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Only if Trump had done it first.

Man, there is nobody on the planet who can fall up like this guy.

We know what Trump did to warrant prosecution—it all laid out in the indictment Edman posted. Please tell us exactly what Biden did that rises to the level of prosecutable criminality so we can better evaluate your claim of such.

Avila did tear it down to the studs after 2017 and five years later, longer than entire rebuilds should even last, the organization was still revving in neutral, with no prospects for improvement. Credit to Al for drafting a few decent guys, but the track record under his leadership is practically proof positive they would have stalled here. The actual improvements didn't start until Harris came on board, remade practically the entire scouting, development, and data science functions, and allowed them to do their thing. Here's an example just from today. This article reads as basically a refutation of the Henning piece.

I’m not a little conflicted about this. On the one hand I think, since this organization is an integral part of the governing of our nation, shouldn’t the government step in and regulate this kind of thing out of existence? And shouldn’t Trump or anyone else be barred from taking political donations—which are tax-deductible and thus indirectly costs us all—that are supposed to be earmarked for winning elections and using it for his personal defense in his criminal trials? On the other hand, I think, well, the RNC aren’t the actual government, they’re a private organization, so if they want to fleece their donors and their donors are going in with eyes wide open, then really, who gives a ****? I am truly conflicted about this, even if everyone else here is clear as crystal about their feelings.

To people who also think Donald Trump has charm? Sure.

The amazing thing is that Al Avila was the disaster happening right in front of our eyes that practically nobody could deny, which all of us with few exceptions agreed on at the time. He took a franchise that had just come off a playoff run and had it floundering for not two, for not three, for not even four, but for seven years, with no respite in between and no end in sight. By the time he finally got ****-canned, other teams like the Orioles and Padres had already gone into their rebuild later and emerged much earlier. Al crippled this organization so thoroughly that it was essentially still at the beginning of its rebuild when a new front office finally came in to clean up the mess. Now, through the gauzy haze of memory, at a time when things are finally looking up two season later, people like Lynn Henning want to give Al more than half the credit for this ray of daylight, simply because out of the gaggle of players he drafted—not traded for, not signed internationally, not picked up off the waiver wire or free agent pile, but drafted, the only player acquisition channel he had even a little clue about—the new regime looks like they might be able to salvage a few. His friends who are writing the history are now casting him as the savvy hero who saved the franchise, instead of an out-of-his-depth Peter-Principled technocrat who ran it into the rocks. It’s a mass gaslighting gone berserk. So go ahead and give the guy credit if you like. At least I still remember how it really happened.

Lynn Henning: a man after Tiger337's own heart.

How dare Joe Biden not unilaterally disarm. That's not cricket.

The gallows is too slow. That's why the Nazis did gas chambers. Much more efficient. I'd assume it would be the same here. Of course, I don't think anyone could accuse the Trump regime of being efficient. So who knows how they'll structure it all. 😏

This is not a hilarious scene from a hilarious show, but it was one of my favorites.

That is one thing I have always hated about the Great Lakes: right at that time when you need a nice mild break from a long stretch of winter, you go through two months (April, May) during which this region is the coldest in the whole country. That's super cruel.

Powder or rock is fine by me.

yeah, who does that judge think he is, settling on a number so high that it might deter others from doing the same thing?

They're just about the only people still calling it "rap", and frequently as part of a rhyming phrase.

Oh man, those are some of my my favorite calls: "I am a registered Democrat, I voted for Biden and for Obama twice and for Clinton twice and for Carter twice and for Johnson and for Kennedy and for Stevenson twice and for Truman and for FDR four times, but I can't take the utter corruption and the lies anymore so I'm voting for Trump, I'm not leaving the party, the party left me."

You really did not read the post, did you, haha

It's a signifier.

No one is trading Pipeline top-20 prospects for unproven pitchers who would slot in as 5-plus in their rotation.

This idea that "no one lost any money so it wasn't really criminal fraud" thing that's been popping up throughout the RWM is hot garbage. As though if Trump or anyone else defrauds someone who's not a real American that's me, or that's living next door to me, then it's not really a crime. It's the same logic as saying Pete Rose didn't do anything wrong because he didn't bet on his own team to lose. It's still a crime because he put himself in a position to throw games. Same here. By engaging in persistent and repeated fraud through acts such as purposefully maintaining incomplete and inaccurate books, Trump puts himself in a position to cause real loss to real people, at least indirectly if not directly. And Trump's refusal to answer questions directly about this case, veering off instead into non-sequitur issues far beyond the scope of the trial severely compromised his credibility on this case. Just because red hats exonerate Trump through this nonsensical sleight-of-hand reasoning does not mitigate the actual criminality he engaged in, as determined in a court of law. And besides, I categorically reject the premise that Trump's fraud caused no real harm because there were no real victims. There are at least three victims here: (1) the banks who are lending at lower rates as a result of these financial misstatements, putting themselves at risk for absorbing defaults by unworthy debtors, and potentially affecting loan acceptance for other borrowers as a result; (2) those competitors of the fraudster who are doing business honestly; and (3) society at large, because when we have an inequitable system that can be gamed by the powerful or those with insider knowledge, then the rest of us are likelier to get less favorable terms for submitting accurate information even as others are getting favorable terms by submitting what are essentially lies. So enough with "there are no real victims in this case" crap. Just because it's not coming directly out of our pocket right now doesn't mean there's no crime, or that the rest of us aren't losing in the end.

While you’re waiting for the series, there’s always the movie:

This is very different than my prep. I had my second one last month. Setting aside the diet changes which I assume yours is the same as mine, my diarrhea prep was to drink Suprep. It comes in two bottles becasue it’s a two-step treatment. The night before I had to mix one 6-oz bottle with 16 oz of water, and then chase it with another 16 ounces of water, all of which I had to finish within an hour. Then, the morning of, I had to repeat that. Suprep smells and tastes like NyQuil. I never minded the taste of NyQuil until this process. It is just as difficult to drink 22 ounces of it twice in 12 hours as it sounds. One of the things they recommend is drink it through a straw, but really, that just sounded to me like prolonging the agony, so I slammed it down in maybe three minutes. Wow, is it so gross. It’s actually worse than Malort. Last week I got a bad cold and I took a swig of NyQuil to help me sleep. Wow, did the bad Suprep memory come flooding back. It sounds like you might be getting off a little easier than I did. Let us know how it went.

Remember this? Well ...

Reads more like 1924.