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Good thing players had opportunities outside the system to go develop themselves so they could save their one and only career chance.

“Tarik Skubal is going to play out the next two years and will then go to market. The Detroit Tigers will be free to bid on him at that time, same as everyone else.”

There’s nothing to showcase. Matt Manning is broken.

This seems like a reasonable option.

I don't know, maybe. Money talks, though ...

A lot of hay gets made about how this team is the second incarnation of the Get Along Gang, and personally, I love that that's the case. But I would bet if Torkelson were reduced to a platoon role, he'd launch a campaign of dropping turds into the clubhouse punch bowl on the regular.

As long as we were to get positive wins out of the guy, I wouldn't care what his role is.

Thank you for your service. I would bet people running for office are far more interested in the number of dollars being donated over the number of donors donating them.

Hey, man, it wasn't for lack of trying. Trump wanted to have his military shoot protesters in DC back in 2020. Esper was able to shut it down. Thank god we had some guardrails left at that point, but he wouldn't have any Espers in his administration this time around. Also, lol the idea "teh left" is the violent side. Unless by "instigate" you mean "teh left" instigates more protests. Because I don't know whether you've been keeping up with things, but the side I'm on is not the side with all the weapons.

Look again—the colors are based on number of donors, not money. ZIP code 48089 is a good example. Hover over that ZIP and you will see Biden/Harris beats Trump ondonors, 171 to 129; but Trump more than doubles them up on cash, $20,000 to $9,000. This is true of a lot of pale blue ZIPs on the map. At least my home ZIP of 48093 is true blue.

As long as Trump is shifting taxpayer money from government coffers to corporate coffers, they'll ignore the chaos.

I really wish we could go back to the MTS archives so I can see all the things I posted back in November 2016 about all the things I feared Trump might do as president, posts that were lambasted and dismissed as "Alarmist Non-sense", and compare them to what everyone else inside and outside MTF is saying today what they fear Trump will do, and see what my hit rate is. It's got to be over 50%. Maybe way over.

It's official!

If Trump is going to praise Hitler, how is Trump not going to emulate him, and not take it all the way? Power over the lives and deaths of an entire nation of people is the ultimate power trip. It's exactly what Trump admires about Kim Jong Un!

And replace him with whom? Who's better for billionaires than Trump?

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.