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you should be, but that is also the answer. Hard to imagine anyone that voted against him in 2020 will not do so again. Or to put it another way - what voters/constituencies can anyone identify that are growing or that will vote for Trump in '24 that didn't in '20?

Desantis is toast. The nomination is Trump's. He can't lose the nomination and he can't win the election. The drama in 2024 will be over Congress, and whether Trump actually ends up convicted somewhere before the voting so we have the first Federal Election in history with a convicted felon on the ballot.

Avila lacked imagination - never saw that he had alternatives. They could have at least tried to sign JD to a reasonable extension. It didn't matter if was more than they wanted to pay because as a controlled high value hitter they could have moved in him the following off-season or even in a year at the next deadline for a better return as controlled player. As long as the contract was reasonable enough that he was stil tradeable, the Tigers weren't going to have to pay much of it.

Here is the story as recorded at SABR.org "Price began his career with Kingsport in the Appalachian League in 1960, playing third base and first base. He started catching in ’61 with Grand Forks of the old Northern League, where he spent two years and started developing some power. In 1963, Price began catching full-time, earning Carolina League Player of the Year honors at Kinston while hitting .311 with 19 home runs and a league-leading 109 RBI. At that point, however, the catching prospect’s career stalled. Sent by Pittsburgh to Triple A, he spent three years with Columbus of the International League while awaiting his chance to break into the Pirates’ lineup. After losing out to Jerry May in 1967 in the battle for the third catcher’s slot at the end of spring training, Price told the Pirates that he wouldn’t go back to Columbus again. Since the Tigers had been asking about Price for a couple of years, the Pirates promptly sold him to Detroit for a reported $50,000 on April 7."

and then there is the whole Murdoch saga overlay. Rupert has repeatedly been reported to be "done" with Trump, but he seems to get pretty flexible when the bottom line is involved (of course why a 90 yr old man still cares how much money he dies with seems beyond any logic). And at some point relatively soon he won't be running the show. Will Lachan be Continuity or has Cobb's team implanted Lachan with the idea he has to create a new and different thing?

@chasfh - some results from NYT/Sienna poll. Trump may be claiming Fox is hostile, but so far Fox nation is still absolutley with Trump.

German NTV now reporting that the yacht supposedly linked to the Nord Stream sabotage, purportedly in the control of Ukranians, was actually in the possesion of a Russian woman well connected to Putin's gov. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Nord-Stream-Sprengung-Die-Spur-fuehrt-nach-Moskau-article24250566.html

And make sure you don't forget: "On DL at A ball 7 yrs later" on your prospect Bingo card. Could be a winner.

So much for the the Musk X https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/31/elon-musks-x-corp-seen-removing-giant-glowing-sign-in-san-francisco-.html

I would not be surprised at all if you are correct, I just wonder because Fox has spent so many years honing their appeal to their particular market - they know it very well and their mutual attachment goes back far further than DJT. As long as Fox keeps using bouncy blondes to report to old white men about all their angst inducing issues, maybe viewers they lose on transient political anger end up filtering back anyway because it's still home culturally.

I notice that in this report by the Hill, that the one Alabama Pol they don't mention is Tuberville. I wonder why? (Hint - It woudn't be because it just might be TT's fault? - noo, a weakling senile Pinko Dem Prez could never play that kind of political hardball, could he?) biden-overturns-trump-decision-to-move-space-command-hq-from-colorado-to-alabama

Always!

Depends on what pitches he's giving up the bombs on. If he's hanging breaking balls and they're getting hit, that happens to everyone and it would bother me less than if his FB is getting hammered because it has no life and he can only use on the corners.

It the rift continues it will be interesting to see how it shakes out. I could believe the Fox viewers' attachment to Fox's world view, and thus the durability of their ratings. might well transcend Trump- in which case Fox may not feel the need to make up to Trump as a news network - and of course there would still be Trump supporters among the on-air staff even if they don't. The Fox News viewer could go vote for Trump and keep watching a less sympathetic to Trump Fox network just as reliably as ever. What's one more cognitive dissonance to add to the list?

Yup. Even in his last successful outing I don't think I saw him throw more than 2 FB for strikes. Batters were helping him out not forcing him to throw a strike. He's going to get less and less of that if his FB command doesn't get better.

I have heard enough other players talk about observing Cabrera and they describe him being very thorough and systematic. It's true players tend to talk up their mates, but in this case, they could as easily be saying say "He's amazing, how he doesn't seem to have to work at it at all" but I've never heard that, so I do tend to believe he is capable of being 'studious.' Of course your point stands in the sense that the bigger question is "does he want to" when it comes to anything besides hitting. As I noted, my skepticism would also go to his reluctance to become more fluent in English. Latin players serious about wanting public/semi-public facing post playing careers in the US usually get serious about becoming more fluent than Miguel ever has bothered with. That's not an issue if he wants to stay in the game in S/C. America, but I don't think he wants to leave Miami either. Could be his life plan was go back to VZ and he is stuck for now by the fact that the political situation there is still so bad.

Detroit population peaked as of the 1950 census at about 1.8M, IIRC that made D the 5th largest city in the country at that point (after NYC/CHI/LA/PHIL) It's been falling ever since - 630K as of the 2020 census. Of course most of the SE MI population is still here - it's just not inside the city limit anymore.

it's a good question. Maybe in part because he's never become a willing English speaker, he's still an enigmatic character. There is the publc personna that argues the 'doesn't care to work' side, but OTOH, over the years other players also seem to describe him fairly often as a pretty disciplined guy - so IDK.

It is depressing that given the draft resources Avila committed to pitching how thin Tiger MiLB pitching is again already.

Surprised looking over that list how many players Holland drafted did at least make the NHL. Just too many that weren't very good.

Player notes must really be fun when they play the White Sox.

Moderation in all things - you can't win without either.

!? You get an A for that one Perfesser. yes. and....

Leadership in the B10 isn't abyssmal? Who knew? When you have enough income, competence matters a lot less! >california is still a top 3 recruiting ground for football players By population they'd be #1 by 20%

that's true. The original B10 and Pac10 were AAU conferences. That became part of the controversy over Nebraska, which had been an AAU member but got booted before switching conferences to the B10. The B10 consoled itself that NEB was booted for purely 'political' reasons so it wasn't really making an exception to bring Neb in. It's still the only non-AAU member of the conference. 50-60 years ago the you might have been able to make a case that the AAU schools did run their programs to different standards, but that was ancient history by the time the PAC10 decisisions referenced above were being made (~2011)