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Anyone else noticing the same weird thing about this article that I’m noticing?

Hope for his sake he put his $8 million to work for himself.

Gleyber doesn’t have the wing for shortstop.

Looks like we have our answer.

Like I say, maybe we see something in his defense we think we can fix? If true, he would be a much better glove at second than Keith would. Keith also had a below average wing for second base. This after his prospect card said he had a cannon for an arm. I don't know how to square the two, unless Keith has been purposely throwing slow from second to first?

1/15. Perfect.

I'm pretty sure Hinch was 100% in on the deal and he and Harris already worked out the potential configurations before they signed Torres.

Are you pro-Tork, or are you simply saying you believe this move means Tork is safe for this year?

He's been a minus 2B if you believe FG, and defense had been a priority of this regime, so I'm a little iffy on what his role is going to be, exactly. Maybe they see something we think we can fix, because I would be surprised to learn that Scott Harris is punting on defense just to get a somewhat above league average bat at 2B. I don't see anything yet on our commitment to him, but FG pegged him at 3/54, and I think I might be a little surprised to see us committing three full years to him. He had a down year this year, so who knows, he may have taken 2/40 with a team option. Just spitballing on this.

Does this mean Colt Keith moves to first and Tork is essentially out? Or does this mean Torres is going to take reps at first and Tork is essentially out?

This is what supporters of fascism do: they accuse their enemies of the very things they engage in, or plan to engage in very shortly. They project. Trump's red hats went all in on that years ago. Once they start accusing everyday people who didn't vote for Trump of trying to literally genocide their conservative neighbors off the planet, that's when it's going to be time to make a decision about fighting or fleeing. Seal's been broken already at the top—all they have to do now is push the rhetoric down to neighbor level.

I thought for a few seconds that maybe it was a Trump thing, you know, 45th president coming back and everything, but it still seemed too obscure for that.

Trolls just lash out, so they don't have to make sense.

the very people who supposedly had Christ killed in the first place I got a couple more for you: Even the good people at Christianity.com acknowledge that no one knows the actual date of Jesus's birth: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/when-was-jesus-born.html. So demands that people who are not Christians honor Christ on Christmas, which is almost certainly not even his day of birth, has nothing to do with God or Jesus and everything to do with people who profess Christianity for cultural and political reasons. How Easter is determined is even more wild: it moves alround the calendar because it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of vernal equinox, originally pegged to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, followed by the very people who supposedly had Christ killed in the first place.

That's how your wildly-out-of-context quoting of my post could fairly be interpreted.

Tell you what—if we got all three of those guys, then I would admit I was wrong about where Harris believes we stand in the development curve, and that he showed me a thing or two. If we were to end up with only Bregman, though … mehhhhh …

What’s not credible about a guy whose given handle is jFudgy_? 😉😆 I had mentioned a month or so ago that I believed the Tigers have a puncher’s chance of signing Sasaki, so even if he were to sign somewhere else today, I’ll still take it as a win. And I love Kirby Yates in the olde English D.

Gladly. Also, I was mistaken—it’s Dutch that is closest, not Danish. So sell us to the Netherlands instead.

I want to know more about the body in the wheel well on the Chicago to Maui flight. I’m guessing we may have heard the last of that one.

Also, bonus: Danish is the European language that is the closest to English and thus easiest for English-speakers to learn.

Conservatives have a better idea than putting those kids in institutions: put them to work. Stop spending money on them, and start extracting financial value out of them.

This reads as though I am demanding that everyone christify Christmas. Is that what you believe?

It’s a shame anyone had to take the post personally.

Merry Christmas, everybody! This is a political forum, so, obviously, I have thoughts. 😁 Everyone once in a while we might hear about how someone who's Jewish says they do not celebrate Christmas, or how Jewish kids feel left out when the rest of their class have Christmas activities, things along those lines. We probably don't hear as much of that as we used to, but it still comes up occasionally. But I have been wondering for some time now—well, why can't they? Why can't Jewish people, Muslim people, people of other religions or no religion, celebrate Christmas? Because it doesn't take a long time examining it to conclude that Christmas is actually two separate holidays, not just one. Yes, of course there's the religious Christmas, the one with the Jesus and the creche and the religious songs and the church services and all that. That's important to a lot of people, maybe even the most important aspect of the holiday. (Or holy day, if they prefer.) But there is also the secular Christmas, the one with the Santa and the tree and the ornaments and the presents and the caroling and all that, none of which literally have anything to do with Jesus or Christianity or any of it. It's true that many people mix the religious and the secular elements to suit themselves—they sing religious and secular carols back to back, put a manger scene under the tree, sing "Deck the Halls" as the recessional song during midnight mass, etc.—and that is certainly their right to do so. That's what makes them feel good about Christmas, and what can be wrong about that? Nothing that I can see. But you certainly don't have to mix the two. They can be kept completely separate. After all, Christmas Day is a federal holiday. That's not because we're a Christian country—after all, Good Friday and Ash Wednesday and Epiphany and All Saints' Day aren't federal holidays. But Christmas is, because in 1870, business and labor were each clamoring for federal holidays to help stanch worker burnout, and also, the Grant administration sought to promote national unity in the days after the civil war. In fact, the bill creating the federal legal status of holiday did not specify "Christmas"—only the date December 25th. So if December 25th is a federal holiday, shouldn't all people, regardless of religion, feel free to celebrate at least the widely-beloved, culturally-resonant secular aspects of the holiday in whatever way they choose? Shouldn't Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, atheists, whoever, feel free to celebrate Christmas however they wish, to express their feeling and conviction that they are part of the intrinsic fabric of this country, instead of being othered by people who identify themselves with the religion professed by the majority? Why can't they? Certain jackass types—usually the types who associate being Christian with cultural and political codes rather than moral or ethical values—sometimes demand that people must "put the 'Christ' back in Christmas'", meaning, if people don't elevate Christ to the center of it all, even when sitting on Santa's lap at what used to be the mall, then they're doing it all wrong, the implication being that people shouldn't be allowed to celebrate Christmas without the Christ, or at least they should be ashamed to do so, and maybe even be ostracized for it. I fear we might start seeing and hearing a lot a lot more of that kind of thing during the next few years. But in my view, that's the kind of thinking that seeks to keep us apart and at each other throats, to distract us with hatred of one another. They want us to fight over religion, among other things, while they and the rest of the upper 1% runs away with all the money. I'm pretty sure that is an explicitly expressed strategy. My hope is that one day all demands that everyone must christfy Christmas can be set aside, and that all people will be able to enjoy the awesome secular aspects of the holiday without guilt, shame, or otherwise pressure to conform with anyone else's standards. I think that's one small way we could find common ground and come together as an American people.