1984Echoes

The Gutless Media (as described by... the media (one particular dude with a brilliant take)): https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trumps-thrill-ride-nearly-131938239.html

BOOM CHAKA-LAKA!!!

And Roberto Campos... although he's even further away... But Cruz and Workman seemed to make some minor improvements this year...

The current Mexican government is tending towards Fascist and would sooner allow the Chinese or Russian military into their country and ZERO chance of letting in any USA troops, anti-drug Special Forces or otherwise. Chance of joint Mexican-USA forces missions: NONE.

Excellent article... Thank you!

And I think G2 is being a mite ambitious with his math...

At the US Embassy in London? Kiev? Paris? Istanbul? Try again.

"Cut taxes on the rich and shift the burden onto the middle and lower classes and we'll ALL benefit from the trickle down economics..." Wink, wink.

Or the military. Or raising taxes on the "Cut taxes so we can line our pockets more" top 1% (including Senators and Representatives).

Which doesn't say ANYTHING if those are mostly Tourist Visas. Which can be processed at any Embassy around the world. Need more info before making any call on the 7.3 million. Otherwise, that number is useless...

Independents & Democrats are perfectly fine with strengthening immigration laws... But Republicans block them because that want Absolute Zero immigration (Trumpublicans), want to screw Dreamers and such, want to "build a wall" and machine gun nests at the southern border instead of doing anything ****ING REASONABLE... (comments not aimed at you pfife, but at the Republican BS'ers who are no longer F'ing REASONABLE on anything). Trumpublican Republicans can Go **** Themselves. And their hypocrisy.

How many of those are visitor passes versus immigration or work visas? 7.3MM is not a lot if those are mostly tourists...

WUT?!!! I don't understand what that means... Could someone explain that to me...?

Yes... If we are trying to build a Playoff-worthy plus team... And the opportunity for a game-changer is available (Yamamoto, not Lorenzen or Boyd)... Take it. I want playoffs/ championships; not .500 teams...

I think this is the likeliest possibility if we are bringing in a new position player from outside the Org this offseason...

None of these guys will be jettisoned IMO. At least not before the end of Spring Training. I'll take that back if a 40-spot is needed... But aside from that... This is one of the reasons there will be no position players FA's this offseason. That, and they (FA's) are almost all crappy options. A trade, maybe... but I see no FA's for position players this offseason. And Harris is going to sift through Malloy, Jung, Keith, Wenceel, etc... before looking at signing a position FA. Book it.

So damn cool...!

Yeah... I'm thinking this is a discussion for next year... Not this year.

I want Yamamoto this off-season. Top shelf please.

Yamamoto or bust.

And he walks the first batter at the bottom of the 2nd. A clean 1st inning, but... Against an A's 6' 7" rookie: 2 innings, 2 hits, 2 K's against the Tigs... nothing else on O so far...

And now: NBATV at 3PM has game 5 2004, Lakers at Pistons, followed by the Pistons beating Michael Jordan in Game 6, 1989 to get into the Finals.

ESPN shows this at 4:07, not 9:40?

I didn't mean that. I meant having 5 regular starter going 5-6 innings, with a couple of long guys instead of ONLY 1-inning guys, and using those long guys every time there's a 5-inning start, or an extra's game, or even in a rotation/ 6-inning game like I had it to save wear and tear on the 1-inning guys, etc... Your list of Faedo, Holton & Brieske is perfect, And, mainly... this is what I wanted to prevent (aside from saving W&T on the shorter inning guys): Agree 100%

Well... that died out quickly after posting... I must've jinxed it. But for the overall goals of 2023, I think there were more positives than negatives: 1) Let Harris see what he's got with this Org and do what he does: Check. 2) Is Kerry Carpenter for real? Yes, he's real, not pyrite. 3) Flirt with .500, not .350 (75-80-ish, not 60-ish wins: my goal): Check. 4) Let Harris, fix/ repair, goose-up, or generally complete the build-out of the Developmental Organization that this team needs to be. Avila couldn't quite get up to 100% (did he do 70% of the work but didn't understand how to finish the last 30%...? Just wagging a number here...): Apparently that's a check but proof will be over the next 10-ish years or so, starting with this year and next year and there's some positive evidence... 5) Fix all our broken bats and pitchers: Mixed. Tork and Greene both made strides at the plate... but Greene still keeps getting nicked up and missing games. Jake Rogers is fixed. But Baez's bat is definitely broken, perhaps for good. Skubal seems fixed, but Turnbull no, Mize not yet, and add Manning to the pile of broken arms Manning & Faedo did make some strides this year as evidenced by their 1.04 WHIP's). On the plus side: add Avila toys Olson & Gipson-Long and a Harris-special in Tyler Holton to our stable of good-looking arms. (I am not certain where Avila-late-round-specials Beau Brieske or Brendan White end up... but we'll see...). Baddoo, Haase, Schoop, Austin Meadows, and Cabrera are either out, or appear to be on their way, but new toys like Vierling, Malloy, Keith, Parker Meadows, etc., have either replaced them or are on the verge of doing so... I'll take the "Fixing our broken players" as more positives this year than negative. The icing on that cake is the positive strides that Jackson Jobe made this year. And I'll leave it at that.