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Joel Zumaya giving lectures on discipline...

I find the coddling comment ironic coming from the side of the aisle that fears teaching 17 year olds critical thinking in advanced studies classes, and also wants a battalion of armed citizens in the classrooms.

I don't even know if Americans realize how insane the gun culture here is. It's gotten normalized to them. Funny thing was, in - IDK, maybe ~1970, we had a shooting at Cass Tech. A girl whose guy had jilted her brought a starters pistol to school and tried to shoot him where it hurts. Ended up wounding his thigh. But the thing is, it was *really* considered insane. As in so big an outlier it didn't even really merit consideration. No one thought "measures" had to be taken because the idea it was anything other than some kind of one in a million lightning striking was never entertained by anyone. But I think about that incident now and it make me realize how steeped in this gun culture we have become. It's not just that this America is different from the rest of the world, this America is different from even what is use to be when it comes to guns. I don't get why all these nostalgic-for-the-50s conservatives aren't more nostalgic about maybe the single biggest, most significant life changing shift in the culture, the militarization of ordinary life brought about by this insane love of firearms. Sure, school buildings are securable. Doesn't mean it isn't insane we need to.

unfortunately, Willi Castro got the shitty one all last season.

I don’t expect Rasmussen to score much from regular play, but can we at least get the coaches to have him stay a few minutes after practice today to take half a dozen shots at an empty net.

Archie, basically: Coddling is the problem, now coddle me.

So, we have a subsegment of society that wants to mandate gun toting for teachers to "promote safety", and at the same time, refuses a vaccine that is designed for health & well being (safety). The logic is ..... well, there is none.

this is a bit of a ret con at best. In term of guns in public places, a carry permit was nearly impossible to get in MI in the 50's. I believe you actually needed individual approval from the county based on a affidavit of need ( e.g jewel courier, etc )You could buy long guns, but you have always been able to buy long guns but there simply weren't high capacity magazine long guns commonly available on the market to buy.

It took me way to long to figure out that this was just one person and not a couple of siblings.

In terms of arming school teachers, it would also likely push (even more) teachers away from the profession. Setting aside the illogical nature of it, I can't wrap my head around how the idea of solving the problem by making more people carry weapons is acceptable. Some of us maybe would like to live in a world where carrying a gun everywhere isn't a requirement.

Anyone who has a gun that is later used in a crime should be charged just as harshly as the person who used the gun. Dad got it on Black Friday....woo hoo... 4 days later 3 kids are dead. Dad should be charged with murder. If he can't because of the law then it's time to change the law. Make gun owners responsible for their firearms. Make them obtain $10,000,000 accidental death to others insurance. I don't care about your precious rights. Shove them up your cornhole.

no one cares

Mental health, bullying, metal detectors. Its all part of the playbook, its all about flooding the zone with bullshit that is either too nebulous to be handled through policy or pushing improvements that are, at best, less effective than actually taking on the problem. I'm saddened by this latest shooting, but I'm wore down. Nothing will change... when Parkland came and went, that became clear.

That greedy bastard needs to stop messing with the game. Yeah, I know it's the owners, but more stupid crap has happened under Manfred than any other commissioner in my lifetime.

The media's fascination with the lack of metal detectors at Oxford HS is getting on my nerves. If a kid wants to bring a gun into school, they are going to find a way to do so (if - AND ONLY IF - they have access to a gun in the first place). Could Oxford (and the vast majority of Oakland County schools that do not have them) spend the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to install metal detectors and then staff them 16+ hours daily for every school day and the following events within the school? Sure, in theory. It would take away from educational funding elsewhere, but it could be done... To be foiled in an instant by a kid who then shows up 30 minutes late and texts their unsuspecting friend "hey can you let me in the side door I don't want to be marked tardy"...... or who throws their backpack next to that side door..... or who gets it past the metal detector anyway because they know that as the 1000th kid passing through on the 100th day of school, the overwhelmed and exhausted staff standing by the metal detector as 5-10 kids pass through at once isn't going to think twice about it going off and them continuing through (see TSA success rates, see nearly every time the shoplifting alarm goes off in a store)..... or, or, or.... The answer is not arming teachers, and the answer is also not turning schools into prisons. The answer is two-fold. One, go back in that kid's life and find the points where intervention was still possible. Not some "marks of a school shooter" BS that sells in the headlines, but the tangible signs that he was maladaptive, mentally ill, or otherwise not forming appropriate attachments with others. There was a point - maybe yesterday, maybe a month ago, maybe five years ago - where this tragedy was preventable. With the right people involved in this child's life, four lives (including his own, about to spend his life behind bars) would not have ended today. Second, and objectively easier, take away the fucking guns. If that gun is not accessible to him, four lives are spared today. Easy as that. I'm done being cute about this, I'm done toeing some line for people who are so damned passionate about a grammatically ambiguous sentence written 230 years ago. People do not need to own machines whose sole purpose is to kill other people. Period. But thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, see y'all next time after nothing changes.

