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Dense, possibly. Either ignorant or cynical, definitely.

I’m more intrigued than apoplectic by the Ronna McDaniel hire. I’ll be interested to see how they use her and whether she can reasonably acquit herself, since she’s already coming into the job facing a sweeper on the corner with two strikes on her.

Do people really believe the Trump party is going to win bunches of elections this November?

Kreidler might also have some upside as second-division starter, which may or may not be at shortstop. I think it’s possible he gets second or third billing on a significant trade we make at some point in the next couple of years.

TBF, Pipeline's rankings tend to be top-heavy, meaning they give more weight to the top of the system than to its depth. It's easier to be #2 when you have four top-five picks, including multiple 1/1s, in the system all at the same time after tanking the team for years. Obviously, it's harder to maintain that ranking when you graduate them and then don't have so many 1/1s anymore and you have to rely on your depth picks for your Pipeline rankings.

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He did, but I don't think that nut exonerates the squirrel. FWIW, Hinch was also hired under Avila, but he wasn't Avila's choice.

If Pipeline is to be believed, by the time Avila was shown the door, he brought the system down from an A to a D+. I would call that going backwards.

It's probably a little more nuanced than maybe it needs to be, but I didn't say the country is governed by the RNC. I said they are an integral part of governing our nation, by which I mean, to the degree that actual elected Republican politicians rely on the RNC for support to get elected and even guidance to stay elected, and of course, now more than ever.

Only if Trump had done it first.

Man, there is nobody on the planet who can fall up like this guy.

We know what Trump did to warrant prosecution—it all laid out in the indictment Edman posted. Please tell us exactly what Biden did that rises to the level of prosecutable criminality so we can better evaluate your claim of such.

Avila did tear it down to the studs after 2017 and five years later, longer than entire rebuilds should even last, the organization was still revving in neutral, with no prospects for improvement. Credit to Al for drafting a few decent guys, but the track record under his leadership is practically proof positive they would have stalled here. The actual improvements didn't start until Harris came on board, remade practically the entire scouting, development, and data science functions, and allowed them to do their thing. Here's an example just from today. This article reads as basically a refutation of the Henning piece.

I’m not a little conflicted about this. On the one hand I think, since this organization is an integral part of the governing of our nation, shouldn’t the government step in and regulate this kind of thing out of existence? And shouldn’t Trump or anyone else be barred from taking political donations—which are tax-deductible and thus indirectly costs us all—that are supposed to be earmarked for winning elections and using it for his personal defense in his criminal trials? On the other hand, I think, well, the RNC aren’t the actual government, they’re a private organization, so if they want to fleece their donors and their donors are going in with eyes wide open, then really, who gives a ****? I am truly conflicted about this, even if everyone else here is clear as crystal about their feelings.

To people who also think Donald Trump has charm? Sure.

The amazing thing is that Al Avila was the disaster happening right in front of our eyes that practically nobody could deny, which all of us with few exceptions agreed on at the time. He took a franchise that had just come off a playoff run and had it floundering for not two, for not three, for not even four, but for seven years, with no respite in between and no end in sight. By the time he finally got ****-canned, other teams like the Orioles and Padres had already gone into their rebuild later and emerged much earlier. Al crippled this organization so thoroughly that it was essentially still at the beginning of its rebuild when a new front office finally came in to clean up the mess. Now, through the gauzy haze of memory, at a time when things are finally looking up two season later, people like Lynn Henning want to give Al more than half the credit for this ray of daylight, simply because out of the gaggle of players he drafted—not traded for, not signed internationally, not picked up off the waiver wire or free agent pile, but drafted, the only player acquisition channel he had even a little clue about—the new regime looks like they might be able to salvage a few. His friends who are writing the history are now casting him as the savvy hero who saved the franchise, instead of an out-of-his-depth Peter-Principled technocrat who ran it into the rocks. It’s a mass gaslighting gone berserk. So go ahead and give the guy credit if you like. At least I still remember how it really happened.

Lynn Henning: a man after Tiger337's own heart.

How dare Joe Biden not unilaterally disarm. That's not cricket.

The gallows is too slow. That's why the Nazis did gas chambers. Much more efficient. I'd assume it would be the same here. Of course, I don't think anyone could accuse the Trump regime of being efficient. So who knows how they'll structure it all. 😏

This is not a hilarious scene from a hilarious show, but it was one of my favorites.

That is one thing I have always hated about the Great Lakes: right at that time when you need a nice mild break from a long stretch of winter, you go through two months (April, May) during which this region is the coldest in the whole country. That's super cruel.

Powder or rock is fine by me.

yeah, who does that judge think he is, settling on a number so high that it might deter others from doing the same thing?

They're just about the only people still calling it "rap", and frequently as part of a rhyming phrase.

Oh man, those are some of my my favorite calls: "I am a registered Democrat, I voted for Biden and for Obama twice and for Clinton twice and for Carter twice and for Johnson and for Kennedy and for Stevenson twice and for Truman and for FDR four times, but I can't take the utter corruption and the lies anymore so I'm voting for Trump, I'm not leaving the party, the party left me."