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Oh, wow, this email just re-outed Celina Midelfart as being a girl in Epstein’s orbit, and there is a digital paper trail connecting her to both Epstein and Trump: https://www.thelist.com/1825630/donald-trump-forgotten-girlfriend-reportedly-had-ties-to-epstein/ She is an heir to a cosmetics business and was a “girlfriend” of Norway’s crown prince in the early 90s. Hmm, wonder how they met?

If you knew and encountered on a regular basis any people of color and modest means, you’d understand that what they want more than anything else is to be accepted and respected as equal members of our society, not to pull one over on everyone so they can get a handout or free money from you or anyone else. They want their voice to be listened to, and they want to not always experience their race or ethnicity being taken into account whenever they talk to someone who’s white. They want to be fully equal participatory members in our society—that’s what their parents and grandparents fought for! And despite the history of their people in this country, they still believe in the basic decency of what American democracy is supposed to represent, if not how it is actually practiced, so, darn right they want to vote, and darn right they want to be able to do so without needless, pointless technical obstacles thrown into their path, such as this ID expired earlier this year so I can’t let you vote, even though you appear to be in good standing on the rolls and I can tell this is definitely you. Besides, the people of “certain ethnicities” you characterize as checking out on being fully functioning citizens by ignoring the need for getting ID aren’t showing up to the polls, anyway. Because they, you know, checked out.

Depends. Will there be a salary cap starting in 2027?

I will support whatever deal Harris ends up making. I don’t care about the dollars, I care more abut the years, and honestly, with Skubal, anything that binds him here beyond six years starting in 2027 will make me a bit nervous for the future. I acknowledge there’s practically no chance we sign him for only six, but I would much rather we sign him for seven than for ten-plus.

I can see what you’re saying, and it makes sense. There may also be an influence by a wife who likes to shop in the bright lights on Manhattan or the chic of Rodeo Drive. Who knows—it takes all kinds. I do think being comfortable in a city regarding its culture does factor into the decision. Probably culture on a team, too—what kind of players does a team have, where are their heads, do they think like I do, can I relate to the other guys already there, stuff like that.

I do think there is something to be said for what signing an in-house franchise stud says to the top tier free agents on the market: if the Tigers are willing to commit real money like that, they must be serious about contending. Couple that with the #1 farm system in the game starting to matriculate at the same time, and I think that would make us a lot more attractive a consideration in the free agent marketplace.

I’m not trying to be unfair, and I am not trying to be illogical about it. I’m trying to make sense of the mathematical part of the equation and what it represents. Honest question—why do you think the first base position has defensive runs subtracted as a baseline in the first place?

I think what we see far more often is people projecting their frustrations onto Scott Harris when they say he will never, ever spend on free agents, or that he is too craven or stupid or cheap or incompetent or negligent in how he has developed the roster so far because he has failed to sign the biggest free agents, and failed to trade for the best controllable players in the game. I do believe some of that angst is borne of fans being scarred by the gross incompetence of the Avila Reign of Error.

Tarik Skubal is being interviewed on MLB Network’s Cy Young Award show and oh my God does he have a hickey??

Yes, and I would posit that most guys with a habit of walking world can’t be simply coached out of it.

And when the rat finally does get cornered and sees no way out on his own, what do you think he does then?

Yeah teh Left and their stupid statistics reflecting stupid fats that are actually happening in the world. Tell you what: any state requiring specific ID to vote had better make that ID available free of charge to everyone eligible.

I don’t think the Tigers will be bailing on 1.5 WAR 107 OPS+ third baseman Colt Keith just yet.

Or he’s just plain unfixable.

Yeah, it is pretty ridiculous, especially considering that everyone knows Scott Harris is going to do exactly what I believe is right for the team. 😉😁

That’s make sense if all they do after the game is go home and go to bed. Lot of guys like to go out to da club afterwards, and that’s a lot cooler experience for someone in NYC or LA than in Detroit. Another difference about playing in NYC or LA vs Detroit: a guy like Alex Bregman could move about a lot more inconspicuously in cities teeming with celebrities. If he were to sign up to come to Detroit or a similarly backwater town, he would be the biggest recognizable celebrity in town for several months out of the year. As for Alex Bregman himself: he is a native of Albuquerque, so I will put a five-spot up against the first person who accept that if he signs a long-term deal, it’ll be for a team west of the Mississippi.

