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Big companies in Germany definitely did not discourage that during the Reichstage. Fungible slave labor was really good for their bottom line. I don't see why it would be any different now.

The ultimate end goal of the work camps in Germany was to work the inmates to death, and then replace them on the fly with newly-captured inmates. You're young enough where they could probably get a few weeks or months out of you, but I'm too old to work anymore, so I'm gone in the first wave. Although you, personally, probably know too much so you might expire with me.

Wouldn't it? Just seizing the assets of the people being exterminated would be lucrative well beyond just funding the operation. That's exactly how the Germans funded the Holocaust, by seizing the assets of the victims. And since almost everyone's wealth is available only online anymore, it would be easier than ever to simply drain all their accounts electronically.

This is an idea not to be casually dismissed. If America were to fall to Trump and then join forces the Russia-China-North Korea-Iran Axis, the rest of the world wouldn't be able to stand up to it. The remaining NATO countries would either be overrun militarily, or cave to right wing fascism from within or at the point of America's nuclear gun. And Canada would probably be the least safe place to go, due to proximity, and they'd be the first to fall, probably without a shot fired. In this scenario, the last countries standing might could end up being Australia and New Zealand, only because of their geography, although they could simply collapse economically at that point.

Harris basically threw down the gauntlet to Tork in the end of season press conference: they need to have a big offseason and improve himself and his production at first base. We are a contender now and we can’t afford to see him fail his way to getting better for us. Not for nothing, Casey Mize is in the same boat. The organization has spent time and treasure trying to get his potential out of him and 2021 is the only decent season he’s turned in so far. We’re basically a winner now and we’re doing it without Mize. He wasn’t even on the playoff roster. I think this is absolutely the last chance for both of them here, and actually, it wouldn’t surprise me to see one and/or the other traded in the offseason to someplace that thinks they can fix them. We won’t take something/anything for him, but with Harris in charge, I don’t think it will come down to that, anyway.

It’s so hard to project because Colt’s only 23 and he’s in a teaching system, so I think there was wide variance of outcomes at play here. McAuliffe is a pretty good baseline, in that if he’s worse than that, I think I’d be disappointed. Colt’s reasonable upside might be Jeff Kent, which is borderline Hall of Famer. The $64 question to me is whether Colt sticks at second base. I would think if we come across a plus defender with at least an average stick there, Colt moves somewhere else, but I think that would take a pretty good find for that to happen any time soon.

I also wonder whether another part of it may be that, since the World Series is such a behemoth to plan out, for broadcasters and the league and including for fans who make travel plans contingent on certain dates, they can’t be as flexible about scheduling at the last minute as they might want to be. Because I gotta believe Baseball would be thrilled to avoid the (undeserved) bad optics of playing into November.

It would not shock me to learn that the rappers are also getting paid under the table to publicly endorse Trump. Or is it more likely that they're doing so for free?

If I'm reading this right, maybe FanDuel isn't a completely done deal for the Tigers after all. I might hold out hope, but I'd ... ahem ... bet that the Tigers go into that fold before next season. Marlins Have New Broadcast Deal with Diamond Sports Group for 2025 The Miami Marlins have reached a new deal to have Diamond Sports Group broadcast their games in the 2025 season, as revealed in bankruptcy court on Friday. No specifics about the Marlins’ deal have been reported as of yet. However, Diamond did announce that it has also come to a new naming-rights deal for its sports networks, so the former Bally Sports networks will all now be FanDuel Sports networks. At the moment, Miami and Atlanta are the only MLB teams with agreements with Diamond for 2025, and Diamond still has to provide the court with a viable business plan to avoid liquidation. The hearing to determine that viability will begin on November 14, per Evan Drellich of The Athletic.

Weapon of mass distraction.

Perhaps it because Hinch thought exposing Skubal for a fourth go through the order would have been worse than bringing in studs Will Vest and Tyler Holton. Plus his four-seamer had lost a couple inches of rise by that time, so it was probably time.

Ask Leo Mazzone.

Grin, duck, and run?

It is a lot better these days because there is meaty baseball news all year round. It wasn’t like that pre-media. You could go weeks and weeks and not get a shred of news on broadcast or in newspapers. You could get subscriptions to the Sporting News or SI or Sport magazine and the like, but anything you read there was already a week old or more. Now, nothing goes five minutes before it lands here.

Is that any worse than starting the season in March?

Mark Simon thinks Riley might get a Fielding Bible Award this offseason. Left Field Fielding Bible Award Favorite: Riley Greene (14) NL Gold Glove Favorite: Ian Happ (8) AL Gold Glove Favorite: Greene Fielding Bible Award Top Contenders: Wyatt Langford (12), Steven Kwan (10), Brandon Marsh (7) Greene, who moved to left field with the emergence of Parker Meadows, starred there, finishing second at the position in the range component of Defensive Runs Saved and boosted his total with 3 home run robberies. Wyatt Langford, who won September's co-Defensive Player of the Month, two-time Fielding Bible Award winner Kwan, and two-time Gold Glove winner Happ should be his toughest competition, as each has a formidable resume as well.

Don't forget the $600 million.

Used to be people would break into other people's houses to steal stuff. Anonymous B&E was fairly common 30 or 40 years ago. Since then, B&E has dropped by 80% or more. That's because criminals figure that every house has two things they didn't have back then: a surveillance camera, and a gun. And even if there is no gun, they'd be made by the camera. So B&E doesn't pay anymore. I think it would be the same if dashcams were standard equipment on new cars, which I can see them becoming in another decade, two tops. You wouldn't see this kind of nonsense, nor would you see people approaching cars to commit mayhem. They'd be made.

Remember at the Kamala rally when she mentioned how Trump picked three justices just so Roe v Wade could be overturned, and the hecklers shouted "Lies! Lies! Lies!", and she directed them down the road to the lesser-attended rally? Here's how it's being played in the RWM. It might have some legs, too.

This is not disabusing me of the notion I've gotten in the past year or two than Trump is at least a little closeted.

Man, I hope you're right, because the closer we get, the more uncertain I am.

Remember: not a genocide.

I don’t know, I think a lot of people are going to find this charming. Not sure it gets him many votes, but I don’t think it’ll lose him any.