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I think Harris's use of the waiver wire, tedious though it may be, is a solid strategy to slowly but surely build depth not only in the system, but at the bottom of the 40-man as well. The churn is a byproduct of the process as, I imagine, the Harris team has assigned a numerical score for each player in the Organized Baseball universe, and when a player with a higher score comes available, they put the lowest score guy on waivers and let him go if claimed, and stash him if not. It is definitely your father's general managing strategy, provided your name is Alex. I also find it humorous to see guys churned just days after being picked up.

Oh, I see … because it took this long to vote for Speaker, now they know how to govern.

This entire Congress is going to be such a complete fucking shitshow.

Here’s a Devil He Knows who might make his way to the Tigers system soon …

Also, not sure why you believe it or notted me, as if you're trying to make me see here, now. I was only sharing Mike White's own vision for the thing, with no editorializing on my part ... believe it or not. 😉

Maybe not, but it does add nuance to the idea that it's just entertainment, since the creator of it intended it to be a little more.

There's BS at the top everywhere, not just government. Is it fixable, or just the human condition? Because if it's the latter, we might as well stop whinging about it and start looking for a way to work around it.

lol ok

Why not just tell us?

That would mean we don't want Justin Amash to be Speaker of the House, then, because he will stop telling that truth you liked so much in your earlier post. We don't want anyone to be Speaker of the House because they will definitely not tell any truth. We don't want there to be any Congress at all, because it is where truth goes to die. We don't want a government because it only corrupts everyone who touches it and precludes the telling of any truth. We should strive to remove all governance of any sort from the lives of all people because it's the only way we have a chance to get close to the truth that governance by practical definition precludes, although people are still involved, so that's no guarantee, either. Does that pretty much cover it?

My guess is they will maintain that they paid into Unemployment, paid into Welfare, paid into Disability, paid into Social Security, and paid into both Medicare and Medicaid, so goddamn right they collect it, and they should because they deserve it, and those people don't, because those people probably never paid into it, because how can you do that when you're born in Mexico or wherever it is those people came from.

I'm starting to wonder whether, either in addition to or irrespective of self-loathing, closeted gays throw themselves into highly-visibly conservative milieus because they believe no one will ever suspect them or believe accusers, so they can get away with stuff like this.

TBF, Mike White did confirm in interviews that his first season of White Lotus was meant to be a deconstruction of class distinctions.

We are all learning that bomb-throwers are more likely to succeed in Congress than truth-tellers.

Kind of to his point, it's not particularly risky, either. It's fairly tedious.

Justin Amash must be right about the power of the Speaker.

People who want to destroy the constitutional democratic republic as we know it and remake it as Amerikkka are.

Have you heard any scuttlebutt that suggests this might be in the offing?

What risky move would you like to have seen by now?

Two or three mid-level guys would be great, but in the current players' market, we're not getting even one mid-level guy. Just about all the mid-level position players—whom I would peg as being those guys who could expect to sign for two to four years—are already gone, and most of the guys who were crowd-sourced on Fangraphs to get two or more years got more years than expected. There are a few reasons Detroit is at or near the bottom of everyone's list, but our recent record is probably the most visible. This team had been losing at a 98+ clip pretty consistently for four years, and even though we surprised with a 77-win season in 2021 and snagged three halfway decent free agents the following winter—all substantial overpays—we backslid into a 96-loss team anyway. Even removing the disadvantage that is the city of Detroit from the equation, no free agent would choose to throw in his lot with a team like that over other options, despite the firing of Al Avila and the hiring of Scott "Who?" Harris. I would not expect to sign any position-player free agents until after we start playing spring training games. I'm fairly confident we'll get somebody, but probably not a somebody that anybody here really wants on the team as of today. It's going to be somebody we're not talking about now, and who comes here because he needs a job. Think along the lines of Johan Comargo or Cesar Hernandez or Jonathan Davis or Jake Marisnick. As for trading for a player at the level of a mid-level free agent, do we have the trade chips to do it? This is still a rebuilding team, so trading prospects for a two-win guy to get us from 70-something wins to 70-something-plus-two wins is out, I'm sure. I'm thinking the best we can hope for is a trade in which someone will accept Gregory Soto and Alex Lange and maybe a depth guy, and who knows, maybe even and money. I know some fans think we could get a good player by relieving another team of the onerous contract, although I'm not sure that's on the front office's radar. What bad contract do we want to hobble ourselves with, that will move this organization forward? Honest question, because no one is coming to mind. I just think we're in a position in which the organization has been so thoroughly decimated that we are going to have to accept basically what we have on the team now, plus whoever's left that we can get here in March, and we will have to show and prove to the rest of baseball over the course of certainly this year, probably next year, and maybe even 2025, that we are serious about rising from the dregs of the game to become at least a middling contender on a regular basis. That's probably a reasonable goal to shoot for, given where we've been and where we are.

Is it still safe to shoplift there?

I blame that stupid STEM shit … 😏

I’m sort of in the … ahem … same boat: our first floor ceiling has had water stains for years and we recently learned that the cause was the second floor balcony being installed in a faulty way when the house was built, and now we have to replace it, to the tune of five figures at minimum. And that’s just for the balcony—who knows the extent of any other water damage lurking beyond that and what that might cost.

Remarkable how Dolly has ascended to the level of national treasure, and when I see historical things like this, it’s easy to see her laying groundwork for that.

For one year as our new Willi, sure, I’m down.