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Cheney is pissed off that he died.

If being a criminal is cause for another country to take out a leader…. Can someone come here and take our guy? You can have his wife too if that helps. She might pose for some nudes for your troops.

It was pretty much immediately after the trade deadline. This isn’t an “after the fact” anecdote where they bragged. It was brought up at that time. No they didn’t say “we have a plan to make the playoffs”. I didn’t infer that. I brought it up because it was said that all the credit for that run goes to Hinch and the coaches, and not Harris, and I strenuously dispute that. I don’t think anything in this org happens in a silo. It’s an integrated process and strategy between the front office and the manager and coaches, and the development staff.

What a way to celebrate our nations 250th birthday. Doing that which we fought against.

My TN family always wants me to bring stuff down when I visit in April and October. I’m nervous about doing it. I know I shouldn’t be. I got gummies last year. I was shocked how cheap they were. I know it’s cash only so I took $140. It was $23. And I still have some.

I’m getting ads for something that lets me bet on the weather. Glad my dad wasn’t around for this one. They’d have gotten him on that I’m sure. His trick was “watch WGN… Chicago’s weather today is ours tomorrow. Plus they show more killings on their news. Coleman Young made them stop showing them here”

The reason is Bregman didn’t really want to come here if he had the chance to go somewhere else and Harris wasn’t going to bid against himself.

I’ve always wondered if players coming up/out in 20 and 21 were screwed over in ways other classes were not. I say 2021 too because realistically you had two draft classes crammed into one. Limited looks and playing time. And then 2022 right there waiting. Wonder if any potential diamonds ended up fading away.

That sounds a lot more subjective than you typically are. To have that as a standard would require some kind of knowledge of potential moves that he willingly passed on. The only one we can legit infer was when he all but admitted the price for Suarez would have been Melton. It’s too “intangible-ish” for my liking. Like reaching for something to criticize him for.

I think a GM/POBO has a tremendous amount of input in how pitchers are used, especially what they did in late 24. All of the data they used came from the people and system that Harris implemented, no? I’m sure it was a team effort behind Fetter watching a guy in the bullpen, smacking his belly, and saying “yep, that’s what we will do”.

Sounds like timeshare salesmen. I sat thru one in 2016. I had to do it as part of a family reunion at a resort. I had absolute zero intention of getting one. The guy was relentless and played the sympathy card. He called his boss over. Tried shaming me financially because to not do this wpuld be “stupid”. That was enough. I told him he crossed the sales line and that “you are in your 60s selling time shares. Don’t lecture me about financial planning”.

Too many people here think baseball is stratomatic where outcomes are binary. There’s strategy, philosophy, long term goals, internal processes. I guess you are all right. Scott Harris sucks donkey balls. You can go back to the glory days of Randy Smith and Jose Macias. At least he had a plan. Quit listening to talk radio and twitter. Those folks don’t know ****

How do you know Harris didn’t have any input? They literally said, at the time-not after the fact, they got together to plan out the rest of the years pitching plan due to the shortages. Sure it was some luck but it happened and they won the games. I don’t have the secret decoder that tells me which wins and losses a POBO is responsible for and which are not. All I know is since he’s taken over things have been a lot of fun at Comerica Park. Some people don’t like his hair or something like that.

Either way. I’m in favor.

For me it’s a variant. I wouldn’t use the term dishonest directly because it’s harsh but more about people always trying to game the system. A friend of mine is into therapy and all that and she told me most fall into two categories. Rule followers and rule breakers. I’m a rule follower. If everybody would just follow the rules and policies then everything wpuld work out. But too many think it’s ok “if it’s just me” here idling in this no parking/standing zone in front of CVS. and I have no problem stating that I live in a community with a culture where “everything is a suggestion”. That’s how I phrase it. We have to put lights around our stop signs. Speed humps. Cross walks have signs explicitly saying you have to yield to pedestrians. Nobody wants to wait in line or get proper license plates. You will see houses with 4 cars all marked with “Dealer” plates. Or “ln transit -repair”.