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Well, at least he got good and paid on the way out.

I hear this kind of thing all the time after we lose a game. As a thought experiment, ask yourself this: had A.J. used the bullpen in the exact same manner—Bailey Horn for 1.0 inning, Keider Montero for 3.2 innings, and Tyler Holton for 0.1 inning—and they had all held the White Sox scoreless and we ended up winning, 5-4, would you still have regarded the use of the bullpen as horrible? You don't have to answer this out loud—I'm just offering it up to everyone here as a thought exercise.

He does say that, but that doesn't necessarily mean pull out all the stops in order to win the game every game of the 162-game season in Game 7 style. There are times during the regular season he does have to, for reasons of the moment. Apparently he did not regard this as one of those games, and I can see why.

You're right on all this. Carpenter is definitely on board. So are all the other young controlled guys. That said, A.J. did, in his uniquely diplomatic A.J. way, throw the two highest paid players on the team under the bus some. That's what led to my thin hypothesis, based solely on my experience living in the world, nothing more.

Responding only to your very narrow point here, Flaherty not Javy Baez have gotten any rings from A.J. I'm just speculating baselessly, building on my admittedly thin hypothesis from up the page.

Depends on the prospects and the pitcher. Have any examples of what you would like?

A couple of them look like marching blow-up dolls.

Moscow Donnie is short-sighted: he's only after the money and the glory, nothing more. He knows the way to the money and glory is to destroy America and remake it in his image, and that's what's happening right now. Drunken Pete is a cipher at the behest of Moscow Donnie's cause. DP has no decision-making authority beyond tactics in the moment. That's why he is more focused on rooting out so-called "woke" in the military rather than maintaining the traditional focus and strength of our forces. It's the only facet of his job in which his authority goes practically unchallenged, because in the short term anyway, it doesn't affect the readiness of our forces.

None of this matters until Trump is penalized in substance for doing this.

Apropos of nothing, I'm going to guess that you posted this from a phone, perhaps an iPhone, and your autocorrect changed "War" to "WAR". 😃

I thank god every day I married well. And believe it or not, so does she. 😉

By his telling, his training was shoot first and ask questions later.

I remember as a teenager working **** jobs where they said they wanted “hard workers”. One guy said he wanted somebody who wouldn’t “**** around”. Turns out that was code for things like “do this terrible thing that’s not part of your job description”, “my ride’s not here, drive me home”, or “punch out and keep working”.

The demands for changes of less and less consequence will become more and more onerous. Book that.

Don’t they have to? Because if any group is banned from owning guns just because of who they are instead of what they’ve done, that’s the first step in the slippery slope. But this regime doesn’t care about the Constitution. Eventually they will want to track who votes for whom and anyone who votes wrong will have multiple rights stripped in a discretionary manner, a la Germany 1933. I’m pretty sure that’s their vision, anyway.

Of course this is during the game I can’t watch MLB.tv because of the blackout, so I still have to be subjected to endless Bet365 and Circa Casino ads.

I don’t think A.J. considers a game in which a team with a 99.9% chance of winning the division plays the last place team in September to be critical.

I think Harris had a very good deadline.

It’s been pretty well-established that A.J. was not behind the scandal and in fact the players went around him and worked directly with the front office on it. So I can see how players who played during that time would remember that and not respect his not going down together with the players on it. The ironic this is, A.J. was the only field guy to be sanctioned for the scandal.

The Tigers have won 81 and the Royals have lost 69, so the magic number to win the division outright is still 13.

Isn't he outright telling us that by removing, I assume, "political dissidents" from the jobs numbers, the regime will be cooking the books?

Extract a huge bribe out of manufacturers and then look the other way? Is that a thing for RFKJ?

Joke's on Bag O'Rocks: the regime is already rounding up people who fled the Venezuelan dictator, temporarily holding them in squalid conditions, then flying them out of the country on DoW transport to various countries where they can be killed. So the regime is just short-circuiting the process and saving on admin costs to boot.

Not for nothing, changes in the way autism is diagnosed has also led to higher reported numbers of that.