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Financial imagineer Donald Trump has bested mathematicians worldwide. His $175 million proposed bond is required to appeal a New York state civil fraud judgement. It relies on imaginary cash and an unapproved bonding company. NY Attorney General...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 11:38 PM PDT
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Welcome to another Saturday night ofmusic, memories, and conversations. Last week we shared songs about the total solar eclipse and astronomy.� (I was incommunicado because….I was in an RV ...
by varro
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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A Box Score on Biden I don't know how one scores political accomplishments ala baseball and its stats, but in a crucial situations I want Biden up at bat. What a captain of the Nation, a leader of the world! Let me suggest... Biden's first term...
by Paul Frea
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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ESPN’s daily podcast on Friday devoted itself to the then unfinished pursuit of Shohei Ohtani (he has subsequently signed with the Dodgers for 700 million dollars. �For perspective, his annual ...
by angryea
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Major League Baseball adopted some significant rules changes this past season, the biggest by far being the introduction of a pitch clock—an electronic countdown limiting the time between pitches ...
by Gerald Scorse
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 06:56 AM PST
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Congrats to the Texas Rangers on winning the World Series. Been so hard for me to get into baseball last few years. So much happening in the world and in the nation that has my intention. I haven’t even watched any of the series until tonight. What do...
by RhodeIslandAspie
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 08:03 PM PDT
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Boston Red Sox fans remember the “Curse of the Bambino”—which supposedly began when team owner Harry Frazee traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to help finance a Broadway musical. And Chicago Cubs fans won’t forget “The Billy Goat Curse,” which...
by Charles Jay
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 01:09 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
by Mike Luckovich
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on Tue Oct 17, 2023 at 07:42 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 07:07 PM PDT
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Manhattan Neighborhood Network featured a panel discussion of climate issues in the wake of the Maui, Hawaii fire on Media Watch with Eric Tait, Bob Anthony, Raymond Peterson, and Alan Singer. Over one hundred people on Maui were already reported to...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 01:28 PM PDT
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I’m a Chicago White Sox fan. I have been for most of my life. It’s not easy being us, We are often the butt of jokes and historically we’ve had our share of scandals and nationally embarrassing news. As past owner Bill Veeck said, many years ago: If...
by jusjtim35
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 09:43 PM PDT
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This week in sports, the Little League Baseball championship saw Liga Pabou, the team from Curaçao, from the Little League Caribbean Region go to the final game in the World Series, though they ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 05:29 AM PDT
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A baseball player with a famous moment (and grief from Fidel Castro) after-the-jump ... But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and...
by Ed Tracey
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Let me first say that all but one of the recent rule changes in Baseball were positive ones. Allowing pitchers and batters 18 seconds between pitches seems to have worker seamlessly. Eliminating the shift will also raise batting averages. Preliminary...
by psychusa
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on Tue Jun 06, 2023 at 02:44 PM PDT
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“Claude Monet Designs Yankee Stadium-A Love Story” goes live on Amazon and similar sites today. Here’s the blurb: Melvin Flack has given up on his dream of becoming an artist until he discovers 14 paintings hidden in a derelict building in the Bronx....
by wruckusgroink
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 08:01 AM PDT
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We’re headed into Memorial Day Weekend.� The 3 summer holidays play a bit of a mile-marker role in baseball:
By Memorial Day, it’s no longer “early”.� For some teams it might even be ...
by tampaedski
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Conservative Catholic groups and politicians protested the presence of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at LA Dodgers Pride Night, and last week the Dodgers announced the group would no longer be honored, disinviting them. There was a reaction from...
by annieli
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on Mon May 22, 2023 at 07:14 PM PDT
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The GOP hates and fears Gen Z. The whippersnappers recognize right-wing culture wars for what they are: tawdry camouflage for the avarice and entitlement of corporate oligarchs. The Republican Party functions today as the political wing of a...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Wed May 17, 2023 at 12:06 PM PDT
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After baseball finally took action to end the Steroids Era and inflated home run totals by over-muscled players, ordinary looking guys are getting a home run boost from global warming. A new study by Dartmouth College climate scientists, published in...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 04:06 PM PDT
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Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, April 8th, 2023. This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and regional news of interest, and open the floor for...
by randallt
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on Sat Apr 08, 2023 at 08:45 AM PDT
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