gehringer_2

so if the NYT article has any truth to it, one of Trump's complaints about Rona is that she isn't making a big enough effort (as in spend more money) on election security issues. So if he puts someone in charge that will waste more resources on that wild goose chase, that's less resource for their candidates. Sounds good to me.

The reporting at NYT is he wants Michael Whatley - a big supporter of his in S. Carolina. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/politics/ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-trump.html

I cheated so I know who she is but am missing a current connection.

what a bunch of clowns. And totally meaningless. If they do get passed any articles will just go in Schumer's waste basket.

Correct. The Dems called the GOP's bluff by agreeing to immigration reforms the GOP had demanded thinking the DEMS would never agree to them and they would never see a bill. They have given the issue back to Biden on a silver platter. The Dems just have to not blow it, which is always a challenge for them.

Two questions of interest wrt the increasing number of players per season per position. 1) are overall injury rates also increasing 2) are more players being rotated through the 25 man per year? IOW, are the same players on the roster playing more positions on the field, or more players playing a given position just because rosters are churning more? And actually roster churn and injuries will correlate - you'd want to separate injury call-ups from call-ups that were the other side of a send down/trade/dfa

I honestly believe they missed the chance to find out they may have had a decent 3B by not giving him more of the time there that they gave to other players who clearly had less potential there than he showed in the time he got there. It was like they finally got around to looking at him there after they had exhausted ever other possibility (He didn't start getting many reps there in August). If the team is taking the position they want to looks at guys all over, at least don't miss what you do have. IDK, maybe he doesn't want to play 3B but I definitely think he should been looked there sooner.

Actually I've read the arm isn't bad, which is why they were hoping he might manage 3B. It's all the parts that come before the throw.

I think this is shared sentiment, but in practical terms it can't be done. Trump can't be 'slain' rhetorically because he doesn't admit your reality, so you really can't touch him. You can blow him to Kingdom Come logically and it will just be water off a duck's back, like arguing with a 2 yr old. Biden could probably make him mad enough that he would look bad through conventional eyes, but even some kind of outburst in poor taste on his part won't bother his supporters. But more fundamentally I don't think debates matter because, I don't think anyone's mind is going to be changed in this cycle. All the dies are cast already. The only thing that matters in this election for the Dems is turn-out and I don't see debates as having any positive effect on that for the Dems. Turnout is about fear (hit Dobbs and 1/6) and ground game much more than debates.

I think a growing issue with Biden in a public speaking settings is that his brain is still faster than his mouth can go anymore, and the result is bad elocution. He needs the discipline to speak slower but that seem unlikely to appear at this point.

I think debating is grossly over rated and it's time competent managers push back against the idea that it's even an important skill. If I were Biden, my message would be "Talk is cheap and no-one makes it cheaper than my opponent. If there is anything America need less of it's grandstanding on podiums. It's time to judge people on what they have done, not what they talk about doing and fail to do. Here is my record. You can see my opponent's in the court records. Those are all the debating points I'm interested in making."

None the less, you can platoon bats, which is normally the greater need, without bouncing guys around positionally as much as the Tigers have.

Maybe Vierling, but they never gave him any kind of opportunity to play it consistently and settle in at all so who knows? There certainly are guys out there who can move around the field without it being a detriment to their fielding, but it runs against every rule of skill development to ignore that for *most* guys, consistent reps will improve play. And the fact is that *utility* players are usually in that role because their bats are deficient from at least one side, not because they have demonstrated more than marginal capability to move around the field with particularly great success.

Pretty good description of McKinstry playing 3B

It may be traditional and Biden may be trying to be a traditional politician but there I see zero upside for him getting on the same stage with Trump. Trump never abides by any rules of the game, so you are a fool if you offer to play. OTOH, if given that Trump has ducked GOP debates, he may well be bluffing, in which case to accept and have Trump back out is the best of both worlds...

The Tigers can be excused for doing a little "can this guy play there or not" trialing, but it's time that kind of thing should be coming to an end. We may still have young players come up and not perform but we should be about done experimenting with trying to stretch waiver wire utility guys in to out of position regulars.

I've said before that Trump, in his strategic brilliance (otherwise know as shortsightedness) is driving the GOP into an overplay of their hand on this, but we'll see if the Dems have the cajones to now go hard against the GOP on their own #1 issue. They need to hammer that if you think the government doesn't work, these are the guys that are the reason why. With the public mode on the economy turning up it's the GOPs last issue and if the Dems can take it away, even in part, it's going to dim the GOP's chance. Problem for the Dems is that too many of them would rather not talk about it all.

I thought when Carlos came to Detroit he was about the most fun ball player to watch we had had in a long time - seemed he could do anything on a baseball diamond. Sadly, then he got old really fast.

Another sign post. Judge rules Dartmouth basketball team are university employees and can uniionize..... https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/02/05/dartmouth-basketball-union/

exactly - you can't have any kind of sane discussion on legal immigration levels until you can get to where immigration is mostly legals.

There is a pretty universal consensus that the law around asylum is broken. These people are not legally immediately deportable - i.e. they are 'legal' as far it goes, because the current law allows them to make asylum claims that in all probability will ultimately be rejected, but the system is too overburdened to ever adjudicate. That works well enough for them because if they can stay in the US and make some money for any number of years then the crossing was a success. There is no single step that will do more to stop the attraction of crossing the border illegally than for economic immigrants to know they will not be allowed to stay while an asylum claim is processed. That is something that the current addresses.

That's just a redescription rather than an explanation however. The interesting question is what drives a particular change? Since the rise of the printing press, the dictionary, and recorded media, language has gotten much stiffer - almost immobile today. In the ~225 years from Chaucer to Shakespeare English practically turned into a different language, but we can read Shakespeare or a King James Bible 400 years later with relative ease by comparison and most rhymes still work, or watch a film that is almost 100 years old and not hear much difference at all.

Just hope the new one doesn't start pining for the fiords.

Yeah - but remembrances of Freehan are always in order.

CPD doing anything differently? More cops? New gang units? or is it just improving overall economics?