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Feature, not bug.

Presbyterianism is probably the root of Catholic Charismatics as well.

So funny because Presbyterianism is basically the root of literalist evangelicalism in America.

By "holding government accountable", I'm pretty sure she means something along the lines of getting the RINOs on board to impeach Crooked Joe Biden for his crime family activities.

She's doing it for the same reason they're all doing it: they're betting on a Trump presidential win, the end of democracy, and the dawn of a new American era of fascism during which they will have cushy lifetime appointments, loads of taxpayer money as compensation, and the ability to liquidate opponents with the mere wave of a hand.

So I guess Covenant Eyes will be the software they will require on everyone’s devices once Republicans take over the government for good.

Man, sure didn't see that’s one coming

Meanwhile, the Carson Kelly era will apparently continue apace.

Why only 60? If it’s only the best players you want, why not 200 or 300 or 500? That’s what it’s gonna take to get the best players, isn’t it? Ilitch is a billionaire, he can afford it! Think BIG!

Neither do I.

Maybe you're getting your wish and Mark Canha is the best player we can get right now.

I don't see them paying Baddoo $1.7MM to do a whole year, or even as a break-glass guy, at Toledo. If they sign him, which they might or might not, I see them keeping him as a part-time platoon in left, as well as playing there when TORK! needs a day off at first and Canha moves there for the game. They might also pass on the arb and let him test the market since, to others' point, we have a glut of LHH outfielders.

You are strongly implying that I would prefer Mark Canha on the team to Ohtani or Nola. I don't know where you are getting that idea, because that would inexplicable for me to prefer. I simply believe that a trade or free agent signing is not necessarily a failure simply because it's not for Ohtani or Nola.

I think we have a decent idea why Jews overindex for elite achievement—I am more interested in finding any cultural reasons that can explain why Christians underindex for it, or else do not achieve elite status at even nearly the same rate. All I have are hypotheses about it.

Jews have historically been greatly over-represented in western nations among intellectual elites, in the universities, and among the higher socio-economic classes, vs Christians even today, and I’ve long tried to figure out why that is. We know it’s not genetic, but then what is it? There could be some nepo at issue here, or otherwise preferential treatment among “birds of a feather” already in certain professions, trades, etc., But I have also wondered whether there are some aspects about religions of fervency, such as Christianity or perhaps Islam, that hinder such communities from stressing elite achievement, leading children and young adults to not get the proper education and support they would need to enter those circles. I do know from exposure to it that certain types of Christian doctrines value a culture of modesty, submission to strong central authority, and acceptance of one’s so-called fate (i.e., knowing one’s place); and that for the most part, Jews and Asians almost certainly don’t experience this kind of cultural restriction within their communities during their young lives. Yes, we all know doctors, lawyers, millionaires, etc., who are Christians, but I mean on balance. The presence of one Christian elitist doesn’t disprove the hypothesis per se. Anyone who might be offended by this entire idea can check out a meta-analysis of it, here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886907003674. While they attempt to explain why Jews have such a high degree of this success (they lean into “high intelligence” and “cultural values” as potential reasons), they don’t appear to have any kind of political bias that would support dismissing everything they present. Regrettably, for the purposes of this post, they don’t try to explain why Christians do not have the same rate of success at these so-called elite levels, and I’d like to find anything on this. No one has to believe or accept any of what is being reported in this article, although I’m not going to debate the basic premise of it. I’m just trying to figure out what might explain what has led to this state of affairs and why.

Don’t no one start popping the champagne for this news just yet … 😉😁

Right,not technically, but no one expects him to exercise his own option, especially since he is coming out of it healthy.

I don’t know that it’s even meant as a compliment, ignorant or not. Usually when someone gets called out for making some odious conclusion about an entire class of people like “Jews are good with money” or “black people have natural rhythm”, they’ll protest that it’s meant as a “compliment”. Yeah, right. The idea that Jews have some built-in racial or genetic trait that nobody else has that naturally makes them good with money is too icky to seriously contemplate. I do think it’s fair to hypothesize that there might be a cultural or educational tendency that gets passed down and taught through generations of families, but when people with certain beliefs refer to Jews being “good with money”, that’s almost certainly not how they mean it.

They also had the second best run differential/pythag record in the league (96-66).

It’s a real question. If there’s someone else better we should get instead, then who is that? If there’s no one else, then should we have stayed with what we have on the team/in the system instead and keep Holub plugging away at A+ or AA? Or will Canha do for a year, instead? This was the set of options in front of us when it comes to getting a RHH in the outfield.

I just look at Wacha’s Ref card and he has what is probably the most complicated set of options I have ever seen. There was a $16MM team option and a $6.5MM player option for 2024, and since the team declined their option, Wacha can still exercise his option. If the team exercised their 2024 option, there would be another $16MM team option and $6MM player option for 2025, but since the team option was declined for 2024, if Wacha exercises his 2024 player option, he has the player option for 2025. But if the team then exercised its 2025 option after Wacha exercises his 2024 player option, then Wacha would lose his 2026 player option for $6 million. But if Wacha exercises his player options for both 2024 and 2025, then he would have a 2026 player option for $6 million at his disposal. Got all that?

Who would you rather have seen us get instead?

The Padres have a lot of non-utility star players and they are a one-county market, so they could probably use some more fans. 😉

FWIW, Brewers fans hate hate hate the deal.