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Agreed. Throw in that a loooooooot of people are dealing with family members, not necessarily elderly, with degenerative brain diseases right now, and they shouldn't be taking this kind of thing lightly.

A women who was a 12 year old member of Craig Monroe's spring training host family accused him of unspeakable acts at that age and eventually grooming and pimping her out for years to follow.

Yesterday's ruling has me cranky and fearful.

Fox 2 doesn't have any credentials to lose. Let's see if this trend keeps up.

Well, still no mention of this from the Tigers beat is a problem, imo... a big problem. Out of fear of access, stuff like this is unlikely going to be uncovered and people are going to be victimized when stuff like this could otherwise come to light sooner. Sports teams took the wrong lesson from Penn State et. al.

They probably did have to be very careful here to leave it so some rogue Ken Paxton type can't prosecute Biden for allowing an abortion or something.

So if you plot to murder somebody on fifth Avenue, so long as you do your plotting with executive branch appointees, you can get away with it.

I'm starting to think the media is ginning this up for page views and ratings.

Especially in Tork's case, considering he was drafted in a year where the last three months of the college season were cancelled. My understanding is stats are used somewhat, but not in the "look on Baseball Cube and rank guys" way. They are likely able to parse stats and factor in competition and park factors, but even then, that's only a small piece of the pie. Especially now that they have batted ball/spin/etc. data.

If the media is not picking this up, are they just doing due diligence or are they being censored by the team threatening access?

And Mike Johnson would be one racist lunatic with a sniper rifle away from the Presidency.

I noticed Petzold is following her, so he is probably digging. Still, what happened to his predecessor, we may have to rely on alternate media for this unfortunately. Spiro is on my lengthy Twitter block list though given the DSR ties back in the day.

Regarding Zumaya... Monroe was in spring training with the Rangers up through 2001. Zumaya wasn't a teammate for another five years. 12+5=17. Not great, but at least she wasn't 12.

https://www.instagram.com/carbarbie941/ There's the accuser, and the accusation. She posted her stuff June 11. He's been off the air since June 9.

Wow, I had blocked that account so hadn't seen it. And there's a Joel Zumaya drive-by as well.

One thing Avila and Smith had in common is they had to take over at a time when bills were coming due for expensive teams that fell short. I'm not saying they could have done better on the 2017 trades, but there is ample evidence those were owner-mandated (and perhaps league-mandated via the debt service rule) salary dump trades for a team that was bleeding money.

I think it is to the point where people are so wrapped up in the horse race, they haven't taken a step back to contextualize the magnitude of a poor debate performance against the magnitude of the boiled frog's numerous sins.

I think it is generous to Avila to say he had a plan. He really seemed to violate Mike Ehrmentraut's rule about no half measures. He paid lip service to analytics, but empowered Dave Littlefield to run player dev for six years.

Avila vs. Smith is apples and oranges. The job is so different now than it was 25 years ago. The growth of front offices means you have gone from sole decision maker to manager of people.

There is a non-zero chance you may have that opportunity in 130ish days.

The clip from his speech today has him clearing his throat often. I tend to buy into the claim that he was sick last night.

Whoops, yeah. ACB.

There have been some encouraging signs from Kavanaugh and ABJ, fwiw.

Also, did anybody catch the dig at Shep at the end?