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Technically true, but if the Democrats throw Joe overboard and allow Kamala to run without a mate, they’ll look like they are in disarray. Yes, I understand they would actually be in disarray, but I’m spotlighting how it would look because that’s the only thing that would be relevant when it comes to voting among the choices.

The presidential stuff in the Constitution deeply, deeply sucks.

CNN wants nothing to do with that. Something about bias charges.

That whole pizza thing after the home run is so lame and joyless.

I’m a little more skeptical about this tonight than I was earlier today. I’ll wait to see whether the media pick it up. Either way, off the air since June 9 with an official tweet deflecting explanation to him doesn’t augur well for Craig’s future with the team. Why would a team in an MLB that meticulously controls its narrative just cede the narrative on his absence to him? What kind of sense does that make?

Is there any team that experiences more drama with its broadcasting situation than we do?

The game within the game …

That’s what happens when you can’t throw strikes: even when they clip the zone, you don’t get the call. Monumental blowup by Plesac.

Jo Adell is kind of the Angels’ version of Tork.

Welp—i guess there’s something else to be sad about.

I don’t want to make anyone sad, but …

That would require us to release Tork or accept a bag of balls for him. But I guess at a certain point he becomes a sunk cost anyway. 🤷‍♂️

Hey NYT, should Trump serve his country by dropping out for being found guilty of 34 felony counts?

He’s going to have to prove he can hit some first.

Not a lick. Not even at Cape Cod.

You forgot “inexplicably”.

That’s Tork’s only hope anymore.

So, total hypothetical: say an org has the 1-1 pick, and their shortstop is the worst shortstop in the majors who's backed up by nothing but bad-to-below-average shortstops in the system; and they also have an established, perhaps All-Star first baseman locked up for the next few years; and there's a great college shortstop available who's maybe the second or third best guy in the whole draft, but the consensus is that there's a high school first baseman slugger who projects to be the best player in the draft ... the org still takes the first baseman because he's the best available? Honest question because I want to understand how immutable this truism is.

OK. I accept that your belief—or knowledge, based on experience—is that major league teams take the best available player for each draft pick, irrespective of the player's position as it relates to the state of the organization's system at the time, and thus do not acquire players based on organizational positional needs. IOW, strictly best available remaining, period. I further grant that you are in a far better position than I to know that based on your access to inside information, versus my gleaning of information I have read as an outsider through the years. Have I articulated this accurately? Either way, I'll still bet a dollar that Harris doesn't take Kurtz if he's available.

And how expected.

Some here laughed at me on the old board years ago when I suggested this kind of power grab on behalf of a Trump would happen.

I don't think I would like a first base-only prospect in the system, and I would bet you a dollar that Harris will not bring one in for his first round pick, which would basically tell everyone, including the market, that Tork is done here, and unless there's something they see inside that's unfixable, I would think it's almost job #1 to fix him.

It is true that when you listen to the debate versus watching it, Biden doesn't seem to do as poorly.

Good thing the DC suburbs are there, then!