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Great tweet today that I read. Ted Turner spent 20 years making it easy for a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB has spent 20 years making it harder for a kid in Atlanta to watch the Braves.

Is it just me or does it kind of look like he’s got little cartoon stars right above his head like he just got conked with a polo mallet or something

I wish they weren’t here.

Get ready. Numbers out showing wholesale prices up 6%. This is what happens when a criminal operation is put in the White House led by a lifelong conman that’s built an empire on fraud. “Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring the prices down on all goods.” - 8/9/24 at Bozeman, MT rally “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again.” “We’re going to get your energy prices down. We’re going to get your energy prices down by 50%.” - both at an 8/17/24 Wilkes-Barre, PA rally. “Energy is going to bring us back up. That means we’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs.” - 9/5/24 Economic Club of New York Of course, I could go the same with the Epstein files, but instead this Administration chooses a criminal cover-up in a situation where Trump’s name is mentioned at this point 38,000 times. This is what happens when you elect a person who has been a con man his entire life.

well, as crap as this team is going right now...my daughter just got nominated for an acting award for Northern Virginia HS theater programs. So, there is that.

I'm sorry, but treating the current breakdown in American political culture and the violent undertones of it as being completely symmetrical is a bunch of hooey. There is one party that is led by a leader that sicced a mob on the capitol, there is one party that is led by a leader that blanket pardoned all of the people involved, has legitimized groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, etc. I understand the tendency to want to see things from both sides and all.... but on this particular subject, it's wildly asymmetrical and oughtta be treated as such. And the fact that we treat "both sides" as if they are "the same" on this only emboldens more bad behavior.

By May 15, 1976 I was a pretty passive baseball fan. I was 11 years old I went to a few games with my dad. I collected baseball cards, but I really wasn't that into it. On that cloudy, cool Saturday my dad took me to a hardware store. Not a chain store, a really small and crowded store on Van Dyke south of 14 Mile Road. My dad was one of those guys that would want to talk shop with the hardware guy. Pretty boring for me. But while he was doing that, I stayed at the front of the store, where they had a little black and white TV. The Tiger game was on. There was this kid I'd never heard of pitching. Skinny and tall. All arms and legs and he was just kind of goofy-looking. Circling the mound after every out, getting down on his knee to pat down the mound. The catcher would throw the ball back to him and the next pitch would come right back. No pitch clock needed with this kid. One little, Two little, Nine little Indians made one out after another. I think my dad finally got done with the hardware guy and we left in the 5th inning. We lived 3 miles away. He made one quick stop at the store. I got home and turned on the TV and there was only two outs to go. The game was already over and that goofy kid was still pitching. Six weeks later the rest of the country was introduced to Mark Fidrych on Monday Night Baseball. In just six weeks the Tigers were selling out games he started and after that Monday night game - FIdrych was selling out road games too. He didn't even really know who Babe Ruth was. He was an instant Superstar, but he was genuine. It was innocence. It was real. He is the reason I fell in love with baseball. That Summer was wild. We had 3 All Stars (Fidrych, ,Ron LeFlore, Rusty Staub). The Bird started the game in Philly. I'll never forget the stats 19-9, 2.34. We thought it would last forever but it was over in less than 4 years. But I will never forget that Saturday - 50 years ago today - that changed my life. I'll never get tired of watching this clip. Here's the box score from that game. Wow 50 years man. Where the hell did it go? https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197605150.shtml

The value you get back was not significant enough to sacrifice contention in 2026. They signed Framber and wanted to win.. Trading him was a bad business move.

Carlson: “I specifically ordered the white nationalism and this inept waiter keeps bringing military adventurism to the table instead.”

wait, wait, WAIT A MINUTE! are you telling me that its just a coincidence that the BEST PLAYER AVAILABLE is also the lions' biggest position of need?????? no way. brad only drafts pure bpa. lol.

Their purpose isn’t teaching or expression. It’s just to bully.

Crochet unraveling.

SlickNickShady?

Not for nothing but Oprah needs to be held accountable somewhat for unleashing Dr Oz and Dr Phil on us. I don’t know how. Maybe just shaming.

You’re close—more like, they’ll explain it to you like they’re a four-year-old.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” —Frank Wilhoit

$25b for pancreatic cancer research would not hurt about now.

Wow

You can't play 8 good minutes and expect to win

I'm not throwing in the towel on the Tigers at this point, I'm not accepting that we're fated to be a .500 team, and I'm loathe to accept that the Tigers bullpen is exactly what we will see the rest of the season or worse as we see now. It's April 25. We haven't even hit Sparky Day. I'm not about to throw Harris, Hinch, the coaches, and half the roster onto the fire just yet.

Reform is needed. The ridiculous power of the wealthy needs to be brought in check if we are going to be a nation of laws and not men.

Any argument about "best" hitters that ignores OE% is fatally flawed, and you know it.

Not making a point here. I just like the picture.

He’s roping a slew of ‘em.

Something tells me that the Pope isn't going to lose a lot of sleep over this.

Stats: The Tigers have a 74 Rc+ in May...dead last in AL in slugging..dead last in Fangraphs WAR. The pitching will eventually stabilize. This is the offense..nobody is coming to save it aside from Gleyber coming back and producing more. Javy will help with defense and removing an unnecessary platoon guy...Tigers keep punting a decision on what Tork is..but they still need him to be average and he can't consistently do it. Carpenter regressed and is hurt again..Greene, McGonigle, and Dingler are good. They don't have enough mid players. The rest of the team just drops off to awful.

**** them.

Tork might be batting .180 and can't field, but he's clutch. That's something you can't teach.

