MOM: It’s just a sandwich! It’s not the end of the world! KID: WHAT IF IT IS THOUGH MOM: If it’s the end of the world, it won’t matter that you didn’t get a brownie.

It’s so weird that the Mets are a throwback in this regard: 6/7 starts of 5 or more innings and the 7th was the Senga start. You’d think it’d be a team with ace starters but nope

In short: cheap current owners can remain cheap until the players collective bargain otherwise. Fun.

But it's also then not really true, like YOU ARE HIGHLIGHTING A MAJOR DIFFERENCE HERE

I am going to become the joker

I’m very happy that instead of watching Game 5 on Friday night, I’ll be at Kol Nidre, atoning for all of my Mets-based idolatry 🎃🟣

Apology for this non sequitur but I was just thinking, growing up you had weatherman James Spann WBMA. I had a weatherman, Rich Thomas WSFA. Like I knew the weatherman's name and would instantly recognize him. I don't think my 11yo has literally ever seen a local weatherman. Weird thing that's gone

If you eat tortilla chips and salsa while standing over the sink and follow it up with string cheese, you are doing at least as well as an ancient Egyptian laborer, who got flatbread, a beer and an onion every day.

Henson: and that means Camille would be goldberry Tolkien: what? the most powerful being in all of middle earth played by a chicken?? Tolkien: no wait this kind of works

A useful source for the (so far, non-)salience of this issue:

The Modern Electoral History of Transphobia

How trans hatred has been a consistent liability for Republicans, and why the right refuses to give it up