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International test fart.

I am frankly amazed at how much of a bogeyman “woke” has become.

I’m sure there are Democrats who would vote for a Republican speaker who is not part of or beholden to the Kookoo Kaukus. Maybe some coalition could form around someone before long.

Welcome to life on Planet Earth, pal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Still interested in your honest answer to what we need.

The one thing Avila did more of than the average GM was to sign minor league free agents, a frequently quick, easy, frictionless transaction about which I wrote here:

I'm out of reactions for the day, so I will give you this:

The difference here is that the sheer rate by which Harris is increasing the churn of players through use of the waiver system versus Avila increases the chances of finding useful players, and who knows, maybe even an undiscovered gem. Even if the hit rate of getting a WAR-positive player onto the roster is one in 10, it's worth the effort, because as an example, one in 10 out of 100 is worth far more than one in 10 out of 10. Christian Walker, Ramon Urias, and Jorge Mateo were all 3+ WAR players picked up by their current team off the waiver wire. The latter two by the Orioles, a team very much in our boat the past few seasons, and an organization we could do worse than to emulate when it comes to player acquisition.

I think it's humorous that they get churned in a matter of days. That's what ... You know what ... never mind

I think Harris's use of the waiver wire, tedious though it may be, is a solid strategy to slowly but surely build depth not only in the system, but at the bottom of the 40-man as well. The churn is a byproduct of the process as, I imagine, the Harris team has assigned a numerical score for each player in the Organized Baseball universe, and when a player with a higher score comes available, they put the lowest score guy on waivers and let him go if claimed, and stash him if not. It is definitely your father's general managing strategy, provided your name is Alex. I also find it humorous to see guys churned just days after being picked up.

Oh, I see … because it took this long to vote for Speaker, now they know how to govern.

This entire Congress is going to be such a complete fucking shitshow.

Here’s a Devil He Knows who might make his way to the Tigers system soon …

Also, not sure why you believe it or notted me, as if you're trying to make me see here, now. I was only sharing Mike White's own vision for the thing, with no editorializing on my part ... believe it or not. 😉

Maybe not, but it does add nuance to the idea that it's just entertainment, since the creator of it intended it to be a little more.

There's BS at the top everywhere, not just government. Is it fixable, or just the human condition? Because if it's the latter, we might as well stop whinging about it and start looking for a way to work around it.

lol ok

Why not just tell us?

That would mean we don't want Justin Amash to be Speaker of the House, then, because he will stop telling that truth you liked so much in your earlier post. We don't want anyone to be Speaker of the House because they will definitely not tell any truth. We don't want there to be any Congress at all, because it is where truth goes to die. We don't want a government because it only corrupts everyone who touches it and precludes the telling of any truth. We should strive to remove all governance of any sort from the lives of all people because it's the only way we have a chance to get close to the truth that governance by practical definition precludes, although people are still involved, so that's no guarantee, either. Does that pretty much cover it?

My guess is they will maintain that they paid into Unemployment, paid into Welfare, paid into Disability, paid into Social Security, and paid into both Medicare and Medicaid, so goddamn right they collect it, and they should because they deserve it, and those people don't, because those people probably never paid into it, because how can you do that when you're born in Mexico or wherever it is those people came from.

I'm starting to wonder whether, either in addition to or irrespective of self-loathing, closeted gays throw themselves into highly-visibly conservative milieus because they believe no one will ever suspect them or believe accusers, so they can get away with stuff like this.

TBF, Mike White did confirm in interviews that his first season of White Lotus was meant to be a deconstruction of class distinctions.

We are all learning that bomb-throwers are more likely to succeed in Congress than truth-tellers.