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There’s a chance buyers receive the shoes, but they will fall apart on the wearer’s feet within a month, provided they’re not too uncomfortable to keep on their feet right out of the box.

I definitely think Trump would enjoy a North Korea-type situation here. A country that he owns outright where he can take literally anything he wants, rape literally anyone he wants, kill literally anyone he wants, and the rest of us have to watch him do it and applaud him during and after? What sociopath wouldn't want that? Of course, I have my doubts that he or anyone could succeed in turning us completely into that, given we have a different history as people than 1930s Germany or 1950s Korea, but there are also aspects of it that he could succeed given we also have in our history the keeping of certain castes in a permanent state of terror, degradation, supplicancy, and even genocide. Trump would definitely take a shot at making as much of that happen as he could manage to, although, at age 77, he's running out of time for that. As for the total collapse hypothesis, the world's economy is so interdependent, with the US economy serving as its linchpin, that I don't see any way our economy could collapse and take no other economies down with it, and that includes Russia and China.

Of course, the still-unspoken truth is that Trump won't pay a penny of this or any other judgement, so the ruling may as well have been for $350 quadrillion.

Not from Elon Musk, he won't.

They could sell the logical leap to the red hats that diverting RNC donations into Trump's defense fund is a legitimate campaign expense, since keeping him out of prison is crucial to his ascending to the presidency.

He controls up to 100 million people—who they vote for, what they think, what they buy—so, yeah, a bailout is an attractive proposition.

But overthrowing elections? OK by him.

If the US financial system collapses, the world's financial system collapses. It would truly be Mad Max at that point. Even our state enemies have a vested interest in keeping our financial system going. Only a rogue actor with a nihilist streak and/or a death wish would dare try anything.

We do it to maintain influence, markets, and access to resources. Also, if we don't, the enemies will.

Re-read this post a few times and still trying to figure out how his being African-American factors into the anecdote?

Hiura seems like minor league depth, maybe even if Tork gets hurt or collapses, since Hiura has been playing a lot of first base.

I remember this, and I remember replying that there was no way the Brewers would give up one of the top prospects in the game (#20 on Pipeline, #13 on Fangraphs) for a guy who'd just pitched to a 9-13 record with a so-so ERA who would project as a 3 or 4 in their rotation. Hiura did have a pretty fair rookie season, 2 WAR in just 84 games, and then he just kind of fell apart.

I think there is plenty enough talent for 36 teams, let alone 30. Seeing as how there are so many more international players coming into the majors from baseball-first countries, in addition to there being twice the population in the US there was during the first expansion, and topped by the practically exponential advances in training, nutrition, etc., the talent level in big league baseball today is far greater than it has ever been. The $64 (billion) question is, will Baseball accept lower attendance figures that will surely come with the expansion to 36 teams? Given how high a share their revenue coming from non-gameday sources is, I think they might. Economists within the game can determine the marginal revenue calculus needed to price tickets such that they can make more money selling out 28,000-seat stadiums versus 42,000-seat stadiums. Once they fully embrace that, hell, they could go to 40 teams, who knows. The fun part is figuring out where to put the six teams. Nashville and Vegas/Oakland/Sacramento/San Jose are basically gimmes. Portland and Charlotte should probably get in. Salt Lake could quite possibly make that cut. Indianapolis would be a dark horse but within the realm of possibility. A darker horse would be a third new York team, maybe western suburbs into Jersey, like West Orange or something, but they certainly have the population to sustain a franchise. I don't think Raleigh gets one if Charlotte does. Orlando? I don't know, maybe. Feels unlikely, though. San Antonio is a downscale dump, so that's probably a no. I think Austin would be more likely than San Antonio. I think Montreal loses out even in a six-team expansion scheme, for reasons beyond history and population. Expand to 40 teams, though, and they'd probably sneak in along with Vancouver.

Did I say (Oakland or San Jose) earlier today? I meant Sacramento! https://x.com/EvanDrellich/status/1758616226958397480?s=20

I'm old enough to remember hearing that Al Avila was great at drafting the players Scott Harris is now developing.

FWIW, I think the two most likely expansion scenarios more are that either the A’s welsh on Vegas and stay in Oakland, and Vegas and Nashville get the new franchise; or else the A’s go through with the Vegas move, and Nashville and (Oakland or San Jose) get the new teams.

Always a risk when setting up a vacation weeks or months in advance. getting sick the day before you leave is always a risk, too, especially in frigid weather climes.

We’re all gonna love Benetti behind the mike.

Baseball needs to get their mitts on that sweet, sweet LDS treasure chest.

Suarez: 2008 Adames: 2012. Paredes: 2017 (trade throw-in) Workman: 2020 Four MLB-caliber gloves in twenty-plus years. Fire Harris! 😉

I think it might have something more to do with constant corporal punishment, but that’s just a hypothesis. Well, maybe more than a hypothesis: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/great-kids-great-parents/201508/physical-punishment-and-violence

The obvious unspoken thing here is that Trump and his son-in-law did basically the same things they accuse Businessperson 1 and Public Official 1 of having done. Can’t wait until they accuse the Public Official 1 Crime Family of murder.

Funnier thing is, I don't dig through their website. I read major media news sources. And hey, newsflash: so does everyone else. IDF are obviously not trying to spread the word, I guess expecting everyone to come to their website to pull it out if anyone wants to. Go ahead and blame the mainstream media for not going and pulling that, and I'd concede you would have a point. But know too that even the flame-throwing right-wing media sites, the ones that hate Biden, hate the Democrats, despise the mainstream media and all of that, such as Fox and Newsmax and OAN, are not even reporting this IDF number, and these are websites that are purportedly on Israel's side. They are instead reporting the Hamas number. You'd think they'd be motivated enough to parrot the Israel-right-or-wrong line to go in and pull that number from the IDF website. Maybe all these news organizations and right-wing websites are just pretend journalists and they laugh off real journalism as being a big crock while they clink glasses of Cliquot at or Jean-Georges or Le Bernardin or Per Se. Or maybe, just maybe, they think the IDF number is full of ****. Hey, could be anything.

Yes, it is too many hoops! Everybody, including you, me, and the IDF, knows people don't go through hoops to seek out this kind of information! That's exactly my point! If IDF wanted us to know how many people they killed, they would be making it easy for us to get that information by providing it to major media sources, not hard by burying it somewhere in their website—that is, if it's even there. If you're instead telling me it's incumbent upon me to scour their website to look for it, then you've already lost the argument.

The previous regime did not value defense in their draft picks. Nobody is saying any of this about Max Clark or Kevin McGonigle or Carson Rucker. (Max Anderson might be a different deal.) Yes, it was Harris who took JHM as the best he could get for Joe Jimenez. So maybe he sucks at it, too. 😁