I might have been saving this one for a bit, but they decided to float it again on social media…so I must go here.
This is my review of Avery Yuzilla Yuzu Fruit Ale:
As many baseball fans are aware, they made a universal Designated Hitter (DH) rule a few years ago. For those that don’t know—traditionally the American League (AL) teams used a DH in place of the pitcher in the lineup. The National League (NL) required the pitcher to hit. This lead to a perceived advantage for AL teams when teams met for the World Series and later interleague games since they were build for offense. I say perceived because a smart enough manager can work around the pitcher being a guaranteed out because only on rare occasions can a pitcher actually bat at the major league level…they spend all their time pitching.
Since they did away with that rule and made all teams use the DH, there is effectively no difference between the leagues and therefore Major League Baseball can float realignment of teams based on geography, rather than a combination of geography + the DH rule. Most recently the dropped this on everyone, to a great wailing of baseball fans who are well known for their tolerance to new things.
I have some serious doubts Portland can support a team and propose they actually set up a team in Tijuana. Naturally, I hate it. I am not completely against the idea of realignment though, and have thoughtfully considered the following divisions for Major League Baseball:
- Shithead Fanbase Division: NY Yankees, LA Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, and the Philadelphia Phillies
- Retractable Dome Division: AZ Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, and the Houston Astros
- Food and Beer are Better than the Baseball Division: SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland
GuardiansIndians, and the Chicago White Sox - Just Waiting for Hockey Season Division: Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays, MN Twins, and the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Humidity Division: Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Miami Marlins, and the Tampa Bay Rays
- LOL, TV Ratings? Division: CO Rockies, KC Royals, Cincinnati Reds, and the Tijuana expansion
- The Expos Drew Bigger Crowds Division: TX Rangers, Washington Nationals,
OaklandLas Vegas A’s, and the Charlotte expansion - Spends Money, Little Results Division: Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, NY Mets, and the
CAAnaheimLA Angels
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So what exactly is a Yuzu? Its a fruit of probable Chinese origin that is cultivated in Japan. While Japanese fruit cultivation and the culture behind it can probably take weeks of research and multiple articles to draw up, for our purposes its sort of like a yellow tangerine or clementine. Which you’re probably thinking both are just small oranges. You’re wrong technically, but fine they’re just small oranges. So you’re thinking this is just a fancy orange wheat ale? You’re also wrong technically, but yes that’s pretty much the division it belongs in. I’ll give them points for trying to find something out of the box but otherwise its not really standing out in the lineup. Avery Yuzilla Yuzu Fruit Ale: 2.3/5
only on rare occasions can a pitcher actually bat at the major league level
But they know more about pitches than anybody, right? They should knock the socks off the ball.
Hence the amazingness of Shohei Ohtani.
I think even without my Japanese connection and my lack of interest in baseball he would still have made my knowledge.
His fame in Japan is off the charts.
If you want to jazz up America’s pastime, have the DOJ subpoena MLB to find out what they knew about Ohtani and gambling and hold massively public trials.
Wasn’t Babe Ruth the same way?
No one in Japan really cared about The Babe.
Enough with the fruit. Yuzu, tuna, durian… it doesn’t belong in beer.
Yes. Yes it does.
Yeah, there are way more offensive things being added than fruit.
“The second charge may be even more offensive to the constitution. MCL 752.796/752.797, Using a Computer to Commit a Crime. This law adds an additional 4-year felony enhancer. Here’s the kicker: it can be applied even if the defendant beats the underlying criminal charge. Meaning, even if the jury finds Marc Aisen not guilty of unlawfully posting a message, the jury can still convict him for “using a computer” even though he didn’t “commit a crime.” The judge can then sentence him to up to four years in prison. It sounds absurd. He can be sentenced to four years for using a computer – even without committing a crime. That is the actual law in Michigan.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/soviet-style-trial-michigan-criticizing-politician-horrifying-true/
WTF??
All the stupid extra charges, ‘hate’ crime, weapon enhancements, protected classes… they all need to go.
4 years for entering 5318008 on your calculator and showing it to the wrong person.
Indecent Exposure!
Get rid of everything except the common law felonies. We don’t need new crimes to handle computer thefts, they are still thefts. Then punish the absolute hell out of any one who commits them.
Exactly.
Catch 22 FTW!
Sounds like an obviously unconstitutional law.
This. But, then again, so does asset forfeiture.
It’s a simple game
Getting ready to leave for Oklahoma here in the next half hour. Should get there about 8. I brought along Richard’s Glibs Meetup pins and will throw one in for Hayek if I get the chance. Shpip won’t be able to make it, sadly.
Safe travels!
My current concern is the anemic bass coming out of my speakers.
Fish Blood Transfusions?
Or should they not be living in your speakersz?
Phish blood.
Ted S.:
That seems exceptionally dangerous to give to a teetotaler.
Feed them some bass nectar. May get them swimming better.
