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Agree. This is why I prefer the ad fontes model.

Ah, OK, very good. Dem Bums were second in the league in attendance all the way up to 1956 and then dropped to fifth in '57 when rumors of their impending move became more real. TBF, they did have an old stadium that needed updating at the very least, or else they should have gotten the new ballpark up Atlantic Ave, but they were famously shot down by Robert Moses, whose uttered name is followed by loogies to this very day.

The key to this outcome will be preventing them while they're in the joint from communicating with their fellow traitors on the outside.

There is a winky-wink there ...

Did the Dodgers move to LA because of their farm system situation?

Yeah, sharp! The design, I mean.

I think I'd be surprised to learn that A.J. and Javy are at personal loggerheads, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Javy doesn't want anything to do with analytics-based philosophies stressing controlling the plate, since that's nothing like what brung him to the dance in the first place.

I have a chance to see the Andre Lipcius era begin, live!

I would think that as well. Cynical Me says I bet they do know, right now, that it came from outside, but a conscious decision is being made by someone along the chain to provide something other than exactly what they know, for reasons. Regardless of how much we despise the Chicago White Sox as an organization, as a team, as fans, as people, as a neighborhood, whatever, it simply makes no sense that a season ticket holder would try and could manage to sneak a gun past a magnetometer—and in their belly fat no less! I mean, really. Come on. I'm starting to wonder whether it's the city's decision to float this story, and I think they're gonna get caught on it, and if so, the question is how do they tamp down potential outrage. Who knows, maybe they'll try to delay delay delay until a couple months from now, then drop their actual findings the day before Thanksgiving or something.

Lottery or no, teams will continue to take a swan dive on payroll and let them chips fall where they may, given how MLB teams make so much money and accumulate so much market cap even when they lose big every. Damn. Year. You can also ask the Pistons how they like the draft lottery.

Maybe that’s because so many guys aren’t exactly killing it at any one position they’ve playing at? Or maybe the org is trying to make room for other guys they know are coming down the pipe? I’m thinking it’s really about trying to see which guys we have in house could be useful where, to see whether they can be saved and hang around for another season, or gotta be dumped. Vierling might be a good example of that. We already know he can be an OK outfielder at times, but with Greene, Carpenter, and Meadows out there now, who are backed up by Baddoo, what do they do with Vierling? Release him right away? Let him rot on the bench for the rest of the season as a fifth outfielder only? Demote him (and replace him with who)? Any of those were doubtful propositions at the time. The org had to figure out whether he could be salvageable someplace else. You might remember some posters actually liked Vierling at third when he first was put there, until they saw he wasn’t really good there. But he’s been playing there still, because we have to put someone out there, right? So who’s banging on the door to push him out? Nobody I could see, at least until today and roster expansion. Now we can move 28th man Lipcius all over the diamond trying to figure out where he is most useful. That’s just the way it goes with a roster full of guys who simply aren’t regulars, or at least aren’t ready to be regulars yet. We just can’t throw guys out there at the same one position all the time at this point. We're just not there yet. We were never going to have that problem solved by now. And besides, it’s not as though trying guys at different positions is costing us a playoff spot, unless you actually believe we could have made it with this roster had Hinch not 3D-chessed our way out of it?

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I like news aggregators as much as the next guy, but AP is left? Since when? https://adfontesmedia.com/gallery/ Feels like they are trying to shift the perception of media bias to the right with that, as also evidenced by trying to normalize Daily Caller or Townhall as being similarly-respected news sites. Interesting how All Sides make the bold claim that they are “strengthening democracy” with their product right in the first sentence of their About page. Rather self-aggrandizing, that. John Gable, the guy who founded and runs it, also worked for a political party he won’t name in his LinkedIn profile, but which Entrepreneur magazine revealed in 2016 was Republican.

I don’t think so. Jake’s doesn’t profile as a #1, but he’s at least a decent backup with some pop in his stick, and he is fWAR positive. At the time all we had otherwise was Haase, and I’m pretty sure Harris was never thinking of dumping Jake to go long with Haase. In fact, we now know that Haase was already toast at age 30. I’m thinking more that they are hoping to unlock something with Kelly over the offseason and into spring. He’s had a couple 2-win-ish seasons already and is still under 30, and if they can get another win or two out of him over at least the next year, it would be worth the four bills to hang on to him as a bridge to Dingler, or as a placeholder to finding someone else on the market somehow. I think we might agree that things are still unsettled at catcher for the Tigers.

Wow, the Yankees really are bad, aren’t they?

There we go! That’s the spirit! 😂

Remember when the FOX decision desk called Ohio for Obama in 2008 and Karl Rove had a meltdown about it on air and Megyn Kelly walked over to the decision desk to see what the **** was up with that? Now THAT’S entertainment.

Hmmm … depends … who’s doing which?

Vierling is slashing .225/.258/.258 for the last month and is 3-for-18 with no walks just in the last week, so at least leading him off would give us something new to curse out Hinch over.

Well, that sucks.

Is this the least trafficked game thread in MTF/MTS history? Anyhow, on today’s audio overlay on the video on MLB.tv, Dan’s call is running maybe half a second or full second ahead of the video. This was a persistent problem all last year for home games, never road games; this year I thought early on that they fixed it and got them to synch up, but there have been maybe four or five games I’ve seen where that problem has occurred, and today is one. It’s a weird problem and even weirder that it has happened in maybe 10% or so of home games. Must be some setting that gets triggered and they can’t fix it in process. I can’t imagine what that looks like on their end.

Totally agree. Even though it’s a fun point of trivia for a team to run the same eight guys onto the field for 150 games, and it’s a nice throwback to how we think we remember how it was when we were kids, I don’t believe the Tigers are a bad team just because Hinch won’t play the same eight players in the lineup every day.

I agree with this in principle, although I might also counter that the whole idea behind the whataboutism that we see on this topic—and I don't mean just here—is to make them both look like they are at an awfulness level of 100, both equally bad, and both equally deserving of categorical dismissiveness. Regardless of the opinions being offered on MSNBC or how they are delivered, the network still has the journalistic rigor of NBC News behind them, which automatically makes them light years ahead of FOX, and regardless of the prevailing narrative about the mainstream media, that counts for a lot.

That didn't stop one of them from murdering one of their nationals on our soil. Although in retrospect that certainly didn't jeopardize their good relations with TFG's administration.

They may be concerned he might be the next James Buchanan in the White House, and not concerned in the way that facilitated the War Between the States.