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There has got to be something in their literature that promotes culling the population of “weak” and “stupid” people. There has to be some connection based on between that and their choice of cuts.

I’m pretty sure they think of RW media as being on the team, since it serves such an important role as a conduit between them and their handlers.

Our boy Malloy!

I don’t think the choice is between tear it down and build for the future, versus go for it and ignore the future. I think that’s a false choice that prior front offices conditioned us to accept as the way things should be. And to be fair, that was the case at one time. But I don’t believe it is now. And as great a pitcher as he is, I don’t believe we’re in a “Skubal or bust” situation, that he is necessarily the linchpin of our contending for the indefinite future. Sure, we’d like to keep him for a few years after 2026, ideally for the rest of the decade. But I’m with what Ed suggested: if we try to sign him for good money and ends up walking anyway, we take the comp pick and trust our pitching science team to build a winning rotation without him.

Aw man, you mean by listening to Dan and Bobby on the radio feed instead of Benetti on TV, I’m missing out on Indy Car talk? Darn.

Can the Tigers both score and also threaten but do not score? Because I feel like they just did both.

Right, and that's a winter of 2026-27 problem to solve when we get to it.

OK, and that's why I was asking for an example of the major leaguers you'd accept a trade for. If you mean an Austin Riley, a guy who's established his big league cred and is solidly controllable for a long time, OK, you got my attention. OTOH, if you mean someone like a Junior Caminero, someone of prospect age who's yet in the majors and has great potential but hasn't yet established himself as a consistent contributor, then I'm not so sure. But yeah, I'm with you on what I would accept in trade for Skubal, which is not prospects. I just don't see any trade out there right now that both sides would do that makes sense.

I said that because the part you snipped speculated that perhaps Pipeline doesn't really know how to value prospects, probably even more true in practically pre-analytics 2015, so Norris may not have been "all that" anyway—which you yourself mentioned by sharing your own thoughts you'd had when you first saw him. Maybe Dombrowski was just relying on the Pipeline ranking by taking him and the Jays knew better. That wouldn't surprise me, because deep knowledge of prospects was outside the scope of Dombo's expertise.

How did the DEMS slip into this? Weren't we talking about the Church? You were suggesting in this post that numerous Francis appointees may be getting rolled by reactionary forces in the Curia and won't vote liberal in the next conclave. But literally 80% of the conclave was appointed by Francis, so it would take something like two-fifths of them to flip for another Ratzenberger-type to win, and even that assumes all the non-Francis cardinals going hard right on their ballots. So, short of actual information anyone might have that this has been happening, I'm not even going to speculate that even might happen. Of course I could be proven wrong on this, but absent mere hunches, I gotta believe a liberal will have the inside track, particularly if the next guy comes from Africa or Asia, as has been the strong speculation.

Somehow merely saying it's "highly alarming" isn't a strong enough response. It sounds borderline mealy-mouthed and punch-pulled.

There may be something to this, the idea that she (and others of her ilk) put the most heinous stuff out there in order to draw attacks on it, then she can reach back into the bubble and fundraise off the attack.

Like. I'm one of those grew-upin-the-70s Catholics. If the Church was still mostly like that I might still be with them. I don't know, though, I'm still not getting the kill-the-Catholics vibe from the world around me yet. But I guess I'll keep an eye out for that.

Great point. Like.

Laken Riley was arrested? Who knew?

Not me. I have more than a clue about nutrition. RFK's power relies on ignorant people to whom nutrition is and always will be a mystery they can't solve, or at least can't reconcile with the paid messaging they're bombarded.

That's because you're getting old like the rest of us and you're realizing that 12 years is a blink of the eye. 😉 I miss the 70s when the Catholic Church was all in on hippie Jesus and folky guitar masses. I didn't leave in the 2000s because it was right wing—I left because it became soul-sucking drudergy more concerned with fundraising than soul saving. Yeah, I know, they were always like that, but by then they'd stop bothering to pretend. It was almost like going to a timeshare seminar. Maybe that's just the parish I crapped out of, who knows.

The Catholic Church is not the United States Senate and they have not proven themselves to be anything like the Republican Party overtaken by ultra right-wing thugs. Unless you have information I don't, I'm not going to take the unsupported leap with you that all the Catholic liberals Francis appointed must de facto have been co-opted by reactionary right wing forces in the Holy See.

Well, you go ahead, but I'm not going to worry about tomorrow or 2026 or 2027 or 2030 or any of that. That's for future me to worry about. Present me is going to enjoy having the best pitcher in the game today help us win a pennant this year.

You cut out the other part which mitigates that part you wanted to pin me on.

Example?

I would have trouble believing the majority of his appointees would change from liberal to reactionary like so. That’s almost Da Vinci-level conspiracy ****.

“Crooked Joe Biden cooked the books on crime figures.” See how easy that was?

Disagree. We are considered a viable contender for the AL pennant. CBA or not, trading stars for prospects should be completely off the table,

They ****ed him up first, and beyond repair. Either that or Pipeline has no idea how to properly value and rank prospects after all. Probably a little of both.