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That was not the case in 2021, whihc was very recent, and that's across an entire season of 600+ PA. I'm not among those who think 2020-21 were a mirage and 2022 is his true level.

Kari Lake won't, for one. I doubt Boebert would. Who knows down the ballot in the various states like city councils and school boards and dog catcher. I agree this may be an inflection point for dilettante MAGAs who exist on the margins, but there are still tens of millions dyed-in-the-wool red hats who won't just roll their eyes, throw up their hands, and binge Ice Road Truckers to soothe their fee-fees. They still think their birthright to win elections have been undermined, and remember what happened the last time they thought this.

Now that the Republicans and their media have had the night to digest this all, I would guess that today's the day the avalanche of fraud claims is going to start rolling down the mountain, isn't it? Because what are their alternatives otherwise? The only two alternatives I can imagine at the moment are either publicly concede or go into seclusion.

I don't see why DeSantis wouldn't have the backbone. Of all the Republicans, it was his night, and Trump was roundly repudiated. DeSantis has the awful ideas red hats like without the personality liability, at least at the moment. October 2024 is a long way a way and a lot of events will transpire by then, and if there's one thing I feel certain of, it's that whatever people think when they think of DeSantis today will be substantially different 23 months from now.

There are appear to be no left-handed-hitting infielders on the free agent market who are young, can hit, and play 2B or 3B, primarily, so if this is truly a thing, it's probably going to have to happen in a trade. Also, since Jeimer is already a left-handed hitter, looks to me like the target might be more on Schoop's back.

Another thing to remember about Turnbull is that he was never a prospect, and has already turned 30. He could still come back strong but it'll be an uphill battle, especially since his K% was already trending down and his Savant card in general was already of sea of blue.

Lines are shorter at McDonel.

Fraud allegations will get louder and louder …

Counterpoint:

My wife and I are burning through DVR sitcoms tonight. I’m not watching results live. I’ll find out what’s happening by checking in here occasionally. I’ll flip on Colbert at 1035pm for late live results and snarky takes.

Dems have always collapsed with Florida Cubans.

So I just looked at this and realized something: Whitaker played in 19 seasons and clocked three wins or better in 15 of those seasons. Of the four he did not, one of them, 1977, was a cup of coffee season, and two others, 1994 and 1995, were—well, not just his age 37 and 38 seasons, his final two, but also truncated seasons due to the owner’s lockout. He definitely would have had more than three WAR in 1994. Nineteen-eighty was the only season he “had no excuse”. Just … dayum.

OK, well, let's just hope it's a free and fair election in this most permanently-gerrymandered of red states filled with blue people.

I'm old enough to remember™ the excitement that would ensue here when a poll would come out in June or July showing Democrats up on Republicans, and I would reply, "Quick, call the election for today!" Ah, good times ...

Oh? You don't?

We should enjoy the relative calm while we can, because we haven’t gotten to the part yet where hundreds of Republicans across the country all up and down tickets charge voter fraud and start throwing monkey wrenches into the works so they can fuck up the transition. That’s definitely going to happen. January 3rd might end up being January 6th all over again, with vicious new wrinkles. Practically every Democrat that day will be in varying levels of danger.

Ah. Well, look, I would guess that several white American players and coaches in MLB would do more than just follow MTG. It’s what it is, so what’re ya gonna do? Not great, but at least he doesn’t shit-post.

I don’t get the problem with that?

Can you share why, or share tweets as examples?

You may not have a problem with his swing, and he himself may not have a problem with his swing, but the new front office had a problem with his swing, which is why they're forcing him even against his will to work with Melheuse.

And of course, we didn't fix J.D. Martinez. He fixed himself!

Projection junction, that's their function ...

Who says government can't be sexy?

The thing that concerns me about TORK! is that even with his historically bad rookie seasons, despite the explicit request from the new front office that he work on his swing this winter, he went on record to state he thinks his swing is just fine. That doesn't suggest concern or dedication to me. They had to force Adam Melheuse on him to get that done. Here's what I mean by historically bad: there have been 196 rookie first basemen in the modern baseball era who logged 400+ plate appearances. TORK!'s wOBA ranked 194th on that list. It was so bad, his wOBA last year was worse than Dan Meyer 1975. Here are the bottom ten in rookie 1B wOBA (400+ PA) since 2000: TORK! .272 DET 2022 Daric Barton .303 OAK 2008 Brandon Dixon .303 DET 2019 Rowdy Tellez .308 TOR 2019 Ronald Guzman .312 TEX 2018 Ken Harvey .312 KCR 2003 Pavin Smith .318 ARI 2021 Niko Goodrum .322 DET 2018 Mark Canha .323 OAK 2015 Yonder Alonso .323 2012 SDP The next ten names on the list aren't all that impressive, either. Three things to say about this list: How many of the guys on this list went on to have good careers after this? Setting aside TORK!, I see one out of nine. Look at the separation between TORK!'s number and the second-worst guy. Jesus. Three of the top ten. Fuckin' Tigers ...

If ZIPS is to be believed, I would rather have Schoop at 2B and Candelario at 3B than Segura-Schoop.