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And to add to the week from hell that included a Skubal injury, a Valdez suspension, a sweep at the hands of a last-place team, and an unceremonious dumping of the AAA manager for inappropirate texts to women, this: Kevin graduated, and Max held his ground, but Rainer cratered to #71, Briceno fell off because of surgery, and Liranzo is simply gone gone.

Bleahhh

There’s no there there for Greene to be so publicly anti-Trump at this moment, so I am wondering whether her calculation is that Trump will inevitably crash and burn and she will be left standing to step in as leader of the movement once everyone recognizes the purity of her bona fides. This is not a prediction.

The Saudis are nowhere near the point where they just fall in line when Trump takes a **** from his mouth.

Or maybe they were looking for an excuse to part ways with him anyway? Probably not too likely, but if it were true, this is the kind of thing they might come down harder on with certain people than with certain others.

I won’t go so far as to say the Tigers are a bad team, because they are more hurt than bad, but they are sure playing dead on their feet. And the longer it goes on, the more that’s on A.J. There’s this weird mix of chaos and ennui surrounding the team right now, and he’s got to fix it, pronto. That’s why he makes the big money.

I don't see why they wouldn't!

It means whatever you meant it to mean.

I started reading the book and was disappointed to learn that it contemplated digital products like Amazon and Apple and Facebook exclusively. I had hoped the book would have a broader scope encompassing traditional products, services, and even government, because I do believe that the entire American food commerce ecosystem has be in en****tification mode for decades.

I don't know whether the Epstein issue is out of gas, but the fact that you're even asking the question suggests that it might out of gas with you. And if that's true, then yes, there's a chance that the issue is out of gas with the general public at least at this particular moment. But that doesn't mean it can't be resurrected once the MAGA fever breaks, and given that the nature of the charges likely transcends statute of limitations laws, it's going to be a long time before all the people who are in range of the long arm of the law die and escape true accountability for good.

I think it might be just a you're-the-one-responsible-for-your-pitcher-type thing.

He may miss the next start, and it's anyone's guess how he feels about that, but if he could get his suspension reduced from six days to three, it would save him about half a million dollars, so it's worth the effort just for that.

And herrrre coooomes the lawfare.

Hopefully.

I think the Epstein thing is far worse for Trump than people believe, and that's even after people have already baked in the idea that he is a serial sexual abuser of minors.

You’d’ve thought we’d learned our lesson with Bobby Higginson, but nooooooooo …

So has Hurter; Vest has been mostly decent despite a few high profile bad outings; and De Jesus is getting crushed by BABIP and LOB bad luck. His stuff is not getting hard and his cutter is bleeding value. Once the luck turns to normal and he gets his cutter back on board, I think we’ll probably be happy with him.

That’s going to be one of the things about the salary cap: if a team’s at the cap and a guy gets hurt, as Skubal just did, they would have no room to maneuver. Same goes for the trade deadline. Capped teams would be stuck, unless they develop some formula to assign cap space value to minor leaguers, maybe based on Pipeline ranks or something. Seems like that kind of thing would have to be baked into a CBA if they wanted to allow a majors-for-minors deadline trade under a cap regime.

Throwing Framber out of the game for hitting one guy is ****ing horse****.

I don’t think we’re getting our $115 million worth out of Framber today.

Anti-Bert attained, and then some.

The game sure is finding McStinkface so far, isn’t it?

It's the trick they learned from their Russian benefactors, something that was new to America: just train a fire hose of craziness, corruption, and distraction toward the American public, and the critics will be dancing around so much trying to respond coherently to all of it that they won't be able to keep any of it in the news for more than a single cycle. No other president had the fire hose, so none of the other ones could ever get away with anything remotely close to this.

"Small price to pay", says the guy who never has to buy any gas.

We would hear even more "but land CAN vote!" statements! What If The US Had The Canadian Electoral System (~100k per district) The map above shows what the US House would look like if it had 100k people per district vs the over 750k people per district today. Overall, you’d have a house with 3,350 members, which in this map would mean 1692 Democrats and 1658 Republicans. INSETS (if you have a hard time) Alaska: Anchorage inset; Hawaii: Honolulu/Oahu inset (easy enough, but I put them here on a technicality) LEFT, Third row: Los Angeles/San Diego; San Francisco Bay Area; Seattle/Puget Sound; Portland, OR; Minneapolis RIGHT New York City Second row: Philadelphia (and Trenton, NJ), Boston Third row: Atlanta, Hampton Roads, Washington DC/Baltimore Fourth row: Miami, Chicago/Milwaukee, (top) Tampa Bay, (bottom) Orlando BOTTOM ROW: Sacramento; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Denver; El Paso; San Antonio/Austin; Dallas/Fort Worth; Houston; St. Louis; Detroit; Cleveland; Columbus, OH; Pittsburgh