EmirOfShmo

I'm a buyer. Kid is really impressive. He has a nasty slider/splitter today. Reminds me of a LH JZNN - Parker is a bit bigger. 7IP 3H 0R 8K 0BB w/ 57 strikes in 73 pitches.

MParker: 1K 1ꓘ GO Kid has some good stuff. Froze Alvarez on a 2-2 slider for the ꓘ

Trump’s Only Options for His Defense Are Really Quite Bad With the near completion of what may have been the most challenging and significant jury selection in American legal history, my former trial lawyer colleagues and I have been discussing the ways the upcoming Trump hush money trial will likely unfold. Notwithstanding the group’s collective high-level prosecutorial and white-collar defense trial experience—together spanning well over 100 years—our discussions have failed to answer a very basic question: What is the defense? Defense lawyers always need a theory of their case to present to the jury in their opening statements, a construct that they try to build upon as they cross-examine key prosecution witnesses, call their own witnesses, introduce evidence, and sum it all up in their closing argument to the jury. Were the witnesses against my client mistaken in identifying him as the perpetrator? In that regard, were the lighting conditions too poor, or was he too far away to allow accurate identification? Or, in white-collar cases, was my client relying on the advice of counsel or other trusted professionals when he did what he is accused of and thus acted without the requisite criminal intent? Or are the government witnesses all simply lying? In theory, Donald Trump potentially had an advice-of-counsel defense—all three parties to the Stormy Daniels transaction at the core of the charges were represented by attorneys—but asserting that defense would require him to testify, something, as I have previously written in Slate, that he is manifestly incapable of doing. This is surely the case in the Alvin Bragg prosecution. Because taking the witness stand places a defendant’s credibility directly at issue, Trump’s doing so would open the door to cross-examining him about otherwise inadmissible, damning past conduct. The E. Jean Carroll debacle is just one of many skeletons he must keep in the closet. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-only-options-defense-really-140000262.html

He started the same way this year in ST and ended up with pretty good spring numbers.

Interesting body language analysis of #RipVanStinkle after the trial yesterday...

Actually had decent days on Thursday & Friday with 2X the normal volume - probably a dead cat bounce

Middle of the Nats order has been ass this year...

Adding some trial news - opening statements Monday & #RipVanStinkle's lawyers don't have any idea who the DA's first 3 witnesses will be. ...one more

Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform The automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts. Hyundai confirmed the pause in a statement to NBC News late Wednesday and said it was taking its brand safety concerns to Musk’s company. “We have paused our ads on X and are speaking to X directly about brand safety to ensure this issue is addressed,” Hyundai said in the statement. Nancy Levine Stearns, a freelance journalist and X user, posted a screenshot Wednesday of a Hyundai ad running on an X account that often posts Holocaust denial and antisemitism. Stearns has written about brand safety on X for Hill Reporter, a progressive news site. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/hyundai-pauses-x-ads-over-235327239.html

Yesterday afternoon snack...could be a bit more orangey but still good

Wasn't sure where to put these...bear reaction though ...and I'm with Chuks on this one

One of the greatest...RIP Dickey Betts

Dammit...RIP