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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.

Wow, the Americas.

In what way do you mean this?

Also, I don't think I have any interest in guaranteeing a 26-man slot to the flawed center fielder with no big league experience who is the #42 guy in the Orioles system.

I agree that there should not be a cap without a floor, because that would have the effect of restraining salaries at the top end without incentivizing spending by teams at the bottom. IOW, it would hamper five, maybe ten teams tops, and wouldn't affect any of the others, many of whom are only too happy to spend nothing, field a perennial loser, and rack up guaranteed profits and skyrocketing franchise value. I do believe the ceiling and floor should be a lot closer than your example. I believe the NBA essentially requires teams to spend anywhere from a max amount of payroll to 90% of that max amount. That sounds good to me in principle. Teams should be made to spend competitively among one another to remove the natural advantage big markets have. When it comes right down to it, Pittsburgh and Colorado and Kansas Citty should have the same chance to sign top tier free agents as New York and Los Angeles and Chicago do. It's true that big markets generate more revenue, so, there should also be more revenue sharing among teams, including of local broadcast and maybe even some degree of gameday revenue. Of course, to make this work, the books of every team must be open, not necessary to us the fans, but at least to some independent commission appointed to oversee the whole thing. And as I spool this out in writing, I can easily see how this does not have a ghost of a chance of ever happening.

Hard at work making America great again!

Speaking of construction, I understand why this happens and that it's not going to change, but I really hate how all of a sudden, starting about late October and going through the first big snowfall, there is a rash of construction racing against the fiscal calendar to get completed, and streets get blocked just about everywhere as a result. And then, once a street gets successfully repaired, we go into our harsh winter, and the combination of the freeze-thaw seesaw and the constant heavy traffic causes those same streets to significantly break up and develop potholes before spring springs for good.

Yes, but it is your kind of witch hunt, so, cheers, mate. 😉

Well, they did tell us over and over that they are going to conduct witch hunts against Democrats.

THANK you. Exactly right. This is a ****ing social media forum, for god's sake. Why are we being tasked with providing solutions, and then begin criticized when we are deemed not to have adequately satisfied the task?

I don't know that he has any particular inside knowledge about this, but it certainly passes the smell test, and is the very thing many of us have been alluding to, anyway.

Wasn't the Second Amendment designed to protect us against things like this? That's what I'd always heard.

I view this as a question different from, "how many wins did he contribute to?"