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I'd make it as more likely they don't have staff, or maybe DJT is hoarding campaign funds to take with him if he loses, than that they are really broke.

do you think his rah-rah shtick will still play with pro players today? Or can he still recall the old NFL personna he once was?

I don't see a permit posted on it.

It would be nice to have a left handed 1B. Personally watching Riley swing frightens me. Everyone says they love the swing because of the bat path, but the contortion of his back to get that swing looks brutal. I will be not be surprised if in 5 yrs he has changed that swing or gotten hurt or both.

Yup. And one the boxes that MAGA have put themselves in by having their own mediasphere is that Trump can sit and post on TruthSocial all day and it never moves the needle beyond the 40% of the electorate he already has (if it even reaches most of them). So Harris and Walz run hard for 90 days, all those rallies drive Trump out of the news cycle. He's has to get out there or cede the spotlight. And therein lies the rub. Does he have the physical and mental strength left to do it? It was easy to keep up with an obviously slowing Biden, but his opposition is now 20 yrs younger and Vance is already a failure as an effective surrogate.

his team came back to get him off the hook for the loss but the pen lost it anyway.

Oddly, if you put the three of them in an OF, the problem is Riley. You'd like Meadows and Clark in CF and LF but Riley can't throw nearly well enough to play RF. I don't know anything about Max's arm other than he was labeled as '5 tool'. Maybe he is your RF if his arm is stronger than Parker's. Or you swap corners home and away.

IDK, If anything, Texas is always further away than it appears.

I think the next AG may want to be someone who has no further political ambitions because between fighting with the SCOTUS and prosecuting Trump, you're going to leave a lot of people mad.

Very possibly. Also, no candidate wants a more dramatic orator as their understudy. But the other side would be that the demographic where the Dems have the biggest hill to climb is white men, and Walz gives the white guy in the F150 permission to like a Dem more so than any other possible choice. My take would be that that was the single over riding consideration. And as I mentioned before, don't underestimate the importance what their internal polling may have been telling them. If they were behind in PA, maybe you need Shapiro. If you think you have PA, you make the broader play.

Yup. Minneapolis is less than an hour from Eau Claire- closer than any large population in WI. But it's clever strategy. If the start up had been a little rocky, the campaign would still have a packed venue to show in a competitive state and 90% of Americans have no clue about the finer points of upper mid-west geography. Given the response in Det it appears they didn't have to worry.

we are roughly back to April - the AI run up of the last couple of months had to capitulate.

Looking back it appears the IF glove was never much anyway. His fielding %, going all the way to A ball was never better than 950 at 2B or SS.

well if he did just lose it that's just bad luck and nobody's procedural error.

so is it logistically/legally possible for Trump to jettison Vance at this point? He has to be wishing there was a way he could fire his way out of this.

definitely

it makes perfect sense. The problem is always doubt about whether communication was received by the other party. If all communication is one way, doubt can remain about whether hearing footsteps means a guy is backing you up or about to collide with you. Parker said he knew he should have caught it. But it was pretty clear he had stopped so in reality in real time he thought Wenceel was taking it while Wenceel was also ducking out. "I got it, you take it!"

I have seen a lot of speculation about techniques Iran/Hamas might use to try and increase their hit rate in another attack on Israel. What I haven't heard speculated on at all is whether the US has told Iran that this time it and Israel will feel free to counterstrike bases of origin and IRG facilities inside Iran at the first volley. Seems the obvious gambit.

the common denominator in these plays is Perez, even though it's not obvious how he's at fault - though of course we aren't hearing the call.s

looks like Brieske warming up. Can't I say I feel a lot better about that either...

Vest shakes off the mistake and gives up nothing.

Nice start for Montero. Tigers BP (Vest) puts the 1st man on - HBP.

should have gotten something out of that.

One of Keith's worse ABs

Keith goes to sleep on the back side of a potential steal of home.