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yeah - "Trump innocent" doesn't solve the conspiracy at all. It would be fine if Trump were guilty circa 2010 as long as he were rooting "them" out today. There is a segment that doesn't care about his personal status in the whole thing - that has never cared about his guilt or innocence individually - that's what the left has never figured out, and why their stridency about Trump himself falls flat as effective messaging (at least to that part of the MAGA side anyway...). What the conspiratorialists want is Trump blowing the cabal out of the water - that's what they have all been primed for for 8 yrs. For Trump to turn around and say "Cabal? What Cabal? I never even met 'em. Nevermind" will absolutely not cut it. But again the question is how big a piece of MAGA land is that segment dedicated to the proposition that Trump is the answer to blowing the cover on the great conspiracy. And even if the numbers may not be huge, how much of the energy of the movement do they carry? That is probably out of proportion to their numbers. Which is because they are the one most dedicated to the political argument as just being a veneer over a great struggle of good vs evil, and because of that they are the ones who are most willing to see all the rules trampled.

So if I have the timeline right, it was Trump's DOJ that initially prosecuted Maxwell, though her conviction did not come down until after Trump was out of the office. Then again, but the end of his 1st term Trumps seemed out of the loop on a lot of stuff....

Fat (pitches), dumb (bats) and stupid (play) is a helluva way to go through the baseball season son.

well that too, but I meant from an engineering standpoint. Trying to rework that bldg on that site was going to be a major lift (figuratively and literally - they actually have had to jack up the building!) no matter who took it on.

I don't know whose I idea the rehab of the Fed's building was originally (i.e. - was it Powell or Bernanke?), but that was the original sin here. They'd have been advised to turn that site into a park and build from scratch somewhere else. It's a bad building on a bad site.

Torkelson is actually having a pretty good July (933 OPS) - maybe the only guy on the team. His slump came in June (under 700) but even that only with a 230 BaBIP that month.

Parker has been an easy out at the bottom of the K zone. Maybe going to take an off-season stance chance to fix.

LOL - yeah - that response was a classic example of being in a hole and not knowing enough to stop digging.

You put a superstar on a good team, you have a better team, you put any better player on a good team, you have a better team. You put a superstar on a mediocre/poor team, you have a better but still mediocre or poor team. The 'Super' part is super overrated. Superstars have toiled in futility all over baseball from time immemorial not being able to raise their teams to any success (recently Trout, Ohtani) and teams with better construction have won more after shedding their superstars (Seattle after losing Griffey and ARod). A good team is always the true sum of the total of it's parts, and two good players will win you as many additional games as one great one. Even from the clubhouse angle, the players that do have a talent for helping to drive their team mates are often not even the best players themselves.

he had a nice little run with 'Feel so Good' and "Bellavia". Went to see him live once back in the day - probably at Meadowbrook. Nice show as I remember.

i know. really dumb.

Unless he is playing through a sub-clinical injury, it's just not that likely a hitter at his age has lost the ability to do what he did as recently as last year. He's probably replaying his verson of Torkelson's travails of last season - thinking he hasn't changed anything when he really has let his approach drift.

The thing that is rich here is that he's invoking the 5th to protect himself - in 2010 Trump was nobody politically. But if MAGA views this today, given all the years having their powers of analysis dulled on Faux New and talk radio, the relevance of 2010 probably won't even register - and even if it does at some level, what they will still hear in the lizard brain is Epstein protecting Trump.

Riley has 1400 career AB with a K rate of about 27%. For him to continue as he is now at over 30% is not inevitable, I don't think it is even likely. But the sooner he fixes it the better.

I would guess Murdoch has people making this very comparison to Trump and asking if he really wants to push that $10B suit.

But it's gotten recently to where he's not hitting enough HR to compensate for the low OBP. His July OPS is under 700, which would make it his worst month of the season by far. He was on fire in June with only 29K in 109 PA = 26.6% K rate. He's is 32% for the season. So it isn't actually true that he has to K to get to the OPS. His best OPS month he had one of his lower K rates.

Pam with the Poison Pellet in the Penitentiary may be on tap as the newest Clue solution.

LA media is probably pretty easy compared to NYC. There is very little out there like the NYPost or the tabloids and ball players are just one more relatively small group of celebs within an already huge celeb culture.

Yup. There is hope for Lange. He seems to have his pitching under control, if he can stay healthy. Manning is just....who knows? When he first went to relief he seemed to have a few good outings - good FB velo, but then he just falls back again.

Yellow python? Just a Sunday afternoon for a Sheila. She'll prolly throw it on the barbie with the shrimp.

pro-WHITE-life party.

Right - this is what Sommers was talking about. It's even OK if he was once a member of the Cabal as long as he was willing to expose it and save America.

The 7yr deal the Tigers signed JV to ended up a good deal, though by today's scale $180M is chump change. 222 games started, 102 Wins and 36 WAR. But as good as Skubal is, he's got a way to go be prove he is in JV's class for endurance - of course JV got that deal not knowing he would endure either......

AT least some of the Ivanka stuff came from an appearance on Howard Stern, where Stern was having a pretty good time leading him on to see how far he would go. I don't know if they destroyed the tape or buried it once he got into office, but if you saw that (which oddly enough I happened to - probably the only 20 min of Howard Stern I've ever seen) no-one could have claimed people were lying about it.

Yes - that certainly has to be a factor.