Thank you and the other Glibs for representing. Safe travels.
I echo slumbrew.
Seconded.
Yes. Thank you for this Moj.
Safe travels
So you’re thinking this is just a fancy orange wheat ale? You’re also wrong technically, but yes that’s pretty much the division it belongs in. I’ll give them points for trying to find something out of the box but otherwise its not really standing out in the lineup.
I’ve had some good orange wheat ales. Jack’s Abbey had a good one with blood oranges.
I’d give the Yuzilla a try. Could it really go wrong with the can art?
Ein Reich, Ein Volk
IndyCar has withdrawn a T-shirt from its online store after some fans objected to language they said could be interpreted as white-supremacist, a misstep for the Washington Grand Prix event intended to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.
The shirt, produced to promote the August Freedom 250 race, sports an image of Abraham Lincoln wearing a motor racing helmet, with ONE NATION above and ONE RACE below.
Some felt the words could be seen to have a racist double-entendre. A flurry of comments erupted on social media during the shirt’s brief online existence.
“A shirt was removed from IndyCar’s online store following feedback from customers,” said IndyCar in a statement. “We understand that some individuals found its phrasing concerning and therefore have remedied the situation.”
NO APPEASEMENT!
Of course.
Better or worse than the NASCAR noose?
Now I want one.
You’ll have to go beat up a kid in a third world country to get it; just like if you want a Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champions shirt.
The sartorial atrocity
That looks more like a space helmet to me.
It does. That’s a dumb shirt.
“We understand that some individuals found its phrasing concerning and therefore have remedied the situation. IndyCar told the outlet that the shirt made its debut on Wednesday and was ‘removed within a few hours.”
Now it’s a collector’s item.
More prissy outrage
On the penultimate weekend of August, the streets around the National Mall will close for an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix will send race cars screaming down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the Smithsonian, and around the National Archives. To mark the occasion, IndyCar also managed to approve a T-shirt with messaging so obviously disastrous that it is hard to understand how it made it through even the most basic review.
The shirt (archived here) read: “One Nation, One Race.” That no one in the approval chain stopped to consider how that slogan can be interpreted is staggering enough. That it was officially licensed by IndyCar makes it worse. One can assume this was not a one-person mistake and was instead signed off on by multiple people, making this an organizational failure.
The timing only added to the ugliness. The shirt surfaced around Mexican IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward’s birthday.
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One Reddit user, u/persononthedl, wrote, “What you really want is for your brand to get killed on social media at the start of your biggest month of the year. Great work everyone.” Another, u/IndycarFan65, said, “I have a small inkling this was in some way intentional,” while u/BvG_Venom mocked the approval process with, “Bunch of white guys in Indiana: ‘yeah, looks great.’” Several users said they had emailed the series to express their frustration that something this blatantly offensive had been allowed to go live at all.
Still, BlueSky user @tuckgraphics probably delivered the cleanest summary of the fiasco: “Oh my god. Indycar what are you doing.”
“Fans” weigh in.
Bullshit aside, nobody gave this a second thought?
OMG THEY USED A HOMONYM!!!
Do better, the English language.
“Mexican IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward”
Never fails to get a smile.
And you know they are reaching hard when they say it’s particularly bad because it came out “around” some guy’s birthday who could easily pass as a WASP.
God, I hope his middle name is Tito.
I’m about a half hour into this interview by James O’Keefe of Dr. Pierre Korry. Dr. Pierre Korry was one of the doctors who used ivermectin to treat Covid patients. At the beginning of the interview he talked about trusting the NYT and seeing Fauci as a sympethetic figure. His experiences during the Covid Craziness changed him.
IndyCar should get Sydney Sweeney, She Wolf of the SS, to give the “Gentlemen, start your engines” command.
Bullshit aside, nobody gave this a second thought?
When you’re not constantly stewing in obsessive-compulsive racialism, things can get by you.
The DH is still stupid. Nine on offense, nine on defense. Not complicated. Putting a better hitter than the pitcher during the game sacrifices the use of that pitcher. Affects way more that that and those at bats.
Those really are key decisions and I *like* those key decisions. They make the game more interesting for me. I don’t like the quest for home runs. I *do* like small ball.
I’m a *fan. * Big one. I’ve got skin in the game, but never any money. That shit ain’t my concern.
*Throws down batting glove* So there ya go. An opinion.
(Dammit, UCS. Ya need to get batting gloves out of principle. They’re useful! And spite, and jokes, revenge. Many things.)
Ending lunch. Was bagging then they sent me to break down boxes. Big improvement. We’ll see what’s the next AB. I’m a useful and eager utility man. (Maybe not ‘trained at much, but I’m useful for odd ends. These odd end Sats aren’t the worst way to finish the week.
*Affects way more THAN that (at bat) and the pitching and ppl available afterwards.
