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Harris and Hinch haters, rejoice: FYI, this appears to be a stolen article, since it was written by Cody Stavenhagen for the Athletic and neither are credited within.

Are there posters fearing a rebuild? I think it’s more like posters wanting another rebuild since they want to trade Skubal and Riley and maybe anything else decent that moves.

Now 1-9, but still, I didn’t need to hear this.

Maybe more like points and gasps, since the awesome power of the United States makes them very influential as to what direction the rest of the world takes.

We’ll never know, but I think it’s just as likely that they would stay on the track they’re on regardless of whether we win the World Series or miss the playoffs. Scott Harris famously has a plan and I think there’s a good chance he’s sticking to that plan, unless Baby Doc forces his hand, which I doubt would happen since he’s not Papa Doc.

All we need to do is win the next three and we win the division.

Yes, I did some cursory analysis, and this would be by far the biggest—meaning combination of fastest and most precipitous—collapse in baseball history, supplanting even the gold standard of the 1951 Dodgers. But remember: massive collapses are never one-sided. It takes more than the first place team losing a lot—it also takes a second-place team winning a lot. In 1951, the Dodgers went 27-24 after August 11, but the Giants went 38-8. So the Dodgers didn't even suck then like the Tigers do now. They were simply up against an irresistible force. There's always two sides to a massive collapse.

I have done really, really well on AI-fueled stocks in the past two years, although I have not yet locked in the gain. I am about to set some trailing stop limit orders through ToS so I don't experience a repeat of the Sun Microsystems Debacle of 2001 (where I watched $140,000 in paper wealth shrink to $30-something,000 before finally cashing out—still not bad for an initial $7K bet).

All we have to do is sweep Cleveland in Cleveland, and we will win the division.

Ah, I thought you meant scroll down the page whence I got the screenshot or something. Totally missed that because I was replying to your earlier post, the one before you mentioned that.

OK, I'll bite, what am I missing?

Twins surprise the roaring Guardians with a 6-2 defeat, and now our magic number has dropped to:

Much as I don't disagree in principle, we really didn't have much in the way of options, especially since we've already used Hurter, Kahnle, and Holton, and Sewald was probably already a little gassed from Friday:

At least they're giving us a little something to go to Cleveland with at the end here.

This Rainey guy has a lifetime BB9 of 6. For you guys who like percentages better, that's 14.8% of guys faced walk. Big league average is basically in the mid-eights.

Impending loss delayed due to inclement weather.

This, 0%. Smells like existential spiraling.

This, 100%. There is zero chance we trade Skubal unless we simply trade everyone else of any value, blow it all up, and start over.

Well, TBF, given Vest's overall superior ninth inning save performance this year, there was nothing to indicate he would cough up the game, and yet, he did. It happens, but man, what a terrible time for him to turn into a pumpkin.

Every accusation is a confession.

Oh, hey, Benetti out again? What, is there a D3 football game on some RSN’s plus channel that needed a PxP guy today?

This post overrates how much Harris inherited from Avila. Harris basically saved Avila’s draft picks. Mize was an often-injured underachiever. Jobe had just been drafted and hadn’t done anything yet. Riley was a rookie. Olson, Keith, and Dingler were all minor leaguers who hadn’t done anything yet. Meadows was an underachieving minor leaguer perpetually stuck in neutral. Tork was flailing like a fish washed up on the beach. Only Skubal was a finished product, and he basically developed himself outside Avila’s system. Aso, keep in mind that Mize and Tork were consensus 1-1 picks, and Riley was the #5 overall consensus pick. So Avila ended up just taking the same guy everyone else would have taken anyway. I will grant you Jackson Jobe was considered a way out there pick, but his development also belongs to Harris as well. So, to the degree Avila’s draft picks are great contributors to our team, practically none of them were due to Avila’s drafting and development genius. It took Harris and his hires to turn them into as productive as major leaguers as they are. And even though these Avila’s picks are still in the system, Harris had to ****can a lot a lot of other Avila picks and signs.

This post overrates how much Harris inherited from Avila. Harris basically saved Avila’s draft picks. Mize was an often-injured underachiever. Jobe had just been drafted and hadn’t done anything yet. Riley was a rookie. Olson, Keith, and Dingler were all minor leaguers who hadn’t done anything yet. Meadows was an underachieving minor leaguer perpetually stuck in neutral. Tork was flailing like a fish washed up on the beach. Only Skubal was a finished product, and he basically developed himself outside Avila’s system. Aso, keep in mind that Mize and Tork were consensus 1-1 picks, and Riley was the #5 overall consensus pick. So Avila ended up just taking the same guy everyone else would have taken anyway. I will grant you Jackson Jobe was considered a way out there pick, but his development also belongs to Harris as well. So, to the degree Avila’s draft picks are great contributors to our team, practically none of them were due to Avila’s drafting and development genius. It took Harris and his hires to turn them into as productive as major leaguers as they are. And even though these Avila’s picks are still in the system, Harris had to ****can a lot a lot of other Avila picks and signs.

Still got time for 6-1!

So much for the idea that Harris is asleep at the switch and would never DFA one of his guys for fear of losing face.