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That sounds like a realistic expectation. I think seven or eight wins is being positive without going overboard.

Yet he, unless you believe he was lying, stated plainly the contrast of the quality of the parks before the cuts verses after.

Who "added a giant park" before Trump was elected? The only thing done was adding further protection to lands already owned and managed by the government. And none of that area is or was a "park".

You haven't pointed out any lies.

IMO the National Parks should be invested in to make them the best experience for all to enjoy.

There is expertise to make that happen.

The amount of business they bring to the surrounding areas is enormous.

Stores, restaurants, services, lodging etc. the tourist dollars are the local economies.

Every effort should be made to manage it for the benefit of the Parks themselves and the people who visit them.

We won 5 games last season with that cast of characters. I figure we should do at least a little better this season with the guys we’ve acquired. Maybe 2-3 games better.

Monken is going to play the guy who best executes his offense.

Whoever that may be.

Berry has made the effort to improve the OL. Hopefully they will improve and have better depth.

Q should be at full strength with a better line in front of him.

We have added receivers in the draft. Rookies will need to contribute right away. Receivers and runners have IMO the shortest learning curve coming into the league because their skills rely more on pure ability rather than learning new techniques.

I don't know the impact of Rutenberg replacing Schwartz?

How we play and how many games we can win will depend most on the play of the quarterback.

One guy once was good and since being here as done little. In addition we have no idea if his twice torn Achilles will not snap again.

The other guy has seven games played. His true ability is still unknown because last year in all honesty he had little support around him.
He flashed some and made mistakes which is hardly definitive.

At least it should be more entertaining for us fans.

I can understand the larger point you're trying to make.

I would be less skeptical of these cuts if we didn't have the DOGE saga as a backdrop (a series of cuts that showcased, among other things, a stunning lack of planning/thought and execution).

I'd be a little more positive if our QB/passing game were a little further along. I think a significant portion of the early half of the season is going to involve the offense getting in sync and seeing where certain people fit. Not only does that include the Oline, but will also include the QB position (I expect us to start at least 3 QBs over the course of the season).

This offense is nothing but question marks... and even that might be overly optimistic.

Unless you want to tank!😉

I didn't ignore his post. I agreed with it (excepting the religious bit at the beginning that I wasn't touching), so I felt no need to address it.

Or did you miss the they weren't great before part?

Adding a giant park right before the next guy takes over wouldn't stretch already limited resources even further?

Talking about how trashed and trampled things were didn't reflect my experience?

I get the desire to call what I've done nothing to minimize all your lies that I've pointed out. That doesn't make it true.

Your argument about possible harm isn't a "what if?"

It's sad, really.

Spiral gave you his first hand experience of visiting these parks before and after the cuts. Of course you ignored that. You really aren't fooling anyone here.

It might be bad. I've never said otherwise. Some of it is likely bad. Yet, I'm not just going to march along nodding my head when you repeat fiction as facts. The parks are not self funding.

If the argument is (/had only been) that the proposed budget cuts are huge and the system had already been stretched past what it could handle and that is bad, I could say yes, that makes sense.

A ~75% reduction in funding to the park system as a whole leads to the obvious question of how in the world is that supposed to work.

Yet when looking at more granular issues that had been brought up, opinions can vary.

I'm not arguing both sides, I'm arguing two different things. While large organizations inherently have some inefficiencies, that doesn't mean we should ignore every inefficiency and pretend they don't exist. Tax payer funded operations should strive to be as efficient as possible. Some inefficiencies can and should be addressed. To me, effectively saying they're big so they're allowed to be inefficient is a bad argument.

While efforts to restructure and improve do not need to center around financial cuts or loss of environmental protections, that doesn't mean that all cuts must be the wrong decision or that trying to apply environmental protections to every/anything is always furthering the parks' mission.

Sometimes (oft times?), politicians do seemingly good things in order to sabotage their replacements. Designating a national park sounds good. Adding extra responsibility and a giant area to an already cash strapped organization with an understanding of how the Republican party generally works and public sentiment toward the idea of National Parks was effectively dropping a grenade on the way out the door whether or not that was the intention.

