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I still have the initial faith that Harris is doing everything he can to find the best players available at any given time, so if he hasn't yet signed someone better than Maton, my assumption is that there is not a better player than Maton at this position who is freely available. Once it is clear that Harris is consistently failing to find and sign the best players available on the open market—once he demonstrates that he is incompetent at this very basic part of his job—I'll pick up the torch and pitchfork along with everyone else.

Yes, if they are out there.

The right guy doesn't have a better option available to him.

Beating the Rockies two of three at their home shouldn't be considered the biggest challenge in the game, but splitting a four-gamer with the best team in the AL West at their park? That's pretty impressive for a club so hobbled as our is.

Where's my twenty runs!!

That's true, we've gotten so much more value from him than you can reasonably expect from a 19th-rounder. But there are a lot of fans who think he's the real deal and will help lead the team to the next pennant, because his skills profile is so limited.. Chances are, he won't. Probably not non-zero, but pretty close to it.

I see what you're saying. Maybe. But like you say, he's just very hittable, and has been for some time. He just now touched 96 and that looks good. But it's 2023, not 1943, so 96 isn't special like it was for Rapid Robert. He needs to fix it, or else.

Kerry Carpenter was unable to get to a fly ball that a reasonably good right fielder would have gotten. He's yet another DH from the Avila era and I don't think he makes it to the next playoff team as a starter, either.

Does there? Kyle Gibson is also 6-6 and about 200 and he tops out at 92.

I've been wondering whether he is going to be a factor on the next playoff team. It's not looking all that promising.

Hey, gang, let's score twenty!

I agree, the use of religion is already happening, although I've seen it only as you indicate, as an argument for exceptions to abortion bans based on a specific religion's specific tenets, and not as an argument that the entire point of the anti-choice opposition is to impose the principles of a certain religion on the rest of the country. That's what I want to see.

More like, we gotta put a guy out there with experience who can passably play major league ball while the kids continue to develop. It's why they're not rushing Colt Keith or Justyn-Henry Malloy or Andre Lipcius or Wenceel Perez up to the majors to replace him RIGHT NOW. They're not ready, so in the meantime, we need a guy with big league experience to put out there, a guy the clock's already running on. That's Schoop. He's already paid for, and I would imagine they're still hoping against hoping to flip him for something anything at the end of the month. I wouldn't worry too much about it, though, because if he's still here on August 1st, I think there's a good chance he sits down for most of the rest of the season, basically spot-starting and pinch-hitting against lefties and being a late-inning defensive replacement at second, while Nick Maton comes back up to replace him on the field. Not for nothing, this also dovetails into why they bring in guys like Anthony Misiewicz and Zach Logue and Garret Hill when they need pitching replacements, instead of rushing up Ty Madden and Wilmer Flores and Dylan Smith: those guys are the future, they're not ready, and the org doesn't want to **** up the development process on them like Al Avila did by rushing up TORK! There's no point to starting the clock on them now. In the meantime, the business model dictates that we have to put guys on the mound when our regulars get hurt, and those first three guys all have big league experience, such as that may be. I think we can expect to see this continue all through next year for sure, and possibly into 2025. I know it's frustrating and maybe hard to understand, but that's the reality, so might as well sit back and enjoy it.

Talking about expanding idea of religion beyond people's limited imaginations, I have long thought—and actually argued on the old board to this effect—that the pro-choice people could fight against abortion restrictions not on the basis of 14th Amendment equal protection of the right to privacy, which I don't even get how that works, but on the basis of First Amendment protections against the respecting an establishment of religion, because the obvious basis for pro-lifers' efforts is what they imagined Jesus might have said about abortion in the Bible. Their opposition to it certainly not based on any scientific or medical reasons—in fact, it goes counter to medical reasons when they practically force a woman to almost die in childbirth before they would even consider terminating the dangerous pregnancy.

How would kids know what their so-called “strengths” are? They’re just kids! All these little boys thinking they’re girls … they don’t know anything about themselves or the world! If there’s one thing Parkland taught me

I’d love to see a plaintiff try this, but the Court will strike it down lightning quick because the claim will be religion is protected by the Constitution, and gay is not, and gay should never be assumed to be protected by the Constitution, because a bunch of dudes a quarter millennium ago.

Yeah, I think the assumption here is, if they’re stopping this much more drugs at the border now than before before, just think of how many more now than before are getting across. It’s faulty logic—after all, it could be the same amount being attempted or even less, and we’re getting way better at seizing it—but then, their base never did require airtight logic.

Yeah, walks always were his Achilles heel, and it’s always going to be. When he starts walking guys they stop swinging, and his superpower is swings and misses on his curve ball after setting it up. If batters lay off and they get to wait for something hittable, he’s dead. I don’t know if he has to pound the zone or anything, but he needs to get a lot closer than he’s been. It’s a bad time for this to happen, but he’s got about a month to turn it around.

Zach Mac with the jack!

Javier Baez’s throws to first have been on the money tonight.

I was wrong. I’m already done with them. 🤢🤮

It’s July 1 so it looks like there’s a whole new batch of streaming commercials I’m seeing for the first time and will be tearing my hair out every time they come on by August.

And then there’s Jonathan Schoop! I have never seen such a best-of the-year play followed by such a worst-of-the-year play.

Holy Toledo, Javy’s still got it at short!