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Well, there goes my vote for Harris. Nahhh, only kidding. My vote for Harris doesn't matter because Illinois is already in the bag for Democrats.

Throwing almost three million dollars at a lottery ticket seems insane to me.

Well, yeah, you're right, there is that. We were never going to be legitimate playoff contender unless everything broke the right way, meaning, no injuries, and no horrible underperformances. But, as you said, we had injuries to Mize and now Olson, but also, injuries to Carpenter and Meadows (lately), earlier injuries to Urshela and Baez and Faedo and Ibanez, horrible underperformances by Tork and Lange and Maeda and Meadows (earlier), the slightly less horrible underperformance by Manning, and the ongoing awfulness that has been Baez. Top that with the fact that no one of our bullpen has shutdown closer ability, and Scott Harris would have to be flat out incompetent to believe that a trade for a veteran would put us in a good position to make the playoffs.

Of course, but I would be honestly floored if he were to make any trades of minor leaguers for major leaguers to get there.

Plus a lot of them come from small towns or exurbs, so even if they come from northern states, if they're from small towns, good chance they're Trumpy. Honestly, I don't want to know about which baseball players like whom or what. I really don't want to contemplate anything more about them than what relates to what they do on the field. I acknowledge ballplayers are people with thoughts and feelings and personal stories and whatnot, but I simply don't care about any of that. It's why I don't read Jason Beck's up close and personal stories designed to charm hearts and minds, things like how such and such a player overcame personal struggles—a super popular topic, and a story all of them seem to have—to make the major leagues. I mean, that's great, good for them, but I just don't find it interesting at all, because I will never know any of them as people on a one-to-one basis. I will always know them only as ballplayers from a distance. Sorry if that makes me a bad guy.

Counterpoint: Most of the worst bosses I had were women. Mostly in the 1990s and 2000s. I am thinking of three in particular. All of them, snappy and backstabby. Two of them were yellers, and the other one got ****-canned because she was made a clumsy political move against her own boss. On the other hand, when I was in my consultant phase and came back to a company I myself had been given the gate by, I reported to a woman who had once been a peer and she was a dream boss. Gave me my marching orders, we talked about things along the way, she knew how to pivot based on facts on the ground. I actually looked forward to our weekly meetings. Unfortunately, she quickly moved on to something else, then I got another woman boss who was cordial and even-tempered but otherwise distant. Still way better than the other three, though.

Probably because the beat guys were told to tell us he would be a stud back when we signed him. Our presence in Latin America was so bare at the time that so many of us overlooked the way the entire signing was shrouded in mystery as we handed the kid by far the most money we‘d ever paid anyone. He was 16, he had no track record anyone could locate, unknown provenance, slipped into the US in a way no one could recount. We were so desperate for a win that we ignored all that and wanted desperately to believe he was our future. The possible up side is that he is still only 21 and has time to make a mark, but really, if he hasn’t still done so in his first four years, that probably means there’s a good chance he’s going to top out in the bushes.

This series will go a long way in determining what we do next Tuesday.

Also, not for nothing, yet another left-handed-hitting outfielder.

I totally remember seeing that. It was a big deal because he was our #1 pitching prospect at the time.

Vilade will be Mr. Right Now whenever he is with us.

Want them fresh for the Cleveland series.

I get that the everyone hates NYT, but really, this is a deeply dumb tweet.

Is that a lot? Context? EDIT: I saw a subsequent tweet saying $30 million is a one-day record for Democrats, so, yeah, I can now see it’s a lot.

Trump: “Le GOP, c’est moi.” So—he pressures … himself? 🤔

Same here.

They’re trying to flip them to Republicans by claiming Democrats don’t really care about democracy after all.

Oh, Trump will definitely say "illegitimate", purposefully, with all the baggage that implies.

That would actually generate a legitimate attack: a vote for Michelle is a vote for a third term of Barack, like a sven-jolly. I could see a lot of swing voters and fecne-sitters getting turned off by that idea.

I'd like to see this—for one thing, it would validate all those votes I wrote her in for! 😁 But yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just a beautiful dream. The early returns from the first three or so hours suggest it's kamala.

#1 issue for them is her turn as the "Border Czar". They will also hammer her for not having been born in the United States, like Obama.

People talk about how Biden stumbles over his words. The thing I worry about with Kamala is that I've seen her stumble over her ideas. I hope I just caught her on the several bad days on which I saw her. I hope she has the stamina to keep up and that she has an always-on button, because she's going to absolutely need both.

So his call for Biden to resign is based on self-interest? Why, I never ...

I know I'm risking getting clobbered with the shame club for this, but is Kamala the slam-dunk nominee just because Biden endorsed her? Might there be other Democrats who want to throw their hat into the ring?

Looks like they're figuring out another way to keep campaigning against Biden.