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Yeah, the Catherine Rampell piece I just shared in the 118th Congress thread covers the dilemma facing the GOP well. It's a very pointless fight.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/24/republican-debt-ceiling-hostage-budget/ Really smart piece. For obvious reasons, both political and practical, SS, Medicare and Defense spending are all off the table. So the GOP plan appears to be to balance the budget while cutting taxes through "cutting wokism" or some ****. This is all kabuki theater, and a really dangerous version at that.
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Interesting piece... it hasn't been so much perceived lack of matching expectations elections wise that has led me to visit less more than just, at least on politics, they have edged into punditry a little too much and aren't particularly good at it.
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It isn't just the fact that it isnt a bigger story for me - it's that you really have to dig deep into the story before reading or hearing about the connections to Paul Manafort. Seems like important context that should be included a little more prominently
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Colt Keith at 8 in MLB Pipeline's 3B rankings
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Nah, I get it. I dont know that Andujar is someone that fits what Harris wants, but bringing him aboard on a minor league deal seems low risk. But at the same time, I do imagine that a lot of the same people who see Andujar as a viable 3B option were likely also gnashing teeth when it looked like Tyler Nevin or Andy Ibanez might be in line for the starting gig, despite the fact that it's likely that Andujar is on that same level of player at this point in his career
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Setting aside Tyler Nevin, I would imagine it's an open question whether Andujar is better than even Andy Ibanez at this point, who is another one of Harris' churned Toledo guys.
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Wouldn't have an issue bringing him on with an invite to camp, but in terms of RHH Corner OF, Nevin has played OF and his skillset more or less overlaps Andujar generally. And Andujar's walk rate seems kinda off of what Harris might have in mind as well. At that point, it becomes a question of whether one really believes that Andujar was more than just a flash in the plan in 2018 or if that's it. The fact that he was DFA'd by Pittsburgh kinda leads one to believe it's the latter. Because honestly, it feels like a lot of the hype around him is more a combination of his 2018 and the fact that he was in the Yankees org (and that young players associated with that franchise tend to get a disproportionate amount of hype).
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I dont know if Wenceel ultimately ends up an everyday ML player or not, but really you can't ask much more from the new player development folks (including those hired under Avila) than to salvage some value out of the previous regime's players.
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He's fine... Although all the reporting on "old friends" gets kinda old, although it's not just him who does it. At least from semi following the Rangers, the beat writers for them don't get nearly as hung up on that sort of thing
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Kinda surprised that Wenceel cracked this list...
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If nothing else, I don't know that the beat writers (not to mention parts of the fan base) have recalibrated to the fact that Harris runs a much different ship than his predecessor and isn't going to make "conventional wisdom" moves as well. To that end, Chapman even has the feel of the kinda move the last administration would make... the relief pitcher version of an Ivan Nova or Julio Teheran.
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Jung 86, Flores 87, Jobe 91, Keith 98 In the grand scheme of things, despite the difference between BA and BP lists, it's possible the lists may not even be that different and Flores/Jung/Keith might be just outside of BA's list. Part of why it is pointless to get hung up on the total within the Top 100 of any list... if a prospect is ranked 99 and another is ranked 104, is the difference really that big?
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Trump's wrong on most things, but he has much better instincts than the rest of his party on entitlements.
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I think you are fair here, it's not gone unnoticed. I know I used to be worse as well, but I've spent enough time in both red and blue America over the course of my life to conclude that folks in both groups don't understand each other or their wants/desires well at all. Which is understandable enough, most people are working for a paycheck and are most familiar with what's in front of them in their daily lives. That crosses the political spectrum - people are just trying to get by, and we should better understand that. What is discouraging is that there is really little appetite to even try to understand how different people live outside of what is familiar in one's day to day life. We just project our own beliefs onto people who live different daily realities and then just stereotype them. And then we act shocked that we are bitterly divided and little trust exists in society. We'd all do better, not just on this board but in society as a whole, not to just assume the absolute worst in people who don't think or believe as one does. Or live in places that are different than what one is accustomed to. But unfortunately, with our current set up, that seems unlikely to happen any time soon.
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Even setting aside that whole culture war manufactroversy, punching down and saying nasty things about various big cities is common to the point of being just background noise. And by extension, just accepted in society. Fox News, whose hosts often complain about elitism toward red areas, have absolutely no issues teeing off on and stereotyping various cities in this country. But, you know, that's different cuz reasons.
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The other side of the coin is that there is plenty of the same bilge (both in Washington and on corners of the internet) aimed at blue counties and blue constituencies. Nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than that Yale educated blowhard, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, talk about how state school students from Middle America (like myself) are everything that's wrong with America. You literally go to a state school, get a STEM education and become a tax paying American, only to have pricks like him or Ted Cruz (Harvard) or Tom Cotton (also Harvard) talk about how terrible you are. No wonder the GOP struggles with younger college educated voters lol. Nonetheless, that is no better, yet the same folks who (justifiably imo) don't appreciate stereotypes about red places? Sure as ****, they don't have any issues rolling past those comments either. I get it, I don't like the stereotypes either. But it'd be nice if the people who complained the loudest would recognize the symmetry and not just make it out to be the provenance of just one side.
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Very cool... I grew up in the same kind of place and wouldn't trade the experience for the world. I'd even move back, frankly, if a world existed where I could have my job in that kinda place. I just think, specific to the discussion about Elko, it can be a little more nuanced than characterizing the reality of the situation as "sneering at rednecks" or some ****.
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Cosign, and would just add that the crowds tend not to swim against the tide at these meetings. Even aside from council meetings, having family who live in a nearby county that gave Trump over 75% of the vote in '16 and '20 who dont agree with the prevailing view, there is a tendency to just avoid politics altogether. At the end of the day, you have to get along with your neighbors. And swimming against the tide tends to hinder that effort.
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Of all the times for a Tigers beat writer to be critical of the team... This ain't it
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I have... have even been involved in a couple of public meetings in my career. In a county like Elko County, with such a large spread between the two parties and where out-party types are "go along, get along" out of necessity, there is close to zero doubt in my mind that a board meeting is probably 90+% GOP voters. Which kinda brings us full circle... I understand your point, but the fact that it even made it onto the agenda is alarming, and the context, where it happened, matters if we are being honest about it. It doesn't mean there aren't cooler heads among the population, but it suggests that the more extreme elements of GOP support in this heavily GOP county would have liked to see this item come to pass.
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https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/elko-county-health-board-votes-against-ban-on-covid-19-and-flu-vaccines Found this interesting.... Sounds to me like the measure is probably more reflective of the beliefs of a majority of Elko County citizens than some are giving credit for.
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I fail to see how these assumptions are any more or less accurate than qualifying the politics of a place like Elko, NV when seeing a news story such as the one that broke there. We shall leave it at that, agree to disagree.
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I'm sure if this happened in Washtenaw County, you'd feel just as reserved in your judgments. Correct?