Tiger337

So, they had three of the greatest athletes this century. They let one walk, traded another for very little return and signed the wrong one long term.

I have no problem with the collection of moves made at the deadline. However, the moves were made because this season has been a failure as have the last several sesons. I am not blaming Harris for that, but I do appreciate the honesty from the Toronto GM: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ross-atkins-apologizes-blue-jays-fans

You are not turning any Trumpers. None of them. You need to boost turnout. I don't understand what moves the masses, but getting more people to vote should be be the strategy.

Although I will say that the right wing anti-woman campaign is a whole lot worse strategy!

I am so not worried about their feelings getting hurt. I am concerned that playing their game will backfire.

I don't think you can build for the World Series. You can only build to get into the playoffs as often as possible and hope you win the whole thing some year. Since the Orioles can probably make the playoffs the next few years without Skubal., it makes sense that they would not trade multiple young players to get him. Dombrowski went all in for stars and it made the team better but didn't get him a World Series. It made more sense in his case though because he never had the kind of young core that was going to win consisently without making big acquisitions.

You mean like trading for Guillen and Polanco?

Also, I don't really think there are any metrics that project pitcher performance really well (at last not the public data). They have gotten better for sure, but there is still a lot of variation.

The Bloomberg Morning Consult poll looked really good today: Harris +11 in Michigan Harris +2 in Arizona Harris +2 in Wisconsin Harris +2 in Nevada. Tied in Georgia

Has anyone here tried using twitter without logging in? It is one scary site when I do that. I get bombarded with absolute right wing madness. Once I get into my account, I can avoid most of it as long as I don't click on trending topics which are mostly right wing conspiracy theories.

As much as Trump and all the other turds in his circle deserve it, I don't like the weird campaign for a couple of reasons. First, calling people weird kind of goes against the whole diversity and inclusion message. Second, I think it might backfire on them bcause they will be seen as elitists who think they are better than MAGAs. It's similar to the basket of deplorables remark by Clinton in 2016. It's OK when Tim Walz does it because he knows how to say it and he doesn't come across as elitist, but others won't get away with it.

Yes, I am not disappointed with the return, because it's about what I expected. I continue to be disappointed that they are not in a position where they are getting the proven player.

It's about what I expected. Chances are none of them will be very good, but they all have some potential. That's what you get from a rental. Baseball is more fun when you are the team getting the rental because it's means you are good.

Indeed, that was another fail.

Most posters here would question that.

It's one of the worst things that can happen in the MLB.

Remember in Spring training when the Tigers had too many starting pitchers? What were they going to do with all of them?

I remember it vaguely.

That is the important stuff.

I think Chas and me were both being tongue in cheek in saying that it was absolutely wrong to include the zero before batting average. It is aesthetically wrong, but cetainly not mathematically wrong. The worst name for a traditional stat, by the way, is slugging percentage. as it is neither a percentage nor a proportion.

proportions then. You got me, but batting average has historically been presented as a proportion. Anyway, my point still stands.

I think when people are refreshing Twitter all day to see a Flaherty (or a long shot Skubal) trade and they see a Ricky Vanasco trade, you can expect some sacastic posts. It's probably more humor than criticism.

This is what I expect too.

That makes it an excellent troll then

I would never do that!