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Have teams always been so fascist about that kind of thing?

Soto really helped his own trade value today.

I have wondered since the beginning whether Alito leaked it on purpose, whether of his own accord or under strong advisement from his contacts in the party.

Reported incompetence of their armed forces notwithstanding, I believe an adventurous Putin armed with nukes is always a worry.

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Probably. Maybe they wanted to highlight the idea that numerous doctors are simpatico with a full abortion ban. I don't know how true or not that is.

Scouting reports indicate he could probably use one.

I don't know, I'm thinking we might need to see a little more out of the Reese Olson before we chalk this up in the win column for Al. I'll stick with just the Cubs as preferred trade partners. 😏

Well, gee, if they succeed in trading "just about everyone" away, then don't they also have to let Al go, or at least relieve him of executive general responsibility as general manager, since he was the architect behind this entire mess? They can't seriously expect, believe, or even hope that Al can build a winner out of blowing it all up a second time in less than five years on his watch, can they? That would be beyond asinine.

One week to go meaning what? All of them traded? I'm thinking Chafin might be the only one to go. Unless you think the other three will be DFA'ed, in which case, I'm not sure I agree.

It definitely does not reflect any reasonable reality, but curious as to why you think making the doctor look like a dick is a problem?

There are any number of ex-Soviet republics they could go after. Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Chechnya are all places Russia has invaded just since the Soviet dissolution. Unless you’re going to take Putin’s word for it that he has no interest in any of that, which, not for nothing, a lot of other Republican voters also definitely do.

And the whole weak D strategy of “we can’t get tough like that with Rs because when they win they’ll just turn around and do it to us” is hot garbage, because even if the weak Ds do nothing, Rs are going to “do it to us”, anyway.

Looks awful familiar …

3. Putin will get his nuclear-free Europe and still keep invading neighbors, because look how effective invading Ukraine was.

Well, to be fair, he was already doing that.

Yes, and also, since it’s about controlling entire classes of people, they need to have a god-like figure placed at the head of them to ensure their compliance, and in that world women are taught to obey their men as they would the word of God.

If Avila just limits his trades to the Cubs, he should be OK.

I seem to remember the two sides traded proposals on the international draft, so it looked, at least for a while, as though Baseball was on board with it.

"There was never going to be a deal"? Wow. now I want to know what's behind that statement.

That's interesting. That might be a skill as far as it goes, but it is also treated like a fielder's error and is credited as an unearned run if he scores.

No worries, you probably already knew it's a Dick ending.

You're always within your right to express your POV here, and you're also within your right to not care about what's behind it all, and even to hold the opinion that none of us should care and that we should respect his privacy by not discussing it. That's an opinion you're always free to defend here. But I do find it funny that someone comes into a thread called "the Eduardo Rodriguez Situation", set up specifically to discuss the Eduardo Rodriguez situation, and then disparages the idea that we should be interested in the details of what's behind the Eduardo Rodriguez situation. If that idea strikes you as unseemly or offends your sensibilities—or, at least is simply not important to you—then any discussion otherwise limited to "when will E-Rod come back" could easily be relegated to the 2022 regular season thread with all the other ongoing pedestrian topics, and we wouldn't need this whole other topic dedicated to it. Personally, I find this topic fascinating and entertaining, which we fans need, since god knows the team on the field right now aren't either of those things.

I specifically highlighted "to the minor degree it does", and did not even type the word "meaningful"—but while we're at it, what level of meaningfulness does this have to rise to before you stop implying we should not be interested in what's going on behind the scenes?

You are affected by his absence in a way measurable enough to post about it in this thread, so you'd be forgiven for being interested in what is actually happening behind the scenes. Unless you're not interested and you're here only to post how not interested you are while implying that it is not our place as fans to be interested.