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45 became a crooked number a few years ago.

I think there is vitriol for religion and specifically Christianity on this board, but I don't think I'm seeing vitriol toward a poster. I think Ancient Fan is the best poster from his perspective we've had here in quite a while.

I hate to copy from behind a paywall, but Will Carroll's newsletter is chock full of injury goodness, and I have been exchanging dm's with him every time Hinch tries to obfuscate the Mize injury. Unfortunately, the Tigers beat just regurgitates Hinch. This is from the newsletter.

I wish...

I'm still disappointed about 1985.

This is easily the most disappointing season since 2008. Other than the step forward from Skubal and the emergence of Faedo, it's been one calamity after another

Aye Aye ! Or is it Ayy Ayy Not saying there is or isn't a God, I don't know. I just think organized religion may be good for some, but the people that are at the top are as corrupt as any other organization. People get to the top of very large organization usually by being sneaky, greedy, petty and vicious, but have a way of making it sound like they're doing you a favor. Trying to apply things that were written (by men - clearly men) 2,000 years ago to life today is absolute insanity. Religion is a way to keep people in check, and that works for a lot of people, but it also is used to be cruel, vindictive and it's used to cover up crimes, often against it's very followers. I think Organized Religion holds humanity back. If you read about countries where religion isn't very influential, they tend to be more advanced, more tolerant, generally happier with lower crime and lower violence. I think the lack of ORGANIZED religion has a lot to do with that, because a lot of people in these countries do believe in God, they just aren't using that belief like a weapon.

an increase from 3.5% to 6% increases a 30yr mortgage payment by a third. I think a lot of investment buyers of housing for resale are going to get hosed.

I just want to be clear my vitriol is for all of organized religion not just Christianity and with the exception of the Chruch of the Fonz.

You may be ambidextrous, or as I heared a boxer once say on Sports Center "You can't defend me because I'm amphibious", to which Olbermann quipped "Yes, he's 4-0 Underwater".

The pandemic killed player development on a huge scale. That was right when we were supposed to be seeing the fruits of our tanking. It's great.

First off, I didn't compare Kody Clemens to anyone, I'm talking about Torkelson. Second of all, my point was that those two players, like Torkelson, also had pretty anemic starts to their careers as well. I'm not saying that is even his peak, the goal wasn't to compare Tork to either of those players but to illustrate that there are cases where guys who are stars struggle when they first get to the bigs. I just think that declaring Tork to be another Scott Sizemore is kinda ridiculous at this point, after only 175 ABs. At least give it a year before going there.

Mickey Lolich couldn’t agree more.

Don't let yourself get excited, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too early and it's only one poll. But damn, if Tim Ryan beat J.D. Vance that'd be the upset of the year!

Contract on America, baby.

Come on, this season has sucked, but there’s no reason to besmirch donuts.

I have no idea what a MLB hitting coach does, but you would think that a #1 pick overall in the draft would have some kind of idea how to hit.

Tork has to make peace with the fact that he is going to see nothing but balls on the outside corner until he decides to try and do some damage on them instead of trying to work walks against guys who can throw the pitch out there for a strike.

The craziness of the GOP also started to show itself with Bill Clinton. There was just no way they could accept a womanizing philanderer who lacked character and who didn’t serve in any kind of military as a legit president.

very nice.

I don't think it's fair to speculate as to what might be have caused this to happen, fwiw.... just hope everything works out OK for all involved.

I remember the first time I ever saw Post. I thought he was another idiot. Face tattoos etc. But this dude is really talented. Not just in rap or hip hop. Goes to show how you shouldn't judge on appearances.

Obama.

His younger brother Harrison Ruffin Tyler is still alive but not in good health. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

Thank you! Fantastic!

Lee made a post in one of the threads about Fedder being more important than Hinch and it got me thinking about the whole pitching/hitting dichotomy with the Tigers org. I think there is one conclusion - which is that Avila is a 'process' guy and today pitching is something which is definable by 'process'. The tech has allowed teams to understand spin, release, movement. And the Tigers (as they should) have gone all in. They seem to know how to put pitchers into the pitches they should be throwing and how to optimize them throwing those pitches and they appear to have a good system for evaluation of the quality of arms (TJs among them not withstanding). I don't think it's arguable that it been nothing short of phenomenal the way the system has been able to come with young pitchers and BP arms to keep this team even treading water in the face of catastrophic pitching staff injuries and a once in a lifetime offensive collapse. Al has put processes into place which have resulting an org with strong pitching and has hired a manager in Hinch who managers his staff well. That part has been a success. But on the other side, hitting is whole different ball game. There are many aspects you can coach a hitter for, being short to the ball, weight transfer, swing path, and all of that can help a hitter put the bat where he wants to when he wants to, which is great. However 99% of hitting is knowing the point you want to get the bat to, IOW, knowing where the ball is going to be, and there isn't a whole lot anyone has ever figured out to help a hitter do that. And in the absence of any clear system for developing that, like there is in pitching, the Tiger org doesn't seem to have any clear ideas about how to make a good hitter or how to find them, other than that Al likes guys who don't K a lot. Well who doesn't? I like Al's organization abilities, but he needs to find a hitting 'guru' for the system that can show him how to bring some of what has been accomplished on the pitching side to the hitting side.

I don't really think that is the problem here. It's more a matter of you accept the God of the OT as authentic or you don't. And if you do not, then you cannot simultaneously entertain biblical fundamentalism, unless you are willing to simply gloss over the most jarring possible contradictions, which by and large much of Christianity has been exactly willing to do for millennia. The alternative is to take a more nuanced view that the OT as a document is a human interpretation of the Hebrews understanding of their historical experience. But to do that undercuts the authority of clergy to mediate the interpretation of the infallible text, so the theologians of fundamentalism wave away the inherent contradictions and continue to argue infallibility because it is the key to their power. Now clearly there is another Christianity that has a completely different approach to all of this, but they have been a shrinking minority and American Fundamentalists pretty much view those people as mushy headed apostates.

Happy Flag Day! And now you know...

I guess Putin is going to kill Navalny to make himself feel better about failing in Ukraine