gehringer_2

I don't know how much more of Eric Hosmer and Manny Machado talking about cleats I can take......

sounds good to me.

OK so this not a political statement per se at all, just one about human perception in general - there are two immutable laws at work - the law of large numbers, and the law of decreasing returns. The first means you can make a lot of noise about 'waste' using numbers that seem big, but are still tiny potatoes in the total scheme, and the 2nd means that there is always a point where the cost of more thorough budget controls exceeds the dollars that control will save, ergo the 0% $ loss organization is a mirage - it's not even the target you can/should realistically aim for.

well, now it it's raining on my driveway.

Maybe Inge 2009

More DOGE budget savings evaporating. DOGE's work puts me in mind of dry ice, looks solid, but come back a little later and ...nothing.

enjoy the unnecessary recession Trump has cooked up.

Looks like this one can pull one.

Interesting when you put them side by side. Aside from his salary cost, Pettersson might cost you a lot less in players - because you're taking the bigger risk.

how many hamstrings is that in the last couple of years?

not only 27 players but also 14 pitchers so it's a pitcher that has to go.

I'm pretty sure it was George who I've seen say in interviews that one the things that drained the life out of being in the Beatles for him was when it got to where they could no longer be musicians playing music for people in venues where they could actually be musicians.

It's a fact that you see people differently when you actually see them, and not some journalist's or author's or TV scriptwriter's or Hollywood director's or your crazy uncle's version of them. I know absolutely that I am a different person for all the people I knew that I would not have known if my parents had moved to suburbia 20 yrs before they did. One of the closest I've ever come to losing it in a public place over politics was on a cross country National Parks tour we made a few years ago. We're sitting having breakfast in a restaurant close to the middle of nowhere in maybe Wyoming or Montana, and a table full of locals is carrying on about blacks and immigrants. I would give any odds no-one at that table had spoken to either in anything less than years, if ever. The urge to go tell them they didn't know WTF they were talking about was strong, but happily my sense of self-preservation was stronger, plus the SO would have driven away and left me there if I had been that dumb.....

maybe he just doesn't want his kid to disown him...

True, I believe the BA for a 100 OPS+ is dropping. Keith has gotten himself to a 105 OPS+, though it's it doesn't seem like it watching him - probably because his walk rate is pretty decent and walks tend to be pretty 'meh'

Doing the guy sent down a favor? How late in the day does the guy getting sent down have to be on the roster to get his MLB meal money? Or the service time day?

I wonder if for some of these young guys there Is there such a thing as too much bat speed - maybe a tendency because of the metrics availability to chase that instead of contact? Sweeney is another one with a really quick bat, but he's not making enough contact either.

Make that white blue collar Dems. What had become the party of Civil Rights held the Urban working Black vote but that only re-enforced the effectiveness of the dog-whistle racism that Nixon grafted into the GOP and has been there ever since.

Yup, the only reason US national numbers don't look worse is that importers had gone on a buying spree to build inventory before the tariffs hit. With that being a transitory support, the eventual drop will be that much sharper.

charming

we can hope. Early last year his numbers weren't good either but my recollection is that he was really getting BaBIP'd. Don't know if that is as true this season - maybe he just likes hot weather.

well, I'd make it 4 interchangeable OFs and Parker, who is in a class by himself Agree about Torres. You would think he would see that playing a little 3rd gets him basically 100% playing time, which he can't get now unless Torkelson or Keith really slump.

The voter trade thing is spot on. And the GOP was the minority party when it was made up of what we used to call the "green eye shade' class - i.e. a lot of well educated and/or small business professionals. But I will theorize a difference for you, which is that in prior generations the working class Democratic voter was much more tuned into democratic process. He may have been an a vet that had to go to war against fascism, or an immigrant that fled empire or totalitarianism, or belonged to a Union or VFW or American Legion or a democratically run Protestant Church, or some other civic org that maybe ran Roberts Rules of order in some internal rules based democratic process that gave them a basic appreciation of democratic management, truth based politics and rules based procedure that prevented prior generations of working class voters from seeing any appeal in a national political politics that has gone off the rails toward deceit and what is basically fascism, the way this GOP has.

You'd probably have to get all the way to proving collusion, but it's not collusion if everyone is just doing what they were going to (not)do anyway.