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About time we started calling a spade a spade around here.

Yes, and more: it’s also about the active effort to destroy the system and its government so they can solidify the whole system of grift as the permanent basis of power. By the way: nice one on the political assassinations coming from Inside the house. I got filleted on the old board eight years ago for perpetrating “Alarmist Non-sense” by suggesting that’s an example of where things would go with that guy in power. Glad to see I’m getting company on this one.

I think you’re basically right, and I also think it’s more: it’s being seen to have committed to the choice, and once that happens, they can never admit they made a mistake because of how stupid it would make them look, so they double down over and over because better that everything literally go up in flames than to ever admit being wrong.

I don’t think there is any danger of anyone doing anything in Bannon’s name. The only prayer anyone has of succeeding Trump as the leader of the nihilist cruelty movement is to be anointed by Trump himself. I can’t think of anyone who ever succeeded the founder of a personality cult who didn’t come from the founder’s loins, and Donnie is too stupid and colorless to maintain this one.

The problem, beyond the idea that the Democrats would never allow that to happen to the people, is that, even if republicans could somehow force it to happen under Biden, he gets 100% of the blame for it.

Yeah, it ain’t gonna be about the money once that happens.

Mize has 3.111 in service time, so does that change your off the cuff calculation on that?

To be fair, Baez is in the best shape of 99% of other guys’ lives.

Hey, @Edman85, curious about your opinion on something: Suppose Casey Mize had come up, not get hurt so much, and been more or less an average pitcher throughout his first three pre-arb years in the big leagues. Say, right around 100 ERA+ and maybe 120 to 150 innings pitched per year. Not All-Star level, but not AAAA-level, either. What would you estimate his first arb year salary would have been? Then, if he repeated that performance for yet another year, what do you think his second arb year salary would be? Looking for a sense of perspective here.

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Can't say he didn't get a fair shot here.

This might be only a me thing, but, here goes. When I am working out a situation in person or on the phone with a vendor—a rental car agency, for example—and they lay out what the situation is, I like to explain it back to them and have them answer yes or no to make sure I understand. Seems easy to me: "OK, let me play it back to you to see if I understand—this, then this, then that. Do I have that straight?" And they reply either yes that's right, or no this other thing instead. Then I play it back again with the correction to make sure I have it right, until we are both on the same page. Sounds logical and even easy, to me, anyway. Most of the time it works fine, but every once in a while, you get someone who simply can't do this, or who don't understand what I'm trying to do. I say, "Let me play this back to see whether I understand ...", I get one point into it, then they take over replaying part of the spiel and start introducing new information that didn't come out before. Then I say, "OK, let me see if I understand that ...", and I get one point into that, and then they say, no no no no you're not listening to me, and then start the whole thing all over again, perhaps with points they had made before now missing. Meanwhile, I'm going crazy because they're going all over the place and scrambling my understanding of the situation. It's maddening. It was even worse today because when I started explaining what I thought I understood, the rental car agent started talking over me, I was talking over her to ask her please, just listen to me and let me explain it to you so I understand, and she did not pause for even a beat from her obviously scripted spiel. As it turns out, when I finally did get through to her with my understanding of it, she had completely misunderstood both the return date and the return venue for the car. I imagine she was getting flustered and was retreating into the known spiel to anchor herself which, fine, I suppose I get that, but that doesn't help me understand the deal we're trying to work out. It had basically descended into a battle of wills. Some people apparently cannot effectively process changes on their feet. Everything they deal with has to fit neatly into whatever the spiel they learned is, or they withdraw or shut down. Those people should not have jobs facing customers.

"What's this 'WNBA' I keep hearing about? Do white people have their own league now?"

It's ending in their world, anyway.

You'd think they might consider locking the doors when class starts so latecomers miss out that session, learn from it, and never sin again, but that would tick people off, which would cause people to quit, which would lead to negative social media posts, which would cost them future students and revenue, so, probably not.

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I think this is probably right. I was responding to the idea, expressed here across many pages, that the new Tiger brain trust are cheap-asses playing unnecessary hardball with players, with the implication that they might drive away players in the future because players don’t want to play for a cheap-ass hardballing front office. I don’t think that will be the case, and i believe if there’s animosity between Mize and the org, it would have probably preceded this episode anyway.

I think if Harris were truly playing hardball he would not have found a way to get Mize the 840 he asked for.

I don't think so either. I think they are trying to send a message to players that this is not the administration that signed you, the front office you could roll over because they hated the business end of players. The new front office is going to pay for performance, not pay players just to avoid having to negotiate and do business stuff with them. This is only what I believe. I think this front office handled this really well. Mize has already been paid $10+ million by the Tigers, been with the organization six years, and hasn't come close to fulfilling the promise of a 1/1 pick. He hasn't pitched for the team for practically all of the last two years. He's been receiving a full paycheck without doing anything to help the Tigers win games. His whole job the past two years has been rehabbing and training and getting medical attention and the Tigers have paid for all of that, too. They must have thought it took a lot of hubris for Mize to ask for a $125,000 raise on top of that. I think it does, too. He hasn't done anything for us since at least 2021. Why should he be getting a big raise, then? In the end, though, Mize will get still his 840—it'll just come in chunks of 830 this year and 10 next year, guaranteed, should the organization decline the $3.1 million option, which they probably will if Mize keeps getting hurt. But if he gets better and pitches most of the year in the rotation, he will have earned his $3.1 million next year. And if he actually kills it this year and especially next, then he will get good and paid, and then everyone will be happy. I like it. Everyone else may disagree.

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No, but they did make a joke about Ben Carson working the back 40 of the White House with a mule and plow.

It’s possible that they just don’t know any of this yet. After all the deal has to be approved by the judge and details may have to change to accommodate whatever the judge decides.

Election security Republican-style.

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