mtutiger

What's weird is that the subtext of Fetterman's tweet is that the railroads and their shareholders have agency, they could do these things on their own (ie. without needing the unions or the government to compel them) and have chosen not to, and it is hard to understand for the average person why they can't figure out a way to make it work. It's a statement that literally everyone in this thread who has engaged on this discussion agrees with, and yet here we are jamming it all into our left-right ****show debate. Because that's what we do lol

Not really sure what you're driving at here... as we have discussed ad nauseum, reasonable people can agree with Fetterman's point while recognizing that, given two terrible binary choices (with one that is significantly worse in the macro), almost all would go with the less bad one. As you yourself admitted, President Ewsieg probably would have enforced the deal.

You didn't hear that from me.

Will it???

It'll land closer to 48%, fwiw

More: And, frankly, he's probably right. The rest of the GOP ticket statewide aside from Walker won

Warnock called winner by CNN

De Kalb just dropped... 92-8 Warnock. Those are Saddam numbers lol

There isn't gonna be a Senator Walker lol

Need to see more of Atlanta...

Gonna be an early night in Georgia

Arson Judge just lit Jon Heyman ablaze lol

Arson Judge about to light fire on the NL West haha

The starting pitching market is crazy

He's also buddies with Bryce, iirc

You do concede the point that a shutdown of freight rail traffic would have harmed a lot of workers in the broader economy, correct?

The market just seems slow more broadly as well and might pick up whenever the big names start coming off the board

I almost view his comments as a sign that they aren't interested in going bottom of the barrel on starters (ie. Mike Pineda or Jose Urena types) and are more just willing to accept what they have internally to fill whatever gaps they have. Long term, it's the right move, but it's no doubt a leap of faith in the short term.

Reese Olson looks like the most likely Wentz / Hill for this year IMO. Although your question may be more focused on guys not currently on the 40 man roster.

Hoo boy

I don't know, nor can control, what others say or do. Nor do I particularly care, I'll leave you to dabble in hypotheticals. Just don't see how it plays out differently under Trump, or any other administration for that matter. Can you be more specific about what you would do to "put more pressure" on the railroads? What would you say publicly to compel them to move off of their terms? It's a leverage problem; people barely think about the railroad industry and, for years, it was always funny to hear people muse about how "railroad are dying".... they are very much not dead and are vitally critical for getting goods from point A to point B. The supply chain issues of the past couple of years are just a taste of what it is like when that cog in the economy isn't operating at 100%, the cog just not working for days at a time would be devastating to the American economy. It would impact goods getting to shelves at the grocery stores, commodities such as metals and lumber getting to manufacturers (which would likely negatively impact a lot of blue collar union workers in other industries, I might add), coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming or other areas getting to coal power plants that are still in use (without which may lead to pressure on our energy grid). Those are just a few examples of the second-order effects that would come from even just a few days without the rails operating, it would touch just about every American in one way or another. So again, that's the decision: that or enforcing the deal. And I'm guessing just about everyone in that position, including Presidents Ewsieg or MTU or whoever, enforces the deal. That doesn't mean that railroad workers shouldn't get sick time or that Presidents shouldn't expect criticism for whatever decision they make when given two bad choices, but any logical person in that position is going to take the option that doesn't bring about economic catastrophe.

I like that they are doing these updates now