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All due respect, anyone who was objectively observing them from outside could see they’d been moving that way for decades. Once the deficit ballooned under Reagan, and then under Bush, and dropped hard under Clinton, and shot back up under Baby Bush, Republicans lost any credible claim to fiscal responsibility, at least if we’re talking about reality.

The evil and the damage done.

What an interesting tagline: “Rush in support now.” Is that what people support Trump? They “rush in” support? “Rush in”. Where have I heard that before? It sounds so familiar … “rush in” … hmmm … “rush in” … I definitely know that from somewhere …

She really struggled to remember her script.

“We never meant to hurt Mr. Andrews. It was a joke. Come on, lighten up, snowflake …”

“Yet another Crooked Joe Biden hitjob …”

And so it begins. Tork’s voodoo doll worked like a charm. Now we have to put him at first base and leave him there.

We might. Depends what the number of years at hand will be. I wouldn’t want to throw eight years at the guy just to get three our four out of him.

Maybe we can package him in July to goose up the return.

That’s true but that is what they’re planning toward, and the sign of a good front office team is moving to an effective plan B (or C, or D, etc.) when things don’t go as planned. But the good organizations somehow get good production consistently from a ridiculously high percentage of prospects, or at least they go on a good run of that for several years, so maybe we can manage to do that, too. That can’t all be random, can it?

Yes, I agree, although I also think they’re doing the best they can to make a historically-****ed organizational offensive regime right again. It was so rotted out, top to bottom, that it was never going to get completely fixed over the course of a season and a third. I also don’t think it’s even worth contemplating the idea that the Tigers will concentrate on getting hitters up to speed while ignoring pitching and letting that go to seed, as if they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. That’s sad-sack loser thinking. I’m assuming it’s a new day for the Detroit Tigers, and I’ll continue to believe that until they prove to me that’s a mirage.

I have wondered whether or when the Internet Research Center, or whatever its equivalent is now, would flood social media with disinformative tweets purported to come from leftists, in an effort to compare it with how right wingers tweet actual disinformation, in a bid to both equivocate them and to remove friction from and stanch criticism of future right wing disinformation.

This is a perfect summation of what polls are and what they’re worth anymore. You get double credit if you came up with that on your own. This is a long way from my being able to use the 2008 polls to win ten bucks from a friend by predicting who was going to win and what the electoral count would be. I got 49 out of 50 states right.

It’s basically a “they did it to us, now we’ll do it to them 10x over” mentality, and a basic admission that they will use the machinery of the government, paid for with our taxes, to pursue their political agendas strictly for their own gain and to no one else’s benefit. If that’s not the textbook definition of corruption, then there’s no such thing as corruption.

And this was an historically awful year for free agent hitters, Ohtani notwithstanding. With Soto, Alonso, Bellinger, Adams, Kim, Bregman, and Verdugo all available, the pickings should be a little more to our likely, although we probably won’t bid the top of the market. I could see us making a bid for Kim, a plus shortstop with an average stick, and showing Javy the door.

If he were playing here and performing like that, people would be screaming for the hitting coaches’ heads.

I’m going to take it on faith for the time being that they will have the pitching in order by then, until they show me they don’t or can’t. I’m not buying the implication they can only do one or the other at any given time.

If Harris trades Skubal this year, or even next year, I will literally eat one of my baseball caps.

I’m driving the Pennsylvania Turnpike next week and the week after and I can't wait to see it!

And you expected that?? 😉

Wesley Hunt writing the history for the books before the facts.

Does he normally?

… years ago.

I think you gotta at least stick around and give Baby Doc at least one decent chance to make the big moves when it's time. Those three words are carrying a lot of weight here, because now is not the time, and this winter may not be the time, either. The time will be once the base has been effectively laid down—Keith at second, possibly Jung at third, Greene stabilizes, and especially once Clark in CF and McGonigle at SS are here—and we need just one or two pieces to sign or trade for to make a full-on run for a ring. That might not be until 2027, for all we know. But if by that time the owner has passed on trading or spending to bring solid pieces aboard, and/or we start trading young pieces like Skubal for even younger minor leaguers to put us farther away from contention—then it will be reasonable to give up on the Ilitches.