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KCs home run celebration is a gladiator helmet. I think that's a missed opportunity. Should be a white fur lined purple robe with a crown and a sceptre.

I think Maybin and Dickerson make a great radio combo.

Maybin is light years better than C-Mo

These 5 words have never been strung together before.

Parts of Michigan are freakier than Amsterdam

I know that he's entertaining to some and, by extension, provides some value to his listeners by adding enjoyment to their day. Even if I find a lot of his positioning objectionable, I get it. But he's not the one with a license in anything, or who has spent years becoming educated in sciences in order to become an expert in their field. Unlike Hotez or other actual professionals, whether it be medicine or engineering or whatever, Rogan has a very small and limited liability for any of the things that he or his guests say on his podcast. His only real job is to drive podcast downloads and make money off ads. That's literally it. It's really not unlike cable news; Rogan makes an incredible amount of money for how little value he adds to society. I dont understand why we care about him or his opinions, or why anyone should feel obligated to be on his show for any reason.

Correlating that to the practice of calling players up is a non sequitur. Gaining an extra year of control and being thorough regarding developing players can have good baseball value not simply a "business approach". Further we have no track record yet on Harris, so there is no reason to assume any predilection.

Post game Bally Keating prediction after Lyles pitches 7 shut out innings: "They sayyyy, even a blind nut finds a squirrel sometimes....and tonite the Tigers were that nut and Lyles was the squirrel..."

About a 99% chance that Trump learned the word "interspersed" from his attorney no more than 24 hours before this interview.

Smith and McHale were eminently qualified...after all, their dads were famous baseball executives. They decided to design a park for the "National League style of play", for a franchise that had been defined by power hitting for generations. They were clowns.

Garbage. Or at least I hope it's garbage. Because I think it's garbage to not put 3 & D over and above those 3 guys. And that means Miller-Hendricks-Whitmore, in any order you want them. It's just GOTTA be some heavy, heavy smokescreen. Please.

Most people really hate it when other people are late, meaning really late, and especially chronically late. Yeah, I hate that, too. But just as much, I hate when appointments come early. I don't mean five minutes early. That's fine—preferable, even. I mean, like, really early. Fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes early. That's what I hate, because I got stuff that I'm working on, and now I gotta stop because they're here early? Maybe they think it demonstrates that they are eager for the business, or maybe they even think it's a sign of respect that they'll come to see you soon as possible. Me, I don't think it's respectful—I think it's borderline disrespectful, or if not exactly that, then at least maybe a tad ... I don't know, thoughtless? After all, I'm a busy man, and I have things to do. I plan out my schedule based on when they're going to arrive, so if they show up twenty minutes early, all of a sudden I'm supposed to stop what I had planned out my time out to do and deal with them instead? Media reps would do that **** all the time. They'd show up fifteen minutes early when I'm in the middle of working on a big client deck. I would ask them to hang out in the lobby until our appointed time but I always felt like they thought I was being a jerk asking them to do that, then I'd feel like I would have to apologize to them for not being able to see them until our scheduled time instead of super early. Whenever I would go to see someone for an appointment and I happened to be really early, I would let the receptionist know I was there but then ask them (1) is it OK if I hang out in the lobby and catch up on stuff until the appointment time, and (2) please don't let my appointment know I was there until five minutes before the appointment. Sometimes my appointment would be crossing across the lobby, see me, and say hey, didn't know you were here already, and I'd be like, yeah I got here really early and I didn't want to disturb you until it's time, and then I would spool out my philosophy to them on arriving acceptably early versus unacceptably early. I made a couple of converts that way. I would also explain this to college graduates who would inevitably come to the interview half an hour early to show how eager they were for me to hire them, and then I would explain to them the same philosophy, and I loved seeing the light bulb go on when I did. They're still flexible thinkers so they would totally get what I meant. I love molding young minds. There will be people here who disagree, but if you're one, you won't be able to change my mind about this.

Even throws in some air piano.

On top of that they are 0-14 in his starts so we know how this one is going to end for the Tigers.

Everybody knows that your optimal lineup is CF, 2B, 1B/DH, DH/1B, RF, 3B, LF, SS/C, C/SS. You have your speedster leading off, followed by the gritty 2B that "knows how to handle the bat" followed by the big sluggers, your catcher bats at the bottom cause his only real job is "calling a good game" along with the light hitting SS who while not having much pop "makes the pitchers work" during his ABs and like the CF is a terror on the base paths.

Ibanez and Schoop are both in the lineup and no one is complaining, because Maton is drawing all the fire now!

I think AJ accidently used a permanent marker when he wrote Maton hitting 5th a few weeks back.

A common argument I've seen against Juneteenth being a holiday is that "we already have too many holidays" as if any sane and rational person would make that argument. I play along and suggest that we revoke Columbus Day so that the number of holidays stays the same. Of course that triggers them even more because for some reason, they really want to celebrate the dude who discovered the Bahamas.

I think this is because people are told to question everything they read and hear (and half of everything they see), including (particularly) those from institutions, without being provided the educational and intellectual basis for effectively challenging what they're presented with. So where does that leave them? Basically, open and willing to readily accept the argument that most soundly confirms their biases. This is why a lot of people who are in charge want to completely gut the public schools and make every family responsible for figuring out how to educate themselves. Sure, your family is capable of doing that well. So are yours and yours and yours. We're all capable of that. But is your neighbor's family capable of that? You tell me.

How can he get any better if you put him int he 7-9 slot?

