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“Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences.” That’s ****ing rich.

The whole idea is to destroy the credibility of the numbers—not just economic numbers but all the numbers the government has traditionally been responsible for—so that business will have to rely solely on the discretionary goodwill and largesse of the Trump government to succeed, instead of working as independent entities within a system as before. And they will have to pay the price of admission to obtain that goodwill and largesse, both in terms of money and willingness to comply.

They could buy it Colbert for way way less than $30 million and just ****can everyone else and save a couple Ms. If it’s about the money.

Man that pitch Realmuto swung and missed on for strike three was literally up around his eyes.

I think Morton is a better pitcher than Montero, especially lately. But if Morton breaks a hip while on the mound, Montero can be the backup starter.

So I read something today that I missed the first time around, I guess, and makes more sense than anything else: perhaps one reason why we didn’t buy ourselves a fire-breathing strikeout reliever at the deadline is because Scott Harris thinks Troy Melton might be that guy. And that does make sense, since he did strike out something like 13 batters per nine in Toledo. So sure, why not give him a try there?

Flip side: I saw an astonishing number of unhoused people in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and, of course, Portland. It's something about western cities.

Plus they came out during the 70s, a decade which sexualized underage girls to a frightening and unprecedented degree. It was actually the Brooke Shields documentary from a few years ago from which I learned why that actually happened.

Trump will issue a decree demanding some blue state install LT as a principal at a girls-only middle school or risk losing federal education funds.

That's right!

Yes, they have.

That's what I thought! 😂

So, zombie runner outrage >>> Tiger extra-inning win? Do I have that straight? 😉

I can't think of anyone Harris has screwed over.

Al Avila was not hard to deal with.

To Oblong's point, it works.

If it was really only about losing money, wouldn’t they have axed him immediately, instead of continuing to lose money for another nine months?

Yes, I did forget to mention the Diamondbacks. Well, if “crap happens”, you know whom to blame.

I’m sure Harris growing into someone who’s easy to deal with would please the several other GMs. My question is, is that something we really need?

And with Isaac Paredes, Willi Castro, Daz Cameron, Christin Stewart, and Parker Meadows anchoring our lineup, Al Avila has positioned us for a slew of pennants!

If they make it that far and productively, in ten years, those four might cost something close to $200 million a season just by themselves.

It occurs to me that when a team acquires talent because it is “proven”, they are by definition looking backward and not forward. They are paying for past performance and not future results, and as we know from investing caveats, the former is not indicative of the latter. I’m glad the GM/PBO of the team I follow most does not invest based mainly on past performance.

Do you think Harris is likely to keep Kahnle to save face even if we have better options in-house?

Both Fangraphs and Reference say we are middle of the pack at third base. What are you seeing that says different?