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Padres want to contend next year w/200MM payroll, but they have many, many issues to sort out

who are you gonna believe? some random 5 year NFL vet? or a highly-opinionated poster?

this is the way. there are a huge number of Americans who consume almost no news. they are probably more aware that Trump is the massively successful businessman who had a hit show on NBC then that he tried to overthrow the government. Was at a party this Summer and talking to some rando and mentioned J6 and he said "what ever happened with that? did Trump ever leave?" literally, he was not sure if Trump was in DC or MAL. Pretty sure that guy is going to vote in 2024. the delta in states that matter was under 100k in both 2016 and 2020 - every vote counts - at least there it does

force-feeding Gibbs in the Carolina game really helped get him going; the Chi game might be a good opportunity to try the same w/Williams

I assume they a temporary restraining order teed up already

this guy will end up voting for Trump a third time because Dems will force him to, but still a good tweet Erick Erickson @EWErickson The GOP is no longer a national party. It is a collection of disparate regional parties. In some areas, the party wins by being tied to Trump. In some areas, it loses by being tied to Trump. What wins in pro-Trump areas and what wins in anti-Trump areas are incompatible, which means the party's coalition is unstable and unworkable nationally. It allows the Democrats, if they are more united, to win nationally against a party divided against itself whose base is chiefly motivated to funding and voting for one man and not the party or other candidates. The candidate is the cause whereas, for Democrats right now, the cause is the candidate embodied in whoever's name happens to be on the ballot.

if the price was 9/330, the Nats or Padres would have locked him up already next Winter, Boras will ask for 15/600M for Soto; that's 40M per year, ages 26 to 40 Judge got 9/360M, that 40m per year, ages 31-39 IMO that Soto and Boras will get well over 500M

No, he's still has other civil matters pending from other women; and he is suing the Athletic as well. I think he'd be a huge distraction, though not necessary all his fault

horrible person, but interesting compromise

Twins are cutting payroll, from 154MM to something lower; ALC was always there for the taking; more true now

one simple answer is the media made mad $$$ when Trump was in office; the bottom line is best served by 1) Trump in office with constant outrage, next best is 2) new dem blood, which would drive some interest and maybe pull in some young folk; and lastly 3) Biden, a really boring old dude

remember that Trump is a buffoon and so are many of his wacky band of hangers-on; but simultaneously, they are all very dangerous

just voted - no line - straight Dem - need to keep just one house to stop sweater-vest wearing fascist Youngkin

this if from the Atlantic article; had to share Meanwhile, millions of voters are folding their arms like shirty children and threatening to sit out the election because they don’t like their choices. Some are threatening to withhold support, in particular, for Joe Biden if they don’t get their way about student loans, climate change, or policy toward Israel. They are living in a booming economy that is outperforming any other developed nation since the start of the pandemic on many measures—and they are miserable and angry about it. Many voters resent hearing all of this. They think they are being bullied into a binary choice between two candidates they do not like, and so they engage in wishcasting: If only someone could beat Trump for the GOP nomination (no one will); if only Biden would step down (he won’t); if only America didn’t rely on the Electoral College (it does); and so on.

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.