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Correct. But nonetheless, the Tigers ticket into the playoffs is through their division. When statements are made about how far the team is out from the playoffs, the division they play in seems like an important consideration.

Alternatively, maybe they just had a bad game today? Even the good teams have their ***es beat from time to time in this sport.

Similar to the O's, Texas wouldn't be where they are right now without homegrown talent. Fwiw

They also play in the AL Central, which lowers the bar to competition a bit.

If he wasn't a Rule 5 pick, he wouldn't be worth a roster spot right now. But that is the sacrifice teams make... if they believe in his tools and aren't all in on making a run while 7 games out, there isn't a discussion to be had about dropping him. No matter what the bloggers at BYB think

If you think there's gonna be rain, seems like the smart play would be to consider an opener and bringing Manning in afterward. But there may be other considerations that we as fans don't realize, idk

If the general belief is that this team isn't going to make the playoffs, I guess I'm unclear as to why they wouldn't try to carry the Rule 5 guy for the rest of the year if they like his tools and want him to remain in the system.

The fans view of Jobe is so colored by Marcelo Meyer that it has obscured that Jobe really is a talented prospect in his own right. It's really that simple. And while I get it, I wish he wasn't so defined by that and I dont think he should be imo.

Also, who cares?

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A lot of that obfuscation gets down to questions of what it means to "love" America. To be quite frank, I just think a lot of conservatives (not all, but quite a few) take the view that to love the country is to never question its past and just talk about how great it is... no introspection, just empty patriotism that wraps itself in the flag. It doesn't demand improvement, it's just stagnant and incapable of improvement Just as all of us have family members in life who maybe struggle with various flaws and who we would like to see overcome, I would argue that to love isn't to run away from the problems and to just be comfortable with the status quo, it's to deal with the flaws and make this country, that is already great in many ways, even greater. Collectively, I think we do more of the latter now than in the past. But because of that, the insanity from those who prefer the former approach is just amped up to a greater degree. And we see it manifested in the kinds of bat**** crazy comments like the one Ron DeSantis uncorked above And yeah, a lot of moneyed interests are more than willing to exploit those differences

Exactly, it comes down to free will. The fact that (some) slaves learned some skills doesn't abrogate the denial of free will to said slaves. And as far as the added context is concerned, I'm not sure why it's needed... like, no **** they learned some skills, their literal existance was to do labor that white owners didn't want to do. That's just implied.... It all just strikes me as a way to excuse the behavior of the past and to tell a sanitized version of history, and it's BS. And for my part, it's not the reason we are moving back up north, but a significant benefit to making the move is hopefully not having to worry about my kids being taught a sanitized version of American history whereby the Confederates "had their reasons" or whatever BS

I would take the fact that other contenders would trade for him as a piece of evidence that he's more real than not. A complement of sorts. In and of itself, though, it's evidence that the smart move would be to hold unless someone wanted to pay a premium for his services. He's just controllable for far too long, and his power bat from the left side, as G2 suggests, just doesn't have a lot of match for anyone coming up in the system.

There really is an asymmetry in how liberals/anti-Trump conservatives are chided if they don't walk on eggshells in expressing their displeasure or disagreement with Trumpy figures, yet there are no expectations at all of Trumpy types who get to attack people or places (ie. Chicago, California, etc.) without any expectations of decorum whatsoever. Without knowing the details of this Jason Aldean thing, that's all I'm gonna add.

Again, this guy is supposed to be the "mainstream" alternative... at least that's what the NRO conservative Twitterati keeps telling us anyway lol

Maybe because its because life is busy at the moment, but I honestly have no knowledge of Jason Aldean or what he did or didn't do.

She was really trying to will that into existence.... geesh.

As much as we all hated the trade at the time, Gipson-Long has been a solid pickup.

It's hands-down the best city in California, IMO.... just no shortage of good weather and stuff to do!

I think this is a fair read. In a lot of ways, I think he understood the problems, and even did a few useful things for the Org to try to move the ball forward. But ultimately he was just out of his league when it comes to the actual operation of the club and making the moves necessary to rebuild and compete. We fought this out a while ago, but Randy really was the worst GM in franchise history. I really can't think of any moves he made that were redeemable, at the time or in retrospect.

Honestly, the Castros come to mind too... after a while, it ends up about as old as watching Matlock reruns when you run those guys out there over and over again and expect different results. It really came to a head in 2022 in that, despite fielding quite possibly the worst offense in the modern history of the game, there just wasn't a ton of transactions or waiver wire activity. I'd argue that the cart wasn't really fully shaken up at all on last year's team until Kerry Carpenter was promoted, and that occurred on the day of his firing (which leads to questions about whose doing that actually even was). Harris, for his part, is completely different in that he has worked the wire a decent amount and has, in a couple of cases, actually found useful players in the process (Tyler Holton maybe the best example). For whatever reason, it just wasn't something Al would do.

At least going off of Ratko's numbers, suggests that Farris and Stewart might be a bridge too far for sure. But IDK.

I'll go back to what I said, I believe, in a different thread regarding Avila.... he moved WAY too slow, but he did bring in some PD guys from outside of the system, many of whom were retained after Harris was hired. Garko being the most notable, but others as well. And I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that some of the improvements we have seen from some of Avila's guys (Parker Meadows maybe the best example) is tied to that. It's not an excuse for his failures, and heads did roll after Harris took over, but because of those hires being in place, it wasn't a total gut job for Harris either. In that respect, it could have been worse.

Taking a step back again.... Granted a lot of it is the division that they play in, but the fact that it's late July and there's actually a not-totally-unserious debate about whether to sell or buy among the fanbase seems like a win for what we expected going into this season.

Lorenzen is really the only piece of evidence that I have (not an insider at all), but I don't think he was BSing when he said that the Tigers appealed to him as a place to be better as a player. Leads me to believe that they are at least respected in the pitching department.