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Collins in May (21 games) .319/.489/.551 1.040 OPS 25% BB 22.8% K 5 HR 11 RBI 17 R

I'm surprised more power hitters who get heavily shifted against don't do this more frequently. Keep taking the free base they keep giving you until they stop shifting.

They're not going to rush him because the big league club they expect to win roughly 60 games has a need. If he keeps hitting like he has since April 24, however, he might be seen on a Chicago roster near you in mid 2019.

Bohm did Thomas's signature 2 strike approach, complete with bloop single to RF, in one of the videos I saw. That's what sold me on the comp in that regard.

Bohm is worth the pick at 4. Not saying he'll be anywhere near the hitter, but his swing and approach remind me a lot of Frank Thomas in the video clips I've seen of him.

Collins 2-2 up to .260 on the year.

Cease also. Anyone watching the game care to share how he looks?

If Micker keeps hitting, you might be able to put him in RF and Robert in CF.

Collins, Zavala, Dunning, Hansen, the few pen arms in AA and AAA, the crapload of talent in WS and Kanny, and the #4 overall pick on June 4.

You're wrong. If you can get an Eloy like prospect or a package like the Nats gave up for Eaton, you do it. If he wants to be here for the competitive run, he can be resigned in 2020. I like Abreu, but stacking the deck as much as possible for 2020-2023 has to be the organizational priority right now.

Or wait for Collins and potentially have a generational talent at C. One of those two.

Damnit, Ron. This isn't how it works. You're suppossed to talk about how awful and terrible he is so he performs like a star. You know, like you did/do with Abreu.

This is where I say if we change the messaging to focus on economic issues, especially in a place like rust belt Indiana where all the steel mill and factory jobs people used to come from around the country to get have evaporated, we could get a progressive Democrat in the Senate or House.

There only was and ever will be one Spygate, it was worse than the Black Sox scandal, and to date those cheating bastards haven't been appropriately punished for it.

I still don't trust the establishment Democrats to turn on their corporate masters when the time comes. On an unrelated note, Joe Donnelly represents the problem I have with the system. I want a better choice than he as a candidate for senator. There isn't one. He ran unopposed in the primary and I found out that Indiana's laws don't even allow me the option to write in a candidate in a primary election.

Only 15 of 48 voted correctly on banking deregulation, why would I expect them to vote correctly on a financial transaction tax or a tax increase for the wealthy, for example?

Not on economic issues.

I suppose I should change that from "some Democratic politicians" to "most establishment Democratic politicians".

Then why did you? You were the one who brought race into the discussion, in a manner designed to be misleading. Perfect on every issue? LOL, a coin flip would be better on the issues than some Democratic politicians.

You seriously said this after your outrage that I used raw numbers to compare the US and Canada rather than percentages? Hypocrisy much? How about banking deregulation? Please, tell me how opposed establishment Democrats are to that while 33 Democratic senators just voted to neuter Dodd-Frank. There is a viable funding source. It's called taxation of the wealthy and of financial transactions. If you know that his policies are the ones that will benefit women and POC most, YOU could educate them on that fact rather than bash Bernie for not effectively communicating. Besides, Democrats have counted on, and gotten, the minority vote while doing relatively little to earn it for decades now. Why is it that only when someone comes along with ideas that can actually help them does "excit[ing] and mobiliz[ing]" that part of the base become important? Again, if the guy has the right message, and your goal is winning in 2018 and 2020, supporting him and communicating his message effectively seems like the most logical thing to do. Makes sense. I didn't know Hillary Clinton and the people who were running the DNC at the time were "No. One." in 2016. They are now for all intents and purposes, but they weren't then.

Dunning is in AA. Hansen will be in AA when he gets back. I'd also be surprised if most of the org's A ball teams weren't promoted by the All-Star break at the latest. "Development isn't linear" happens both ways. Ronald Acuna hadn't played a game above low A prior to 2017.

I don't think they'd call Collins up right now unless there were no other options. Alfredo Gonzalez or Brett Austin will get the call first.

Zavala is on the DL. So is Kevan Smith. There's no real replacement option in the org at the moment.

1) Because people are convinced to vote against their own interests so often, and Democrats are part of that problem. By listening to the bad advice of "be moderate in swing districts", Democrats don't actually give these voters a candidate to vote for. See Conor Lamb, who the article mentions. How did he win a district that typically votes hugely conservative? By campaigning on the important economic issues in that area. He campaigned on defending unions, social security, and medicare, and fighting for better healthcare and education funding for higher education. He hit all the economic issues that were important to his constituency, and now he's a representative. 2) For someone as utilitarian as you present yourself to be about just winning in 2018 and 2020, this seems an odd criticism. The guy has the right message. If he's not framing it right, wouldn't it be better from the utilitarian perspective of only being concerned about winning in 2018 and 2020 to try to help him frame it correctly than to criticize him for not framing it correctly? We saw the result of the latter of those two approaches in the 2016 election.

I don't know what you're considering to be "Bernie's Brand", but I consider it to be the progressive economic policies that have wild popularity in all polling that's been done since 2015. From the "hopefully now Reddy will get it" section of the article: Be sure to read that last paragraph several times.