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Listened to Stavenhagen’s pod this morning and he talked about how Haase had become a sourpuss in the clubhouse because of his struggles. Understandable since he’s human, but that wasn’t going to help him stick around.

Is Al Avila coming back?

That’s OK, Eric Haase would have whiffed on that same pitch.

I ❤️ Michael Fulmer.

Remember that guy who left the Astros for the Cardinals and hacked into his old employer’s database, get busted, and was sentenced to four years prison? Now this. People switching teams must take copies of proprietary information with them all the time.

They’re not serious journalists. They’re beat writers who depend on access.

She’s got a puncher’s chance to get there.

You went to St. Dennis? I went to Foley, a lot of St. Dennis kids went there.

Totally agree, and either way, you will be entertained.

Part of his problem was the generally poor route he took to the ball, something he does more than we’d like to see.

Both Riley Greene’s diving catch and Javy’s diving stop made ESPN’s top 10 plays tonight.

Javier Baez. Love him or hate him, you will be entertained.

Whoa, Tommy Pham going off like this … And can’t let it go …

Not sure what the Carson Kelly move is about, exactly, if not shuffling the deck chairs until Dillon Dingler or someone we don’t know about yet arrives sometime next season or 2025. It’s pretty clear Haase is toast but he couldn’t be optioned, so they had to DFA him to clear active roster space. Kelly has no more future here than anyone else, even Rogers, so I don’t see them pushing out Jake in favor of Kelly for the 2024 season. Tigers might want to see whether they can squeeze a year of 2021-level performance out of Kelly before they move onto to the next catchers phase.

😂

I love that ballpark. What a money-grubbing money-grab, but really, do we expect anything different from people who have way, way more than it all?

I agree with the premise although I’d flip it around, since the Angels got there first.

Air and Water Show starts today. I’m close enough to the lake so that planes routinely buzz the house. For three days a year, it is super cool.

This matters in terms of stability of the world, but to Trump world, diplomacy is de facto weakness, so they still see it as a Trump win and Biden loss. The trick is, getting people to vote for the stability of the world.

Just like the Alarmist Non-sense from 2016 that Trump would be a threat to democracy? 😉

I'm just trying to imagine what the practical implications of trying to extradite Trump against his will would look like. I'm not saying I think he'll refuse to go, but I'm just trying to imagine what the practical implications would be if he did refuse, which I'm not sure is out of the question entirely. Would it redound more to his benefit or to his detriment? At what point would they resort to force to get him to go? How would they keep the optics of something like that from lighting up his most ardent action-oriented followers? I'm sure they're gaming this out already. I hope we don't see it, but it fascinates me to contemplate it.

What would happen if Trump simply refused to go to Georgia for any purpose related to this indictment? How would they get him there? I don’t see them arresting and extraditing him because they would give him martyr cred. They can’t try him in absentia because the Supreme Court basically ruled against that in a case called Crosby v. United States. Plus it would make the justice system look like they have no power to compel. So if Trump simply refuses to appear in Georgia court, then what? Or is that an unimaginable possibility even for him?

I think they’re in a bit of a tough spot with Jake. He’d had a pretty good run beginning in early June, starting 26 of 40 team games and slashing .307/.371/.557. They may have been trying to ease him into a heavier #1 catcher’s load role as he played in 13 straight games starting July 28, starting nine of them. It was the longest stretch of games he’s been basically in that role. But since that date, Jake has slashed .128/.160/.298 in 50 plate trips, so I can see why they’ve eased up on him the last few days. If Harris and Hinch were to commit to playing him three of every four games regardless of such results and damn the torpedoes, there would be a lot of torpedoes launched, including from here. Jake might be one of those many, many big leaguers who are fine when you play them part-time, but give them a full-time job and then you see everything they can’t do all the time. There are way more guys like that than there are legit everyday players. As for his future, Jake’s already 28, so there’s only so much future you can expect from him. It’s probably 50-50, at best, that he makes it to the next playoff team. So it will be interesting to see whether Harris makes a big catcher move this winter, or else we roll the dice with Jake as the primary for another year.