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This president can’t engineer the gerrymandering of the Senate, so they will have to resort to some combination of suppressing turnout beforehand and limiting access on-site.

So you’re saying Trump is basically President Andrew Dice Clay?

That was 18 years and two general managers ago. My topline observation is that they have a different approach to it now.

Glad you could see it.

Yeah, like I already said, I ****ed up.

Thirty percent of the country can never, ever get tired of it. They are motivated by something you and I can never understand. The danger is that the malevolent force favored by this minority have their finger on the trigger right now. Managing to get out of that without disaster ensuing must be our primary directive.

But the reflecting pool is so big! So much bigger than shehsh kesh tischhh

They’ll probably start with Quintero as the headliner since he’s in A.

Right, as well as his Athletic columns. I’m not sure those guys are as journalistic even-handed as they purport to be. I know Heyman and Sherman definitely are not, but then they’re New York beat guys masquerading as national baseball journalists anyway.

We’re gonna have seven guys in the pen with three days’ rest. That’s a lot of guys with a lot of rest. Hinch might give Valdez a short leash on Friday so he can give a bunch of guys some trigger time.

Yeah, I ****ed that part of it up. My bad. the rest of it stands. Think he'll go to their minors to try to put the rotting corpse of his career on life support?

I don't know that eeny-meeny-miney-moeing guys who we know are not part of the future anyway into playing the same position every day is necessarily a productive use of resources, especially if they end up sucking in the positions they're being wedged into, and then Harris and Hinch would get raked for guessing wrong on some of them, which would happen to anyone who tried it.

I have read chatter about it although I didn't really focus on it when I heard it, so not sure where. Whether it is or isn't, who give a **** what they say. This deadline will be a watershed moment for Harris, whatever he decides to do. His legacy here may well be defined by what he does.

If the Tigers are out of it, I seriously consider that trade.

Hey, Dombrowski and the Phillies DFA’ed Nick. Anyone have any interest in him for righahahahaha … (Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face for that whole thought.)

It might also be a case of them complaining about it in public because they can’t roll him like they did Avila, maybe with a dash of them trying to publicly embarrass him hoping that will soften him up.

@gehringer_2 what’s the part of this that’s confusing you?

Others would rather have a PBO who can pull an All-Star out of their hat.

This is a small thing, I grant, but I do like how outlets outside the RWM ecosystem have for the most part avoided referring to Trump's weaponizing fund as being "$1.776 billion", opting most of the time to refer to it as $1.78 billion, $1.8 billion, or even $2 billion. The entire idea of selecting that exact amount was to gain acceptance and credibility for it by linking it to an important number in American history, designed to stimulate an endorphin rush among red hats and casting opposition as being unpatirotic, so that by reporting on that amount, the media would be complicit in advancing that goal for them. Again, a relatively small way to protest, of course, but we're in the every-little-bit-helps phase of things now.

So, so many things have to be reformed that there is practically zero chance that I'll live to see most, if any, of it. I hope you do.

I think for a lot of the fans you describe, there's not just a little anti-intellecualism going on with that, and to your point, I also believe it's driven by his youth and intelligence, but also, his slight build and soft face that do not resemble those of most major league ballplayers. If he were an ex-ballplayer in the exact same position saying and doing the exact same things in the exact same way, he'd be getting a far wider berth from those fans you describe.

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Also, guess when it was really broken?

I suspect the reason Max is not in Detroit is that he's simply not ready. There might be more to it than just his AAA wRC+ which trumps our short-tern need to lift us out of contention for last place right now whatever the cost. Even if our primary and secondary CFs are out, the backup backup CF options we are putting out there are probably considered to be still better options at the big league level than Max is today, June 3, 2026.

I acknowledge that you mean me, specifically, although all I've wanted to do since he got here is give the guy the chance to spool out his plan, which I've liked from the beginning, and see whether it works, and he hasn't gotten his full chance to do that yet. If it makes me an "ardent supporter" for not jumping on the bandwagon to call him and A.J. a complete failure for the last month's worth of baseball, then I guess I'll have to wear that.