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On the other hand, I'm starting to suspect they're likely to trade two if not all three of Jordan, Level, and Davidson given their lack of appetite to spend and Posey's desire to win.
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
On the other hand, I'm starting to suspect they're likely to trade two if not all three of Jordan, Level, and Davidson given their lack of appetite to spend and Posey's desire to win.
My ideal would be Imai, Ponce, Nootbar, Rogers, and Finnegan (or Pagan). Respectively, per year that could be 25, 12, 5, 7, 11, adding up to 60 which feels doable. I’d offer more years and less per for Imai & Rogers to make it work—maybe 7 or 8 for Imai and 4 or even 5 for Rogers, who should age ok
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
My ideal would be Imai, Ponce, Nootbar, Rogers, and Finnegan (or Pagan). Respectively, per year that could be 25, 12, 5, 7, 11, adding up to 60 which feels doable. I’d offer more years and less per for Imai & Rogers to make it work—maybe 7 or 8 for Imai and 4 or even 5 for Rogers, who should age ok
What do you think of the Meccage and Anderson hires? I'm curious if you're leaning any more towards either "might work" or might be a "catastrophic disaster" after seeing the coaching staff take shape.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
What do you think of the Meccage and Anderson hires? I'm curious if you're leaning any more towards either "might work" or might be a "catastrophic disaster" after seeing the coaching staff take shape.
I don't understand why they wouldn't want him back given that per Pavs he wanted to come back.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I don't understand why they wouldn't want him back given that per Pavs he wanted to come back.
Anyone who has been made aware of this, who understands deadly exchange, and who still doesn't take accusations of antisemitism against Mamdani extremely seriously should reconsider their position.
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Anyone who has been made aware of this, who understands deadly exchange, and who still doesn't take accusations of antisemitism against Mamdani extremely seriously should reconsider their position.
I think the bigger issue with Mamdani is his promotion of deadly exchange, which is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that should be absolutely disqualifying for a political figure to promote.
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He literally claims there is "a relationship that has meant tactics of oppression crossing from one country to the other and that has meant an increase in surveillance and oppression of marganilized people wherever they may be". This is a conspiracy theory (there is zero evidence for this claim).
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I think the bigger issue with Mamdani is his promotion of deadly exchange, which is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that should be absolutely disqualifying for a political figure to promote.
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Yeah you're probably right. Nootbaar at 6, Helsley at 10 makes sense to me. I'd rather spend that 7 mil you allocated to a catcher to get Bieber instead of Bassitt, and I'd spend the rest on Rogers. That leaves no room for signing a FA 5 starter.
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Yeah you're probably right. Nootbaar at 6, Helsley at 10 makes sense to me. I'd rather spend that 7 mil you allocated to a catcher to get Bieber instead of Bassitt, and I'd spend the rest on Rogers. That leaves no room for signing a FA 5 starter.
Who would you prefer from the second tier of starters if they add 2 SP via FA?
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Who would you prefer from the second tier of starters if they add 2 SP via FA?
And I think this is what most people want when they say they want a Palestinian state. So asking for Israel to be a Jewish state by this definition is no less unfair than asking for a Palestinian state by this definition.
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And I think this is what most people want when they say they want a Palestinian state. So asking for Israel to be a Jewish state by this definition is no less unfair than asking for a Palestinian state by this definition.
Jews worrying about the risks of Jews being a minority in every country in the world and having nowhere they can always count on being able to flee to is completely reasonable given Jewish history.
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Jews worrying about the risks of Jews being a minority in every country in the world and having nowhere they can always count on being able to flee to is completely reasonable given Jewish history.
Instead, they mean that Israel should be a state that sets an immigration policy that ensures diaspora Jews always have a country to flee too and that ensures Jews don’t become a minority in Israel.
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Instead, they mean that Israel should be a state that sets an immigration policy that ensures diaspora Jews always have a country to flee too and that ensures Jews don’t become a minority in Israel.
What do you mean by ethnonationalism? By Jewish state? By Jewish state, most Jewish Zionists don’t mean that Israel should be excusively Jewish or make non-Jews second class citizens.
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
What do you mean by ethnonationalism? By Jewish state? By Jewish state, most Jewish Zionists don’t mean that Israel should be excusively Jewish or make non-Jews second class citizens.
