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Hillary sold Russia some of her own personal uranium? I understand the Clintons are evil baby-eating satanists and everything, but who knew they had their own uranium farm?

Have you ever heard the old saw, "living well is the best revenge"? I think that's related to all this. All you have to do for a lot of those folks to hate you is to appear to be living well. That doesn't apply to Trump himself, of course—he was appointed by Jesus to save America from the others who live do well, as well as from their Antifa/BLM foot soldiers. Or something like that. Maybe Bunker can clarify. But yeah, I agree with you here for the most part.

Well, I mean, that’s already implied, right? 😏

And not MTG or Republicans. Imagine that!

“Thoughts and prayers”

Is MTG basically telling us here that she has a direct financial interest in Russia?

I do remember Trump from the 80s and 90s, and you can easily find examples of him from that time on video. He did seem to have a quieter demeanor, but then again, when he is interviewed one on one now, he's quieter. I think his people like the exaggerated shouting and haranguing he does when he's on stage, or when being interviewed by phone, like on OAN and Fox and AM radio; being on the phone tends to make people louder than when they are one on one with people. Maybe that's how the red hats are exposed to him, exclusively. Maybe it reminds them of the authoritarian figures in their own lives that were more common fifty or more years ago, and they respect and fear and admire that.

Javy Baez statted last year ranked ninth among top shortstops Lon MLB network, and finished eighth in WAR. This year he’s missed the list entirely. Someone needs to take a screenshot of this and post it over his locker for motivation.

Sure, but he sounds like that, right?

Joe Buck was never much a baseball guy, anyway, so definitely no loss.

I remember watching it as a kid, too, and liking it, basically because it was written at a single-digit-grade level.

I still think it’s the Queens accent. He has a lower-middle-class working-with-his-hands accent that people of modest education and means really respond to. If he had the same ideas and talked like Bill Buckley instead, then he’d be Bill Buckley redux.

Well, what do you expect from a guy who pinned this to his Twitter account …

You'll get no argument from me that teams are not tanking just for the draft pick. I think there are other reasons that can't be addressed with tweaks to the draft. I think there's a systemic problem of too many organizations skimping on operating costs over the long haul that experience both great profits and capital appreciation, and Baseball, i.e., the owners, who benefit directly from that part of the equation, have no interest to addressing that.

The owners must think draft lottery is an OK way to address that problem, because the alternative would be to enforce the spending of revenue share dollars on improving the product on the field, and that would just be a fridge too far for them.

COVID is not apes. Duh.

“Civilians are going about their business in Kyiv. There is no war. Only an operation to restore peace for the people against the aggression of UkroNazi nationalists perpetrating genocide of the Russian-speaking population.”

I took it out this morning, so it's safe to go back in.

I think one big reason is that even when they put the cheapest team on the field possible, backed by the cheapest resources they can manage to keep the enterprise afloat, they can still make money hand over fist from all the revenue sources all big league organizations enjoy. Perhaps not all tanking organizations do so for that reason—some might still be doing it for the future draft picks, such as they are—but I do think some organizations are skimping on the product and still clearing big profits.

Tanking is not necessarily only about draft picks.

I know someone here who will enjoy this story.

I've been told repeatedly that there's no such thing as tanking. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see five teams win 100 games and five others lose 100.

I don't think at least one of those guys feel bereft.

I'm getting a little concerned that Ilitch is going to stand pat, or pick up no more than a Nova-level warm body at minimum wage. All the good guys are flying off the board.

Contrast thus with Claude Rossman of the 1908 Tigers, who was 26 going on 27 when this picture was taken: