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Remember this when McStinky ends up under 1.0 WAR for the season ... 😉

DH every day. 😉

I wouldn't say Skubal is completely ignorant of every aspect of negotiating a free agent contract, but I doubt that he's driving Boras throughout the negotiations. Most players are probably smart enough to know what they want as bottom line points and communicate those to agents like Boras, but not only do I doubt that players are savvy about the minute intricacies attended to evaluating competing proposals, I would bet that Boras is very good about leading players away from requests he views as suboptimal or even potentially destructive to careers, both theirs and his. I don't think Boras became the best negotiator in the game by taking orders from players like a restaurant waiter.

I think football is playing far less in terrible weather. They play in cold and some snow, but I don't think they play in slop because of safety reasons (e.g., ligament tears when slipping).

Been there. Twice. You have my empathy.

Yup.

I think you're right on about the clearing of the constitutional hurdle beforehand. I was building on the premise in your post of Trump vs Obama in November 2028.

Ooh ooh ooh ... let me try: Rand Paul is a motherdicker. Yup—works a treat!

I think that Rand Paul is in the Republican Party, but he is not of the Republican Party

TBF, a large portion of Trump voters do want this and are enjoying it tremendously, probably because librul tears or some such rot.

The flaw in this logic is the assumption that 100% of people who did not vote plus100% of people ineligible to vote want what we are currently getting.

If DOGE were truly concerned about big wastes of money, they could tell DJT that running a prison on an island is exactly one of those.

He wants this only because he thinks it is maximally cruel.

This one is easy: if Trump "runs" for a third term and wins, he stays in office Putin-style, and no one can say **** to stop it; and if Obama runs for a third term against him and wins, the Trump government will refuse to vacate because they'll claim Obama's victory violates the Constitution, every single constitutional scholar and jurist will agree, an actual constitutional crisis will ensue, Trump stays in office Putin-style, and no one can say **** to stop it.

True to a point, since I think he is highly resentful that he even needed due process for any reason.

I agree with all this, although I would only say that although it's true Boras works for Skubal, I think it's unlikely he's going to meddle much with what Boras does, or even provide firm guidance for what should be negotiated by Boras, who's been through this rodeo since way before Skubal was born so he knows exactly how this works, and Skubal has little if any idea about that. I think it's most likely that Boras drives the negotiation process 100%, and his clients' involvement is limited to following Boras's recommendation on whether to accept or reject any offer he presents to the player.

Cernowynk? Brady Cernowynk? Fifteenth-round, 440th-overall-selected Brady Cernowynk?That Brady Cernowynk?

This seems like a reasonable contract although, assuming you mean a team opt out, I do wonder whether he would not only flatly reject this structure because of team opt-outs, but also take us off his list because of the insult. (By "he", I mean the team of Boras and Skubal, not just Skubal the man.)

Sounds more artificial than intelligent.

And he is sitting down for the whole season at age 34 while the “juggernaut” Yankees scuffle along at 19-16. He also missed the whole first half of last year. He made about $50 million for the pleasure of doing so.

It definitely could have been a terrible movie in the wrong hands. Any great movie could have been much worse for the same reason, just as any number of movies that were supposed to be terrible got saved by producers and directors who took them seriously and made them sneaky great—like Major League, which could have been more like Major League 3 in the wrong hands. My Cousin Vinny is another movie like that which, nine times out of ten, would have sucked eggs with the wrong director or producers, because the premise was so ripe for phoning it in.

They will wait out the rain as long as it takes the get three games in by end of day Thursday, because the logistics of making up a rainout in Denver later in the season is so difficult. If they still can’t manage to do so, they might make up the game on July 17, the last day of the All-Star break, when the Tigers are on their way to Texas for a series starting the next day, and the Rockies are preparing to start a home series. They’d have to coordinate with the All-Star managers to not play them, at least much, during that game. It would probably be a late afternoon game, like a 4pm start, to maximize TV exposure for Tigers fans.

I can’t believe this is the first post in this thread to mention A League of Their Own. One of the greatest (yes, not just best) baseball movies of all time. The premise is absolutely riveting, and the actual baseball playing is top notch in Hollywood terms. I don’t know who the technical advisor was who managed to make even Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell look passable as baseball players, but that person should get an Oscar for their work on it.

It was the signature role Caesar had honed through his hundreds of performances on stage in the role. Something I did not know before looking it up just now: Denzel was original Peterson on stage as well.

One of the all-time great meta lines in any movie ever.