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Just remember, though, that we’re not voting just for the man at the top of the ticket. We’re also voting for everyone he brings into the job with him. Maybe that’s something the Democrats should spend some time highlighting.

This is my wife’s political humor. People like it when she’s topical.

Doesn’t not even on the margins? Literally zero votes changed?

Freezing while formulating the thought in the first place, which is what Biden appeared to do, is not the same as stuttering.

Perusing this data, it looks like Biden split his two pre-debate projections in 2020 by +4 and -4, while Trump outperformed his pre-debate projection last night by +12. Not real comforting.

It's one thing to stutter where you have the thought and struggle to get it out—it's another to have an actual brain freeze where you can't get the thought out because it's not there. That's what happened in the big freeze early on, and that's the TikTokable moment that will be endlessly replayed at least until November.

And the $64 question is, which do voters believe is which?

Is Krediler at the top of that depth chart?

And this is why Republicans want to expel all immigrants, pronto.

This is exactly right. Anyone who put as much thought into it as the Biden debate prep team are assumed to have done knew EXACTLY all the wacky things was going to say, and it's as though the Biden team didn't game plan for any of that.

So I woke up and it was NOT all a crazy fever dream. Goddammit.

I don't think Harris doesn't care about results. Results affect the business, and as president he's responsible for the business. That's Business 101.

I don't that's true. Drafting another college first base bat-first guy who profiles almost exactly like Tork tells everyone Tork is done here, and it's about something other than simply sending a despondent Tork boo-hoo-hooing to some psychoanalyst's couch. It's about ignoring positions of actual need by choosing a college bat-first guy at a position we can put half a dozen guys at already and leaving positions we need filled quickly—shortstop, catcher, probably second base—open and vulnerable, all while paying $5.7 million for the privilege. It's also about signaling to the marketplace that Tork is now in the bargain bin so come and get it, pennies on the dollar. Is that how we want to dispose of him? Besides, Avila took what he thought was best available talent all the time and look what he achieved by the time he'd left: a top-of-the-system riddled with outfielders, first basemen, and pitchers of various stripes. In any event, I doubt bat-only first basemen are on Scott Harris's first dance card. I doubt Kurtz would profile as the best available talent on Harris's spreadsheet before a crooked-number round. You can have a good laugh on me if I'm wrong.

The Democrats are going to be in complete disarray for at least the next week.

And they start tuning in for real in October and make their decision then. But they are watching TikTok now, and what they see on TikTok in June and July will factor into their decision in October

Yes, anyone would have taken Tork 1-1, and Avila is anyone, and so is everyone else. But while Tork has been doing terrible this season, is now the time to telegraph to him and everyone else that his days are numbered here? The timing is my question.

Your smartest guy in the room got ****canned in August of 2022.

I don’t know about that as an absolute. Valuation is relative, but if my system is lousy with first basemen and way short on shortstops, I might take a SS I rate at 92 over a 1B I might rate at 95.

I think there are more people legitimately undecided than we imagine. A lot of it has to do with Biden’s age. Tonight ain’t helping.

I’m old enough to remember when George Lombard Sr was a can’t-miss prospect. 👴

God damn it, Pitchbot is right!

I’m not sure whether Biden getting better is going to do him any good, anyway. Elections are won on the margin, and a big part of that margin are TikTok users, and they have all the TikTokable moments they need in the first ten minutes.

Thank you, United States Constitution. It can’t be any other way.

Joe Biden has about 40 minutes to figure out how to keep the entire planet from bailing on him.