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Someone on this board already stated that arming teachers as a measure of safety is an open admission that you don’t really have a solution, only a reaction. That is the absolute truth! Seriously, this would be the ultimate demonstration of failed ideas.

My wife is a teacher. We know a lot of teachers. Most teachers get into teaching to teach. My guess is if they wanted to be in law enforcement rather than education, they'd have gotten into that. And as for arming teachers, a hearty GTFOH to that. They're usually busy teaching. How effective can they be at teaching if they are constantly monitoring the doorway/hallway?

Honestly, if I thought my child’s teacher was armed, for whatever reason, we’d be looking elsewhere or homeschooling. This idea is as bright as 💩!

This is ignorant as hell. You should absolutely be ashamed of yourself.

Arming teachers is nothing but a lazy response that admits you have no interest with actually fixing the problem at hand.

Again as well, we're talking about (in Texas, that is) a state that thinks so little of public school teachers that it's spent the last Legislative session passing a bill that would limit how history is taught, by penalty of law... There's something logically broken about paying teachers below what they should be making and not treating them as professionals and trusting their judgment in the classroom while simultaneously saying that they should all be packing heat. It's ridiculous.... and our Governor, who recently told the TEA to set up a task force to explore why Texas has a teacher shortage, wonders why we have a teacher shortage. Also, if you're gonna do that, why stop at schools? We just had a grocery store massacre a couple of weeks ago, didn't we? Just following the logic being employed, we need to "harden" every public place in America. That's particularly ironic coming from the "we cannot live in fear of COVID" crowd.

Seeing Clemens in the stands of a baseball game reminds me of that scene in The Office where Michael thinks he saw Johnny Depp at his condo complex only for Jim to mock him for thinking that which makes Michael say "remember how you were so excited when you thought you saw Roger Clemens?" to which Jim responds with something like "Seeing Roger Clemens in the stands of a baseball game sounds a little more believable than Johnny Depp at your condo complex."

If there is one thing in this world that needs to be perpetual, it's Twitter!

There is actually an app that allows you to keep tweeting after you die. It designs your death tweets based on your tweeting history.

I just got a like on Twitter from Gary Carter so whatever happens in tonight's game is just gravy to me.

From the folks who once upon a time championed personal responsibility Mr Big Mouth, It's a Little League game, nothing was at stake. You took a teachable moment for your son and probably embarrassed the hell out of him. Instead you showed him how to be a giant asshole. If anyone needed to challenge the call it was the coach, not some jerk in the stands. I hope you're banned from future games.

I think the other big problem here is that a person can become acculturated to a lot of garbage ideas, and when they then act rationally within such a belief system, the rest of us want to take solace in calling them mentally ill, when what has really happened is exactly that they fell down some kind of 'rabbit hole' that created a distortion of their reality and thus warped what they believed was rational action. We don't want to describe it this way because once we do, the onus falls on society to do more than just fix broken patients therapeutically, the requirement is to fix the broken society whose terrain has become so littered with those rabbit holes, and no-one wants to hear that, especially the 'don't-tell-me-there-is-any-thing-wrong with-America-too-many-immigrants-already-want-to-come-here' crowd.

Whoa after our 4 run outburst last night Hinchie is now going in for the kill by having Dos Castro batting 1 and 2.

Agree with the top half of your take. I like Mathurin. If you're taking the safe player, I'd rather have him than Keegan Murray because he has a higher ceiling. Of course, if drafting Murray means we're trading Grant to get the #7 pick, then by all means give me both of those players 😄 I want as many chances at finding that 1 in 10 All-Star or Superstar in this draft as possible, which brings me to the next point... I disagree with the second half of your take. We were near .500 after the All Star break when Cade got going. This team is highly unlikely to get another top 5 pick lotto pick while Cade is here. All-Star free agents don't come to Detroit either. That means the only way you're getting another star next to Cade is by trading away other assets. A team with only one star is a sure fire way to play your way into NBA mediocrity - not good enough to compete for a championship but not bad enough to get a good lottery pick. Good teams that aren't hot NBA destinations get there by maximizing their draft picks and finding stars with house money (the draft). Just look at the teams in the finals - Tatum and Brown were both Celtics lotto draft picks that turned into stars. Curry and Klay were both GS lotto draft picks that turned in Stars. I think this is a huge pick and probably the defining off-season for Weaver's rebuild. It's the first time he's had to make any real, meaningful decisions. Playing it safe to get a role player or a simple starter really doesn't do anything for you because you can sign those guys for affordable contracts in the NBA. This is one of your few remaining chances to hit on a draft pick that could make you a contender in a few years. So, if you think Mathurin is that guy, then you take him 100%. If not though, and you're just picking him because he's a safe role player, then that's a mistake in my eyes.

Why would any pitcher ever throw a strike to Baez? Bounce it or throw it head high. He'll give it a mighty swing either way. I have never seen such an undisciplined hitter. Kinda hard to watch.

He was wearing a Tigers Jersey in the suite. Of course it was the shitty home jersey with the wrong D on it... still bitter about that.

He's that tight with the Adduci Crime Family? I didn't know that...

