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An oldie but a goodie.

Where's all the Debbie Downer's after another series win? Oh yeah..... it's no fun being a sports fan when the team wins for some people.

4 straight series wins.

With the bill against the Chinese ownership of Tik-Tok, the funding for Ukraine, and the Trump prosecutions, events are certainly driving Russian and Chinese disinformation and dark money efforts to meddle to whatever highest gear they have. You don't have to be a conspiratorialist to understand that has been SOP in Xi's and Putin's playbooks for years now. Various prosecutions and a lot of journalism have put this all reliably into the public record. Putin doesn't even bother to deny it. How much effect they have is always debatable, and they try to slipstream their support into strengthening indigenous movements that they find useful, but they're in there trying with background money and support.

And it strikes me that at his point, they have crossed over into sabotaging whatever legitimate cause they may have had. This protest movement has moved so far over the top that it's made itself the issue and it strikes me that any/all legitimate criticism of Likud settlement policy and Netanyahu's conduct of the war have being pushed completely out of public consciousness, the exact opposite of what worthwhile protest is supposed to achieve. And I don't think these people understand how civil disobedience works as a protest tool. Civil disobedience worked in the US Civil Rights movement and for Gandhi in India because unjust law was preventing discriminated against groups from doing things they should have been able to do, thus in doing those things they broke the law, and forced morally corrupt prosecution. Or even in Vietnam protests where kids forced the system to arrest them to induct them into the Army. Privileged kids just breaking trespass law and destroying university (public) property nets them liability for prosecutions that are just, completely appropriate and will be/are widely supported by the public.

What is going on to make this the flashpoint issue to garner this level of protest on American college campuses? I understand there are humanitarian concerns but why is this cause the one that has incited the far left? They are protesting at levels that we didn’t come close to seeing on campus for more pressing issues for liberal Americans. Where was this support for Ukraine against Putin? Where was this support to defend Roe? Where is this type of protest against guns and school shootings? I’m boggled at the reason that’s causing American students to pick a known terror organization in Hamas to be the issue they have chosen to hang their hat at this level. It just doesn’t make much sense.

Always love a series win against the Cardinals

Not being able to beat the A.L. East last year cost us a chance to win the division. We beat Tampa 2 out of 3 on the road so keep winning on the road and we may see the playoffs this fall. Just get in and anything can happen. Or...so I've heard. Lol

It appears to me that the AL Central is the best team in baseball with four teams over .500. Only division with four.

and a very fine AB in the 8th. Got a base hit on a pitch that fooled him - not enough others on this team can manage that.

Why wouldn't he sign with Dallas then because they're a bunch of pussies.

This is a great recap of the 1934 World Series, specifically the Medwick incident. Radio clips, video clips, shots of the Briggs Stadium bleachers, interviews decades later with Greenberg and others. Imagine if social media was around back then - Tigers win their first pennant in 25 years, take a 3-2 series lead, then lose the final two games at home including a Game 7 blowout.

Maybe just keeping Johnson on as Speaker is a better alternative than what ever Moscow Marge and her merry band of Putinists have in mind for the next SoH. Anything that keeps the Trump/Moscow Caucus in check, no matter how minimal is better than the alternative from the other side of the aisle.

Really, any of us would have been happy with a DH split and that's what happened. The lackluster offense in Game 1 cost them though.... we can split hairs about how AJ used Miller and Foley all we want, but you cannot stake your pitching staff to 1-0 leads and expect them to win all the time.

I hope the bad old days when we could lose 18 games a year to Cleveland will never happen again. There needs to be some serious karmic payback to make up for that. I’m not hoping for something like out of “Fallout.“ I would just like to see us win more than we lose against Cleveland.

I hope some of the guys that have been struggling can put some good wood on the ball at Yankee Stadium and regain a feel for that.

Shoulda swept. 😁 But Perez looks legit. Nice catch in right field. The kid has only been playing the OF since spring training? This last spring? If so, that's pretty amazing. He'll only get better!

As aggravating as it was to lose that first game yesterday in the ninth, we still won the series. Now a big test in New York and Cincinnati.

Lange came up big here to preserve the pen for the Yankees. 😎

ANOTHER SERIES WIN KEEP THIS GOING

Way to go get it, kid. Nice catch out there.

I’m watching on TV on the MLB network but it’s about 3 pitches behind. Feed must be getting held up at the border.