Hey. We won in ’16. We were good. So was Cleveland. That’s a shame. (Up there, best World Series ever.)
We’ve mostly been good in the 21st century. Not dominant, but competitive.
I grew up w the Lovable Losers, but that’s antiquated, now.
Self-inflicted
Caught in a slow transition from fossil fuels to renewables, cut off geographically from the pipeline network that feeds most of the rest of the country and handcuffed by a century-old law, California imports roughly 60% of its crude oil from overseas. About 20% traditionally came from the Middle East.
For now, none of it does.
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The consequences are already being felt. The Chevron El Segundo refinery alone helps fuel roughly 1 out of every 4 vehicles in Southern California and supplies nearly a third of the jet fuel used at Los Angeles International Airport, Stock said. It is one of the most critical energy hubs on the West Coast. Losing even part of its supply chain places enormous pressure on the system.
That risk is becoming more severe because California has steadily lost refining capacity.
Two major refineries, Phillips 66 in Los Angeles and Valero in Benicia, have either shut down or announced plans to close in recent years, part of California’s broader transition away from fossil fuels. The state’s refining system has become smaller, tighter and less flexible at the exact moment global energy markets are becoming more volatile.
The plan was working, but the world (and you know who) has put a stick in the spokes of their glorious net zero future.
“Lost” is an interesting way to frame “deliberately destroyed”.
That was my thought exactly.
“Lost”, my ass. They threw it away.
It sure is.
CA used to produce something like 40% of all petroleum in the U.S. – guess it all got used up.
At the same time, California has aggressively pursued one of the most ambitious climate agendas in the country.
The state enforces strict low carbon fuel standards, cap-and-trade emissions rules, specialized gasoline blends and complex environmental permitting requirements that make refining fuel in California significantly more expensive and complicated than in most other states.
Oil companies also face high taxes, elevated labor costs and mounting regulatory fees.
California leaders argue that those policies are necessary to transition away from fossil fuels and combat climate change. The state has set goals of 100% clean electricity and a roughly 91% reduction in oil demand by 2045. Billions of dollars have been invested into climate initiatives, renewable energy expansion and carbon neutrality programs.
It’s like they jumped out of the airplane expecting to snag a parachute on the way down.
Let them starve.
Throw in the CARB and CALTRANS restrictions on trucking. Just the 55mph speed limit cap on towing a trailer in the state makes everything much more expensive.
Who’s gonna tell them that there is no such thing? Oh never mind. Let them keep lighting billions of dollars on fire – the smug is totally worth it.
Well… there’s always nuclear.
Hold on while I find my laughing face.
How do the Mets not make the “Shithead Fanbase” Division? And Philly fans come by it naturally as they refuse to sit on their hands and keep their mouths shut when one of the Phillies players making $20MM per goes 0-17 with runners in scoring position.
They move my team to the AL and imma lose my shit.
How the fuck is Cleveland mid-Atlantic over Great Lakes?
It’s not like it sits on one of the… oh, nevermind.
Baseball needs to go back to AL East, AL West, NL East, NL West.
4 teams make the playoffs and play the league championships and then the world series.
Now get off my lawn
No one remarked on my anti-DH rant. I thank you all for bowing to my wisdom.
Been a pleasure.
I’m sorry, did you say something?
I was off playing video games and didn’t hear.
DH sucks donkey balls.
Make pitchers ballplayers again, and not just throwers who can only play a couple of years before they shred their elbows.
traders and strategists across Wall Street have started to toss around “NACHO,” or: “Not a chance Hormuz opens.”
It does pair nicely with TACO trade.
I really do wish T hadn’t stuck his dick in that hornet’s nest.
He stuck it in Stormy Daniel’s. He will stick it wherever he wants.
What’s going on with Iranian oil storage? I thought the blockade was going to make it impossible for them after about two weeks.
From what I’ve gathered they’re quickly running out of storage and will be put in the position of likely having to shut down their wells, theoretically to great detriment.
It’s almost like they want the suffering.
AV Club did not disappoint. This a new anime this season. Very well regarded manga and the anime has been equally well regarded to date. So far a thumbs up from me.
Why bother with Harry Potter when you can watch Witch Hat Atelier?
I normally wouldn’t click, but I’m thinking are they going to take a potshot at Rowling? Here is the sub-head under the title.
They want a replacement so badly. The problem is that you can’t just find authors capable of creating what she created. If this series is using “iT’s NoT bY jK rOwLiNg” as a major draw, it’s bound to fucking suck. If it’s capable of supplanting HP, they don’t need to gimmicks.
It’s perfectly capable of standing on its own.
It has a wizard and his four apprentices, but think homeschool and not boarding school. It also has the bad guys who want change in the magic world – in this case more access for “the muggles” so to speak. Almost a reverse Harry Potter.
So it has similar elements, but is far from a direct copy.
Unless one of the characters lobs off his junk, how do we know the author is not “transphobic”?
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