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Do you really hate to thread police? Because you just got at least six likes for this post, so I would think you love to thread police! 😉🤣 Look, I won't speak for sports_freak, but if you care about being fair about it, I wasn't the one who brought up "Erod". RedRamage did, and tiger337, casimir, shinzaki, and longgone all weighed in on it before I posted my first words about it, and gehringer_2, kdog kept it going, too. So as long as you're name-checking perpetrators whenever you do thread police, make sure you're getting everyone who got the fire going and kept it going, not just the people you think have the most obnoxious takes on it. Love ya, buddy! 😘

And that's why I don't blame Harris for this, in that it's not his fault, even though he has to take responsibility for it, in that he has to manage the organization based on the result. He can't account for his player and the agent just being lying liars who are misleading him on their intentions.

And if the Dodgers are the only team making at least a halfway decent offer, then what was Harris to do? Cancel the deal on the last day even though the player kept saying yes to it, on the off chance he might block the trade because it's one of his ten teams? Would that have made Harris a hero here then? I don't think so. Or maybe Harris should not have taken any calls from any of the ten teams on the list, on the off chance Eduardo would nod yes the entire time until the last second when might block the trade, and then get nothing for him as he ended up doing anyway? Would everyone here believe Harris did the right thing then? I don't believe this, either. Should Harris have put a second team on the line as a fallback, even if they offer way under market value for Eduardo, on the off chance that Eduardo would nod yes to the deal the entire time and then block it at the last second, because getting something anything for him, even a Verlander-level return, would have been better than nothing? Does Harris win with the posters here for that? Highly doubtful. Really, I don't see any reasonable scenario where Harris should have had to anticipate every single contingency, the basis of which would be to completely mistrust everything the player and his agent say along the way, and come out a winner in this board's eyes. It just doesn't pass any smell test.

All reporting available to us reported that they were in the loop with each other the whole time, that Eduardo nodded yes to the deal the entire time, and the last minute demand was a surprise neither the Tigers nor Dodgers could have reasonably expected based on how things were going.

I provided no analysis. Only a list.

Eduardo ****ed up the deal for giggles because Al Avila give him an unlimited no-trade clause.

Turns out the resolution of the website screenshot was bad so here is an excel screenshot instead.

Sure thing. That took about a minute.

This is how you can tell they have just about run out of legitimate criticisms.

That's what's going to make the Trump concentration camps work: after AI and automation has mostly completed the takeover of the jobs, there won't be any need for the vermin in the labor force anymore. And don't worry about the cost of the camps, because they will simply liquidate the vermin's families' assets to pay for it all. 😉

Honestly, I don't mind seeing a sharp turn toward conservatism, even if it's a knee-jerk reaction to the change of candidates to Kamala Harris. It's true that we do have a strain of groupthink here that in fairness makes it difficult for hard-right conservatives to stand fast against, although the groupthink about the current Trumpublicans is fairly earned. But for me, it has been the relentless, mean-spirited, intellectually-dishonest, barely on-topic bomb-throwing that finally wore me down. It's the same reason I bugged out of the Gaza thread.

YES!! Perfect! Take back the "L" word!

Unhinged, and clearly targeting ignorant, easily-outraged knuckleheads.

MAGA has no use for your puny logic.

Two choices: A) Jackson Holliday plus. B) No.

Fire Harris before he lets that happen.

I believe we may have punched above our weight with that pick. McGonigle’s talent and performance so far suggests he may be better than the average #37 overall.

Right, not mathematically wrong, but it is an aesthetic atrocity, by which I mean, countless millions have died over it.

I’m down.

Ok well maybe not so much … 😏

Looking like they should have listened to me on this! 😄

I'll tell you what: this guy is definitely there and is super excited!

Very telling