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If you seriously can't see how the debate was a bright dividing line for the Biden campaign, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Yes, of course we're supposed to trust Harris, because what's our alternative? Seems like the only real alternative is to quit following the Tigers. You're talking as though Harris has already failed us on multiple occasions as Avila did. In fact, you are strongly implying that Harris is Avila. If you're not willing to give Harris even one deadline chance, then how can you ever be satisfied with anything? I mean, I get the self-flagellating attraction of fatalism, but doesn't there have to be a limit to it at some point?

The primary vote happened before things changed, obviously. If the Democrats know what they're doing and have their **** together, they will get the delegates on board for whoever the replacement is.

I don't think Harris see a target date of 27-28, either. I think he saw/he sees this team as a possible playoff contender this year if everything breaks the right way and appropriate development occurs, but it's not at the stage of development at which we can start emptying out the top of our system to fill holes. That['s why I don't think we will be buying at all this season, even if we go 11-0 and stand at 58-50 on deadline day. I think we all saw this year that the system had been gutted even more than we thought it was and that it was going to take more time to put right than we'd hoped, but I would imagine that Harris sees 2025 as a step-forward year, one which might lead to a halfway decent free agent this offseason we can bring aboard for more than two years. There are a few available. But I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't bring one abord, either. But this should be the last offseason for one-year stopgaps, or else something has gone horribly wrong. I would bet that Harris now sees 2026 as the year we can start contending for a title, again, assume we don't see multiple things going upside-down for us during that season.

Tigers apparently saw something in Maton they thought they could fix and they did everything they could to try to fix it and once they saw it wasn't going to work the way they wanted to they let him go

TBF, some of us knew Willi was potentially pretty good, and even thought we would/should hang onto him.

Although Skubal is buying himself a pretty good arb payday for next year. probably close to a record, maybe even something pushing 20 bills.

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I don't think it's millions of voters' votes. I think it's more like 3,896 delegates' votes. And they are not even votes yet—they are pledges to vote at the convention in August. So, technically speaking, no votes are being taken away if Biden is replaced before the convention. But it is still a **** move to some.

I know you said you're a big Hawley fan so you like what he says, but I don't know where "love of country" shows up anywhere in Jesus's teaching, outside of you should pay the taxes you owe to Rome, which as any taxpayer knows is nothing like love of country.

After I posted this, I started thinking about it a little more, and it may have taken an embarrassingly long time to arrive at this, but I think I finally figured out why the evangelicals and other staunch Christians gravitate to Trump: their core identities revolve around being martyrs who are constantly persecuted. Christianity itself has a very basic persecution origin story: God Himself sent his Son to Earth to spread His message of peace and love, and the apostates, aided by the Jews, God’s once-chosen people, persecuted Him literally to Death. The early history of Christianity is littered with persecution stories: how the Romans fed them to the lions; how the Jews and Persians drove the Christians out of Jerusalem in the 7th Century; how the Muslims tried to wipe out the Christians in the Crusade. This history of persecution is crucial to how Christians understand themselves and their place in the world. (Of course, their history doesn’t include how the Christians set up the Inquisitions to murder millions of unbelievers, but that’s neither here nor there for this post.) Even today, Christians love to regale anyone who might listen with tales of how their fellow believers are still being persecuted or even genocided today, in places like communist countries or Africa or Asia or any number of other places where Christians do not predominate. Even in this country, Christians constantly rail against certain parts of the culture, such as the media or Hollywood or academia, that do not elevate them and their beliefs to the privileged status they feel they deserve as being persecution on a cultural level. To maintain the fiction that the entire world is constantly trying to persecute them out of existence is vital to their self-identification. Trump, of course, has his own persecution story: he grew up ostracized by his peers, shunned by the polite society he craved attention and approval from, and worst of all, was given the cold shoulder by the father he adored. He has spent his entire adult life raging against “elites”, and fighting against what he perceives as the persecution of him, and he just. Won’t. Shut. The ****. Up. About it. And the ironic thing about all this, of course, is how both Trump and the Christians have succeeded almost beyond belief: Trump has been widely-considered one of the greater business tycoons of the 20th and 21st centuries and spent that entire period at least flirting with billionairehood; and the Christians have become a supermajority in the most powerful country in this history of the world, with large swaths of their believers controlling the government and constantly angling to use the machinations of what is supposed to be a secular government to legally privilege themselves and codify their beliefs into law. So how can two entities with such a core belief in their own persecution mythology not gravitate toward one another?

Out of all these, though, Christianity is the most privileged belief system in this country, the one system you’re ill-advised say anything about—whether you’re talking about the tenets of true-believerism or, really, about anything else—unless it’s either with effusive praise, or else you’re ready to withstand the withering snowflakey responses you get.

Interesting part of Vance’s Wikipedia page is the description of his military service: After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003,[12] Vance enlisted in the US Marine Corps. He was deployed to Iraq as a combat correspondent for six months in late 2005.[13][14] There, he was assigned to the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.[15][16] About his service, he commented that it "taught me how to live like an adult" and he was "lucky to escape any real fighting".[17] So, to paraphrase Full Metal Jacket (h/t romad), he wasn’t at the front with the grunts—he was in the rear with the gear. I’ll be interested to see whether he reshapes the narrative to remake himself as a military badass.

I too think it will help.

That’s because hitting got out ahead of pitching early, but now pitching is blowing out hitting.

I don’t think they would involve every Democrat, just inner-circle White House people, top Hill allies, top delegates, top donors. I wouldn’t think anyone who have come out against Biden in public would be part of the discussions. This is just a plausible possibility as far as I know, probably a better chance it’s a complete circus on the inside.

So start off the second half with a good win on the road. It would be nice if we can make it interesting the next couple of weeks.

We don’t have a shutdown back of the pen, so it’s fluid. When you don’t have anyone obviously suited to the role, no point it just giving it to the warmest body.

lol Marianne Kremlinasset thinks she’s relevant

Counterpoint: they didn’t pitch nearly as hard yesteryear as they do today.

I don't know—I'm having trouble seeing people accepting seeing Biden at the top of their ballot when they know Harris is going to be the actual president. Why not just list Harris at the top of the ballot then? And even if Biden did announce it beforehand, believe it or not, there will still be a few million people voting for him who will not have even heard that he announced he's stepping aside after the election. That may be only single-digit percent of his voters, but that is more than enough to swing an election. And, not for nothing, that would provide Trump legitimate grounds to sue to either overturn the results or to re-run the election, and he would have a good chance of winning that lawsuit. Talk about chaos. tl;dr: it's not going to happen.

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You don't say. Context: Recovery time varies depending on the strain, with Grade 1 strains typically requiring 2-3 weeks and Grade 2 strains usually taking at least a month. Grade 3 strains often require surgery, however, and can come with considerably longer recovery periods. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/injuries/lat-strain

You know, at some point Trump is going to have the take the bandage off he ear, and it had better look good and gnarly, because if it doesn't, then we're all going to know that he wasn't actually shot. Except for the evangelicals who will claim Jesus touched his ear and healed it back to 100% because Trump sits at the right hand of The Son. Of course, Trump won't take the bandage off until the day after the election, because it will serve as the ever-present reminder to voters of why he must become president again.

That would be the biggest example of bait and switch in the history of the United States of America. The next sound you would hear is millions of Democrats who voted for Biden giving the party the raspberry on the way out the door.