If my parents gifted me a $1,200 gun, I would have sold it for weed.

I appreciate the hustle, but he is of no use to the team if he keeps running into injuries.

Unfair. Look at the times he got injured. Crashed into a wall on a hustle play. Crashed into another player on a hustle play. The firstbaseman for the Rays was totally at fault for the season-ending injury because he got directly in the basepath (because he didn't know how to play first base) and Hill got hurt because he was hustling to beat the throw. I'll take that.

So why does a 15 year old need a handgun? <awaits to be corrected on the specific type of the gun as if it matter>

More prospect porn:

I think its a bit much to ask a rookie to a hit third for a team that is hopefully competing for most of the year.

Based on the party's actions those 2 represent what it means to be a republican more than any other members of congress. It's not me saying that. it's the party.

In a way all of this is good. The Democrats are going to have a tough time taking the WH in 2024 and running against Trump would be their best chance to win. If they throw enough shade on Trump hopefully the Republican will nominate a better candidate and dems won't stand a chance.

I think the best defensive OF alignment is Baddoo in LF, Hill in CF, and Greene in RF. You can liberally put Grossman in there to sub for Baddoo (against pretty much all LH'ers), and Hill (against quite a few righties... Greene moves to CF and Grossman takes over RF)... But I would like to see Greene play primarily RF I think.

yeah outrage culture... and republicans are the victims. Damn.... this is straight up. People are pissed and get mad easily. Don't coddle the liberals. Coddle the tough conservatives that have guns because they might shoot you but don't away the guns. Just coddle. Coddle for me but not for thee.

So irresponsible and cruel and selfish and criminal and…. Totally predictable.

Apparently we needs to coddle these people so they aren’t mad about masks and trans people.

I bet the dude running his mouth here about mental illness doesn't know squat about psychology and also requires everyone else know the parts of a gun before commenting

Right... Gun owners.

I wish both sides were less guilty on the 'coddling' charge but the irony still holds here.

don't forget trans people in the bathroom. The big tough guys don't like that. And wearing a mask to the grocery store. it's uncomfortable. And if they hear Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas it hurts their feelings.

Also, don't talk about the history of racism because it might make my son feel bad.

Why don't we just get a bunch of doughy white male 17 year old vigilante wannabes, have their absent minded mamas drive them across state lines, and let them run the streets to "police" things?

The real problem is people get guns and shoot other people. In places where people can't get guns they don't shoot other people.

That's just NRA propaganda. Mass shooters usually choose their location because they are enraged at people within the location. States with lax gun laws tend to have more gun homicides per capita than states with strict gun laws.

Let's just call them killing machines. All guns are designed to do one thing - kill.

Baez will opt out, purely out of respect to future HOF Ryan Kreidler.

The cozying up to gambling, the idiotic extra inning runner, two different baseballs deployed in the same season.....it's a lot of stupid stuff to absorb. These particular changes are not good signs at minimum, and in the case of gambling, I think the effects will be felt in ways that we cannot predict at this point. For example, I fear that gambling scandals won't taint the game so much as they will expose the public's evolving acceptance of cheating in sports as a way of life, and undermine the idea of sporting integrity as a principle.

I don't want the Tigers to be a team with constant turnover, but I agree the opt outs for Baez and Rodriguez could work out well.

Id prefer a 3 and out opt out instead but I agree the opt out is a good thing. It keeps him motivated and buys us a couple years to hopefully develop an in house replacement. The opt out helps us potentially not have to pay for his declining years.

i like the 2 year out because it gives him motivation to keep his numbers up for a larger payday too.

I think Correa is a better overall hitter by a lot. He gets on a lot more and Baez's edge in power is very slight. Both are strong fielders. I don't know which one is better defensively. Correa has has trouble staying on the field. I don't know if any of it is chronic in nature, but it's something to watch. Without considering contracts, I like Correa a lot better. If signing Baez gives them flexibility to add other players now and in the future, then it makes sense to sign him over Correa.

That's right around the time we should be considering giving 10-year contracts to Mize, Manning, Skubal, Tork & Greene. Buy out a few FA years and their remaining arbitration years and they become FA's around 32-ish or so (depending on each guy...). That's also buying each guy's prime years...

I'm good with that. At least they tried....

As a non-trumper that would like good and transparent government with a media willing to hold elected officials accountable, I do want standards.

Here is another reason why travel bans are dumb: they discourage the sharing of essential data. Those countries discovered the presence of a potential variant of concern, and shared the data with the rest of the world. Their reward? A travel ban. On top of all the rest of the things that they have to deal with, including vaccine inequity, they now have this stupid travel ban. It isn't much of an incentive for the sharing of data in the future.

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