Edman85

The offseason will be forever slow as long as teams want to maximize 40 man depth and wait until they can clear roster spots via the 60-Day IL in mid-February.

I have been a bomb thrower and a bomb receiver. Man oh man, when I got piled on for going after the BP/Fangraphs types for their blatant pro-player tilt in labor analysis, it opened my eyes to how toxic that was and I started unfollowing and muting a ton of those jerks.

I've been pretty vigilant about muting ans blocking the types who would propagate that stuff.

This will get the conspiracy theory whackjobs going but if you were to fix an election, a New Hampshire house seat (400+ delegation) would be among the lowest bang for the buck

I had an issue yesterday trying to post. It failed and my IP appeared to get blocked. My way around it was to turn off my wifi, which suggested an IP block.

More from the post that went into the abyss. The Speaker is selected at the beginning of the term, and if majority flips, the committee leadership flips as well. The Speaker does not, and the speaker's committee choices are limited to joint committees and select committees.

Something is up when I tried to reply to Gehringer's post about closest house ever. I wanted to turn that on its head and point out that due to deaths and resignations, the house margin has fluctuated by as many as 8 seats over the course of a session in recent years. 1931 was a close margin that actually flipped over their lengthy recess (they were only in session from December to March). The speaker does not change when that happens, however it did in 1931 because the speaker was among those deaths.

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I notice it during the draft and the inability to make facial expressions during interviews

McCosky quickly corrected himself after I corrected him. Don't go to him for transaction minutiae; he is clueless on that front. He is a repeat offender of not understanding. Garcia and Reyes are free agents. It isn't that hard, and I don't get why there is confusion.

Why is that Masters video making the rounds now? It was a month ago and he lost. Why share it and give it oxygen, especially when it can inspire crazies.

How do things go if the House majority keeps flipping back and forth as resignations, deaths, special elections go down.

I think he's had some face work done. Passan.

One of those "Consider the source" deals.

Reyes and Bryan Garcia were eligible to elect free agency before 5pm as XX-D free agents.

Anybody not on the 40 man roster with seven years of professional (minor or major league) service time are free agents as of yesterday at 5 pm. Of all the players outrighted yesterday, Luis Garcia is the only who is not eligible.

That is clumsy wording (there is a lot of that on transaction stuff in the media), but yes as a 3+ year guy, Reyes didn't have to wait on 4 pm for free agency and was eligible to become a free agent on the spot.

There is a difference between refusing assignment and six year minor league free agency. Unless those guys have re-upped, they are gone. Regarding refusing assignment, I think that is being misused. Some players do have the right to declare free agency after being outrighted, but that isn't refusing assignment. Players with 5+ years of service time can refuse assignment to the minors. That doesn't mean they are free agents; that just means they don't go down to the minors.

All those guys except Luis Garcia are eligible for free agency.

Verlander's home debut?

It has to have absentee.