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Did Hinch recruit Correa in that meeting? Do we have any report about what they discussed?

I'm not even talking about baseball managers. I'm talking about middle managers in everyday employment situation, like in offices or factories or even academia. If you've ever been one and had your own boss go around you to work directly with your people without your approval or knowledge, you'd know what I mean.

As long as the Tigers are contending for playoffs, there is exactly zero chance we trade Skubal just to get something anything for him before he walks.

I don't know if the ringleadership would be a stronger reason, but I agree it's probably a consideration. Probably also why we tried suspiciously not hard enough to go after Correa.

I guess I meant "Long Duk Park".

Because he's personally going to pocket billions off it? That's my best guess, anyway.

Trump himself promised he would show up with a metaphoric magic wand, and that he would bring prices down on day one. https://nypost.com/2024/08/15/us-news/trump-blasts-kamala-harris-high-grocery-prices-and-maduro-plan-while-standing-in-front-of-cheerios-meat/ “So when I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one. We will end Kamala’s war on American energy, and we will drill baby drill. We’re going to drill, baby drill that’s going to bring down prices of everything, because energy brought it up,” Trump went on. Also: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-rally-north-carolina/2024/09/21/id/1181213/ "Groceries and rent will no longer break your budgets, and you will have thousands of dollars of savings by the end of the year," said Trump. "We're going to get your energy costs down in one year. We're going to get your energy costs down by 50%. We'll cut it in half. We're going to cut it in half. It means young people will once again be able to afford a mortgage and a home."

This is why government is not a business, so running it like a business goes against the interest of its citizens on balance.

I assume they already have a plan in place to blame the Democrats and their voters for rising inflation under Trump.

The clear implication of your first post, especially, was that anti-vax is the default position for liberals. I am simply here to tell you that is false.

That's another thing, too. It's not all one thing or the other. But I wouldn't support permitting this to excuse allowing Nazi parents to privately train their kids to wreak violence on the world as a legitimate lifestyle choice.

Long Duck Park?

If you have never been a middle manager in that situation, I can see why you would not understand.

This is what busing in the 70s was intended to address.

It’s not just the kind of socialization where kids learn to play together at recess. There is also the kind of socialization in which schools teach children the proper range of social behavior and thinking consistent with American ideals, which is a legitimate educational function that serves us all well. I concede the idea that parents have a right to raise their children within certain beliefs and lifestyles as they see fit, but there has to be limits to that if the result could actually end up being harmful to society. Think of it this way: if a child grows up in a family in which the parents believe in providing hours each day of Nazi doctrine and paramilitary training for their kids for years on end in order to prepare for what they believe is the inevitable coming race war, is that merely a lifestyle choice they should have the right to pursue?

Apropos of nothing, I saw Sabrina Carpenter being interviewed recently, she was home-schooled, and man, is she sharp.

Again, not typical liberals. Garden-variety liberals don’t believe in anti-vax doctrine, and if you continue to insist they do, then you are being aggressively ignorant about the nature of American liberals, and not a little intellectually dishonest. As long as we’re going here, if you are a Nazi in America, 9/10 you are voting red.

You missed all the discussion about this here. It was firmly established in the documentary about this incident that the front office went around the manager and directly to the players to execute the scheme, and no manager could have stopped that. If you’ve ever been a middle manager and your boss went directly to your reports to do a project without your knowledge or consent, you’d know what that’s like.

They have Skubal for at least two more years.

This is true, although also, the Yankees and the Red Sox.

MLB can’t market convicted cheaters. They don’t have to think about marketing managers.

Ratko has it right. Matt Shaw is ready.

That’s fine, we need more whiff in the pen.

I practically got a boner reading this part of the story, especially the second paragraph: “I think every team pitches you on that idea,” Cobb said of improvement through adjustments. “I think what separates Detroit is the fact that I know Scott [Harris], his background, and I have talked to other free agents, people that have gone through the process with them that said it was different here. “I haven't gotten into it with them yet; I’m excited too. But [others] suggest that it is not the same as the pitch that other teams give you, that their data’s a little bit different and they have the staff that knows how to take that and translate it into an athlete’s terms of understanding.” This is exactly the kind of thing I have wanted for my franchise for 25 years!

In marketability terms, he doesn’t need the numbers because he’s guaranteed employment until he’s 40. In self-esteem terms, this will probably be a big problem for him. I’m coming around to believing that it came down to “I’m the Man”, which he never could be under Aaron Judge’s thumb.