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Counterpoint, FWIW: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=the_histories

I didn't articulate my thoughts quite exactly but that's basically what I meant. Ford and his advisors may have concluded that prosecutions would have overshadowed his entire presidency and would definitely have cost him the election (which it ended up doing anyway), and he would have to weigh in on it every single day, because as you say it would have been all anyone would have wanted to talk about. Instead, Ford thought it better to rip off the band-aid, pardon Nixon, take the immediate blowback, and get it over with so he could move on to some semblance of a normal presidency, which, of course, could never be because it was still overshadowed by Tricky ****—as well it should have been.

All the funds these yahoos paid into Medicare, and Social Security for that matter, with their taxes went to pay for benefits for retired recipients while these yahoos were working, and not into an account with their name on it.

After January 3, the only time Boobert will hear herself being called "gentlelady" is in OnlyFans requests.

Maybe the deal was less about actually becoming President and more about not drowning his presidency in Nixon's prosecution.

I meant impeaching Alito, not Sulzberger! 🤣

Tork was considered the consensus #1 at the time, and it was not at all controversial pick. https://www.mlb.com/news/mock-draft-final-projections-for-2020-mlb-draft

Christ Almighty, how is that not an impeachable act?

Just another data point that will get lost in the firehose.

**** was never charged with a crime. Pardons can be blankets for the future.

We can only hope that’s how it plays.

Oh, for the days of 0.9% interest. That’s what I got on my 2021. Almost like free money.

Yeah, he forgot “balanced”.

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that half that family changed their last name.

If we were to end up trading Skubal, that would mean the whole system is broken.

I know, right? We’re moving in the right direction, but really, Harris had to start from scratch. We saved a bunch of pitching, thanks to the magic of Chris fetter, but honestly, it was lucky we got even him. Imagine how awful it would be if Rick Anderson had managed to hang around.

Plus, unlike nearly every other big league stadium, they don’t let you bring in any food or water. All they want you to bring is your phone with your credit card on it.

The closet you’re gonna get to these kinds of numbers is Shea Langeliers, and I wouldn’t mind having that guy for my catcher. How about a close-to-Detroit rotation piece and Jake Rogers for him?

Speaking of wonky … double post.

Exactly. Maybe the coaches are qualified enough to work with good talent and maybe not, but one thing we know for sure is that this is a young team, third youngest in the majors, and young teams are notoriously wonky. That we are able to string together good stretches at all is a plus. But there is still a lot of detritus on this team. We’re going to have to completely turn over catcher, shortstop, third base, and probably center field in the next couple of years, and who knows whether we have to add first base or even right field to that. That’s up to six positions in question, and when you have that many holes, you’re essentially in a rebuild, which means this thing of ours isn’t getting totally fixed this year.

Over half of those three years was under previous front office management with terrible ability to find major league hitting talent. We're still digging out of that hole. Honestly, we're probably going to have to throw out some more of the babies this front office inherited before it gets better. As for the hitting coaches, I can't personally vouch for them as actually knowing what they're doing, although I do have more certainty around the idea that we still have a lot of just bad hitters on the team and high up in the system. Maybe we do end up ****-canning one or more of them, although I'd be a little surprised if they did so tonight, or tomorrow, or next week or month, or even before the end of the season. Changing coaching philosophies midstream is really hard on players so it's pretty rare. It would have to be a five-alarm fire to do so, I think. (Cue replies of FIRE! FIRE!)

Yes, that. Or, we could continue to build on the plan that’s surely in place and give it a chance to work. BTW if we end up trading Skubal for prospects before he’s a free agent, that means we have definitely failed.

You mean, like, now? In the middle of the season? Bring in all new coaches and break down the players and get them to forget everything they know and rebuild them to learn entirely new systems all while trying to get them to score runs in live games? I don’t know, sounds like a tall order to me.

Well look, if you’re gonna flip the future linchpins of your offense for even younger, even greener minor leaguers who are even farther away from making a contribution, then you might as well liquidate all your future linchpin pitching, too. Especially since Skubal isn’t going to want to stick around an organization explicitly committed to giving up and going nowhere.