And critical thinking, despite what some people think

Martial arts does do that for people. Sports does too. None of that should be requred though. School is for learning how to read, write, do math, etc.

You don't want to mess with Verlander. He knows people who can make you disappear.

well, Mr Musk has decided..... https://finance.yahoo.com/m/b60968b7-a955-3a45-a3cd-c7776186c487/‘pretend-to-work-somewhere.html

It was bound to happen evantually.

Maybe a trade for Luke Kennard?

You obviously are not too familiar with how teachers in the classroom dress. It's not in three piece suits with jackets, or leather jackets or trench coats BTW. Any student not flunking kindergarten would know if the teacher in his classroom was packing inside about 30 seconds. Kids are a lot like dogs in that respect, they see right through up all kinds of things adults with their dull wits think they are being cleverly obscure about.

How convenient knowing you are going to contest elections before they happen.

The biggest pleasant surprise of this season has been the bullpen, and it’s not a particularly close race.

This seems a bit far fetched.

I just feel the need to maybe correct an inaccuracy in this particular paragraph of yours, Chaz. Teaching grades pre-K through third grade, usually entails not only having your degree in primary education, but additional certification to teach the younger grades. Because it’s not just knowing the curriculum at that age, it’s knowing how to teach math skills, how to teach someone how to read,. Believe me, not everyone can do that part of the job. It takes additional skills. The same way that after I got my degree in primary education plus the special certification for pre-K through third grade, it wasn’t until I found myself, about 30 years later, back in the “education game”…(my venture into the financial industries & systems processing careers sidetracked me for decades 😁) where I was now teaching at a special ed school, and needed to go back to graduate school for 21 credits in teaching special ed students. Just a shout out to all my education professionals out there… I know you want nothing to do with arming yourselves…. And you know that would compound an already deadly situation.

I was wondering whether I could easily and quickly cut through last year’s and this year’s Statcast data to see whether I can locate some key differences, but that might take me the rest of the year, given my general lack of capabilities (i.e., Excel and nothing else). Tell you which slugger is doing just fine, though: our old buddy J.D. Martinez. In a league where batting averages are dropping like toilet floats, he’s basically leading the league in batting average, hitting around .360. But how he’s gotten there is a big deal: he’s changed the launch angle profile of his hitting so that his line drive rate is by far the highest of his career (31% vs previous high of 24%), and his fly ball rate is down to a career low of 32% (down from recent seasons over 40%). This is just one anecdotal example, but it is a clear indication of how a hard hitter can adjust his swing and still crush it in a new deader-ball environment.

Teachers are already over stressed as it is. Especially at the elementary level. Between just having to manage 20 plus individual personalities 6 plus hours a day. This includes counseling, having to deal with kids who often come from two separate households, angry or even worse disinterested parents. Often with no real breaks during the day. That's even before having to make any lesson plans or evaluate the progress of the students in the classroom. This country already has a teacher shortage. It's going to get much worse if you add the extra burden of requiring them to be armed. (And what happens if an armed teacher breaks and decides to go postal?)

Tigers are 6-4 in their last 10, hottest team in the AL Central

He was deflecting by talking about players missing time in the pandemic year and missing time during the lockout and how it affected them. I think that's B.S. because more teams would be having serious issues and they are not. This seems to be a Tigers problem.

Just looking at this list. See the Cubs,,they have 16 listed. Madrigal expected back today.. https://www.covers.com/sport/baseball/mlb/injuries

Yesterday Dan said the Twins had 13 on the IL. And they just lost Carlos Correa to the Covid list

I just looked it up. No info whether they use peach tree dishes..

it's awesome how much maga stuff falls apart if it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I'm recalling that amazing 1-62 record they had in 2020 election fraud cases.

UI just got Chasfhtized.

Stating things as absolute fact that are obviously not true is a defining characteristic of a MAGA. Any hedging or lack of confidence is considered a weakness. Whether something is true or not is not a concern.

It's a love affair with one's self that we have not seen the likes of before, maybe not even from Triple7even.

Maybe they can get Dusty Baker. He is doing great in Hinch's old role.

He can't bat for the hitters. If the guys would hit this conversation is not happening period.

1) because the rest of the league was doing the same or very similar things. houston just got caught. 2) hinch was going to get the white sox job until reinsdorf decided to hire his old buddy larussa. 3) hinch got more out of this god awful team last year than we were entitled to see. this year? injuries and a piss poor talent base have caught up with us. it happens. this team had little margin for error and needed a lot of luck. theyre not getting any luck.

half the board wanted them to deaden the balls. now they have and predictably everything sucks.

Slugging .301 as a team now. At some point it cannot be written off to random variance; so either 1) Coolbaugh has done something; 2) Manfred is sending dead balls to Comerica; or 3) we are part of an alien experiment in phycological torture

A hard throwing right hander who won't be ready for three or more years and then gets hurt when they call him up.

It might be too early to pull the trigger on a trade involving Mize or Manning, since you generally don’t want to sell low on a struggling green asset, but it’s probably not too early to hypothesize that Tairik Skubal might have established himself as the best and most dominating of the three young pitchers.

John Rosengren did a really good biography on the Hebrew Hammer for anyone interested.

You will never see players like this again. Too soft and coddled.