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Edman desperately and admirably trying to shift the conversation to potential player transactions only to be dismissed by the WAR squad. Pretty sure I can speak for Idaho Bert and I when I say, thank you.

I think its a form of privilege to not understand that many people just don't do well or have the ability to deal with bureaucracy. What if they don't have a car or access to transportation? Or missing required documentation, like birth certificates. What if they have trouble reading or writing? Maybe they have anxiety around people. Maybe they don't know where to go an ID. Maybe they're afraid because they didn't pay a ticket years ago that they'll get arrested. The list goes on. These people still have the right to vote.

Granting that it might be true on some margin, if he truly did not want Torres to come back, I don't believe Harris would have taken a big risky swing by offering a QO crossing his fingers it gets turned down, only to say "oh **** on a stick" if Gleyber were to pick it up. I think Scott was pretty much banking on Torres coming back.

Someone should have asked if he applies that same philosophy to Charlie Kirk.

Gun to my head? Hao Yu Lee Trei Cruz Thayron Liranzo Jake Miller RJ Petit I also think Torres accepts, so that would require six DFA's. Tanner Rainey Sean Guenther Jack Little Dugan Darnell Andy Ibanez Drew Sommers I would expect anybody DFA'd today to be non-tendered Friday and Little, Darnell, and Sommers to very quickly re-sign to minor league deals.

Given that he probably wears a size 7 women’s cleat, would there be any other type of surgery?

I'm not bitching about it. I'm saying let them vote. It's not my job to provide your solution.

Gonna be some transactions tomorrow... Alex Lange's 7 day DFA window is up. It's the 40-man roster deadline. Because the non-tender deadline is Friday, a lot of non-tenders just get DFA'ed tomorrow to jump the gun. Even some non-arb guys may be chopped. Note: anybody injured or anybody selected to the 40-man after August 15 can't be outrighted, so they may be prime non-tender candidates. Teams like non-tendering, because you can just agree to a minor league deal and not risk losing guys to waivers. It also doesn't count as a release, which is significant because players released after Labor Day can't be added back to your major league roster until May. We might get a guy or two on the non-tender bubble avoiding arbitration.

I had a hernia repair surgery that laid me up the summer I turned 9 but I came back and tore up Little League as a 10 year old with a bunch of singles and safe on an error at bats. Hoping Torres will bounce back as well.

Extending him the QO was a win-win for Detroit. Had he declined Det would get the comp pick. He accepted and he is an asset.

he was a 3 WAR ( and I will bravely use this term fully cognizant of all that has gone on above!) even with a bad lower half for half a season. I think any GM would be crazy to be disappointed that was coming back.

I agree that there should not be a cap without a floor, because that would have the effect of restraining salaries at the top end without incentivizing spending by teams at the bottom. IOW, it would hamper five, maybe ten teams tops, and wouldn't affect any of the others, many of whom are only too happy to spend nothing, field a perennial loser, and rack up guaranteed profits and skyrocketing franchise value. I do believe the ceiling and floor should be a lot closer than your example. I believe the NBA essentially requires teams to spend anywhere from a max amount of payroll to 90% of that max amount. That sounds good to me in principle. Teams should be made to spend competitively among one another to remove the natural advantage big markets have. When it comes right down to it, Pittsburgh and Colorado and Kansas Citty should have the same chance to sign top tier free agents as New York and Los Angeles and Chicago do. It's true that big markets generate more revenue, so, there should also be more revenue sharing among teams, including of local broadcast and maybe even some degree of gameday revenue. Of course, to make this work, the books of every team must be open, not necessary to us the fans, but at least to some independent commission appointed to oversee the whole thing. And as I spool this out in writing, I can easily see how this does not have a ghost of a chance of ever happening.

https://themetrodetroitnews.com/border-patrol-releases-statement-after-video-of-woman-tased-thrown-into-car-in-oakland-county/?amp=1

I will admit that Gleyber is so round, so firm, so fully-packed, so free and easy on the draw.

I see you Virginia Summer.

Number two describes his second half. 😉

When we were in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago we noticed no parking signs by the door of the place we rented. At 6:30 we found out why. This was an urban setting. You walk out the door at street level and the trucks are right there. No lawns. No driveways. Less than 10 feet away.

Must win! The Lions will win comfortably, but don't let that fool us that the issues are fixed. Let's just get out of this game without more injuries to get ready for Green Bay four days later.

You are very gracious to keep your real life friends as friends, because that is a pretty major flaw in their character.

He's got a real gift for deciding who we need to be polite to, doesn't he?

I agree with everything here, include, unfortunately, the last part. Salary Cap/Floor ultimately benefits the owners, and as @gehringer_2 pointed out, teams could find ways to overpay for other things (coaches, facilities, scouting, developing, etc.) to gain and advantage there if they're just capped on player salary. I think a big part of what makes the NFL successful is that a HUGE portion of team revenue comes from TV rights, and those rights are shared across the board. And in my opinion there's good reasoning for this. No one is paying to get the YES Network, for example, to watch the Yankees take batting practice or run fielding drills. They're paying to watch the Yankees play other teams, so should not the other teams get some of that revenue? But getting sharing like that will be very, very hard to get the owners to all agree too and you're right that it will require open accounting.

