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Newsmax is even more unhinged: this entire proceeding is a conspiracy timed precisely to throw a monkey wrench into the election process, and it won’t be long until they come after the rest of us who speak our minds.

Judge Jeanine: “I think Americans are very interested in justice and they realize in their gut that something is very wrong here. We have gone over a cliff in America here … this was a defendant against whom crimes were created, a judge was picked out of the ordinary … a judge who was handpicked for this defendant, who denied him the ability the fight the way he needed to fight, who brought in crimes that we never heard of in New York before, dead misdemeanors that they resurrected into felonies … federal crimes over which no state court has jurisdiction … with all the smoke and mirrors …” … and she just goes on like this. That’s the second time in five minutes I heard “smoke and mirrors”. I’m thinking that will be the Catchphrase of the moment in RWM.

LOCK HIM UP!

“It’s a historic trial of a former president by his partisan adversaries. Whatever you think of the results, it is inconceivable in New York that anyone else but Donald Trump would ever have been indicted in his way by Alvin Bragg, the elected progressive district attorney, who campaigned on the fact that he would go after Donald Trump … this is a very political exercise and they accomplished what they set out to accomplish.” ROTFL!

Oh yeah, they’re real, and they’re spectacular!

GUILTY! THE MOTHER****ER IS GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS!

Judge Jeanine: “I have a big concern about the judge not allowing the defense to plead the case they needed to to properly defend their client.”

“Many times juries learn after they render a verdict and leave the courthouse that there was information that was not made available to them and they have buyer’s remorse for the verdict … it’s as though they were instructed by Michael Cohen or Barry Pecker …”

“The jury instructions were pro-prosecution.”

Also likening the corroboration of volumes of documents to Michael Cohen’s testimony as “smoke and mirrors”.

Fox lamenting that any guilty verdict will be based on the testimony of the GLOAT.

Fox correspondent hoping against hope it’s an impasse and not a verdict.

I’m going to watch it on Fox. Either way, their reaction will be the most fascinating.

That was in 2023, but he was also 0.4 WAR with a 93 OPS+ in 2022. If we sign him, which guy is gonna show up for us? Plus he’s 36, and I’m pretty sure if we sign him Tiger fans would have a hairy conniption because 36-year-old first basemen have no future. I’m not opposed out of hand to signing him, but I’m pretty sure he is not anywhere close to the Tigers radar. The team is committed to making sure they can get any blood out of the Torknip, and I don’t think the inflection point is either now, or anytime during this season. If he ends up with -2.0 WAR and a 70-ish OPS+, though, I would bet the Tork Question is going to be #1 on the charts with a bullet.

Dodged a bullet on this one ... The Angels announced they’ve transferred reliever José Cisnero from the 15-day to the 60-day injured list. They needed to open a roster spot for infielder Michael Stefanic, who is back from his own 60-day IL stint. The Halos reinstated him onto the 40-man and optioned him to Triple-A Salt Lake.

I wish they did, and that their embrace of gambling hurt them in any way. But all it's doing is bringing people to the game who weren't paying attention to it before, and that's good for their bottom line. After all, you and I are in something like the 98th-percentile of fandom, as well as on the far end of the hate spectrum of gambling in baseball, and it's not as though either of us are boycotting the game in protest of it.

For a reason. 😏

To be clear, I'm not saying anything like, this has always been a conspiracy by Baseball to "Disneyfy" itself by exonerating all its bad actors. But Leerhsen did drop an opportunity in Baseball's lap to draw people's attention away from Cobb's violent behavior by casting doubt on it, which Baseball does benefit from. Because when people become confused about someone's issue—was Cobb a violent racist like I've heard all these years, or was that all a big lie?—they compensate by putting the issue out of their mind and focusing on the things about the people they do know, and bonus, can like and celebrate. Cobb is a core part of baseball history, but Baseball can't market the #1 takeaway fans have about Cobb, so once people stop thinking about that part of him, Baseball can then can comfortably market Cobb as one of the all-time greats of baseball history who fans can love without having to feel icky about it. It's not anything like a conspiracy, or even a plan, concocted by Baseball. I don't think it's even something that's in the back of their minds at any given moment. I think it's a case of, if the opportunity happens to present itself, they could take advantage of it if/when the moment is right. FWIW, I think Baseball would love to be able to so that with Pete Rose, too, since so much of Pete Rose on the field was so easy to enjoy and would make for great highlights, especially since they have so much video of the guy. But he's a harder case because his sin was against the game of baseball itself, and it was Baseball that made him permanently ineligible, so if they tried to celebrate Pete in any way, they'd have some 'splainin' to do.

This administration don't want a permanent DH, at least not in the foreseeable future, and besides, most teams don't even use permanent DHs, anyway. Almost half of all teams, 14 of 30, give fewer than 50% of their DH plate appearances to one guy, and only eight teams give more than two-thirds of their DH PAs to one guy. So I don't sentencing Tork to a year in Toledo and then making him permanent DH indefinitely is in anyone's plans. The teams that benefit most from permanent DHs are those that have strong offense at hitting positions, mainly corners, like the Braves (Ozuna), Dodgers (Ohtani), Phillies (Schwarber), Yankees (Stanton), and Astros (Alvarez). Absent that, permanent DHs tend to play on teams with big-contract and/or legacy guys who can't play anywhere else, like Mitch Garver of the Mariners, or Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates—or Miggy for the Tigers for the last several years.

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As long as Alito can figure out a way to frame it as Trump and only Trump, and anyone else Trump appoints to succeed him.

It is part of the Divine Plan that we pray to God to change his Divine Plan.

Just posting in the spirit of the thread …

Maybe we can move on from him when we find someone decent to replace him. And it doesn’t even have to be a stud with the stick—it could be a halfway-decent hitter with a plus-glove. But I’m pretty sure the last thing we will want to do DFA him out of frustration and get nothing in return, or exile him to Toledo and signal to the market that he’s damaged goods. If we want to get a return for him annd eventually end up with something better, we have little choice at this moment but to keep playing him and hope he figures it out at least a little.