations now.
The culmination of all of these fan unfriendly decisions over the last 20 years is what led to the 90-10 disparity in market size between the two franchises.
This is spot on, really feels like something from the Wolff era. Such stupidity. The hours spent in a car, at the beach, really anywhere without a strong steady wifi signal will now be A’s free time. This is enraging.
They painted themselves into this corner the day they flipped the Green and Gold Middle Finger at Entercom’s 95.7 The Game a couple years ago. “Sad” is a fair reaction, it’s the rather jarring end of an era. If there’s an earthquake down there today it’s Bill King rolling over in his grave.
Nevertheless I don’t see this as a disaster. Nobody paid for radio at the turn of the century; now SiriusXM alone has about 35 million subscribers, and they are gradually de-emphasizing the satellite service and moving to streaming. My perspective on it is obviously colored by the fact that I haven’t lived within range of a terrestrial station that carried the A’s since 2008, yet I hear Ken and Vince almost every day.
Being an “OK Boomer” I have never actually streamed any audio from my phone while in the car. A few days ago, seeing the wave of the future though not today’s specific news, I ordered one of those phone mounts and chargers that fits into my obsolete and never-used CD player, and will be giving that an extended test on my drive across the desert to Phoenix in a couple weeks. That was actually motivated by SiriusXM’s move of their two best variety stations, The Loft and Jam On, off the satellite service (Jam On somewhat ironically being replaced by Phish Radio, which is good for concert replays but I don’t need Phish all day on a long drive, nor the Grateful Dead Channel).
The more I think about this the more angry I am. In part because telling 95.7 to fuck off was a completely self-inflicted wound, but also because radio is so fundamental to the way I enjoy baseball every day. It won’t take too many at-bats lost to buffering to ruin the car experience, and I’m already writing off beach days. Sure, it’s not going to make me stop being a fan. Is that really the bar Kaval aspires to meet?
beach days are the only thing I worry about. I can deal with car tech, I’ve streamed in my house for at least 5 years, if not more, but the data when I am not on wifi will a) cost me money (not a lot, but not negligible) and power on my phone. that is something I don’t like to do.
I have realized for a while that I’ll eventually rely exclusively on the phone and an unlimited data plan for car and beach.
Google Fi’s pricing is $70 for unlimited data, or for limited, $20/month + $10/1 GB, up to 6 GB, where it maxes out and data becomes free after that point. I’ve been on the limited plan and the bill is usually around $27/mo., as historically because I haven’t ordinarily used the streaming I use very little data. So it’s basically a $10 surcharge to $80 for unlimited data if I stay on the limited plan.
I think I’ll unplug the satellite radio in the car for a couple months, use the streaming exclusively and test what happens both to cost and, out here in a non-urban area, continuity of connection. The mentality of not listening to something I want to listen to because of the marginal cost of data…I know that’s going to have to change pretty soon if not now.
The price of being a participant in modern society, I guess.
It looks like the “A’s Cast” on TuneIn is using a 96 kbps stream, which should cost you around $1.30 in data for a 3-hour game. Not nothing, but still well short of the unlimited plan, even if you were listening that way every day.
Baseball broadcasts aren’t really the issue (for me, not so for Bay Area 95.7/KTRB listeners). I’ve always been fine with the “home team only” broadcast on the SiriusXM satellite service, considered that a “feature not a bug” as it forced/allowed me to listen to broadcasts other than Ken/Vince. It’s more about listening to exactly the music programming I want. I want to give it some time for the test and then think about cost vs. benefit.
Oh is that how Sirius works? I had it for free in my new car and was thinking of keeping it for the season. but I guess I’d rather have Ken & Vince rather than the other team’s announcers. I find that A’s Cast drops out a lot for me as does the MLB app. Was hoping Sirius would be steadier.
If you go to the app you can get the A’s broadcast for away games (I believe) but they only have the home teams in the car.
Not to go off topic, but that division doesnt make much sense now that they are giving you the app and extra channels with your car subscription. There are like an extra 1-2 hundred channels on the app and I would love to have some of them easily accessible in the car.
Yeah I’ve been using the app a bit. Mostly so I can get “1st Wave workout” and can briskly walk my dog to the more upbeat Smiths tracks. But then when I get in my car my phone will connect to the car, so instead of listening to the car radio, I’m listening to the phone. So that’s good to hear about getting the A’s feed for road games in my car.
Streaming has a dedicated channel for the Ken/Vince A’s broadcasts (859) so just set that as a Favorite. On satellite the A’s game channel varies day to day so you have to look it up or hunt for it.
How is it on data use? Ive been thinking of doing the same but dont want to all of a sudden find an extra $×00 bill.
I’m testing the SiriusXM app on the Angels radio broadcast today. It looks like it’s coming in at around 40-45 MB per hour at the “Normal” (lowest) audio streaming quality setting, so at my $10/1 GB that would be $1.20-$1.35 per 3-hour game, which is the same number andeux gave me for A’s Cast above.
Reading further this morning: I thought either Salem didn’t like having A’s broadcasts interfere with their other programming, or they raised the price so much for the time buy that the A’s didn’t want to pay it. It doesn’t sound like either of those is the case; the A’s just decided they didn’t want to be on radio in the Bay Area.
