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TBF, feelings about Rump run stronger both for and against than they do about Brandon.

I feel more comfortable with long term contracts because I feel we have the analytic crew to properly weigh in on it.

We obviously have no need for Hosmer. I’m also not sure of our need for Myers. If we slot him into for left field, are we basically giving up on Baddoo/Haase out there? Or would the idea be to move Baddoo and his defense to center as the main platoon option with Derek Hill? How bad do we need yet another top prospect, which is a bit of a gamble in its own right? And wouldn’t someone have to take Hosmer in addition to Myers to get that prospect? This one I don’t see. DeJong is a little more interesting. His profile seems to keep flipping from hard hitter-bad defense to banjo-hitter-great defense depending on the year. If he could somehow unlock both sides of the ball at the same time, he could be a potential All-Star. He would be basically a two-year experiment for a total of less than $20 million. If we can’t get a top FA SS, and we are cool with booting sunk costs if he doesn’t work out, he might be worth a shot. Not sure what the Cards would take back in trade from us since they are pretty fixed at 3B for a while, unless Arenado opts out.

I'll bet on Bill Dahlen and Gil Hodges, the former because of the numbers, the latter because of New York heart over head.

Max Scherzer is about as high as you go can. Old as he is, he's definitely looking for multiple years at a humongous AAV, maybe 3/100. That would probably be a better bet than Verlander, even. Maybe we take a run at Robbie Ray. He is a Devil We Know, and he has seemed to figure something out. The main problem with him is the that RA9-WAR is waaay higher than his regular WAR, which could lead to an over-projection.

Last one on this for now:

So ... Aaron Rodgers.

Well, that Marjorie person did publicly call Joe Biden "a piece of shit" just a few weeks ago, in her official capacity as a member of Congress, so sure, why not amp it all up some more.

I'm not sure when I'm ever going to believe a pre-election poll again, but it won't be during the mid-terms, that's for sure.

So, they figured out a way to put the tracking chip in a pill? Gear!

Here's a snippet from a Cheech and Chong, bit called "White World of Sports", the cut that preceded "Basketball Jones" on their Los Cochinos album from 1973: REPORTER: ... I'm Red Blazer and we're here courtside with the coach of the Bloods. Coach, let's talk about your record. COACH: My record?! RED: That's right. COACH: The hell you wanna bring that up for, man?! I thought you wanted to talk about basketball, manI Now, I did my time, man, I paid my debt to society, man! I don't need to be talking about my record, man! How the hell did I know she was 13?! RED: No, no, no, coach, I meant ... COACH: Hell, she looked 15, anyway! RED: No, coach, what we meant was your won-loss record! Now, you're the winningest coach in the history of high school basketball ...

I've never been able to keep pods in my ears, so I go with Port-a-Pros.

TT definitely marches to his own drummer. Thank god for people like that.

That might be Trevor Story, although he’s probably looking for something north of 6/120. If he would come down to 5/100, I think the Tigers would pounce all over that. That would still be by far the biggest commitment to any player that they’ve made since the old man.

I take your point here about Avila and the new direction, but by the same token, he was also part of the management team that steered the ship into the rocks twice. I’m not ready to give anybody credit yet because we haven’t actually accomplished anything—we are still in the early days of pulling out of the depths, and it’s going to take another two, at least, and probably three years to fully realize the culmination of any decently-constructed plan. But even if we do reach the ultimate prize, I have to wonder how much of it will have been Avila’s doing, and how much of it is due to Hinch coming on board. Because as much credit as it is fair give Avila for bringing on Hinch in the first place, practically none of the things the organization has done that we’ve been raving about happened before Hinch got here.

No one thought much about it at the time. The depiction of minor teens was highly sexualized in the 70s in a way that would absolutely shock anyone who didn’t live through it, and a lot of people who did. Remember “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble”? Just try pulling off something like that in a movie or on TV today.

I don't know how anyone can take in a movie while on a treadmill for the reason you allude to: it's a miserable experience during which the only thing I can't think about is stopping, at long last.

Young teens are so much a Bob Seger obsession that he took the song "Queenie", which Chuck Berry wrote about a seventeen-year-old, and made it about a thirteen-year-old. I wonder whether Seger hung out with Nugent ...

Agreed. If the core of the differences between Republicans and Democrats was about policy, the disagreements would be manageable.

If you are even a casual observer of American history, you will realize that callousness and cruelty is the point.

It does sound more to me like artistic license than historical reality, but a topline googling reveals that there were instances of enslaved women killing their offspring, mainly in the Caribbean that I've seen, where slavery was particularly brutal, but some in the US as well. We're talking about tens of millions of people across a quarter of a millennium, so it certainly had to have happened at some point. Apparently, it was fairly common for white planters to accuse enslaved women of this. That doesn't reveal to me how historically accurate the claim is, but I'm willing to bet it happened often enough to qualify as "phenomenon".