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Let's talk about Kirk Reuter

May 15, 2022

I’ve been thinking a lot about Kirk Rueter, and if he would have made it to Major League Baseball had he come up today rather than three decades ago. Heck, he might not have even gotten drafted, given his underwhelming stuff and mediocre strikeout numbers in a non-power college conference.

However, Rueter managed to fashion a long Major League career during which he had multiple solidly above-average seasons, despite being a soft-tosser who only had two full seasons in which he struck out more batters than he had runs allowed.

Republicans are trying to defeat and humiliate their opponents while Democrats are trying to redeem theirs

May 4, 2022

The thing about Roe v. Wade and its imminent demise at the hands of Republicans is that much of the argument and discourse and sweaty content production is soaked through with either bad faith or ignorance of the bare-knuckle dominance politics demonstrated in Samuel Alito’s draft opinion.

Jon Stewart made Democrats feel good. That's not a compliment

April 24, 2022

There’s a long essay about Jon Stewart in The Atlantic trying to explain why the comedian’s recent output doesn’t have the same edge or impact as his work on The Daily Show. While I haven’t watched his Apple show, nor have I listened to his podcast, so I can’t comment on the piece’s analysis in that regard, I was a regular viewer of Stewart’s Daily Show, and I think the piece falls short in explaining what that program did well and why it was ultimately a failure.

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