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It is sort of funny. One of the stock complaints from the population about politics is too little focus on the issues. So here is a case where as a voter you have a clear opportunity to vote a program and a set of positions on issues over the particular personality (i.e. Party over Person). and we can't cope?

Kenta Maeda needs to step down and let Kamala Harris start.

It’s 103° in Boise Idaho and on the asphalt it’s 110° and I have a magnifying glass out and I’m focusing it on a red ant I’ve named Kenta. It’s the way I’ve learned to deal with stress.

We had tickets directly behind the Celtics bench. Coming off the floor, Bill Russell shook his head and I was sprayed by his sweat which I now I see as a kind of strange sort of baptism by Greatness. My dad knew someone at the corporate office for Standard Oil in Detroit and I think he gave the tickets to my dad. He also got us tickets to the 5th game of the World Series in 1968.

Thank you for your thoughts, all, it's truly appreciated. If Skubal is dealt, wherever that may be, I hope you all are happy with the return. Take care.

Jeez. This doom and gloom is contagious for some, I guess. Me? I’m not changing ****. None of my family is changing ****. None of my friends are changing ****. Just sayin. edit to add: Full disclosure - I would vote for a bowl of red potato salad if that was who/what was opposing Trump

They didn't hold Matt Manning out last night...so he's not available. It shows you how little they think of him as an option.

Slightly related.... I heard Roger Daltrey on a podcast say that US Servicemen stationed in England, bringing over records like Elvis and Chuck Berry and those guys, along with the old timer Blues legends feeling safer in Europe than in the South in the US contributed to the heavy influence of music during that time period in that location. Throw in the radio consolidation has made things pretty stale commercially. Do people under 30 listen to the radio?

It’s raining on the driveway in my heart right now.

Extra inning baseball is dumb...the end.

unless flagg drops to #5, i have bad news for trajan...

"Rose City" often (usually? always?) means Portland, OR. links in the "readers added context" section confirm.

This was fun to talk about, but in the end, I would be borderline shocked if we ended up trading Tarik Skubal this year. I would characterize the chances of that happening as low single-digits percent.

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI Game Time Forecast: 68 50% Chance of rain (Chances go down by the hour) Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: Bally Sports Det Starters: RHP Tanner Bibee RHP Reese Olson

He's gonna start charging Colt an Uber fee for all the driving he's doing.

oof. Portland's 100-degree temps are finally over, today is "only" 95.

*Sigh* Here is the visitor log: https://www.whitehouse.gov/disclosures/visitor-logs/ Here is a Google calendar of Biden's schedule: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=cantymedia.com_62fqfmv1eejqs9hntbr6hof5kc@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York&pli=1 The Neuro's name is Kevin Cannard. You can see he visited the White House on January 17th. He visited Dr O'Connor who is Biden's doctor. Biden's physical was released in February. This is likely when Biden met with him. Per his calendar, he was at the White House. Dr Cannard was also at the White House on January 26th. Biden was at the White house. Maybe he met him a second time but Cannard met with Megan Nasworthy, liaison between the White House and Walter Reed. Dr Cannard visited the White House on March 28th with Megan Nasworthy. Biden was in New York. Dr Cannard visited the White House on November 17th with Megan Nasworthy. Biden was in San Francisco. Dr Cannard visited the White House on October 3rd with Megan Nasworthy. Biden was in the White House. Dr Cannard visited the White House on August 25th with Megan Nasworthy. Biden was in Nevada. Dr Cannard visited the White House on July 28th with Megan Nasworthy. Biden was in Maine. Dr Cannard visited the White House on November 15th with Dr Joshua Simmons. Biden was in Indonesia. Of the 8 times the Neuro visited the White House, Biden was there 3 times. We know one for certain was likely January 17th. Maybe the visit 9 days later was related. The whole speculation about Biden having Parkinson's was because a Neuro who specializes in Parkinson's visited the White House 8 times but Biden wasn't even there most of the time. There is absolutely no evidence he has Parkinson's and a well respected doctor said he doesn't.

I don't know why you think it strange that a lot of people are employed at the White House, and a lot of them are at pay grades where it's a lot more efficient to bring personal services to them occasionally rather than to have them schlepping around a half gridlocked DC, especially since some of what is going on here is mandated by the West Wing admin.

I decided, hey, way not tune in some minor league baseball this afternoon, since the Hens, 'Wolves, and 'Caps all have day games. All all three are getting crushed by blowout scores. F-Tigers on tonight.

Especially when they.... age... and don't go the surgery route.

As do I which means we also get all of the minor league teams which is great when you have three monitors and games on all of every non Monday night.