I have long thought that range is one of the most underated things in baseball. Range is to run prevention what getting on base is to run scoring.

I’ve been in Taiwan and Japan the last week and I believe the Tigers have gone 1 for Asia while I’ve been here. But one pleasure has been the all-night indoor batting cage a 5 minute walk from our Shinjuku hotel. $3 for 25 balls. Baseball not fastball or softball, unlike the cages near me back home. It is humbling to see how stiff my swing looks on video though.

hey, were losing. can paul reed get in the game now?

So on the ESPN Tiger site right now, Buster has an interview with Boras. So what Boras says is that the deal here is that they did not use an arthroscope on Skubal, they used a new micro device (come kind of fiber optic micro canula) that isn't much larger than a hypodermic needle. That is why they are looking for less than 'std' return possibility. The story is the new even-less-invasive-than-a-'scope treatment tech provides a possibility for faster recovery.

One thing that concerns me for game #2. Most felt they would put Mobley on Ausar so he could roam and spy on Cade. With Allen in foul trouble all game they weren't really able to do that since Mobley had to guard Duren while Allen was out. They still handled Cade fine. I wonder if that gave them enough confidence in their ability to guard Cade without Mobley spying on him. If so, they could take Mobley off of Ausar and have him guard Harris instead. Going from Harden guarding you to a former DPOY winner guarding you is a big change. Harden guarding Ausar would likely see Thompson go crazy on the offensive glass. Harden is 5 inches smaller and can't jump like Thompson. But I doubt Thompson can do much scoring wise to hurt Cleveland, just get Detroit extra possessions.

Barack Obama once said "you didn't build that" and what he said was taken completely out of context. We had to have an entire election cycle's worth of TV ads bashing President Obama on his out of context statement and weeks worth of stories on Fox News about it. This was back in the 2012 election cycle, so in my libertarian days, I was probably one of the critics, criticizing Obama for it. Shame on me, I was wrong for it if I did it back then. But the amount of things that Donald Trump says on a daily basis, minute by minute, that would have torpedoed Obama's campaign is just insane. On gas prices alone over the last month, he's up to at minimum, half a dozen statements or so, that would have spelled disaster for Obama. It would have meant their campaign would be in damage control for multiple news cycles and we all collectively would have had to suffer through months worth of TV ads, digital ads, mail pieces attacking him on it. It is mind boggling how all in the name of "fairness", "bothsidseisms", and "revenue from ratings" we have to suffer through Trump saying these things while suffering minimal to no consequences as a result of what he said. It's frankly ****ing exhausting having to live through this blatantly obvious double standard.

LOL I bet Trump doesn't even know. Officials have probably been told not to tell him because he'll throw a tantrum. So have they told Vance? Probably, and he probably says "what do you want me to do about it?" Absolute disgrace. And we deserve every bit of it.

A pitcher trying to bulldog his way back from an elbow injury asking for big trouble. Curt Schilling? Maybe, Skubal can put ketchup on his sock when he gets back. 😀

Random thoughts Of the 16 first round teams, Cleveland gave up the third most points in the paint. They did this against a team who did not have functioning center. The Cavs are not a good defensive team. Ranked 15th for the regular season. But if you limit that to the time Harden was on the team, they rank 18th. Very exploitable. Who guards Cade? Not Allen or Mobley. Not Mitchell or Harden. They used two different guys as the fifth starter against Toronto, so that leaves either Strus or Wade on Cade. Yes please. Yeah, Mobley is going to cheat off of Ausar and basically play free safety on Cade. Thompson will have to be aggressive running the baseline and cutting so they can take advantage of him being left alone. Orlando is one of the most physical teams in the league. Cleveland is not physical at all. The Pistons can bully them and Mobley and Allen are two of the softest bigs in the entire league. This will be a little bit of a Duren redemption series. I don't think he will get back to his regular season numbers, but I expect him to play better than the Orlando series. He can really push Allen and Mobley around. Cleveland is a dumb team. It will be interesting to see if the Cavs remember Allen is on their team while on offense. The Raptors played two terrible centers most of the game and Allen had a big advantage over both. But for the first six games Cleveland rarely went to him. They finally did in game 7 and he responded with a monster game. The more ball screens he sets for Harden the more involved he will be. The Pistons cant have the long stretches of low offensive production like they did against Orlando. The Magic are a bad offensive team and you can survive that against them. Cleveland has a good offense and they will be up 25 on Detroit if the Pistons struggle to score on a regular basis. The more Donovan Mitchell dribbles, the better the Pistons odds are of winning. Their offense is at its best when Harden has the ball and is distributing. When they go Iso Mitchell he forgets he is playing with 4 other guys and is just concerned with getting himself a shot. That is not good offense.

Wow I was making peace with the year being over.

reed 11 minutes: 6 pts 6 bds duren 32 minutes: 8 pts 9 bds

Idiot

But, does he stare at you from his suite when you attend games?

That’s like counting the times I almost got laid at college parties.

The new 10-1 Congressional map in Virginia might be Trump's biggest self own yet. He's had a lot of self owns, but this one is his perhaps his biggest. He brought this on himself when he demanded that Texas and others states prematurely redraw their district maps for Congress to give Republicans more seats. This is a big time win for Democrats ahead of the midterms. For the record, this is bull**** and it shouldn't be this way at all, I'm any state. All states should fair maps, drawn by independent redistricting commissions. But until Republican states agree to do independent redistricting commissions in their states or until national legislation is passed, this needed to be done in Virginia to help balance out Trump's intentional power grab.

I picked up a couple of nosebleeds for my me and my son tonight. Only game this round I could probably make.