A month into the season and the Central is not as weak as expected. It’s not all due to everyone beating up on the White Sox.

agree. Most AB is not the right criteria - it's most potential to generate runs in however many AB. If he misses one AB a week batting 2 or 3 instead of 1st but has three or 4 more ABs with men on base.... On many teams it wouldn't make as much difference as with the Tigers where the the bottom of the order has really low OBP right now.

Blood, Sweat and Tears. Amazing arrangements, D C Thomas' voice is still a one in a million. Sort of like hearing the Beatles now, it's hard to orient to how ground breaking the sound was in '67

Don't you know that players win games but managers lose them? It's all over this forum, not sure how you could'of missed it

This should not be in the gaza war thread but in the gun thread, but nationally we have had advancements in gun control and their protest was not a failure.

I feel this way every year during the playoffs.

btw, lebron walked off the floor without shaking hands with the nuggets last night. i'm sure there will be a federal inquest into this outrageous behavior like there was when isiah did it.

For some reason when I see those kids I'm reminded of an anecdote I heard about the people in Texas who want to secede from the US and some old timer asks "If we secede will I still get my social security checks".

The weather turned warmer, it's the end of the semester, and these are naive, shallow, and spoiled kids who wanted something to do. It's the protest version of "glamping".

Perhaps one reason for the protest is that the US is fully supporting and arming the country killing the civilians—yes, there are a lot of civilians being killed there—whereas in the case of Ukraine the US is actively arming the resistance against the aggressor, so there’s no need for the kids to protest the government’s and university's actions on that one. I also believe the vast majority of protesters are anti-bombing and anti-supporting the country doing the bombing only, and only a small sliver are actually anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas, and the latter is all anyone in the press wants to report on, because it’s sexy news. Some people might counter that anyone participating in any protest is automatically pro-Hamas. I would strongly disagree with such a counter. As to why it started spreading all of a sudden last week, I believe that was a reaction to police crackdowns on students at campuses all across the country, especially in Texas, where the governor said in practically so many words that he sent troops not because they’re being violent or anything like that, but because he doesn’t like what side of the issue they’re on and that these protesters belong in jail full stop. As for Roe, I seem to remember there were a lot of protests on campus for that one, unless you have info to the contrary? As for guns and school shootings, if US policy had changed and there were a sudden surge in school shootings from almost nothing to being everywhere as a result, I’d think they’d be protesting that en masse. Instead, mass shootings is more of a slow burn issue occurring over decades than an immediate fireball issue occurring across the space of months.

Assuming this story is on the level about its effectiveness, this is a great idea and hopefully all schools will be doing this soon. I can’t think of any real down sides to this. Read the story in a private window on your favorite browser.

I totally agree with you Cardinal. I've been saying this amongst friends and on here. What separates Holmes from other Lion's GM's and other current NFL GM's are the moves to get relevant and pro bowl players in spots that you're not supposed to. I don't remember a GM in recent Detroit sports history that is as complete and can find talent that others can't. Stevie looks like he has it from some of the Wings picks (and Tampa) although until they make the playoffs you can't even put him in the same category. The obvious picks aren't going to win you championships in the NFL. I actually think the most important picks to be relevant for a long time, are the depth picks because in the NFL, there are always injuries. The depth picks also allow you to let some guys go that are really good to great players although you can't pay everyone.

I was thinking Cocoon.

It's the eyebrows. He looks like he's really worried about something.

The Tigers should make Matt Manning their closer. His pitches are good enough to get just about any MLB lineup out the first time through the batting order. From the fourth inning on, Manning fails miserably.

Cardinals won a Tigers style game earlier...Tigers returned the favor and won with Cardinals sloppy softball.

a lot of guys complain they can only be their best playing everyday. Jake doesn't complain, but he seems like a guy it may be true for.

Winning Aprils are fun.

Lange getting back into the hunt as as alternate pseudo-closer

Where's my 10 runs?

It's an election year and these kids or being influenced by disinformation from the likes of Russia and Iran. It's also no coincidence these protests escalated at a Manhattan university the moment Trump's Manhattan trial started.

You sign up. They take your money. You try to get it back They take more of your money. You try to get more of your money back. They take more of your money. Endless spiral of addiction. Don't gamble.

I read up a bit on him when Harris signed him. I was very happy with the signing. His story is interesting. He fell out of favor with a lot of the Cardinals fan base as he was apparently outspoken in favor of the BLM movement during the height of the national unrest. I still think he’s got upside from here. Glad he’s a Tiger. His hero is Bob Gibson. Not a bad choice.