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My kids a ball hawk. They let us in early and actually get to see Tigers BP.

Murder live on MSNBC. This is truly embarrassing. Medhi is one of the best in the biz (low bar).

That was a very cool ceremonial opening pitch.

My grandparents loved the Kennedy's. My grandma always said "You knew Bobby was a good man because all the colored people loved him."

I am in the waiting room for a car wash—a very good but very slow car wash—and I am stuck in here with a guy who has the sad trombone from Price is Right as his text tone. It’s going off two, three, four times a minute. It is truly depressing.

I can't wait until California makes it illegal to go out of state to purchase an AR-15.

Sadly both of these entities are not currently represented by either of their parties.

They would be giving 350 at bats of experience to players who who might be able to help them in the future. They would find out more about their young players for their future planning. I understand why he has to be play, but I'm not going to pretend it doesn't matter.

Popularity doesn't matter as much as you make it out to be. the Broncos are more popular than the Lions and people got so sick of the Broncos on primetime that the NFL is expanding flex scheduling. What they want are good teams and good games. Vegas has the Lions as the clear favorite to win the division. That isn't the loyal fan base. Orlovsky is on ESPN telling us he thinks the Lions are a top 3 team in the NFC. Other national media is talking about the Lions. They were featured on Hard Knocks and were pretty popular. Even all that aside, as recently as 2017 they were in multiple Monday Night games.

I can't help but thing if California or New York expelled pro life state representatives for joining a pro life protest that there would be more outrage in the media.

Time for Cisnero to go. He shouldn't have been brought back.

Spring Break travel? My wife flew out of DTW Saturday a week ago, said the airport was a zoo as SB travel was just beginning. We both tested positive by midweek. Planned to have family in this past weekend, that was shot to hell. Travel plans for this weekend (more family, Easter) have also been canceled. Neither one of us felt anything more than some head congestion. My test came up negative today, she's still showing positive.

How can anyone issue a four-ball walk to Javier Baez?

Man, it takes talent to walk Jarvy on four straight pitches haha

Alright that whole thing gave mw goosebumps. First my man Laith got to sing the national anthem, then seeing 3 Det sports HOF's call Miggy out to join them on the opening pitch...that was awesome.

I think those 3 listed guys will push themselves to AAA before too long... Flores, Hurter and Madden.

Good. Kick him upstairs. I'm sure he can still do good for the Org... Just not on the court.

With all these new guys playing so well early on, it's been almost a week since anyone complained that "Harris didn't do anything all winter. All he did was save money for Ilitch."

yes probably not yes and no. not likely 3

It's interesting that any of the 5-8 seeds (assuming the Lakers and Pelicans/Mavs move on) can beat the 1-4 seeds and nobody would be shocked while the east is quite the opposite.

Republicans are VERY VERY MAD about a rainbow on a beer can. Which group are the snowflakes?

Ohh man, someone's getting a stolen base this week!

Governor Sanders in Arkansas, who hates Socialism, wants the Federal government to pay 100% of the tornado clean up costs. Sorry Sarah, Let the private sector take care of this. You know, free market, right?

Malloy, in 16 PA's, has 5 hits and 5 walks.

and Riley Greene just hit 350 for a week against some of the best pitching in the AL.

Pretty cool of the Astros to include their bat boy

Imagine following Eric Trump on Twitter.

Ordered new tires for my bicycle. I didn’t think I would need new tubes, but wasn’t confident about it until I started changing tires today. Tubes seemed fine, so didn’t worry about it. Got the tires on eventually (I’m not mechanical at all), the rims reattached to the frame, reinflated the tubes. Alright, good deal. Start cleaning things up and BANG, I hear a gunshot sound. Well, it wasn’t a gunshot, it was an overinflated tube. I’m really looking forward to the new tubes being delivered tomorrow and going through the process again.

So in essence they said "Be good... you all are smart enough to do what's right for your neighbors and not be selfish" And they did. That would never work here.

I know, it's irritating to have links posted to paywalled stuff, but there an excellent NYT article offering a retrospective of how Sweden's low mandate Covid policies actually turned out in the end. There is a lot of good stuff in there if you can get access, but I'll excerpt a few conclusions and summarize by noting a couple of things: 1-it turns out there is no such thing as 'herd immunity' for Covid - it's just not that kind of virus so all the conversation around that question early in the pandemic was futile. Wrong infection model. Covid has never and will never recede because of infection resistance in the population -rather it has become and will remain endemic. The corollary to that is that Covid vaccination does not stop populaton transmission - what it does do is protect the vaccinated from severe illness. To try and give an explanation of this: Covid is a virus that can replicate and spread via the nasal mucosa - so you can have good systemic immunity from it via vaccination - while you can still be 'infected' and spread it because you can carry it 'superficially'. (What has now been achieved in unvaccinated population is simply past exposure immunity, but that came at the cost of the unvaxxed populations suffering higher mortality rates.) 2-For Covid what turned out to be important was raising serious disease resistance in the popuation via vaccination. That is why Sweden's experience did not turn out to be much worse than average despite the lack of mitigation mandates - they didn't push mitigation that hard but they did get very good vaccination compliance. (And they got a lot of voluntary compliance with other 'guidlines' as well as they are a socially cohesive population.) final word from the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opinion/sweden-pandemic-coronavirus.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-variants-shadow-lda-unique-diversify-time-cutoff-30&alpha=0.05&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=710496947&impression_id=cca9189e-d21a-11ed-a71a-b71ef5b5bdcc&index=6&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F5bffce26-a993-4ed4-af7d-8894fdf413ca&region=footer&req_id=251251044&shadow_vec_sim=0.35518996439878153&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=0_pers_bandit_diversified

I teach math. If you think understanding percentages and paying careful attention to the base (50% of people who are unvaccinated and get Covid get hospitalized vs. 50% of people hospitalized with Covid are unvaccinated) is in most American's wheelhouse you are mistaken. I wouldn't have been able to answer without a guess given those categories. I would have clearly thought below 10% but I would not have known without research how much below 10% it was.

Fucking Bannon, Flynn and Stone