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All of the discussions about "legal review" etc are completely and utterly a wasted circle jerk.

I don’t see anyone is claiming that what Amtrak’s doing is illegal. The closest thing I see to that is users, myself included, worrying about the potential effect(s) this will have on Bridgeport and/or wondering the possible benefits Bridgeporters could negotiate for. All of that is perfectly legal.

Which also goes a long way towards neighborhood effects conversations.

Honestly? A few of you need to read up on property law and how much influence the railroads had on things like immement domain and the legal authority has to seize private property and call it "improvement" so it's perfectly legal. It's been codified by the Supreme Court in recent decades too. If a railroad wants to do something it is legally near impossible to stop.

Guy can flatout hit. There was space for him on our roster, and relatively soon.

Mully and Marshall Harris let go today Barrett MediaMike Mulligan, Marshall Harris Depart 104.3 The Score in..."Mulligan departs after two decades with the Chicago sports station. Harris joined The Score on a full time basis in 2024."

I found that was already happening, at least to my ears. I like Beckham better, but also don’t really care who the announcers are.

He's even started repeating s%*# that Stone repeats over and over. The other day when I heard him say "Trevor Richards is always willing to take the baseball" for like the third time, I decided to just mute him for the rest of the year. I didn't like Jason either. I just prefer when there's two ex ball players up there

I know it’s currently a railyard, but it’s specifically a mostly unused railyard that’s a world away from what Amtrak is describing as its replacement. I’m not anti-Amtrak by any means, but residents are justified in worrying about the effects of a 24/7 maintenance facility going up right next to them. This next part is a bit speculative, but Amtrak is already saying that Lots C and G will be required to construct the facility. There’s been some wonder as to what’s going to happen to those lots after the Sox move. It seems that writing is starting to appear on the wall.

You strike me as somebody who is familiar with how this stuff works. Are/were you in any of the industries that are involved in land transactions like this? Piggybacking on what you said - a maintenance facility is easily preferable to a freight yard from an environmental standpoint. You'll get much less diesel exhaust and particulate matter emissions from commuter trains compared to all that freight traffic. That's by far the most impactful thing to the health of residents. The maintenance facility will have petroleum products and solvents and such, but we don't drink the groundwater here so it doesn't really matter.

Sam against LP 225/326/263 Braden against LP 161/264.290 If the Mets bring in a RP Sam & Braden can come off the bench. Both these guys need to work on this in the off season.

Exactly. Honestly nothing could be more distortionary than Soxmachine giving voice to the people that show up to meetings like these. As someone that goes to many of them as a freak that actually believes towns and cities can change in good and bad ways, it is always the same thing: 1) Change is proposed that will be broadly beneficial but narrowly, minorly painful, and never to their explicit property 2) Small group of people show up from the narrowly painful group 3) They claim that everything is moving too fast, no matter how fast it is moving 4) They claim they will need more studies because of noise, shadows, the environment and no amount of studies are never enough 5) They stall and cry that it is being done against the will of the people and try to get a referendum set-up for off-election waves 6) They scream to anyone they can listen to about how it will ruin everything, how no one has considered anything, and try to get it to stall and stall and stall 7) And boy do they vote. This is particularly annoying to me because, on net, if you lived in bridgeport and expect to keep working for the sox - this is...not losing you much in terms of jobs or commute? In fact perhaps a net-new for jobs when combined with the chicago Fire. The proposed land, as ever, is never raising historical artifacts, it's just repurposing a railway. Now bridgeport is no longer dealing with gameday traffic, and can infill with more year round businesses or park space, and likely could get a decent bit of investment to do so (university nearby/highway).

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He definitely needs a breather

You know that the land they're looking at is currently a freight yard? It's not going to be all that different to be honest.

"Acuna's revenge"...seems like another tipping point in the season. So far they have been pretty darned resilient...remaining parked between 2 to 7 games over .500 for what feels like months now.

Both in the line-up would be preferable.

I'd much rather watch Antonacci strike out than watch Grichuk double.

Tonight will be very interesting.

Somehow surprising that the Angels lineup doesn't consist of like 6 rookies. Less surprising that Mo Baller has hit 0 for them and is OPSing under .400.

Oh, for the days when mere billionaires were hated...did it all start with Mr. Potter in Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life"? Now you pretty much have to be a deca-billionaire or PE behemoth to even register on the public radar. You've recently got the likes of Bezos and the Kushners with pretty much zero knowledge of sports collecting teams like trophies just for prestige or as a cocktail party talking point. They only look at it as a way to diversify their portfolios/tax write off and way to potentially out return index funds...as long-term bond markets start to crash in the face of another yet $20+ trillion in crushing debt added in the past decade.

Acuna, Doyle, and Rogers all in a row is awful. And they're not even the last 3 hitters in the lineup.

But at least it's not an even more evil data center...? https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/sports/mets-fans-startled-by-hand-creeping-through-hole-in-citi-field-stands-to-snag-peanuts-hot-dog/