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part of the reason the pitching is better is that Schoop is at 2nd and Baez at short. I hope Hinch doesn't lose sight of that. Harold's bat is a pleasant surprise, but I still don't want to see much of him at SS, a nice play today notwithstanding.

what a great job aj hinch is doing...lol. /ducks

This. Lyndon would have been in tune with times if he had lived in ours. But it's an interesting example of it being more important to pay attention to what people do more than what they say or how they say it. Lyndon's language may have been bad, but his sense of racial injustice in the US real and he did something about when he had the opportunity.

Oh c'mon now UI, no fair playing the martyr (even while denying it) when you are having fun doing it!

Joe Jimenez turning into a shut down reliever is as close a you will ever get in baseball to playing with house money....

Tanks in the lobby. Snipers in the halls. Submarines in the toilets.

Roger Clemens is a douchebag. When he played in Toronto he was meeting some friends at a high end public golf course and got into a physical altercation with the guy behind the counter in the pro shop who was insisting that Clemens pay the green fees, probably around $175 at the time.

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.

Baez is striking out at the 2nd lowest rate of his career. His biggest problem isn't that he is swinging at more pitches than usual, it's that's he not hitting them hard.

Take your liberal politics back to the right forum sir.

I don't know if either of them can truly carry a team, but Baez could probably carry it better than Cabrera during a hot streak due to his power.

First one since 1988...😅😅

and better fans too.

DAZ!!!!! Decided to hit it a little further this time!

I don't know how somebody can point to the Tulsa shooting and come to the conclusion that Oklahoma's lax gun laws weren't a significant contributing factor. *edited. Too many negatives or not enough. I meant to say it is clear Oklahoma's lack of regulation is a definite cause.

Tork, no more GIDP!

UI, I really appreciate your observation that Harold Castro is a better defensive shortstop than Javier Baez. You should be a scout.

A nice balance between the two would have been great, because now they've swung too far the other way. Although I enjoyed watching my team crush people on defense, I think 70 pt games are a bit of a slog. But 120 pt games where nobody can play defense without sending someone to the line are no fun either.

In other words, you are here to troll rather than to have an honest conversation.

Four killed at a hospital in Oklahoma yesterday. I wonder if there was armed security there? Guess we should only have one entrance open at the hospitals now. Guess doctors, nurses, surgical technicians, pharmacists, pharmacy, technicians janitors, and cafeteria workers should all be carrying guns now at all times. It is a doctors duty to protect their patients health, so not only should you look out for the tumor on the CT scan, you should look around every corner for a potential gunman. Also, the gunman committed suicide, so looks like yet another case where a good guy with a gun didn't stop a bad guy with a gun. Also, if we did have doctors, nurses, and hospital staff carrying a gun, are we literally suggesting hospital staff have a shootout, at a place of wellness like a hospital, in front of patients? Also, if you've ever been inside a hospital, you will realize that most of them have hallways that twist and turn, with multiple corners to go around and multiple doors to go through. So if the person dresses to blend in, versus wearing apparel that stands out, whose going to be able to identify the active shooter if a majority of people are carrying and staff/visitors are shooting everywhere? I don't think this is the type of America people want to live in, with guns everywhere and shootouts occurring at schools, daycare centers, grocery stores, hospitals, doctors offices, dentist offices, chiropractic offices, places of worship, movie theaters, putt-putt golf centers, laser tag facilities, amusement parks, bars, restaurants, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, antique stores, strip clubs, museums, zoos, anywhere. But if you vote Republicans into a majority in the House and Senate and elect one as President in 2024, this is the type of America you will get.

Raw footage of home batting practice at Tiger Staium on June 29, 1976.

The good Ole days.

i am just looking at him as the dad of a rookie player and trying to leave the rest of it alone

Toronto Stock Exchange, heaviest weighting is Financial with Materials the runner-up. I'm actually down 2.5% YTD, and 5% from my peak around the end of March

Back to a .400 record! Seriously though, a win tomorrow to take 4 out of 5 from the Twins would renew some of my hope.

This could qualify Fetter for sainthood.

Back to back shutout wins for the Tigers! The Twins with a Tigersesque 5 hits and zero runs over the course of those 2 games.

This guy gives stoners a bad rep.

Interesting you should mention that. On July 10, 2011, on his way to a Cy Young, Verlander's ERA touched 2.15, which was the lowest point it would touch for the season, finishing at 2.40. Without checking all the records, I would guess that that 2.15 is the best ERA for any Tiger starter at any point in a season after 10+ starts since JV in '11.

Hoppin' Harold!

I will be buying within the next week. We announced a 50 basis point hike today, anticipated for weeks and already priced in. Expecting another 50 basis points 6 weeks from now, also already priced in. I'm down about 5% YTD and I am not too disappointed with that. I don't pick stocks, I just buy the index.

WM wins a blowout - 8-0 Colt Keith: 2 BB Wenceel Perez: 3/4, HR(9), BB. Wenceel's OPS at 894 over over 169 AB this season. Not bad for a middle IF. I would think he should be moved up pretty soon. I know they are high on Workman at Erie despite him not doing much with the bat, but Wenceel can play 2b so there should be AB to go around. Seems like Wenceel has been around forever but he's still the same age as Workman.

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 💩!

Can you even imagine the rates of personal teacher liability insurance? lol. Yeah…. This is comical.

Jesus. How naive.

People just don't think at all when it comes to subjects (like guns) where the attachment is emotional. OK we are going to arm all the teachers - just how is that going to work? Are wemgoing to leave a gun in every classroom? OK how does that work? Is it locked up? Then how does Ms. McGillicutty get to it before she is dropped by the perp coming in the door? Does she pack it on her person? How tough will be be for a 6'ft 7th grader to take the weapon from 5''3" Ms M when she leans in to talk to the student at the next desk? Do we leave all those guns in the building every night? So a gun safe for every room plus the gun plus a security system to harden the building in general because schools were not built to be fortresses but if you make them into munitions depots that's what you need to convert them to? Well, OK. we don't leave the guns in the building, MsM will have to pack it home and back everyday. OK, well MsM has kids at home so you now you have to buy her a home gun safe because she doesn't want the thing laying around her house, not to mention that again, how hard is it going to be for a couple of bigger JrH boys to over power and take her gone any night she might be leaving late with her hands full of teaching materials? These are ideas that don't bear even the least scrutiny. And that is because they are not meant to be solutions, they are only needed as argument deflections so people with other stupid ideas aren't forced to confront how stupid they are.

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.

A Dombrowski built team with a terrible bullpen? That can't be right!

I can't use the radio because I delay the start on my dvr. I zap right thru the commercials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Oklahoma Seriously, reading this is surreal.

A party of truly dangerous, deranged, colossal morons!