The Orioles farm system is very deep

They have more players than they can use who have earned a shot at the majors in 2024.

The 2024 MLB Pipeline list

I have been an Orioles fan since 1976 when I moved to Baltimore and don’t think they have ever had as many major-league ready prospects as they do now. I’m not saying their top guys will be as good as Murray or Ripken but think the overall top 5-10 prospects are far better now.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 28, 2024

Here are the oldest prospect lists I could find – Baseball America for 1983 and 1984. Compare this to 2024. I’ll take the current group. pic.twitter.com/P514k1dPQ1
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 29, 2024

These old lists are so less impressive than the current prospect lists. I don’t even remember all of these guys.

1983-2000 Top 10 Prospects Rankings Archive

Tweets on dangerous Christian nationalism

Analysis by Philip Bump: Research organization PRRI published new data that shows how strongly Trump support intertwines with the embrace of America being an explicitly Christian nation. https://t.co/8raRqPme3H
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 1, 2024

About two-thirds of Americans reject or are skeptical about Christian nationalism despite its rising influence that's shaping education, immigration and health care policies, a new survey finds. https://t.co/5NE0pO7jgA
— Axios (@axios) February 29, 2024

Hispanic Protestants are among the biggest supporters of Christian nationalism despite the belief system's anti-immigrant and anti-diversity stances, according to a new survey.https://t.co/Ff7MEfihqG
— Axios (@axios) February 29, 2024

🚨This is alarming. Christian Nationalists are going after the Politico journalist who has done some critical reporting on the movement, including the dark money behind it. The goal is to muzzle the press on CN during an election year when it can swing the 2024 outcome.🚨 https://t.co/26KXWLFZQN
— Andrew L. Seidel (@AndrewLSeidel) February 29, 2024

Some Republicans who identify as Christian Nationalists express views ranging from book bans to suggestions that democracy should die. https://t.co/K5gTLeHNux pic.twitter.com/VeJ8qW5Vvn
— Axios (@axios) March 2, 2024

Republican hypocrisy on states rights

New: Senate conservatives are likely to block a request to unanimously pass Sen. Duckworth's bill tomorrow, which would protect IVF at the federal level

Some Senate Rs saying Dobbs made IVF a states-rights issue

W/ @DaniellaMicaela https://t.co/hHDGASUKkr
— Ursula Perano (@UrsulaPerano) February 27, 2024

Republicans are hypocrites on states rights. They wanted states to decide on abortion until some states supported abortion rights. Now Republicans want some level of a national ban. It will be the same for IVF.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 28, 2024

Tweet on films with Pepsi in them

I own PepsiCo stock so I certainly approve of this.

I was trying to think of other Pepsi Movies besides Madame Web: I got Back to the Future 2, Cobra, Wayne’s World, Mommie Dearest, but what else is there? pic.twitter.com/FtXm043LzJ
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) February 23, 2024

Here’s a Letterboxd list

More Republican hypocrisy on IVF

Overturning Roe set the stage for the IVF ban. Republicans own this.

You don’t say https://t.co/KvOZ8IkPSq
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 24, 2024

The opinion cites Dobbs, and if Roe were still the law of the land, the Alabama constitutional amendment that treats embryos as human beings would be unenforceable. This decision has everything to do with Roe, which is why Biden should be tying it to Trump at every turn. https://t.co/hRMkHS6g6P
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) February 24, 2024

Never seen a party so scared of the consequences of its own actions. Republicans fought tooth and nail for two generations to nuke federal abortion rights; Donald Trump finished the job, paving the way for the bans, restrictions and IVF changes he and others are now running from. https://t.co/UZrRAcsdhY
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 24, 2024

🗣️THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT DECISION AGAINST IVF WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY SCOTUS OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE

In case it weren't clear enough, the majority opinion repeatedly cites Dobbs for the proposition that "the unborn" are "living human beings"! This is a direct result of Dobbs!
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 23, 2024

125 House Republicans — including Speaker Mike Johnson — back a 'life at conception' bill without any IVF exception https://t.co/ymp9k3dLYR
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) February 24, 2024

He co-sponsored the “life begins at conception act” a year ago!!! https://t.co/T1Nb93rxS8
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 24, 2024

Jackson Holliday was not the consensus top draft pick in 2022

The Orioles deserve a lot of credit for picking him with the first pick. They have also done a great job of preparing him for the majors.

Most people, me included, would have picked Druw Jones. Holliday is now the #1 prospect in the minors while Jones is #78 on MLB Pipeline. Holliday has a good chance to be on the opening day roster.

