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Your keyboard to God's monitor, Mike. 1 big thing: Biden wants to go for Trump's jugular President Biden walks off Air Force One at LAX last month. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP President Biden is privately pushing for a much more aggressive approach to 2024: Go for Donald Trump's jugular. Why it matters: Biden is convinced he'll rattle Trump if he taunts him daily, Axios' Hans Nichols and Alex Thompson report. Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him — "go haywire in public," as one adviser put it. Other sources tell us Biden is looking for a fight. Biden's instincts tell him to let it fly when warning about the consequences of Trump winning the presidency again. Biden told The New Yorker that Trump would refuse to admit losing, again. 👓 Between the lines: The "trigger Trump" approach would be a departure from a traditional Rose Garden re-election campaign. Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy — areas in which polls suggest Americans aren't giving Biden much credit — Biden would be making the contest as much about Trump as his own accomplishments. One potential upside: It would help assuage concerns about Biden's age by showing that at 81, he can still throw a Scranton punch. State of play: It's unclear whether Biden will flash his new fighting spirit at the State of the Union address on Thursday. But his feistiness has been apparent in recent weeks. "Loser" has become a favorite Biden taunt of Trump lately. In a rare, lengthy interview with The New Yorker published yesterday, Biden said: "I'm the only one who has ever beat him. And I'll beat him again." "Trump lost 60 court cases — 60," Biden said recently, referring to the legal challenges on Trump's behalf that alleged fraud in the 2020 election. (It was 63, actually.) "The legal path just took him back to the truth — that I won the election, and he was a loser." 🔭 Zoom out: In a speech at Valley Forge, Pa., before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Biden attacked Trump in terms that were clearly personal — and nearly profane. He suggested Trump was a "sick [blank]" before catching himself. Former President Trump arrives to speak with reporters at Mar-a-Lago yesterday. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP Biden advisers have some evidence that Biden already is getting under Trump's skin. After Biden's appearance last week on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Trump posted a video complaining about the show, calling the president a "basket case." Share this story.

Pipelines Top 30 List out today https://www.mlb.com/prospects/tigers/

Biden better get Seal Team 6 ready to kill the Supreme Court.

Sawyer Gipson Long at #11.... Al's last two deadline deals may have been his best after all lol

Its about ready and broken in backups that the player is comfortable with in the event a glove breaks or is lost, not anything to do with different gloves for different uses at the same position. They have backups for the positions they play regularly....likely more quantity of backups for the positions they play most frequently.

i dont think russell wilson is a mentor, i think he's an ego maniac who is all about russ. i would never bring him in to mentor anyone.

Thank you for that Alarmist Non-sense! I am not alone! 😜

Benetti definitely has the support of the front office, the fans, and the local sports media, at least here in the early going. And I think you're right: I would bet the returning analysts are all a little nervous about the future of their jobs, including the '84 Tigers.

The joke is not about killing people. The "joke" is about the ridiculous claim and far reaching consequence of claiming a president has "absolute immunity".

I interpreted the joke as more of a dig at the whole immunity issue, and the Trump lawyer who fumbled the Seal Team Six hypothetical in court, than it was a MAGA-style ha-ha-I-was-just-kidding-about-killing-you joke.

lol take a look at the list of broadcasters today on the Tigers website. https://www.mlb.com/tigers/team/broadcasters oops.

Such a great show. I never knew they changed the "25 missions and you get to go home" midstream to these guys. Being in a war zone, knowing when you get the hell out of there is the only motivation you have/need to grind through. I could only imagine the gut punch you got when you heard they moved the goal posts.... Add that to the knowledge they were being used like bait to get the Luftwaffe in the air had to be something.

More backstory to the song. Woodie Guthrie's song like a lot of other left/center-left passion at the time was devoted to a second front in Europe. Stalingrad had only just occurred, and Germany was by no means defeated. When she sings "good people what are we waiting on?" she means the second front. The only way a second front could succeed was if the allies had achieved air superiority over the battlefield. The only way to do that was Operation Pointblank which was the bombing campaign brought to Germany to defeat the Luftwaffe in battle. That was going extremely badly in 1943 and would not finally gain successes without the introduction of the P51 escort fighter in late 1943, which allowed the USAAF to mount "Big Week" in February 1944 which achieved the knockout blow against the Luftwaffe necessary to give planners confidence to launch the Normandy invasion. This was a technical accomplishment as much as a feat of will. It took extraordinary will to continue to get into those bombers and go up against the Luftwaffe with losses like this. In the eyes of Crosley and Rosenthal and all the characters already shot down who are on their way to the Stalags we see how much that will test their wills.

