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As long as Alito can figure out a way to frame it as Trump and only Trump, and anyone else Trump appoints to succeed him.

It is part of the Divine Plan that we pray to God to change his Divine Plan.

Just posting in the spirit of the thread …

Maybe we can move on from him when we find someone decent to replace him. And it doesn’t even have to be a stud with the stick—it could be a halfway-decent hitter with a plus-glove. But I’m pretty sure the last thing we will want to do DFA him out of frustration and get nothing in return, or exile him to Toledo and signal to the market that he’s damaged goods. If we want to get a return for him annd eventually end up with something better, we have little choice at this moment but to keep playing him and hope he figures it out at least a little.

I still have them winning 84.

That’s exactly what Harris always said the plan is: lay down a solid base via the system, continue to build from within over time via the draft and UDFAs, fill in the active roster with trades and free agents and the 40-man with waiver claims and MiLFAs, and don’t fall in love long-term with flawed players based on a good year or two. As for Tork, the tricky part with him is the tantalizing talent we don’t want to go get unlocked somewhere else, especially with the division or league. The talent is there, and the team that unlocks it is going to benefit from it for a while. But probably the best outcome for us here is that he goes on a really good run, and we flip him for a solid starter or major league-ready prospect to someone not exactly looking under the hood. That one would be a tall order, though.

FWIW Tigers are now 4-2 in the six games Javy got a walk.

Objection, badgering the witness. 😉

Baseball did embrace it—you yourself linked to an article on the MLB website that is completely and wholeheartedly accepting of Leerhsen's side of the story. Baseball likely did so because it's advantageous for them to gloss over Cobb's actual documented behavior that clearly portrays him as a virulent racist to the point that he injured people because of it, and portraying him as lied about and misunderstood instead. That way, fans can celebrate his historical accomplishments without feeling icky about it. And that's good for the business of baseball.

See, that’s the beauty part for the advertising side: games are indeed half an hour or so shorter, but that’s all coming out of the dead time on the field there had been before, which is to say, during play. But the advertising breaks are just as many, because the number of innings is the same, and they are just as long, as I have demonstrated in the earlier post. Same with pitching changes—I’m not sure whether the pitch timer has made them shorter, but I would bet the number of ad minutes during them is the same. I’m not sure what the average number of pitching changes are per game now versus what it was before the pitch timer came in, but it would not surprise me to learn that there are exactly as many as before. So really, the bottom line appears to be that there are as many advertising minutes during a game now as before, and that it is the ratio of game time-to-ad time that has dropped.

On the radio side, what generally happens with the shorter break that started last year is the DTRN did not alter their commercial break length, so they generally come back just as or just after the first pitch of the half inning takes place, over which you hear the intro rock music, Dan comes on and does introductory copy for a couple seconds, then calls the pitch that was thrown now 10 or 15 or 20 seconds ago as though it were happening at that moment, then he catches up to the live call on the second pitch. You might notice that sometimes his call for the first pitch and the second pitch comes only five or so seconds apart.

Matt Vierling is my Tiger at the moment.

“Oh, and if you don’t mind a fifth request, two large pizzas with pepperoni and mushrooms on both, and add onions on one.”

An inconvenient truth that will be conveniently omitted in all RWM mentions.

It’s because they did not break ranks from the Capitol Police and join the rioters in hunting down Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, et al.

I’m pretty sure the word count is a maximum because she’s not a reader.

But they’re going to come out of it all rich as Croesus. that’s the idea, anyway.

We already know just by reading history, only back then they were called “white people” instead of “MAGAs”.

Or, more exactly, stand-alone gambling kiosks.

The ironic thing is that gaslighting has lost its bite precisely because it’s overused, and it’s overused precisely because the Trumpublians engage in a whole firehose of it, so the tsunami of gaslighting becomes the exact reason the term “gaslighting” means practically nothing anymore. The Russians figured this **** out centuries ago. We’re just learning it over here.

Maybe it’s because Good came in with a light envelope this month.

Oh man, Game 2 is gonna be fugly, isn’t it?

He did work out the trade well ahead of the deadline, kept Eduardo and his team in the loop the entire time, had it all ready to go well ahead of the deadline, Eduardo killed it with his last second demand, and Harris stood up and took responsibility for the trade falling through. This was all well-reported at the time. OTOH, this is the media we’re talking about, with all the cultural baggage that entails, so you can reject as much of or even all of it as you see fit.

What I meant to say in my clear-as-mud way is that the Free Press reported on Cobb beating up a black man on the streets of Detroit and explained his violence as being that of a man born in the south who dislikes black peoples. Leerhsen rejected this reporting with evidence by claiming the Free Press itself was racist in the way they reported about black people at the time. IOW, Leerhsen rejected the story not because he had evidence, but because he wanted to. Also, in response to Buddhist, when I use the term “Baseball” with a capital “B”, I mean Baseball the industry, versus baseball the game or baseball the fan base or anything like that. So when I say Baseball likely embraced the Leerhsen version of Cobb’s story, they didn’t need to do so with any grand pronouncement, but it is better for the business of baseball to deflect any and all attention away from any negative aspects related to players, especially their racism and focus on the positive achievements and personal traits, and Leerhsen’s book does that for both Cobb and for Baseball. Rehabilitating Cobb’s image helps Baseball, and they appreciate help.

How was Eduardo layering on an extra unworkable demand at the last second Harris’s fault? What specifically did Harris do, or did not do, that cost us the deal?