The Rip on Netflix

...a place for me to ramble
They made a mistake in picking Minneapolis. They came here believing that the same old lines of division that animate their entire political project–race, culture, class–would be reason enough to keep people in their homes while they went about their violent work. Instead we are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye. They can sense this.
Despite last season鈥檚 collapse, ZiPS projects the Mets as a highly competitive team in the NL East, and one the league shouldn鈥檛 dismiss
I know it might not feel like it, but the Mets are better today than they were on the last day of the season.