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I think the idea might be something like, Haase had no more future with the team so why keep him around, and we are taking a $165,000 or so flyer on seeing whether Kelly will be good enough to pick up his ‘24 option and have something decent on the big club while Dingler finishes his development next year. So far it looks like it might not gonna work out exactly that way, but he’s got a month to do a 180, plus, depending on what the deadline is for exercising an option is, the org is probably gonna work with him over the winter and perhaps during spring training before they have to decide.

Remember when drug ads were not allowed on TV? That was before 1985. Boy, those were the days, weren’t they?

How the does the metal detector still miss the gun? Does the human body shield metal from detection? Or did somebody working the detector somehow miss it, or blow off the signal? Even the answer raises questions.

That might explain why people didn't panic and stream toward the exits since they didn't see someone pull out a gun, aim, and shoot.

This happened again this past Saturday morning, one of the busiest times of the week. There were maybe a dozen shopping carts waiting to get processed by the single solitary checkout person who, certainly by design, also did not have a bagger working with her. So, if the shopper did not pitch in to bag their own groceries, the clerk had to stop halfway through a customer to bag what she'd rung up so far. So maybe half of us peeled off to go toward the four self-checkouts, which were originally supposed to be for people with limited numbers of items in their baskets. We were doing our full shopping so we had some 35 items, as did everyone else around us. So, every ten items we'd rung up, the light up top would start blinking and the message "Help is on the way" would pop up. Then the employee working that area would have to come over, scan her key credentials, and override the system so we could continue. She had to come do that for us four times. And she had to do the same for every other customer who brought their full week's shopping into the self checkout as well. She was very unhappy. As we were all. This is how little Kroger et al cares about their customers, but I also wonder whether it's part of a larger movement afoot to get rid of all checkout clerks and literally force customers to always check out their own groceries so the clerks can all get fired. It happened with gas station pumpers four or so decades ago. Is it all going to stop with grocery store checkout? I don't know, you tell me ... 😏

They should’of gone to trade school instead. MAGA.

Maybe that’s because rock and rollers don’t spend any time in the sun and their hands are too busy with their instruments to smoke too much. 😉

What the hell is wrong with people these days? What do they think this is, 1940??

If they were a normal organization, they’d let you bring in sandwiches and chips and a water. But they are apparently only one of two organizations who no longer allow that. https://thetakeout.com/which-baseball-stadiums-let-you-bring-your-own-food-1848769186

I’m pretty sure he’s the first person I have ever heard to pronounce it as “extablish”.

I hope the whole thing he went through didn’t stress him out and maybe lead to this. Forty-nine is really young to go like that.

We do not. And I agree with Tigerbomb13.

And yet he is the best in the game at scoops by a country mile.

Genuinely sad.

How are they gonna get their servants if they don't import them? I mean, yeah, they're purposely raising a bunch of under-educated kids incapable of critical thinking who can fill that role, but that's not gonna be for another ten or fifteen years. What are they gonna rely on in the meantime? 😏

I would guess Family Video's building business not as good post-pandemic since retail in general has taken a hit.

Here's another one:

Remember how old even young adults looked when we were kids, or when our parents were kids? It's a pretty recent phenomenon, too.

This might be right. I guess I subconsciously assume we're always going to play .400 ball! 😅

Yes, there is no concrete proof of that specific thing, although there have been indictments based on acts in kind.

The other reason I think it makes sense that the shots came from outside the park—beyond the practical impossibility of smuggling a firearm past a metal detector—is that had anyone in that section heard the "pop pop" of gunfire around them, there would have been panic, then a rush toward the exits, then it would have spread around the stadium, and the game would have to be suspended. Since that didn't happen, I would have to assume the shooter wasn't inside the house.

I would assume Baez's hope is that he kills it the first four months of 2024 and we trade him to a contender, and I would also assume we'd be happy to oblige.

We have been advised repeatedly here that there is no such thing as tanking.

Good overview, and makes a lot of sense. Family Video was sort of the downscale/small-town pre-Redbox version of Blockbuster. I interviewed for the digital marketing director job at their HQ here. They told me during the interview that they did not see themselves as an entertainment delivery vehicle. Their core business model was real estate acquisition and management. They would buy the land to build the store on and use the revenue from renting videos to pay the mortgage and get free and clear on it. Then, were the rental business to go upside down somehow, they would still be sitting on nine figures worth of land and buildings they could rent out to other chains like pizza and fast food and still be a going concern. I didn't end up working for them. Three reasons: (1) the idea of the video business going upside down suggested to me I wouldn't be there long even if i wanted to be, since that's what they wanted me to manage the digital marketing for; (2) they told me they run their business "like a family", complete with paternalistic aspects like funding college educations for some employees' children. Sounds good, right? I see that as a huge red flag—I wouldn't want to work for a family where such paternalism obligates me to them beyond my job, and where work culture is malleable and subject to owner fiat, and where I'm expected to let things slide as you are expected to with family members; and (3) I got an offer for a better job for more money with a major company before I could get the offer from FV, anyway.

And here it is in case anyone is interested: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnPS2bK2eU3YbHzvnKqIyOMTagFyD5-hB