Especially around the Great Lakes.

Masters of the Air really hit its stride with the "Tear the Fascists Down" song The back story is Crosley is at Oxford after a mission in which almost the entire unit was shot down. The other guy in the scenes depicted is pilot Robert Rosenthal who is at an 8th Air Force "Flak House" whose purpose was to rehabilitate crews that had been through extreme PTSD situations. Rosenthal saved his badly damaged aircraft by a feat of incredible skill and was the only aircraft to return from the 100th. Rosenthal is notable for going on to work the Nurenburg trials.

The Times political div is off in their own world navel gazing at themselves. I loved J. Rubin using her WaPo column to rip a Times' headline writer the other day. They've become an embarrassment to their own allies. Problem is once you get off the political stuff the rest is still pretty much the best.

Eeeewww!

There's an old joke that goes, "Don't like the weather here? Wait 5 minutes." Seems to describe a lot of the Northern states.

My dad used to roll his own cigarettes. He got a $10 gadget at a tobacco shop. You buy a can of tobacco and a box of tubes and filters. You pack the tobacco into the gadget and put the empty tube on the end and pull the slide and packs the tobacco into the tube and filter. I discover it was good for weed so I got one and would get the blank tubes and just cut off the filters. Much better than trying to use papers to roll my own.

I started buying my own cigarettes when I was in seventh grade. (I stole them from my folks before that.) During the very liberal '70s, it was no big deal for a 12-, 13-year old kid to go to a Speedway or Total station, like we had kitty-corner from each other at 12 and Van Dyke, and ask for a pack of Newports from the apathetic person working the counter. I would go to whichever was cheaper. For a while it was 50¢ at Total and 52¢ at Speedway, so I went to Total. Then, Total raised their cigarettes to 55¢, so I started going to Speedway. One thing I totally remember was never buying cigarettes at the 7-11 at 13 and Hoover, because, as I remember saying, "I'll never pay 65¢ for a pack of cigarettes! What a ripoff!" By the time I had quit smoking by 1987, I was paying probably a buck fifty for a 25-pack of Century. (Remember those things?) But by that time, it was no longer cool for stores to sell cigarettes to kids at the counter. So, between college and my career, I was working at the Perry Drugs at 12 and Hoover, working the cash register. One day this kid walks in, looks about eleven, and says "pack of Marlboros", or whatever it was. I asked, you 18? He says no. I say, sorry kid, can't sell them to you. He says, they're for my brother, he's in the car. I said well, your brother's gonna have to come into the store and buy them himself. He shrugs and walks out. Less than a minute later, this guy, maybe 20 years old, comes barging through the door and starts yelling at me for not selling the cigarettes to his little brother for him! I said sorry, man, you have to be 18 to buy cigarettes, it's the law, i can get fired for doing that. And so he orders his pack of Marlboros and is swearing up a blue streak during the entire transaction. It was quite entertaining. Later, i say to the store manager, when it comes to selling cigarettes to children, we've come a long way, baby. He laughed. He saw what I did there.

Some kids broke into the new Clippers stadium that is under construction. They were kind enough to record it and post it on TikTok. The LAPD thanks them.

You know, this is really a sneaky good point here: fabricating a spending crisis using a supposedly inevitable social security bankruptcy gives congressional fiscal scolds on the far right a nice cudgel with which they can strong-arm spending cuts in social programs for the poor to help offset ginormous tax breaks for gajillionaires.

Good news for Carpenter, he'll be the DH tomorrow.

Broadcasters are very important. They don't contribute to winning, but their impact on the fan experience is huge. When I look back on my time as a Tigers fan, I think Ernie Harwell has influenced my experience more than even the players.

Another documentary worth checking out, Chuck Leavell, The Tree Man. probably the best rock pianist around. Played with the Allman Brothers in their prime, toured with the Stones and served as their musical director, founded Sea Level, not to mention recorded and toured with Clapton, John Mayer, Govmt Mule,among others. He's also a tree farmer in Georgia and co founder of the Mother Nature Network.