Moving on in a conversation without stopping and addressing what these terms mean allows them to set the terms for the conversation and permits these demonizing misreprentations to fester.
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Moving on in a conversation without stopping and addressing what these terms mean allows them to set the terms for the conversation and permits these demonizing misreprentations to fester.
“Ethnonationalism” and “Jewish state” are big scary terms people throw around to invoke big scary associations such as Nazism, white nationalism, apartheid South Africa, etc, and to suggest that this is what Zionists secretely (or openly) want too.
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Ethnonationalism” and “Jewish state” are big scary terms people throw around to invoke big scary associations such as Nazism, white nationalism, apartheid South Africa, etc, and to suggest that this is what Zionists secretely (or openly) want too.
I realize this person is almost certainly unreachable, but I strongly believe that in these sorts of conversations we need to stop and define terms.
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I realize this person is almost certainly unreachable, but I strongly believe that in these sorts of conversations we need to stop and define terms.
When such a person engages in antisemitism, they are not “crossing a line” or failing to critique Israel in a non-antisemitic way, and assuming they are is unfair and makes it harder to combat antisemitism because it makes it harder to understand where these strains of antisemitism come from.
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
When such a person engages in antisemitism, they are not “crossing a line” or failing to critique Israel in a non-antisemitic way, and assuming they are is unfair and makes it harder to combat antisemitism because it makes it harder to understand where these strains of antisemitism come from.
But this framing assumes that is where they are coming from, which is unduly generous and potentially misleading. There are people who admit to being “radicalized” about Israeli because they saw how well Hamas treated the hostages on social media.
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
But this framing assumes that is where they are coming from, which is unduly generous and potentially misleading. There are people who admit to being “radicalized” about Israeli because they saw how well Hamas treated the hostages on social media.
Do some people start out purely motivated by a goodhearted desire to condemn the actions of the Israeli state because of their concern for Palestinians and then “cross the line” into antisemitism? Sure.
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Do some people start out purely motivated by a goodhearted desire to condemn the actions of the Israeli state because of their concern for Palestinians and then “cross the line” into antisemitism? Sure.
The assumption that their prime motivation is to “critique rape culture” and that their racism is simply a matter of them mistakenly going too far in that “critique of rape culture”—crossing a line—is unduly generous and profoundly misleading about where this racism is coming from.
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The assumption that their prime motivation is to “critique rape culture” and that their racism is simply a matter of them mistakenly going too far in that “critique of rape culture”—crossing a line—is unduly generous and profoundly misleading about where this racism is coming from.
I take serious issue with this framing. It’s akin to responding to people who fixate on black men committing sexual violence in racist ways by saying “you don’t have to engage in racism to critique rape culture”.
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I take serious issue with this framing. It’s akin to responding to people who fixate on black men committing sexual violence in racist ways by saying “you don’t have to engage in racism to critique rape culture”.
There is if you want to undermine indigenous rights! “Sorry you’ve been colonized for so long that you’re no longer indigenous” is a disastrous position for the left to take.
October 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
There is if you want to undermine indigenous rights! “Sorry you’ve been colonized for so long that you’re no longer indigenous” is a disastrous position for the left to take.
Mi ideal offseason is Beiber or Suarez, Gray, Nootbar, Rogers and someone like Kyle Finnegan. Seems like they have more to spend than I expected so that seems doable at around 75 mil.
October 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Mi ideal offseason is Beiber or Suarez, Gray, Nootbar, Rogers and someone like Kyle Finnegan. Seems like they have more to spend than I expected so that seems doable at around 75 mil.
Nootbar seems like a good fit considering the lack of obvious answers in RF. Maybe trade for Gray and Nootbar and take on like 26 mil of Gray’s contract.
October 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Nootbar seems like a good fit considering the lack of obvious answers in RF. Maybe trade for Gray and Nootbar and take on like 26 mil of Gray’s contract.
I mean, he has velocity in the past, but not so much this year. It will need to tick up a whole lot in a relief role and hopefully it will.
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I mean, he has velocity in the past, but not so much this year. It will need to tick up a whole lot in a relief role and hopefully it will.
You really have to give yourself a mulligan for Jerar Encarnación. The guy lost most of the year to injury, and his two healthy stints were broken up by more injury.
September 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
You really have to give yourself a mulligan for Jerar Encarnación. The guy lost most of the year to injury, and his two healthy stints were broken up by more injury.