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Honest to God, I didn't actually realize that it was only one GD hit until looking at the box score, so it probably matches my real time reaction lol

I thought the conversation about Austin Hedges that DD and Dirks had was interesting.... the double in this game aside, he's an atrocious hitter, but he plays a position (catcher) where you can tolerate that performance. Schoop and Maton, particularly Schoop given the fact that he's a short timer anyway, don't really have that luxury.... we can talk about how there aren't any options, but eventually they will make other options if performance at the dish does not improve.

I mean, there's four guys on this roster aside from Schoop who can play a competent second base at the moment, so whoever theoretically gets called up or selected doesn't have to be a second baseman

Made an addendum for ya

The other figure that looms large with that trade is Jeimer Candelario - the org clearly didn't prioritize Paredes, but also Candelario had a great 2021 playing 3B (same primary position as Paredes) and was seen as an extension candidate going into 2022. And the org essentially voted for Candelario with that trade over Paredes imo. And we've seen how all that has turned out.

There's CNN's take on the Durham Investigation.... apparently good enough for RNC Research lol

Alternate theory: maybe Americans outside of your bubble have more nuanced views than "OLD MAN BAD" on all of these things?

The biggest red flag with Florida, even more than some of the issues in Miami-Dade (although that is related), is the state Democratic Party, at least up until recently, has been one of the worst run in the country. When you add that to the overall size and scope of the state, and the amount of money it takes to compete there, the simple CBA would suggest that money earmarked to Florida would probably be better spent in AZ/WI/MI/PA/GA/NC, or even TX for that matter, until they can prove more competent and driving turnout and marketing themselves to various constituencies in the state.

We are currently getting an education in this given that we will soon be moving up to the Chicago suburbs (it was time to come back up north for a variety of reasons).... and really it's not just Aurora, it seems like every surrounding suburb (ie. Bolingbrook, Lisle, Warrenville) wants a piece of Naperville. School District Boundaries have a lot to do with this.... decent sized chunks of Aurora and Bolingbrook, for whatever reason, filter into District 204, which also serve decent chunks of Naperville as well.

Somebody please provide Mr. Caldwell with a map lol

I'll leave the Jacksonville resident poster to get into the particulars, but certainly it seems like a proxy loss by default for Meatball Ron...

Thought the trade made sense at the time, so no point in creating an alternate history where that wasn't the case. Either way, as Randy suggests, I have zero confidence that he'd be doing this well if he were still a Tiger. So to the extent that I care, I'm glad he ended up somewhere where he could succeed

Lordy, the Oakland Athletics... they are tracking with the 2003 Tigers at the moment.

Glad we got the Pirates in May..... little league inning so far in the fourth lol

And now a double... single away from the cycle with two homers!

Setting aside all the absolutely gross, borderline definitely NSFW stuff alleged, apparently Dunphy claims that Giuliani told her that he was selling off pardons for $2mil a pop, and splitting the proceeds with Trump. Possibly the least surprising thing I've ever heard. If anything, surprised the number wasn't higher lol

Goodness, what a bender....

100%. They were 100% putting him on there, it worked out with them notching a win. But the long game is more about seeing Spencer get a real AB there and seeing what he can do with it.

If Malloy keeps on his current pace, it seems unlikely to me that he will remain in Toledo all year.

It's less about the margin, particularly at this point, and more about the pattern of how national polling and state polling are telling two different stories. Which mirrors the last Midterms.

Also, injuries have affected this rotation yet, unlike in 2022, they haven't had to give starts to the Drew Hutchison and Daniel Norris types. In part because of decisions that Harris made to bring in Boyd and Lorenzen. Put another way, the rotation has more depth than people credit, it just doesn't seem like it because some of that depth is currently being employed. Obviously expectations should be tempered some for Skubal and Manning when they get back, but it's unequivocally a good thing that they are slated to come back and the rotation should be better for it