Here are articles from 2022 before the draft:

CBS Sports – 2022 MLB Mock Draft: Orioles take Termarr Johnson with No. 1 pick

2022 MLB Draft Top 100 prospects: Keith Law’s final rankings ahead of Round 1 (He had Jones 1 and Holliday 6

MLB Pipeline: Final MLB Mock Draft 2022 (Both writers had Jones 1 and Holliday 2)

Baseball America

Sportsnaut

CBS analysis of the picks

Jones went second. CBS states: Jones, whose father Andruw is a borderline Hall of Famer, was in the running for the top spot entering the spring. He’s since emerged as the industry’s preferred choice.

Republicans own the extremist Alabama IVF ruling

The media has not emphasized that the judges are all Republicans. The Republican party owns this.

This one did it right:

"Every member of the Alabama Supreme Court is a Republican—they are not members of some breakaway theocratic faction, they are Republicans. Their ruling builds upon Dobbs, which was imposed on the country by justices Trump appointed"@brianbeutler on IVFhttps://t.co/CQevRS9Dvm
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) February 26, 2024

The Alabama Supreme Court is composed of 9 Republican judges. The Republican Party is responsible for the terrible ruling. They can’t run away from it.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 23, 2024

It won’t matter to the extremists who run the Republican Party. They know their Trump cult voter base won’t vote for Democrats.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 22, 2024

MSNBC: A poll from Kellyanne Conway's consulting group says 85% of Americans support IVF, including 78% of pro-life respondents and 84% of Evangelical respondents. Meanwhile Republicans are causing IVF access to be shut down pic.twitter.com/fdRttE3vo1
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 23, 2024

Everything is not a campaign tactic, WaPo. Consider the possibility that Americans are sincerely alarmed by right-wing extremists declaring that embryos have the same rights as people. pic.twitter.com/13CtdYKYRS
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) February 23, 2024

The entire Alabama Supreme Court is Republican. The GOP is responsible for this terrible ruling.https://t.co/CS37xGGuB5
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 23, 2024

oh yeah just wait till all the dads have to figure out how to use microscopic tweezers to install a car seat https://t.co/GRZibWnqPR
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 22, 2024

BREAKING: Alabama's AG does not intend to prosecute in vitro fertilization providers or families in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that embryos should be considered children — a decision that has thrown the whole process into chaos. https://t.co/VBDy8luCxq
— ABC News (@ABC) February 23, 2024

Tweets on right-wing violence

Your tweet, like your article does, should say that 80% are far right.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 18, 2024

White supremacists were tied to the overwhelming majority (88%) of extremist-related murders last year, a new ADL analysis finds.https://t.co/gynp0y7eFy
— Axios (@axios) February 20, 2024

In @nytopinion

“If you wonder why so few people in red America seem to stand up directly against the MAGA movement,” asks David French, “are you aware of the price they might pay if they did?” https://t.co/nP9sFja4Sz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 19, 2024

Since 2008, more than 70 percent of extremist-related fatalities in the United States were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements. https://t.co/JWAI8j4MzV
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) February 10, 2024

NEW: There have been at least 33 instances since 2020 when people or institutions singled out by Libs of TikTok later reported bomb threats or violent intimidation.

The threats targeted schools, hospitals, businesses and officials across 16 states. https://t.co/T1evKNMj4D
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 7, 2024

Right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90 percent of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020. Since then, it’s gotten increasingly worse. https://t.co/8khQn2JoRK
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 15, 2023

The New York Times Book Review on Larry McMurtry

This is a good column on where to start with Larry McMurtry. I have read some of his books – my favorite was All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers. I would also recommend Terms of Endearment and Moving On. To me, his strength was creating complex, believable characters. I saw his speak at Johns Hopkins University many years ago.

Another Times article on his books published after he died in 2021.

Trump ranked as the worst president ever. Biden is 14th.

Sounds right to me.

A new poll of historians ranks President Biden as the 14th-best president in American history. While that may not get Mr. Biden a spot on Mount Rushmore, it certainly puts him well ahead of Mr. Trump, who places dead last as the worst president ever. https://t.co/B4IPOWo12g
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 19, 2024

Reid: A new poll out today shows that Donald Trump is not Herbert Hoover. He's actually way worse. The poll ranks every president in U.S. history from best to worst and Trump is ranked dead last after Hoover, Nixon, and Harrison, who died just 31 days after taking office pic.twitter.com/NeCUI1SfEf
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) February 20, 2024

My new clothing line is going to be🤘 pic.twitter.com/VIepZ3Yncy
— James Buchanan (@POTUS_15) February 20, 2024

Trump didn't only finish LAST in the Presidential rankings by historians, he finished last by A LOT.
Lincoln was first at 93.87. Biden was #14 at 62.66. Andrew Johnson was 3rd from last at 21.56. James Buchanan – terrible president, was next to last at 16.71.
Trump was at 10.92.
— The Shallow State (@OurShallowState) February 20, 2024