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  1. Pretty even trade, probably good for both sides. Cards ate $20M but get back a graduated fringe top 100 SP prospect and a SP prospect who was top 5 in Boston’s system. Sox get a rental ToR and only have to pay him $20M, but gave up 2 good young pitching prospects.
  2. That goes both ways. Using war to evaluate any given player is just as fallible as using prospect grades to evaluate prospects, so evaluating trades in the moment is always extremely subjective. But I don’t know what your intention was in tagging me, alluding to the idea that prioritizing maintaining a healthy farm system runs contrary to winning. It doesn’t. Teams that don’t prioritize the farm might have a stretch of winning, but the only guarantee is that they won’t be winning much longer.
  3. I absolutley agree with you but I’m doing a very shitty job preparing. I’m in professional services consulting/project mgmt and I can’t really envision a scenario where there isn’t a 50%+ reduction in total jobs in that sector within 8 years. So I know I’m max 2-5 years away from a very likely axe but feel paralyzed on what to do, because I’m worried effort spent upskilling will be in vain (like I will spend a bunch of resources learning some shit only to find out it became obsolete) and a total career transition in my late 40s feels impossible. At this point I’m resigned to riding my current gig out as long as I can and hoping I can quickly figure it out once it ends. It’s really really hard to look into the medium term future and see where the good jobs will be.
  4. Yeah prospects have no value and teams with the mentality that the farm system can be bludgeoned and ignored usually win a lot.
  5. Going to be interesting. Far too many unknowns. If (significant “if”) Trump doesn’t run for a 3rd term, the GOP nominee will be either Rubio or Eyeliner. Especially if it’s Rubio, that makes it even tougher for the Dems to win with an establishment moderate like Newsome or Beshear. I think people are hungry for a dynamic/anti-establishment (straight white male) candidate. I don’t see that player on the roster, but I suppose one could emerge.
  6. Hard to envision who that could be. Al Franken?
  7. This is the way. Anyone not responding like this is missing the mark.
  8. Stearns has not been nearly as good in NY as I expected. Bringing in a 35 year old 2B coming off a terrible season and paying him $75M?! Bad idea jeans.
  9. Usually once you get southeast of Gonzales there’s a steady flow of maga signs all the way to the coast. One ranch just north of Cuero has always had a huge Trump flag out on hwy 183. Wasn’t there yesterday. Like I said it’s the first time in almost a decade that I haven’t seen a single sign on that trip. Not reading too much into it and I’m sure I’ll see some fucking Paxton signs starting next year. And I haven’t been to the speedy stop in POC yet, that’s usually the hive mind of the poorly educated and the purest pool of maga in the world.
  10. Anecdotal observation: for the first time since at least 2017, I did not see a single Trump/MAGA sign on the drive from Austin to Port O’Connor.
  11. This is like in that movie Deep Impact when the Sec of Treasury resigns abruptly because he knows about the pending Extinction Level Event.
  12. Not bad. I’d want NY to toss in some money or throw in a prospect but it’s close enough in value and it makes sense for both sides.
  13. It’s 11+ months until midterms and 3+ years until the next presidential election. This is not bad for Democrats but the risk of the trough of Trump’s approval coming too soon is very real. It boggles my mind that after how the last decade has gone there is anyone left who is willingly stating “oh yea this is it, Trump’s finished.” That fucking piece of excrement isn’t finished until he’s all the way under the ground and his grave is soaked with my urine. And even then there will need to be a lot of care to make sure the remaining roaches don’t start a new infestation.
  14. This was not a good trade but the Astros are desperate for payroll flexibility, having $80M committed this season to Walker, Hader, McCullers, and Javier. I just really hope they don’t trade Jake Meyers for nothing. He’s not making even as much as Dubon will and he’s worth far more. If they trade him it needs to be for a meaningful prospect or for a pitcher who will make a major contribution to the 2026 team.
  15. Hunter Brown. Or Correa.
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