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The criming is so deep with this bunch that my brain didn’t even bother to remember this part of it.

I'm getting a bit of support on this one here, which I guess is my consolation prize: https://www.mlb.com/news/teams-that-could-sign-roki-sasaki?lctg=4019258656&partnerId=it-20241126-11828221-mlb-1-A AL Central: Tigers Detroit just reached the postseason for the first time in a decade with one of the youngest rosters in the Majors. With the Tigers' competitive window just now opening, they can’t rest on that success. Now is the time to attack in free agency. It sounds as if president of baseball operations Scott Harris is ready to be aggressive this winter, and what better way to signal that you mean business than by landing one of the most talented young pitchers available? Pairing Sasaki with reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal might give Detroit the best righty-lefty combination of any rotation. Add in Jackson Jobe, who debuted in September and is the No. 5 prospect in MLB, and suddenly the Tigers have what could be a dominant trio leading their staff for many years to come -- assuming they extend their decorated ace. Is Sasaki the right fit for a roster that has one pitcher in his 30s (Sasaki’s fellow countryman, Kenta Maeda)? Of course! Sasaki's immense talent fits any roster, but in Detroit, he would join a team on the rise, band together with the best pitcher in the AL and accelerate the Tigers’ trek to the top of their division. -- Brian Murphy

I guess he wasn't paying enough tribute to the boss.

I think this franchise ends up going to Nashville, then baseball holds Tampa for an expansion or relocation target. Nashville officials are feigning reluctance, but they’ll cave once they find a route to plow public money into the project in a way that makes them looks like heroes for bringing MLB into the city. Then, once a friendly commission in either Hillsborough or Pinellas counties gets back in power, some bazillionaire will get their 100% publicly-financed stadium and the Bay will get a team back. This assumes, of course, that publicly-funded stadia is still a thing, which, as long as there are craven commissioners to sell out and then cash out, there will always be taxpayer money to throw around.

And on a 3-2 count!

lol mets

Kind of wild how Memphis, TN is 37501 and West Memphis, Arkansas is 72301.

Of course, there could be another motive behind the tariffs: Trump is looking for direct payoffs from these countries. Can’t happen? Why not?

Which is why it is unthinkable. It may not be unthinkable in four to eight years after Trump tariffs have completely wiped out not only what’s left of the middle class, but large swaths of the lower middle class.

I think he came by his Republican decision more honestly: he understood they already think like him.

You must be talking to someone else, because I don't have him or anyone else on any hook. However, I will say your hypothetical assumes that Obama is the same vain, insecure, criminal character that Trump is, and he can't be, because if Obama were, he would be literally an entirely different person with a different background, outlook, temperament and support structure. This is why the question, respectfully, makes no sense. Someone of Obama's character would never have engaged in something so base and crass as Trump and his craven post-2020 election nonsense. Had you used Bill Clinton in 1996 as your example, you might have come closer to the mark you were aiming for, but then, you couldn't have made your point as effectively as you could have with Obama, that is, were it not such an absurd impossibility.

He died before he could see his man crush retake the White House. Shame, that.

This is similar to the hypothetical that is sometimes asked: how would Babe Ruth do in the major leagues today were be born in 1995 and had access to all the nutritional, training, and coaching advantages players today have? And the answer is, of course, that's also a non sequitur, because if such a person were born today, he would not be Babe Ruth. He would be someone else.

I don't know whether it's so much lost from Western socioeconomic thinking as much as it has been overwhelmed by a muscular cultural identity. Socialism, as far as I can tell, is considered the namby-pamby coddling of those trying to pass themselves off as too weak to work when they are in fact too lazy to get up off their asses. Capitalism is seen as God's own ordained economic order of self-reliance, so ensconced in right-wing cultural thinking that even working-class people with barely a dollar to their names will unironically refer to themselves as "capitalists." There's no actual thinking about of the socioeconomic nature of capitalism taking place there.

So funny because Nixon was the original grievance-driven Republican, and Reagan opened the door for the chiacenry Trump is allowed to get away with.

McCosky obviously loafing on the job … how could he not highlight this? https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-tyler-holton-deserved-his-down-ballot-mvp-vote/ Steven Moya led the CPBL with 30 home runs this season. The 33-year-old former Detroit Tigers outfielder was in his first year in Taiwan, playing for the TSG Hawks.

It just goes to prove that the biggest threat to successful capitalists is actual capitalism.

I don’t trust the AI information yet because, since it is a complete black box to me how it actually works, I think it can be manipulated, or at least misrepresented, by malign actors.

… but … but … but… whatabout the liberal bubble … whatabout the MSM … whatabout the deep state …

I’ve seen these bitcoin “ATMs” in various places as well, and a couple years ago I thought I would give it a spin to buy, like, five dollars or something worth of crypto, and I couldn’t figure out how to buy it or where to put it even if I could buy it. A digital wallet, I presume? Where do you even get one of those? Not at JCPenney or Sears with the other wallets, I’m sure. 😏 Those “ATMs” are probably going to show up as a joke in a Simpsons episode probably sometime this season.

You don’t say. I assume the only places crypto is even accepted are on the dark web for illegal or, at best, quasi legal goods and services. I have no idea how people even buy it, and even less idea how people cash out on it.

In a world where McKinstry has more leverage than Ibanez.

The only way McKinstry is starting on the regular is if a couple of guys get hurt for a decent stretch of time, and if that happens, we ain’t winning anything anyway.

I think a bigger reason is that they have Jace Jung they want to play at third.