gehringer_2

The script writes itself!

story on Yahoo news page about Federal workers POd at the buyout offer starting to band together to stay and create a real deep state within the bureaucracy who will refuse not to do their jobs.

You missed the DEI ATC controller.

True, but it doesn't have to be. They could push Gleyber to more DHing so Keith could spend more time at 2B and the D would be better. They probably won't, but they could. They have too many 2Bs. Jung may hit more with his wrist fixed, but 2B is his best position. Keith's bat is more valuable as a 2B then a 1B, and they have Gleyber who it is said is not willing to change positions. Which actually makes the fact they they pursued him all the stranger since they value multi-positional players so highly. I know I should stop complaining, maybe he'll OPS 950 and Tigers will win the W.S. but until then I'm never going to have a good feeling about that signing.

I wouldn't be crushed going into the season with only one bat added just because our hitters are at stages in their careers where more are likely to be better next season than worse - although that said - catcher could be pretty bad. Dingler has shown nothing againt MLB pitching at all - would have liked to see some kind of better backstop at backstop... But just to be the broken record again - I want more added to the starting staff than Cobb and the door is about closed on that unless Flaherty drops in our lap and I think the odds of that are <5%. As you note - a trade seems the only major thing that could happen but Harris will really have to make a jump out of his recent habits to start trading young talent.

well that's an interesting question then. Could he file a grievance that he should have been put back on the DL and not moved? Or maybe after 10yrs(~) in our system he's just as ready to go and try another org even if he had a case he could have pursued?

From what I could gather she had only served 30 days over Jan 6. The accident she was sentenced for was in 2022 so she's been out for a while.

Makes perfect sense really - If they can't get rid of birthright citizenship they will try to deport any pregnant immigrant to accomplish the same thing.

Wasn't that supposed to be a tribute to someone, but I don't remember who....Tiant maybe?

I'd have preferred Kreidler as well, as I do think Faedo will get picked up. He was walking too many but the rest of his numbers weren't bad - so exactly the kind of guy you take a flyer on. But I get the logic, if Sweeney gets hurt and Baez doesn't make it back or remains ineffective, the cupboard is too bare to let Kreidler go, though I have a hard time seeing him get claimed as well.

yes - Faedo's MiLB page says he was dl'd in August and re-activated Nov4

IIRC correctly, the whole raison-d'etre of the battles at Lexington/Concord was that each side wanted to be first to secure the colony's cache of cannon. The Brits marched out to get them and the colonists decided to stop them.

It's an interesting question because you have to make an assignment of positional value even if you don't consider your own team's positional need, and that seems a loophole big enough to drive a lot of subjective influence through. It's likely to be the case that the 2nd best QB in a draft ranks higher than the #1 OG in a draft by overall BPA, but is there really a solid way to determine if the best OT in the draft is BPA wrt the best WR?

LOL - AP report said the aircraft "sustained significant damage." I guess that's one way to describe 'totally destroyed'

LOL - I remember when Verlander has having his abdominal issues it was the early day of Brook's Baseball pitch tracking and his 'change-up' numbers would be way up during the game because the system didn't believe 90mph was JV's fastball - though it was! They'd often correct the reports a day or two later.

this is true

IIRC - (and I'm pretty sure this was Bonderman and not one of the other pitchers that had thoracic outlet surgery) but was not very widely reported that there was some nerve damage done during the outlet surgery, so he had numbness in his fingers afterward, and that makes it very hard to command any 'feel' type pitches. Since damaged long nerves grow back very slowly, something like about 6" per year, the best case was it was going to be 2-3yrs before he would even know if he was going to get back full feeling in his fingers.

This will end up in court of course. The exec has broad powers over immigration policy but selective enforcement based on exercise of free speech under the 1st amendment still might not pass even this SCOTUS.

The thing with Trump is that at his core, he craves approval. He basks in MAGA approval but anytime he does something that evokes a big enough backlash in the general population (beyond what he can chalk up to just the woke libs) he backs off.

He was a fireballer a few years ago, not so much now.

yeah - that's the short form version! 🎱

they're too busy watching the game data on their phones or texting to get rowdy.

I think that just because the Mets haven't settled at 1b and they are always willing to spend stupid to get what they want. I don't know that there has been anything on our side though.

You have to be a little bit fair though. Clinton would never have been elected if he had campaigned on the above. Reagan's policies were wildly popular because the long term effects hadn't shown up yet, so the Dems either had to get on the bus or continue to lose elections. The only reason GHWB lost is that by acceding to tax increases he was considered less Reaganite on the economy that where Clinton was able to triangulate himself. BTW 'Triangulation' was exactly the buzzword of Clinton's "New Democrats". Sometime society is just at fault for getting what it wants. I suppose you can always come back to society making bad decisions because of a flawed media system or a lousy education system, but those aren't problems a candidate can solve in the election cycle in front of him, he has to play it as it lays. I think the bigger problem is that at the time, not many people understood that there is an economic hierarchy in employment and you have to have wealth generating productive capacity to generate the income for productive workers to spend to support service workers (and 'knowledge' workers are in the final analysis, service workers). I think the lawyers and executives all figured they were 'service' workers and they were well paid, why can't everyone be a service worker and be well paid. But it doesn't work that way because law and executive positions limit free entry - they aren't really in an open market the way other workers are. It's taken basically until Biden for any American president to admit that globalism and 'competitive advantage' are a bill of goods and he's done a poor job of explaining it. If you want broad based high wage employment, you have to have businesses that generate primary wealth, that is that make something tangible out of nothing, for instance cars out of iron ore, sand, copper, or microchips out of sand and other chemicals, or batteries out of crude oil (plastic) and lithium, etc., etc. It means industrial production. That tangible wealth (real stuff) creation is where the income comes from to create a middle class. I don't think most of them in DC understand it even now. The other thing they didn't understand that that technology is the easiest commodity to export. You can't assume your IT tech workers are protected from overseas competition. Any country can educate and many of them have.

The thing about political reversals is that they are always perfectly obvious - in hindsight. The GOP thought that the NewDeal era was ripe for reversal from about 1952 onwards but it didn't happen until 1980. Before that the pressure for economic reform had been building from the 1890s and some got done under TR but it wasn't until the Great crash that FDR had a strong enough coalition to reverse the status quo and pass the New Deal.