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happy birthday/merry Festivus+Christmas+all the other holidays!

(doing my best Joe Girardi impression now going 'it's not what you want to see.')

Kolek +19 right now!

yup, in this case masculinity as the aesthetic. (thinking in particular of @meredithconroy.bsky.social 's work here)

*yells at Immaculate Grid to replace the Cy Young column with the Old Hoss Radbourn or Will White column*

Hey, it's just like the Knicks defense

and making things like rooftop solar cheap/affordable for individuals to own doesn't solve it either. important step yes, but utilities also see things like this as a threat to their own monopolies on various markets and they + interest groups are fighting to protect those monopolies.

yup. making clean energy cheap means you're still left with fossil interest groups and utilities fighting tooth and nail (and likely more desperately) to protect their fossil fuel holdings' values and avoid being left with stranded assets.

truth. a goddamn hero.

hello please send some to upstate NY. it's stupid cold and snowing/sleeting up here and I would like warm bread. (will trade soup in return)

stupidly cheap. should have been $15, but for Hochul

yup. i saw this work amazingly well in Singapore and NYC, and both had great bus + train transit networks. can't do this in other cities without transit alternatives.

Do it! Also these are delightful. (I cracked up at the Mario-gluten.)

The defense tonight has looked so flat. Ugh.

the Baghdad Bob memes from 2003, but now it's CBS.

tell me that Mitch and OG are off the court without telling me that Mitch and OG are off the court

yup. and now Nurse and Maxey throwing tantrums when they finally call one.

We've done pretty well on signing free agent starters. Tanaka was an absolute stud for us and I still miss him. Kuroda was awesome, understated and so reliable. I really like Fried.

Position players though... lolsob. Really terrible deals (DLsbury) and guys who we never went after (Harper/Seager)

thinking more about the big roster moves for the 09 title run - CC was an icon, no complaints on that signing. love that man forever.

Teixeira was excellent the first four years, the last four were awful (2.6 bWAR total the last 4 years, 19.2 across the deal).

AJ Burnett, LOL.

yup. I think Fay Vincent suspending Steinbrenner was the best thing that could have happened to the Yankees. let Stick cook.

but as for FA signings, we've been bad at this for a while. even when the new stadium was built.

I'm not gonna be that nostalgic for George, because under George it's possible that he goes nuts signing every star FA to try and build a team around Judge.

but equally possible that he'd trade Judge away at the 2015 or 2016 trade deadline, Schlittler/Gil more recently, and we have no farm.

all our position player prospects either stagnate (Wells/Volpe) or fall apart (Gary) under Boone, who refuses to actually hold anyone accountable and just says "it's right in front of us" every press conference.

i'm expecting no better for Jasson or Spencer Jones. argh. at least I have the Knicks

ah yes, trust the guy who has had three years in the major and keeps putting up a .660ish OPS *every* year with the same flaws and worsening plate discipline.

i hate this FO. maybe I wouldn't be so annoyed if we had a coach/management that helps the young players develop, but Boone is *awful*

It's fucking embarrassing. They lost in the World Series two years ago, the contention window is wide open and they have a generational hitter with two straight MVP seasons, and they're doing absolutely nothing to fix all of the issues in the bullpen and the batting lineup.

i absolutely love this.

but but but I was told the super wealthy would leave the city after Mamdani became mayor!

Rougned Odor disagrees with you and thinks Jose Bautista was more punchable

(Personally, I think you're both right)

Hark, I hear the sound of the minutes police *not* complaining this season!

yup. Boone has zero feel for the game (esp pen moves), but my other issue is his unwillingness to hold players accountable or push them. and i think this is a big part of why we see guys like Volpe and Wells either stagnate or regress (not to mention Gary. or Jasson being completely underwhelming.)

i wasn't a huge fan, was kinda torn on Thibs (loved Thibs, but also knew he wasn't the guy to take the Knicks to a title with his way of managing) - but I'm absolutely convinced right now. it's been a blast seeing how the kids like Kolek and Diawara - and tonight McCullar - are developing under him