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How often does a team actually re-sign the same guy after they trade him? It does happen, but I don't think I'd hold it out as much of a probability.

I don't know what it is either, but the graphics work is awesome.

it's pretty hilarious because it's straight out of the Roger Ailes playbook. No good deed goes unpunished.

there is that word "weird" again. This might catch on - could be fun.

it's 12 o'clock, do you know where your starting pitchers are?

And the truth is Eduardo is not the only guy to ever veto a trade. It happens. That's why guys negotiate for no trade clauses. The case is just magnified for the Tigers because every missed chance to acquire talent is such a body blow.

Well, I am at my limit on appellate legalese because I can easily imagine we take different meanings from that appellate language. I would assume that for the purposes of the court, a prosecutor presenting a tainted case is guilty of misconduct regardless of where in the chain of the prosecution the misconduct took place - it's a general indictment of the case. So to me that is why the important question here remains - was the the particular ADA sanctioned - seems they should have been if the cops were prosecuted and the ADA was jointly culpable. But while this is all an interesting discussion (no. really) in the end it's clearly not Kamala, it's someone else in the office, so from the stand point of our thread, we are pretty much off topic here. If you want me to grant she made a bad hire (and we don't even know that, odds are just as good the ADA was inherited) I'll give you that for comity.

to me this is where you can ding Harris if you want. ERod had enough issues already that maybe you guess you need to cross every T and dot every I in anything associated with him, but I can give him that much slack for it being his first rodeo and that he wasn't actually here when Eduardo went walk-about.

which is their job. The court did not make a ruling so the defense was not able to adequately impugn the evidence, maybe because the cops framed the guy and cops are able to control the evidence. Still have nothing about the prosecutor being charged or reprimanded - are you holding back for the big finish on me or it didn't happen? It would seem to me if the cops were prosecuted and the ADA had been in cahoots, the least they would have done was sing on the ADA?

I suppose you could argue that the safer bet was to work with a team not on the list, but how many guys are going to refuse the Dodgers? Really? You can think of just about one right? If you really want to absolve Harris, the supposition would be that ERod simply didn't want to make a mid-season move, so he more or less deliberately let two teams get to the last minute knowing it was a team he could veto, whereas making his intention plain earlier would have led the team to negotiate with a team he couldn't veto. That's a little more than checkers, but not so 3-D chess-y that I can't imagine a player and agent cooking it up.

full access to the evidence the cops faked, right? And it wasn't Harris, it was an ADA. One of maybe how many in SF? I sat on a murder case once where the Ypsilanti PD detective just about blew up the case for the prosecution in his direct testimony. Real good co-ordination there. I'm trying for you here TH but I still got close to nothing.

So did the prosecutor or the prosecutor's boss know the cops had cooked the case? Still trying to get to something more concrete than that there were problems in a big city police force. The cops were prosecuted (by that same DA's office one has to presume). I don't see anything about a prosecutor being charged. Every prosecutor tries in as a general principle avoid re-opening cases. It's an adversary system and that is their job. Bazelon is a progressive legal academic and doesn't like Harris - OK that's fine - I'll put that into the mix.

well the Wiki story doesn't identify the prosecutor in the case either. Sounds like he was framed by two cops. Was Kamala on the force? The Youtube site seems to be the same video as the TicTok and a lot of unrelated stuff about his film work to wade through - so I've still got close to nothing here. So we have an individual who has a legitimate beef with the system who understandably is mad at everyone associated but no direct connection to anything Harris did yet.

Ain't it the truth!

so he doesn't identify himself so how do we check the real story? He says Harris "was in the courtroom." That doesn't necessarily mean she was even the lead prosecutor in the case. So need a little more than the TicTok to evaluate this.

Oh-NO! Doesn't bode well: A 37th pick has never made it as a plus player at SS in the majors. Of course Adam Jones is certainly a nice target comp - except he never played an inning in the majors as a SS. For that matter Mike Heath only played 4!

He's managed to stay in the league for 10yrs which ain't bad for a catcher. And he's even found himself a team with an anglo SS.

I think I got it.

I have worked a FoMoCo assembly line as a grunt, and I've spent years in union chemical/refining environments - I think the auto companies do have the bigger problem because the nature of moving assembly lines lends itself to more management abuse of workers than other types of tasks and that sets up a context where everyone on the floor is mad most of the time and the anger and distrust just become endemic between the two sides. OTOH, I would admit that one of things that keeps discipline a little better in chem/refining is that unions can't protect bad employees as easily because labor law allows companies that do hazardous work more freedom to fire. And conversely, since employees can be at real immediate risk, operators do have to take safety and welfare more seriously

the police would be step one. The bigger question is what does the army do?

IDK - I bet there will always be a set of low rung workers doing something, even if it's only making sure the machines are happy - and they'll still be treated badly by their bosses and try to organize for better conditions. Whether we will have any laws that still allow it is a good question though....

He is pitching again - went 4 innings on Friday- one run in 4 IP for Tampa - A ball.

Yeah - I get the complaint -- but maybe it's more suited to a perfect world. The missing side of your story at the age you were then was that maybe the guys that had been there for years had already integrated into their outlook the fact that no matter what they did or didn't do, management was still going to treat them like exploitable, expendable commodities and screw them into working for free whenever they could. So given that reality - they concede how much they work just as carefully as the company concedes how much they will pay, and that's that. So you were a bull in their carefully arranged china shop...🐄 It is a problem in the US that union/management relations are often so toxic that the behavior on both sides tends to be driven by the worst minority of actors on each side. As an engineer in unionized production facilities you are often the guy that has to negotiate the path through the middle of that battle, because the union guys see you as management, but you need to gain their trust because they generally have the knowledge you need to get to, even though they may or may not even understand the significance of the observations you need them to trust you with (and/or not lie about!)

It's a reasonably close game if Brieske doesn't collapse. If Brieske doesn't collapse *and* they pitch around Ramirez.......

I guess Avila has the rest of the league conditioned to believe the Tigers are an easy mark. UCL sprain that's been treated with rest and rehab instead of a TJ. And you are going to give something up for him before he proves he won't be right be back on the DL and going under the knife like so many who try to rehab a UCL sprain? maybe at 22 they don't care if he loses another year - he can follow in Mize's well trodden footsteps.