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For the umpteenth time, how do you know what the Trump Party is doing or planning to do? They tell you by accusing their enemies of doing the same thing.

Market hasn't needed any help tanking lately.

It's not an issue of zero control versus total control.

Why does the system allow jurors to be identifiable at all? I don't fully understand that.

maybe it is a witch hunt after all!

I think there's something to this.

Not everybody can be Stephen Strasburgesque when they first come up. But then, look what happened to him. The hype machine is always histrionic, although it has seemed to kick up a notch of late. I'm sure there's a promotional/revenue component in there somewhere.

Really? You need to read more. 😉

And the strikeouts. Can't have a Quick Pitch clip show without strikeouts.

Maybe they will just push the quality down until we get used to it. 🤷‍♂️

I’m sorry, there’s no way a10-9 team can be 5-10 in their last 15. 💀 So, 5-9 in their last 14, and 4-8 in their last 12.

I couldn’t locate Matt Nokes’s plaque whe I visited Cooperstown a few years ago.

I’m pretty sure Harris understands that a team can’t build a consistent winner off 13 utility players, so I really doubt that is his long-term smartest-guy-in-the-room plan to win rings. I think we are still in the restructuring phase, and will be for another year or two, in which we are building toward a situation where we will have a team of stars, strong positional players, and versatile bench guys, along with ace, solid rotation, and solid bullpen. The rot was pretty deep when he came aboard, not just in players but in infrastructure, and there has to be equal amounts of investment on both sides to fashion a consistent winner. Based on players he inherited, out of which he has to determine who we can save and who we can dump, we seem to be closer on the pitching side than the positional side. If the hitting part is going to get fixed, it’s going to take another year or two, not another series or two. We simply don’t have all the horses we need to win with, and they will need to be acquired via draft, trade, or free agency. I think it’s becoming clearer, though, that this group of thirteen will not be the group we are going to ride or die with.

I think it’s more likely we are going to see more pitchers coming up (i.e., Next Man Up) then current relievers pitching more.

We may be playing competitively in the sense that we are hanging around in games, but we are 5-10 in our last 15, so, that definitely looks a lot like prior Aprils.

Says the guy who wrote an epistle in response to my one-sentence post! 😉💀 in any event I wasn’t suggesting that the democrats are puppet masters. Of course nobody is. But they could be trying in some small way to help drag the inevitable as close to election decision time as they can manage.

True, even if it was a short season.

Looks like I got here just in time for the good stuff!

Just got back from my half hour bike ride. Did I miss anything?

Fun Fact: among players who debuted before their 21st birthday, Ty Cobb and Willie Mays both had a lower OPS in their first ten career games, minimum 25 PA, than Tim Foli, Aurelio Rodriguez, Danny Ainge, Rene Lachemann, and Fernando Vanenzuela.

TBF, not many twenty-year-olds can get promoted to the big leagues and immediately rake. Even Willie Mays was reduced to tears in the first couple weeks of his big league career.

How convenient that Rendon owuld change his priorities after signing a 7/245 contract. Just sayin'.

I don't agree we can conclude it was a stunt promotion three weeks into the season.

Did he? I mean, it wouldn't shock me, but I didn't know that about him. Maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention.

I remember almost catching my first foul ball sitting in the front row on the first base side looking down the third base line. I could have spit on the home plate umpire from there. RHB hit a beeline right to me. Just as I was about to get my hands on it, a buddy of mine, who I treated to the game with tickets I got from my dad's work, reached over and snagged the ball from in front of me, then had the gall to giggle and laugh and say look dude I caught a ball! I mean, technically, it was fair game, I guess. But we didn't hang out much after that.