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In 2012 (Arizona vs US) Scotus ruled States have virtually no external immigration control authority apart from the Federal Government. Abbot will have to get another case to the court to try for any different result. States have always been constitutionally barred from enforcing any kind of state controls on interstate travel.

yeah - I'm hoping they can manage to score one FA hitter and have two internal additions. If they pitch decently that will be enough to seriously challenge Minny for the division even if it's still short of 90 win team.

If McCarthy falls the possibility of an appointment from outside the chambers seems like a more likely possibility than when it was talked about at the beginning of the session. It depends on the hard liners. If they capitulate and vote for a moderated GOP leader, then that's that. But if they won't things get interesting. While you never know, I think we are too close to the next election for the GOP to want to preside over another speaker election marathon.

Kapler's fault.

Tigers must lead the league in bullpen day shutouts.

I'm still relatively optimistic about the starting pitching. Gipson-Long hasn't proved much yet of course. OTOH we have Alexander and Mize coming back and we are assume they will make at least one ERod level signing. OTOH, I am less confident about whose going to be pitching the 8th and 9th. Foley is a good reliever, but I don't see him as being a dominant kind of guy, and I'm not real high on Lange. Don't see anyone else on the current roster that profiles as a 9th inning guy so to me that's an issue beyond the hitting needs.

True, but in the end in sports you are what you did.

My own guess is that if they dump McCarthy neither party in the House will want to go through another exercise like the last one and some kind of consensus - possibly a non-partisan one, becomes more likely. Both side now have motivation. The Dems don't want to risk the GOP coming to consensus on another right winger, as unlikely as that may be at this point, and the non-Freedom-caucus GOP are seeing their re-election chances going down the tubes with the current crew in charge. This is probably why the right wing will keep threatening but they will be increasingly impotent. As dumb as they are they have to know if they oust McCarthy they have no chance of retaining the remaining leverage they have with him in place.

Taking the whole season, there isn't much to see, but break it down and their runs allowed per game has fallen from 4.85 pre ASG to 4.3 since, which is solidly below league average, so if you are looking at the current state of the staff, they are doing well. Olsen, GL, and Skubal have been upgrades over Turnbull, Boyd, Faedo,

Baddoo had to go during Torkelson's AB. No guts, no glory.

yesterday probably signals the high water for the obstructionists though. They either have to dump McCarthy now or see their threats of the last month exposed as toothless. And if they dump McCarthy now, sentiment against them is strong enough that some kind of consensus candidate is a much more likely result than them getting in one of their own.

Yeah - it's it's not going to be easy to upgrade the offense this off season in the FA market. If the team breaks through next season it will most likely be because the pitching remains a strength, Riley makes it through a full season, Meadows sticks, Keith comes up and they both hit well. They can try to swing a big pitching for hitting trade, but I not excited about moving Skubal and I don't see anyone else on the staff having enough value to another team to get back difference making players. Hinch and Fetter have a little magic going here now where they are getting a lot more out of a lot of pitchers whose trade value is probably less to other teams than what the two of them are getting out of them for us.

Sounds like the wheels are spinning in both chambers right now. House Dems stalling to read the bill, Senate Dems have started a parliamentary holding action in the Senate to slow things down there as well.

Yes, Miguel's mother was a ball player.

No question that two people with a relationship strong enough that they can tell each other to GTH when they are wrong can be a powerful force working together. The question is always how long that will hold as the stakes get higher.

Well, the end of Bo's career was set on a football field. But actually I meant more that the science for the training methods for each has probably diverged in recent years.

Dems frantically searching to see if the Reps have buried any land mines.

Heck, even if it went to court, this case would be classic he said/she said. Likely precious little trustworthy evidence available from either side.

I wonder if football experience is a plus or a minus for working in baseball? 🤷‍♂️

It's been gratifying to see Meadows come on strong at the finish - but he'll still end the season with <150 PA, so promising, but not bankable. Keith looks to be about as sure a thing as any minor leaguer ever is, but that is still something quite short of bankable also. If they sign hitters, I am not concerned with them ending up with too many good players, that's an easy problem to deal with, I am a little concerned that if they sign good players they won't commit to finding playing time for guys like Meadows and Keith. To me the org has already shown itself to be more conservative than I'd like.

Wouldn't they get more for Skubal alone?

As Edman has noted, the risk with Skubal remains more on the injury side than the performance side. OTOH, the docs should have just gotten a good look inside the elbow and one would assume the Tigers know what they saw.

Giants' problem isn't too unlike the Tigers' - they don't hit. How of much of that you can ever lay at a manager's door remains an open question.

I hope someone tracks down where his money is coming from. That should be a much more interesting story than his campaign.

but there is a point of decreasing returns here as well. If you spend 100 dollars, maybe you spend 5$ on controls to keep your losses to $5, so you have a spending efficiency of 90% and 5% residual losses. So if you spend $6 trillion, you should have $300 billion on the table to save right? But maybe you don't, because the reality is that you may already be at a point where it will cost you more than $1 dollar in additional controls to save each additional dollar, in fact you may be at at point where your last dollar in controls is already costing you more in paperwork and compliance reporting than the last dollars it's saving. When you spend 6 Trillion $ it's always easy to find the cracks that the dollars are seeping though, but it is not always true that they can be closed for less money than it cost to do it.