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This tweet harks back to what I posted on the old site seven years ago, something along the lines of: yeah, awesome, let the Republicans field Trump in the election against Hillary. He’ll get absolutely crushed because people will be sprinting to the polls at two in the morning on election day to make sure they don’t lose the opportunity to vote against him. I mistakenly thought everybody saw the same guy I saw. I don’t mean conservatives who might or might not vote for him, but I mean people who would never vote for him. I figured people who might not normally vote, or who are typically on the fence about whether to vote in any given election, would be super motivated to vote against Trump. I mean, come on, no politically-engaged person with any memory of what this guy had done over the previous three decades could ever vote for that guy. Turns out I was seven years too early with that assessment, but here we are now. Finally.

But isn’t that prefect? Because they can let these wackjobs advance to the general to be slaughtered all they want, as far as I’m concerned.

Watching CNN right now feels like Christmas. Or maybe, because the good news has been coming every day, more like Hanukkah.

FIFTY!

Yeah, I alluded to that in a post a couple days ago in which I said our view of what a good team should be so skewed that we still view the sub-replacement-level players we have had knocking around for years as being acceptable options for the Scott Harris Tigers.

Nor I. But many casual Tiger fans consider him an integral part of the recent teams, and so his departure surprises them. Someone here (who's not at all a casual fan) expressed surprise.

I don't care how long it's been going on. That doesn't legitimize it. It's never the wrong time to put a stop to it. Maybe the door to do so is starting to crack open.

I get where you're coming from, but he started almost 300 games for the Tigers under Avila and at one time was actually considered one of the pieces of a future resurgent Tigers team, so to Tiger fans, that is a big deal!

I don't know if this can't be done, necessarily—the Cubs did this in 2015—but it definitely could not be done by the Avila cabal.

Yes, this, because after seven years of dog-paddling in place, we need to start putting some Ws on the board already. I don't require playoffs this year, but I simply can't take yet another deferred-gratification season of 100-plus losses.

Because you've given up on TORK! already? 😉 Even if, Josh Bell is all bat and nothing else. We had an entire team of that drive us into the rocks for years on end. Pass.

Oh, good God almighty ... If by any stretch the corrupt influence of the fascists is finally sufficiently on the wane, can we please do something to stop this already!

It’s a trap. Trump et al will use this as proof of concept that Section 230 must be repealed, since Democrats will be on board with prosecuting Twitter, i.e. “an interactive computer service”, for content posted by a Twitter user, i.e. “another information content provider”.

Since 1954 lol

It appears that his #1 qualification for Senate will be his ability to murder Democratic colleagues with whisper quiet.

Also:

Says him.

I've been a huge fan of The Crown. It's easily been one of my top five shows of all time. However, Season 5, which just started, made a critical error in hiring Dominic West to play Prince Charles. Besides the fact that West looks nothing like him, every time I see him on screen, I can't not think of The Wire. It's completely distracting. And the casting of Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip isn't much better.

I’m not sure James Click is going to end up here because I’m not sure Scott Harris is even going to hire a GM for the first year. He might want to go through his first year as PBO/GM so he has can get the feel of what needs to change, and exactly how, between the old way and the new.

Exactly.

I just have no idea how people can’t just see right through the ridiculousness of that stuff the second they see it. I blame schools and parents.

Not enough.