Theo Gerome

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Writes baseball at http://crawfishboxes.com & http://hotcornerharbor.com, plus pop culture at http://hchoutofleftfield.com and music at http://theogerome.bandcamp.com. He/him

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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

Huh

Immaculate Grid score today was decent, but I mostly tried for a good collection of names. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Doug Mienkiewicz, AJ Pierzynski, Rob Mackowiak, Mark Grudzielanek...

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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Every album from The Decemberists

Rarity score of 5, tying my personal best! A nice birthday present to me :)

Immaculate Grid, rarity score of 8. Huh. Wasn't expecting this set-up to be a single-digit day.

Rarity score of 11 for today's Chicago-themed Immaculate Grid

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Propublica has evidence Trump is bribing witnesses. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaignwww.propublica.org Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.

More news in baseball retired numbers: the Tigers are retiring #10 for Jim Leyland. That makes for three on the year, after Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden for the Mets

Rarity score of 16. Another pretty solid result today, I think!

Rarity score of 11. Always fun when one of my traditional "safe" picks ends up being the thing that ups my score

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For the weekend, I'm bumping my new playlist and article!

First new post in a while! As an early tenth-anniversary post(!!!), I've got a big playlist of music up over at Out of Left Field, as well as thoughts on a lot of it! www.hchoutofleftfield.com/2024/05/musi...

Music Monday: Start of 2024 Playlist (Tenth Anniversary Edition!!)www.hchoutofleftfield.com Just in the nick of time, we have a Music Monday update with my second playlist of 2024! This is another big one (covering my listening from...

Rarity score of 10 today, pretty solid!

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Immaculate Grid results: Ben Broussard/Hisashi Iwakuma/Jason Bay/Jay Bell/John Candelaria/Rob Mackowiak/Buddy Bell/Aaron Sanchez/LJ Hoes

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"Trump’s trial matters because it is emblematic of the corruption that utterly saturated his business operations and presidency." prospect.org/politics/202...

Why You Should Care About the Trump Trialprospect.org Any other politician in American history would be ruined by this story. Trump should be.

Tunic is a fun game, but writing about it results in the dual challenges of 1) a lot of people have written about this already, so what’s your new angle? 2) don’t you have, like, 3 other game articles you haven’t finished?

Rarity score of 5, a new personal best! Helps that this was a good set of categories that lined up with some stuff that I've been researching.

Rarity score of 21. Man, I just wasn't counting on Edwin Jackson being the one messing up this score; I'm always remembering Norm Cash and Chet Lemon when they don't work, but I forget them here...

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For years, the right wing justices have seen many things—union organizing, environmental regulations, voting rights—as harbingers of tyranny. But a legal theory that would lead to actual tyranny didn’t sound so bad to them. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Rarity score of 105. It was going so well, and then right at the end I forgot that Jim Edmonds didn't reach 2000 hits...

Rarity score of 15 today. The 200 Wins thing was convenient, since I'm working on a piece that focuses partly on guys in the 200-300 range.

Rarity score of 22 on the Immaculate Grid. Can't believe Jesus Aguilar wound up being the one to wreck me on rarity

Rarity score of 47 today. I think I need to start leaning on that 2000-3000 strikeout range a little more, I intuitively go to 3000+ K guys, but they're all a little too common now.

Rarity score of 14 on today's Immaculate Grid! In retrospect, I'm a little surprised it wasn't weirder for April Fools Day. I guess that was yesterday's grid?

Rarity score of 16, not bad! The Martin pick pumped things up; I probably should have thought harder about that one, but it was one of my earlier squares, so I didn't know my other picks would be this good.

Another strong Immaculate Grid day, rarity score of 8. It's funny, I thought for sure Biggio would tank my score, since that happened when I tried him for a catcher category a bit ago, but I guess more people forget his outfield days