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We’ve got so many guys on the verge of coming up that it’s hard for me to imagine Harris taking a big swing at any of these guys. Especially true on the infield, but even in the outfield we have Max on the verge, Riley there for sure, and I don’t know whether they’ll want to cut bait on Parker just yet. But maybe they will. I know lots of fans are eager for Scott Harris to prove his big boy bona fides by trading away top prospects for top controllable big leaguers, but I don’t know if that’s going to involve position players. If anything I could see trading Thayron and change for a solid starter who’s controllable for a couple years. Still, even if we were to do that, if we don’t sign a guy off that list, I think a lot of fans will regard the winter as an abject failure.

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Someone who's good at AI deep fakes should superimpose Biden's image and voice on these kinds of Ttump videos so the red hats can finally get how stupid it looks when a president says dumb **** like this.

Hard to imagine today, but true:

A deeply unserious man leading a coalition of deeply unserious sycophants.

To 4hzglory's point, not if it's a 3-2 count.

I get that the Democrats are being forced to claw back the seats that were de facto stolen from them, and I support that as far as it goes, but it's so sad for our democracy that our votes are being made even less consequential through these essentially disenfranchising shenanigans.

Any quotes from Bill Clinton about this that are more recent than 22 years ago?

By the way, this general notion that Democrats are waiting to fall madly in love with their candidates in the same way Republicans do with Trump remind me of the gainsaying that used to take place on the old board about religion and atheism. Posters there who professed to be Christians used to insist that atheism is itself a religion, with its own worship structure and everything. Those posters could not possibly conceive of the idea that atheists could not need something or someone in their lives they are compelled to worship, as though worshiping were a basic human function like breathing, eating, or ****ting. This is a patently ignorant idea, of course, since atheism is definitionally the absence of religious worship. Same with the idea that Democrats must be waiting for someone to fall madly in love with, as the red hats have fallen explicitly in love with Trump. There may be a sliver of the current Democratic base that is like that, but there is no way that sliver is not way, way, way smaller than the large swath of the current Republican base who have fallen madly in love with Trump. So I am not buying it when I hear anyone opine that Democrats are en masse falling madly in love with this horribly-flawed politician or that, simply because Republicans have fallen so madly in love with Trump. That sounds like something MAGA is trying to sell us to denigrate Democrats as being nothing more than puddles of emotional goo and/or to cover for MAGA's own unrestrained emotionally-gooey horniness for Trump.

You are literally my only source for this information. Well, you and Jonathan Martin's evidence-free opinion column.

The $64 question at hand is, did this Platner guy become popular among "the left" before all this bad news about him came out, or after? Also, I must not be part of "the left", because I had never heard of this guy before I started you posting about him here.

Remember, business crime is no longer considered crime.

I know this Jonathan Martin guy, late of the National Review, is basically saying as much in his Politico article, but do you honestly believe the Democrats of Maine are essentially "leftist" red hats who will embrace and love and worship this guy the worse the news gets, and will stuff the ballot boxes for him to get him elected? Because as far as I can tell, that has not happened for any Democrat I can think of since basically Huey Long.

Well, the NBA is a Black thing, so ...

OK, I see. I wondered whether you were suggesting that he understands that, because of the Constitution, he has to step down in January 2029, to which I might reply, lol as if. I mean, that might be right, although he also strikes me as a guy who ... ahem ... whistles past the graveyard when it comes to contemplating his own mortality. I happen to believe it's more likely he is building the vanity project because he intends to never leave office as long as he is alive, versus securing his legacy in the face of his inevitably close mortality. He may intellectually acknowledge that he is going to die someday and probably soon, but that doesn't mean in his heart that he actually believes it.

@romad1? Is that what you meant?

I don't know whether I've mentioned this here—I certainly did in the old forum—but I have long regarded the Department of Defense as being, in reality, the Department of Offense. We don't defend against anything, because nobody ever attacks us in the serious of a nation-state, which is what armed forces are constructed to defend against. But we sure do go the the offensive in countries (and, now the high seas) all over the world, to defend the interests, mostly economic, of the people in power in this country, and we have ever since 1898. "Defend the interests". Maybe that's what they mean by Defense after all.

When you say "limited time left as President", how do you mean this?

If I could hop in a Time Machine and go back to experience life for a little while, one of the things I would do is see a town league game from the 1900s or 10s or 20s. There were literally thousands of them littering the American landscape, and every burg of over 500 people definitely had at least one team representing their town in a league spanning a couple or three counties. I think most of them were semipro, players making a two or three bucks a game. Maybe teams hire a ringer from a competing town and pay him five bucks to help them win the league. The quality was probably at least the equivalent of D league ball, but it was probably the best quality ball the vast majority of the country had available to it, and towns celebrated these teams and the players who played on it. They would look forward to the new season all winter, talk about the local league around the hot stove, and tell stories (and tall tales) for decades about the men who played for their towns. It all seems very romantic to me.

Depends on the robot K zone effect on pitching. If Baseball went to 100% ABS that would dramatically change the way pitchers approach the zone, which would change hitting. With the challenge system I would guess that would change pitching approach a little, but it really depends on how aggressive hitters are calling for challenges, which I’m not sure they would be so much. I suspect the majority of challenges will be catchers looking for strike three, versus hitters looking for ball four.

Were it not for his military actions, we’d have no idea who the guy is.

This was basically the beginning of his low point.