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6 hours ago, microline133 said:

Josue Briceno, as a prospect, is exceptionally overrated.

as overrated as your guy Cale Iorg? that overrated?

20 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/mlb-pipeline-mock-draft-july-3-2025?t=mlb-draft-coverage

Cunningham dropping to us would be ideal. Reminds me a bit of McGonigal with a good hit tool but uncertainty about is he a 2B or SS. 

yes please.

i just get the feeling prep SS are what they want; maybe they have the $$$ to maybe force Cunningham, Hall or Pierce to fall all the way to 24? or maybe they luck out and it happens naturally. in addition to questioning his SS future, McGongil was dinged a bit as an older prep player, and that is hurting Cunningham a bit too 

I would take a run at LHR Dylan Lee of Atlanta. Assuming Braves are still competing, could offer Montero to help their rotation if Olson and SGL are back.

Sweeney and Liranzo for Bednar. That was the cost for the Dodgers for 2 months for Jack. Both have elevated their profiles since, so can you get 2 months + 1 year of Bednar for that same duo?

14 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

So let's say you are correct: Dylan Smith plus Max Anderson. Plus Mattison. Plus maybe Liranzo, also? Do they take a lower-level international sign like Osorio or Franyerber or Miranda instead of Liranzo...? I'm guessing Harris could talk the A's out of Liranzo and into one of the lower-level guys not named Cris Rodriguez... and he may even add another guy to offset that like Schiefelbein or Owen Hall... But I'm just guessing. There are packages the A's would take that do NOT involve two of our top 5 prospects (per TigerNation)... IMO.

if there was a package of crap like this that Harris could send to Sacramento to get Miller, he would have already made the trade.

I would do Clark and Hamm for Miller

Team Harris has won just about every trade with the Tigers.

But they have never been buyers - at least not with the Tigers - so I hope the winning streak continues.

I think they acquire 2 impact pitchers to maximize the Skubal window.

One of the Big 5 (at least) is moved.

7 hours ago, ewsieg said:

Would be nice if someone broke the cycle and tried to help instead of ignore.

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

whoever comes after Trump has a moral obligation to attempt to fix the crisis that he's creating here.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

the problem is the people there don't want help,

when (probably if) Dems are ever back in the White House, I think they will try (yet again) to help rural communities, like they have been for decades, and those communities will despise them for it and vote harder for MAGA

wife just ran Washington Post calculator, if this passes we will make $19K more while the MAGA poors pay more

i hate to invoke Joe again, but acquiring any talent because you want to acquire any talent is a bad idea, and very Dumars like

Corporate Media LOVES Donald Trump, part 743.

CBS just paid Trump a $16M bribe to get approval for the SkyDance/Paramount merger.

There will be multiple shareholder lawsuits, really some shareholder just go to court today to get an injunction.

Also, need a state attorney general to file bribery charges against anyone at CBS involved in this.

But I am well aware, nothing will happen.

always a good sign when fans are asking, When is the earliest they can trade their big free agent signing?

btw, when is the earliest they can trade Robinson?

17 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

Something tells me that forced labor would be involved. 

for-profit prisons need to make money; ignoring the income stream from slave labor would be a violation of fiduciary duties to their shareholders to maximize profits

Guerschon Yabusele, 2/12 from the NYK, but Langdon is pissing away 5M on Paul Reed ;(

Monk and LaVert are redundant, giving you much of what Ivey does, so adding both might make them a more talented team but not necessarily better

i hate to say it, but getting Monk (and Robinson?!?) after adding LaVert feels like a very Dumars-like move, where Joe always felt he add to be adding regardless of need

still, i am super excited about the young core and would rather rely on internal growth than add guys who are awkward fits

16 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

I'm going to say that if Harris made any offer for Hayes, it would be accepted immediately. He's really horrible at the plate; multiple back injuries have robbed him of the below average power he did have; he is at Baez level from last year, 62 RC+. Owed $36 million over the next 4 years to give you great defense and nothing else. Rather spend that money on a BP arm. Hard pass unless the elite D holds some special lure for Harris and AJ.

5 minutes ago, romad1 said:

My father is 96 but his dad arrived in the United States from the UK in 1901 and may not have received US citizenship (he was a US Army veteran of WW1).  So, Dad now 96 years old may have to go to South Sudan or El Salvador until his vague US Citizenship status (he was an USAF officer during the Korean War).  Damn shame these cheaters, cheating the system.  

not sure if they have co-ed prisons, but maybe he gets on the same chain gang as Nikki Haley and Usha Vance? that could be exciting!

9 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

multiple nationwide injunctions OK for Biden, but not for our Orange God.

that's the whole decision.

we all know Trump/MAGA can find a new low, but this pretty effing low. the combination of nihilism, anti-intellectualism, lying, and grifting is corrosive, and is causing destruction of decency/law/norms/constitution that will be impossible for our grandchildren to fix.

his punishment for sex with a minor is that he cannot have sex with a minor for 2 years?

11 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

I'm not an economist but I'm pretty sure a $30 minimum  wage would destroy the economy in a matter of weeks.    As for free childcare, how exactly would that work?  

well that is the same argument that has been made since forever and since 2009 - we cannot increase the minimum wage because it would destroy the economy and cause massive inflation, so, while corporate profits and executive pay soar, you need to keep working for the same minimum wage that is now OLDER than Uber and Instagram.

NYC's will be $17 next year, so it would take a few years to get to $30

22 minutes ago, romad1 said:

those VA ABC stores are weird aren't they?  Without more evidence I have to think they continue to exists because the NOVA crowd is so damn nerdy and hates that kind of fun.  But, maybe its lip service to the old blue laws. 

I do know that if you are in the parking lot by one of these stores just prior to them opening you see a certain kind of zombie lurking, waiting to go in to buy today's poison. 

i've been one of those zombies. 12:01 and doors aren't open!

42 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Just wait until the city passes a resolution for a ceasefire like Chicago and their leftist mayor did. 

this is good baseline; if they do something this stupid and useless, when he ran on "kitchen table" issues, that would be a really bad sign

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

abandonment of depressed urban areas by food retailers is a real issue. The left likes to blame this on them being evil, it's mostly because they don't make an money.  I'd much rather see my city address the issue by trying to make my city a better place to do business than with a band-aid like city operated stores but I wouldn't oppose an idea like that if the admin is doing the other needed things as well. Mostly the problem with doing retail in the urban centers is security. Always has been. That's something the left doesn't much like to talk about.

liquor is different, but Virginia and a lot of other states have no problem running one type of grocery store 🙂

addressing the food deserts would be great; solution is hard