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Lining up to join ICE?

That's because they don't want the truth. They want their truth.

Was that Biden headline from the Bezos Post? Because that's the only way this tweet makes sense.

I hated to have to Like this one, but I had to.

She is, isn't she? I wouldn't trust her to not defect to RWM a la Lara Logan.

Look, I like a liberal arts education as much as the next guy, but I don't think anyone is going to Texas Agricultural & Mining University for a degree in platonic philosophy, anyway.

I don't. We wouldn't get much for him, and he would do more good for us in our rotation than whatever we get back would anywhere else for us—unless Harris pulls a rabbit out of his hat, and I don't think anyone here thinks he would on a Mize trade.

I like Bassitt. He posts up and looks like he still has something left in the tank. Giolito might be the backup plan if Bassitt doesn't came aboard. Our rotation is in pretty decent shape without either of them.

I too don't think these numbers come out of thin air.

I don’t think the Tigers necessarily low-balled Skubal with an offer of $19MM. They might have considered $19.8MM out of respect for Skubal’s accomplishments, a number that would have made him the highest arb award to a pitcher to date no matter what. But it’s not as though they truly low-balled him with a number under $15MM or something. The Skubal ask of $32MM is way, way more out of line versus precedent than the Tigers’ number. I kind of doubt they informally discussed beforehand what they would offer, and assuming they did not, I could see the Tigers thinking we’ll offer $19, they’ll ask for $25 or so, we won’t mind losing that, it’ll be fine. Instead, we have this, and all the narrative attended to it. I understand the Harris regime is a file-and-trial regime, but I don’t think that necessarily means they can’t negotiate a mid-point number. I think it’s possible the Skubal camp would be nervous enough about a $19 award that they would accept a $26 or $27 settlement. A truism of negotiation is that literally everything that goes before it factors into the outcome, so it’s reasonable to assume that any long-term deal Skubal signs would be a lot higher if he made $26MM this year than if he made $19MM. That would be incentive enough for him to accept a midpoint settlement.

… and that come out in January.

This is your answer when I ask you to prove your wild statement that was obviously untrue? Huh. This is clearly personal for you. I have no interest in this anymore.

Of the 21 Games running on NBC, 17 of them involved Big Six teams: Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Giants, Red Sox, or Cubs. In fact, there are more games that involve two Big Six teams (five) than have no Big Six teams (four).

I’ll be interested to see whether Andy is good enough to stick on the Dodgers’ big league roster for a whole 183 days.

OK, but I also would also think they’d need to close the gap a lot faster than the ten or fifteen years it would take to get there under your illustrative example. I think the longer they make that period, the more likely they abandon it along the way as being unworkable or undesirable.

Darn it. This makes so much sense. I hope your scenario doesn’t happen, but I can envision it happening.

I’m thinking the market is waiting for prices to come down, since they’ve been high so far.

I think this is sometimes true and not always true.

You are correct. It is also correct that you habituate a forum loaded with participants who grew up during the greatest period of year-to-year roster retention in big league history, and it can be hard to think beyond the principles of the game you committed to memory when you were eleven.

Ted knew more about hitting than just about all of his contemporaries, so with this I agree.

Awesome! Barring some last minute deal with Draft Kings YouTube channel or something, we should be free and clear of annoyingly constant gambling odds for at least one year.

Where did I defend Harris for signing (I assume you mean) Paddack and Morton? Do you have receipts on that?

I’m sorry, are you actually denying that there are people here who want to trade Skubal?? Please tell me I don’t have to provide proof of that!

Scott Harris isn't a perfect GM, I don't think and haven't said so, and I don't know anyone else who has said so. I'm not sure I can agree at face value that his "bad moves outnumber his good moves, by far."

So ironic that you conclude your post with "the future is now" when so many fans want to trade away our generationally-talented two-time-defending Cy Young pitcher so we can possibly compete three or four years from now at the explicit expense of now.