Tiger337

I think the more likely predictor than what he did yesterday was what he has done over the past year. That might be less true for young players. For them, you have to hope that they have made improvements, but those are difficult to determine over a small sample of games versus veterans who aren't trying their hardest.

yet, they seemed to be in the groove at the end of spring training 2023 and then...

I don't think there is any correlation between spring training and the regular season. Last year, the Tigers hit well in spring training and couldn't hit at all when they came north. I liked their rotation's chances going into this March and was skeptical about the offense (at least for this year). That feeling is not going to change no matter what happens this spring.

On the other hand, Today's shortstops are expected to contribute a lot more offense than they used to provide

Anybody could have picked him, but a lot of fans didn't like the pick. If he succeeds, whoever was responsible for the pick deserves a lot of credit.

Glad you like it. It's a great series.

Platooning teams win championships when they have enough good players.

It's not much different from pushing drugs. They are making a profit on people with addictions.

He has creepd me out for over 40 years. Sadly, I knew his lack of empathy and shallowness represented a large proportion of Americans. Even more than I realized it turns out.

He's never been hidden. It has always been obvious. but there is a lot of competition trying to get the attention of the American public. Why is it that I have no clue who Taylor Swift or Kanye West are, but it seems the whole country knows everything about them? It is because I don't give a **** about them and they are not part of the media which I consume. It's the same thing with people not knowing about Trump. There is so much media and social media that people can carve out what they pay attention to and ignore everything else. There are millions of people who simply don't see Trump as the psychopath that he is, because the media that they consume do not portray him that way. In fact, there is very little of that kind of portrayal in the media, because they need him and want him to win.

Scaramucci said he thinks Trump is smart about some things, but that he has a learning disability that holds him back and that he is insecure about it.

Trump sounds like a third grader trying to write a book report on a book he didn't read.

That trade was what made me realize Smith was an awful GM. There have been trades with worse results, but a mediocre team trading away a bunch of young talent for a one-year rental who doesn't fit your new ballpark was just a bad idea. Avila was bad at player develpment, but that was a deal he would never make.

That reminds me that he mocked the disabled reporter and his cult to this day claims it never happened. They said he acts that way all the time, so he wasn't mocking him.

That cap is too busy. If you read it too quickly which is easy to do when somebody walks by in a cap, it says "vote for Joe Psycho"

The Randy Smith administration made the Alex Avila administration look good.

I love when fans freak out about spring training statistics of someone is headed to Toledo to start the season. It's one of the beautiful things about baseball.

He's not President though, so casual watchers don't know or care what he's doing.

Most people in this forum and elsewhere predicted an easy win for Clinton in 2016 even though the numbers didn't show it. I am also not very confident that Biden will win. I say it's 50/50 right now. I also agree that Biden is unspiring and that his success is based on not being Dump. I fear some people may have forgotten how unbearable Trump is and won't participate this time.

Because the housewife thing is just schtick. She has most likely been cultivating her accent for polics for years, much like Trump.

It's interesting that none of the Biden haters can express what it is that they hate about Biden. Is it just that he's a Democrat and they have been indoctrinated to believe that Democrats are the enemy? I really don't get politics.

But he hates them.

Trump showed the worst leadership in a time of crisis of any President in my lifetime. He acted like he didn't give a ****. How anybody could have watched his performance during Covid and think that he is competent is beyond me.

I agree. Anybody expecting to see a senile old man must have been disappinted. It did sound like a campaign speech, but that's what you are going to get in today's political environment. It was an effective one. I love how he shredded his "predecessor" too. I doubt this speech moves the needle very far in terms of votes, but I think it dispells any notions that he is mentally incompetent.

I also lose my voice if I have to teach for any length of time. I need to take frequent sips. Is water frowned upon by politcians ever since Dump mocked Rubio?