Not everybody has the day off, right? It's not like Memorial Day or Labor Day where a day off for private and public non-retail businesses is practically mandatory, is it? I gotta believe Juneteenth is considered, more or less, a secondary holiday for which it's a discretionary decision for businesses to close down or remain open. I doubt that machine shops in Alabama are closed today. That reminds me of a funny situation I lived through. I worked at ad agencies and while a lot of them, particularly the big auto ad agencies, had all the primary and secondary holidays off, the first two agencies I worked at were always open for business on President's Day and Columbus Day and Veterans Day and whatnot, even if our clients closed for them. The third agency I worked for was in Columbus. It was part of the Bates ad agency empire as a result of a merger with a local agency, and part of the deal was that Bates would give the local guys the Bates name and the access to resources and clout that went with it, but they would get to maintain their own working culture, including staying open to work all the secondary holidays that all the other Bates offices closed for. So that created the weirdly unique situation that the only Bates office that did not close down for Columbus Day was the Columbus office.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. - Arthur Clarke I think this is a key to understanding where we are in society now. We are living in the confluence of a highly technology society where the educational system does not prepare people to understand technology and even when it does, often trains them so narrowly that they can comprehend only a small sliver. The result is that while Americans 'know' in an abstract sense that techonology isn't magic, at any practical level they are so ignorant of underlying conceptual frameworks to understand it that that one bit of abstract knowledge doesn't help them. They are still just as subject to the voices of self appointed Shamans as any paleolithic hunter. And so we have seen debates on scientific/techical questions where facts actually do exist devolve to the level of religious argument in our politics I count myself as tremendously lucky that I happened into an extremely broad techinical education (and put in 50yr since trying to keep up) that allows me to look at primary data from most any field and at least make some sense of it. I don't say that to brag at all but only to say that I personaly can't conceive of how poeple without that kind of background manage to navigate the modern world. To constantly have so much uncertainty, to hear so many conflicting voices and not having tools to sort it all out? I can see how it would leave people in a constant state of subconscious level anxiety and in turn prone to charlatans that promise easy resolution of complexity into simplicity. Heck, if you do understand technology it's frightening enough! So to bring it back to your point, people end up anti-expertise because they find themselves unable to make determinations about expertise, with the result often being "I don't understand any of you and your conflicting claims! A pox on all your houses" as the response. And then in addition to that, since the rise of cable TV and especially the internet, the function that elites used to play as gatekeepers for expertise in mass media has broken down. Even if I didn't know immunology, I trusted that a wack job doctor would never get to appear with Walter Cronkite on the CBS evening news.

I see MAGAs complaining about Juneteenth on Twitter. You should never complain about a day off. Enjoy it! I said that the same thing when the left complained about Columbus day.

Thst makes sense because the center fielder has to lead off. You can't have the first baseman bat second though. He bats cleanup. The second spot is for a gritty second baseman who doesn't hit much, but has good bunting skills.

A combined complete game between Olson and Alexander tonight would do some wonders for the bullpen. Torkelson has really had a successful time since being moved to the 2nd spot in the batting order. I don't know that there's anything to it, but hopefully it isn't just blip. With McKinstry slumping lately, maybe a top of the order of Greene, Torkelson, and Carpenter is in order once Greene returns?

I read that next years combined salary of just Durant, Booker, Beal, and Ayton will put them over the luxury tax. That bench is going to be very thin.

a 40 grade prospect for nothing but cash seems like a smart move every time

there was no reason to give him a max deal AND a no trade clause. wiz again do it to themselves.

whitmore should be the pick.

reliever who throws hard but has control problems! yes sir! sign me up!

As bad as the Tigers are, the pitch clock makes it so easy to watch compared to past years.

I just don't get the whole age thing in major league baseball. These kids have been playing high level baseball for most of their lives. Many of them have had stellar college careers and then they are drafted around the age of 21. So many of the young kids languish in the minors for their whole career. What happened? Now I keep hearing that at age 25 they are too old. At the age of 25 they have been playing baseball for over 17 years. It just stumps me that these young kids take so long to get major league ready. Probably "most" never make it. I get tired of waiting!

Happy Fathers Day guys!

@Biff MayhemAn intimate look at the Greco during a much needed transformation 🙂

Just to add on with respect to Harris’ track record, I don’t know if his first offseason in charge is indicative of anything. It could be, I don’t know. But is suspect his earlier priorities were really to get the foundation of the organization in order. That is to say the evaluation and development work streams needed to be put into place first before the actual players were put into place. Players are going to come and go, there’s always going to be that part of it. But what good is the farm system if the organization doesn’t know how to select players and/or what to do with them once they’re in place?

Old enough to remember Tiger fans not trusting Scott Harris because the Giants aren’t so good.

I love this pod but that's some boomer ass intro music

Insanity for the parade. 40,000 people in the plaza outside the arena and another 5-10,000 still coming down the strip.

I think this is a different version of handball than you’re referring to, but during early COVID, I found some European team handball tournament from 2019 on TV. That’s great fun to watch, a blend of basketball, soccer, maybe hockey. It’s an Olympic sport, but it doesn’t get any airtime.

That’s exactly what I was saying to my daughter. In 1997 for example, with 2 minutes to go my legs literally started shaking. I couldn’t believe it was happening. oh what a night! Do you realize how many people will have heart attacks from being overwhelmed if Goff ever goes into victory formation for the Lions in a Super Bowl?,