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You can’t go wrong with Carroll Shelby straight up, right from the package. My dad became a chili connoisseur during his trip on the back nine, and would make it to the printed recipe. When my wife and I were driving Route 66, we were at the Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, TX and I had a cup of their chili, and it was almost a carbon copy of my dad’s Carroll Shelby’s. I told the cafe people this, and they seemed borderline offended by the idea! Whoops! There! Are there enough old man markers in that post for you? 😁

It was Jeff Greenberg who said that at the owners meetings last week, presumably reflecting the organization’s approach this winter. But it is very possible that we are very open to trading for an impact bat but want to look as though we could take it or leave it, in order to keep the price down. So we make the kind of statement Greenberg made to draw in teams interested in players in our system who might be more inclined to give in some during negotiations. Then, if we don’t get the deal we want, we just move along with what we already have in-house. For teams in a particular position, it’s a pretty common negotiating tactic that I don’t think is too sophisticated for Harris to grasp. As things stand, our particular position may be that we’re not that far away from being a top ten offense even with what we have in the system. I demonstrated in another post that during the performance pullback in September, with the increased strikeouts and decreased walks and whatnot, it was the Avila pickups that dropped off, and that the Harris pickups stayed steady, and there was practically no difference in production between the two groups.

Does anyone know, if you get MLB.tv free with T-Mobile, do you get to access it on devices other than your T-Mobile phone, like your laptop or TV streaming device?

I still don't understand why they don't just doctor the numbers to show bigly growth.

That's what you get when you appoint a person primarily for their ****able looks.

I am convinced that this administration never had a ghost of a chance to be competent because literally all the people appointed to it are unqualified and/or inexperienced and/or explicitly on the make.

"Null". Seems like a good name fit for the Republican Party.

They may end up doing so, but they may also be saying this in part to prime the market for an unexpected move on a bat. It's Negotiating 201 to make it look as though you're committed to zigging, so you can spring a zag on people if the price is right.

Sweeney's got three options left, and I'm betting we use one of them quite liberally this upcoming season.

I think there's a chance McGonigle spends most of the season in AAA, since he has never played at that level before. Then we bring him up in September for a pot of coffee, he maintains rookie eligibility into 2027 (or whenever the next season after this one is going to be), then we run him out there for a good shot at RoY and an extra first round pick in 2028 (or, you know, whenever ...).

Luis Robert is hurt all the time, so, pass.

I had a SLAP tear that I had surgery to repair in 2008, which isn't quite a rotator cuff tear, but it hurt plenty. I might have reinjured it a couple months ago—walking down carpeted stairs in my house while wearing socks, I slipped backwards and landed on the steps smack on the elbows, which jammed my arms upward against my shoulders. The right shoulder feels fine, but the left shoulder feels kind of how it did before my surgery back when.

I remember back on October 2, just before Game 3 of the ALWC, MLB radio talked to Jason Foley about the Tigers, the state of the team, how everyone was feeling, etc., and two things came to mind: (1) Odd choice—he didn't even pitch for us all year, so how would he know?; (2) He sounded like a dead man walking on the broadcast. No energy at all.

Looks like this new deal will take even more games out of the MLB.tv package and put them on another platform. All the games ESPN will be exclusive to them, as will the Peacock morning games. It looks like Apple, TBS, and FOX are unaffected by the new deal.

I would guess that when she says "not in a criminal sense", she doesn't mean in the way that criminal marital rape is statutorily defined, but rather, I would guess she means it's not as though some random black guy broke into her house and raped her.

This is not the exonerating statement he envisions it being.

Another legacy pick by Avila—Trei is basically Jose Cruz III. He was #19 in the system in 2021 and hasn't cracked the top 30 since. Apparently he's had enough to keep around and he took a sudden leap up to become a .400+ on base guy last year. He's definitely a Mr. Right Now type—I could see him on the I-75 shuttle for the next year or two.

Me, too. Although I wouldn’t walk across the street for a Lucky Strike.

I will admit that Gleyber is so round, so firm, so fully-packed, so free and easy on the draw.

I'm pretty sure they all have. That's what they wanted to get elected for. According to this, her net worth was higher before she got seated in Congress than it is now. This also says it dropped from $41MM in 2021 to $11MM the following year. All that said, I don't what Quiver is or who's behind it. The About Us page usually indicates that but these guys are being kinda cagey about it. That's not a good sign, so you'll pardon me for not taking this at face value either way.

Super interesting map to me. This might make retiring to Florida or Arizona a little more dicey for people. Cook County is not escaping my attention here. That's April through early June dragging it down.

Granting that it might be true on some margin, if he truly did not want Torres to come back, I don't believe Harris would have taken a big risky swing by offering a QO crossing his fingers it gets turned down, only to say "oh **** on a stick" if Gleyber were to pick it up. I think Scott was pretty much banking on Torres coming back.

Number two describes his second half. 😉

I found some actual numbers for this one: Country Population in 1500 Population in 1600 Diff in Numbers Change Costa Rica 450,000 8,000 -442,000 -98.2% Mexico 24,460,394 1,000,000 -23,460,394 -95.9% Brazil 18,738,040 887,751 -17,850,289 -95.3% North America 30,472,692 3,834,259 -26,638,433 -87.4% Haiti 200,000 39,747 -160,253 -80.1% South America 29,863,142 6,380,525 -23,482,617 -78.6% Honduras 1,091,464 311,847 -779,617 -71.4% Colombia 3,994,975 1,258,417 -2,736,558 -68.5% Peru 4,000,000 1,300,000 -2,700,000 -67.5% United States 1,887,028 778,503 -1,108,525 -58.7% Dominican Republic 200,000 97,966 -102,034 -51.0% Jamaica 286,449 143,224 -143,225 -50.0% Martinique 89,840 44,920 -44,920 -50.0% Nicaragua 325,097 162,548 -162,549 -50.0% Panama 196,849 98,424 -98,425 -50.0% Cyprus 200,000 120,000 -80,000 -40.0% Guatemala 800,000 600,000 -200,000 -25.0% Ecuador 600,000 500,000 -100,000 -16.7% Iceland 60,000 50,000 -10,000 -16.7% Bolivia 900,000 800,000 -100,000 -11.1%

I'd love to see the actual numbers on this.