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This I don't agree with at all.

No way the Yankees let the Mets steal Soto, and besides, there's nothing in it for Soto to leave the Yankees. Extra money? He'll already be on his way to being a billionaire by staying, and in the wider baseball world, Yankees >>> Mets, Yankees >>> Dodgers, Yankees >>>> Red Sox, Yankees >>>>> Cubs, and Yankees >>>>>>>>>> any other team.

The difference being making a trade doesn't typically put you on the hook for nine figures.

Money is speech.

You should probably contact them and let them know that's what they're doing. Try inquiries@democrats.org, that should probably get there. Or leave them a suggestion at https://democrats.org/contact-us/.

It’s very nice when you’re on vacation at a site and someone agrees to take a picture of you and your wife in front of the site, although it is annoying when they hand the phone back to you after and you see they have taken fourteen of the same picture, so you have to delete thirteen of them.

Riley.

I really doubt the Yankees can afford to let the kid who just won them the American League pennant in an iconic-optics fashion to just walk away from them to go to Detroit. They would never be able to explain that to Yankee Nation, and they wouldn’t live it down for years. They could not get away with taking that big a dump in the punchbowl. There is no one else Soto’s age in the game with such potential to end up an inner-circle Hall of Famer; he already is on one of the two teams that can comfortably pay what he demands; and he basically has them over a barrel. Soto will probably be their #1 star into the 2030s.

I wouldn’t doubt we see Jobe coming out of camp. You just know he’s going to have a relatively focused and intense winter. No chilling out in the islands for weeks on end for this guy. This is the paying dues portion of his young career. I don’t think Montero is ever going to be more than just Mr. Right Now. There’s a good chance Mize ends up as Mr. What Could Have Been. Mazda might be simply done. I’m with you on the rest of your March-April rotation.

Right, pitching chaos was never going to be a roster-affecting go-forward strategy. It’s a fun label for the concept of making do with what you got.

Pete Alonso is what Tork can only hope to be. That’s his max upside. I’m not sure how he gets there with us. I think he’s one of those gotta-go-up-there-with-a-clear-head guys.

Hillary was up comfortably in all the final polls before that election. Biden was up eight points in the average of top polls before that election. What did these tell us about the election results? I don’t think polls matter anymore, except as entertainment value, and perhaps as evidence in the court cases seeking to overturn the election.

Weren't we posting this exact thing on the old board during his actual administration?

Colin from Accounts. Watch it.

I guess at that point I'll get my gun and my single bullet, since I am not interested in landing in any MAGA death camp. 😉

Am I the only person here who doesn’t give a flying **** about polls? So many of them are so compromised that they tell us literally nothing about what to expect from election results.

Blame the voters all you want for not suddenly snapping out of their zeitgeist reverie en masse, but it really does come down to a combination of a poor educational system that values worker bees over critical thinkers, and a fragmented media environment that make delicious conspiracy theories so goddamned accessible. People used to have to seek out Bircher-type content—now it comes into people’s inbox practically unbidden, and not exactly unwelcome. If you’re being honest and you want to blame the right thing here, you might just have to blame the whole idea of universal democracy in the first place, because this state of affairs is exactly what the conservative elites of the 18th Century warned against.

Can you imagine the pharmaceuticals they are pumping this guy up with just to keep him going even as well as he is?

Seems like Aubrey Huff might be rough trade.

I could be talked into a subscription to this. We have gotten years and years of valuable free info from TR, so I don’t begrudge them wanting to monetize their USP. It’s only thirty bucks for a year. I have more than that sitting around unused in Apple Pay and Venmo accounts. The main thing I hope they don’t do is what Sean did to Stathead, and to Reference in general: double and triple the rate while plateauing the feature set, and in his case, even reducing functionality.

I don’t think we should have a primary DH until at least six other positions have been totally solved, that is, manned by full-time reliable guys. I think we’re getting closer. Right now I believe first base, third base, shortstop, and right field are still unsolved, and catcher is basically half-solved. So we still need DH open to work guys who are slotting in and out of those other positions to keep their bats fresh. But I think once we close up at least 2-1/2 of those positions, then we can entertain employing a full-time DH.

The joke was not about his being right wing. It’s about the idea of a school-age child listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading Heritage Foundation tracts. Not typically topics of conversation among the kids. If you’d said you listened to Radio Havana and read Das Kapital for fun as a kid, I might have said the same thing about you! 😉 😁

well, then, it must be zero.

Better than misspelling it as “DETOILET”.

Just for kicks, I wanted to determine the most common last name in the United States that has never had a player with that name in major league baseball. As you might suspect, the top ones are names that have become popular through immigration in the past half century. The top four names on the list are Nguyen, Patel, Tran, and Singh. Names a few spots down the list also include Li, Chan, Liu, Le, Wu, and Khan. I'm sure we'll get ballplayers with those names in the majors in the next half century, but probably not quite yet. So, at the risk of being politically incorrect, I am going to limit this to names that are not indicative of recent immigration trends—that is, names that are European. Can you guess what's the most common European-based name that has never appeared on the rolls of major league baseball? I am not counting negro leagues, because the top name on this list does have two negro leaguers with the name. While you're noodling this, here's a fun fact: the seventh-most common European last name not represented in big league baseball had been, before this season, Keith.