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I wish these were votes and not mere polling.

Not necessarily.

It is beyond horrifying just how bought off everyone along the way is.

Doesn't she have an NDA? Don't they all?

Absolute, outright, unadulterated theft of taxpayer dollars to protect his friends and acolytes from the government he presides over. He's pumping up his personal army, which he intends to deploy against the rest of us, because that's the only way he can vanquish a country the majority of whose citizens is flat out opposed to him.

From the Department of No ****, Sherlock. Isn't this a feature and not a bug?

He's going to want her buried alive with him in his sarcophagus.

Flip side: if he can't live in this world, no one can.

Yeah, might as well have a laugh about it. We can't change what he's going to do. Well, maybe you can. Maybe you know something. I know I can't. 😏

Point is, I think he could find someone to cooperate with him. Remember, he is surrounded by people whose mission it is to do everything possible to frontburner Jesus's return to Earth.

He can get someone who will sacrifice their life for him to stand in for him. Probably a Michael Flynn type.

You say nothing is coming to save it, but the problem is not that we don't have enough good hitters—it's that we have good hitters, or at least hitters we are relying on, who are slumping. McGonigle is good, but his numbers in May are worse than the team's overall numbers. Colt Keith is slipping badly. Hao-Yu Lee is hitting like a AAAA player. Carpenter and Gleyber are not delivering their April wRC+ for us this month as they did last month. The guys down the roster are delivering about what they were expected to, if not exactly hoped for. And Tork is just torking the **** out this month. I think we can count on some bounceback from the guys slumping. Even Tork is probably not as bad as 43 wRC+, but you know how streaky the guy is.

I keep worrying he's gonna push the button once he realizes he's going to die any second now, and this does nothing to dissuade me. And the evangelicals thinks this is all just dandy because that's how Revelations has foretold it.

Not only that, but those considered the best defenders in the low minors are also playing in a league three or four levels below the majors against players 80% of whom will never make the majors, and about 45% of whom will never even get out of A ball.

I’m guessing it’s easier to play shortstop in the low minors than it is to play right field in the majors.

OK, I was wondering whether you meant their window had closed and they need to overhaul again.

I have the same feelings about Valdez that I do about Miggy: I don’t like what I know about the person, but I’ll root for the outcome, because he’s on my team.

I don’t think we were ever auditioning Gage Workman for a permanent gig on the team. He was always going to be Mr. Right Now for us, never Mr. Right. I think he will end up in Asia, maybe even Japan, and do pretty well there. Zack Short is the guy who’s going to have to find a long-term high school coaching gig sometime in the next couple of years.

Players dropping like flies and landing on the List will do that to a team.

Do you really think midnight has struck for this Cinderella organization? That’s pretty final.

I never thought Wenceel Perez could be any more than a second division starter at best, and we are now in the second division. If we had all our position players intact, we’d likely be a first division team, and Wenceel wouldn’t be starting. So, yeah, that tracks. In all seriousness, I don’t think Wenceel will ever be any better than he was last year, but he could definitely be better than he is now. It looks like he is selling out for more contact this year, since his walks and strikeouts are both down, which would help explain his power outage. His cratering defense, I have no idea about. In the end, though, Wenceel is just another somewhat toolsy player this organization signed a whole bunch of in the five-to-ten-year-ago range. If you look back, he was never any better than 8th best prospect, and more like 20th best prospect in the system most of the time, which doesn’t typically augur an all-star player. We can’t let him go just yet because we don’t have anyone we know is reliably better in the system, and we can’t just pick up a better replacement on the shelf at Walmart, so we are left to trying to develop and get as much out of him as possible before we get someone better to replace him.

That would, as a guy who sounds like a cartoon version of Charles Bronson would say, a fridge too far.

No. At this point, we need him to chow innings and save the bullpen at this point. We also have to figure out a way to score more than zero runs for him with this injury-replacement roster while he is on the mound.

And you're complaining about Wenceel's hitting?

There is no chance Baseball would force their constituents to carry an extra major league salary just for the potential to use them in maybe 10% of the games they play.