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I'm as down on Duren's playoff run as anybody but 5 years $100-125m is a major lowball offer. He'd easily get 5 years $150m on the open market even with his flaws. He was in line for something like 5 years $200m prior to the playoffs with him being an All Star and getting All NBA mention. I don't think his playoff performance in a relatively small sample size cut his potential contract in half. I think 5 years $150m is reasonable for all parties but would also understand if some wanted to move on from Duren completely.

I don’t know. Jones is on the roster as the resident vs LHP specialist. If you want to flip Greene and Jones, fine. I guess I don’t have an issue with the top 4 as is. I might go McGonigle, Jones, Greene, Dingler, or Jones, McGonigle, Greene, Dingler. But I don’t know how you optimize the batting 5 hitters. I guess Torkelson at 5 makes sense. After that, I’m not sure how to argue one way or another. Nobody is hitting, so I’m not sure what to do.

The problem is the economy might not have survived 4 more years of JC. We were headed for hyperinflation and Carter - and much of the traditional central banking community, had no idea what to do about it. Looking back I find it weird because the one thing Carter was, was a smart guy. If he have been willing to sit down with a Paul Volker or Milton Friedman or maybe even James Baker he certainly had the intellect to understand why it was critical that the 'new' monetarist paradigm had to be put in place at the Federal Reserve. But for whatever reason he never got there, and for all the talk about the Rose Garden and Iran, it was inflation that doomed his presidency. His fecklessness on Iran was just icing on the cake of a failed economic situation. I really wanted him to succeed, but at that point in his life he (and his team) were too sure of themselves to see when they needed to go get some better advice.

Jahmai Jones batting third and Wenceel batting 6th. I don’t blame the teams bad performance too much on Hinch, but he’s getting to the point where he deserves to be on the hot seat for this kind of stuff.

If his issue is that he runs out of steam, then limit his starts. Which you would do naturally anyways. 20-25 as a backup. Can build up from there. Not unlike innings limits on young pitchers, no?

we were all fooling ourselves if we thought they would get creative with duren or not have to pay. ausar/duren/cade is the core of the team. get used to it (and second round playoff exits).

He is ready to be an NHL backup. Late season struggles are either energy or psychology. Does he lose the stamina or does he wilt under pressure? The guy is six and a half feet tall, so it wouldn’t surprise me if his muscles are still catching up to his bones.

Maybe he can apply for some of that $1776 Billion Trump Money

we're going to find out, because he has to be on the nhl roster this year.

At some point it has to be sink or swim no? Cossa needs to just be called up and given the chance to play at NHL game speed, against NHL talent. The guy is going to be 24, if he isn't ready at 24, then when?

Did they call tonight's game yet? This whole weekend may be a wash out.

G We are going down with the ship.

Agreed. But with the track record of the trades Harris never makes, we're better off thinking about who we'll take with the draft picks. I hope we at least sign Mivze, if his price isn't too high. Skubal and Boras are determined to get every penny they can get.

Fryman for Gabe Alvarez, Joe Randa and Matt Drews. That trade was an inappropriate joke.

I get the feeling that Harris might have 1 but not 2. I can tell you that the second one is definitely not a strength of mine!

It goes both ways. If you have a highly rated prospect but you know he does not fit or has critical flaw then move him for established talent. But it has to be done quickly before that flaw is exposed. Not easy but necessary.

Do what the Brewers do. Problem is you have to recognize talent that is not hyped and then trade for it and draft it. It really is two simple but hard abilities a successful GM or PBO must have : 1. ) An exceptional judge of talent and : 2.) Can you make decisive decisions quickly .He who manages change best wins the most.

And we didn't see the list of all the prospects who didn't work out. Like you said earlier, many (most?) prospects never work out.

Long before Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders came onto the scene, there were options to stop Donald Trump or a guy like him from taking control of the White House. The best way to have avoided Trump would have been to reelect Jimmy Carter in 1980. We likely don't get Trump if we didn't have the failed presidency of Reagan and the era of deregulation and union-busting that came about as a result. The next best way to have not gotten Trump was to elect Walter Mondale and stop/reverse much of what Reagan did. After that, it would have been to have had a progressive President like Jesse Jackson to reverse what Reagan did and bring back the New Deal era of the Democratic Party, minus the segregation and discrimination of course. After that, the next best time to have stopped Trump would have been to nominate someone like Paul Tsongas as the Democratic nominee for President in 1992 instead of the Diet Cola Republican that was Bill Clinton. We got Trump as President not because of any one person, though Reagan and Clinton aided in him becoming President. We got Trump largely because of bad economic policies built around failed economic theory. Trickledown Economics and an era of deregulation gave us Trump. Not supporting the material conditions of working and retired Americans gave us Trump. This failed economic theory of putting the wealthy on top and assuming wealth would trickle down the pyramid was deeply flawed and always doomed to fail. It gave us an exploding wealth gap and stagnant wages. They gave us an economy where people's economic means were not keeping up with their cost of living. We got Trump because bad trade deals like NAFTA/CATFA/PNTR with China, guided by failed economic theory, crippled blue collar jobs and hollowed us industrial states. We got Trump because economic theory and big business told us that it is better to have employer-based, market-priced health insurance that leaves many uninsured, many more underinsured, and millions bankrupt due to costs they incurred after getting sick. We didn't get a demagogue like Trump after FDR. Even though FDR had to deal with the worst economic crisis in our countries history, he and the Democrats gained strength through his Presidency. We got 4 terms of FDR because he was so beloved by Americans. And he was so beloved because he helped improved the economic well being of the average American and guided us through a World War, nearly to victory before dying. They buffered the economy with regulations like Glass-Stegall and prevented economic shocks like the Great Depression from routinely occurring. They improved the lot of the ordinary (white) American with Social Security, the Public Works Administration, federal jobs programs, National Industrial Recovery Act, Electric Home and Farm Authority, and more. These programs provided financial security and jobs for people so thy wouldn't fall into despair and become susceptible to demagogues like Trump. And they paid for it all and created financial stability with progressive income taxation on the wealthy and big business. We can complain about who should have run when to stop Trump. While that has some relevancy, the real debate should be centered around policy. Bad policies, built around a failed economic theory of Trickledown Economics, being implemented are what lead to the material conditions of working and middle class Americans getting worse. The Presidents and Congresses who pushed them are certainly to blame.

Its bad here in Northern VA and i wouldn't pay to do anything outdoors in this crap.

1st round picks for both Skubal and Mize? End of the 1st round? That"s kinda tempting...

So, I called YouTube TV about them adding WYMD-20 In Detroit. It doesn't sound like they will be. Does anyone know a streaming option? Does Xfinity or DirecTV carry it? I have 3 TVs and no antenna to get OTA.

Obama seems like a great guy, is a good campaigner and better orator, but his judgement as a political operative, party manager/leader was never in the same league with this other skills.