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Hiura seems like minor league depth, maybe even if Tork gets hurt or collapses, since Hiura has been playing a lot of first base.

I remember this, and I remember replying that there was no way the Brewers would give up one of the top prospects in the game (#20 on Pipeline, #13 on Fangraphs) for a guy who'd just pitched to a 9-13 record with a so-so ERA who would project as a 3 or 4 in their rotation. Hiura did have a pretty fair rookie season, 2 WAR in just 84 games, and then he just kind of fell apart.

I think there is plenty enough talent for 36 teams, let alone 30. Seeing as how there are so many more international players coming into the majors from baseball-first countries, in addition to there being twice the population in the US there was during the first expansion, and topped by the practically exponential advances in training, nutrition, etc., the talent level in big league baseball today is far greater than it has ever been. The $64 (billion) question is, will Baseball accept lower attendance figures that will surely come with the expansion to 36 teams? Given how high a share their revenue coming from non-gameday sources is, I think they might. Economists within the game can determine the marginal revenue calculus needed to price tickets such that they can make more money selling out 28,000-seat stadiums versus 42,000-seat stadiums. Once they fully embrace that, hell, they could go to 40 teams, who knows. The fun part is figuring out where to put the six teams. Nashville and Vegas/Oakland/Sacramento/San Jose are basically gimmes. Portland and Charlotte should probably get in. Salt Lake could quite possibly make that cut. Indianapolis would be a dark horse but within the realm of possibility. A darker horse would be a third new York team, maybe western suburbs into Jersey, like West Orange or something, but they certainly have the population to sustain a franchise. I don't think Raleigh gets one if Charlotte does. Orlando? I don't know, maybe. Feels unlikely, though. San Antonio is a downscale dump, so that's probably a no. I think Austin would be more likely than San Antonio. I think Montreal loses out even in a six-team expansion scheme, for reasons beyond history and population. Expand to 40 teams, though, and they'd probably sneak in along with Vancouver.

Did I say (Oakland or San Jose) earlier today? I meant Sacramento! https://x.com/EvanDrellich/status/1758616226958397480?s=20

I'm old enough to remember hearing that Al Avila was great at drafting the players Scott Harris is now developing.

FWIW, I think the two most likely expansion scenarios more are that either the A’s welsh on Vegas and stay in Oakland, and Vegas and Nashville get the new franchise; or else the A’s go through with the Vegas move, and Nashville and (Oakland or San Jose) get the new teams.

Always a risk when setting up a vacation weeks or months in advance. getting sick the day before you leave is always a risk, too, especially in frigid weather climes.

We’re all gonna love Benetti behind the mike.

Baseball needs to get their mitts on that sweet, sweet LDS treasure chest.

Suarez: 2008 Adames: 2012. Paredes: 2017 (trade throw-in) Workman: 2020 Four MLB-caliber gloves in twenty-plus years. Fire Harris! 😉

I think it might have something more to do with constant corporal punishment, but that’s just a hypothesis. Well, maybe more than a hypothesis: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/great-kids-great-parents/201508/physical-punishment-and-violence

The obvious unspoken thing here is that Trump and his son-in-law did basically the same things they accuse Businessperson 1 and Public Official 1 of having done. Can’t wait until they accuse the Public Official 1 Crime Family of murder.

Funnier thing is, I don't dig through their website. I read major media news sources. And hey, newsflash: so does everyone else. IDF are obviously not trying to spread the word, I guess expecting everyone to come to their website to pull it out if anyone wants to. Go ahead and blame the mainstream media for not going and pulling that, and I'd concede you would have a point. But know too that even the flame-throwing right-wing media sites, the ones that hate Biden, hate the Democrats, despise the mainstream media and all of that, such as Fox and Newsmax and OAN, are not even reporting this IDF number, and these are websites that are purportedly on Israel's side. They are instead reporting the Hamas number. You'd think they'd be motivated enough to parrot the Israel-right-or-wrong line to go in and pull that number from the IDF website. Maybe all these news organizations and right-wing websites are just pretend journalists and they laugh off real journalism as being a big crock while they clink glasses of Cliquot at or Jean-Georges or Le Bernardin or Per Se. Or maybe, just maybe, they think the IDF number is full of ****. Hey, could be anything.

