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  1. Agreed, that’s also a very moveable contract. True, and it’s unlikely we’ll be able to test this prediction, but if we do get Durant be prepared for him to speak out about how shitty our offensive sets are and that he has to do all of the work.
  2. Maybe it’s not the amount of the discount, it’s who is making it. I bet @Gil Bang doesn’t call the buxom travel nurse who wants his ADU and mentions “btw, I like to sunbathe nude if that’s okay” an asshole if she asks for a discount….
  3. I would love to take someone with his shooting ability and give him Green’s minutes. Unfortunately, I think you mostly have to hide him on defense at the 4, maybe he plays 3 in a big lineup and you sacrifice a lot of defense for offense. I think that’s a bad fit unless you’re making other trades. Aside from Amen, the current Rockets look a little like a team of mismatched parts welded together. They each have deficiencies that can be covered up by other guys on the floor, but it also means that plugging someone new in has more fit challenges than on, say the Lakers.
  4. Circling back to @Hank Kingsley's point about announcing now for '28, I've been thinking that one reason to NOT would be that it'd be a lot of time for the arrows to land and for voters to get fatigued. That said, there was an Atlantic article on 6/9 talking about how poorly measured so much of the Democratic campaigns outreach efforts have been, and the TL:DR on it is that what worked in 2016 appears to have really diminishing returns in 2018 and very little impact in 2024. Dem campaign subcontractors and policy groups don't like to talk about this because it undermines their value when trying to solicit donations. At the end of the article, a source made the point that the GOP is far better at creating in between election engagement and that's helped neuter Dem campaign efforts (i.e., if you're a Rogen listener and you've heard from a number of GOP officials, or comedians mocking incumbent Biden, etc., over the past couple of years, a personalized snail mail letter or really good social media campaign in the 60 days prior to the election isn't having much impact). Another interesting finding was that door knocking might actually be improving your opponents chances, i.e., voters in high engagement races are already saturated with outreach and are displeased at being bothered in person. Anyway, if you follow that logic, announcing now gives you the opportunity to build out your coalition more organically and follow the GOP playbook of making it more of a cultural (or for @troph and fellow Greg Casar lovers, economic) movement.
  5. I wouldn't say entirely unscathed, apparently he's getting primaried if someone can meet your price 😉
  6. I’m not sure I understand, although perhaps I’m missing a Strake Jesuit joke. He’s a member of the congressional Hispanic caucus, so he appears to think he’s Hispanic.
  7. To be fair, let's not exaggerate the political brilliance of Casar winning in a district that's 53.8% hispanic. I know you like to lay the blame for enforcing the homeless camping ban at the feet of law enforcement, but it's undoubtedly true that he was way out in front of a permissiveness that was loudly rebuked by voters.
  8. I'm not picking on you specifically, but the left doesn't need to aggrandize the GOP and shouldn't try to mimic their more dysfunctional behaviors in order to win elections. This requires some hope, but if the Dems can find a really good communicator that's cool it'll go a LONG way to revealing how fragile the GOP 2024 coalition was. @Bozo_Casanova has been beating this drum (and for the record and for @bolverk, I disagree with him somewhat on "it's the singer, not the song"), and it's been also getting discussed by all the of the lefty podcasters--throw out 2024, that was a self-own by Biden and the rest of the party and it's not going to teach helpful lessons next year or when the race heats up in 2027. Instead, what they/we need to acknowledge is that the way information is getting passed from elites to everyone else, from business to consumer, from neighbor to neighbor, etc., has had a revolutionary change in the last decade. I'll give you an example--my 75 year dad asked me yesterday "Do you know what Reels are? I've been watching those, they are so funny!" He's not watching 60 Minutes, he's consuming media via the shit we mock as the domain of ignorant Gen Z. Whoever masters the new media environment is likelier than not to win elections. Do that and pick a few policies that are broadly popular like David Shor recommends and see who's best at getting attention in a long primary season.
  9. I would be shocked if a) the Astros were willing to take on his salary or b) Brown would be willing with the prospects needed to get Tampa to pay his salary. Also, Lowe kinda sucks. He's an upgrade only because Rogers is terrible (although, if you are taking a look at second basemen league wide, he's below average but far from the bottom in WAR). I wish they'd give Whitcomb the at bats and we can at least see if he's viable before he's a minor league free agent.
  10. I'm not really into calling out individual posters out on it, but @Bozo_Casanova is right in that a number of contributors to this thread (and across CR) want to make this an echo chamber demanding a progressive purity that is a doomed electoral strategy. It's also tone-deaf, as they sit in judgment of politicians that try to reach out to Trump voters and then wonder why those same voters think Democrats are a bunch of snobs. There is no Obama coalition anymore. If you don't want President Vance in '28 we're going to need to make inroads into any groups that share some (but not all) of the party's priorities. Nah, that's a bad process and what led to Harris (although I'm not second guessing the decision given the lack of time for a proper primary). Dems need whoever is able to win a fully contested primary, that's it. I don't think that's a permanent solution to governing an electorate that wants every election to be a change election, but that's a separate discussion. I actually disagree with each of these. Let's not confuse Trump's almost singular ability to pull in unlikely voters for durable Republican support. They've built a coalition that can unite around a tax cut but that's a) hanging by a thread and b) they are almost totally incapable of aligning around any other single issue. It's partially why Trump has discovered the Presidency is a grift machine--there's no other leadership to counter him.
  11. Chandler Rome has been adamant that Espada/Brown aren’t moving Altuve back to 2nd. You might read into that they would prefer to lose offense in exchange for better defense there, at least for this season.
  12. I think you’re confusing the thread for Scott Galloway’s suggestion from that same podcast. Announce now and make it about bringing justice to every corrupt administration official and start building popular support for that three years from now. I’m not sure I agree, but I did want Biden to spend his political capital on election reform and not BBB. Trump has sent an enormous signal to every grifter politician in the country that you can get away with it.
  13. Ah, I see. I didn’t realize agents took that so personally. I get hard shopped probably 50% of the time lately and life is just too short to get upset over it.
  14. Why is he an asshole? Do you expect that he not follow the request of his client to lowball yours?
  15. I’m not trading that Phoenix ‘27 unless I’m getting back a starting calibre player that is on the same timeline as Sengun/Jabari/Amen.
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