I couldn’t care less what the station’s programming is outside of game windows. Turn on the radio and hear somebody waving the Trump flag, just hit another button as fast as you can. The MLB and SiriusXM feeds were both straight from KTRB last season and I don’t recall hearing promotions for right-wing programs in-game but a couple times, which were probably mistakes.
Wow, this is like the best day ever to be a convicted violator of the public trust. Too bad Mohammed Nuru is the wrong kind of criminal to catch Trump’s fancy.
Bummer for Scott McKibben that his alleged crimes weren’t federal.
Adding Julian Assange to the list, with a quid pro quo.
Getting reliable information out of the A’s Membership Services office this off-season has been a nightmare.
The latest gem is that apparently you can either have your A’s account set to print your tickets out, or to store them electronically, but not both.
Yeah something has changed with them, either via staff turnover or management direction. We saw this in the run up to postseason, when it was exceedingly hard to get seemingly basic info about the ticket packages they were selling.
Like the still-awful online ticket management interface, I suspect a lot of the problem has to do with force fitting the new Access model onto the old infrastructure.
That said, that clunky interface always allowed printing or e-transferring or exchanging of individual games before, and the interface hasn’t changed. What functionality was lost?
The front row seat season ticket holder was trying to send me some tickets and none of the options were active (all greyed out); when he contacted Membership Services they said that the default was print-only but that it could be reset to electronic-only.
Frankly I don’t believe it – this is, after all, the same guy who told us dynamic pricing had been abandoned.
For us 10-gamers all those options were greyed out when they were in voucher form, then the options were turned on after the 10 specific games were selected. It’s obviously ludicrous to make the ticket holder choose each game if you’re choosing all 81 of them, but…(see previous comments re interface).
I’m not A’s Access and don’t know the specific issues, but this was Giles’ baby and somebody else had to take charge when he jumped ship.
Sounds like they need to hire Giles’ consulting firm.
Someone at VP level shouldn’t need to be involved in that level of UI details.
Anyway, as FSU says this doesn’t really match with my experience. Well, the part about the UI being clunky in general does, but I’m looking at the games I’ve selected right now and “Forward Tickets” and “Print Tickets” are both options.
Maybe the “Print Only” option FSU is seeing is referring to printed (by the team) tickets. In that case, it does make some sense that they don’t let you forward them electronically before they have been printed out and mailed to the season ticket holder. After that you can enter the bar code for individual games (or maybe they all get entered automatically) if you want to forward or sell them.
I notice the home-printed paper ticket with a barcode is the latest obsolete technology. The first time I ran into that was with the Pac-12 Championship Game at Levi’s Stadium in late 2018 and it’s happened a lot more since then. The ticket is on your smart phone, or go stand in a will call line. Latest example was the Mariners for the mid-May series in Seattle but there have been several others.
I was not expecting the level of vitriol that players have directed at both the Astros players and Manfred over the last week. Now we’ve even got LeBron coming in hot.
He’s right. They should have brought down the hammer on them.
Calcaterra is right that a grievance, and likely successful grievance would follow, but something need to be done. I also agree that candor was needed from the players. BUt I don’t see a difference between candor on this against interest v the required candor against penal interest in DV cases
Well and even if you had a simple “if we could we would be bringing down the hammer, and we are working with MLBPA so we can if it ever happens again” would have been a start. It amazes me how Manfred constantly is doing the extreme minimum he hopes they can get away with.
Wow, they’ve come out throwing haymakers so far. Bloomberg looks completely lost
At halftime, and omg is Bloomberg bad. Awful answers on stop n frisk and nondisclosure harassment settlements. And he actually joked about being too rich to use Turbotax.
Leaving aside how little it may actually matter, from a debate standpoint Elizabeth Warren was the clear winner. Sharp messaging, knew exactly who she wanted to aim at and on which issues, and by far the best tactically. Impressively well prepared.
Pete was also very sharp. Bernie was not remotely concerned with assuaging anyone’s electability fears. Klob definitely knew she wanted to make electability her issue and hit that theme well but got flustered several times. Biden was…regular. And Bloomberg was just abysmal. All that money and he can’t hire a debate coach? Inexcusably bad.
Warren seems to be the clear choice among FKers and random people I follow on Twitter. Those groups need to be more heavily weighted in polls.
Make us all super delegates and watch Bernie freak out.
Thanks Brett
He missed a trick there … surely lights out is a fastball and sewage backup is a curveball.
Are you arguing with best hitting pitcher the A’s have had since the DH?
Brett could only recognize the pitches in retrospect… sore back means it was a fastball, strained groin means curve.
Oh I bet this was a real gem of an op-ed.
Chances Huff appears on stage with Trump in Vegas tomorrow approaching 100%. Poor victim of bullying for what he believes.
No Huff so far, but will you accept the 1980 USA Hockey team standing behind Trump in red hats while he talks about it being a “distinct possibility” he’ll still be president in 2028?
Hmmm, yeah, that’s the good stuff.
Is the Klobacher endorsement still up?
Hey-o!
I ask again
Speaking of, Warren now has the other 50% of the Times endoresment I guess.
That must be where they were meeting to fire the chief.
pod epp with EM about the radio move getting you in your feels.
So, is this good for Bernie, or bad for Bernie?