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I don’t know if he does. He is up and down and his control issues sometimes costs him. That said, I’d be willing to suppose a five-year deal if Harris thinks we have a way to tweak his approach to bring those control issues into line.

Then maybe we should trade all our good players and pitchers for bags of balls and give up on 2026 so we can finally win our ring! Tell me about sim team slumps … 😩

I remember being a bit surprised when a direct report of mine at the website I worked at, a young native-born Mexican woman, had joined a Spanish-language evangelical congregation, because Hispanic = Catholic was so ingrained into my mind. But remembering back on what she was like? I could totally see her riding the Trump train.

They have already conditioned us to accept that Trump and the rest of them had sex with underage girls on a serial basis, so the revelation of such could be hardly surprising, almost to the point of ho-hum. So it's got to be better than 50-50 that what really happened is worse than even that.

U.S. citizens. It's coming closer, folks.

Not the red hats. Remember, these people in large part embrace the prosperity gospel. Trump is wealthy because God favors him, and God favors people who favor whom He favors. Unrelated comment: Pouring $200 million into a vanity construction project at the White House is not the act of a man who expects to leave willingly in three years.

They'll pay her and she'll come back into the fold. Heck, maybe she understands this idea so deeply that her post itself is a low-key bid to get paid.

I think it's more than that. They want people to suffer, and they want people to die, because that's how they demonstrate their power over the entire country and everything in it, which is quite explicitly their goal. Having the power of ruination and life-or-death over the people is how they maintain their control over everything. The suffering and death are not merely consequences. They are tools. Related to this, there's zero advantage to the republicans for everyone to be prosperous, despite their promises, and I'm including the red hats themselves, because prosperous people have the luxury of free time to complain and protest and push back and work to kick the scoundrels out if they become unhappy with them, which inevitably always happens. Abolish the middle class, demote them to working class status, put the working class on the constant edge of starvation, and they'll be too focused on getting by day to day to think about luxury items like protesting and voting and upending the current political order. I believe that's the thinking on the inside, anyway. I guess we'll see how far they are allowed to get along with that.

Good find. A couple comments on this: Hispanic Protestants may be desperately trying to demonstrate their "Americaness" by supporting Trump, the raid, the deportations and the rest of it, but If things go as far as MAGA and the Red Hats want it to, they'll find themselves being rolled over along with the rest of them, especially if they look the part. The 32% of people prefer “the U.S. to be a nation primarily made up of people who follow the Christian faith" are willfully failing to recognize that Christians are already a super-majority in this country.

Practically from the moment they announced the trade. The haul we gave up for him ... Got a couple good years out of Dany Patterson, though. But Gregg Zaun was flipped over to the Royals before he stepped onto the field for us and had a pretty good run with the Jays we could have used. (Although that would have precluded signing Ivan.) I remember being especially hopping mad to let Catalanotto go, and he did have a fairly decent career after that, but Francisco Cordero was the real kick in the balls from that trade.

The Avila-acquired players. See:

We don't?

The Times likes the cut of his jib ... ahem ... in general, but they probably don't like Hegseth focusing too much on horse**** woke issues and not enough on mowing down No Kings attendees.

Those commas are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

that guy is mos def stroked out

That is the standard Ash Wednesday gospel reading. While I was still in that church, once I realized exactly what that reading was telling me, I immediately wiped the ashes off my head once I left the church, because I did not want everyone else seeing my "righteousness" to be my only reward from my Father in Heaven.

That's what Jesus told us to do, and they don't care what Jesus actually says, outside of "I'm coming back someday to kick your enemy's ass."

I think it would be amazing of any MLB Central team outside the Cubs were to get a posted top-tier Japanese player.

I agree that the Dodgers are the betting favorites, and it could be fairly argued they are a better team. But in the end, it’s a bat-and-ball game where luck has a huge hand in determining the outcome. Besides that, Toronto and LA have similar team RC+, the Jays have superior defense, and they’re getting Bo Bichette. OTOH, the Dodgers have a much better and deeper pitching staff, and I would think it’s a done deal that Shohei is pitching Game 3 next Monday (which, of course, I am going to miss watching with a rescheduled softball playoff night to play). I don’t foresee a boring blowout.

To be fair, only part of that team completely **** the bed.

I think a splurge on Cease would be very high-key, and I would approve.

I think you’re right that trading Skubal would send the wrong message to the rest of the team, which could have an impact on their psyche and thus performance afterward that can’t be calculated beforehand. These guys are not mere widgets in an OOTP sim game (although that game also has a optional mechanism in it to account for the impact of the team’s actions on player psyche as well, which is part of what makes that game so, so good). Players are human beings who to varying degrees naturally allow personal issues to affect performance, While I do agree with SoCal that the good health and luck a team experiences can help elevate them above other teams that are more talented but less lucky or healthy, an organization simply can’t plan for that circumstance to occur. Those factors have to be set aside during the planning stages as being equal among teams.

People tend to have a strong belief in self-determination, that sheer talent and hard work are all you need to succeed, so I agree that they tend to vastly underrate the impact that health and luck—which themselves are closely related—have on the final results.

I remember that guy when he was at Everett. All over the Free press even during high school. Hard not to believe in a guy like that.

It could also be said that we ended up trading Travis Fryman for the dead-end career of Willie Blair. Fryman could also be considered one of the lowest-profile, least-remembered 30+-win guys who played their entire careers between 1985 and 2005. Here’s a list of the guys around him in WAR.