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13 Feb, 11 tweets, 2 min read
Ooh! Is it "Making a show of trashing the roster so as not to be accountable for doing their job of finding talent and winning games until some indefinite future date"?
Aka "Perpetrating a naked fraud on gullible morons"?
Let's check in with Keith Law's capsules of Mike Elias' top 20 prospects as he "rebuilds" the Orioles...
Here's the No. 2 prospect: "at least No. 2 starter stuff, and I’m betting on the athleticism and delivery to get him to average control"
No. 3: "close to average control, and command I’d call good for someone his age"
No. 4: " history of hard contact … when he makes contact, which has been an issue for him in the past when facing better competition"
No. 5 is Ryan Mountcastle, God bless; No. 6: "the arm and actions to be an average shortstop or above-average-to-plus second baseman"
No. 7 sounds OK but not exactly posing for his photo on World Series tickets: "though he’s likely to continue as a shortstop, he has the arm for third base and I think he eventually gets pushed there."
No. 8: "he could have a real chance to be a mid-rotation starter"
No. 9: "He’s an extremely hard worker, as shown by the effort he put into becoming a second baseman."
No. 10: "his chances to stay a starter and maybe get to league average have improved"

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5 Feb
Looks like it’s time once again for a reminder that Larry Summers’ entire career is an unbroken string of failure and catastrophe
“This is a bad strategy for steering a country through a crisis” says the man who came up with the economic transition plan for post-Soviet Russia
“We have to spend money prudently” says the man who left a multibillion-dollar university unable to pay dining hall workers for the breakfast shift
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31 Jan
Facebook's new, sophisticated appeals system for content-removal decisions is telling people in Myanmar which ways of dehumanizing Muslims are acceptable, which should be helpful in the next round of Facebook-facilitated genocide there oversightboard.com/decision/FB-I2…
Don't see any genocidal red flags here, just a healthy Facebook user discussion about how the death of a toddler of a particular religious identity probably made the world a better place
Puttin' the "oversight" in "Oversight Board"
Read 4 tweets
24 Jan
Can't think of anything bad that happened to a Washington Post journalist in the past four years, certainly not like getting chopped to pieces on the orders of a dictator intimately allied with the president and his family
It's not as if the president inspired a supporter to mail pipe bombs to CNN or anything
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23 Jan
"You know your neighbors."
The least enigmatic life story possible
Josh Hawley’s most damning indictment of liberal meritocracy is not any of his dumb culture-war speeches, it’s all the people in his wake who are baffled that someone who got good grades could be a vicious bigot
Read 5 tweets
10 Jan
It's tempting to view Ross Douthat as a clown, because he IS a clown
But Douthat's "There Will Be No Trump Coup" column didn't just offer a totally false account of the danger Trump posed. It also wound itself around to a very genteel version of the same resentful persecution myth that led the mob to the Capitol.
Violent revanchism—whether in the post-Reconstruction South or 1930s Germany or in the Capitol halls on Wednesday—draws on the brutal mob justifying its brutality by claiming they're the ones being victimized and dominated by an unaccountable elite.
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18 Nov 20
How can a person possibly form this ridiculous thought privately, let alone express it where the public, which knows very well by now what kinds of things Donald Trump does and doesn’t do, can see it?
Who the fuck is history
History—in the sense of a recorded sequence of events available to be known and interpreted—says that Nixon’s pardon led directly to a series of ever more criminal presidencies, eventually bringing us Trump, with Nixon’s own henchmen actively supporting the new crimes!
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