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LOL - If Minny wins rest of the way at their pythagorean we have to make up more like 10 games in 65 remaining instead of 5, and hope Cleveland doesn't get hot either. I mean I suppose a Chinese spy balloon could fall out the sky during a Twins home game at Target, land over the bullpen and suffocate the whole staff. So watch us win it by a game and a half.....

It's true that Trump inherited a GOP foreign policy shop that was strongly anti-Russian. But his administration and the displacement of the old GOP with the new line MAGA party has largely put an end to the presence of those folks in high GOP circles. If Trump were to be re-elected we can count on a foreign policy being much more purely Trumpish/Tucker Carlsonesque and far less Tillersonesque or even Boltonesque

Diaz was efficiently bad, gave up 6 of those runs in only 31 pitches - and he's not a kid or anything at 28. Ronnie Garca finished up throwing another 19. I didn't even know he was still in the system. I thought both Garcias were history at the end of last yr but I guess Ronnie was just injured.

1) The interest cost of the debt is the same no matter who it is paid to. To whatever degree it is an issue, it's not because of who owns it. 2) The Chinese cannot cash out without bankrupting themselves. This stuff is econ 101.

Seriously? ERA is 12? Why even bother?

Old econ expression: When you owe a bank a little they own you. When you owe a bank enough, you own them. Possession of US Treasuries does not give China any usable leverage.

so tell me if I have this right: If a deal falls through, you get a pick back next yr and lose the slot amount of the pick that isn't signing. So if deals planned to be underslot fall through, you get charged the whole slot amount even though you weren't going to spend it, and if you've already make your overslot deals then you can end up short? Ergo, nail down all the underslots first.

Paul is in idoit, and he's wrong anyway. if you can use Chinese money to defeat the Russians, by all means go for it! Almost as good as using Iranian money against the Contras, except that Ronnie apparently forgot they had passed a law against that. (Sadly, he was soon to forget a lot of things......)

Vladdy must be having a very bad day.

only a simple minded person would fail to see the distinction between censorship and holding someone accountable for lying under oath - which was known long ago in a time far away as 'bearing false witness' and has been duly categorized in well known lists as a no-no ever since then.

if they both get traded and Lorenzen doesn't sign an extension and ERod opts out so they are both on the market, I don't see the Tigers being interested in ERod. Maybe Lorenzen.

Will Toronto lose Nylander, or more?

Well, if they think they can get him under control, maybe they better take him!

That's your Dombrowski/Leyland axis. JL, bless his heart otherwise, just didn't much value defense and that mindset permeated the org pretty deeply for a long time. Avila came in talking about defense, and he brought in some decent CF gloves in Maybin, Jones, Cameron, Martin. But he never got as far as improving the corners much and most the CF candidates ended up not hitting or if they proved their value, got flipped like Martin.

I still have to belive Ukraine is basically slow walking. They want to use the long range fires they have to chew up Russian rear echelon supplies, keep the Russians firing as much as possible to burn burn more supplies, and then make a bigger commitment when they can field more effective air power. I still believe the single biggest pivot in this conflict would be Ukraine finding a way to take down a Russian long range missile platform like a TU95. I don't know if adding F16 capabilities gets them there, but that is what would have the Russian MOD forcing Putin to find a way out.

because it's what the little green men are whispering in your ear?

Has this Lions mgt ever had a backup QB before the last minute?

and you know StL is probably willing to move him, it's what they do.

Exactly - your're playing a long shot that depends as much or more on what MN and CLE do anyway. If you make your best moves for the future and it breaks your way anyway (e.g. Faedo comes up to fill ERods spot and pitches well etc) enjoy it, but don't make a dumb move for the sake of a long shot.

for a player of Arenado's calibre yes, but not that particular article. Too much to pay for a 32 yr old.

Ladies and Gentemen, a 5-2 road trip.

you'd have to believe they can play 600 the rest of the way. Just hard to see. If you could add hitters without losing Lorenzen and ERod - maybe, but how could you do that without giving away the future? Can't do it.

Lange? EDIT: Nope

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This pitching staff is so brittle, I'd just as soon they made Lorenzen an offer to stay, but in his comments in the Freep the other day there was no indication at all they were talking.