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Although to be fair, on replay, that was an absolutely perfectly-executed pickoff.

I hope McKinstry is saving his money.

Urshela is lucky Martinez made a ****ty throw to third.

Even better!

There are appropriate times to take risks. Designing a trade for your Cy Young candidate is not one of those times.

Not a chance. That was five years. This is only two. Cody Stavenhagen, a professional journalist, called Maeda’s contract an “albatross”. Talk about engaging in rhetorical inflation.

Colt Keith has been raking lately. Slashing .417/.462/.875 in the six games leading up to this.

This was fun to talk about, but in the end, I would be borderline shocked if we ended up trading Tarik Skubal this year. I would characterize the chances of that happening as low single-digits percent.

II agree that Mayo is not chopped liver, but we've already got a numbered prospect who is ticketed to play third base to start with but who will probably end up moving over to first eventually. We don't another one. We need a middle of the dirt guy.

Why, you clever, clever boy, you ...

I don't believe that to suggest that a trade of the current best pitcher in the American League, at the beginning of his peak and who's on the inside track to win the Cy Young, for two top prospects who, to be fair, have not even proven yet they can even play in the majors, is so far-fetched. Your window is right now, and those chickens of yours are still eggs yet, whereas our rooster is fully hatched and buck-buck-buckawing like crazy. But that's fine, we can agree to disagree on that. I offered Parker Meadows because Max Clark. Not that Parker is expendable, exactly, but in terms of making a deal happen, he could make a good lubricant. Giggity.

Fun quiz time: Without reverse image googling (that's OK, we'll trust you), guess whose parents these are? Take a good look at the dad.

To that point:

I can see there being a break, although I don't know if '51 is it. You would have been 12 or 13 when the Beatles came here, which was prime Beatlemania age, and in high school in the 1965 to 1970 range, and a lot of cultural changes happened during the period that high schoolers would have a hard time avoiding. I would pin the break closer to '47 or '48. You might have liked Elvis OK, especially after Ed Sullivan convinced your folks that he was a fine conservative mama's boy, but you might have been a tad too old for the Beatles and the changes all that wrought.

Oh, now I get the idea behind the T scoreboard. The picture above brought it home.

Then Skubal's staying here. End of story. Our system is already lousy with outfielders and guys who are going to end up at first base. We don't need a package led by another one like Kjerstad. Tell you what: add Kjerstad to my trade and I'll add Tork in return. a three-for-five deal. You want a ring this year and next? Skubal is your best shot at ensuring that. We need something that will actually help us fill holes in return. Or you can wait until July 2026 to see how the market looks then. Thanks for the fun exercise!

I hope Harris saw my trade proposal with the Orioles in the other thread. 😁

I know I shared this eight years ago, but I think it would be helpful to refamiliarize ourselves with the word "Kakistocracy": a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

TIAL that you can't post an 8 and a close parenthesis back-to-back without it turning into a cool guy with glasses emoji.

I think it hears posting in full here, at the risk of dovetailing into her obvious sales pitch for her book and whatnot. On Trump and Project 2025: 1) Yes, Trump knows what it is. No, he likely doesn’t care, because policy is a thing other people do while he steals money and ensures impunity for himself and his backers. 2) Trump is not an ideologue. He is a bulldozer used by two GOP-linked networks that often collaborate. 3) The first network is made of hard right-wing ideologues that have been gradually implementing a neo-fascist US since the Reagan era, chipping away at courts, regulations, rights, etc. This is the Project 2025 network. 4) The second network is transnational organized crime, the network in which Trump is most at home. Their goal is to collapse the US and strip it and sell it for parts, much like the oligarch wars that followed the collapse of the USSR. This network has been active for decades as well. Its dynamics and Trump’s role are laid out in my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. 5) Both networks contain fanatics of varying faiths who deploy rhetoric with apocalyptic overtones. Some are true messianic believers. Others exploit religion for financial and political gain. 6) Broken or corrupt US institutions, esp the DOJ, have allowed these anti-American entities to grow and thrive. 7) Blackmail, threats, and bribery play a role in solidifying their power, but many officials are simply complicit, including in the Democratic Party. 😎 The two networks may clash at some point, depending on whether their goal is American autocracy or collapse. Either way, Americans will get some form of mafia state kleptocracy, which is what we have already. 9) I’ve explained all this in details in my books and free newsletter and interviews. It’s a complicated history. What’s not complicated is that the big danger isn’t Trump, the man, but Trump *and* the criminal billionaire networks behind him. The latter need to be examined far more than the former.

I wonder whether Trump's got something on her we don't know about.

So, DFA him and back to Krediler and McKinstry?

So says Mister Seventeen Posts! 😉

I thought this died off weeks ago? Is it actually still going?