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Apropos of nothing, it would be so fun if the not-properly-vetted staff screwed up an invitation to Stephen Miller to attend one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago spyfest shindigs, and Stephanie Miller showed up instead.

I interpret the tweet not as blaming staffing for this gaffe so much as asserting how loosey-goosey everything about Trump living in MAL is, and that its attendant lack of proper hiring of staff and vetting of guests are symptoms that lead to situations like this. Of course, the tweet also labors under the conceit that, were vetting and staffing both up to snuff, Trump would never have hosted Fuentes in the first place which, in the most generous way I can put this, I’m not so sure would have been the case.

You heard the man: Aaron Judge or bust. 😏

YMMV, but I myself have never hired anyone who complained about their previous jobs.

I believe one key problem with how the Tigers would identify talent in the past is that they focused on toolsy guys who were athletes first, rather than guys with well-established baseball skills. You can tell because of how often Al’s press releases would describe players they drafted, traded for, or signed as being “athletes”. They seemed to be laboring under the notion that they could obtain the best athletes and then train them to become great baseball players. I’m not sure I can come up with even a single example of that approach succeeding.

Who would want to hire anyone with “lapdog” on his resume?

Gee, thanks, sport. If Scott Harris fields the same team on March 30 that makes up the 40-man roster today, I will join you in your criticism.

The Tigers don’t acquire Austin Meadows if Parker Meadows isn’t in the plans?

Cool, now the right wing can blame porn for the murder.

Dr Oz never won a Heisman.

I’m going in the other direction: I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt until he proves to be incompetent.

We got an anti-Harris skeptic here. We need the balance.

Some definitely do see it as a problem. What they don’t see it as is a problem with guns.

We have never had a major geopolitical front in South America, but this may well be the beginning of that.

I’m not so sure that China is so First World that they will be able to avoid the temptation to use bound labor. I’m even not so sure they’re avoiding that option right now.

I’ll be fine letting Jeimer go if Harris can replace him with a third baseman who will be at least as good. People think that should be a piece of cake and that really, Candy sucks anyway so just about anyone will do, but I don’t think it will be as easy as all that. But, if Harris can pull it off, in whatever manner he can manage to, then Jeimer who.

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You know he is!

Except there’s a chance there a fascist coup over the election can succeed right now. Brazil is not a banana republic. It’s a $2 trillion economy, the ninth-largest in the world, with a population of well over 200 million people. If they fall to fascism, it will be a big hairy deal. Fingers crossed.

Youre right, substitutions are fewer and farther between now. With the new 26/13 roster rule, which gives us four subs on the bench versus three or even two, we might start to see subbing pick up once teams figure out how to optimize staffing for it. Even so, I think it might be less about options for substitution and more about flexibility with the starting lineup.

They want the flexibility of left/right matchups by position.

Jeimer’s OPS in 2021 was .795. League OPS was .731. Jeimer’s OPS was well above average. He was good.

I guess one other possibility with Jeimer, if he’s not hurt and he’s a decent bounceback candidate, might be that he’s not a good clubhouse guy. Maybe one of the things they really want to clean up is the team culture and Jeimer is a net negative when it comes to that? I know nothing about it one way or another, this is just a possibility I just now considered.

Incipient retirement? Mazel tov! 🎉