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I agree on Mize and Manning. I can envision Skubal becoming deGrom lite, complete with injury proclivity.

Marlins are one of those franchises with a notorious history of letting go of future Hall of Famers in trade for cheap.

Maybe, although eight years is long enough for a new generation of ignorant people with votes to come of age.

Not just to keep the undocs from coming in, but also to keep Texas girls seeking abortions from going out.

Umpires rotate clockwise, so third base, where he can’t ring up Miggy on a half swing.

The men’s amateur hockey team he’s on has regular practice on Saturday afternoons.

Seems like Harris’s deal with the Braves is working out pretty nicely so far, and everyone seems to like it. So I can see us doing as a centerpiece deal a Foley-plus for a J-Hen-type plus, a guy who plays a position of near-term need, controls the strike zone, and is pretty close. Someone like Justin Foscue from the Rangers, or maybe even Jett Williams from the Mets.

Don’t forget Gaspar, Drumright and Greisinger …

Sounds like middle of the rotation to me. Not sure what we’re gainsaying, then.

I wouldn’t agree with trading a picther at the level of the ace of a world champion.

I agree with you. We should keep him.

I know we see him that way. I don’t know that other GMs will. If Skubal is at the level of ace of a world champion then I think we should not put him on the block.

I think they are, at least as far as those on the left edge of the Democratic Party are concerned. The main concern I have is that Kennedy siphons off enough of those hard lefties that it makes the difference in the election.

If the government does not come down on Trump soon and start treating him like the criminal defendant that he is, without the special favor they appear to have been showing him so far, then maybe we truly are doomed as a functioning rule-of-law democracy. Only they can prevent forest fires here, and Trump has been flicking matches with impunity so far.

Not a prediction, but I can envision Kapler coming into the Tigers organization in a coaching capacity, at least for a year, to help him get back on his feet to interview for open managing gigs.

They may or may not say it flat out, but our military is a huge jobs boondoggle for the (mostly non-union) laborers in MAGAland who work in that industry. That’s why you can’t tell them trickle-down doesn’t work, because when they look anecdotally at how the humongous government spending on the military leads directly to those jobs, they think it works great.

I know what you mean. When you and I were kids right around the same time coming into baseball fandom, Kaline was at the end of his run and being overshadowed in our eyes at the plate by Horton, Freehan, Cash, Northrup, McAuliffe and maybe a couple others. Maybe kids today, middle and high school age, who came into their fandom at about the same age think of Miggy the same way—although I don’t know who overshadows Miggy in the same way those guys did Kaline. It almost makes me wonder what there’s been on the team the past seven or so years that would even draw in a 10-year-old to become a Tiger fan.

I see, OK. When you said “they” need quantity I thought you meant Oakland, which I think might be true of them as well. I would guess Skubal would be a more interesting mid- or back of rotation pickup for a contender next year, teams who could let a bunch of guys down their system go and not miss them. I would love to hang on to Skubal because he’s showing the potential of being something really special, albeit a late starter not unlike deGrom. But I wouldn’t freak out if they did trade him this winter because I am also pretty confident that this coaching staff can continue to develop useful pitchers out of even unremarkable guys. This group may have found the secret sauce the Avila regime hoped to when they overdrafted moundsmen all those years.

Skubal plus two other guys for Gelof seems like an overpay to me. His skill set is a little soft. If we're gonna offer a package like that, I'd like to see an established All-Star with a future in return.

I think this is the most reasonable bold thing we can probably do this winter. Pitchers should like coming here because we are establishing a reputation. Who do we think Skubal would return in trade?

Politicians would definitely be cleaning up government waste and inefficiency if only it didn't pay so gosh darn well.

Can you imagine if, instead of Feinstein, someone like Sharrod Brown D-OH had died, and Republican governor Mike DeWine appointed a Republican to replace him, essentially giving Republicans the 51-49 edge in the Senate for the rest of this Congress? One lone guy with responsibility only to one state would have the power to alter the entire course of national legislative politics for the next year-plus. What a democracy-undermining shtshow that would be.

The call by a base umpire correlates so well to the bat crossing the midpoint line versus not that they might as well just codify it, and maybe, instead of appealing to the umpire, appeal to the camera.

And the story was that Hank then threatened to steal home, and Tony Cuccinello, the third base coach, says to him, “Hank, it took you 13 years to get here, so don’t fool around!”