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I would contend they aren't change-ups then.

I still haven't gotten the email, but this is my thought. The most likely thing is they pull the rug and the resigned employees will have to fight for the 25k RIF VSIP they are entitled to.

Almost like the sample sizes aren't significant or something...

I'll go further into the epiphany I had, one I strayed from a little bit in the lead up and aftermath of the election, and why I am choosing this path. First of all, I have a family member with an excruciating, chronically debilitating health condition that is taking a lot out of me emotionally and mentally. Additional stressors are not healthy at this point. Second of all, as a federal employee, the issues are two fold. One: I do not trust DOGE et. al. to not retaliate against anybody criticizing this group on the socials, so best to keep it off. Second: there is sudden professional uncertainty I haven't had in 16 years, adding to that emotional and mental strain above. Thinking back on my own life, I was definitely more of a passive political follower pre-Trump. Being more politically vocal starting around 2016 and crescendoing during the peak of the pandemic has made me some enemies. Now, while you can say "big whoop, not a big loss," when you have had a **** year (see the first paragraph) and you see all the friends you've hung out with on NYE for over a decade (except 2020) were hanging out and you weren't invited, it certainly makes you look inward and wanting to have a healthier way of trying to follow this stuff, because how I follow it leads to how I react to it. Oh, I do want to say due to more social cache back in 2016, I was able to successfully keep some people off the Trump Train at that time who have since jumped aboard. I want to try to build that cache back up. So... every-10-minute updates, doom scrolling twitter, doom scrolling here or a similar forum elsewhere, seeing speculation, having text threads with friends mocking Trumpies, just the constant barrage of Trump news? I don't need it, and it makes me a worse person. Worst of all, it doesn't help stop Trump and the like; if anything it only makes it worse. I know it's bad. Enjoy embracing the doom. I'm going to try to enjoy the good parts of life that I can, and hopefully use that to regain some social influence and try to get people aboard the good side come fall 2026.

I got news for you: they freely crime whether we bitch about it online or not.

Not much of a market for the free agent starting pitchers that are pointed to as development successes. Good trade returns for them, though.

Hi, just opening this thread and going straight to the bottom to post. Accuse me of having my head in the sand all you want, but completely tuning this **** show out the last few days instead of constantly refreshing and doom scrolling has been pretty great for my psyche. 10/10 recommend.

Craig Paquette got 2/4.75 from DD 23 years ago and we thought he was nuts. A player with a similar skillset gets 5/90 now.

Is that true? My understanding is the owners couldn't get their **** together.

Nobody's heard from the Hawk Tuah girl for a couple of months after her similar pump+dump.

My intent for those four years, or at least the first two, is to just bury my head in the sand as much as possible for a bulk of it and protect my sanity. Maybe midterms impose some much needed guardrails if we haven't already careened off a cliff at that point.

The tiktok users up in arms over this are kinda only proving the point with their outrage... They are being played by the algorithm.

There's legitimate reasons to not want China controlling social media algorithms, end of story. A real IYKYK situation, and the people that know the most are the ones who pushed the hardest for this.

Those shows are so great on rewatch, if only for the bits of foreshadowing you catch.

I had one person accuse me of abusing their dog on the route, which is the last thing I would ever do.

I had a paper route. Good exercise, in hindsight.

They implode when they sign a minor league free agent. Those implosions remind me of this Gene Wilder line in Blazing Saddles. https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg?feature=shared

Also, Rodriguez will make a whopping $700 a week in Dominican complex league this year.

I was making 40-50 per 1.5-2 hr game umpiring at that age. Good work if you can get it.

BP has... Jobe 4 McGonigle 6 Clark 31 Rainer 56 Liranzo 58 Briceno 64 Jung 97 7 out of 101 is not bad at all.

Randy is correct. No trade clauses can be included in contracts, but the automatic ones come from 10-and-5 rights. From Major League Rule 6(e)

The Dodgers lost a second international "commit" to another team. The writing is on the wall that they are the team, IMO.

Just regurgitating from the BA Paywall.

Stavenhagen has access. His buddy is just a fan with a microphone.