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Hey. The both of you are making any kind of actual discourse in this thread impossible right now. There’s more than 3pages of this bickering. I can’t be the only member here who find this off-putting. How about you both take a step back for an hour or two, and perhaps allow others who might like to make a post …. Without it disappearing into this morass of pettiness. Thank you.

Tomorrow morning is the gag order hearing. And just tonight Trump again made more comments about the jury. This would never be allowable for any other citizen of this country. This man needs to be held in contempt of court, put in handcuffs, and put into jail tomorrow night. this special treatment has got to come to an end. He is in contempt of court, the hell with these stupid monetary fines, …. His ass needs to be in a jail cell.

By the way, I listened to the first podcast by Jason Benetti and Dan Dickerson today and it was really good. I look forward to one every two weeks, which I guess is how they’re going to do it. How Dan got his break when he was subbing along side with Ernie for the last game ever played at Tiger Stadium and he got to do an inning was really cool. It was the first real baseball announcing he ever did and it was good enough to land him a full-time job the next year.

I think that story coming out in 2015 or early 2016 could have sunk him in the primaries.

Google maps shows part of the remaining right field wall from Forbes Field about a 15 minute walk from CM. I think home plate is at the entrance to Pitt Law School.

He was also standing in front of the Kane's Furniture advertising when he made that comment so I wonder if he was being extremely sarcastic with his commentary.

Reading @pfife's talking in circles makes me want to cosplay into oncoming traffic.

nobody did this better than her

Nice win… darn it … but still, very very nice.

Apologies to @RandyMarsh for the picture that would be censored. Still doesn't show up in Pocketcasts...

Who gives a **** what Steve Bannon thinks? He has never been in any position of relevance, but he always talks like he is king of the world.

Canha, batting 2nd, crushed it for a HR. That’s not right. He should just poke the ball around

I've said this before but I think Stafford could become the Grant Hill of the Lions. A good individual player whose career was spent on a mediocre team that made the playoffs a couple times and was bounced in the first round. He then opted to leave and was traded for a cast off. The cast off comes in and is the foundation for more team success than Grant Hill ever had. Ben Wallace is remembered more fondly even though I would consider Grant Hill a better overall player. I could see Goff having his number retired before Stafford.

Maeda looks like a different pitcher and the defense isn't helping much.

I was too young and didn't see the Tigers win the World Series in 1968. I knew Dwight Lowry and Bill Fahey. I was a batboy for the Lakeland Tigers from 1981-1985. Dwight Lowry was our starting catcher in 1982 and Bill Fahey was our field manager in 1984. Dwight and Bill, two very good guys. Easy to get along with.

And the 3000 hit, 500 hrs, 600 doubles thing was just a set of arbitrary categories and cutoffs to make him look better than players like Ted Williams and Willie Mays who were clearly superior to him.

The casual baseball fan who has NO idea of advanced stats may not agree. Many of these casual fans only use the usual stats...batting average, home runs and RBI when looking at player results. And there are a lot of fans who will remember Miggy as a great RBI producer. The same way I remember Wade Boggs as one of the best 2 strike hitters I've ever seen. Can I prove that? No, I'm not that deeply into stats. Many people are and that's fine but I think your under-selling just how good Cabrera was. Using stats, you can probably make your point but I promise you that opposing pitchers didn't care a bit about stats when he came to the plate with runners on base. It was...gulp!! 😁

1. Charles Rogers 2. Joey Harrington 3. Andre Ware Honorable mentions to Reggie Rogers, Mike Williams, and Jahlani Tavai.

I went there once when I was a kid, like 20 years ago.... I recall it being not a terrible place to watch a game insofar that the seating layout is more conducive to baseball than most stadiums like that (ie. domes). Which makes sense given that it was built in part to try to attract MLB relocation. But, aesthetically, it's just a cold, ugly looking place with little character. The Metrodome remains the worst place I've ever seen a game at.... Shea Stadium and Olympic Stadium are up there, but the Metrodome was an all-of-the-above mix of ugly and horrendous sightlines.

"You're losing all credibility with the court."

I was reading an article somewhere recently about what would be involved in jailing Trump. Security and what to do about Secret Service protection in a minimum security prison or Club Fed as we used to call it. Just wondering if there are servants quarters at Mar A Largo. Or confine him to a servants room in the Trump Tower. Better yet a trailer near his wife's grave in NJ

My son went thru that last month and that's what he did. I told him to cancel but I guess he's smarter than I am 🙂 He had a photo of his driver's license saved on his phone, both sides, in case he needed it for a cop. The MI secretary of State lets you replace a lost/stolen ID online, they just mail you a new one. THen you can print out a temp copy. I have a few CC's but I only care one of them for that very reason. If I lose my wallet I just have to replace 3 things, my license, CC, and Blue Cross Card. My wife says it's easy being a man because I don't have to carry all the other stuff around but I just reply "If I need one of those other things, I make sure to go into that drawer with my bigger wallet and take it with me. How often am I going to use my Henry Ford membership card, or my Best Buy CC that I used for no interest financing, or whtaever...." I think she's just mad that I have the foresight to think about it before leaving. Men and Women's brains are different.

