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Is it time for the Alarmist Non-sense yet?

This Is the long-term effect of Brexit: by delinking from Europe and hitching their wagon to the US, they have fallen prey to Trump’s demands that they become Great Again, and “cosying up” to Moscow is front and center in Trump’s agenda.

Out of reactions today, but Thanks. Disappointment is directly connected to expectations, so if Susan Collins is telling us she’s expecting ethical decisions and behavior out of Trump, she is either pathetically disingenuous or galactically stupid. As for Mike Johnson, he is simply a Pharisee straight out of Matthew 23.

It’s not solely Harris’s fault if teams don’t want to trade their blue chip prospects and perennial All-Stars to us for whatever it is we have to offer.

I don’t know that thousands of baseball clubs and schools will want to move their mounds back however many feet it would take. I think changing the ball over a period of time might be a better solution, although the tricky part will be doing any of this without precipitating a rash of injuries, something that has already happened as pitching incentives coupled with team demands have dramatically changed.

This is the immediate problem. The real answers expected to come from the minors are later this year and across the next two years. There are more answers due to come off the List but that’s only once they can. This is one of those tough stretches organizations can go through even when there on the right path. I don’t think we are anywhere near the blow-it-all-up-stage, but I can’t argue that it’s not so tough to watch.

That was two outs we avoided right there: Hao-Yu Lee was picked off at first if the catcher just made a halfway decent throw to the first baseman; and Riley was out at the plate if the strong-armed right fielder had thrown a strike to the catcher.

See Angels, Los Angeles.

I thought that was actually well-known about that organization. Maybe not as well-known as I thought it was.

Also a major fail for Cornyn, who tried the ball-slurping move of naming an Interstate Highway in Texas for Trump.

Out of reactions, but Like.

Batting 8th is a lot better than 9th, psycholoogically.

My point is not that Carpenter could not make a difference in his eight games in May, it's that one of the reasons the Tigers' offense is down overall is that Carpenter is not delivering the same kind of everyday performance in May as he did in April, and that goes for a lot of other guys. If Carpenter were healthy and delivering in May what he delivered in April, the Tigers' May wRC+ would be better than 74.

I'm guessing there is some hitch that shows up in his swing, it somehow gets corrected for a few games, then he slips back into that or another hitch, and who knows whether he is accepting coaching on any of it? I would think if there's anyone who believes he can work out his hitches on his own and that all he has to do is trust his talent and bet on himself, it would be an erstwhile overall first pick.

I was referring to process rather than results.

Correct. We are dealing with no fewer than 11 injuries to players on our 40-man roster. The Phillies had only one.

I don't know much about Malgeri but I would bet that if we brought him up and handed him the job, we'd be agitating to run him out of town on a rail within the space of a couple weeks. Speaking of running guys out of town, if the organization were to start a campaign to put Tork on the clock for the purposes of running him out of town in a trade by batting him ninth and then optioning him out, we'd be reducing his trade value to that of throw-in at best.

I'm out of reactions, but Thanks. The main thing I will push back on is the implication that Harris had (has) an open canvas to bring in any players he wants that remakes this organization in a 180 fashion immediately. There are no All-Stars or top prospects or even players well-rounded in every aspect of the game that he can just go out and acquire at low cost. The costs will be high, whether it's trading Max-plus for a top arm or bat, or spending big money on a free agent, and even then, free agents have agency, which means they can say no to however much money Harris/Ilitch at throw at them if they prefer a better (win-now) situation in a market more to their liking. And for anyone who believes that other teams will definitely compete to empty out the top of their farm systems for two months of Skubal, try it in reverse: in a still-winnable division, we could use an elite pitcher ourselves. The Diamondbacks are scuffling and might be willing to sell Corbin Burnes, the other elite pitcher who can opt for free agency this winter. Who in our system will you give up to get Burnes on board for the last two months and, hopefully, the playoffs?

Lashing out.

Will they be vetted for competency in militia participation? I'm guessing yes. Next will be Russians.

Another objective truth is that we already had Iran in a box, severely limited in the ability to enrich the uranium for use in a nuclear weapon and subject to regular inspections to ensure compliance, and this Putin acolyte completely let them off the hook for all of it, or at the very least, helped collapse the deal’s restraints and transparency regime.

I legitimately wonder how much of this will go toward the establishment of a nationwide militia answerable only to him, for which they will have ready-to-go recruits who are at least somewhat battle-tested.

Today: “Trump’s latest scheme will go down as the most disgusting in American history.” Next month: “What was that thing again he did last month that we thought was the most disgusting thing ever? Remind me …”

So adorable you believe there will be decades to come … 😉

Maybe this is where Universal Basic Income comes in? I mean in Europe. Here they will just let unhoused rule the streets.