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We shall see whether we have enough quality in-house, coupled with developmental acuity, to keep us in the top half of offenses in the league. By way of reminder, here's how our hitters did last season: Name PA wRC+ Riley Greene 655 121 Spencer Torkelson 649 118 Gleyber Torres 628 113 Zach McKinstry 511 114 Dillon Dingler 469 109 Colt Keith 468 109 Kerry Carpenter 464 115 Javier Báez 437 86 Wenceel Pérez 383 103 Trey Sweeney 326 53 Parker Meadows 213 75 Andy Ibáñez 193 84 Jahmai Jones 150 159 Jake Rogers 142 70 Justyn-Henry Malloy 127 92 Matt Vierling 100 76 Jace Jung 55 9 Ryan Kreidler 44 -12 Tomás Nido 37 101 Manuel Margot 20 67 Akil Baddoo 18 -8 Brewer Hicklen 4 307 TEAM TOTALS 6093 103

American dream, baby.

Yes, I do.

There's something to be said for the volume strategy. Theoretically speaking, it feels as though if you spend $10MM on ten guys, you have better odds of getting something good out of one or a few of them than if you take a chance on one single reliever for the same $10MM. Devil's always in the details, of course, but if you have a good development system, the volume strategy could be an effective arrow in the quiver over time.

It’s difficult these days to imagine how any treatment of the song other than a martial rendition was considered borderline treason by some, and beyond borderline by others. Thank you, Jose Feliciano and Jimi Hendrix.

I like seeing the records included in the thread title. I vote for the records.

Official partner NBC has Pistons at the top of the power rankings, although these are always a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately poll. OKC has still been very good during an unlucky stretch. I can’t wait until they meet up in Feb and March. Injuries at the time notwithstanding, that’s when we find out how we really stack up.

Nancy Pelosi is only +25% more wealthy now than a year ago? lol indeed … 😁

Some of us are going to be escorted off the ride sooner than later, whether we want it or not. 😏

Maybe this would be more effective if it were page one in Appleton and La Crosse and Eau Claire and Green Bay.

I think Benetti’s gonna be gone within a couple of years. Maybe we’ll get Shep back … 🦆🦆🦆

I think it's more than just that this time. I think it is about the oil after all.

Green energy companies and executives don't shower Trump with money and praise. Oil companies and executives do.

Either that or Californians are notorious in Indiana for being lawless scofflaws.

Red hats explicitly want theocracy, and they see Trump is their holy man.

NY Times haters, avert your eyes ... Legacy newspapers took strikingly divergent positions on the Trump administration's operation in Venezuela:

Disingenuous, because of course this is. Chuck Schumer was not demanding that Trump bring an end to the Maduro regime. He was calling Trump on his horse**** rhetoric about the Maduro regime. He knows as well as anyone that it is neither Trump's sole responsibility nor privilege to waltz into any other country, kidnap the president, and steal and sell off their natural resources for his personal profit and that of his crony investors. This is, of course, a criminal act of invasion and theft undertaken against another sovereign nation. Regardless of how much you might hate the United Nations for its rejection of American supremacy policy, both we and Venezuela are members in good standing of that body, and discretionary invasion of one against the other is specifically forbidden by charter. We, a prime signatory to that charter, now stand in breach of it, and eventually, there will consequences. Because if empires lasted forever, we would all still be Akkadians.

I remember when Michigan first allowed right turn on red, early 70s, and my home city of Warren immediately put No Turn On Red signs at literally corner at every traffic light in the city, probably thousands of signs. It was so prevalent and obvious that there were actual news stories about it, and I think I remember them being pressured by the state to stop that nonsense.

I cannot begin to tell how nuts it drives me when an emergency vehicle is approaching with sirens blaring, and I see cars in front of me pull to the side—and block driveways or even streets. Hey, nimrod, does it not even dawn on you that the vehicle might need to turn into the driveway or street you’re blocking? Jackass.

Was she grown up? I thought she was in high school?

Honestly, does Marco have an alternative at this point? It’s not as though you can just quit the Mob and live to talk about it.

Will this? Honest question: does he really need Congress for anything he wants? Looks to me as though all he needs is a proclamation, and an entire apparatus just makes it so. And that will continue to be the case until someone—or, more likely, enough someones—finally stand up and say no more.

“Maybe.” I’m with you on that,

Red hats didn’t vote for or against any policy. They have no actual policy imperatives, outside of generalized cruelty to people of color. They didn’t for tariffs or foreign policy or regulatory reform or any of that, not really. That’s not what red hats voted for. They voted for their idol. They are idolators. Simple as that.

Just in time for me to take a nine-day trip out of the country! Yay! 🤪