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Some of it look just so ridiculously obvious that I'm surprised some umpires don't punish the catcher by calling a ball just for trying to make him look stupid.

No, but I saw the story about the guy who took a hooker with him to a Dodgers game so he could drive in the HOV lane on the way there.

You misspelled "angar".

I agree with this for the most part. There are times when it is appropriate to trade prospects for established players who can put you over the top and/or take you into November. This is not one of those times.

So, are we still firing hitting coaches during the break?

He's not, but framing is technically a tactic of deception, and some people can be deceived despite their best efforts to avoid it. Also, people frequently make judgments based on factors beyond merely the evidence in front of them, some of those factors are personal, and sadly, that include calling balls and strikes.

It'll take some time, though ... 😏

They are probably presenting their final offers right now.

The federal courts, like too much of government itself, has become just another career grift.

Especially because the top three picks were all high schoolers, so we are definitely drafting for 2030 this year, so we probably won’t know anything for sure until then. It’s virtually impossible to predict who’s going be a player and who’s not based on their raw skills.

In other news, congratulations to new poster @Shelton for achieving the rank of Apprentice. The kid’s got talent and I see big things for him here … 😉

I have too many stories about stupid moves and big losses, so many that if I started recounting them here, I might have to go into therapy to cope.

They’ll pay more for insurance, true, but when he’s right, he’s fire. And I think there are a few teams out there who like their luck.

I agree that was Plan A for Flaherty, and I also agree that we set the price high and don’t move much, if at all, off it, because we have options. I think extending him is a bit of a long shot, because he will want at least 4/80, and he should get at least that from someone, and I don’t see us being the team that gives that to him, not after a single revival season.

Sure it is, but it is a good test for one of the youngest, greenest, rawest teams in the game today.

Also, let’s pretend that we come out of the break and go 7-4 or better by the morning of July 30. That might be unlikely since we have three at TOR, four at CLE, and then home for MINx3 and CLEx1. That would make us 54-54 at minimum. Do we become buyers? I predict we don’t. I believe the idea was always that we would use this season to evaluate what we have in-house from Avila that we can go long with, and if we happen to contend, that would be a happy upside outcome that will be good experience for future seasons for the guys who do stay. I think the bigger, tougher question at that point would be, would we still sell Flaherty et al? I think we probably would not unless we were to get a Mayo+ or Salas+ type package, which I think is super unlikely. Trading our top chip at the deadline while we are in such an upsurge would be really demoralizing to the guys, and I don’t think Harris would do that; plus if we keep Flaherty, it would not be a dead loss because we would go the QO route with him this winter.

I am starting to come around to the idea that, assuming we don’t trade for a catcher, Jake stays, Carson goes, and we take a flyer on Dingler for next year. I think Carson is going to want too many guaranteed years to re-sign him and our core is not yet built up enough to do that. Recent 10-4 run notwithstanding, I believe we still have too many holes left to fill before we do the kind of patch-up work that signing a 31-year old catcher to a 3-year or a 2+1 would be.

Absolutely right. When Christians impose their worldview on politics, they become worldly.

If Evangelicals don’t represent you, then please try not to take offense at criticisms of them, even if they’re referred to by the blanket term “Christians.” It’s almost always the Evangelicals being referred to, which you can probably deduce from context clues.

You know what he is implying, don't you? It is that if any of us complain in any way about the implementation of Project 2025, including with only words, or who knows, maybe even an eyeroll, they may just have to spill our blood. So you'd better allow it. Or else.

Maybe if we all pitch in, we can get you a special movie pass for showings that occur only during Tiger games.

Exactly. We could legitimately have swept both series. Can you imagine what would have happened had we done so? Even MLB Network would have to recognize it. I do have some minor level of confidence that the Foul Territory guys will give over a segment to us.

I'm sure someone will advise Mike Lee that he did not have to out himself in that final post, because he could have simply ignored the fact that the photo wasn't taken today and all of Red Hat Nation would believe until the end of time that it was. In fact, I'm pretty sure they still will believe it, because alternate facts.

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