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The only thing I worry about with Buttigieg running is that a not-insignificant number of people who typically vote Democrat won't vote for a man because he's gay, i.e., socially conservative people of color. It might be enough to swing the election all by itself.

Alarmist Non-sense not so alarmist after all.

Exactly. Someone who won’t get DFA’ed for one too any homers.

Not a scrub, at least on purpose. It would take a guy with a secure career to do something like that.

Me too

All those millions of posts just gone. Bit of a shame.

My guess is that Scott Harris felt he was ready for the big chair but knew he'd be blocked in San Francisco for as long as Farhan Zaidi wants to. I'm hoping he took copious how-to-build-a-front-office notes in his three years there as second banana.

According to the 2012 Media Guide, "David" Dombowski's title was "President, Chief Executive Officer & General Manager".

So funny to see Theo signing from the analyctis-and-scouts-together hymnbook considering the recent Joe Maddon interview ...

On a personal note, I sort of know Scott Harris's dad. We were on the same team at Cubs camp in 2020 (just before COVID hit), which Scott had gifted him the prior Christmas. We had a couple of conversations at length and one morning at breakfast he showed me Scott's 2016 Cubs ring, which he'd brought to camp with him. Talk about super impressive. I just dropped him a mazel tov in the email. He's probably got hundreds of people doing the same with him, so who knows if I hear back. But whether he does or doesn't, he's a really good guy, and I'm really happy for him.

This is the right direction for Baby Doc to go in, versus doubling down on eyeball scouting with someone like Matt Slater. I am optimistic that this means they are serious about going in the right direction, finally. I notice that they have hired him as President of Baseball Ops. I assume this means they will be bringing on a general manager to report in to him? That's the structure they had in San Francisco, so my early assumption is that Harris will replicate to some close degree the structure they have out there. That would mean we should expect to see one more big front office hire—or promotion?—before Spring Training starts. Even if they bring on another person for the GM role, I would think that as in San Francisco, Harris would be the guy front-and-center representing the team and its mission to the media and the fans.

I picked up a Stars shirt at the negro leagues museum in Kansas City and it is actually one of the softest, most comfortable shirts I own.

Man, twenty years? Stop the calendar!

Maybe or maybe not as astonishing, but it is a word I never use in conversation. Wordle 457 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yup. This. it's going to be a complete mess, and the blurb is right except for one detail: it's not going to be just a dozen Republicans. It's going to be hundreds of Republicans, in races at every level, and it's going to undermine the way elections are conducted for the rest of our lives, at least. Or at least the rest of mine.

I know this is essentially a dead thread, but I had to share this one. Third guess was totally wild. Wordle 456 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Holy Mary, mother of God …

Wait, whose immigration officials did that? Biden’s immigration officials? Were they leftover Trump appointees who are still employed by ICE going rogue? Or do individual states have immigration officials?

The funny thing about Perez is that everyone at the time agreed that he was the shiny new one in that bag of balls, so to speak, and both Baseball America and BP increased his ranking going into 2018. So if he was ascendant even while we had him, were we as poor developers the problem that killed his career? Did everyone miss on him? Or was it just injury bad luck (or bad handling)?

I’ll take sloppy win over well-played loss any day.

Got away with that one …

FH Haase and/or TORK! as well. Pollock had turned toward second and the umpire was ready to call the out, and all they had to do was handle it cleanly and it would inning over right now.