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That's what I thought at first but they might be loathe to bring up Max if he's not good and ready, and indications are he is not quite yet. We've also been working Workman in center for the first time in his career. Not sure how he's doing, but it seems like the next logical step to give him a shot.

Not in good shape in CF if Workman, Perez, and McKinstry are our options.

Harris said the exact same thing on MLB Network yesterday.

I can see why since any significant injury could spell the end of a career. For established players it could be a loss of effectiveness that noticeably brings their performance down a notch, cost them future innings or games, or even earnings. For guys on the way up, it could be the death knell of their career at that moment since they are so replaceable.

Buddy Bell did it in 2005, and the Tiger were not either team. He managed the Indians for one game against the A's when Eric Wedge was excused for a "significant personal family issue". Reference doesn't count it, but Retrosheet and Lahman do. Buddy went to the Royals later that year. Tony La Russa managed the White Sox for a couple of months in 1986 and then took over the A’s for the last couple of months.

5) I’m too lazy, incompetent, and simply disinclined to do my own yard work so I pay a service to do it, even though the yard is small enough that I can handle it.

So does he, I’m sure.

Wenceel to center field! Nice shot!

Does this mean Max gets his call up? Because we are fresh out of at least halfway decent center fielders.

I have this terrible early feeling we are going to have our asses handed to us. Please, guys, prove me wrong.

Two predictions: All current passports will be invalidated by a certain date—let's say Dec 31, 2026—and holders will be required by executive order to replace them with new Trump-face passports at a cost upwards of $200 per passport, or else face fines upwards of $10,000 and imprisonment in a converted warehouse of up to two years for failure to do so by March 31, 2027. By another certain date—let's say June 30, 2027—all U.S. residents will be required to carry passports on their persons at all times to facilitate identification on demand by police military authorities posted around the country. There will be two passports types: standard blue for citizens, green for non-citizens. Cost of passports will also be $200 per person and all proceeds to go to the Board of Peace. Wages will be garnished for failure to pay. Damn, I should write a hard political fiction novel.

"I thought he was the lesser of two evils" comes up a lot. How you like him now.

Forget talking about boring stuff like destroying forest land and cutting benefits to children. THIS is the real stuff right here!

I recognize there’s value in admitting that some of the bad elements that exist mainly on the right also exist—usually to a far lesser degree—on the left as well. I just don’t like when a post leads with that assertion, because no one is reading past that part that says “Yes, there is political extremism and violence on the left.“ But then, the Bulwark is fundamentally right-wing anyway, so, no skin off their nose.

I saw a tweet that Alex Cora was just offered the Phillies job, but I don’t know how seriously to take that.

I know there is not much that’s convenient that I can do about this, but I hate how my car hijacks my phone for the purpose of connecting it for use with Apple CarPlay. Anytime I just have the radio on, and I happen to look up something online that has a video attached to it, the car hijacks the phone, and the video plays over the speakers. Right now I’m in a car wash, and I want to watch YouTube videos in the lobby while I’m waiting, but because the car is on, it keeps hijacking and re-hijacking the phone over and over, so I can’t use it unless I forget the car’s WiFi network entirely. A first world pain of the first order.

What if Disney simply refuses to file two years early?

The point is not to win this case against the SPLC. The point is to investigate them, for the purpose of destroying the credibility of and the public’s view of the SPLC. Consistent with Trump’s demand to Zelenskyy that he announce an investigation into the Bidens and “we’ll do the rest”.

who cares about that what about the ballroom!

One guess ... 😁 What I wonder as I see this picture is, what are these military people actually thinking as they are watching this shambolic farce? These aren't rank and file guys in their late teens and early twenties, are they? If they are at a Pentagon briefing, they must be highly ranked officers with decades of service across multiple administrations. Do they actually respect Bob Ritchie as a symbol of American military strength? I guess the Mike Flynn-types would, but that can't be most of them, can it?

If I don't recognize a number, I don't answer. Let them leave a message if it's so important. They almost never do. Occasionally, if I am annoyed enough, I will log into my Google Voice, which is under a different number, and call the number back to see whether it's real and if so who it is. Vast majority of the time, it's not even a valid number, or if it is, a recording tells me some flavor of "we are not available to answer your call". So, number spoofing, because of course it would be. On the other side of the ledger: One of my favorites when I call a bank about an issue is the menu items (which I have to listen to in its entirety because it has recently been changed 😏). The first option is usually, "to check your account balance, press 1", and I'm thinking, how old and/or offline do I have to be to have to call a bank on the phone to see how much money I have with them? Do people actually choose that option often? Last one: whenever I call a utility like DirecTV for customer service, the first three options are usually about sending them money: "To make a payment by phone, press 1; to make a payment by credit card, press 2; to make a payment by check, press 3 ..."