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A .500 team theoretically would have 33 WAR.

yes yes yes not really compared to Trump yes

Much like her convention speech.

Trump is completely unhinged. Harris has stayed pretty cool as she hammers him like nobody has every done before. Obviously, it won't change any Trump voter minds. Hopefully it can add votes.

The next time the Tigers lose, Tim Miller will start a thread about how Hinch blew another one.

Ibanez is not a free agent until after 2028.

yeah, It is time to go for it.

But if they defer it long enough, doesn't that lower the AAV?

I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I think they could also defer a lot of the money like the Dodgers did with Ohtani.

I wasn't saying who I wanted, just that I thought he might be somebody they would pursue. I would assume Bergman would get a similar deal to Chapman (6 years). I wouldn't mind Bregman, but not knowing their payroll limits, I can't really say whether he'd be a good idea. Soto just seems so unlikely, that he is not worth hoping for.

That would be a Dave Dombrowski move...two days after saying he is pleased with their team and doesn't anticipate any big moves.

If the Tigers do pursue an expensive free agent, I think it would be Bregman. He fills a need, is a Harris type of player and has a history with Hinch.

So, they are 38-50 when he doesn't play. So, they that makes them .432 when he does play and .625 when he does play. Over 162 games, they go from a 70 win team to a 100 win team win he plays. Even Willie Mays can't do that! Meadows has been good especially defensively, but not THAT good. A lot of the wins came early in the year when Meadows was doing poorly and other players were reponsible for wins. I'm going to say 35-21 is a small part due to Meadows but mostly due to other factors.

I wont watch it live. I will probably watch some of it later just so I can disprove the lies that MAGAs told about it. Like Oblong said, Harris will answer questions clearly and logically and Trump will ramble on with his usual incoherent bull**** and the media will act like it's perfectly normal. MAGAs will claim that Harris is a stupid bitch and that Trump owned her. Like others have said, I can't stand the sound of Trump's voice and I am so irritated that America has normalized him.

It's a matter of extent. Most people do put on somewhat of a mask in public, but some do it more than others. Unfortunately, I am pretty much the same way all the time!

As the prior poster, I was using "average" in a non-mathematical way to suggest that most high level politicians are not genuine. I know that you know that!

Your median politician anyway!

His proposed policies are. Who knows what will actually happen? He says populist things to get votes, but he ultimately won't do anything that doesn't benefit himself in some way.

I suspect it is skewed to the right like everything else.

yeah, gas is one of the only thing that fluctuates. It still goes up on average, but it has peaks and valleys.

Interestingly, about half those pitchers had ERA+ above 100. Low strikeout rates didn't matter in the 40s. It's a lot harder (if not impossible) to get away with that today.

The prices aren't ever coming down. They will just go up at a slower rate. Companies have seen that people are willing to pay higher prices for things they want/need. They aren't going to lower them even if economic forces allow them too.

Absolutely correct. I don't think this is unusual. The party in power is always going to be blamed/given credit for the economy. It's stupid, but that's how it has always been. What's going to happen next is people not recognizing that inflation has beeing getting under control over the past year. Then if Trump gets elected, they'll eventually feel the effects of something that was already in motion and Trump will get credit for it.

My father was an artist. I can't draw at all.

I don't think she is totally phoney, but I don't think she's any more genuine than your average politician. Still, I think she does have some compassion and human qualities. Trump doesn't have any of that. In fact, he thinks those qualities are weak and so do a lot of his supporters.