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You just made my point. If a team has a good farm system they won't have losing seasons. If a team has a BAD farm system than they ****ed up. Whether it's bad drafting, bad development, or traded away ANY and ALL decent prospects, or a multiple of the above... Once a system is barren, AND all your good players age out... there is NO CHOICE except to lose lots of games. If it's a good Org maybe they can reload the minors quickly, and the MLB team quickly, and turn things around quickly to keep the losing to a minimum. If it's a BAD Org (Dombrowski did NOT create a strong developmental team, drafted college kids who would rise quickly for the most part, and traded most of them away, and did not do ANY analytics), then it will take LOTS of losing to fix the draft & development team, and refill the minors. It might not be "necessary" to have multiple 100 loss seasons in a row, but it will be REALITY until a bad draft and developmental team FIXES all of their problems. NOT just drafts better. Case in point: Detroit Tigers under Al Avila. He got us maybe halfway there, was slow in doing so, wasn't good enough in multiple aspects of being a GM, wasn't he right guy to bring the process to 100% (hopefully Harris is that guy) and it's taken a crapload of bad seasons to get where we are. But he did point us in the right direction. For all of his faults.

I think "tanking" is 99% NOT about the money... I think "tanking" is largely something that teams do when they have a barren farm system and an aged-out no-longer-competitive MLB team. In other words, they screwed up. So now they need to get rid of all their old no-longer-good players, trade the 1 or 2 guys that might have some trade value, and completely rebuild their farm system. In other words, there's no such thing as tanking in baseball or hockey. The developmental period is TOO LONG. In basketball, and possibly football (I don't think it exists in the NFL either), yes. Because in basketball, 1 player can completely change the future of a team, and make an almost immediate impact. The rest of the Org still needs to be run well in order for it to succeed... but that's another discussion. In baseball, with a barren farm system, eventually, the piper has to be paid, and that means losing seasons, most likely multiple. There's no such thing as tanking in baseball. Only rebuilding.

I think we're past that point. And I would rather have the Org carry a message that total craptastic is no longer acceptable. Not even as any kind of insult to Tork... but just that the current level of play is unacceptable in Detroit. I don't know how that squares with Baez... there's some hypocrisy there that I'm spouting... but there are replacements for Tork, and not really for Baez. But also, the sooner the team is able to eat Baez' contract and jettison him... the better, IMO. So personally, I'm not being hypocritical... It's just circumstances dictate... And to me, Tork's level of play is unacceptable. Just as was Parker Meadows level of play. So I believe Tork should be in Toledo. Until he proves he deserves to be in Detroit. IMO.

PS: If you're sitting him against all RH'ers... Then what's the point? You're already admitting that he's broken at that point... So I don't see the sense of benching against all RH'ers versus sending him to Toledo and fixing everything that's broken. Partially benching him in Detroit does NOT allow him to fix things... It only puts him on the bench. You can't fix things when sitting on the bench. It doesn't make sense to me. Just send him to AAA.

Who is our LH'ed 1st baseman?

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As would we all.

Right... But what I'm saying is it would be a Baddoo for Meadows swap. If it's Canha going on IL, it's Canha for Malloy. IMO. Of course... they'll do the opposite...

Iron pyrite.

We're already struggling a lot against Lefties... I don't think you can call up Meadows for Canha unless both Malloy & Meadows are coming up (meaning the Org has decided that Meadows is ready to try MLB again) and Baddoo is sent back down to Toledo. IMO.

I resemble that.

But every junkie's like a setting sun...

This is exactly the demographic that I felt would be most strongly affected by the verdict. Biden-ambivalent, mildly-to-strongly-Anti-Trump. Independents. Indies will be the most strongly effected because Republicans (30% of the country) and Dems (35% of the country) are mostly hard-baked in. Energize the base, and pull in as many Indies as possible. Including suburban and other women upset about Roe v Wade. That wins November.

I don't think a Canha injury should affect an Org decision on Tork. If he's struggling and needs some time in AAA, send him down. That should be the Org decision. Call up Vilade. He's played everywhere on the field, including 1B. I'm not going to call out his fielding as good or bad... I'm just saying they've had him play everywhere. If he gets a 60 day run in Detroit and totally flops... then he was nothing but fool's gold. Why not find that out once and for all? And if it requires losing a 40-man guy... I'm certain one or two at the bottom of the 40 are deserving... Same with Tork (is he gold or fool's gold... let's find out). He either fixes his problems in AAA (both hitting AND fielding), and EARNS a trip back to Detroit. Or he craps out. Either way... that helps Harris make decisions in the off season.

Not the Sumo Wrestling?

I would be fine with that. It's all about Cade.

It is.

Lael Lockhart, 26 yo Lefty in AAA. First two starts in Toledo: Ugly. 12.91 ERA. 11 ER's in 7 2/3 Inn's with assorted other ugly attendant stats... Today's Start: 5 1/3 Inn's, 0 ER's, 3 hits 1 BB 7 K's! Sweet!!!

I REALLY like... THESE numbers: AAA Malloy .281/.426/.458 136 WRC+ Dingler .361/.388/.623 152 WRC+ High A Gold .233/.324/.478 120 WRC+ (low BA and he's a bit down in May but still good overall #'s) Campos .313/.356/.613 161 WRC+ (even despite the K-Rate) Low A Clark .284/.394/.386 131 WRC+ McGonigle .325/.414/.494 158 WRC+ Briceno .382/.462/.471 172 WRC+ (SSS due to injury)

He sounds very much Reese Olson-ish. In multiple ways...

"The pressure MUST be on Hamas to agree to it." They won't.

And I'd be fine with PAC's and other indirect-campaign attachments doing the hammering. The Lincoln Project needs to bring out their sledge-hammer. State, Congressional, and especially Senatorial Dems need to hammer at both Trump and this current corrupted version of the Republican Party with a daily barrage of hammering this point home. Both Trump, and his chosen Party, are corrupt, criminal, fascist liars, hot potato garbage that needs to be excised from our Democracy. IMO.

Whatsoever.

1. First bold... WHAT? Blair had a career WHIP of 1.455. Fiers a career WHIP of 1.27. Flaherty has a career WHIP of 1.19. This year's 1.005 closely matches his 2018-21 seasons: 1.106, 0.968, 1.215, 1.06. Seriously, WTF are you talking about? Blair was HOT GARBAGE. Fiers was average, sometimes... Flaherty is a damn fine pitcher. When he's not fighting injuries. You've got injury-plagued correct... But in the Blair/Fiers range having one good season? You are not in the correct ballpark. 2. If they offer him 2 years, or 3, and he takes it, I'll be fine with that. All the injuries are the biggest risk... so it's definitely a risk to extend him. So, if he doesn't accept and prefers FA, then yes, trade him. We'd be lucky to get a good-to-great fielding and above-average-hitting SS or Catcher back in trade... but I think there are a couple out there (meaning AA-AAA guys that are blocked). I will be fine either way... if we get one or the other of these outcomes. 3. I'm calling straight up BS. We are NOT trading all our good players. Horse ****. Where are you getting this garbage? What evidence do you have that this is the path this team will take? Because otherwise, I'm calling this straight up BULL****.

Oh please, please, PLEASE!!!, please... This is the PRIMARY thing that matters. To pierce OZ's curtain and reveal that there's nothing but a grotesque antidemocratic con-artist racist fascist ****wad deuchebag scumbag behind that curtain.