Particularly for a guy making $30 million or more a year. The difference between playing in Michigan and playing in Texas would be north of a million a year all by itself.

His 110 PA in Comerica might be telling him a lot. And I don’t know anyone who can hit home runs who would want to go someplace that suppresses his home runs for the rest of his career. But hey, stranger things have happened, I guess.

And the only thing they want out of all of this is for you to cry. That's it. Nothing else. This whole thing is about nothing else but making liberals sad. EDIT: When I say "they", I mean the red hats, not the MAGA elite. The MAGA elite don’t care so much whether you cry so long as they get superpaid.

And they will never, ever, ever stop supporting him because at this point, their only objective is for you to never be able to hang "I told you so" over their heads. They will support the abject destruction of America and even themselves just to avoid ever admitting to you, me, and people like us that they could ever have been wrong.

He is one or two of these Fox interviews from blurting out, "Who's side are you on? You're supposed to be on my side." He is also one or two from shunning Fox and going only with overtly Russian-backed RWM.

Nothing is coming up, probably because it's a link to "share.google" rather than "share.google.com", although when I add the .com nothing comes up there, either. What does it say?

Oh, that’s right, now I remember—we were talking about this and I didn’t help close the loop on it. Of course I get that WAR is, at its core, a business metric: if we lose our current major leaguer to injury or gambling or whatever, how many wins would we lose on a season-adjusted basis if we have to replace him with a freely-available replacement player? That is what the acronym stands for, after all: Wins Above Replacement. (Remember when Prospectus call their similar statistic “WARP”? I wonder what the P stood for … ?) I thought I saw this in this here thread, although maybe not, but I do remember seeing somewhere that inherently, the first base position is worth something like -12 runs (or -1.2 wins) defensively, and shortstop is worth +9 defensive runs (or +0.9 wins), versus the average player regardless of position. The numbers I’m using are probably not right, but that’s the principle, anyway. So, to fill the position to some minimally acceptable standard such that an organization can field at least a replacement-level team, they would be willing to accept up to, but not exceeding, two wins less at the plate (i.e., 1.2 plus -0.9 = 2.1) from a shortstop than a first baseman to even them out. OK, makes sense. However, we fans also have evolved (or devolved, take your pick) to using WAR as a rule-of-thumb overall benchmark stat to estimate the value of a player on the field, and not as much economically. As such, we see WAR as roughly summing up a player’s oWAR and dWAR, so if he has 5.0 oWAR and -2.0 dWAR, his overall WAR is about 3.0. OK. And I can accept the idea that on average, the league’s first basemen combine to lose, on average, -1.2 games in defense for their respective teams, whereas the leagues shortstops combine to win, on average, +0.9 on defense for their teams, all when compared to a league’s average player regardless of position. I can wrap my head around this. The disconnect for me is how the league’s DHs could be considered to lose, on average, -1.7 games on defense for their teams, since that’s what their dWAR suggests. Again, I get that WAR is an economic metric for front offices to evaluate the acquisition or deployment of a player to DH versus the average positionless player. But if first basemen and shortstops can be reduced to an average defensive value for economic purposes based on how many games the average one of them wins or loses for their average teams on the field, how can DHs be evaluated defensively in such a way when their contribution to a team’s actual defense on the field is N/A? Maybe the answer is that we need a different bottomline metric to evaluate a player’s on-field performance, as opposed his economic value, such that DHs’ defensive value is properly regarded as zero, so DHs spend zero time on defense. Maybe that’s what it comes down to?

No, thank you. I like Tucker, maybe, for 7-or-8/sub-300 with team options, but definitely not 10+/400+ with player options. Too injured too recently for Sotobucks and Sotoyears.