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yes - as example you could probably wipe out at least one GOP district in the Detroit NE burbs by dividing part of the city into it, though redistricting is off the table in MI.

TBF, Workman put up a 900+ OPS last August and September in Toledo as well, but he was still striking out way too much. Somewhere along the line Workman stopped switch hitting, and his improvement has followed his concentration on hitting from one side of the plate, so there is some rationale for thinking he's not quite the same player that putzed around the system for so many years. OTOH, when K's are the problem in the minors, that's about the worst sign for a hitter making it at the next level. Unfortunately, Jung's K rate at Toledo is also 30%. There isn't a whole lot to be excited about either one of these guys. I just would like to see Workman because he is more of an unknown. Have already seen enough of Jace for the pessimism to be well baked. 🙄

Diesel is about $10/gal in Italy right now. We are burning through every bit of international goodwill we ever had.

one hopes that calling up Jung means that McGonigle is just going to play every inning until McK is back because I respect Hinch too much to believe he wants to see Jung playing SS.

This is all true - from the roster perspective it is the way to go. The question is how risk tolerant are they about not having a backup SS until McK gets back? I suppose Lee can stand there in an emergency but game logs say he hasn't played any short since 2023 and only 7 games then so we might not get much more than him standing there!

I'm not sure this analysis is complete. Creating minority districts generally favor the GOP overall because it concentrates higher numbers of Dem voters into fewer winnable districts - IOW exactly what GOP gerrymanders try to do. Spreading out Black votes could actually create more swingable districts. In any case the outcome is going to be more complicated than this byline implies. It will certainly hit minority representation, but that's not the same thing as hurting the Dem party.

It's probably less a matter of whether he could than that Hinch is loath to be without his Swiss Army knife roster.

actually that's probably the piece I saw. MLB net and ESPN BBTN always seem like the same place to me.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures at $104/bbl as I type this.

ridiculou$

it would be a little comical since Harris was just on ESPN saying more or less that Max wasn't going anywhere for a while as they had plans for what they wanted him to work on. Well, the best laid plans and all that....

Mize gonna be at least a month as well no doubt.

for sure if not now, probably never.

yeah - but can he pitch?

Torkelson needs to stop that one

whatever it was, Casey knew he was done.

as Benetti noted, Casey is a guy who once pulled a hamstring walking down off the mound.

you never know when it will end, but so far Casey is dealing. Braves' hitters had no chance that inning.

That 'arrogant ass' being another great character portrayal by Stellan Skarsgard, BTW.

This would be the biggest self own in history. By far the highest % of passport holders are the highest educated demo and that demo is about as strongly Dem as any.

glad mine is good for another 9 yrs.

I suppose there comes a time in every 'denialist' movement when the fantasy finally becomes unsustainable - at least for the majority. 'holic has a place in his heart for Babe the Blue Ox and maybe would love the world that truck represents to somehow keep going, and for all those hoping it could, Trump was probably their big hope, and when the real world has been shown to chew Trump up and spit him out, maybe that will finally break the illusion for some folks. And the thing is, I was there, that wasn't actually such a great world compared to this one anyway, it's a bill of goods.

What looks true here is the illusion. The US aint the world anymore - we are making ourselves irrelevant. The world is moving on, even if we aren't. More than 50% of new cars sold in China are EVs, 98% in Norway, 75% in freaking Nepal of all places. The EU and China together are much more of the real world than we are. And even here, gasoline consumption peaked in 2018.

a lot of things have happened that we've speculated would dent Trump's base that haven't, but Iran is the one that's doing it. I don't know if it's actually the war or maybe just gasoline prices. Hard to believe there were a lot of voters that believed Trump would actually be a peace president, but as long as they figure it out and take it out on his party in Nov I'll take it.

And Ford would even have had an excuse to be a Squeaky wheel about it.