gehringer_2

I think the only way it works is Biden engineers Harris as the nominee, or pledges to resign for Harris after the election, they continue to campaign together. Harris pledges continuity to all the substantive priorities of the Biden admin. There has to be a solid belief there will be continuity. Harris doesn't have time or credibility to campaign on a new program. Obviously some cabinet officers always want to go do other things but you need public commitments from as many as possible to stay on for at least the 1st year.

The thing I come back to is that Biden holds all the cards because he has the pledged delegates and there is pretty much nothing anyone can do stop him from taking the nomination if he decides to. Thus, Biden can basically name his price for agreeing to move. So the real question is what can the malcontents offer Biden as their end of the deal? To me the media portrays the power dynamic exactly backwards. It's Biden who is in control of what happens, not the party insiders or the donors or the media. I believe if he were to agree to go he will exact the price of his choosing and something tells me his opponents won't like it.

LOL, that map tracks the mountains accurately but not so much the economic data. I wouldn't put Western PA or any large part of Ohio as meeting what is commonly thought of as economic Appalacia. This map is more the point.

Yup. He has either been the unluckiest guy on the staff, or he just loses focus on too many pitches. Sample sizes with relievers are so small you can lose a lot of games before you get a reliable read.

And it's actually so much more general than that - it's "True Believer Syndrome" and really, it can be about anything. Religion is one obvious place, certainly maybe the worst place, where it expresses itself and of course it's not confined to Christianity - taking orthodoxy to the extreme is a problem in Hinduism, Islam, Judiasm, pretty much you name it. But it's not even confined to religion, secular 'True Belief" is right up there - Nazism, Lenninism, Maoism, have all taken their toll, and I'd even add Putin's twisted Russian Nationalism as an expression of the same kind of human catastrophe. It's all the same - they are all examples of the human psyche falling in love with the products of it's own deduction while ignoring the empirical reality the universe has put there for us to see, learn, and get with the program.

You can tidy up a place a bit when you drop $500M on it.

I think ABS or challenge will bring a big boost to hitters.

Interesting idea, and in a perfect world that would be the way it should be done, but these Dems would be as leaky as a sieve to the media, don't see how they could possible keep any serious efforts under wraps successfully. If somebody managed that feat, they'd deserve to be President.

righthand batter almost got him.

looks like it.

I don't know if the glove might have cut it or not, but he apparently came down with the yips on his throws so that was that.

I actually like Jim Weber, but maybe Tiger management considers him too old time. Or maybe he wasn't interested.

on Apple?

BP really needs at least one more effective body/arm

I don't know if Andy was just a really bad patient or the Tiger staff at Toledo that year all needed to be broomed, but I remember Andy was just coming back from back trouble and his 1st rehab game with the Hen's he tried to steal a base and I'm not sure he ever played in Det again after the re-injury on the attempt. Seemed like daylight madness for a guy coming off back trouble to be stealing bases, but what do I know?

this is Gania working with Scales? He gets a little more excited than I like when nothing has actually happened.

he's right at 300 PA and he's still holding his own against big league pitching. Needs to keep doing his fielding work though!

I think it was a swipe at the locals by the carpetbagger engineers from the place up north. Oddly enough, I always thought the union staff at that facility was a lot smarter than the management - but TBF, that problem had it's roots in Philly.

At the refinery we use to say Ordegon. The Ex-Sun Refinery is apparently why Oregon exists.

he could have done the same research on google earth.

But how does Biden just resigning put Harris at the top of the ticket? I could easily be wrong but I don't think it does. Just because she's the incumbent, she's not automatically the nominee. Basically if you pull Biden from the ticket I think all roads lead to ruin.

I hope he justifies your take there. For me, seeing JV start up the wing with the puck just means the other team is going to have it in 10 seconds.

Not if he makes the announcement *before* the election. People would know exactly what they'd be voting for. It would be Biden's way of stepping aside while keeping complete control of his pledged delegates. It puts a younger person in the office with his program but kneecaps all the people trying to torpedo Biden without having a candidate or plan, which would make the convention into a disaster. Granted - a very, very long shot, but if I'm strategizing how to step aside without total chaos ensuing, that is the only way to do it. Any idea that the Convention would be some kind of unity love-fest or that someone would emerge in some kind of big consensus if it were thrown open is fantasy of the highest order.

figures - he pitched well in his last outing.

A notable comparison that the Dems primaried one of their most wing nut reps (Bowman), the GOP one of their most principled.