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This is too facile a reply.

Roswell is a Trumpy enclave.

Sorry about that, I thought you were saying they used the wrong word.

Easy: all they have to do is specify excluding the counting of non-citizens only for certain states and count non-citizens for certain other states. They can also specify excluding non-citizens of certain countries (Americas ex-Canada; Middle East; most of Africa) while counting non-citizens from other countries (Canada, Europe, Russia/satellites, South Africa). What, you don't think they can do that? Who's going to stop them? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? When it comes to breaking the Constitution, might as well be in for a penny, in for the whole pound.

I think there might be a couple things going on here: (1) With the way MAGAfied owners of the mainstream media have been caving in by giving eight-figure settlements to Trump's bogus library, it's hard to stand up for the journalistic integrity of an institution that's now fearfully pulling their punches; and (2) it's also difficult to keep the outrage over attacks on the media by this particular regime amped up for nine years running. There are so, so many other horrible things happening simultaneously on so many fronts and there's only so much attention people can pay to any one thing. That's why the Firehose Strategy works so well.

It might be as simple as Fairbanks made only 3.5 Ms last year and was due for 11 this year, and the Rays don't play that. From a performance standpoint, Fairbanks does get hit pretty hard, so he's only some bad BABIP from getting crushed, an especial problem for someone who has also lost his strikeout mojo over the last couple of years.

I would bet if we had an actual closer-level shutdown reliever, they would care about "real" closers then.

If retrograde MAGA tech oligarchs can line the pockets of the president with billions of dollars like this, and hidden in plain sight just like this, why can't liberal billionaires donate half a billion dollars to save public media by making up the shortfall caused by the unplugging of funding to the CPB?

Yes, I do. Although if it is 1/10, even 1/12, I'll be fine with that. Just don't promise him a second year upfront, is all.

The difference being Biden did not use the machinery of the state to beat mainstream media companies out of tens of millions of dollars disguised as donations to his phony baloney library.

Easy: Hernandez was framed by Crooked Joe to cover up his own drug-running operation that intended to kill off rural white Americans who love Trump, so the Criminal Democrat Party could create a one-party fascist state and come after all the guns. Ooh, that was fun. Give me another one.

The ramblings can be fairly repackaged as the uncommon wisdom of a genius that the rest of us don't understand now but will in time, and I think we're seeing some of that pretzel logic now. The freezing, though, they would never be able to explain away.

This was such Alarmist Non-sense in 2016.

I want to believe this, because it passes the smell test with flying colors, but I do want to see a more credible source than a tweet of a tweet of a TikTok.

Pretty amazing he hasn't glitched more in public. I don't mean saying nonsense like this, I mean glitching like Mitch did and Joe did. Although I do kind of wonder how much glitching we never see as mainstream media ****cans that footage due to fear of regime lawsuits. Maybe that's why he's almost never on live lately.

Christ Almighty, the red hats who believe this **** are so ****ing stupid.

They said variations were due to inbreeding? Wouldn't the variations they're referring to be, by definition, due to outbreeding?

McKinstry's bat was already over the cliff when he got here, and he did so uncommonly well in just two discrete months (April and June) that it lifted his whole season up above average. His second half OPS+ was 81, which I think is about what we can expect from him for the whole of 2026. I think it would be best to find a way to limit him to 300 at bats tops next season, if at all possible. Make him the true utility player where he can eat.

I don't think I would like to pay 2/20 for a guy who will take one year at single digits.

You don't say!

Yankees. Duhhh. 😉

I can be talked into parting with Carpenter. His skill set is fairly narrow, and is not about to get substantially better. In fact, at age 28, it's all but certain to get worse. We might be able to trade the guy to a perennial second division team who could use his pop and aw shucks media demeanor as a way to goose interest in their flagging teams. I'm thinking Angels, Pirates, Nats, and especially Colorado. Might get a halfway decent under-utilized or close-to-big-league-ready asset in return, although not a numbered prospect. And trading Kerry does not necessarily leave us uncovered in right—between Jahmai, Wenceel, and Zach, plus now Vierling presumably coming back, we should be OK in right for another year, and most depth charts have Kerry at DH anyway. (This is all predicated on Harris not bringing in a RF asset from outside.) The one thing I will push back on is the implication that Hinch actually likes extreme platoon splits. I can't imagine there is a manager alive who prefers a roster of platoon guys over a roster of as many regulars at as many positions as possible. It's just that Hinch is playing the hand of the imperfect roster he's been dealt, and he's very good at leaning into deploying their strengths judiciously, as opposed to trying to shoehorn eight big-platoon-split guys into everyday jobs they are ill-suited for.

Around Trump, crazy is a feature and not a bug.

****able Lawyer strategy is falling apart.

I get the depth argument, especially for this upcoming year, although I wouldn't characterize the strategy as being the same as that for the Rule 4 draft, where you simply get the best available player regardless of position or what you have in your system now, then deal with sorting them out another day. I don't think we can pretend that if we were to sign Bregman and Bichette for multiple years—as some would like to—that there wouldn't be some sort of reckoning when it comes to McGonigle and Rainer. There have been plans in the works for these guys for a couple years now, and I don't think we can just disregard those plans in favor of whatever here and now pops up in front of us at any given moment. If we were to lock down those two guys, we would have to do something with the other two guys, which would probably mean selling off at least one of them for cheap because there's no room for them anymore, and any guy on the other side of a trade would know that. My point being that, while people simply like to disparage College Boy Harris in general, they like to do so in particular for his apparent planning for top prospects to make their way up through our system and into our starting lineups, because after all, prospects fail all the time, or something. And sure, there's always a chance any prospect will flop. But you can't effectively plan for the future if you're always setting aside any and all prospects in favor of whatever major leaguer comes available. I know that's how Dombrowski did it, and we won some divisions with him and a ****ton of payroll, but that's not the only way to skin the cat, and Dombrowski is, as Ernie would intone were he still here, "looooong gone." I might be on an island here, but I have not concluded that College Boy is a flop. I'm willing to give him the chance to make his plan work, and I'll jump onto the mainland with the rest of you if he ends up spinning his wheels instead of building winners.