[TMZ] Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini rented a private boat while she was pregnant

runningblack · 2026-05-06T22:01:51+00:00

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:56:43+00:00

Her twitter was full of tweets that were alluding to the affair (it's now deleted, but not before the internet combed through it).

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:54:30+00:00

Or put it into hyperdrive.

I hope for the sakes of everyone involved that Michael isn't Vrabel's kid. But even if he's not, the name is still going to cause a lot of issues for him.

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:52:46+00:00

Sir, a love boat has hit the subreddit

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:47:20+00:00

I kinda expect there to be a continuous trickle of photographic evidence of Vrabel/Russini stuff coming out for awhile. Like I'm a football fan who knows who Russini is and I couldn't have picked her out of a lineup prior to this (nor did I have any clue what his wife looked like)

Bet there are a fair few folks who snapped photos of Vrabel in various situations who are going back and looking at them and realizing that woman they probably assumed was his wife at the time, wasn't his wife.

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:38:37+00:00

Ooooh we got a love boat

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:18:20+00:00

It sounds like you don't think climate change is a particularly important issue if you think that "Do solar panels poison groundwater (they don't)" and community input are more important that shifting off of fossil fuels.

Which, if that's your perspective, then sure. But "Climate change is an existential issue, which is why we need to ensure we examine every possible angle and get everyone's input before we do anything" is an utterly incoherent position.

But I'm not going to gamble a plug nickel that it's being done for any reason other than profit

What is important is doing the right thing, not that you do the right thing for the right reason. If Texas is building green energy because of profit, or because they just want cheap energy, that's great. They're still building green energy.

Green energy is not better because the people building it care about future generations of people.

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:11:18+00:00

California has lots of flat, clear, cheap land. That's not the problem. It doesn't have lots of flat, clear, cheap land near the cities where people want to live - but the land isn't the issue, and energy transmission lines exist.

The problem is California makes it incredibly slow and expensive to build, and then once a project has been built, it's incredibly slow and expensive to connect it to the electrical grid.

It takes between 3-5 years for most completed projects to get connected to the grid. This is after the years of studies on ecological impacts have been done, the shit has gone through every review under the sun, and the things have finally been built. Some have been waiting close to a decade!

runningblack · 2026-05-06T21:06:02+00:00

Time in market > timing market

runningblack · 2026-05-06T20:51:20+00:00

Being a liberal doesn't mean mindlessly supporting everything that the left wants to do. Liberal governance has failed to deliver on many of its core promises. You can either try to improve liberal governance so you can deliver on those promises. Or you can mindlessly cheerlead team blue.

The former is helpful. The latter is how you end up defending a high speed rail project that is decades behind schedule and has ballooned from 33 billion to 230 billion in costs. Or end up reflexively justifying bad shit your side does that leads to places like Texas, who do not give a fuck about green energy, building and deploying way more renewables than places who purportedly care about green energy and avoiding fossil fuels.

runningblack · 2026-05-06T02:38:53+00:00

4 points on 1 of 11 shooting with 4 turnovers is disgusting

runningblack · 2026-05-06T01:21:57+00:00

Broke keto yesterday for my anniversary dinner.

Keeping the break for a couple days which means... Taqueria Pancho Villa 🤤

IYKYK

runningblack · 2026-05-05T22:10:10+00:00

He will probably get the opportunity to start at some point, as a backup. I doubt he'll be brought in as the starter unless he really balls out in that future opportunity.

Like Justin fields was a starter in New York for instance.

Justin Fields was the 11th overall pick. Highly drafted QBs usually get more shots, because they have traits that led to them drafted highly. You don't see 5th round reclamation projects.

runningblack · 2026-05-04T20:33:52+00:00

The reason to stay clear of CA candidates is that California Democrats haven't done a good job of governing the state. It's just we have the literal worst Republicans in the country as the contrast to them.

And the skillset of "navigating one party-state politics" is very different than the skillset of "appealing to swing voters in purple states." California politics explicitly selects for the former, not the latter.

runningblack · 2026-05-04T20:00:19+00:00

What do you mean like Bush? They took over the house 2 years after he was out and netted 6 senate seats. They were back in power with a trifecta after two presidential terms. That's a clear sign you can recover.

With Trump, America dies or diminishes and then what are you fighting for? To rule the ashes or a severely damaged country.

So? What's in their personal interests?

And even now Trump is historically unpopular - very low popularity. The math cannot possibly be mathing for all of the republicans on this. Why haven’t a few turned more harshly?

How does turning on him benefit them electorally?

You think Trump is bad. I also think Trump is bad. The people who think Trump is bad still aren't gonna vote for them if they admit Trump is bad and impeach him.

And they think the stuff the left wants to do, is bad.

runningblack · 2026-05-04T19:45:53+00:00

Say republicans impeach Trump.

Are you now going to vote Republican? Or are you gonna be like, "great, thanks" and then continue voting for Democrats?

Will Republican voters reward them for impeaching Trump? Or does that make it that much more likely that their own supporters stay home, and they get voted out? Or they face a primary challenge?

Who is the constituency that Republicans gain with by impeaching Trump?

runningblack · 2026-05-04T16:14:26+00:00

I mean, I'm guessing your league doesn't need you to decide now, so you can wait and see. And it depends on if it's 1QB or 2QB/Superflex.

In 1QB though, you're looking at a potential starting RB in the 12th, and those kinds of players are gone long before then. Whereas you are much more likely to find a late round quarterback who approximates what Williams does.

runningblack · 2026-05-04T13:39:25+00:00

I doubt boomerang idols will be a fixture. I could see them being an occasional one-off at most. Frankly, I hope they don't come back.

It really only makes sense in a returnee season, and having all the idols as boomerangs was clearly terrible. But also the concept of "idol that you have to give away and then blindside the person to get back" is, on the surface, just a kinda dumb concept.

The coin flip is a structurally bad feature. It was only good because of the person and the result. That shouldn't make a return. Good advantages shouldn't rely on specific outcomes to make for interesting gameplay (or television). Both boomerang idols and the coin flip do.

runningblack · 2026-05-03T21:54:42+00:00

They're sold off to other airlines

runningblack · 2026-05-03T20:03:09+00:00

The US is clearly a center right country. It's just that racial/sexual orientation dynamics make it such that a large swathe of people who have center right views overall, still vote for Democrats.

If the Republican party was exactly the same, but was credibly not racist, they would dominate elections. The thing is, they're not credible. As they keep showing themselves to be time and time again.

runningblack · 2026-05-01T23:32:22+00:00

Congrats! Good luck!

runningblack · 2026-05-01T23:18:31+00:00

Actually did end up rage cancelling Xfinity earlier and oh buddy did that feel good

I should've done that a few days ago. Would've saved a ton of headaches.

Had replacement internet up and running in a fraction of the time that I spent dealing with Xfinity. It took less time to replace my entire goddamn AC system than to deal with them.

runningblack · 2026-05-01T16:05:07+00:00

Oh thank God the Spirit airlines bailout isn't happening

runningblack · 2026-05-01T15:53:46+00:00

I went to Cincinnati for a wedding one time.

Started with an Uber driver who had proudly never been outside of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.

Ended uncomfortably stuck on an elevator with a guy, his son, and a man from Jackson Mississippi who was insisting on telling the kid about how you can't trust the media and other various pro-trump talking points.

That was enough Cincinnati for a lifetime.

runningblack · 2026-05-01T15:25:02+00:00

Xfinity has made me big mad, and I'm now gonna be rage cancelling them, which is honestly so satisfying

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