Ben Palmer
@benjpalmer
senior columnist for @PitcherList | @FSWA member | health care writer for @daily_briefing | optimistic Orioles fan | vinyl collector
“When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials.” wsj.com/politics/justi…
Perhaps as good an explanation as we’ll ever get of why Trump didn’t retaliate against Musk over this claim.
And not for nothing the revenue it brings in to Governments are pretty miniminal. Mainstreaming this has been nothing short of a tragedy.
Worth noting that research has found sports gambling: - Depletes household savings (1) - Increases household risk of bankruptcy by 25-30% (2) - Has led to a ~9% increase in intimate-partner violence (3) Pretty clear now that legalizing it was probably a bad idea
There are a lot of wild Ozzy Osbourne stories, but his gross-out contest with Mötley Crüe in which he snorted ants and smeared his own poop all over the walls of his hotel room is definitely up there with the wildest
Definitely rewatching Ozzy’s final performance of Mama I’m Coming Home today
Not surprising but also this totally sucks
Sad news: Ozzy Osbourne has reportedly died More info coming soon
Start your Rockies and Astros this week, as Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) takes a look at the hitters you should start and avoid this week in fantasy pitcherlist.com/hitters-to-sta…
The injured players section of the Orioles Roster Resource page really is something else

Source: Trust me bro
Mehmet Oz: "When the program was created 60 years ago, it never dawned on anyone that you would take able-bodied individuals who could work and put them on Medicaid. Today the average able-bodied person on Medicaid who doesn't work, they watch 6.1 hours of television or just hang…
Crazy that this is the first time the Orioles have selected a pitcher in the first round since drafting Grayson Rodriguez in 2018
With the 58th pick in the 2025 Draft, the @Orioles select @MSUBaseball left-handed pitcher Joseph Dzierwa, No. 74 on the Top 250 Draft Prospects list. Watch LIVE: atmlb.com/40jjQvg
Did a draft-eligible pitcher sleep with Mike Elias’s wife or something
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as the Orioles love drafting outfielders
Here’s Stephen Miller repeating Nazi rhetoric point by point:
Stephen Miller: "What would LA look like without illegal aliens? You would be able to see a doctor in the ER right away, no wait time, no problem. You kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size."
Generally I’m fine with this, might go Markakis (or Blair) over Brady, maybe Alomar over B-Rob, but all are fairly defensible
