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Nowadays when I wonder about how people like Nate Silver, or Lara Logan or Matt Taibbi, change from something we thought we knew to something we had no idea about, I wonder whether they had the RFK worms.

I think Harris will have a fairly better payroll next year, and then a much much better payroll in 2026.

Plus I don't think we will be entertaining anymore league-worst defenders at first base.

Because I think Harris won't deviate from his plan of building the system just for a puncher's chance. We will buy when we better establish our core and we need to fill just a few holes. Right now we still have more holes than not, despite our 11-4 run.

This is a good spot to get Shelby Miller back on the horse. Although that first out on the bullet shot was some lucky positioning.

OK, Maeda didn't blow the lead, but it's not a blowout lead anymore. So ... progress? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I won't hammer Vilade for that ill-advised dive in left, as long as he did it realizing it was a seven-run lead and that he could never do that close-and-late. Either way, though, it would probably have been a double.

Not even Kenta Maeda can blow this lead! 😜

Always nice to be on the right side of a bloodbath.

He is a nice kid.

I don't think we are buying at the deadline for any reason. We're not going to go off plan and empty the top of the farm system just to have a puncher's chance at a third wild card spot.

Wow, the way Malloy showed up the home plate umpire by lurching toward first on that 3-and-0 that clipped the corner, he's lucky he got the call on that 3-and-1 that clipped the top of the zone.

Wow, so I had to go at the pitching change to do my dirty sinful business and I come back to having missed a grand slam?! Blurgh!! At least I saw Ibanez single Javy home.

So you did it on a laptop and not on a phone? I haven't seen it happen on my laptop yet. But yeah it took me a couple times to get the idea.

Are you on iOS and you pressed Submit and you saw it didn't go through, then you pressed Submit again and saw it didn't go through again, then you pressed Submit a third time and it still didn't go through, so then you just refreshed the page?

Ibanez with a sharp eye ended up taking third on the double after he saw Varsho bobble the ball in the LF corner. It didn't get us an extra run, though. Varsho coming up second this inning will be motivated to redeem himself.

Rogers is definitely earning his keep behind the plate, despite his sub-.600 OPS.

I laughed.

Oh, Jesus, now Resse Olson is hurt? ****ing A!

I agree the last three are very valuable. I would simply argue these are not exclusively or even primarily Christian values, but broadly human values. Many religious people and atheists embrace these values, and many other religious people and atheists pay them only lip service or active ignore them. Probably similar percentages of each. The one about nurturing and taking care of your nation: it is good to have some people who are dedicated to that, but I don't believe God requires that of everybody, or even of anybody. I believe it's something you do if it happens to interest you, such as being a nurse practitioner or working in advertising or being a baseball researcher. My religious education left me with the idea that God doesn't care about nations, because they are temporal earthly constructs, not eternal divine constructs, and a data point in support of that is there are no longer any nations that were here when Jesus roamed the Earth that are still here today. Nations are almost the very definition of worldliness, which most Christian sects eschew.

Based on nothing more than gut, I have a feeling Hao-Yu will be a starter on playoff teams for us and will be hailed as one of Harris's savviest moves.

If you seriously can't see how the debate was a bright dividing line for the Biden campaign, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Yes, of course we're supposed to trust Harris, because what's our alternative? Seems like the only real alternative is to quit following the Tigers. You're talking as though Harris has already failed us on multiple occasions as Avila did. In fact, you are strongly implying that Harris is Avila. If you're not willing to give Harris even one deadline chance, then how can you ever be satisfied with anything? I mean, I get the self-flagellating attraction of fatalism, but doesn't there have to be a limit to it at some point?

The primary vote happened before things changed, obviously. If the Democrats know what they're doing and have their **** together, they will get the delegates on board for whoever the replacement is.

I don't think Harris see a target date of 27-28, either. I think he saw/he sees this team as a possible playoff contender this year if everything breaks the right way and appropriate development occurs, but it's not at the stage of development at which we can start emptying out the top of our system to fill holes. That['s why I don't think we will be buying at all this season, even if we go 11-0 and stand at 58-50 on deadline day. I think we all saw this year that the system had been gutted even more than we thought it was and that it was going to take more time to put right than we'd hoped, but I would imagine that Harris sees 2025 as a step-forward year, one which might lead to a halfway decent free agent this offseason we can bring aboard for more than two years. There are a few available. But I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't bring one abord, either. But this should be the last offseason for one-year stopgaps, or else something has gone horribly wrong. I would bet that Harris now sees 2026 as the year we can start contending for a title, again, assume we don't see multiple things going upside-down for us during that season.