@pirates.com please stop wasting his talent! Do something to get him more bats & run support. It’s sickening to watch this skill be pissed away by poor ownership and poor decision making. You have a fan base dying to see a winning team, yet you do nothing.

The founders were highly skeptical of landless, uneducated populations having too much influence in the govt they designed. Mob-Ocracy was a real fear. The electoral college & non direct election of senators were ways to insulate the govt from these fears.

Shocking! I never would’ve guess he was going to be the Opening Day starter.