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they have an actual written plan - Schedule F - to get around this; convert at least 50K federal workers from civil servants to political appointees, who can then be summarily fired. DeSantis has given this his full endorsement as well. will it work? I don't know; Eastman's crazy plan to overthrow the government was sloppy, stupid, unconstitutional - and it was about 2 hours away from happening. 1984 is over the top, but pretending there is nothing to fear from Trump/GQP is a really odd take. and flatly incorrect.

Trump 2.0 would not destroy the country - the rich and powerful would not allow it - but it would do great, lasting damage as the GQP tries to turn America into the 1950s South. POC, immigrants, the poor, queer communities, women, Muslims and non-Christians specifically. All sorts of bat-sh** laws, EOs and policies attacking these groups would be passed. Many would be ruled unconstitutional, but not all, considering the wacko federal judges Trump 1.0 put in place. Trump would find someone who would allow shooting of social justice protesters. He would find someone to arrest Milly and all the other traitors. He would pardon OK and PB and other J6 criminals. As a white, Christian, old male, I would be just fine, probably better off financially if they push through yet another tax cut. But the suffering would be real for so many.

some other guesses from MLBTR: Bellinger 12/264!!! YY 9/225 Snell 7/200 Nola, Montgomery, Matt Chapman all 6/150 (would be thrilled to get one of them at this price) Hader 6/110 ERod 4/82 Candy 4/70 JD 2/40 Lorenzen 2/22

Urshela or Merrifield would both make sense in a Canha-like way both are a bit above the Ibanez/Vierling/McKinstry tier. Baez, Keith and (later) Jung are priority guys. Kriedler, Lipcuis, Leonard, Perez and maybe even Maton give them lots of options.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/11/2023-24-top-50-free-agents-with-predictions.html Tiger FA predictions: Sonny Gray, Jordan Hicks, Jack Flaherty, Taylor Mahle, Gio Urshela, Ahmed Rosario, Luis Severino. Harris will not be signing Rosario obviously.

if Kelly was Avila's guy, his performance would have him out the door, but Harris is like any GM, going to give his guys more shots

Canha makes the team better, which is good; I doubt Harris adds much more on the position player side, which is bad

if someone really cared about spending or the national debt (2 separate but related issues), you only have to look at Clinton-Obama-Biden vs. Bush-Trump, to see what party consistently does better on these issues but there is no large group of voters who really care about these issues, which every Washington pol knows, which is why we have the government we have

Voting 3rd party, not voting, and voting for Trump are all the same thing.

what's bonkers is that Biden has had so many wins, and bi-partisan wins. People claim that is what they want - someone who can reach across the aisle and get things done. at worst, he is an average president, and considering a vile, life-long grifter is the other choice, incomprehensible to me that Biden is not lapping the field. I don't know how to have Biden get more credit for what he's done. I remain hopeful that when it comes down to this: an uninspired choice vs. the worst possible choice - Biden will win that binary decision easily; but frankly, its 50/50 right now, and that says a lot about the future of the country, and it is not looking good

for those targeting Padres players (or recent FAs), looks like SD borrowed $50M from MLB to make payroll last year; their Bally network seems to be in worse shape than Detroit's; they have huge debt ratio problems; and now this. So it seems the rumored need to move salary is maybe real.

Ibanez does not have a guaranteed roster spot for OD, but he at least is penciled in the lineup to go North as of today.

for position players, one spot open, two if they move on from Kelly: Rogers; Kelly; Tork; Keith; McKinstry; Ibanez; Baez; Veirling; Canha; Meadows; Green; Carp. Last spot will probably come from internal options, but would be happy to find another one year guy like Canha. Toledo is looking solid: Dingler; Sands; Jung; Leonard; Kreidler; Lipcius; Baddoo; Perez; Malloy; Bigbie; with Maton, Short and Nevin out of options.

Law had Canha as the #28 overall FA; looks like Law was assuming Brewers would buy him out; huge bargain if he puts up 2.0 WAR for just 11.5M; even if it is an overpay, Harris avoids having to give one of the crappy RH FA outfielders a 2-year contract; looks like a solid move; and again Harris gets a guy with the skills he claims he wants Canha gave the Mets about three and a half wins of production on the two-year deal he signed before 2022 before they traded him to Milwaukee for a fringe pitching prospect in Justin Jarvis, after which he ran his two-year total to 4.6 rWAR — a screaming bargain for the $24 million total he earned in the period. He became a very strong on-base guy at age 30, and last year’s OBP of .355 was his lowest since 2018, maybe because he failed to lead the league in times hit by a pitch for the first time in three years. He doesn’t have enough power to be a regular in a corner, but he doesn’t show much platoon split and could overcome the lack of power if he gets his OBPs back up to the .370-plus range. If you’re a glass-half-full person, you see Canha’s .373 OBP in Milwaukee after the trade and hope there’s another year or two of that production in here, in which case he ought to get another two-year deal for something more like $28-30 million.

Add 1/23, making it a 4/72 deal, 18 per, full no trade, pre-pay some of it as signing bonus, that’s fair for both sides

did anyone do a deep dive into why AAA numbers were so bonkers in 2023? or maybe it does not need a deep dive, and it is as simple as "the pitching sucked"

last Gaza election was 2006; Hamas "won"; and then did not allow any more elections; just another reason to hope that Israel cripples Hamas; that would greatly benefit Gazans

the Braves sign Joe Jimenez 3/26M

thank you for this. the civilian deaths in Gaza are war crimes, and Hamas is the only group that should be charged with those war crimes.

stupid Rangers spent all that cash in 2021 to go from 60 to 68 wins, and for what? besides a World Series title, what did it get them? they would have been better off finishing third and further assessing the situation.

Dump can never even being to understand a situation where both sides are happy, both are winners. And this is 100% correct: Good news though:

thank you for this.

the entire Tom Brady coaching tree continues to struggle greatly when anyone does not have Tom Brady at QB

this is confusing: Minnesota Trades Cleveland To Jacksonville