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Fantastic tweet, literally. How could we not know that the ACLU, the Jews, and the ghost of H.W. were in on it … 😳

Now the fascism is polling better, cspan has to find equal time for the fascists. Now democrats can claim cspan is biased against them for elevating fascist outsiders as being legitimate political actors, same as how republicans claim cspan is biased against them for citing NYT and WaPo articles on air.

Blackburn referred to Trump as POTUS in this video.

Someone needs a hug.

Nothing is real. - John Lennon

Only on balls in play.

Exactly. Well, minus Basallo and Kjerstad, but otherwise, yeah. In fact, Skubal for Baumeister and Arias at 3:59pm on draft day would be the platonic ideal of an Avila deadline trade, since Baumeister can’t stop walking guys and Arias can’t hit or play D.

I don’t think that’s true. I’d think Harris understands what the impact of a trade of prime assets would be on the team and the city. Harris would definitely brief Hinch beforehand but I don’t think Hinch would get much more than “how about this guy” consideration. I don’t believe Hinch would offer up candidates or get veto power or anything like that. The clubhouse would definitely be an issue, unless you believe they don’t care as well. I think a marginal number of fans would peel off if they thought the Tigers were selling off stars indiscriminately. We here are the very rare fans who would understand the efficacies of that kind of moves. We’re a tiny minority when it comes to that.

The Democrats could steal the news cycle from Trump if they announced anytime between now and tomorrow night.

Do you mean Nike, or other than Nike?

In any event, first things first: there is no deal getting done until we figure out whether the run the Tigers on can go through the rest of the month. If the Tigers go 7-4 or better by the deadline, they are a .500+ team, and trading key pieces, in particular the top of your staff, would be a hard sell to the manager, the guys, and the fans.

This right here. We have a gaping hole to close in the middle of the dirt and Holliday could do that starting next year.

Juan Soto is also a modern day Ironman.

Not only would I be shocked to see Boras selling out Gunnar Henderson for a 5-year team friendly deal, I think the entire industry would also be.

Related to my post from a couple days ago, if the media were to learn that the Trump campaign staged the entire thing, there is no way they could report that without looking completely unhinged, so completely has Trump checkmated them through sheer force of will.

I was just reminded that this trade involved the Padres #1. #2. #4, and #5 prospects, from the #17 system that preseason.

Perhaps only because they haven't figured out a way to divide the All-Star teams in any different way. They tried the USA vs the World thing in the Futures game until it finally, finally, dawned on them how icky it sounds. Maybe at some point they will appoint captains and name teams after them, such as Team Judge vs. Team Ohtani. They do that in the NBA, right? But even still leaning into the AL vs NL distinction, they apparently designed the uniforms to erase as much identification with players' teams as they could manage to get away with, even on the caps. I find that offensive, but then, I am very old and they already got me anyway, so they don't have to target anything to me anymore.

So that's what the thread is about? Okey doke.

Was the love coming from inside the house or outside the house?

Just serves to remind us that every generation has its own traditions, and every tradition started out as heresy.

I also saw a Clemens start when he had 299 wins. The Cubs' starter was Kerry Wood, who was still considered hot stuff at the time, and it turned out to be the Hee-Seop Choi game. https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-7-2003-hee-seop-chois-injury-overshadows-wood-clemens-pitching-duel-at-wrigley/

The Tigers will spend when the time is right. The time is simply not yet right.

They did it in the 50s, too. In fact, a ballot-stuffing scandal caused Baseball to take the vote away from the fans because it undermined the integrity of the All-Star game. Isn't that just precious? https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/13168334/1957-cincinnati-fans-stacked-all-star-team-too

Who are you thinking here? I'm guessing Tork might not yet be one of them. 😁 Henderson is a Boras client, so that's a no, at least on team-friendly terms. FWIW, so is Jackson Holliday. Plus, Holliday is the #1 prospect on the Orioles, and #1's probably don't do that. The time to lock up young talent to long team friendly contracts is before they start raking in the bigs, that is, before they know they can succeed so they are motivated to lock in the security. Once they start succeeding in the majors, once they know they're good enough to get good and paid, that team-friendly window is shut. Rutschman is already a 2x All-Star now so no incentive for him to sign on team terms. Kjerstad is killing it right now, so he also might be too far gone for that. Maybe Cowser, who's struggling right now so you can buy low, plus he topped out at #4 on Pipeline, like Colt Keith. So, sign him to that contract.