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You won't hear anything legit on MLB Network regarding the lockout. It's not a real journalism device. It's a mouth piece for the league.

It’s not odd. It’s expected because he’s white and the lady who told Lebron to shut up and dribble is a racist nazi. I know that was your point. I just wanted to call Laura Ingraham a nazi.

Got my results back and they are once again negative! Must be some cold or bug that me, my parents, and sister caught.

I don't think that's what it's all about. For someone like my dad, a white male over 70, it's about racial grievance and the feeling that being white in America is under attack. It's also about white superiority over others. My dad is the least religious person you'll ever meet, so Christian Nationalism is far from his mind. He's a George Carlin when it comes to believing in God. He wants whites to be recognized as superior beings in society. He read a book called the Bell Curve years ago and has used that book as evidence that whites, and specifically certain sects of Jewish people, are just smarter than blacks and brown-skinned Hispanic people. To him, it is a scientific, irrefutable fact that there are intellectual differences between blacks and whites. He yearns for a time where blacks and whites live separate lives. Where schools, cultures, and daily lives were separate. He yearns for an America where you could go into polite society, the workplace, wherever and make jokes about Asians, Blacks, Jews, Muslims, etc. He also hates immigrants from the Central/South America, Mexico, the Middle East, Asia, and the Indo/Pakistan region. He believes that America is losing its heritage and standing in the world because of these people. He believes they are taking jobs from Americans and white people, driving down wages all the while. He also hates woman and taking direction from woman. Woman are out to get him and ruin his life. Feminism has made it harder to get ahead as a man and has oppressed men's rights and standing in the world, all in the name of false equity in his mind. To him, MAGA is about restoring white identity and a man's role in the world. He'll tell you he's a conservative and what not, but that's all bullshit. My dad doesn't have a pot to piss in after losing all his investments, savings, and home through multiple financial crashes since being bought out by his company in 1999. He literally lives off of Social Security, Medicare, and a part time job at a theater he works at. He's the last person that should be some strident fiscal conservative or libertarian. When my father was a child he moved around a lot and ended up settling in Ecorse, MI. Ecorse was always a multi-racial working poor town with blacks, Hispanics, and whites all living in close quarters. My father and his two brothers were violently abused as children by their father and for a period of time, abandon by their mother after she left his dad. When he was 13 his dad threw him and his two brothers out of the house and they ended up going to Ecorse to live with their mom and sister. They lived poor as church mice in a two bedroom home. After graduating high school in Ecorse my dad and his brothers were all drafted to fight in Vietnam. So after being abused and abandon as Children, they all had to go and kill for Uncle Sam in Vietnam. After Vietnam he went to work in the steel mills on Zugg Island and then got himself into the corporate world at AT&T once he got tired of working in the mills. He put himself through college at both UofM Dearborn and Wayne State. He spent 25+ years at AT&T until he was bought out when the company downsized during the dot com bubble era. From there, he would go onto lose his shirt financially and life savings through multiple economic downturns and stock market crashes. My dad is a broken individual, who never got the help he needed from the horrific childhood he experienced. Abused by his father, abandon for a time by his mother to his abusive father, and asked to kill people in Vietnam. Those are life experiences that are hard to overcome and shape you into being a toxic and self destructive person. It's why my dad drinks, it's why he reads books like The Bell Curve to feel justified in his moral superiority, it's why he's racist, xenophobic, sexist, and more. First and foremost, beyond his identity politics, he wants everyone to be equally miserable like he has been. I think for many in the MAGA community they are just miserable human beings and want others to feel the same way they do. So the hope and optimism of a Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, or Elizabeth Warren is a turnoff to them. Beyond being miserable, as I mentioned above, they want the whiteness of America restored, which to them is the Great Again part of MAGA. Having a woman, person of color, or someone of a different religion in power is a troubling sign that they are losing their grasp on what makes America, America. Again, you can talk to my dad about him being a small government conservative, but that's all bullshit. Misery loves company and so do racists. Intolerance, grievance, and misery are what really drive my dad towards the MAGA movement. I suspect it drives others as well. For the record, I still have a great relationship with my dad and so does my sister. We argue about politics from time to time and he sends me stupid right-wing chain emails about current events or whatever and I just ignore and delete them. My father was good to me as a kid, when he wasn't drinking and yelling all the time. He could never bring himself to spank me or my sister as kids because he knew how much he hated it as a child. He is a far better father to us than he was husband to either of his ex-wives. That said, he's still who he is and wants America restored to some former glory it never really had.

Apparently this is trending hard now. I just mentioned it here after he said it on the show..... This is pretty good:

In the 20 years since 9/11, over 200,000 people have been killed by guns. 0 people have been killed by terrorist walking across the border. You're literally offering a solution for something that has never happened.

I love how Trumpers want to solve problems that don't exist like voter fraud and terrorist crossing over from Mexico. Meanwhile, thousands of people are getting shot and killed and don't want to address guns.

Much like Trump and The Bible.

As a huge fan of Mr. Show, I was very disappointed to know that Jay Johnston was at the January 6th attempted coup. He told the story to his parents but every time he got to the good part of the story he's fall and knock his mother's thimble collection off the wall. it was funny the first couple of times.

why'd they change it, i can't say, people just liked it better that waaaaayyyyyy....