We are going near the TB region this year for vacation, we went in 2021 but they had red tide which made swimming in the gulf not really an option, plus it rained 3 of the 4 days. This will be a do over. My wife is like "Why don't we go to a game?" I'm trying to tell her that stadium is horrible and I have no desire. I'm open to going to a minor league game somewhere if we can find one. As it is, they are away anyway so dodged that bullet. "What kind of fan are you if you don't want to go to another MLB ballpark". "The kind of fan that doesn't need to go to the equivalent of the Pontiac Silverdome"

“Says” is buying a lot of people a lot of face time on national news networks.

Happy Bleach Injection Anniversary Day to all who celebrate

At his best Cabrera was at least the equal of Pujols as a hitter. Their top ten oWAR seasons: Miggy 9.1 7.9 7.7 7.0 6.8 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.2 Pujols 8.6 7.9 7.9 7.5 7.1 6.8 6.7 6.1 6.0 5.7 Miggy’s outsized triple-Crown season was the best between the both of them, but beyond that, Pujols was consistently better. Then, of course, there’s the glove. Pujol’s 2007 was the best defensive season at first base of all time, and by a wide margin (minimum 80% of games played at 1B). No contest.

Its an app on your phone. Did you know there's also a phone app on your phone?

I wear my watch on the inside of my wrist because in an active situation, it reduces my exposure in a war zone. Time is critical when I plan operations. If my watch face is on the outside of my wrist, I have to lift my arm and turn it to see the time. This effectively doubles the width of my body, increasing my exposure. Either that or I’m just a poser.

On the news, interviewing people at the NYU protest, and for God’s sake, these idiots can’t even verbalize what they’re supposedly there for… because it looks/sounds like they haven’t a f’ing clue. Disgraceful - on the first night of Passover that there are absolutely haters of Israel and Jews, and people are applauding them. I’m sick to my stomach. edit to add - if I’m being truthful, what I’m really feeling right now is very angry.

Isn’t it ironic that after many seasons of tanking and accumulating numerous high 1st round picks, our best pitcher and hitter (so far) is Skubal (round 9) and Carpenter (19th round). Don’t Cha think?

Someone needs to tell Benetti to avoid any suggestions around adding Trevor Bauer or else this podcast will be very short lived.

They showed Max Clark at the game on his day off. I didn't see his shoes but he has a very shiny watch.

how is miggy not a generational hitter? because he's not albert pujols? that's a really small generation.

Tigers with 11 hits to this point. It would be awesome if Baez is finally finding it.

Curly fries are nice but Bert's six runs are chef's kiss.

0 chance they take two 2025 4ths to trade back 6 spots in round one.

Thread chaos will not be tolerated!

Why does everyone keep making UNDERWHELMING choices for the Lions? Since when has Holmes drafted UNDERWHELMING? You just don't get it. Here... THIS is something that Holmes WOULD do: THAT is a Lions draft.

Only Idaho Bert saw all of Cobb, Kaline and Miggy play, so I’ll defer to him.

A bunch of you guys are gonna cream your jeans

Phillips, Fielder, Tettleton.

Or treat him like Jordan Zimmermann and just keep sending him out there every 5th day, no matter the results. Those were some forgettable Tiger games...

Cobb, Greenberg, Kaline

Greenberg might have had ~25-30 more WAR if he had played the 4 yrs he missed.

I saw a meme that they should set up a party line where everyone in hold can talk to each other while waiting

Being gaslit by corporate America absolutely drives me out of my mind. The worst thing in the world someone can do is pretend something is one way when I and everyone else can absolutely see that it’s the other way. But then, there are things in which you know you’re being gaslit but you can’t absolutely prove it. Here are two fast examples: Any company you call and the AI-or-recorded voice says, “Please listen carefully as our menu options have recently changed.” No, they haven’t. You’ve had this same message for several years and your menu options have never changed even once. My car dealer’s recorded voice answers with, “Thank you for calling [car dealership’s name]. Our receptionist is currently assisting other callers …”. No they aren’t. Two reasons I know this: (1) I haven’t seen a receptionist at your dealership for almost ten years; (2) I got this same message when I called it once at 500am.