Balta1701

? Trump has something like 100,000 more votes in that county than he had there in 2016;

I mean it comes down to the budgets. If we are severely limited by last years losses, then he’s a decent gamble.

I don’t think there was an interview process. I think the chairman said this is happening and it happened. They scheduled a bulls**t interview with Willie Harris to check the Selig rule box having already told TLDR that the job was his.

I think Morton is going to see how much the contracts drop this year and decide it’s not worth it to him.

I spent 6 months unemployed because the Republicans blocked aid to schools and universities and just now have a new job. Jim Beam and I can afford and be happy with it.

Watching Star Trek and drinking whiskey.

I mean, yesterday when people asked why he had gone on MLB network and answered questions saying “we’re strong at shortstop and 1b” people wondered why he hadn’t said any players names. The obvious explanation is that since he didn’t have to interview or prepare, he doesn’t know them yet. That would fully explain why he couldn’t do local media where they would want to talk about certain players too, fitting that hypothesis.

1. Those 4-5 states. 2. The Republican Party, which has lost the popular vote in 4 of the last 5 elections but won 2 of them that way.

I still want revenge for 2016...and I think he should resign and go take the Phillies job.

I think almost all veterans this year will be "Cut price deals". A late 30s catcher who has been on pace for ~1-1.5 fWAR in value the last 2 years and is probably a backup most days? I mean probably a good chance in February he can get a big league deal, but if teams are aggressively limiting new contracts, he's barely getting anything this year.

I mean, the obvious answer is that he didn't have to do a full interview, so he didn't actually learn them all.

An appeals court panel is less likely to be 3 extremely pro-GOP judges, and even if he had put a stay on the order it would create a complete mess because voting is continuing today - do people who were going to vote that way just stop doing it tonight?

Thank Goodness, I thought this judge was going to throw those votes out.

I think it's very important for so-called moderate Republicans to keep having those connections written down. How much of this mess is because the Republicans wanted to keep the angry part of this country angry and engaged, but still saying the quiet part quietly? Trump comes out and says the quiet part out loud "Mexicans are rapists" and all of a sudden he's got the entire party wrapped around his finger, because he gave their base openly what they've been trying to say quietly for decades. It's the reverse of the 1981 Lee Atwater memo - the base wanted to be able to say (n-blank blank blank), they got tired of being told that wasn't ok, and when someone came around doing it, they were thrilled. (https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/)

Y'all can disagree with me on this one all you want, but I ask y'all - how many things that paved the path to the Trump administration started under the Bush Administration (or closely thereafter)? The "Torture is all manly" talk. They literally committed war crimes, they are in writing organizing them, including legal memos justifying them. None were ever prosecuted. The anti-Muslim, anti-immigration things. Remember in 2010 how "Muslims are building a mosque at ground zero this is a betrayal of freedom!!!" was their closing argument for the election? And they couldn't pass an immigration bill despite bipartisan support and the President's support because the Republicans in Congress wouldnt' let a bill come forward that they labeled "amnesty"? Undermining the government itself - remember when the Bush administration fired a set of US attorneys because they wouldn't prosecute fraudulent voter fraud claims against Democrats? The part where Trump keeps leaking information to Russians to try to damage the US or his opponents - remember when the Bush Administration outed a CIA agent? And that was because that agent said a piece of the info they used to justify the Iraq war was a forgery, and they needed to retaliate? The wrapping up of nationalism in the flag, starting with 9/11. Ongoing. The Bush administration was the birth of "Free speech zones", where police would herd demonstrators into cages away from view of important people. Trump's corruption - remember how many no-bid contracts went to Dick Cheney's former company? Trump's interactions with the media - remember when the Bush Administration found a spot in the White House press corps for a homosexual male escort who would lob their press secretaries softball questions (Yes that was a real thing and it's still hard to believe). Oh, almost forgot Climate Denial. Do people remember that John McCain had a climate change plan? I could go on but I have work to do. Many of these were taken to extremes by the Trump administration, but the Republican party made itself ok with them a decade ago, then were surprised when they ran into a candidate saying all the things out loud that they were saying quietly or in code. "No amnesty" became "No immigrants" and so on.

TY for posting this. This is top level garbage human being behavior. Or "Very fine people" in the modern parlance.

New pitching coach is best hope. Is that pitching coach a LaRussa buddy or someone who has been working and learning the last 5 years?

Apparently the state of Texas does not count the rapid test results as part of their total, so even if you knew the reported numbers, you don’t actually know them.

I mean Tyler Glasgow pulled that improvement off midseason after being traded to Tampa Bay so it can be done.

He was bullsh*tting on the number but he publicly complained about losing $100 million earlier this year. One big difference with Detroit is that I think a lot of Reinsdorf’s wealth and the organization’s money is tied up in assets such as the teams and real estate. That could mean that they only have a limited amount of cash in the organization available to cover losses - and the rest of ownership isn’t likely to kick in a lot of loose cash to cover losses year after year. In other words, this org isn’t built to do that. Depending on how much cash they paid out to the owners the last few years and how much they lost this year, a short period of losses could leave them somewhat cash-poor.

At this point, Passans article has now had space on ESPN.com and on their app main pages for 3 days, so readership and interest in that article must be pretty big. I can’t read them, but the Tribune is running articles saying “deal with it” because that’s all they can do. There seems to have been, aside from LaRussa’s sincerely held comments about being sincere, zero effort at damage control. They haven’t given the fans anything. They haven’t made any of the players available for an interview. They haven’t provided quotes from any of the players. They didn’t bother to track down any of LaRussa’s former players to give a quote praising him on any of the things we’d have called baggage. They didn’t announce any of his staff or anything neW that the fans could get excited about. Notably, when the Tigers hired Hinch, they did a couple of these - gave a positive story about his interview for the press (we called him 30 minutes after the World Series!) and they had a comment from a former player named Justin Verlander, who has some connection to Detroit. The White Sox did none of the basic PR efforts other than a press conference where LaRussa got publicly called on his bullsh*t by basically every major baseball writer and angry fans literally put them as the top trending story on Twitter after they did it. So, either the white Sox did not anticipate an intensely angry reaction from their fan base (and players and league) to this, or they did and didn’t care if they look bad to the rest of the league and country. I'm not sure which would be worse.

If they had a decent running game it would have been reasonable.

What the hell was that?

Note what you are doing though - you are arguing the finer points of policy. This is not a blanket statement that something is good because it’s in-between the two parties. That is fundamentally different from saying “the wings should be voted out”, it’s a request to focus on policy differences. I’m mostly ok with that (outside of inhuman policies like what Trump is doing with immigration which should have people in the government right now being sent to jail.) when you say the wings should be voted out, you lose policies on immigration and climate change that you might well support.