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I guess the Aunt Jemima Strategy didn't work out so well for the Trumpublicans after all.

Either that or they are not as "mainstream" as they've appeared to be to this point.

I wonder whether this might be an early indication that the market for long-term deals is DOA as long as an apparently inevitable work stoppage looms.

Given the year Bregman had in Boston after turning down our best-in-baseball contract offer last year, petulantly putting some arbitrary deadline on his signing a deal with the Tigers this winter would essentially guarantee his rejection, and probably a public airing of the tactic for all to see afterwards. The only win with that approach would be some self-indulgent moral victory. Better to not even make an offer under those conditions because, after all, Harris has to work in this game.

See? Told ya it was a blind spot. 😃

What a hilarious quote in this article by Curtis Sliwa, of all people: Sliwa, a central-casting New York Character who comes by his nuttiness honestly, pointed this out in an interview. “(Billionaire Cuomo donor Bill) Ackman is a jerk. Has he been right yet? … Does he know anything about politics? No. Does he live in New York City? No. He lives in Chappaqua, the whitest suburb in America, where even the lawn jockeys are white.”

This is actually a blind spot in my knowledge of the business of baseball: are long term contracts contingent on medicals? Obviously trades are, but I can’t recall a time a player was signed to a long term deal that was voided because the medicals revealed something. There’s probably an obvious one I could merely duckduckgo …

You would have thought people would have realized that because of 1960, but I guess not.

Well, what can you say? Nigeria is just a sexy country. Europe vs Nigeria Births & Overall Population

"Gaf Gaf"?

Green represents that shortest travel times which, by 1881 standards, would have been ten days or less. Travel Times From London In 1881: The First Known Isochronic Map By Francis Galton

Shhhh ... don't give him any ideas ... 😉 If These 3 Counties Did Not Exist, Trump Would Have Beaten Biden In 2020

(By the way, I still can't attach any images to a post, but sometimes a link to a image online will work here.)

Did you know there was such a climate as "cold desert"? Neither did I.

We definitely agree on this one!

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be here all week …

Why are people so bad at keeping the camera shot focused on the subject? Or do they have better, clearer video that is so graphic they would never post it from this account?

Well, y'know, they've been trying it the other way for decades on end and as Bunker says, NYC is a toilet, so ... 😉

Which will totally work because everyone knows criminals posing as ICE would never, ever identify themselves as ICE. Right wing genius in its undistilled form.

Again with the projection here. It's not the Democrats holding anybody hostage—it's the Republicans using working people of modest means and small business entrepreneurs as weapons to get Democrats to completely capitulate to their agenda. Does anyone remember Superman II, the movie? Terence Stamp played the villain (Doctor Zod, was it?) who was fighting against Superman so he could destroy the earth. At one point Dr. Zod thinks he knows how to defeat Superman because he's discovered his weakness: he actually cares about the people of earth. He thought he could use that as leverage to get Superman to swear his allegiance to Dr. Zod. (I still remember the woman working with Dr. Zod saying about Superman, "Ha! Sentimental fool!") The Republicans are Dr. Zod, using people who need affordable healthcare and will get sick and die without it to get the Democrats, who actually care about the people who need affordable healthcare, to swear an allegiance to them and their sick, rapacious agenda. We'll see if the Democrats can win by throwing the Republicans down the crevice, or whatever that gaping hole was.

Speaking of my reprehensible stock: it came within a dollar of triggering the first trailing stop limit sell order today. I set the triggers at 11%, 16%, 21%, 26%, 31%, and 36% versus the high price since I placed the orders last week. If the stock ever drops 36% from its high, I will be out completely. Considering the meme nature of the stock, that's probably not unlikely. (It might seem stupid to set a trailing stop at 36%, but even once that one triggers, I will still have bagged something like a 15x gain alone on that lot.) But you may have noticed that I set the triggers on the ones and sixes and not on the zeroes and fives. I did so purposely to evade the algorithms that sell off en masse until the drop reaches a certain percentage from its high, at which point they turn around and start buying it back en masse. It happened a few months ago when the stock dropped from its high 25.0% practically on the dot, then immediately turned around and it's been above that level ever since. The turnaround wasn't quite that precise today—the stock dropped 10.5% from its high before turning around—but instead of selling because I had it trailing stop at 10%, it held because I had the trailing stop at 11%. So now I have a chance to enjoy a run up above the current high price the triggers are pegged to, if it happens. And if it doesn't, the stock will sell off at the exact same level I have it at right now once the price drops past it.

Didn't Harris try to be bolder last season by offering the highest dollar contract to Alex Bregman, who turned it down? So it would not make sense for Harris, as we are closer to being a World Series contender now than we were last winter, for him to start pulling up short on effort this winter. The $64 question will be, as always: will players choose to come to Detroit over going east or west? There are several palpable reasons many wouldn't—too far from family; bad ballpark for RHHs; nobody speaks Spanish here; nobody speaks Japanese here; town's a dump; town's a dead end for their personal brand; iffy prospects when it comes to winning; probably a few more escaping me now. All these are real concerns we would have to overpay to overcome. The biggest one in our favor is the iffy prospects for winning part—meaning, not so iffy anymore. We should have proven we are going in the right direction—but there may still be some non-believers in the game out there which might cost us a shot at a number of guys. Trades might be more of the way we have to go over wooing free agents at the top of the market. Should be an interesting time once it really gets going next week.

Petriello at MLB thinks Flaherty’s situation is complicated, and he believes there’s a decent chance that Jack simply exercises the player option. I would be really surprised if Flaherty just exercises the option, and I would be only slightly less surprised if the Tigers offered a QO and he took it. I still think the most likely thing is Flaherty goes to the marketplace and picks up at least three years.

"President Donald Trump’s approval rating has slumped to just 37%" "Trump" rhymes with "slump". Coincidence? Fate? Irony? You be the judge.

They're sitting around waiting for the sweet moment when all the well-off white liberals who AI determines probably did not vote for Trump are dispossessed of their entire assets, first to pay for their own arrest, transport, incarceration and the disposal of their bodies once they're finished with, with the remainder to be disbursed among the MAGA elites afterwards. Don't think it could ever happen? History disagrees.