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you know what the complete comedy in all this cultural warfare is? It's upper class liberals that live the most morally 'conservative' lifestyle of any segment of American society. They have the most marriages, the fewest children out of wedlock, the highest proportion of stable two parent households. The right in American has their head so far up their asses they don't understand the difference between being free to do something and forcing other people to do something. Liberals are completely happy with conventional lifestyles, we don't denigrate them at all, all we want to do is make room for people to be free to do it differently if that is their choice. The right just can't figure out this simple equation. Wanting to allow people to be free is just that, and nothing more than that. But of course, "that" is a lot. The Christian Right's problem (as well as the RCC ) is that they want the state to mandate people to do what they can't persuade people to do because their doctrine is just too unappealing. They call themselves "Evangelist" after the Greek for "Good Tidings" but their "news" just isn't so good and when people see it and don't like it, they want to be entitled to police power to enforce it.

21st century GI Bill. Serve 2 yrs, go to college of your choice for free. Kids would be lining up. And the bonus is It would put the Federal gov's interest in the position of demanding lower tuition rates from US colleges instead of just subsidizing more bank loans. Win-Win

i don't think anyone could honestly argue that Biden hasn't gotten physically frailer, but TBH, I don't care about that, it's not a prerequisite to do the important parts of the job well. Shrub was healthy as a horse, he was a disastrous president. To me the only place it figures in the calculation is wrt whether he lives out his second term, but even on the grounds that Harris is a largely unwritten story, i'd still vote for her even up over Trump or anyone Trump is likely to picks as a VP so even there, it doesn't weight negatively on the scale. When I look at the operation of the Biden administration, I don't see any lack of vision, consistency. I don't see idiosyncratic actiions, senseless windmill tilts, or other evidence of an erratic hand at the tiller - so that's what I have to go by.

I still watch the games, obviously, but the negativity relative to their record or the expectations they had going into the year has made it a lot harder to have fun engaging with others when discussing this team. It's relatively tame here, it's even worse on Twitter or other venues. I'm not saying they are good or that they are where any of us want them to be (they are very mid, they aren't where we want them to be), but the relentless negativity just gets old.

Yeah, I'll be honest I have had to block some people on here because the constant negativity of it does nothing but annoy me and make me not want to hop on to talk Tigers. You know it is bad when you know when consistently if they are doing well posts on GDT's are less than when they are doing poorly.

"Alphabetically according to uniform number"? Have you been drinking already today?

Respect the jury. Respect the process.

Lumbar spine inflammation that requires a trip to a specialist in Florida seems like it could be more of a 10 day IL trip.

I wouldn't put it past Biden to ignore the political side of this and strictly deal with this as a parent who loves his son, as he's not been afraid to express, but politically it doesn't hurt him to see a family deal with someone who's got addiction. Nearly every family is touched by it and if the right wants to make fun of that then they do it a their own peril, especially in the red part of the country because I'd bet the addiction numbers are higher in rural than urban.

I get some of the criticism of his forced humor, but Benetti is still the best TV broadcaster the Tigers have had in a really long time.

Yeah, I doubt Anthony Blinken will ever call Biden a F***ing moron.

Wow, this ump is all over the place. Do we have a new Angel?

I have no problem with barriers to firearms ownership based on your mental state and stability. The least thing we need is to have firearms ownership defined down even further than it already is. Personal liability Insurance requirements seem like a really sane thing to enact.

And the left so lenient. Politics is so weird and tribal.

It’s nice to see the right be so harsh on gun laws.

FIFY

You tee'd it up better than I did 😅

Maybe you’re the problem?

MN dems will run someone for every state seat this Fall. this is how you win; by running people; A+

That post is complete bs, Tater. Did you even watch the video? Nobody was attacked. This is a group of people trying to force their way into an area they aren’t supposed to go. The military did a great job of diffusing the situation where a hostile group didn’t want to obey the order not to move forward.

So there were rumors before the Hurley offer that LA would be very interested in Monty if the Pistons let him go. Gores should approach Monty and tell him he is free to negotiate with LA if he wants. Tell him he will pay him the full amount of his contract minus what LA is paying him. Everybody wins. Detroit saves a few bucks and drops a bad coach. Williams still get his full pay and gets to coach a better team in a better city.

Flaherty's career as an Ace in STL was derailed by numerous injuries. Let's see how his back holds up over the next 7 weeks.

Trump learned how to be a better sadist in military school. He was already learning that from Fred Trump. We don't need that sick weirdo being commander in chief again.

