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Sure, it's not going to get him to the table, but they have to at least go on record. If they didn't, that itself would have boomeranged back onto them.

I'll be impressed when they rule against Trump's constant usurpation of the power of the purse for Congress. If Trump had tried this same thing during the 2019-2021 Congress, it might have already come up and the Court might already have ruled against him.

I don't see us trading Mize unless we have options as good as he to cover him.

I believe that's exactly what the owners, or at least some owners, proposed during the birth of free agency back in the 1970s, and Marvin Miller negotiated away from that, because he knew a flooded market would keep salaries down.

I would think setting a hard limit on contract lengths would be struck down in court as restraint of trade.

Wanting to get a deal done is one thing, but offering it to him and setting an artificial deadline to accept it is a bad look, particularly when Tarik Skubal's agent is involved.

This is going to be one of the trumpublicans’ data points in support of the 2025 criminal communist democrat voter fraud case.

The first 24 hours, when politicians are actually on the spot to have to say stuff about stuff, is always the most revealing of what they truly think, and that includes Trump. After they have had time to marinate in the results, the Trumpublicans will devise the talking points they believe will win them support for the idea of widespread voter fraud in this election, in advance of declaring a national emergency surrounding the 2026 elections.

The Democrats definitely do care about the working people of America, even if part of the reason is to earn their support in the democratic marketplace of ideas. We all know who it is the Republicans care about, and it ain't the people who have to work for a living.

I guess the Aunt Jemima Strategy didn't work out so well for the Trumpublicans after all.

Either that or they are not as "mainstream" as they've appeared to be to this point.

I wonder whether this might be an early indication that the market for long-term deals is DOA as long as an apparently inevitable work stoppage looms.

Given the year Bregman had in Boston after turning down our best-in-baseball contract offer last year, petulantly putting some arbitrary deadline on his signing a deal with the Tigers this winter would essentially guarantee his rejection, and probably a public airing of the tactic for all to see afterwards. The only win with that approach would be some self-indulgent moral victory. Better to not even make an offer under those conditions because, after all, Harris has to work in this game.

See? Told ya it was a blind spot. 😃

What a hilarious quote in this article by Curtis Sliwa, of all people: Sliwa, a central-casting New York Character who comes by his nuttiness honestly, pointed this out in an interview. “(Billionaire Cuomo donor Bill) Ackman is a jerk. Has he been right yet? … Does he know anything about politics? No. Does he live in New York City? No. He lives in Chappaqua, the whitest suburb in America, where even the lawn jockeys are white.”

This is actually a blind spot in my knowledge of the business of baseball: are long term contracts contingent on medicals? Obviously trades are, but I can’t recall a time a player was signed to a long term deal that was voided because the medicals revealed something. There’s probably an obvious one I could merely duckduckgo …

You would have thought people would have realized that because of 1960, but I guess not.

Well, what can you say? Nigeria is just a sexy country. Europe vs Nigeria Births & Overall Population

"Gaf Gaf"?

Green represents that shortest travel times which, by 1881 standards, would have been ten days or less. Travel Times From London In 1881: The First Known Isochronic Map By Francis Galton

Shhhh ... don't give him any ideas ... 😉 If These 3 Counties Did Not Exist, Trump Would Have Beaten Biden In 2020

(By the way, I still can't attach any images to a post, but sometimes a link to a image online will work here.)

Did you know there was such a climate as "cold desert"? Neither did I.

We definitely agree on this one!