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Jay Posner retweeted
So Marine Corps vets who were poisoned only get compensated by the draft dodger if Republicans win.
Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
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Jay Posner retweeted
This is what it looks like to cower before authoritarianism. You don't call out a white supremacist president even when he uses classically antisemitic language because you're afraid he'll retaliate against you. jewishcurrents.org/the-shame…
The term “Shylock” is rooted in a longstanding antisemitic stereotype. Regardless of intent, its use can reinforce harmful tropes about Jews and normalize language that has long been used to target the Jewish community.
Community note
The term was used (for at least the second intent in as many years) by President Trump.
forbes.com/sites/siladity…
Important context to point out the user of the term regardless of intent.
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This …
If you want to watch, like I do, great. Hopefully we get seven awesome games.
If you don’t want to watch, don’t.
But why should either group care what the other does?
Unless you're a TV executive or an employee of MLB you should not give 2 shits what the World Series ratings are going to be
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Well said. Should be great baseball to watch.
In the next week, you’ll hear way too much about small markets and TV ratings. Give it a rest and appreciate this:
The 2026 World Series: the team with the best record in the National League vs. the team with the best record in the American League.
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Here’s a chart showing what I said last night. It won’t stop many media members from the small-market narrative but one can dream.
*Ahem*
The Rays are NOT a small market team. The Rays are a small spending (and small revenue) team. And that's an important distinction.
📈: @Sportico, @LevAkabas
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Jay Posner retweeted
JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of.
1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.
JD Vance: "I've not seen a single shred of evidence that Donald Trump participates or sanctions in that corruption ... I've not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself"
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Jay Posner retweeted
Cameron please for the love of God man...
Please stop pretending and implying in your posts that these specific two organizations (and Cleveland for that matter) are "anti analytics." It's flat out objectively, provably, 100% false and wildly ignorant.
Tampa and Milwaukee are some of the biggest employers of analytics, R&D, and performance science in the league. Tampa THE largest hub for "analytics" in the league. Source linked in replies.
But most importantly, PLEASEEEE stop associating the term "analytics" with one philosophy of baseball! I have no idea why more people in baseball media or on this app don't set the distinction more often:
Analytics = insight from data
"Analytics" ≠ one specific hitting/pitching philosophy
"Analytics" ≠ home runs good, contact bad
"Analytics" ≠ contact good, home runs bad
Analytics is literally just getting insight from data. We have lots and lots of it now from the rapid improvement in technology over the years. Hawkeye cameras allow us to track things (especially on the non-proprietary, public side of things) that were unimaginable in the past. We have access to a growing, vast volume of data that was not available before this technology existed.
Analytics is literally just using this information to draw insights.
This consists of:
- Tampa optimizing a lineup that works well on the Trop turf
- Tampa optimizing pitch shapes that work well in their dome
- Milwaukee's projection systems and scouting department that has allowed them to derive as much value from the IFA market as they have over the years
- and much much more
Analytics *COULD* lead one to believe more contact is needed
Analytics *COULD* lead one to believe more pop is needed
There is no one, cookie cutter, one size fit-all philosophy that "analytics" subscribes you to. It is quite literally just the means of arriving at said philosophy and the evidence you use to prop that philosophy up.
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Jay Posner retweeted
Trump has a new scheme to bribe farmers in swing states with welfare checks of taxpayer money because fuel has gone up so much because of his war. But only money for them, not for anyone else in the country. No, we have to keep paying higher prices AND we pay Trump’s voters.
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Jay Posner retweeted
Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.
Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."
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Need to stop any talk of Rays-Brewers World Series billed as battle of small markets. Sure, MIL is smallest until Vegas enters, but in most recent Nielsen rankings I could find, Tampa-St. Pete was No. 11, between SF Bay Area & Phoenix. Owners not spending $$ doesn’t change that.
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Jay Posner retweeted
Yeah…this isn’t a”how much he loves football “ story. It’s a “ everyone in the Eagles organization needs to answer some really hard questions “story
How committed is Jalen Hurts to football? After initially being diagnosed with a superficial blood clot in London, doctors told him not to sleep as a precaution, so he had been awake for roughly 36 hours when he started against the Jaguars, throwing for 220 yards and a TD.
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All the best to Curt, who some of you might remember from his days on TV in San Diego.
A humbling and inspiring day to be among the dozen "CRUCIAL CATCH" Captains for the Los Angeles Rams at today's game vs. Arizona.
THANK YOU so much to the Rams and all of you - you've encourage, motivated and supported me in this 2nd journey with Lymphoma.
My family has given me, love and support beyond words, including my ABC7 family!!!
Blessings to All!
#abc7eyewitness #NFL #RamsHouse
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Jay Posner retweeted
Wins at SoFi Stadium since February:
Spain: 2
Arizona Cardinals: 2
Los Angeles Rams: 1
Los Angeles Chargers: 0
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Not fair to say that soft personal foul call cost Rams game because Cardinals still would have had a few plays to move into FG range … but it didn’t help.
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Fox doesn’t even bother with Chargers losing again (and being winless all season, as are the Kings).
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Steelers’ McCarthy is this week’s clock management wizard. Could have had :30 to try to win game instead of :08 but waited more than 20 seconds to call timeout.
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