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It’s finally under $7 for premium here in the city. Progress!

I wonder if he was copying the kid in Highland Park, whose name and face were featured in news accounts in a way I thought news outlets were trying to avoid.

I think the owners like that Rob Manfred has become the lightning rod Baseball needs when they do something controversial, like rules changes, or juicing or deadening the ball, or integrating gambling into every nook and cranny of the game. Manfred is the face of whatever anger fans direct toward Baseball, and playing the heel is a pretty lucrative role for him, especially if he doesn’t really love the game all that much, which many suspect.

Like a guy who hits only in the seventh and eighth inning? Sure, what could it hurt? 😉

I don't see any way they can unlock a numbered prospect for a guy who walks too many batters, whose strikeouts are down, who gives up the hardest contact of anyone in the game, and who can't be relied upon to work consistently clean inning. Alex Lange would have a better chance of unlocking a prospect like that, except he is the exact guy we would hope to get back in a trade. I would like to be wrong about this.

We laugh, but giving Al Avila 11 years just because Randy Smith got 11 years would be the definition of insanity. EDIT: I didn't even both looking up how many years Randy Smith did get and then I saw the posts above. But now that Al has matched Randy at seven ...

Right, and Chafin comes with an extra year, which may be worth less in return unless we give cash too. Fulmer is not very good (high walk rate, low BABIP), so I’m thinking he won’t return much.

Well, if we're going to do anything, flipping relievers for good prospects would be the thing to do. But flipping relievers for the best warm body you can get at the last second? Not so much. But that's pretty much what I anticipate from yet another Al Avila Trade Deadline Bonanza-like Selloff Extravaganza. Hey, by the way, fun fact about Travis Demeritte: he got more at bats in Detroit to try to prove himself for a permanent job than Isaac Paredes got.

One of the stories about Tork basically has Tork saying hey, my swing is my swing, when I'm sitting dead red for a fastball and he throws a slider and I swing and miss, that's fine, I'll get him on the next pitch, and it's all about mindset and not mechanics. That pretty much dovetails pretty much into what you're saying here. I don't know whether that's the case, but I will say that a guy who can't adjust his swing for the pitch he didn't expect isn't going to do well in the big leagues very consistently.

Just for kicks, let's rank your list by highest firearms death rate and then color code the state by which party control the state legislature. Purple means the two bodies are split-party.

And Meadows is out indefinitely. Like I say, no guarantees.

It’s even worse than that—it’s copy some other website’s thoughts, perhaps because he can’t formulate his own, and paste it here in different formatting.

Political correctness causes our big murder rate, folks!

I’m not sure the Tigers should do anything at this deadline. There is zero playoff urgency—in fact they’d do well at this point to avoid triple-digit losses—so we can’t really justify selling youngsters for veterans; and “the rebuild is 100% over”, so it’ll be hard to convince fans about the wisdom of selling veterans for prospects. We remember what the organization said. But also, if we sell veterans for prospects they’ll be selling low because they’re all doing so awful—you remember what we got for All-Stars at the top of their game; and if we sell prospects for veterans—well, you saw Paredes for Meadows. No guarantees. They’ll still probably do something anything, but to me it’ll probably feel doing stuff to look busy.

Maybe the how is that the guys we got for our bunch of all stars weren’t prospects after all.

Maybe the Rays picked Isaac so they can trade him to the Tigers for Jace Jung in 2026.

You can’t be greedy if you’re starving. And Tiger fans are starving.

You just can't quit me, can you, baby? 😘

You got your last wish, anyway.

Is it because 2022 was supposed to be the year the window was to be wide open; all the kids that had been drafted the last few years were to be on the team, healthy and productive; and the front office was to have patched the remaining holes with impact trades and free agents, resulting in a team that was to be solid and competing for a ring? Because I had fingers crossed for that plan, too.

Yes, and in the 92nd game of the season. They are already one of 725 teams, out of almost 3,000 teams in the modern era, to be shut out that many times in an entire season. They are on track to be shut out 23 times, which would make them one of just 38 teams in history to be shut out that much in a season, and the first since 69-93 1978 Braves. The 57-105 2019 Marlins were shut out 22 times.

“Gene” called the vacuum cleaner guy from Omaha after he’d got made by the cab driver in the mall, so he has to go back to the same spot in Albuquerque for his new identity. What are the chances he picks up Kim, who’s still in town trying to live down her recent past somehow, while he’s there? I don’t believe he mentioned her to the vacuum cleaner guy, though …

These people have probably read the Constitution about as much as they’ve read the Bible.