Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

When we show up, we win.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Books are my comfort food!

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Hot air and ill-informed banter

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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  1. 1.

    burnspbesq

    Ron Darling is about as good an analyst as there is these days. One of the few advantages of being a Mets fan is listening to Darling and Keith Hernandez teach a graduate seminar in baseball every night.

    Way to go, Bucs.

  2. 2.

    Quaker in a Basement

    These Pirates could do well in the playoffs–not a sure thing, mind you, but I think they’ll give the Cardinals a fight. If they can beat the Cards, I think they’ll go all the way to the World Series.

  3. 3.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    Augghh!! Ripken announcing a Pirates game?? Auugghhhh!!!!

    /ghosts of 1979/

  7. 7.

    Mike E

    Heh, Colbert: Nothing sez ‘people don’t want healthcare’ moar than online exchanges crashing from too much volume.

  10. 10.

    max

    The Pirates won a playoff game.

    Do you believe in miracles random chance eventually producing all possible outcomes in a closed set at some point in time?

    max
    [‘Tebow is jealous.’]

  11. 11.

    Burnspbesq

    Two reasons to root for Cleveland tomorrow night:

    (1) Tropicana is the worst baseball stadium evah.

    (2) Karma demands that Francona get a chance to redeem himself against the Bostons.

    Reminded of the greatest sports palindrome of all time, devised by the greatest baseball writer of my lifetime, Roger Angell, in his classic New Yorker article about the 1986 playoffs.

    “Not so, Boston.”

  12. 12.

    Honus

    @burnspbesq: Ron darling is an idiot. He predicted a reds win on ESPN this afternoon because “the reds had been there”. He was conspicuously stupid during the game. And Keith Hernandez is mainly remembered for sharing the 1979 MVP with Wilver Dornell Stargell.

  15. 15.

    MorningtonCrescent

    I’m glad that the Pirates are doing well. Just a few years ago, charges were being levelled at the Pirates organisation that they were intentionally fielding less-competitive teams in order to turn a profit, after their books were leaked to the press, by relying on revenue sharing to turn a profit. Maybe this success will make the organisation more attractive, and more likely to take the risk of higher salary levels and still make profit and remain competitive.

  17. 17.

    J.Ty

    I’ll just decide this is an open thread.

    If I ever find out that somebody was intentionally withholding Philip Glass’s Symphony #3 from me, I think I’m going to have to smack them. I feel cheated that I haven’t heard this before today.

    J.Ty +…some

  19. 19.

    Honus

    @burnspbesq: I also liked the part of the seminar when Clint hurdle explained to Ron darling that rest for a pitcher wasn’t necessarily a bad thing

  21. 21.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Apart from the A’s winning it all, I would like to see the Pirates do well, have an asteroid land on either Turner Field or Dodger Stadium, and have whoever knock off the Red Sox.

  22. 22.

    dollared

    Congrats to your mom, JC. And isn’t this further proof that she’s always right?

    Oh, and Oh yes about Cal Ripken. I met him in person once, at a children’s cancer benefit. I was concerned that he was trying too hard to look like one of the kids.

  26. 26.

    handy

    Yeah I’m pretty much done seeing BOS and STL in the WS. No thanks. I could do without the Dodgers too (Angel fan here so that’s a given). Indians-Pirates would be fun. A’s too.

  28. 28.

    YellowJournalism

    Your mention of Cal Ripken brings to mind commercials for Tops baseball cards, which reminds me further of this:

    “Wow-wee! Ricky Henderson!”

  31. 31.

    Haydnseek

    @J.Ty: Try his “Low” symphony based on the eponymous David Bowie album. The Brooklyn Symphony does an excellent job on a very fine recording. Not available at Wal-Mart, but easily found online.

    ETA: +more than some.

  33. 33.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    …bald and fat Cal Ripken looks like Darth Vader without his helmet.

    Yikes. I remember shamelessly stealing a game-day giveaway “Cal Ripken growth chart” from a small child at Memorial Stadium because that man was smokin’ hot, back in the day, and I could stand next to that damned poster (which was taller than I was) and dream of the real thing. Way to make an old lady feel old.

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:

    have an asteroid land on either Turner Field or Dodgers Stadium

    From your lips to G-d’s ear.

  34. 34.

    The Dangerman

    Talking about announcers reminds me I get to listen to Vin Scully tomorrow night (he makes far, FAR more mistakes with things then he used to – which was never – but still the best announcer in baseball).

