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Everybody says that, but nobody who’s good wants to work for a jackass, so the price goes up.

This public statement will do wonders for recruiting. 😐 Jackass.

Yeah, I don't know that making Menzin permanent would necessarily doom us, but it would be a lot better, I think, to go outside. BTW, here is the news blurb written about Menzin when he was promoted last year: Menzin, 31, is responsible for all aspects of MLB operations, including player procurement, contract negotiations, roster construction, salary arbitration, league-wide rules, collective bargaining agreement compliance, professional scouting, advance scouting and video operations. So, he has already had a head start, but it's fair to wonder whether he is in part responsible for the mess of the last year, or whether he was making recommendations that were being overruled by the old guard still in charge. I have no sense of which might be correct.

Also, apparently, the gate is exactly what Al got. No kicking upstairs to President or anything like that, as I and other here have speculated might happen.

This is true, although it is likely we will get a read on what kind of new man we get in the job shortly after he is hired, based on whatever his pedigree and experience may be.

Yes, I would agree that now is better. After all, how much damage can Sam Menzin do in the next two months? 😏

Chris Ilitch couldn't ignore the steady drumbeat calling for Al's head. Once it migrated from the unaffiliated national media to the access-dependent local media, he was a goner. It was only a matter of when. I think the reason Al got the gate now instead of October was because the longer he stayed on the job, the worse he made Ilitch look, and if there is anything a tycoon cannot brook, it's being made to look bad.

I assumed they tampered with the voting machines since it is exactly what they accused Democrats of doing.

The only possible reason I can imagine that Trump took classified documents home with him is that he wanted to trade on them somehow. Maybe to sell or barter with them to hostile powers friendly to him; maybe to blackmail political, business, and personal rivals; maybe something else. But I gotta believe it's along those lines.

We are in the window we were led to believe we would be contending for championships right now. So I can understand why people are talking about counting on players next year, instead of waiting for another window five years down the road during which, based on what we now know from experience, we can’t expect this front office to prepare them to contend for championships, either.

When Stewart jacked 30 bombs at Erie in 2016, the Tigers didn’t have any analytics to speak of, something that could have diagnosed problems not visible to their naked eye, so their good old-fashioned scouting sucked eggs.

Not for nothing, Trump could still have him whacked.

He knows which side the bread he allowed to mold and then accidentally dropped on the floor before he picked it up and buttered it is buttered on.

Epstein-linked Presidents?

Yes, they knew, and they had to do it, because as bad as it is going to get, the alternative is so, so much worse.

There may not be an actual civil war, with sides established, arms taken up, and street-to-street and house-to-house battles fought, but there will be an even more substantial uptick in public shootings, particular at gatherings where liberals are assumed to be present such as pro-choice rallies and pride parades, so get ready for that.

This is a core precept of their messaging: Democrats are really more interested in going after Joe Red Hat than Trump. If Trump goes down, all the red hats go with him. The struggle is existential.

I think Ari might be implying that the Feds have nothing and Trump is clear, as are all ex-presidents except Democrats, so they should either lay all their cards on the table right now and end our long national nightmare, or get ready for the great and righteous retribution borne of this disgrace.

I think we all know that Marion was going to make Gene as Saul on the YouTubes, but I am wondering whether Jesse is coming back next week to have a hand in Saul’s final descent.

Nothing will happen is no longer on the table. Something is happening right now.