Partisan politics being what they are, I have my suspicions.

At the same time, I do think "Trump's" response has been pretty awful.

You also can't have a QB that throws more int's than he does TD's.

You haven't tried to investigate anything. You've done nothing but throw out hypothetical and hyperbolic questions and theories with no substance or evidence to support any of any of it. It's been nothing but a bunch of "what ifs".

I am not surprised that you think not only should the criminals that attacked the capital be pardoned but also rewarded with our tax dollars. Juries convicted them, not democrats. But facts no longer matter for those living in Trumplandia. You have reached the point of disgusting.

That's what this is. A reward system for the CFT crowd. Criminals For Trump. Hate, violence and crime will be rewarded of you are committing it for the King.

Your timing couldn't have been better after the Mosque shooting in San Diego yesterday. Of course in Trumplandia what people think and feel seems more important than what people do.

While I agree on premise, this is more prevalent in mediocrity. Are they going to fail more than they win scenarios. If your Left guard for example shouldn't be on a roster, let alone starting games, then you are probably going to fail running in that lane more times than not, in fact almost always.

This line was historically bad across all positions. The weak link? There sure wasn't a strong link to tie ANY loose end together. We need to find a strong link, hopefully that is Fano, even if it isn't at LT. A LT can be helped by a good TE. It's tough when the middle 3 are all bad.

Let me just say, in my opinion there is a huge difference between wanting/needing an upgrade and being so bad that you need to reach in order to "hope" there is a player that can at least improve the terrible play at a position.

If Sanders is going to be the QB one of two things needs to be drastic. Either the Oline across the board needs to improve or Sanders needs to have a better release time average. You can't have mediocre line play AND have a QB that takes over 3 seconds to throw every ball. He was taking over 4 seconds on 22% of his throws in 2025, that must change.

They are the party of violence and hate.

Just clicking
Sounds like a reasonable solution. Now things can be settled out of court much more smoothly. If any Dems were targeted by Garland and the IRS under Bidens direction, they can apply for settlements as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens at the trade deadline.

Normally the Guardians do nothing.

This season I hope will be different. They have the team to win the Central.

If they address areas of need at the deadline. They could make a run.

The AL has some good teams but there is no lock on the AL Pennant.

I thought it all started when James Dutton was given the land in 1883

So ... Because we don't know the minutia of the cuts and the details of what environmental protections are being removed - you don't wish to offer an opinion that it might be bad? That seems to sort of sum up your last reply to me.

On the one hand I can say you might technically be right or sound - on the other, it's hard to imagine a Fed Govt. announcement being made over something trivial or small. While not necessarily known - it's not unreasonable to discuss this from the basis that the cuts must be reasonably significant and offer an opinion on such a basis. It's hard to imagine something that was discussed in Project 2025 not being significant and essentially being about companies and the elite making more profit and getting wealthier at the expense of both others and the environment. To me and others that seems simple logic. Occam's Razor. Which loops back to - why mess with something that works. Why mess with something that is self funding and provides a return. Why mess with something precious and risk potential harm.

As to the size of the service and whether it can be made more efficient. You're arguing both sides of something there ... we agreed organizations inherently become less efficient when becoming very large. If we know very large organizations will involve some inefficiencies, why would you assume or suggest I think we can make them more efficient again. If that was the case - then we wouldn't agree that large organizations inescapably become a little less efficient, we'd be saying that large organizations don't necessarily become less efficient because inefficiency can be resolved (the opposite of what we agreed). And efforts to restructure and improve do not need to center around financial cuts or loss of environmental protections.

Forgot about Rocchio who is also playing well. Scheenman is as well. I think Arias is traded when he is healthy, no way he kicks someone back to AAA.

Maybe package Arias and Naylor for some more bullpen help.

Regular players staying healthy should help. Play calling mix can improve us as well, but we need some great bread and butter plays that are successful, that we win with often in matchups. Perfection isn't realistic at first; but we may have enough size and weight to be ground pounders if needed. Whether we throw to run or run to throw is to be determined. Fingers crossed!