Related to Nicki Minaj, as I understand it...

The Jags beating the Colts Is unlikely but possible. The bitter rivals Chargers and Raiders agreeing to tie is not.

Am I the only one that finds it odd that no one tells Rogers to shut up & dribble?

I clicked on the link and saw the picture of Jesus guiding Trump's hand as he signed some documents. How about a picture of Jesus guiding Trump's hand down between a woman's legs without her permission?

Agreed! People are broken and aggrieved for different reasons. But as you said, demagogues like Trump in America, Orban in Hungry, Lukashenko in Belarus, they find their way into the minds of people like my dad and exploit what troubles them for political gain. You can be conservative or libertarian without being like that. Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, George Will, Jack Kemp, Ron Paul, William F. Buckley, and countless others over generations of the conservative movement proved that. Unfortunately, they and their ilk have been casted aside for the Donald Trump's, Louie Gohmert's, Matt Gaetz's, Lauren Bobert's, and MGT's of the political world and it doesn't look like the Republican Party is coming back from that rink anytime soon.

It was my own aunt who posted it. I'm no longer friends with her and her profile is private. There is an actual Facebook group titled Trump is God with posts like this: https://www.facebook.com/TrumpIsTheGod/

There needs to be a 9/11 memorial sized monument to the Jan 6 events. America should learn how close it came to fascist tyranny. Never again.

Change of subject..... I don't get the fascination with the Theranos story. Is it because she's kind of pretty? So someone bilked a bunch of very rich people into bad investments... why is it a national story? People get ripped off all the time.... especially by those people she ripped off. Is this a case of inside baseball and national media thinking beause they care about something that everybody cares about it? Did anybody die?

The Pistons are better without Grant. Ball movement is crisper, defense is tighter, the young guys (Bey and Diallo) specifically aren't stifled anymore. Grant has some good qualities, he can be a game changer when his offense is on, but Weaver needs to strike while the iron is hot and trade him while his value is still high.

Just coming here to post this one... I dont keep good records but I think I saw his first mlb game, it was at Yankee stadium, I could be wrong.

For some reason some of you think lack of national security is a joke. I don't think any of the people that have lost family members to first attack on the WTC or 9/11 attacks think its funny. You're more worried about a a few back woods Trump supporters at the Capitol than Islamic terrorists setting off a nuclear weapon in a major US city. Like I said before if it hits home with you, (and I truly hope it doesn't) maybe you will think differently. I would rather be proactive instead of reactive and I don't care about hurting the feeling of foreigners including those on the northern border if it makes our country safer.

They want to stop for authentic tacos before they fly planes into our buildings.

Why would the terrorists not just enter the US directly, like they did for 9/11? Why to they need to go to Mexico first?

Speaking of retirements, Cameron Maybin announced his retirement today after 15 seasons. While he may not have hit his star potential like many expected he carved out a nice little career for himself. I don't think he ever got that nice multi year contract though but still 15 years of MLB salary is a nice chunk of change.

I wouldn't tell anyone not to buy crypto if they want to, but just realize that investing in crypto is like being a 'technical' stock buyer in the sense that you're placing your bets on trend analysis and/or market psychology predictions, not the kind of 'fundamental' value analysis you might do for a company or product.

The symptoms for omicron are basically a cold. I get a cold usually twice a year. Only once have I had a sinus infection bad enough to go to a doctor. Usually I just guzzle nyquil or booze so I can sleep. Also I can never tell between allergies or a cold. I know I have allergies because my whole life I'd wake up congested and need about 30 minutes to clear it out. And I always have to clear my throat.... I assume from cigars. I will be making an appointment to give blood. Red Cross does antibody checks. I can think of one time in early Oct that made me suspicious but it was also when the weather turned and I had been running and outside in cool damp weather under dressed. Right around when I got my booster as well. I've held back slightly but not much. We had some outings with family and do have a few cousins unvaxxed. Nobody close to us has ever tested positive. Lots of friends and extended family but none of our close family that lives here.

Best shape of his life alert: Tigers prospect Alex Faedo has been throwing off of flat ground up to a distance of 200 feet. The right-hander underwent Tommy John surgery in January of 2021. The 26-year-old hurler has regained the weight that he lost during COVID and feels he's now in the best shape of his life. The plan is to have him begin throwing bullpen sessions in early January, though there's still no timetable on exactly when he'll return to game action. He remains one of the Tigers' top pitching prospects and will be someone for fantasy managers to keep an eye on early in the year. SOURCE: Detroit Free Press Jan 2, 2022, 7:57 PM ET

I’m sorry, but I refuse to be a part of anything that includes Staten Island. Or Queens. 😂

What’s the hold up? Electrical grid out of commission again?

This is the tweet I was referring to. Evangelicals have to make themselves think they are persecuted. It gives them the impression that they are like Paul in the Bible. They are under attack. Their faith is threatened. Blah Blah Blah. Nobody has ever tried to stop christians and specifically protestants from expressing and living their faith.