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FWIW, I don’t think Harris has confirmed that Miggy is a lock to make next year’s team. What he said was it “is not time to move on from Miguel Cabrera … he's committed to doing the work to make sure that he stays a productive player … he has earned that.” I read that as, at least as of September 30 of this year, we are not committed to either releasing Miggy nor guaranteeing him a spot next year, and it is up to him to show us that he both is willing and ready to make positive contributions to this team in 2023. I think there’s at least half a chance Harris and A.J. spend the winter massaging the idea into Miggy’s head that it really is time to go, and even though he may show up in Lakeland next February, by the time March 30 rolls around, I think there’s a good chance he will not be on the active roster, and a decent chance he may not even be on the 40-man. Miggy may spend practically the entire year on the 60-day IL, traveling around with the team on his league-wide retirement tour and being our Hall-of-Fame cheerleader in the dugout and clubhouse, and perhaps coming off the list only to have his final ABs in front of the home crowd.

How much fun is Valenti going to have with this?

Turns out Boebert was doing a riff on Joe Biden when he started his speech at the Volvo factory with “Let me start with two words: ‘Made in America’.”

They might have had delivery guys quit on them.

Another scouting director was fired today? I know we fired one yesterday …

London Lions always had a ring to it.

Are you sure? Really?

Ask Matt Millen that.

That’s a completely different scenario that doesn’t even address my jokey retort.

Maybe they are sharing a training staff with the Tigers?

Sounds like eight points. Where does the ninth point come from?

Exactly how are the Lions going to manage to get nine points?

The way we bought what they were selling about Dan Campbell, I’d say we’re the ones who got Lionized.

You can blame me for the Lions losing today since I started Goff at QB.

No score going into the 14th inning. Unbelievable. Almost even more unbelievable is that the teams have gotten only seven hits between them.

Or else Long Island.

None. On to the 12th. This is only the second postseason game in history to go into the 12th scoreless. The only other game: Braves-Reds Game 1 WC in 2020. That one went 13.

That’s OK. Fascists don’t want smart people among the population anyway, because smart people question things, create dissension, and sow the seeds of change. That’s why one of the first things fascist dictators do, once they achieve unchallenged power, is round up all the intellectuals and murder them. Fascists don’t like or trust smart people, and neither does their support base.

Man, yet another great game in Cleveland. Scoreless going into the 11th? More, please!

Right—nothing about Miguel Cabrera is going to be resolved until well into spring training. They will give him the chance to be born again hard, and really, I’m fine with that idea. But once they see that he is not only as bad as 2022, but even a year worse, then they will have to aggressively manage the situation to limit his playing time, and I can see them doing that with IL manipulation.

The one advantage to shortening daylight is that when I wake up to daylight in the morning, I don’t get up and look at the clock only to see it’s still 5:15am.

Too hot for the MLB postseason thread …

Bottom of the ninth, Cards have scored a run, two on, two out, Future Hall of Famer Yadier Molina at the plate as the tying run! God, I love baseball ...

I think Youngkin is managing this one exactly the way his voters want him to.