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Greetings from beautiful Chicago, Illinois!

Lee didn't pitch last night. He’ll be the first out of the pen today. If there’s leverage, we’ll see Hunter, maybe Brieske after that; if there’s no leverage, probably Hanifee, maybe Brieske.

That definitely sounds like something Mario and Rod would embrace, and that Dan wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.

This makes sense on the surface, although a mitigating factor is the investment they just made in Vlad, which puts the Jays in a tough spot re Bichette. They can’t sell Bo for future parts like a selling team because that will turn Vlad from Very Unhappy to Angry, and their national fan base’s interest would crater. I feel as though if they are within a reasonable distance of the wild card on July 31 and they can’t get a Top 3 numbered prospect from an organization for Bo, they have to try to go for it and take their chances in the offseason if they fall short.

I like this screenshot. Where did you get it?

That probably happens a lot more than we think, particularly to the Tigers in a late Avila years. I would bet, though, that word is starting to get around to the prospecterati, meaning analysts and agents, that Detroit is an organization where young players can go and get better and increase their chances of being big leaguers.

Whoa, what happened to Parker Meadows on that final fly ball? He almost fell on his ass. Hope he just slipped on the grass and it’s not nerve-related.

Man, talk about an inning of inches!

Do you guys know who Brooke Fletcher is? She’s with the new Chicago Sports Network now. I just looked her up, and it says she worked with Bally Sports Detroit. I don’t really remember her.

That’s the second time in two nights one of the White Sox baserunners took off and got picked off while the pitcher was holding the ball on the mound.

NOAA has been gutted, so …

My driveway is totally dry.

No, and I hope you're not being unwilling to grant me the grace of an honest misinterpretation.

I saw Paul McCartney three times in the 2010s, and while it was thrilling to be in the same building watching a living musical deity perform, I was mildly disappointed that at least 90% of the set list was the same across all three shows, two of which were in 2011 and the other in 2017, and that his banter and stories were substantially identical. He clearly geared the show to first-time/one-time-only attendees. I will tell you something that really impressed me, though: during his 2018-19 tour around the world, his US leg was almost mostly small cities, including Raleigh, NC; Greenville, SC; Lexington, KY, Fort Wayne, IN; Green Bay, WI; Madison, WI; and Moline, IL. I thought that was pretty cool of him to do.

Same diff to us Detroiters!

I fairly interpreted what you had said as being most influential from Michigan. If we're talking about just influential in Michigan, then I don't know what that has to do with her power within Congress or the Democratic Party, which is where the conversation was going. If you are in the final analysis implying—or perhaps even flat out stating—that Tlaib lost the election for Harris by costing her the state of Michigan, then I would reply that had Michigan gone for Harris instead, Trump still would have beaten Harris by a score of 297-241.

Influential just in Michigan? I thought we were talking nationally. At least I am.

oh noes who could have seen this coming America is the biggest loser in Trump's trade war, OECD says

God, he is so Putin's little bitch.

OK.

Liranzo and Briceño are at least three years behind Jung on the prospect continuum and they and have not had their shot at the majors yet, so, probably not a fair compare.

"Depraved" was the first word I thought of when I read this story.

Every seat in the US Congress may matter, but not every seat matters equally. Jim Jordan chairs the House Judiciary Committee. Marjorie Taylor Greene chairs a House DOGE subcommittee. Rashida Tlaib chairs the multiracial Mamas' Caucus. They are not anything like the same. Rashida Tlaib is a fringe character serving a fringe constituency. When she starts getting actual power, then I'll start getting concerned.

Neither would I. And I couldn't see the Jays taking anything less than that for an two-time All-Star shortstop in his prime. Certainly not sell-low players like Sweeney or Jung.