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your org doesn't even have controls in place to the level of a month timesheet/log people turn in or does your guy just fudge his?

Ordonez also had major question marks around his knee. IIRC, he overruled the Sox medical staff opinions and went for microfracture on his knee on his own, before the technique had gained much acceptance. That put him on the outs with the Sox and also marked him as a health question mark for anyone else.

K rates like Workman's normally don't bode well for the ability to level up to even tougher pitching, but there are always a few guys that play against the norms. I just wouldn't count on it. He's still more a 'project' than a 'prospect.'

6.8 assists per 36 min in his 1st three games is actually better than Cade's career average to date.

every ship of state needs a Zampolit

Market don't care - up across the board today.

yeah - NY is funny, they have their courts named backwards. If you watched Law & Order way back in it's early days - maybe season 1 or 2, they would manage to work in mention about that once in a while. 🤷‍♀️

never, ever, underestimate the Dems ability to muck things up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/25/democrats-ukraine-letter/

here's hoping for 50 minutes from the 1st two D pairs.......🙄

Yeah - for the Yankees you'd think that that given their income, market, and that they are already a playoff level team, they can carry whatever dead money a big contract for Judge ends up being in a few years with relative ease. Still, if Judge tries to push them to some crazy limit based the fact the he knows all those things as well as management does, there is a point where any management will, has to, walk away. So my other prediction would be that *if* he ends up leaving the Yankees (and I'm not predicting that), it will end up being something like Correa last year - he'll end up taking something less than the Yankees best offer because while he tried to hold out for more from them, after that negotiation breaks off, no other team will even match it.

too bad there's no pipeline from West Tx to Germany..... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-natural-gas-drops-toward-162250182.html

IDK - it will be interesting to see how it plays out. The Rangers' experience certainly is going to be on the minds of owners that are interested. The way I look at it, you have to already be a very good team for high WAR player to be worth what they cost on the open market because if you are mediocre enough to have a few near replacement level players on your team, you can generate the same WAR increase for less money by upgrading a couple or 0 WAR guys to 3 WAR players than by upgrading a 2 WAR position to 7 or 8 with a Judge, plus you distribute the injury risk across two players and also get a shorter term contracts. I beleive the most cost efficient way to get better is to upgrade your weakest links first. Now all that said, I agree there will be teams that will make him huge offers that I would judge as hopelessly misdirected decisions for those teams, but what else is new?

I think this is right. With the shift ending that's double the reason not to hang on these typical Avila collection guys. I've said before I think the Tigers' FO talk over the years about up the alley doubles hitters has been misguided at its origin and they need to look for 2nd tier guys that at least have occasional power. It's not a homer unfriendly park if they'd stop accumulating guys that can't pull or hit the ball hard. Basically fewer Castros and more Haases! I would think ending the shift should help put a nail in the coffin of that thinking even if Harris had had any inclinations that way.

Invective is about the only thing the Lions don't lack. If they had a yard for every minute spent on Sports Radio ripping them today, they would have won the game going away! 🤬

NYT with a column about the ever growing problems with political polling in the US. Same issue we've covered here - you can get a pretty relatively solid idea about how opinions distrubute, but they have little clue how to get a handle on turn-out. And even the opinion part gets harder every year as phone polling get progressively more difficult to do. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/24/opinion/frustrated-with-polling-pollsters-are-too.html

I was taking that more as a couch GM in general, not necessarily here. Someone will probably give him 10 yrs, just saying I wouldn't give *anyone* 10 yrs at 30+

I have a suspicion is that this has more to do with our dem progressives trying to re-establish their political relevance when Newsom, Federman and Tim Ryan (and Biden) types are sucking up most of the Democratic buzz, than it actually has to do with Ukraine.

the way it goes it that SCOTUS has exempted itself from all the rules it has made for the lower levels of the Federal Judiciary - so probability of recourse = 0.

I love him as a player. I'd offer him $40M/yr but for 5 yrs tops. If he wanted longer, just not interested.

Is Teeter getting Rand's gig?

He'd fit right in on RT. Of course RT is probably where he gets his material...

exactly. One question might be: which is more along the lines of Harris' idea of 'calculated risk'; risking a chunk of money on a guy you have doubts about, or being OK with churning through 3 or 4 guys at some position in one season looking for one that can stick and accepting the risk of some bad play? Two very different approaches that you could hang the same label on depending on your perspective.

you take the film from his 60 AB from July 7 to July 27 over which he OPS'd 1.100 and if you can't figure why those 60 AB stood in complete contradiction the rest of his season.....

Judge will be 31 next season - massive potential for some team to be having serious regrets in 2027, '28, '29... 🤔

and Judge makes the last out.