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I hope there's not violence during the transition and I hope that the US is not in the middle of it.

Maybe MAGA sees this as a good thing—get all the “libtard f***ots” out of the armed forces and replace them with born-hard patriots.

A prime example of Trump telling us, right under our noses, exactly what he planned to do and we were not quite sophisticated enough at the time to see it that way.

If the plan were to include possibly trading these guys, it might be kinda tricky to find real value in return. Riley would be the best candidate for a good return; Tork would have to go on a pretty good run to get interest from less-tuned-in GMs; I don’t think Carp is going to bring back anything substantial on his own. I’d be really surprised if it happened this year. I’d guess the most likely time would be the winter of 27-28. It may be at least as likely they all stay all the way to the end and we finagle a pick from whatever the system is at the time they go.

I would just like to wish here that the Democrats are not unilaterally disarming here, and they are so wont to do.

Most everybody gets moved off shortstop eventually, except maybe arguably the worst shortstop in recent history.

I hope we can look back in October at Thursday's loss that dropped us to 4-9 as the low point of our season and have a chuckle about it as we watch the Tigers cruise to yet another playoff win.

Man, what a gutsy final at bat by Anderson to close it out—14 pitches before a 3U.

Jeimer Candelario has been DFA'ed by the Angels. Any interest? 😝

Lack of posit noted. I would bet the current plan is for Rainer to play short and McGonigle second, with the hopes that Colt Keith can stick at third so they can put Briceño at first. To your point, in baseball, plans really work out as planned. But you do have to plan to a best case scenario, and develop adjustments in case it doesn’t happen that way.

Riley with the ribbie single! For as bad as Riley has been—.204 BA, .573 OPS, 73 wRC+ coming into the game—he had gotten on base all 14 games, and now all 15.

Ah, so we do hate her now. Got it. Just want to make sure I knew which way the wind was blowing. Hard to keep up sometimes.

Literally no one is deciding Kevin McGonigle’s future today. The front office has a plan for the future, and nothing that happens this year short of a career-ending incident involving one of the principles will change it, even if McGonigle gets Gold Glove votes at short.

Ugh, I cannot watch the commercial spot for Tigers tickets even one more time on DSN. They must not be selling enough commercial time to actual advertisers because they run the tickets spot literally every break, there are only two executions in rotation, and I think they’re 60 seconds long. As soon as I hear the horn intro for the spot, off the audio goes. I feel I‘m watching a streaming service instead of a cable/satellite service.

I think Jake as the backup is more the Sunday/getaway day catcher.

It’s a real post, so Filipowski is not lying or spewing disinformation here. Beyond that, it doesn’t matter whether Trump types out the words himself, whether he dictates it to somebody, or whether somebody posts it on his behalf without his even knowing it. As long as it comes out under his name, they are his words and his ideas. He is responsible for the post. He owns it, lock stock. I will say this, though: if anyone can get away with the idea that someone who works for him did a rogue post and the named person on the account didn’t know about it and shouldn’t be held responsible for it, it’s Trump.

To be clear, are you saying the Filipowski is lying and spewing disinformation, or are you saying that someone else is writing this in Trump’s name and he’s not really pledging this?

As for Swalwell himself, it wouldn’t be surprising that a guy in his position of power would use the imbalance to impose himself sexually on people of lesser power against their will. It’s a tale as old as time. That said, there is a complicating factor with this one: any number of current Republicans have guns that smoke so much from their past, coupled with the credible allegations against people at the top of that party, that it’s very easy to connect dots to indict them; whereas here, the dot-connection feels more tenuous, and people may want to believe these allegations simply because Swalwell is powerful, or a threat to Republicans, and they want us to believe he’s guilty full stop. Also, given how Republicans confess their own tactics by accusing their enemies of those same things on a regular basis, the allegations that Democrats routinely pay people to cosplay as accusers, protesters, etc., seems to make it more likely that these accusers might themselves be paid to lie or be disingenuous than would normally be the case. IOW, it’s probably more likely Republicans engineered this entire situation, and furthermore, the engineering of this might also include implicating Porter in setting up Swalwell so they can take her down, too. Sure, it’s fantastical to some degree, but certainly within the plausible scope of the dirty trickery we associate with Republicans. All this said, I have zero idea whether Swalwell is guilty, and I have no opinion or hope tied to it either way. Just analyzing the possibilities here.

Isn’t this the opposite of what fundamentalists believe? Isn’t it everyone is guilty because of Original Sin? 😉 I kid, I kid …

I would still vote for Swalwell—or Katie Porter, or Gavin Newsome, for that matter—than any candidate the republicans would put up there. BTW, what’s the problem with Katie Porter? Do we hate her now, too? I haven’t heard a thing about anything with her.

Throwing it for strikes so batters must swing and either miss it or fail to square it up properly is one way. Throwing it for called strikes while the batter spits on it because he thinks it’s going to be called a ball is another way. Throwing it for a ball and making the batter swing and miss because he thinks it’s a strike is yet another. Other ways secondary stuff can be good: pitches use same arm speed and angle as fastballs so batters can’t tell the pitch just from those cues; ball breaks so differently from secondary stuff other pitchers have, both when it breaks and in what direction it goes, batters can’t process it properly; speed differential from fastballs is uncommonly high or low so it screws up timing; throwing it out of common sequence so the batter guesses wrong; using seam-shifted wake so the ball breaks differently from how the batter perceives how its spin should make it break; using spin mirroring so it resembles a fastball’s spin to the hitter but breaks differently (probably related to seam-shifted wake). There may be some others but these are all I can think of at the moment.

I definitely did not say, or even imply, “question his career choices”.

Five outfield assists already! Wow! Either Max is super fantastic, or runners so super underestimating him.

No doubt. He must have his doubts by now about whether his career is going to pan out.

So galling that this kind of thing kills one party when it happen to them, but strengthens the other party when it happens to them.