Yes, it is too many hoops! Everybody, including you, me, and the IDF, knows people don't go through hoops to seek out this kind of information! That's exactly my point! If IDF wanted us to know how many people they killed, they would be making it easy for us to get that information by providing it to major media sources, not hard by burying it somewhere in their website—that is, if it's even there. If you're instead telling me it's incumbent upon me to scour their website to look for it, then you've already lost the argument.

The previous regime did not value defense in their draft picks. Nobody is saying any of this about Max Clark or Kevin McGonigle or Carson Rucker. (Max Anderson might be a different deal.) Yes, it was Harris who took JHM as the best he could get for Joe Jimenez. So maybe he sucks at it, too. 😁

In other words, IDF does not report numbers regularly and they don’t make it easy to find, as you previously claimed (or is it more like exclaimed? 😉), because even you yourself can’t find it. I like to think that I’m a savvier news consumer than the average bear, but I am not going to jump through endless hoops looking for whatever number IDF wants to world to know about. If they’re not making it easy to find, and not regularly reporting it to the world’s media so it can appear alongside the Hamas number, then maybe there’s a reason Israel doesn’t want to make it easy to find.

That being your opinion, then I’m not sure exactly what it is we are debating here. I’m neither pro-Israel nor pro-Hamas. If I’m pro anything here, it’s pro the everyday Israeli and Palestinian people and pro their ability to live normal, mundane, everyday lives if they choose, as we in America have the luxury of choosing. But the main thing I am pro all the time is the truth. All I want is the truth. Just give me some truth. And I resent people and organizations that obfuscate and ignore the truth in the service of obvious agendas, and that’s obviously what’s going on here. And yes, I will say it: on both sides. There’s a very obvious example country missing here. If what we both believe is true—that the Israel and Palestinian numbers match up really closely—then I would say that, yes, I find Israel’s approach to reporting casualties to be more offensive, because their numbers are pretending the civilian deaths didn’t even happen. Palestinian numbers may not break out operative deaths from civilian deaths, and that’s bad, but at least they appear to be including all deaths, instead of pretending some of them are not even worth reporting on.

We’re probably both right: Tlaib has the seat sewn up as long as the district lines hold and she wants to run; and Democrats like Frankel are scheming ways to try to make her lose the election.

I’m asking where the 14,000 you provided is, the one you said gets posted and is easy to find, and that you still haven’t provided the link to where I can easily find it. That’s all. Nothing more than that. If you would please provide that easy link to the IDF numbers, that would be swell. Then we can be on the same page for purposes of the discussion. FWIW, since the Gaza health people do not break out their numbers between civilians and operatives, and IDF is not even including civilians in their numbers at all, suggesting there are additional deaths to the numbers we’ve seen today, I would bet that the total number of deaths on IDF’s radar is pretty close to the number the Gaza health people are reporting.

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This is, practically by definition, not an apoltiical statement. Here's a follow-on statement: The situation at the southern border is no more an "invasion" than the Freedom Riders going to Mississippi in 1961 were an invasion. And yet ...

Trump attracts weak minds, and weak minds have votes.

The reason it was logical to assume, or at least wonder about, racist intent is because of all the politicized kerfuffle involving statues during the last ten or so years. It's not as though it all came out of ... ahem ... left field.

Yeah, I really liked Josh Lewin as a PxP guy and the pairing of Gibson with him. I was sad to see him go. I have no idea what was behind that.

Sorry to hammer you on the 14,000, but you did say IDF said the number was 14,000, that they put out reports on a daily basis, and that the reports are easy to find. I want to be able to take you at your word for these things, but since this was in direct conflict with the Gaza-reported number, I was asking so I could examine how the IDF came up with that number, because I couldn’t find anything on it. The only thing I can find with the number 14,000 is from November, when Gaza health officials reported that the death toll had exceeded 14,000. You don’t have to keep looking for the number, because I did find a report from two days ago by IDF saying they’d killed over 10,000 ”operatives”, plus 1,000 “terrorists”, inside Gaza, with no mention of additional deaths of civilians. So, to your earlier point, it looks as though IDF has, at the very least, the same kind of blind spot on reporting total deaths that you claim the Gaza health ministry has in not separating civilian deaths from those of operatives or terrorists.