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Actually the WAPO NABJ story on page one under that header was very strongly critical of Trump. No equivocation, no false balance. NYT headline writer goes with: "Trump Falsely Questions Harris’s Identity as Black" better than usual.

Roger Craig could squeeze performance out of starters and BP arms. Once he left Sparky's pitching management was hum-drum. The worst was that Sparky would leave a guy sitting in the BP for days in a row then call him in at high leverage.

Leyland gave me the impression he had a sort of passive aggressive streak with the way he used BP pitchers - it was like he felt he had to keep signaling to DD "you can keep giving me these guys, but I'm not hiding them, they are going to get used even if we lose"

Toledo entered the top of the 9th down 7 tonight and made a game of it by scoring 5. Torkelson came to the plate as the tying run with one out and the bases loaded but they pitched around him, giving him an RBI and his 3rd walk to go with an 0/2.

No manager is going to look brilliant for long when his GM gives him lousy bullpens to work with.

But that's the thing, the black community is past that, anyone who isn't white white is basically an honorary member because they share the common experience of non-whiteness in America. Beside - there is no particular profit in the US in claiming to be DESI anyway - it's a straw man. Like a wise man once said, "race" is a social construct. It only exists in the mind of the beholder. That doesn't make it less powerful, just more foolish.

Well, I'm glad he has a spokesman on the Forum.

Haha - maybe it was Al that told Mike DD was contacting other teams....

Well, if you want a more nuanced view from a mixed race individual (who is generally counted as unconventionally conservative) here you go: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/opinion/kamala-harris-race.html?searchResultPosition=1

Lindsay has always driven me crazy because he is a bright guy and absolutely knows right from wrong, but he is utterly spineless. If Aaron Sorkin had modeled his JAG office on Lindsay, the movie would have ended with Lt Kaffey getting busted to Private and Col Jessup making General.

I would have thought that would have his mind all the more focused on why that was a dumb thing to say.

Realistic odds of any A ball player making the majors? He's too far away for him factor into team roster decisions. Assemble your team based on your A ball players and I guarantee we'll still be waiting for a winner in 2045.

apparently Trump was busy working on developing his bone spurs and missed a minor event in Dallas in Nov 1963.

John McWhorter wrote an interesting piece last week about this. Basically if you are born anything but full White in America, you can expect to be treated as though you were African American anyway, and while Kamila is clearly half south Asian, that made no meaningful difference in her experience growing up in CA. I guess even people's political memories are pretty short, our 1st 'black' president was half-white - that made zero difference to the way he was identified. Remember when Tiger Woods tried to get people to recognize him as Asian? - didn't get far with that either.

for as much as people complain, Keith is probably going better at 2nd than Jung is at 3rd. I don't think that is how the Tiger brain trust thought it was going to go down.

The Sox acquired Jermaine Dye and decided Magglio was 'being difficult' so let him walk. It turned out well for the Tigers and for that matter Dye gave the Sox only one less good year than Magglio give Detroit, so one of the few moves for the Sox in recent years that didn't go completely to ashes.....

It's probably not hard to develop sources in a country where everyone hates the regime.

Tiger best case scenario is he gets to the Dodgers, their coaches don't speak any of the dialects he's been working with in Detroit, he struggles some and so can't wait to get back here. Well, we can dream....

there are always a lot of directions to go in a campaign -- some will be mutually exclusive. You have to decide where the main chance lies. Is it turnout, moving independents, tuning Trumpers off their guy? How you answer that has to drive your strategy. Ridicule's value would be to make Trump appear uncool, so to me that is a strategy for trying to turn current Trumpers, but if the election is going to be won on turnout (my own belief) than trivializing Trump may soften your voters sense of urgency to show up. Conversely, talking the threat all the time is probably good for your turnout, but is just going to harden Trump supporters for him. So at least to some degree, you have to pick a lane -- and be right!

I don't care how strong the MiLB system is generally, only that it has the the 1-3 stars in it that will actually turn into impact players in the majors. We may have that right now in Clark, Jobe, McGonigle but they need one or two guy from this draft to break out at the bottom of the system as these guys move up.

Interesting decision to execute what had to be a fairly high risk operation go after one someone who at least reportedly, was more a political than military guy. Or maybe the opportunity to really embarrass Iran was too much icing on that cake to pass up.

Agreed. Winning a WS (or any particular playoff series) often comes down to how two teams match up, and you can't spend too much energy trying to figure out how to build a team for a match-up that is unknowable before the season starts. Normally your best shot is still to build to win your division and let the chips fall where they may in the playoffs. The randomizing drivers in baseball are so high that anything can and does happen in a short series.

believe so, I use a couple of different platforms and IOS is the only one that has done it to me.

It's statement of general principle. And to be brutally realistic there is no tougher gauntlet in sports than getting through the minors to the majors - you do have to exceed the average performance of your MiLB level at each level significantly if you have any chance. In Liranzo's case the fact that he is young is certainly in his favor, but it's the same thing, if you are not outperforming your MiLB peers by age, you probably aren't getting to the majors either. Liranzo did that in low A, no question so he's on track there. RC 105 at high A means he may not be enough above average to get out of that level for at least part of another year - so he may lose one of those years of advantage by however long he is there next season.

need a really big grain of salt there. No-one has been capable of more wishful thinking since 2016 than the GOP never-trumpers.