Salary caps don't redistribute talent. Salary caps suppress salaries and decrease expenses for owners. The luxury tax is a soft cap and has gotten more severe with every CBA. Has it helped parity? I would submit it hasn't. What has helped are things like the competitive balance draft picks.

You don't need to provide anything. But please note, all you did provide was excuses with a blanket "It just shouldn't be that way". While you may not want to admit it, that certainly sounds like bitching to me. I come on here to discuss and even challenge my own thoughts. I feel I gave some legitimate reasons why democrats should be pushing to get more people with state issued ID's, I'll take your lack at providing any useful response for what it is, useless.

I really hope Carly hyphenates her name, as well. Congrats Sawyer—nicely done.

I think MLB would love that. The MLBPA? Not so much.

What's your solution then? Just bitch about it? This is really all I'm saying. You can bitch about how it's 'not right' and stomp your feet, or you can make it a part of your party platform that you will promote AND provide services to help people get a voter ID which not only eliminates that first barrier to vote but also gives them additional access to the benefits, both within the government (more representative juries) and personal (checking accounts). You could do this WHILE still complaining that it's stupid that it's something you have to do in terms of voting.

Which is all fine and dandy until it comes time to actually set up the process of issuing the cards. Dollars to donuts they will make the process so burdensome for minorities and poor people to be able to obtain that in reality it becomes a barrier to those to vote. I.E lack of facilities and/or staff to facilitate registration and issuance of ID's.

You mean back when she was a card-carrying MAGA flamethrower? Yes, that checks out.

This is a really underappreciated argument against the efficacy of voter fraud as a potent weapon to steal elections: it's just too damn succeed doing so at a granular level. How do paranoid people actually believe that someone could effectively go from precinct to precinct on Election Day impersonating other people in order to steal their votes in their place? How many could a single person even manage to pull off? Six? Eight at the most? That's nowhere near enough to swing an election that's starting out tilted against you to go your way. Doing that would take a person literally all day long to accomplish. And how many people would you have to enlist in such a scheme to have any chance of swinging an election in a particular jurisdiction away from a sure Republican winner to the Democratic side? Hundreds? Thousands? And multiplied by how many jurisdictions to steal a whole congressional district, or senatorial race, or presidential election? And how could you keep such a conspiracy quiet, never to be found out? They odds against pulling off something like that are so astronomical that it barely rates trying to even seriously calculate it. The whole idea of voter fraud of this type is just so illogical that it crumbles at the merest examination. This is why the concept bottoms-up voter fraud is literally no threat to elections. To cheat at winning elections, you'd need to do it at a scale massive enough to swing the election. Doing so requires top-down elections fraud, the kind people with institutional connection can arrange through dodgy tactics such as mid-term redistricting, or the kind of onerous voter requirements that favor people of means over people without. Elections fraud that neutralizes votes, or that invalidates the ability of a qualified eligible voter to even vote in the first place.

Can't edit for some reason, but Lange's day of reckoning is actually tomorrow. I forgot to mention the Gleyber QO. And finally, injured players can be outrighted today, but cannot be from today until March.

He is having a year.

to be accurate, this is not Voter fraud (fraud by a voter), it's Election fraud (an attempt by Candidates or other people in the system to rig an election). They are two different things. There is even a thread here somewhere about the difference. You can certainly try to put individual voters up to voter fraud as part of an election fraud scheme, but that part still wouldn't be an effective strategy. Voter ID isn't an election fraud remedy either. I don't think anyone here has ever said they don't worry about election fraud - esp with the current crop of GOP crazies.

This should absolutely happen.

They need to believe they are the majority. The only explanation is voter fraud. They are the minority and hopefully shrinking fast and back under their rocks.

This perpetuation of the lie “there’s been all kinds of voter fraud!!” is so freaking idiotic. The amount of time, money, & energy being spent to mollify a horde of Chicken Littles is ridiculous and some brave soul needs to step up and call it DONE. Epically stupid. There is no “broken” to fix.

I think JJJ could possibly be moved if they ship Morant out. Depends what the trade brings back, I suppose.

Because showing ID has little to do with it. Your precinct has a voter role. You sign your voter application - they match you to an entry from the voter registration role, you vote. If someone else tries to show up using your name - it's immedately obvious something was wrong, if you show up and someone has tried to use your name already - just as obvious. No official ID required for the system to check itself. You don't get to vote by proving who you are on Election Day, you get to vote because you are registered. There is little need for any system of proof beyond the person's attestation because impersonating other people is just not an effective form of voter fraud. What few cases of voter fraud there are come mostly from people registering where or when they are not legal voters. ID at the poll gets you nowhere against that if the person is already on the rolls but shouldn't be.

I think we may underestimate the difference between fielding in the majors and minors. When I see minor league games, I notice the difference in fielding between majors and minors as as much as I notice the hitting and pitching differences. It's a whole different game in the majors.

Yes. The Lions will likely win 11-12 games.