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I don’t reject this kind of feedback out of hand, but I don’t accept it uncritically, either. I use this kind of feedback to dig a little deeper into it, but I do appreciate it flagging things I might miss. To your second comment, I would follow up and ask it for a link, which is a standing instruction I have for most AI assistants I use, anyway. I have asked both GPT and Perplexity to sift through Yelp reviews of a vendor for me and provide a deep analysis. Sometimes there are hundreds of them and I don’t always want to peruse them deeply. I will say I was impressed when it suggested that one vendor may have had bought Yelp reviews because of all the five-star ratings that had weak (non-specific) comments attached to them; and also, for another vendor, pointed out that all the really good four- and five-star comments were several years old but they’d had none recently, so beware. That’s something a lot of meatbags would miss.

I won’t live to see it—maybe you will—but at some point when we have sufficiently recovered from this, they are going to do an autopsy on this era of America politics, and future adults educated in civics will be horrified for generations that we let it get like this and worse.

Does this reflect the expected return from a trade of Jack Flaherty?

I don’t disagree. We’ve been trying for a few years now to get something anything out of guys who have limited upside and/or who don’t mesh with the current organizational direction while we are developing our system. It was always going to be a slow process and we still have to put a team in the field in the meantime, but at some point we will have to cut bait with a lot of them.

I do think it’s fair to question Hinch’s recent inability to keep the team from playing like the walking dead.

Carpenter and Gleyber had good Aprils, we are not getting similar performances from them in Mays, and that’s a factor in the team’s poor numbers this month. Not sure what you think I’m not seeing.

I wish these were votes and not mere polling.

Not necessarily.

It is beyond horrifying just how bought off everyone along the way is.

Doesn't she have an NDA? Don't they all?

Absolute, outright, unadulterated theft of taxpayer dollars to protect his friends and acolytes from the government he presides over. He's pumping up his personal army, which he intends to deploy against the rest of us, because that's the only way he can vanquish a country the majority of whose citizens is flat out opposed to him.

From the Department of No ****, Sherlock. Isn't this a feature and not a bug?

He's going to want her buried alive with him in his sarcophagus.

Flip side: if he can't live in this world, no one can.

Yeah, might as well have a laugh about it. We can't change what he's going to do. Well, maybe you can. Maybe you know something. I know I can't. 😏

Point is, I think he could find someone to cooperate with him. Remember, he is surrounded by people whose mission it is to do everything possible to frontburner Jesus's return to Earth.

He can get someone who will sacrifice their life for him to stand in for him. Probably a Michael Flynn type.

You say nothing is coming to save it, but the problem is not that we don't have enough good hitters—it's that we have good hitters, or at least hitters we are relying on, who are slumping. McGonigle is good, but his numbers in May are worse than the team's overall numbers. Colt Keith is slipping badly. Hao-Yu Lee is hitting like a AAAA player. Carpenter and Gleyber are not delivering their April wRC+ for us this month as they did last month. The guys down the roster are delivering about what they were expected to, if not exactly hoped for. And Tork is just torking the **** out this month. I think we can count on some bounceback from the guys slumping. Even Tork is probably not as bad as 43 wRC+, but you know how streaky the guy is.

I keep worrying he's gonna push the button once he realizes he's going to die any second now, and this does nothing to dissuade me. And the evangelicals thinks this is all just dandy because that's how Revelations has foretold it.

Not only that, but those considered the best defenders in the low minors are also playing in a league three or four levels below the majors against players 80% of whom will never make the majors, and about 45% of whom will never even get out of A ball.

I’m guessing it’s easier to play shortstop in the low minors than it is to play right field in the majors.

OK, I was wondering whether you meant their window had closed and they need to overhaul again.

I have the same feelings about Valdez that I do about Miggy: I don’t like what I know about the person, but I’ll root for the outcome, because he’s on my team.

I don’t think we were ever auditioning Gage Workman for a permanent gig on the team. He was always going to be Mr. Right Now for us, never Mr. Right. I think he will end up in Asia, maybe even Japan, and do pretty well there. Zack Short is the guy who’s going to have to find a long-term high school coaching gig sometime in the next couple of years.

Players dropping like flies and landing on the List will do that to a team.