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Peanuts.

That's going to be a tricky balance for her. Unless she successfully completes a transformative makeover in the next year, she's never going to get the center to center-right in a 2028 election, and the red hats will dismiss her as a RINO.

How about, "the cheese fell off his cracker a long time ago"?

True: the Jim Crow-era Democratic Party had both the effete eastern liberal camp and the murdering southern fascism camp. Big tents are big.

I don't know what the offer would have to be to pry Skubal away from the Tigers this winter, or who would make such an offer, but if that offer does not make us better in 2026—if it were to force us to take a step back from contending—then it's just not going to happen. Simple as that. Because if Harris purposely takes us off the contender track for the promise of making us better than we are now starting in 2028 or 2029, the fans would go ape****, the players would go ape****, the free agents would avoid us for the rest of his tenure here, and he'd be basically a marked man in this industry. The only PBO job he could get after a debacle like that would be along the lines of Pirates, White Sox, Rockies, et al. The only way he wouldn't be a marked man is if it's widely known the Baby Doc forced him to sell off Skubal which, after the millions poured into the infrastructure of the team to make us a perennial contender, simply doesn't pass the smell test.

I’m out of reactions, but Like.

There’s a good reason those closeted gay Republicans appear so publicly anti-gay. It’s related to the reason closeted people who are ashamed for being gay gravitate toward organizations that are the most vocally anti-gay, and the more shame they feel for being gay, the more violently they act out publicly, and the more crazy they behave privately when they go on a gay bender.

It’s taking a long time for them to get to the voter fraud part. It’s been, what, a whole day already?

OK, so, first this part … "If we see someone leaking, you’re fired," Eric Korsvall, the organization’s chief operating officer, said during the question and answer portion of the meeting. While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel "our friends," he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a "limiting principle.” "You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone … while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear." So the attendees are warned to not leak the meeting under threat of termination, and then Roberts pussyfoots around the apology clutching his pearls saying he would never cancel anyone. I don’t understand the point of apologizing internally while allowing the impression externally that Roberts is 100% behind Carlson and, by extension Fuentes. Separately, I found this interesting, from the end of the article: Roberts took questions from the audience, including from Robert Rector, a welfare scholar, who described himself as a 47-year veteran of the Heritage Foundation—"longer than most of you have been alive," he said. He harkened back to William F. Buckley Jr., the National Review founder. "I hope you know who he is," Rector said. "The boundaries that he set forth, William Buckley, in the early 1960s, were twofold. You have to expunge all anti-Semitism, all of it. But that’s just part of it … the other is you have to expel the lunatics. Ok? The lunatics who think that Eisenhower is a communist. And we have them back now. Ok? They are both here, back, just the way they were in 1959. And we have to go back and set the general parameters. You say, ‘Oh, we don’t cancel.’ We do cancel. Did we cancel David Duke? Yes. Did we cancel the John Birch Society? Yes, ok. Because they were harmful. Because if they’re in your movement you look like clowns. The issue here is Tucker Carlson … Tucker’s show is like stepping into a lunatic asylum." It took a guy with half a century in the organization to remind everyone of how the Foundation finally ended up canceling the crazies after all, in a way they refuse to today. He remembers. This is in part why fascism is making such a strong comeback in America today: te fascist world we fought to destroy in no longer in living memory. It’s just a tall tale to people today.

Which means, of course, that no other organization is likely to empty the top of the farm system for one year of Skubal.

To the degree it exists in other sports, that's probably because their players' unions had to approve it. I don't see the MLBPA agreeing to it, and since Baseball is a federally-protected monopoly and the other sports businesses are not, I would guess they would try to unilaterally impose that on Players who would have to get the issue adjudicated in a court of law.

I hope he saved his money and invested wisely. He's gonna need it.

Well, it's definitely not going to be the first thing they do.

A guy who expects the entire world to bend to his will is never, ever going to modify his approach to anything ever.

I wonder how much time they'll get to doctor some documents and destroy the rest?

Talking to her instead of beating the hell out of her? Kristi Noem is gonna have those guys so ****ing fired.

Caving in on what?

And I've been to a lot of republican functions and conventions, and they never once talked about helping people, it was all about getting elected and gaining power.

Sure, it's not going to get him to the table, but they have to at least go on record. If they didn't, that itself would have boomeranged back onto them.

I'll be impressed when they rule against Trump's constant usurpation of the power of the purse for Congress. If Trump had tried this same thing during the 2019-2021 Congress, it might have already come up and the Court might already have ruled against him.

I don't see us trading Mize unless we have options as good as he to cover him.

I believe that's exactly what the owners, or at least some owners, proposed during the birth of free agency back in the 1970s, and Marvin Miller negotiated away from that, because he knew a flooded market would keep salaries down.

I would think setting a hard limit on contract lengths would be struck down in court as restraint of trade.

Wanting to get a deal done is one thing, but offering it to him and setting an artificial deadline to accept it is a bad look, particularly when Tarik Skubal's agent is involved.