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‘Fox and Friends’ Staged Interview Bashing New Chicago Mayor Two men who were featured in a Fox and Friends live segment inside a Naperville diner on the morning of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inauguration didn’t just “happen to be from Chicago,” as correspondent Gianno Caldwell originally said. Not only did Caldwell invite Lavondale “Big Dale” Glass and Andre Smith to the interview, but the Fox reporter allegedly lied that the interview would be about violence, not Johnson, TRiiBE reported. The correspondent kicked off the interview offering his condolences to Glass, who lost his son in a 2021 shooting. “How are you doing, and what do you think about the election of Brandon Johnson?” Caldwell asked. While Glass replied the election was a “fluke” and criticized the new mayor, he later told TRiiBE that the question took him by complete surprise. “I was upset that he asked me that question,” Glass said. “And it kind of caught me off guard, because I’m still upset about my son.” He doesn’t necessarily oppose Johnson, Glass clarified, but just has doubts in general about politicians’ ability to address street violence. TRiiBE also found that both men had ties to Johnson’s opponent Paul Vallas’ campaign. Glass is the assistant director of a nonprofit whose founder endorsed Vallas, and Smith—who didn’t speak in the segment but was seated next to Glass—was a paid Vallas campaign worker.

No doubt. I am just grasping for anyone. Knapp is hitting RHP well; hot April; decent May. Aaron Hicks? LOL. There are very few choices.

Vest-Foley-Lange get it done, even if not dominant tonight. They would have had a pretty awesome BP if they resigned Chafin. 2.5 behind MN; 1 game in loss column.

first RBIs - keep that baseball!

Knapp would give them a LH bat at C and DH.

Jobe has not given up an earned run all year!

Henning has Langford #1, which is possible I guess

scoring runs is so much harder to do when you have no team power

Ibanez has been in a 2 week death spiral and is somehow how worse than Schoop, who at least gives you some D and singles vs. LHP. Carpenter and Kreidler's injuries are keeping them both around. Nevin did not impress but is raking in Tol; hope he gets another look soon. McKinstry and Maton have traditional splits, so that might save Schoop.

8 pitches means Lange and his 0.93 ERA will be back for the 9th

Yankees just ate over $27M to DFA Aaron Hicks. Schoop should not be on the roster come June 1.

FG has him at 84.

The Nats top 3 prospects are OFs; and 6 of their top 10; i know you are not supposed to draft for need, and you can always trade talent, but they are taking Skenes for sure.

MLB Draft is July 9-11

ugly line up. Schoop and Miggy and Short?

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/detroit-tigers-top-34-prospects/ The Tigers have struggled to fill their system with above-average hit tools. Be it their big international signees or the large conference college performers who they tend to take in the draft, there is only one above-average hit tool projected in this entire system (Danny Serretti). It’s strange because a mechanical through line in the system is the ultra-short, shallow load that usually prevents hitters from being long into the hitting zone. Yet even though many of the hitters above use a short load, they have issues making contact. Hit tool issues threaten huge swaths of this system, including most of the high-upside hitters. Even Jace Jung’s in-zone contact rates are pretty pedestrian. It’s been a big enough issue that a change to the club’s approach to drafting and signing hitters should probably occur under the new regime.

What Seattle has done in developing pitching is what the Tigers tried to do, but failed (so far).

100s of good tweets slamming CNN but this one is good

this is probably too light, but a one year extension at 31M, makes it a 4/80M deal from 2024-27, through age 34 season 18, 16, 15, 31

obviously it is not that easy; the Phillies were a deeply flawed 7th seed and then a month later, won 2 of the first 3 WS games. NYY have won 1 WS is the last 23 years because playoffs are a crapshoot. I think they need to do something - move him or extend him; but I get the feeling Harris won't do either anytime soon

do you mean Wenceel Perez, who is only playing 2b now? Santana and Graham both stayed at Lakeland and are struggling. Even if you believe in the bat, Serretti does not have ML defensive skills. Workman's Ks are still really bad but no longer ridiculous. There is a steep step down from Baez to Maton/McKinstry/Short/Kreidler. Abel Batisdas has no at bats yet for Lakeland. Baez seems to be the best bet going forward; the money is not relevant IMO; the Tigers have less than 50% of the average payroll committed for 2024. And the FA position player pool is bad, not just at SS. Losing Baez and/or ERod means this team is moving in reverse. (God was Avila bad at his job.)

CNN humiliates themselves

I don't envy Harris having to figure out what to do with ERod.

I want to apologize to Coach Tommy, as I thought he was just an idiot, after he stated the 3 branches of the federal government were the Senate, the House and the President. Turns out he is actually a genuinely bad person.