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It’s one of the reasons I fear people who get the worm in their brain and become practically unrecognizable versus what they were before.

They’re angry because they’re stupid, or at least ignorant. They don’t get how things work, so they lash out against the big unknown.

The internal improvement is a huge wild card. Is second half Parker for real? Can Trey Sweeney improve by a step or two? Can Colt Keith move up a notch or two with the stick? Can Jace Jung put it together at third? Can Casey Mize and Spencer Torkelson find whatever it is the whole world thought they had when they went 1-1? Is there another Tyler Holton lurking on the 40? Those might be the kinds of considerations that are going into Harris’s thinking as he’s considering roster additions from outside. I’d be surprised if Harris threw more than three years at Bregman (or if he signed Santander at all), and I’d be equally surprised if Bregman wanted to stay in Detroit more than a year anyway.

I have been wondering lately whether being Spanish-speaking Latin American hurts perception of such players in general, particularly from before the 2010s. I have lots of little data points in mind that make me wonder that.

Even though he’s wearing Olde English on the plaque, I think Morris might have been put in by his peers mainly for his 1991 Game 7 with the Twins, although, also, they respected him while they were on the field together. His overall body of work is at best debatable, but even if his stats gives him a nudge over the bar, the writers were never going to put him in because reasons.

I’m wondering whether Harris is strongly considering how injecting a veteran with a big money contract is going to affect that balance. We had a team making the playoffs last year that was literally half rookies. All the big money guys we had signed for the season—Baez, Flaherty, Maeda, Canha, the $10+MM guys—were all either hurt or traded by the time the Tigers started really winning. The team that went 31-13 to finish the season were a bunch of kids cobbled together mainly through the draft, waiver wire, sell-off deadline deals, and MiLB FA signings. There was a magic in the way they all came together to win together. Do you think Harris is considering the way a big money veteran will affect the way the team works together? Or do you think he’s, like, throw everything he can into win now and worry about tomorrow tomorrow, he might not even have a job after next year?

Someone from Homeland security is so fired …

Prospective investors dipping their toe into the information for the first time are usually told that average stock market returns are 8% or 10% or 12% or even more, whatever the number of the month is, which is higher than probably 99% of all active mortgages.

Yeah, this was a good one.

The new standard for what constitutes proper ethical behavior.

Yes, and yesterday’s ruling was the true conservative position.

Amy Coney Barrett has surprised in a few of her rulings. Trump now has buyer’s remorse and she is now headed to the MAGA enemies list.

Yeah, nice, **** it, just let the world burn already, most of us are only a few years from death anyway. 😒

Sadly, Baseball is never going back to Montreal.

So, so many pastors and priests ...

Didn't Trump ask his personal SCOTUS to block sentencing? That's definitely going to happen today. There might also be a conviction overturned as a bonus.

Friendly reminder courtesy of “Mad Dog” Mattis.

Bring back all-white fire departments. Police departments, military, universities, sports teams, workplaces, and public spaces, too. Make America 1920 again.

Now, now, Tater, there’s no call to be mean to poor dead Rush. Pill-popping is an addiction, not a moral failing.

aka “getting high on their own supply.”

They have both thrown a bunch of cash around—Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols and Justin Upton in the past, also Trout and Rendon, a very average Kikuchi just recently. They have no problem spending Arte's dinero. Of course, only a couple other teams can even dream of keeping up with the Dodgers, and the Angels ain't quite one.

There are two of them. Or at least two with "Los Angeles" in the name.

That would be pretty cool.

I would be somewhat surprised to see the Tigers sign Bregman at all, and even more surprised to see both him and them agree to a full six years here.