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I like this idea. The only problem is that this would be only a drop of water in the firehose of horrors.

The whole mid-Atlantic coast says "impordent" over "important" or even "impor'an'".

That's the advantage of Catholic Mass over evangelical services. The entire Mass has been honed to a very tight script, the homily being the only improv opportunity. The risk for Mass is not discomfort, it's boredom.

I'm not at all saying he would mop the floor with her. All it would take is one bad exchange, and she is not immune to that. The bar is super high for her. In fact, she's the only one with any bar at all.

I’ve been thinking for weeks now about whether Kamala could sit down with Joe Rogan, and I came to the conclusion that it’s a humongous risk that could go completely upside down for her, so she would not do it. Three of the fairly likely outcomes include (1) she has an inadvertent screwup that makes her look bad, (2) he checkmates her on a point and she looks weak; (3) she gets into a scrape with him and she looks petty. In all three of these scenarios Rogan makes hay on it in the final weeks leading up to November 5, and that could motivate the part of his base that wouldn’t care about voting otherwise to sprint to the polls to vote for Trump. Another likely outcome is that the interview falls through and Trump blasts her for chickening out. The unlikely outcome is that Kamala has a good sitdown and gets Rogan to come over to her side, for which his subscribers would start abandoning him. None of those scenarios get her votes from Rogan’s subscribers. They make up the core of Trump’s infantry. The only upside I can see is that she wins the news cycle with Rogan, which might or might not end up as a push.

The funny part about this post is that the Rangers are still, right now, the reigning world champeens.

They went on strike during my age 10 season, but hey, at least I got division title out of it.

That’s so ironic to me because I hated disco for the way it was basically white people ruining funk.

I don't think Harris is going to say anything publicly that would cast aspersions on anything related to Javy, whether it's effort, performance, or potential. Doing so would be bad form and send the wrong message to the team. He is always going to say, "we look forward to seeing Javy make a strong comeback in camp" and never "Javy is mos def dunzo here."

The Yankees are the only team I truly dislike, and I will root for literally any other team to beat them in every circumstance.

As I think more about this, maybe the context is that internal polls would be more likely to show them way, way ahead in preparation for the blizzard of lawsuits claiming election fraud.

Consider the source. I think it's a sunshine account.

Go Guardians! Beat Yankees!

Oh, I don't know—there are still a few Al Avila-level front offices still out there. 😁 Anyhow, I was just parsing the language is all.

Harris is a 180 from Avila, in that I despaired for the state of the franchise almost the entire time he ran it, and with Harris the limit appears to be the sky.

Probably, although I do believe it has more to do with the roster than the facilities.

I doubt it will be winter ball, but I would guess they will deploy coach(es) to work with him on-site and have regular progress checks a few times a week.

A couple things I see in there: "Casey Mize has best fastball he's had in career. Needs to make adjustments with secondaries, believe he still has a high ceiling". Sounds like they might be talking him up for a trade. "Tork needs to have a good off-season. Still needs to work on becoming a 'complete hitter'. They have confidence in Tork." This reads to me like they might be a little less likely to trade Tork, even though I think it would be a good move given acceptable return.

So is this winter.

Given how Harris picked through the garbage Avila left him and found some parts that were still usable, I have a good deal of confidence that he will figure this out quite well.

This may be an ingredient into Tampa Bay's secret sauce: they win with talented young kids and the chemistry of per-arbitration camaraderie. Perhaps once they get to the point where they start thinking about themselves and their careers, it's adios, amigo.

Yeah, we already have recent data point about signing 29-year-old shortstops to six-year deals. Bregman, I don't think I would want to see us commit to six years for him, either. All the tea leaves tell me he's staying in Houston, anyway. Not for nothing, he's from that part of the country and has played nowhere else since 2016.

A great point that has also crossed my mind. I am giving Harris the benefit of the doubt that any top-tier player they sign will be vetted for clubhouse character, and I'll let him prove me wrong about that.

I think that makes Tork a better trade prospect. He doesn't want to be in a system where he has to study hard like he's at school. He needs a system that will let him grip it and rip it. Reds, Pirates, Rockies, Nationals, Marlins are all good candidate systems for him, and they could all use a first baseman.

I believe the key reason Hinch platooned and pinch-hit frequently this year was because of the nature of his roster. He didn't have guys he could comfortably throw out there game after game for all nine innings, and also, he had bench players who did happen to match up really well in platooning, which may have been more of a Harris result than a Hinch result. When Hinch did have everyday guys in Houston, he was among the least likely to use pinch hitters, and when he didn't have decent bench pieces his first couple years here, he hardly used pinch hitters here as well.