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Kirby Puckett was a throwback to the time when batting average was king. It’s hard to keep a guy with a .318 batting average and 2,500+ hits out of the Hall. Plus he has Game 6 of the 1991 Series so he got the Fame part, too. As for Trout: he is an 86-win player. He has three MVPs, six top-5 MVP votes otherwise, and a RoY. He led the AL in OPS+ six times and runs scored four times. He amassed a 47-win five-year peak, that’s 9.5 WAR per season for five years straight. If you’re a Hall of Fame voter, you’ll be called upon to explain why you didn’t vote for Mike Trout on the first ballot.

Stanton’s not going in on the first ballot unless he has a healthy late career surge. He doesn’t have the required reps because he can’t stay on the field. He’s already missed 40 games this year—he just came back from five weeks on the shelf just this week. If he can’t put up maybe three more good years healthy, it’s gonna take a few years for him to get in if he does at all.

Essential viewing not about the war itself, although war adjacent. Spoiler alert: the West Bank is an apartheid state, supported by the usual suspects.

Since the Royals won their eighth straight on May 25, they are 26-29, which is an entire third of a season. Not exactly world beaters.

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I felt like the response was a bit weak. I would have liked to see her stress that she is proud of both her African Jamaican and her South Asian Indian heritages equally, but in the end she is proud to be an American who has a chance to do the most good for the most people, something like that. She's a DA, I'm sure she could speechify it better than I.

And here I thought Trump would take credit for it directly, not Bowman Hamel giving him indirect credit.

New guy continues to come in HOT!

I'm there with ya, 55 years here, but maybe we give the new guy a chance before we throw in the towel.

He can vote as many times as he wants since Indiana is already in the bag for Trump without him.

The uniquely American thing about Halfricans is that they identify as black, because society also identifies them as black. As G2 says, Obama was half-white but no one ever talks about that. But that's exactly it: no one talks about the half white part because when anyone sees him, they think black. I suppose if anyone wanted to split hairs about it, it could be said that Obama looks "blacker" and married a woman identified as black, whereas Kamala Harris looks less "black" and married a man people identify as white. But in the end, Kamala will be identified as black more than Asian, because America is obsessed with blackness and whiteness over anything else, for historical reasons nobody needs to be reminded of. And the more Trump, Vance, and the surrogates hammer this ultimately pointless point, the more it's going to fire up people who are seen as unambiguously black to rally around Kamala and show up on Election Day. And bonus: because of the racist focus on her in the first place, it's going to also fire up most people of color of all backgrounds to rally around her and vote, too. And bonus bonus: practically no white people who are strongly inclined to vote Democrat anyway are going to peel off from her just because they are reminded of her non-whiteness. If anything, they're going to be extra motivated to make sure they get their vote in, because **** Trump and the Trumpublicans for focusing on this **** in the first place. And if all this keeps up for the next three-plus months, in the end, that means Kamala is probably going to wipe the floor with Trump, and bring the House and maybe the Senate with her. I think as of today, things are looking really, really good.

So now, by the transitive property, Venezuela is in the Trump world orbit? 🤷‍♂️

Is this so Trump can claim this morning that he worked with Mr. Putin to have Gerhskovich released, so therefore how can Trump be antisemitic like that horrible Jew Mr. KaMAHla, but also, Trump was personally assured by Mr. Putin that if Trump was president Gershkovich would never had been detained in the first place?

Because if they win, first they get the power, then they get the money, then they get the women.

So true. A substantial percentage of people who are considered white southerners have black ancestors in their bloodlines. Under the South's one-drop rule they would have been targeted by Jim Crow, but because they looked white enough, their family was considered white, lived in white neighborhoods and were embedded in white institutions such as schools and churches, they got to perpetrate Jim Crow instead. And that's because it was society that made them "white", not God, who doesn't dabble in such foolishness.

That's what I was implying here:

And just about everyone on the board would say, "let's do it again!"

So much for the whole "stay away from racist attacks" admonition.

My wife's nephew's daughter had her first day of school today. She is starting first grade. Today is July 31st. 😶

Not to go all thread cop on everyone here but I dislike the idea of having an offseason thread active when the actual season still has two months left in it. See you then, I guess.

Pretty ****ty of the GM.

He is completely disintegrating, and the more he does, the more dangerous he and his followers could become.

I’m sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying something along the lines of a successful GM would bring in established players and increase payroll and, if it were trades, empty out our minor league system.

If this guy is writing that he’s been saying the Tigers have been close to having a breakout season for years, including last year and the final few Avila years, then I have my doubts about his analysis chops.

Take a look at our Fangraphs Scouting + STATS! prospect ratings look now. https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2024-in-season-prospect-list?org=det Honest question for the pessimists: does this serve only to demonstrate that our system is not as strong as we all thought it was yesterday morning?