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I said that because the part you snipped speculated that perhaps Pipeline doesn't really know how to value prospects, probably even more true in practically pre-analytics 2015, so Norris may not have been "all that" anyway—which you yourself mentioned by sharing your own thoughts you'd had when you first saw him. Maybe Dombrowski was just relying on the Pipeline ranking by taking him and the Jays knew better. That wouldn't surprise me, because deep knowledge of prospects was outside the scope of Dombo's expertise.

How did the DEMS slip into this? Weren't we talking about the Church? You were suggesting in this post that numerous Francis appointees may be getting rolled by reactionary forces in the Curia and won't vote liberal in the next conclave. But literally 80% of the conclave was appointed by Francis, so it would take something like two-fifths of them to flip for another Ratzenberger-type to win, and even that assumes all the non-Francis cardinals going hard right on their ballots. So, short of actual information anyone might have that this has been happening, I'm not even going to speculate that even might happen. Of course I could be proven wrong on this, but absent mere hunches, I gotta believe a liberal will have the inside track, particularly if the next guy comes from Africa or Asia, as has been the strong speculation.

Somehow merely saying it's "highly alarming" isn't a strong enough response. It sounds borderline mealy-mouthed and punch-pulled.

There may be something to this, the idea that she (and others of her ilk) put the most heinous stuff out there in order to draw attacks on it, then she can reach back into the bubble and fundraise off the attack.

Like. I'm one of those grew-upin-the-70s Catholics. If the Church was still mostly like that I might still be with them. I don't know, though, I'm still not getting the kill-the-Catholics vibe from the world around me yet. But I guess I'll keep an eye out for that.

Great point. Like.

Laken Riley was arrested? Who knew?

Not me. I have more than a clue about nutrition. RFK's power relies on ignorant people to whom nutrition is and always will be a mystery they can't solve, or at least can't reconcile with the paid messaging they're bombarded.

That's because you're getting old like the rest of us and you're realizing that 12 years is a blink of the eye. 😉 I miss the 70s when the Catholic Church was all in on hippie Jesus and folky guitar masses. I didn't leave in the 2000s because it was right wing—I left because it became soul-sucking drudergy more concerned with fundraising than soul saving. Yeah, I know, they were always like that, but by then they'd stop bothering to pretend. It was almost like going to a timeshare seminar. Maybe that's just the parish I crapped out of, who knows.

The Catholic Church is not the United States Senate and they have not proven themselves to be anything like the Republican Party overtaken by ultra right-wing thugs. Unless you have information I don't, I'm not going to take the unsupported leap with you that all the Catholic liberals Francis appointed must de facto have been co-opted by reactionary right wing forces in the Holy See.

Well, you go ahead, but I'm not going to worry about tomorrow or 2026 or 2027 or 2030 or any of that. That's for future me to worry about. Present me is going to enjoy having the best pitcher in the game today help us win a pennant this year.

You cut out the other part which mitigates that part you wanted to pin me on.

Example?

I would have trouble believing the majority of his appointees would change from liberal to reactionary like so. That’s almost Da Vinci-level conspiracy ****.

“Crooked Joe Biden cooked the books on crime figures.” See how easy that was?

Disagree. We are considered a viable contender for the AL pennant. CBA or not, trading stars for prospects should be completely off the table,

They ****ed him up first, and beyond repair. Either that or Pipeline has no idea how to properly value and rank prospects after all. Probably a little of both.

Can I just tell you how much it makes my heart hurt to see talk of trading our top talent for prospects again? Can’t we just get beyond that for even one year?

Man I totally forgot Daniel Norris was a top 20 overall prospect. Man, did the Tigers ever **** that one up.

The Tigers would sign Skubal for 7/210 to 7/245 every say of the week and twice on Sunday. The fly in that ointment is that Skubal would never take that because it would be the worst offer on the table by a mile and a half.

Totally agree and that’s what I left unsaid in my post—it’s the ability to gamble as easily as simply unlocking your phone. I assume betting apps have lockscreen alerts people can do one-touch bet rights from. People might reply, well, you can’t stop people from betting if they want to. And that’s true, you can’t, if they really want to. It’s the enticing people who never thought about betting in the first place that I think is terrible. People with genetically addictive personalities getting sucked into it and then never getting out of it. I think if people really want to bet, they should have to seek it out and then have to put some work into placing the bet. If it were a lot harder to do, I … ahem … bet that at least 80% of all people who have gambling problems today would have never even started doing it, or even thought about it.

Not that I’m defending Paramount, but prior presidents didn’t try to bleed tens of millions out of them tying them up in court cases like this guy is planning to do. It’s next level harassment that really kicks them in the pocketbook, so I can see why some would blink in the face of that. With any luck, the Harvard thing will somehow inspire Paramount to dig in and fight in the trenches.

The best thing he did was appoint the **** out of that Cardinal College. Like 80% of those guys are his.

I don’t care if I have to eat gray salmon as long as the taste and texture are the same.

Face, meet leopard.