    I grew up with Scully and Chick Hearn; I was lucky.

  35. 35.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    So happy for the Pirates fans. Until they lose the Series to the Red Sox, that is.

  36. 36.

    Mary G

    @The Dangerman: My family lived at Hoover & Adams in LA in 1957-58 when the Dodgers came. I love Vin Scully. I went off on baseball and the Dodgers during the previous owner’s shenanigans, but I will still turn it on long enough to hear “it’s time for Dodger baseball.”

  37. 37.

    Comrade Luke

    This is classic, from the GQ article Elvis Impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis and the Ricin Assassination Plot:

    Not long after Dutschke and Curtis’s unfriendly introduction in 2006, Dutschke mounted a campaign for state House district sixteen, against long-term Democratic incumbent Steve Holland. By all accounts, Dutschke’s PR strategy was little more than a public display of bitter, empty vitriol—its rhetoric revolving around comparisons of Steve Holland to Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard and suggestions that the 9/11 hijackers were Holland’s friends. Why Dutschke loathed Steve Holland so hotly is not clear.

    “I had never stood eyeball to eyeball or dick to dick with the man, but for some reason he just hated the hell out of me,” says Holland, a gloriously profane and paradoxically genteel man of 58. “He called me everything from gay to communist. Everything but a child of God. I mean, he had no campaign or agenda except to cut my nuts out…. But you got to get your ass up early and go to bed late to beat my ass. I’ve held this seat for thirty years. I can absolutely make love to a bull moose on the steps of the Lee County courthouse and garner more than 5 percent of the vote.”

    Dutschke took a spanking at the polls: 27 percent to 68.

    It’s so consistent it’s freaky.

  41. 41.

    Wally Ballou

    Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser did the ESPN Radio broadcast of the game, which I listened to. They’re quite good, particularly without John Kruk around.

  43. 43.

    Darkrose

    @Janeform: I am so glad that Peter Angelos fired Jon Miller because he didn’t “bleed orange and black”. Between him and Dave Flemming, I’m firmly convinced the Giants have the best radio team in baseball.

  45. 45.

    Wally Ballou

    @Darkrose: Flemming is one of the better young(ish) announcers in the game, and he’s going to be doing the Pirates/Cardinals series for ESPN Radio. Unfortunately, they’re teaming him with the insufferable Rick Sutcliffe.

    BTW, maybe it’s just me but I maintain that radio baseball >>>> TV baseball every time.

  46. 46.

    Darkrose

    @Wally Ballou: If and when Dave leaves SF for the national stage, I will be a sad panda. And agreed on radio being the better medium for baseball. I like having cable and all, but there’s nothing quite like listening to the game.

  47. 47.

    johnny aquitard

    I’ve never told anybody this but…

    As a kid I always referred to them, mentally, as the pissy pooey pirates. It was a phrase that would sneak into my inner monologue the same way annoying smartasses sneak the words “that’s what she said”, sotto voce, onto the end of everyone else’s ordinary urtterances. I mentally tacked pissy pooey pirates on to any mention of the team whether it be something overheard in conversation, or on the radio, or (as a kid) when opening a just-purchased pack of baseball cards and finding, yep, again, another boring and unwanted player for the pissy pooey pirates.

    Ok, I probably shouldn’t have shared that.

  48. 48.

    Suffern ACE

    @Amir Khalid: hasn’t that trip been cancelled like 80 times already? It’s like whenever he starts planning a SE Asian trip, something bad comes up.

  49. 49.

    wagon

    I had the same thought about Cal, but I also think he did a great job as an analyst. Especially for a guy who doesn’t do games during the year.

  50. 50.

    ...now I try to be amused

    @Janeform:
    The best Orioles announcer combo I ever heard was Chuck Thompson and Jon Miller. They were so natural and funny together. Of the many things I hate Peter Angelos for, I hate him the most for firing Jon Miller.

  52. 52.

    ...now I try to be amused

    Besides being Mr. Oriole, Cal Ripken Jr. will always be signifcant to me for being the first major league superstar who was younger than me.

  53. 53.

    Cacti

    @Punchy:

    /throws on not-nearly-worn-enough Cubs hat and extends middle finger east towards STL.

    Go ahead and glom onto the Pirates. It won’t make the Cubs stop sucking.

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