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Goodbye, goodbye baseball.

Sold, or perhaps made good on a private campaign promise.

Billionaire is shocked that the deep state called him out on his horseshit sworn testimony. What is this country coming to?!

And also this: Good man.

He's still better than Steinbrenner.

I think it was a bet that a one-party right-wing fascist autocracy would win America, and if so, they would be showered with riches and power, and if not, they would pivot and regain their footing in a moderate new landscape, because short memories.

If course the vote mules exist. It's all over the Internet! What is you, ignant?!

I do have a strong memory of it, having been an advertising media executive with friends at WJR at the time. I also lived through Bo's entire tenure as coach of Michigan. I was even a Michigan fan myself as a child because every kid growing up in Detroit in the 70s was a Michigan fan, and a Bo Schembechler fan. I'm just sharing my recollection of contemporaneous conversation about the events at that time, and the conclusion JR people came to is that Ernie won because Ernie was universally beloved, and Bo—to your point about divided loyalties, but probably more because of his general demeanor—was not. Also, FWIW—I understand it's a huge apostasy to even broach this here—the JR people I knew at that time were not fans of Ernie in general. They thought he reneged on his promise to retire after his last contract, forced the station to give him one more year, and resented the soft power he wielded in that one press conference to curry public sympathy and make the station and the team look like the bad guys. They were personally glad to see him go. Believe it or not.

It would not surprise me to learn that Herschel Walker was relieved at losing. He seemed really half-hearted about the whole thing at the end. He is a deeply stupid man, but he's probably smart enough to know he wasn't qualified to be a senator. Kari Lake, on the other hand, strikes me as lusting to become Donald Trump's heir to become supreme MAGA leade. Arizona governor was just a stepping stone in the career trajectory in her mind, I think.

Is that your memory of it at the time?

Yes, although not just the baseball cognoscenti. Regular people who weren't even baseball fans, even Michigan fans, lost their respect for Bo. Which is the say, they finally saw him revealed for what he basically was: Woody Hayes North.

The market has changed. Teams seem more willing to to sign longer deals for lower AAVs, probably as a way to mitigate the luxury tax. Plus, there's a good chance some of these GMs won't even be with their team by the chickens comes home to roost.

Bo was a god in Detroit, I assure you.

True, although he carried his god-like status into the job and it was still intact when he went to war against Ernie. It was the Ernie Incident that cost Bo everything. Bo practically died in disgrace as a result. It was one of the grossest miscalculations of one's own stature versus that of another that I can recall.

How many classified documents are lost for good because they are in the hands of someone who's not within our jurisdiction?

They don't have to pay him while he's on suspension.

Bo was considered one of the all-time greats when he was at Michigan.

Too bad you’re not the Padres GM!

I was actually wondering just the other day who the most recent major leaguer is who was active-duty military. I have no idea, but I’m guessing it was a Vietnam vet, somebody like Garry Maddox.

I believe the issue at the time was that Bo resented Ernie’s stature in general, and when Ernie crossed a line with some career demand, Bo decided he was going to run him out of town. For anyone not around at the time, it is difficult to overstate just how god-like Bo was around Detroit during his tenure at Michigan, certainly the equal if not the greater of Ernie. But Bo lost the battle mainly because he wasn’t beloved, and Ernie was.

This reads as though his biggest challenge to overcome to succeed in the majors will be hitting plus velocity at at least an average clip. That may be what he primarily works while on the farm.

Picking up Bogaerts might say more about the Padres than about Tatis.

Don’t you worry, that’ll come back around! 😉

This is actually the slightly-damning statement Harris made about Higginbotham!

“Shapes and power”. I quite like that.