chasfh

I don't think that's true. Everyone wants to be accepted by the in crowd. They resent that they never will be, because they are laughed at and made fun of. That's what stokes the burning hate, it's what drives Donald Trump, and this is what attracts his most ardent red hat following. He is literally promising retribution and revenge on their behalf against the in crowd who spurned him! If all people wanted was to be left alone and have nothing to do with elites, they wouldn't care enough to hate them, let alone be animated enough to go to rallies to get riled up about them.

The fact is that the red hats would never ever find out Trump is not wealthy, because none of their media would ever tell them that. Only the non-RW media, aka the mainstream media, would reveal that he's not wealthy, and red hats would dismiss it as a typical libtard hit job, which "we" are perpetrating probably because we are all jealous of him and of the freedom that red hats enjoy of which we choose to deny ourselves, or something like that. They would also not regard Trump as a loser for getting perp-walked, because their hatred of libs is bound up in a weirdly-religious persecution complex because they're not rich enough, not educated enough, not beautiful enough, for the "elites", who they secretly long to be a part of, or at least well-accepted by. They would absolutely, and without irony or shame, equate a Trump perp walk to the passion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. And man, does Trump ever want that, because his support among that sweet reliable-voting evangelical base is starting to fray.

@1984Echoes, careful what you wish for here ...

Exactly.

Now every media outlet in the country is filing stories about the impending indictment of Trump, which now makes it look like the media are rooting for it and further positions him as a victim martyr for “the people” in red hat eyes. And they are doing this mainly because of his social media post. Say what you want about how ignorant and even how stupid Trump is on so many levels, and that would be accurate. But when it comes to manipulating people’s emotions and establishing the direction and the terms of the national conversation, the guy is simply a fucking genius.

Fuck ****, you can.

That's what I see, too, plus Vierling has crushed it at times in the minors without a high BABIP, including last year in a short stint at AAA. Plus he had much better BIP luck against LHP (.337) vs RHP (.260). Flatten those out to league BABIP average of .291 and the numbers come a lot closer to each other (.241/.297/.335 vs. RHP, .254/.296/.377 vs LHP). Neither of those are fantastic, but he is still only 26 so probably a bit of room to grow. He was the guy I liked best from the trade, so I would love to see him prove out.

ESPNFLNBA sucks.

I think Vierling has a chance to win an everyday job eventually and put up good numbers.

It was a post highlighting Kari Lake's tweet about "globalist elites", which, everyone who's even moderately up to date knows what that really means. Interesting because Arizona is only slightly less Jewish than the US as a whole, and right on the money if you remove two states from the equation. A lot of Jews like to settle in that particular desert, so she must be punting on their support.

There is probably a lot more of that going on that we care to picture.

This had not occurred to me but yeah, makes sense.

The projection ... it burrrrns ...

Boy, wouldn’t that be a testament to the power of a full organizational commitment to modernization.

Hey G-man, here's one sport that got the memo about deadening the ball:

They were both very verbose working together, which I actually like, but I could see how it would rattle some listeners. I thought maybe I'd accidentally stumbled onto a radio version of His Girl Friday ...

I hardly know how batters can hold onto the bat!

I did the exact same thing on my survey! It's the only thing I wanted to do! I was wary that it was going to be the kind of bullshit survey that was mostly centered around "would you recommend MLB to your friends" ...

I thought he meant Alex, because Alex does talk a lot the same way Dan does.

Hopefully Maybin will be as good as Alex Avila was. I can't remember: did Alex do any games after his dad was booted? Seems like he wouldn't have but I can't remember.

I think there's a good chance the pitch clock will revive interest enough to bring some young 'uns to the game, or back to the game. After all, the issue with them has long been how slow and boring it's gotten, and the pitch clock will knock a half an hour of pure dead time off the game, which will help. It will never beat the NBA or NFL but I can see it adding a few points in additional viewers and bringing down the average age a tick or two.

If he must stay with the organization, remaining at Toledo as an organizational soldier for the rest of his career would be fine with me. I would prefer we fob him off on a less savvy organization like the Angels or Rockies or Rangers or, maybe for old time's sake, Pirates, in exchange for something we can work with.

While we're on or not on the subject, as the case may be, I simply don't see what anyone sees in Beau Brieske. The guy has, hands down, the worst stuff of any pitcher who appeared in the big leagues last season. The guy is getting crushed this spring. Shit, man, he's getting crushed by Cardinal AAAA players right now. The guy shouldn't be allowed anywhere in Comerica Park without buying a ticket. I get it—the team needs to run him out there this spring and hope he can be at least passably decent in order to package him in a trade and get something anything out of the guy. But that's a defensible business imperative. I don't get why anyone would put any actual faith in this guy to be part of the next contending Tigers team. If anyone on the team is going to get written off, as we've been discussing, it should be this guy.

"Other things being equal" is the operative phrase.