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What's scary for Team Kevin is that Gaetz/Boebert probably were the movable ones

It looked like some punches were about to be thrown lol

Unreal

It all comes down to Gaetz, because of course it does.

Now that McCarthy appears to be in line to get the position:

Very scientific lol

They may not find much of any, but its better than sitting around and doing nothing (which was the Avila approach) My objection is that some continually keep drawing a line between Harris and Avila when this is a clear cut example of how the two are much different.

I have seen a lot of people that have complained about his approach in terms of churning players since this offseason has began. Including on this board.

Yellowstone is not woke lol... it's really not that much different than Succession in a lot of ways, for instance, it's just that the heroes and villains are of a different stripe in terms of background and politics of the script writing (pretty conservative). And both are equally enjoyable, at least for us. It may simply be that viewers are attracted to shows that depict power dynamics within a family or a group of people that might coincide with those people having status. Which doesn't seem novel to me, given the existence of Dallas for instance

Finish your thought.

Not really, it's about building depth in the minor leagues that can be useful when injuries and attrition inevitably happen. Avila did not use the waiver wire like this. He just didn't. We all acknowledged this as an issue when Avila was GM. Now that Harris is here, it gets mocked. I dont get it.

It's the humorous part, but it may be the most important part of what he's doing. Guys like Mario Feliciano and Andy Ibanez are pretty solid options to have as non-40 man guys if the team gets hit with injuries at those particular positions. With any luck, maybe it means the days of Jacob Robson or Josh Lester types getting ML ABs might be over.

I disagree, I would call it meaningful right this moment. This organization needed depth, and it increasingly has more having added players who are former prospects and / or have had previous major league experience. And it isn't Avila-esque. There is this tendency to want to discount it because it may be low risk, but when the alternative was the previous guy who wouldn't even make these sorts of low risk decisions, it counts as progress.

The way I see it, there are multiple players on last years 40 man roster (Brendon Davis, Angel De Jesus, etc.) who are no longer on the 40 man and still in the org. It's progress, and it is a pretty big example of not being an Avila "paint by numbers" approach. Money or risk is kind of irrelevant, Avila did not do this stuff, which seems notable.

McCarthy bringing in the closer....

What if, and hear me out here, there are transactions that can still take place between now and Spring Training?

So what? It's an example of how Harris isn't Al Avila or a "paint by numbers" approach, which was the point being made.

I'm shocked to learn that Andy Ibanez isn't actually the plan to be 3B in 2022.

But to my point, it's also nothing like Al Avila's "paint by numbers" approach either

Add Biggs, he's 4. Harris was the shakiest, he just flipped. The other holdouts (Crane, Rosendale) are basically where the worm turns...

Norman and Gosar seem big, they didn't seem gettable to me. There's gonna be a lot of pressure on the remaining folks to flip. But the agreement is also delicate as well.

I get it, I just don't think Mike White's vision is germane to the comment

Entertainment that contains social commentary is , at the end of the day, entertainment. People watch entertainment for a variety of reasons, not one given reason or even for the reasons intended by its creator. And given the size of the audience, probably not worth psychoanalysis of an entire shows audience. Anymore than me making up a psychoanalysis of Yellowstone's audience would be (a show which I'm guessing has a significant overlap with White Lotus and Succession despite having a much different commentary/POV)

Not sure this makes the original comment any less ridiculous. Believe it or not, people may watch The White Lotus for reasons other than envy of the ultra wealthy

All of the flips are positive for McCarthy, but it really comes down to the resolve of the holdouts....