There's a larger cultural point to made that is bigger than baseball, but rage sells. Particularly in the age of social media. But it's a choice, particularly when it comes to sports which, in the grand scheme of things, matter less than many other things going on out there

2 years minimum. No matter what kind of service. Training for combat arms takes at least 6 months.

its a hamstring injuring they are just being cautious so it doesnt happen again... he's thrown two bullpens but not against players ...accord to Sam the Seawolves broadcaster who was on the Tigers Minor League report last night

FCL had a late game and seems like they prefer that. W 16-3 Montilla 3/4 4RBI GS HR Fana 1/5 2RBI 2BB Sequera 1/4 K Jimenez 2/5 RBI BB 2K Hernandez 3/6 RBI K Salas 1/4 RBI 2BB K HR Perez 2/5 2RBI BB HR Wilson 4IP 2H 4BB 6K 0ER

ugh.... I knew Maeda would Mike Pelfrey for me.... meaning every time I go he pitches. My third game with him this season.

As of this morning the Tampa Bay Rays are last in the AL East. I didn’t see that one coming. The Orioles just completed a four game sweep of the Rays at the Trop.

I’m getting rid of city connects on my first day as emperor of the globe.

Takamine EG512C. Just got home with it. It's been years since I've played a bass, so this should be fun.

Unfortunately all we have basically is a binary choice, not counting the Kennedy guy who seems to have his own cognitive issues. Which party has the saner bench to better serve "We the people" and not the business or outside overlords. I may have been persuaded to vote for McCain over Obama if it hadn't been for his choice of VP. The federal government is not just one man or woman. I trust Biden's choice of folks over whatever or whomever Trump is being sold

I think there is some decline for both. Just that Biden has enough actual governing ability that he is still quite capable of being president. That might not hold for the next four and a half years, but it’s still better, IMO, than Trump who never had much going on upstairs aside from his ubergrifter spoiled rich boy “smarts”. His loss of any capacity, after showing how poor of a president he was years ago… can’t lose what you never had.

Wait , they’re not just going to keep throwing more money at him until he reluctantly says “yes”?

11 teams, out of the other 29, have won more games, 12 have lost fewer. No, I wouldn't call them "good" but I don't think they warrant the beating they get here after a loss. People act like they are the 2003 Tigers sometimes. They are on the the middle of the pack.

This is just me thinking aloud based on some anecdotal evidence as well as what I remember in terms of polls/results from 2016, 2020. If I remember correctly, Hillary was expected to easily beat Trump but lost. By 2020, Biden had an edge in the polls but everyone freaked out due to the 'they will vote for Trump, but they are afraid to tell anyone they will' factor that was believed to be the big reason for the inaccuracy of the 2016 elections. Trump did better than polls suggested, but not by the margin in 2016. My mom and one of her sisters and one of her brothers are the biggest Trump fans (or so I thought) around. And by Trump fans, they admit he's crooked, but it's a 'they are all crooked, at least he's honest about it' mentality. I just found out my aunt won't be voting for Trump. If you looked at her facebook feed you would have never guessed that. She was over a few weeks ago after my daughters confirmation and I heard her tell my brother 'you'd be surprised who else isn't voting for him' and I didn't get a chance to chime in. According to my brother she never mentioned who she was talking about, but even he wasn't thinking it was our mom or uncle. That said, he mentioned our mom just a few days ago made some comments that surprised him in how she talked about Trump making him think that is who my aunt was talking about. The thing is, she's still posting facebook garbage that makes her look like a huge MAGA supporter. So, while years ago you had that voter that wouldn't say they'd vote for him but would.... I wonder if we're moving into a situation when previous Trump supporters won't vote for him, but don't necessarily want others to know they won't.

Toledo W 6-3 Meadows 0/4 BB 2K Tork 1/3 2BB K 2B Jung 3/5 K 2B Dingler 1/4 3RBI BB HR SB Leonard 1/4 2K Bigbie 0/4 Kreidler 1/1 RBI BB Lockhart 4IP 3H BB 3ER 2K Lange 1IP 2H 3K Erie W 4-1 Holton 1/4 Workman 0/3 BB 3K Melton 5IP 4H ER BB 6K WM L 4-3 11In Jarvis 1/5 K 2SB Anderson 2/5 2K Gold 0/5 3K Campos 3/5 RBI 2B HR Graham 1/3 RBI K Hamm 4IP 4H 3ER 6K Lakeland W 7-6 McGonigle 1/5 RBI Clark 3/4 RBI HR Bastidas 0/3 RBI Castillo 5IP 3H ER 3BB 2K

This isn’t a scandal. It’s a message to the rest of the league. Watch your kneecaps.

I'm not trading for a 33 year old guy 5 years left on a bad contract. If the alternative is waiting for the next wave of prospects, I guess I'd choose that. There have to be upgrades that don't have boat anchor contracts.

I wonder whether, in five or so years, City Connects will fade into oblivion as the kid of fad that spawned this monstrosity: