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It wasn't directed at Del.

To the degree high school was ever about teaching students critical thinking skills, that went out the window when they ****-canned the civics courses that were fairly common during the mid-20th Century, and just about gone by the mid 70s when I got to high school. Now they want to turn college into the same thing. They want to make college essentially business trade school. They don't want colleges and universities to teach students how to think, because they don't want people to be able to think things through. That goes against their interests. Make it harder to find humanities courses by keeping them focused on bookkeeping courses. Preemptive reply: everyone knows who they are.

I will be traveling all day that day and into the next morning. On purpose.

I was right about at least one thing: nobody agrees with me. 😝

I mean, the part where they make a breathless claim of Miggy having said something, without either bothering to get any quotes from Miggy himself, or being unable to. We are only taking Gleyber’s word for it. I’m not saying Gleyber is lying about this—I take him at his word on it. I just find it interesting that a Tigers beat writer couldn’t get someone who is listed as working for the Tigers on their front office directory to actually go on record with the welcome. Probably everyone will disagree with me on this, but I think this says a lot about Miggy’s relationship with the Tigers now.

Anyone else noticing the same weird thing about this article that I’m noticing?

Hope for his sake he put his $8 million to work for himself.

Gleyber doesn’t have the wing for shortstop.

Looks like we have our answer.

Like I say, maybe we see something in his defense we think we can fix? If true, he would be a much better glove at second than Keith would. Keith also had a below average wing for second base. This after his prospect card said he had a cannon for an arm. I don't know how to square the two, unless Keith has been purposely throwing slow from second to first?

1/15. Perfect.

I'm pretty sure Hinch was 100% in on the deal and he and Harris already worked out the potential configurations before they signed Torres.

Are you pro-Tork, or are you simply saying you believe this move means Tork is safe for this year?

He's been a minus 2B if you believe FG, and defense had been a priority of this regime, so I'm a little iffy on what his role is going to be, exactly. Maybe they see something we think we can fix, because I would be surprised to learn that Scott Harris is punting on defense just to get a somewhat above league average bat at 2B. I don't see anything yet on our commitment to him, but FG pegged him at 3/54, and I think I might be a little surprised to see us committing three full years to him. He had a down year this year, so who knows, he may have taken 2/40 with a team option. Just spitballing on this.

Does this mean Colt Keith moves to first and Tork is essentially out? Or does this mean Torres is going to take reps at first and Tork is essentially out?

This is what supporters of fascism do: they accuse their enemies of the very things they engage in, or plan to engage in very shortly. They project. Trump's red hats went all in on that years ago. Once they start accusing everyday people who didn't vote for Trump of trying to literally genocide their conservative neighbors off the planet, that's when it's going to be time to make a decision about fighting or fleeing. Seal's been broken already at the top—all they have to do now is push the rhetoric down to neighbor level.

I thought for a few seconds that maybe it was a Trump thing, you know, 45th president coming back and everything, but it still seemed too obscure for that.

Trolls just lash out, so they don't have to make sense.

the very people who supposedly had Christ killed in the first place I got a couple more for you: Even the good people at Christianity.com acknowledge that no one knows the actual date of Jesus's birth: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/when-was-jesus-born.html. So demands that people who are not Christians honor Christ on Christmas, which is almost certainly not even his day of birth, has nothing to do with God or Jesus and everything to do with people who profess Christianity for cultural and political reasons. How Easter is determined is even more wild: it moves alround the calendar because it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of vernal equinox, originally pegged to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, followed by the very people who supposedly had Christ killed in the first place.

That's how your wildly-out-of-context quoting of my post could fairly be interpreted.

Tell you what—if we got all three of those guys, then I would admit I was wrong about where Harris believes we stand in the development curve, and that he showed me a thing or two. If we were to end up with only Bregman, though … mehhhhh …

What’s not credible about a guy whose given handle is jFudgy_? 😉😆 I had mentioned a month or so ago that I believed the Tigers have a puncher’s chance of signing Sasaki, so even if he were to sign somewhere else today, I’ll still take it as a win. And I love Kirby Yates in the olde English D.

Gladly. Also, I was mistaken—it’s Dutch that is closest, not Danish. So sell us to the Netherlands instead.

I want to know more about the body in the wheel well on the Chicago to Maui flight. I’m guessing we may have heard the last of that one.