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This idea, right here, should have a whole commercial campaign devoted to it.

I saw my first ABS challenge. Not a great decision by the batter. IMG_2219.mov

Greetings from beautiful Toledo, Ohio!

Thanks for posting. I think Tork needs to do more than just "get a little better". Reading between the lines some, I get the feeling that he believes whatever approach he brought with him to the majors is the approach he's going to stick with. And maybe that's what he needs to do. Maybe he's a guy the coaches need to leave alone instead of working with him to tweak whatever. Who knows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

If a reliever comes in with the bases loaded, walks the first three guys he sees letting three runs score, then gets the next three guys out without giving up a run, he has given up zero runs and his ERA drops.

When I coach third and I want the runner to stop there standing up, I want hold up my left hand in a stop sign and point to the bag with the other hand.

You sure it's deep down? Because the contempt seems to me to be really on the surface.

A direct political broadside at Republicans?

Fragmented media silos that algorithms build for us.

So glad I got people on the Alarmist Non-sense train with me!

I'll see your IVF and raise you this completely bonkers idea:

I agree with your last part. But honestly, I don't think Joe not pardoning Hunter is driving them crazy. I think they expect that of Joe. Those at Fox News, at least, know Biden enough that they would be genuinely surprised if he acted out like Trump would. Instead, their simple strategy will be to willfully ignore that part of the story, which shouldn't be hard to pull off since rank and file viewers aren't going to question them about it, anyway.

Whether the requirement is six months, or a year, or two or three, and however narrowly or broadly the term "service" is defined, the main problem with it will be the inequities built into the system, in part related to exemptions for those who grow up in the upper 1% or so and cushy comfortable assignments for those in the next couple or so percent; and in part related to unfair distribution of punishment for those who go AWOL where harshness correlates to poverty level and class. That would likely lead to public confidence in the system collapsing at some point.

If Eduardo were to drop out of baseball and get counseling for his myriad problems, I would applaud him for his integrity. But as long as he's living life and conducting his affairs while projecting himself as a mentally healthy and competent person, he's fully responsible for his actions deserving of all the reasonable criticism coming to him, and he doesn't earn any speculative sympathy in my book. I respond only to what I know I have seen him do. I don't hate the guy since he neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg, and I wish him all the best as I would anybody I don't know personally.

I understand that Eduardo Rodriguez is a sensitive soul who hurts sometimes, but that doesn’t mitigate the fact that he ****ed over the team in a wholly unprofessional manner on multiple occasions, so he was a d*** as well.

If it’s about putting a competent team on the field and keeping their best players, then is firing Hinch enough? He’s not the guy bringing the players into the organization, right? At that point you ‘d have to fire Harris as well, clean out the front office he put together, and start with a fresh philosophy. You down?

Don’t look now, but Justyn-Henry Malloy has an .889 OPS.

I never said Harris was not at all responsible. I in fact have said on more than one occasion that as PBO he is responsible whether it’s his actual fault or not. I also don’t know where you got the idea I have "undying faith" in him, unless you’re just trolling, in which case, OK.

I agree that Harris had to accept responsibility for the trade not happening, and I remember him standing up and doing so at the time. I’m just not clear on what Harris did or did not do, irrespective of anything Eduardo did, that cost the deal? Was everybody totally in for the deal and at the last second Harris botched it all on his own? Is that your understanding of it?

I think Harris did everything he had to do to make that deal happen and Eduardo pulled the rug out from under it. The Dodgers basically confirmed as much.

There are a lot of people advocating for Skubal to be traded so we can get something anything for him before he inevitably leaves on the Boras Express. Are you one of them? I myself am not close to there yet.

Is it undying faith you think I have? Have I not articulate my thoughts about him and his tenure precisely enough?

You’re right he did sell Lorenzen and got Hao-You Lee who I saw Jack a bomb in Erie last week. Lorenzen wasn’t a top trade chip though so assuming Flaherty can stay healthy (😬), we should see something even better for him.

Am I not, though? Maybe I'm not interpreting it all properly, but it looks to me as though many, if not most, of the posters here are complaining loudly about how we are not winning and competing for a ring, or at least playoffs, with this team as currently constructed, with the players we have on the team right now, as though Harris has had plenty of time, we should be all done remaking the team by now, and we should expect to be playing baseball in October instead of golf, and anything less than that is a failure. I don't see it that way at all. I thought at the beginning of the season we would have a puncher's chance to make the playoffs, but I can see now that I too overrated their progress at the time. The difference with me, I think, is that I've come around to the idea that the organization was just not as far along as I'd hoped, while others seem to believe we have the horses right now and that it's the coaching that's failing us.

I feel pretty confident there will not be a tank-type rebuild under Harris. Otherwise, I think we would be seeing that right now, because given the early stage of development we're now realizing the org is at, now would probably be the time to go all in on such a strategy.