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Now we are engaged in a great civic war. Who knows whether this nation will endure.

OK, Kenley, this is what we hired you for.

STOP WALKING GUYS

Never mind this boring ****, talk about Trump's face on passports!

God help us if McGonigle gets injured tonight, because as far as I can tell, he's the only shortstop we got now. And he's already in the bottom quarter of shortstops league-wide.

I agreed that I thought at first we might call Max up, not that Kevin would play shortstop every day. But let's set that aside. A.J. Hinch has been fired. You've been named manager. This is your roster. How will you deploy it? I assume you start with Kevin playing shortstop every day. What next?

The Corrine Brown example cuts the other way: Florida’s mapmakers used race and partisanship together, and when Black voters were cracked out of the district, Black representation fell and Republicans benefited overall. But the VRA was intended to prevent minority vote dilution, not to engineer “competitive” districts for Democrats. Without Section 2, legislatures would have far more room to crack or pack minority voters until they no longer have a realistic chance to elect candidates of their choice.

This seems backwards to me. Majority-black districts are not just “pack Dem voters to help Republicans”; Section 2 exists because Black voters were already being cracked and packed so they couldn’t elect their candidates of choice. A fair opportunity district can be both legally required and politically Democratic-leaning, but that doesn’t mean it’s a GOP-favoring gimmick. Minority representation and partisan advantage are related, but they're not the same thing, and the legal question is vote dilution—not whether Democrats lose a seat somewhere else.

Gage Workman is not an actual prospect, and despite any number of snarky retorts someone could reply with, Jace Jung is.

Never mind this nonsense, what about Trump grabbing Melania's ass!

Not a single inch untouched.

Is this the great part? Is America Great Again yet?

That's what I thought at first but they might be loathe to bring up Max if he's not good and ready, and indications are he is not quite yet. We've also been working Workman in center for the first time in his career. Not sure how he's doing, but it seems like the next logical step to give him a shot.

Not in good shape in CF if Workman, Perez, and McKinstry are our options.

Harris said the exact same thing on MLB Network yesterday.

I can see why since any significant injury could spell the end of a career. For established players it could be a loss of effectiveness that noticeably brings their performance down a notch, cost them future innings or games, or even earnings. For guys on the way up, it could be the death knell of their career at that moment since they are so replaceable.

Buddy Bell did it in 2005, and the Tiger were not either team. He managed the Indians for one game against the A's when Eric Wedge was excused for a "significant personal family issue". Reference doesn't count it, but Retrosheet and Lahman do. Buddy went to the Royals later that year. Tony La Russa managed the White Sox for a couple of months in 1986 and then took over the A’s for the last couple of months.

5) I’m too lazy, incompetent, and simply disinclined to do my own yard work so I pay a service to do it, even though the yard is small enough that I can handle it.

So does he, I’m sure.

Wenceel to center field! Nice shot!

Does this mean Max gets his call up? Because we are fresh out of at least halfway decent center fielders.

I have this terrible early feeling we are going to have our asses handed to us. Please, guys, prove me wrong.

Two predictions: All current passports will be invalidated by a certain date—let's say Dec 31, 2026—and holders will be required by executive order to replace them with new Trump-face passports at a cost upwards of $200 per passport, or else face fines upwards of $10,000 and imprisonment in a converted warehouse of up to two years for failure to do so by March 31, 2027. By another certain date—let's say June 30, 2027—all U.S. residents will be required to carry passports on their persons at all times to facilitate identification on demand by police military authorities posted around the country. There will be two passports types: standard blue for citizens, green for non-citizens. Cost of passports will also be $200 per person and all proceeds to go to the Board of Peace. Wages will be garnished for failure to pay. Damn, I should write a hard political fiction novel.