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Maybe all our new coaches can actually do something with all these Al Avila guys and they might actually... Get better. TRUST me on this!!!! 😉

Two things: 1) In 2023... I don't see much of a choice. I don't see a long list of major improvements - players both obtainable and also definitive improvements - available to us. 2) We have a huge coterie of new coaches. I have some expectations along the lines of what I highlighted in your quote...

Yeah... That was NOT a one-way street. They willingly sucked up to Trump. Hard.

Related (quite the comical article ALL about the pending Hunter Biden investigations... all 37 of them planned by House Republicans...): https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-heard-american-voters-120013000.html

This. I'm still on the bandwagon of "we have to keep Candy for this one more year...".

Oh I think I said this exact same thing above... But... you said it just so much better. More concise and to the point!

Is Chiarot slowing Seider down...? Or, put differently: When is it time to call up Edvinsson and pair him with Seider? It wouldn't bother me to drop Chiarot to the 3rd pairing... he's here as much for veteran leadership as anything else so... Maybe he can lead Lindstrom into playing better on the 3rd pairing...

Really? Please give some examples of this. I would be interested in what you think is a "legitimate fact".

Posted in a different thread... but I think it's appropriate here: A disastrous, do-nothing, chaotic, investigation-filled (of absolutely nothing), zero-policy, near-government-crashing (due to a lack of funding/ debt ceiling agreement) next 2 years would show just how bankrupt Republicans are. Which looks like exactly what we'll get from this version of House Republicans. The economy is still in full recovery and waiting to just take off, inflation and supply-side issues will soon resolve and get back to normal... so in 2 years Democratic policy/ choices will look golden and Republicans will resemble the aftermath of an alley cat fight. 2024 choices will be easy and engineer another Blue Wave. With or without Trump as the nominee. If Trump wins the nomination or goes 3rd party, that wave becomes a Tsunami... IMO. All because these House Republicans will look like absolute shit to the rest (at least 70% that is) of America...

A disastrous, do-nothing, chaotic, investigation-filled (of absolutely nothing), zero-policy, near-government-crashing (due to a lack of funding/ debt ceiling agreement) next 2 years would show just how bankrupt Republicans are. Which looks like exactly what we'll get from this version of House Republicans. The economy is still in full recovery and waiting to just take off, inflation and supply-side issues will soon resolve and get back to normal... so in 2 years Democratic policy/ choices will look golden and Republicans will resemble the aftermath of an alley cat fight. 2024 choices will be easy and engineer another Blue Wave. With or without Trump as the nominee. If Trump wins the nomination or goes 3rd party, that wave becomes a Tsunami... IMO.

I think the only way a Non-Trumpist has a chance is if trump himself gets pissed off and takes his football home. IE: DeSantis starts at 35% and Trump starts at 12%. Trump's supporters are starting to flock to the next big thing. trump gets mad, quits the primary, and says he is starting a Make America Great Again 3rd party. He steals at least some of MAGA out of the Republican primaries, opening up the field to any and all types of conservative candidates. I think that's the only hope a moderate/ centrist conservative has... including Pence and Hutch... But I also think it's not a great chance for them because even if Trump did run off like that, DeSantis or who ever had grabbed enough of a lead to piss off Trump would already have the momentum towards the nomination... The sooner Trump takes his football home and leaves the primary game... the bigger the chance for the field to open. Just my 2 cents.

Well that was a sucky finish...

I still say Hronek is playing so much better this year, even with some mistakes... And that that is largely due to Maata...

Ned's played better... I'm not worried. He's still a good 1B... just a slow start this year...

This was a huge tree farm... Might've even been 40 acres (LOL... JK...) !!! Don't know if they kept it up all these years since we were last there...

If there's some crazy talented position player that slips through great... Not counting on it though... Plus we pick about 6th or so I believe... Maybe a LH'ed reliever...

I don't remember which road we had the 20... I was in the Army in the 80's and then college in Boca Raton so it's at least 40 years and my memory is fading quite badly... Dad sold it sometime in the 80's too. It might have been Shelby Road... we were right next to a farm and in back of the 20 was a Christmas Tree farm, basically... That's as much as i remember... That and Uncle Ken sneaking into the tree farm so we had free trees every Christmas for awhile...

I consider this response to be insulting.

I was annoyed by that too... I wanted to give Bol Bol a shot...

Who said anything about WWIII? Article 5 has nothing to do with WWIII. Try again.

DO it.

We did the cottage thing in Canada when I was small... until my mom's sister moved down to Margate, FLA in 1971. Canada with cousins on my mom's side. Fishing in the Detroit River for walleye or Lake St. Clair for perch... with my mom's brother and my cousin David. Only one brother and sister so not a direct large family... However... My dad has 8 brothers and sisters. I have cousins coming out of my ears from that side... Those 20 acres between Hart and Shelby...? A summer camping trip there for two weeks? Populated by at least 40 aunts, uncles, cousins, mom & dad & sis & brother & grandpa & grandpa and we're all playing volleyball, baseball, local canoeing, bonfire with 10 campers or tents surrounding it, or a trip to Lake Michigan or to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and with that many cousins coming out of my ears... Pandemonium. Every single year.

Didn't help him at all. She's winning.

We did have 20 (my dad) camping/ hunting acres near Hart (south of Ludington) for all of 70's and 80's though... swam a lot in Lake Michigan and went to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes several times...

It's been almost 50 years since I was up around Petoskey.