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Did I call him “Todd”? I don’t recall that, but if so, then my mistake. I think you know I meant Tyler. Will they keep him on the 40-man in the hopes that he can progress from injured among-the-worst pitchers in baseball to a healthy merely below average pitcher? I don’t know, maybe. I guess there’s value in that for the long/mop-up guy in your pen. I might be more in line with that thinking if he were turning 25 next year rather than 29.

i agree with this on balance, although it’s not going to be like this across the country. Stop the Steal will still resonate in most Confederate states and in most west central and mountain states. Where it is going to fall flat is in blue and most purple states. Being a reasonable Republican is a very different proposition in New York vs Alabama.

If Willi Castro gets slotted into fourth outfielder slot without showing some astounding improvement in Lakeland, then something has gone terribly wrong on the player acquisition front. I agree with you, six-position utility guy is his best chance to fashion any kind of career.

That .639 OPS first time through the order is only for relief appearances, as you say, and covers just 72 PA. The year before it was .731 in 157 PA; in 2020 it was .891 in 93 PA. I'm not sure he can claim it as a permanent skill just yet.

Repeal the 19th and 26th Amendments! Votes only for white male landowners over 40!

Boo Willi, I assume? He was a win-positive player last year and could serve as a multi-positional depth piece. He was even average in outfield defense, not below average, by multiple measures, despite the moaning and groaning we did about him early in the year. And he's defense-positive at 2B. Willi's not a playoff team player as currently constructed, either, but he is also not the dead loss Harold and Victor are. I think he gets one more chance to prove he can come close to 2020 once again.

Alexander can't strike guys out, doesn't walk few enough guys to support that, gives up contact that's routinely is too hard, has no killer out pitch, ultimately gives up too many runs, and he's going to be 29 next All-Star break. His Statcast card is awash in blue. It should be the end of the line for him here, just going off Scott Harris's big three goals, all of which Alexander fails. The only thing he's got going for him is he's left-handed. I know we need pitching depth, as does every team, but even if we want to keep him as minor-league depth going forward. we should not be wasting a 40-man slot on him. Particularly if Harris determines that there was something to post-May 8 2021 after all, and we decide we can try to compete for the weak division. Tyler Alexander has no business on a playoff team.

It’s cautious good news that one of the alt righties is actually starting to question the faith. I say cautious because even the hard righties were lambasting Trump after January 6—at least for a week, anyway. So get me past this hot period before I conclude there’s been any kind of sea change.

The thing that concerns me is not that they’ll win in court, or even the court of public opinion. What concerns me is the ardent red hats will sense that their back is truly going up against the wall and they’ll start acting out with greater frequency.

It’s been a nice respite the past week or so, but we’re not going to be able to avoid the 2022 election deniers for much longer. They still have their 30% of the people, and social media is still a thing.

I was just coming in to post that today should be a wild day. Tyler and Harold will be gone; Willi stays.

And that has stopped her before when, exactly? 😏

Because she wants to burn the whole house down, preferably while the rest of us are still in it.

Me too. All through the 70s, back in the days when a man could support a family of nine on just his director-level GM salary, my folks would pile the seven of us (or fewer, once kids started turning 18) into our two cars (Chevy Bel Air station wagon, Chevy Vega [!]) and we would spend up to four weeks in a cottage near Traverse City, or Gaylord, or Lewiston, or Onekema, depending on the year. Four weeks! Can you imagine! I saw both Nixon resign and Elvis die while we were up north like that as a family. In the mid to late 70s, my dad stopped coming with us. He would keep working, and stay in the house all alone. That was his vacation—the rest of us getting the hell out of the house for all those weeks.

Some people, you cross them at all, they have to amp up the response to the max. Having access to guns makes it all potentially deadly.

Honestly, why did she let him keep talking? These people don’t respect the rules, so why didn’t she start shouting him down, like Trump would? Her apparently chastened silence is completely off-brand for her and her ilk. She looks red hat weak just sitting there taking punches. Maybe that’s what cost her votes? Or, perhaps it’s one of those things where they either explicitly or tacitly acknowledge the truth while they’re in a nonpartisan public forum, and then afterward they completely pretend it didn’t happen and start hammering home talking points to their partisan base predicated on lies about what was said in the debate? Am I making sense?

Looks like she’s about to rev up the vote-fraud-allegation portion of our program.

Oh, there we go—they’re going to adjudicate November 3rd as though it were the real crime, not January 6. They’ve been quiet about this election so far, but they’re going to get a lot a lot louder. Are they going to fix the evidence somehow? Because that’s what I would totally expect them to do, and not only that, I would not expect them to not do it.

Sure, I liked him while he was here. I thought he was great while he was here.

I'm not talking about wackjob twitter accounts and that kind of thing. I'm talking about mainstream news reports about politicos alleging fraud.

I suppose the tsunami of allegations will come soon enough, and perhaps I’m hanging around in the wrong circles, but I have heard surprisingly little about voter fraud in this election.

This dovetails into something I’ve been wondering: assuming Warnock beats Herschel next month, could the Republicans persuade Kristen Sinema and/or Joe Manchin to jump the aisle?

Indeed. I mean, look, I wish all the best for the guy, same as I would wish for anyone else. But I never actually rooted for him to win once he left, simply because he's on somebody else's team, and why would I root for the Astros? I also never pined for his return because I never felt connected to him as a person—or at least, perhaps more importantly, didn't feel he had any lingering connection to us once he'd gone. I don't recall anything he said suggesting he'd rather be a Tiger than not. Actually, I would presume he was probably ready to be anything but a Tiger by the time August 2017 rolled around. I understand that comes across as a brutal take, and I apologize for the feelings I'm hurting with it. But I'm borderline ASD, so it's not like I really care ... 😉😅

My problem is that after we went 1-6, and got there in some of the worst ways imaginable, I'd written off any hopes for playoffs for this team. Now I'm told that we have better than a puncher's chance to get into the playoffs. With this team. With this defense. It seems so unlikely, it's hard for me to get my head around. Particularly given the persistent six-decades-long futility of this franchise. But hey, if everyone says so, if 8-9 is a season to be wished for because it sneaks us into the wild card game, irrespective of whether we're equipped to win it or whether it accrues to the positive development of this team for future seasons, then I guess I'm on board