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it's beyond ironic that for Biden the mind is there though the body is failing while with Trump the mouth is still robust but the mind behind it is sclerotic.

<rant_on>I don't know how much I buy this great dichotomy. It strikes me as much about justification for not finding catchers that can hit. The big part of being a good catcher is managing the game/staff and that is almost all soft skill. Hitting is a hard skill. The time spent on one doesn't really impact the ability to spend the time needed on the other. There are plenty of catchers who can hit and who did it out of the gate. And there are a ton of good defensive catchers who played for years until they had catching down cold but never became better hitters. It's OK not to value hitting that highly in a catcher but just be up front about it <\rant_off>

Hundreds of WaPo readers skewered the paper in their responses to the front page story on the Philly rally. Like water off a duck's back.

and I suppose Ave Maria is out of copywrite....🤔

I was just so glad to learn that if I needed an auto plant all I needed to do was call Trump's guy - 'cause you never know when you just might be out of auto plants, you know - like you might run out of bronzer.

who is N12? EDIT: an Israeli TV station.

starts out ranting about Detroit again. he knows a 'guy' who 'builds auto plants.'

going to start at least 45 min late. Must have had to send out for bronzer.

LOL - needs the last bit the that link insertion cuts off: Trump, once bold as Achilles on the field, Now quakes like Hector, forced at last to yield. His lofty hopes, like Icarus, take flight Yet fall to earth before the close of night. Mid pomp and cheers, the fatal slip is made, His courage fled, his shame’s displayed. For all now smell his foul and secret doom, A shart, not fate, seals poor Trump’s tomb.

yeah - Jake's bat is what it is at this point. When Dingler turned around his numbers at AAA so well we all hoped there was something there but it sure didn't carry over. I'm sure they'll give him more opportunity. I haven't watched his career at all so have no idea if there is some basic flaw in his approach or not. But if not Dingler, I guess the org is basically in a holding pattern for a bat at C hoping for Lirzano....

doesn't answer the question really. 180 million Americans don't vote and a lot of them are plugged into their AirPods listening to something...... His audience just strikes me as a good fit for people who listen to be entertained but are detached. Just my impression but that's why I'd be interested in knowing, sadly I doubt anyone has ever added 'do you listen to Joe Rogan' to an election exit poll survey. 🙃

that's fair enough - I read your previous post to get to a different take. As I posted before, my only question in that risk/reward for Harris about Rogan would be whether his listeners are voters at all.

I understand that argument, but I'm not persuaded of its strength. I don't think the Trump voter cares if he sees Trump on MSNBC or even CNBC. That voter is perfectly content to get his Trump fix from the captive media RW media sphere. OTOH, I don't see Trump's managers allowing him to go onto neutral ground given his current state no matter what comparison Harris tries to establish. At this point the risks to him with the uncommitteds and GOP habit voters are worse to show himself live than to just stick with advertising.

it's sort of interesting - in the earlier days of live interviews, if an interviewer asked a question that the interviewee didn't want to answer, the normal response was to give a reason why they weren't going to address that question. Today, the SOP by virtually all candidates - not only Harris by any means, is just to ignore the question and talk about what they want to talk about. I won't say it doesn't seem off putting to me, but at this point I have to believe all this stuff is so thoroughly audience tested that they must believe that's the better course.

Oil under $75/bbl on news that Israel has supposedly agreed not to hit Iranian oil facilities. This dance between Israel and Iran is certainly a very odd one. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crude-extends-losses-report-israel-220954067.html

TBH, at this point Rogers may retain more skills as a GM than as a QB...... 🤷‍♀️

Exactly - that is the issue. The other questions are how much of Rogan's audience is persuadable, or even votes? I'd want to answer those questions before bothering to play out the downside risk scenarios.

Aye - there's the rub. Your average low information GOP habituated voter is just going to be working from an assumption that a party wouldn't run a person that was becoming incompetent by the day, after all the Dems pulled Biden, isn't that proof there are sufficient firewalls? They have no real sense of the collapse of the GOP integrity and the complicity of the mass media's normalization of Trump. And to some degree it's the nature of the beast. Dementias can be fairly narrow, are each different, and they are often easy to ignore/miss without spending longer periods of time than the US media is ever prepared to spend. When my mother started failing, she was so clever and her language faculty so good, that he could engage her doctors easily in a 10 or 15 minute encounter, but spend the day with her and the fact the she was 'looping' and that her ability to integrate short term memory was failing became clear.

loss of inappropriate impulse inhibition. It's been getting more obvious in his speech patterns and now it's bleeding into his physical states. You are watching the process of the frontal cortex disconnecting from its supervisory functions. Likely vascular dementia progressing.

I will never forgive them for crushing my McGuffey's Readers dreams in '61.

I thought is was interesting that Harris tried to make a case that Javy's hip issues were contributing to his ineffectiveness at the plate with the clear implication that with the hip repaired there is some reason to hope he might return to offensive productivity. I don't know if I believe any of that for a minute, but I'll still hold out some hope it may be true.

Cleveland hasn't beaten NYY in regulation this season. 2-4 and the 2 were both won in extras. Definitely need to see them flip that script. Wings will be at MSG tonight as well so we can look to double hex the big Apple.

LOL - they can try to talk him up all they like, it's not likely going to change how other MLB GMs evaluate Mize. If we trade him now we'll be selling pretty much at rock bottom. They'd have to be really done with him - and maybe they are. I think I've already posted before that my doubts about Mize at this point are as much about whether he can master the mental aspects of being a winning pitcher as his arm. Ditto for Manning FTM.

I wonder how this plays in MAGA land? It would sort of be the test of whether the appeal is the man or the movement.

There are enough professional training operations out there with spin capable hitting machines that I imagine a guy can get in a lot of off season hitting work today without going to winter ball. Whether it's as useful as live pitching with sequencing under game stress is always debatable - though players probably don't take winter ball outcomes all that seriously anyway. A lot has been made of Torkelson's supposed resistance to coaching, but he looked to me to be swinging at a lot more pitches early after his return than before he was sent down, not to mention that the Tigers would never have brought him back up if he not gotten with the program. Hinch and Co. have been very clear that promotions are rewards for doing what you have been tasked.