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I have wondered about the Trayce Thompson situation because the whole thing was just so weird. Released by the Padres on May 14, signed by the worst-hitting-team-in-baseball Tigers on May 19, killing it in Toledo for a month (.299/.352/.639 in 25 games ) after killing it in El Paso (.316/.385/.860 in 16 games), and instead of being promoted to Detroit, gets sold by the worst-hitting-team-in-baseball Tigers to the Dodgers on June 20, for whom he goes on to crush it for the rest of the season (.268/.364/.537 in 70 games). It makes zero sense. What gave with that?

Right because to your point, one doesn’t have to be technically or technologically competent to blast a house from a tank or shoot a whole town of civilians into an open mass grave. Also to your point: if Ukraine does end up winning, we better keep them very close …

These are the same guys who because famous doing bad lip reading of NFL players like Peyton Manning at press conferences maybe six to eight years ago.

The public is tried of it as of now. Hopefully nothing new happens that re-energizes the right-leaning middle for the spat.

Assuming it all plays out the way we imagine we might, I agree to the degree that the blame for the obstruction can be successfully laid at the feet of the Republicans and not the Senate, the White House, or other Democratic-led institutions. Sure, it would be obvious to us where the problem lies, but remember that the hard right has an entire media ecosystem that influences tens of millions of voters, so the perception of blame wins the day over actual culpability. As for the fungibility of the debt ceiling, the idea that it’s there but not really there, we’ve gone through this threat before and they’ve always come up with a deal within a reasonable amount of time. So I don’t think we can really project what the effect of a hard fight over it that drags on for weeks, months, or a couple of years would look like—especially if the G-bonds people bought actually stop getting paid on.

I think the answer to that was probably no.

That's going to be the big difference: Soto has got a strong net under him in Philly.

He has the face of a guy who would beat the hell out of you just for the hell of it.

As a throw-in, we could have done a lot worse than Donny Sands. He’s shown really good plate discipline with some pop, and had a .413 on base at AAA Lehigh last year.

I was wondering whether and how Avila might have made this trade were he here. Since Dombrowski is on the other side, the trade might well have been made in the first place. I could see Avila sending Soto and either Klemens or Kreidler in exchange for Edmundo Sosa, Proven Major Leaguer, and a couple of flyer pitchers from down the system, perhaps someone like Jayden Astanista and … oh, I don’t know, maybe Mike Adams. OK, enough of that pointless speculation … we return you to your actual trade discussion already in progress …

Maybe the thing to take from the disparity is that a tweak might help him square up the ball more consistently. Vierling can be one of Brdar’s top projects this spring.

It’s a little weird how red Vierling’s average EV number is but how blue his barrel rate is. I’m not sure what to take from that. That poor jump and great arm screams right field.

Don’t tell Lee but Cody has gone all in on Statcast cards … 😉💀

Ok indeed

lol MLB Network Radio saying that because the Tigers are willing to trade Soto, that means we are sliding back into a rebuild.

I also mean at least Maton. We’d better get more than that back for Soto.

I would take Nick Maton in return.

International test fart.

I am frankly amazed at how much of a bogeyman “woke” has become.

I’m sure there are Democrats who would vote for a Republican speaker who is not part of or beholden to the Kookoo Kaukus. Maybe some coalition could form around someone before long.

Welcome to life on Planet Earth, pal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