Seattle 2, Sacramento 1 (2-2)

It’s increasingly funny to me that I opened the year with a post about dismissing past narratives. Because all we’ve really got are past narratives. Which one do you want? One-Run Magic? Julio the Savior? Power Outage at T-Mobile? Let’s…

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Sacramento 4, Seattle 2 (1-2)

I don’t want to dwell on this one. This was about as frustrating as a night of baseball can get. Some nights, your team gets blown out (last night). Some nights, your team gets shut out (last night). Some nights,…

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Sacramento 7, Seattle 0 (1-1)

You gotta score a run. It’s a simple, painfully obvious principle, but one that I return to frequently while watching this incarnation of the Seattle Mariners. By “this incarnation,” I mean the 2020s team (2021-?) that wins frequently with crafty…

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Seattle 4, Sacramento 2 (1-0)

Baseball is a game of narratives. It’s what we love about it, the storytelling, the slowly built drama that rises and falls over 2-3 hours and 162 games, a season so long it essentially doubles the nearest competitor in professional…

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Yes, Insurance is a Scam

Apparently, the notion that car insurance is a scam has been making the rounds on the Internet. Folks, I was born for this moment in history, because as friends and frequent readers will know, I have been arguing that all…

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An Open Letter to Single-Issue Voters

Single-issue voters for stopping the genocide in Gaza should vote for Kamala Harris. Counter-Argument #1: “Harris and Trump are the same on this issue” Answer:Harris called for a ceasefire before any other Democratic leader. She talks about the need to…

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A Jump-Ball with Hitler

Throughout a lot of my political life, I have flirted with accelerationism. The idea that we can make the most progress in American society by allowing conditions to devolve enough that popular will demands radical change. The problem of course,…

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An Open Letter to Democrats

It may be hard to remember or even believe at this point, but Biden never trailed Trump in 2020 aggregate polling. The closest that race ever got was on April 12, just after Bernie dropped out, when Biden led by…

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Walpole Tailors

I drove my son to Trader Joe’s late this afternoon, through the windy northwestern suburbs of Philadelphia. We laboriously crossed the Schuylkill on the elegant but congested Green Lane Bridge, then wended through the glorious houses of the region that…

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The Murder Game

In one of our last political discussions, my father was trying to persuade me that Putin was miscast as the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He had a penchant for contrarianism, especially when it comes to trusting the American perspective…

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