Skubal for Cowser/Kjerstad (either one) Basallo Mayo McDermott/Povich (either one) I'd do that deal in a heartbeat. Oh what a fun exercise 🙂

that may be a true take - in the abstract, but the primary season is when the *public* had to make that decision and it didn't. All those ambitious potential democrats in the field that people are talking about all looked at Biden and decided he was too formidable to take on. Now the chattering class in the media want to revisit that decision - and from a vantage point of having much less inside understanding than those potential candidates that didn't run. The system isn't designed to to just drop in candidates after the fact - not gonna work. The Northam bruhaha should be the model for this. If Biden just keeps on keeping on, people are finally going to figure out there is no story in his age. If he keels over, then he can be replaced! 🤣

you already lost 5 times but nice keeping up

Maybe I'm underestimating how difficult it would be to be the most prolific poster of anti-semitic content on this site and try to act like you're not.

except for the thousands of other times you've done just that so you choose not to defend yourself, lol

Also intriguing is that your posting of anti-semitic videos also decreased since the debate so using your logic............ you sure did step in that one

I think the whole question of the way music genres come and go is fascinating. There has been a change in popular music style pretty much every generation since Bach. Some eras have produced music with a lot more staying power and it looks like 60s-70's period may turn out to be one of them. I've seen music historians speculate that a big surge in music education in the post WWII era (US and Europe) led to a lot of very high quality musicianship, plus the boomer cohort creating enough market for their down generation's musicians to break through early when their creativity was still high.

LOL at MAGAtownBUMMERS, when not posting anti-semitic video after anti-semitic video, is posting poll result after poll result to support his "argument" now posting that the only poll that matters is the one on election day. pretty hilarious **** hoss

"if he can stay healthy" is doing a lot of work there...

Apropos of nothing, I continue to maintain that Trading Places is the best Christmas movie of the last 50 years.

I think this is probably right. My four-year-older brother heavily influenced 11-year-old me to discover Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper and Cream, none of which I would have discovered on my own. I am of the impression that there are a lot of kids, meaning millennials and Gen Z, who like certain kinds of classic rock because their parents would play it. When I say “a lot” I don’t mean the majority, of course, but a certainly a far higher percentage of them like that than kids of my generation who liked big band swing music, which was basically zero. I would guess probably because classic rock sounds way closer in basic style to today’s pop music than swing ever did or could to 70s pop music.

its….something

Love that Franyerber swing! I don't want to say the high leg kick of Max concerns me if it works for him but it seems like that is a little obsolete in today's MLB game but maybe I'm forgetting about some guys.

I can't believe we are really suggesting to create unprecedented chaos and something that has never been done and overturn an election and install a candidate with no resources on the hopes that if people get to know them they will vote for them.

He's looked fine at all of his appearances since the debate. No one cared about the debate. The issue is Dems being bullied by the media and being completely helpless to fight back.

Good comeback effort...put Maeda on the IL with a shoulder injury and he can come back in August.

OK. Hit a lead off HR, then let it pour.

The recent power surge has the kids looking pretty good. That's encouraging.

There are appropriate times to take risks. Designing a trade for your Cy Young candidate is not one of those times.

Interesting. I wonder if having older siblings (in my case, the oldest is 17 years older than I am) has an impact on most people. I was definitely influenced by their taste in music-so I like a lot of stuff from the 60s and 70s.

I can see there being a break, although I don't know if '51 is it. You would have been 12 or 13 when the Beatles came here, which was prime Beatlemania age, and in high school in the 1965 to 1970 range, and a lot of cultural changes happened during the period that high schoolers would have a hard time avoiding. I would pin the break closer to '47 or '48. You might have liked Elvis OK, especially after Ed Sullivan convinced your folks that he was a fine conservative mama's boy, but you might have been a tad too old for the Beatles and the changes all that wrought.

Love Randy Marsh... my favorite South Park character. 🙂

Hmmmm..... Move Maeda and Baez to the bullpen and then trade them?

There is also a big cultural break within the boomers somewhere around 52/53. Maybe driven by the difference between being at higher risk of the draft, and also being more at the cutting cultural edge. If you were born in say '51, your might have been able to be sheltered from Rock'n'Roll and the cultural shifts somewhat - esp if you had conservative parents. By a few years later the older generation had lost the rear-guard action to hold back youth culture primacy. In my experience that older end of the cohort also became more politically conservative than the rest.

Sure, some of them work especially when you are giving up a reliever. I always recommend trading relievers at the deadline. Trading starting pithers and regular position positon players is more risky.

Unless you’re new to the Forum, you should know that I’m exceptionally ill-informed on all matters, though that never prevents me from sharing my opinions, sometimes stated as factual. However, he’s lights out in Erie—if he can stay healthy and log some innings, I’d really be surprised if he didn’t make the big squad.

I dispute that his resume suggests this is a mirage. He did have hand/wrist issues the past couple years that hampered his hitting, but he was an above average MLB hitter 2019-2021. He's only moderately exceeding his PECOTA/ZIPS/etc. projections.

He makes it up—way to call him out!