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That was I, and yes, he’s been really good over his last 14 appearances. He’s been striking out guys and avoiding giving free passes.

I don’t think the Tigers are going to DFA him or anything, but if he doesn’t moto next spring and pitch his way into the rotation, he might end up being the bulk reliever. I do think Harris might be looking seriously at opportunities to move him this winter. He’s becoming an afterthought in the planning for playoff contention.

He’s a minus defender, but even a minus defenders in the majors make great plays here and there.

Maybe Kane would be better if he didn’t come to work high.

Hope nobody figures out how to do it here.

This will be resurrected by Trump and Vance and will gain traction as a both-sides-are-the-worst story.

I think it will work. It's not impossible to apply regulations surgically and the bureaucracy can handle it. Also, you're still arguing against price fixing. I explicitly left that behind in my post. Metaphorically, you're still campaigning against Biden but he's dropped out.

If this turns out to be the case, I will come into town and pay the money to see as many as all three of those games.

He was supposed to be the "splittie" king, but it was the "splittie" what done him in.

They completely botched Manning is my point. Either he was a bad pick at #9, or a botched developmental project. To say that he's a Mike Pelfrey-type is a complete gut punch to anyone who thought he should have been front-of-the-rotation material as a #9 overall. He was presumably supposed to be better than Cole Ragans.

Mike Pelfrey-type? For a #9 overall pick? And that’s good? That’s not either botching the pick or ruining the pitcher? I’m not following that. As for Mize, we should have gotten a hell of a lot more out of him by now, age 28, than a 2.4 lifetime WAR. Unless you think that’s expecting too much? Not waiting for you to answer and with due respect, I believe it’s because they were rushed to the bigs before they were ready in the hopes that they could make Avila look good. Same reason they rushed Tork up. Avila ****ed up all three of those picks. Harris will not do that with Jobe, I can promise you that.

Counterpoint: Mize and Manning. They were basically ruined by Avila. You will disagree.

I'm greedy. I want the sweep now.

I know we all want him to come up yesterday and start throwing perfect games already, but Jackson Jobe is not coming to Detroit this year. He is the system's top pitching prospect, so we are going to baby his development. The cost of his failing at the big league level would be too high, so we are not going to throw him immediately to the wolves and see if he can fight his way out. That's not what you do to #1 pitching prospects. That's what you do to the Keider Monteros and Ty Maddens of your system, the guys for whom it would be a total bonus if they can come and and shove in the bigs, and if they fail, it's far less of a problem.

Not enough

Also, they might not be consistent viewers of news, but when they do turn on the news, it's Fox News, because that's the news everyone else they know watches and that they see on TVs in public, so that's the news, period.

That some legit James Bond shït right there.

Good, as long as somebody out there is keeping the debate top of mind in the aftermath of the sort-of assassination attempt.

What if I were to suggest that Harris is not talking about Soviet-style price controls, as much as she is about enacting surgical regulations to keep the largest companies from using their control of their markets, whether singularly or collaboratively, to extract predatory prices from customers who can’t reasonably go anywhere else? Would that make more sense? Or would you still believe in the Invisible Hand of the Market always acting in the best interests of consumers over producers?

Here’s how: “We are so glad, sir, that you are president now, sir, that we will gladly cut our rates in half and make far less profit, every single one of us, because you are going to Make America Great Again™, sir.” Isn’t that how capitalism works?

Because that’s OK because the media is now talking about it, which is good, but also, it’s the media’s fault for keeping it in the media.

Haitians make a nifty bogeyman for southerners in particular not only because they’re blacker than most nationalities, but also because Haiti had the successful slave revolt while Alabamans were still allowed to own black people, and they are super sore and maybe even still nervous about that.

Big out with Witt!

The bullpen is kind of fried, so A.J. might have to bring in Holton, but if he gives up a runner or two, he might have to bring in Guenther or even Madden. EDIT: Make that Foley for a third straight game, I guess. It'll be his to lose.

What a **** decision keeping Erceg in there for one more hitter!