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you know I think there it a lot to the idea that wealthy donors, even democratic ones, don't really want economic change, and Joe is old enough and doesn't give a damn enough anymore to the point he just might try to deliver at least some, and they don't really like that idea.

Tigers play 12 straight days ending with a Wednesday off. What drunk wrote up this yrs sched?

Are we sure if that is a good or bad thing?.....

I don't think this is necessarily the case. To me prep vs college is more a matter of confidence in your evaluation skills, the depth of your scouting, and swinging for the fences than the time differential. It also dovetails with a management believing they can bring players further faster with their development people than players can progress in 2/3 yrs in the NCAA. Just the fact that in the minors you can push a guy up to keep him playing against his ceiling instead of having him basically waste a year outclassing his NCAA average competition has to be an advantage. Hitters especially don't learn much playing against bunches of pitchers then can hit 400 against.

And to be clear TH, the "he didn't study Geography" crack was directed at the Twitter poster (Wooten?) who made that the jump from one place to the other - not you.

the Sky news reporting (https://news.sky.com/story/police-car-flipped-on-to-its-side-as-unrest-breaks-out-in-leeds-13180593) indicates this started as some locals were mad about social services actions. Doesn't sound exactly like threat to the nation stuff, but who knows? "The owner of a restaurant in Harehills said the disorder was linked to local children being taken into care, adding that some people responded by setting fires and "throwing stones".

A riot in Leeds is not Islamists taking over London - misses by about 270K. A riot in Leeds is to London what a riot in Chicago is to DC.

I was at UM for the last dozen+ years as staff, and we've been in A2 and in and out and around UM for decades....yes there are, and have always been lunatic fringe elements in academia - it comes with the territory of having a lot of really bright people, many young, who haven't learned what they don't know. It's not really any worse than it ever was. But there is also a huge base of brilliant people doing the work to educate, solve, fix, that keeps society moving through that 'arc of history' Obama likes to talk about. The need for financial reform in the US university system is real and urgent, but higher ed in the US is one of this society's greatest strengths and we denigrate it at our future peril.

I guess he never studied English geography either.

is it his swing, or just the need to get more aggressive in the K zone? Or maybe part two requires some work on part one.

they are probably also beginning to look at limiting his innings where convenient.

C.a.n.n.o.t..u.n.s.e.e.......😱😱😱

Quite the parallel to Arthur Bremer, who at 22, stalked both Nixon and Wallace in '72. Pretty much settled on Wallace because Nixon was being too tough a target. No logic in that either.

Jeez. There must be somebody somewhere that needs some cookies baked.

by the WAR totals that's a pretty even trade - about 20 WAR on each side, but I'd still rather have had Sale than Moncada and Kopech - the later is running sub replacement. Moncada has had 2 good seasons out of 8. Hard to argue that Chi wasn't a loser in that deal despite the WAR equivalence.

the other one that is looking terrible is Brett Baier. What ever he paid for he should get his money back.

Or he just actually got Covid. There is a lot of it still going around.

Disenfranchising the primary voters should not be taken lightly. OTOH, the counter argument would be that 150+ million will probably vote in the general- with the hope that 80M will vote Dem. You can argue there is a good multiple of 14M voters in that 80M that felt disenfranchised by the lack of any actual contest to vote in. As of today I still don't see it, but if Biden has lost Jeffries and Shummer it's worse than I've taken it to be.

One assumes that the Dems are polling the 'generic Dem candidate' vs Trump and getting better numbers than Biden is. If not, they are certifiably nuts. I don't have any problem seeing another Dem being the candidate - in theory. I'm just having trouble seeing how you leave the convention with a party that isn't fractured over the choice. This race is still all about turnout. Can the Dems generate a big enough Kumbaya moment around a replacement to get everyone to the polls? We've already hit on the question of whether you keep the AA vote if the candidate isn't Harris, and I don't think it would be. You could hold the AA vote with Hakeem Jeffries I suppose - anyone else? I can't think of anyone on the Dem bench with the cred in the AA community Biden has.

Tee-Hee.

LOL - right. They pray for some good ballot stuffing today.

Disappointed in the source, but it's also just stupid at this point. Are these Dems in some kind of bubble? Are they even watching Biden? He's made it clear as day he's not going anywhere so these folks are wasting their time pissing into the wind.

Yeah.....but. It's still hard to compare the value of a hitter to a pitcher given the difference in injury risk. It actually easier with a pure short term rental like Flaherty - if you have to weight the actual value of Skubal under control for more years against the odds he goes down during that period it's anyone's guess.

I'll guess ST next season will be it for Baez if he doesn't hit in rest of the way this season. The residual value will be firmly under 9 figures, and they'll wait until late so the odds of anyone picking him up are low to reduce the chance he shows up on the field with another team too soon.

I can't prove it, but I have the opposite reaction to Robs. I'm going to guess that that in the end it would just end up increasing the rich teams' already large advantages.