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As if God gives a shit about America.

I'm not sure how this relates to my post? In any event, I do think Harris will take the steering wheel for the first year, in order to establish his own philosophy and processes on a system that's beyond broken, and will hire a GM to slide into that system once it's well-established enough.

What, no FA Cup thread? Where else am I gonna talk about Dag & Red’s stunning 1-1 draw against a clearly superior Gillingham XI?

I'm not sure what you're trying to lead me to?

The streets and avenues here in The Big City are routinely cracked and broken, and stay that way throughout the spring, summer and into the fall. There may be some patching up here and there, but they go mostly untouched as the year continues to unfold. Riding bicycles on these streets can be a real horrorshow (e.g., Milwaukee Ave between North Ave and Wabansia). Then, all of a sudden, starting in early October, as if by magic, road repair crews start descending on all parts of The City en masse, engaging in a feverish flurry of activity. You can hardly go more than a mile on any major thoroughfare before you see entire sections of road closed off, or lanes barreled off, for blocks on end. Traffic halts to a standstill even on low-traffic days and times as crews actively shut down access and egress for several minutes at a time to allow this dump truck or that loader to ferry broken asphalt and dirt from this point to that. This goes on all the way up to December 30, at which point, as if by magic once more, everything related to road repair evaporates completely from the scene, leaving nary a trace save for some still-blocked-off roads that will remain as such well into late spring, at the very least. You're a savvy person. I don't have to tell you why this is. The best part of all this, of course, is that we get these brand spanking new roads, smooth as glass, in place just in time for the coldest months of the year, during which they buckle and break as the temperatures careen from sub-zero to thaw levels to sub-zero and then back again, until they can present themselves as freshly-cracked and -broken streets and avenues to my bicycle once I pull that out of hibernation in late April or so.

Mize is a really interesting case. He was the consensus 1-1 pick a few years ago, so Avila can hardly be blamed to selecting the guy literally everyone else would have selected. But there were also biomechanic red flags he was throwing up, both in body motion and pitch selection, that posters on the old board flagged right away. A lot of us knew surgery was only a matter of time, but now with another guy in charge, one who is also installing his own team of executives and coaches, a fresh set of eyes will be cast on Mize to determine whether he really is an ace, or more like a serviceable 2/3 on a bad team or a 4/5 on a good one.

He'll probably get there eventually but I would guess that for the first year, Harris is going to be point man on a lot of decisions, including relatively minor player moves, so that he explicitly establishes both the change in culture and the benchmarks by which subsequent hires will be expected to hew to.

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I suppose, albeit “old news” that serves us well be to reminded of on occasion.

To be fair, it is one of the stories.

Apropos of nothing, it would be so fun if the not-properly-vetted staff screwed up an invitation to Stephen Miller to attend one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago spyfest shindigs, and Stephanie Miller showed up instead.

I interpret the tweet not as blaming staffing for this gaffe so much as asserting how loosey-goosey everything about Trump living in MAL is, and that its attendant lack of proper hiring of staff and vetting of guests are symptoms that lead to situations like this. Of course, the tweet also labors under the conceit that, were vetting and staffing both up to snuff, Trump would never have hosted Fuentes in the first place which, in the most generous way I can put this, I’m not so sure would have been the case.

You heard the man: Aaron Judge or bust. 😏

YMMV, but I myself have never hired anyone who complained about their previous jobs.

I believe one key problem with how the Tigers would identify talent in the past is that they focused on toolsy guys who were athletes first, rather than guys with well-established baseball skills. You can tell because of how often Al’s press releases would describe players they drafted, traded for, or signed as being “athletes”. They seemed to be laboring under the notion that they could obtain the best athletes and then train them to become great baseball players. I’m not sure I can come up with even a single example of that approach succeeding.

Who would want to hire anyone with “lapdog” on his resume?

Gee, thanks, sport. If Scott Harris fields the same team on March 30 that makes up the 40-man roster today, I will join you in your criticism.

The Tigers don’t acquire Austin Meadows if Parker Meadows isn’t in the plans?

Cool, now the right wing can blame porn for the murder.

Dr Oz never won a Heisman.

I’m going in the other direction: I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt until he proves to be incompetent.

We got an anti-Harris skeptic here. We need the balance.

Some definitely do see it as a problem. What they don’t see it as is a problem with guns.

We have never had a major geopolitical front in South America, but this may well be the beginning of that.