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I’m sharing this with y’all right now. I’m in Jeckyll island Georgia for a cousins trip. Recently one of my wife’s cousins was diagnosed with ALS. That prompted them all to plan a trip here for her. There’s 22 of us here. She’s progressed to the point where she’s wheelchair bound. Today we convinced her to let us get her into the pool at the resort. I was one that happened to be thwarted to hang on to her as she got in and to carry her around. She started giggling. I asked if she was ok and she said yes, she’s loving it. I will never ever forget that for the rest of my life and feel honored to be fortunate enough to have been able to give her that joy. Live your live and cherish it every moment.

Offer the debate to Nickeldeon. Have it fact checked by the Poynter Institute (IFCN). Candidates get slimed for every wrong fact they give. It would be a huge draw.

He's done it multiple times this year. Not sure what Hinch is thinking.

I've been listening to the ten-part podcast "What Happened in Alabama?". The host's father grew up in Jim Crow Alabama before moving with the family to Minnesota when he was 12. The host was born there and grew up as one of the few black people in his St. Paul suburb. A common theme of the pod is how the host's father regularly beat him and his sister as children to within an inch of their lives. The working hypothesis is that the father did so because, as with so many black parents, beating the children was a way to teach them that they had to grow up fast and learn how to navigate a white world super carefully so they don't end up getting killed by racial violence. The pod also ties the beating of children back to slavery days, where violent punishments established itself as something that got passed down through generations through the descendants of both enslaved persons and slaveholders. I just got to episode seven and the pod threw a bit of a curve ball: rather than discussing yet another aspect of Jim Crow directly, they veered off into the topic of corporal punishment of children. The host had experienced regular beatings, and as an adult thought things through and determined that even though he had thought it was a normal and even beneficial way to grow up, he was now questioning the efficacy of the entire idea, and he brought on a doctor who'd studied the effects of corporal punishment on children, and how the nervous system is altered by it. He also brought on an African American Studies professor to discuss how corporal punishment extends beyond the home into schools. There were several really good points I had not contemplated very deeply before. One that had crossed my mind was that constant beatings—and, as importantly, the constant threat of beatings that could come at any moment for any or no reason—likely rewire the brain in unhealthy ways that manifests in the children growing up and behaving that way toward their own children. It's a form of traumatic stress disorder. I also knew that there are certain states, most of them concentrated in the old slave south, still allow corporal punishment in schools. But the one idea that had never crossed my mind was how we allow punitive behavior against children that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment were they to be practiced on adults. At one time the flogging of adults as judicial corporal punishment in the US was common, particularly used against enslaved people and, later, black people during the Jim Crow era. As such, it's a holdover punishment from slavery times that still resonates strongly with a large portion of the United States. But while there is no longer any judicial corporal punishment of adults, people still feel free to administer beatings to children, who with their small and vulerable bodies and brains simply break more easily than adults, even in taxpayer-supported institutions such as public schools. When you think about it in those terms, the idea just seems absolutely bonkers. I remember we had a spirited discussion on MTS many years ago about corporal punishment, with one proponent who was very supportive of it, and would counter with arguments such as "I was spanked when I was a child and I turned out fine" (Did you? Really?), and "Are you a parent? No? Then you have no right to weigh in on this." It's a controversial topic, which is why I put it here in Politics. But the link below leads to a very thoughtful discussion of the issue, admittedly all anti-corporal punishment and nobody on the pro side, that might be worth your time to take in if you have any interest in the topic. https://www.whathappenedinalabama.org/episode/2024/06/26/ep-7-spare-the-rod

Rookies! Dance off!

Come on win one for the skipper.

Not gonna happen but a funny idea

Or maybe you both are just throwing out wild ass, baseless assumptions.

I’m sorry, we were looking for “20-0”

OK, I've been threatening to do this for a few days, notably here and here, but I just came up with another post that doesn't comfortably fit anywhere, so I'm starting a new thread. This thread for any random factoid, story, joke, poem, and assorted sundry detritus. That's the intent, anyway. The posts don't have to be about the Tigers, necessarily, but any of them could be. This first post is. Some or most of you guys may already know this, but the Detroit Tigers franchise were not founded in 1901. They were founded in 1895 and first played in the minor league Western League, which continued under that name through 1899. It was a league that looked a lot like the future American Association, with teams like the Minneapolis Millers, St. Paul Saints, Kansas City Blues, and the like. In 1900 they changed their name to the American League, still a minor league, and picked up the Chicago White Stockings and the Cleveland Lake Shores. The American League then declared war on the National League and forced their way into becoming a major league, rounding out into the eight-team configuration they would continue with unabated until 1954. The Tigers are one of two teams that started with the 1895 WL, the other being the Milwaukee Brewers, who made their way to St. Louis in 1902 before landing in Balitmore in that 1954 season. That means our Tigers are the one continuing franchise in the American League that has retained their city and identity the entire time. I'm kinda proud of that.

I also do not understand the Miller love at this point. Guess we are short relievers in general and we never had one who could strike anybody out consistently. That has to be a major off season fix. We need at least two.

It only took the Tigers 3 games to do what the Yankees and Dodgers couldn't do in three years: fix Trey Sweeney. If I knew how to add a sarcasm emoji I would.

time. "I am sorry to say to ALL the world's GREATEST ATHLETES, I wish you ALL THE BEST, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan. I sincerely hope THESE@Olympics get the same amount of viewers as @cspan," the Deuce Bigalow actor wrote on X, formerly Twitter. lol

On a positive note, Hurter looked good. Toledo stats were not good, but prior stops were decent .

The Detroit Tigers "Just wait two more years" for 6 years now.

Agreed, that hot sack of flaming porch poop in a bag is as much Hinch's fault as Miller's

Putting Shelby Miller in with a 2 run lead in the 9th means you don't care if you win. Leaving him in the game after throwing 5 absolute meatballs right down the middle means you want to lose.

Not a lot of action on the game thread today. Probably a record for a low number of posts. People must be watching grass grow today or synchronized swimming, which is just about the same thing.

I would be shocked if an American didn't win the gold medal in an event that involved shooting a gun.

My mother once broke a wooden clothesline prop over my backside. I probably deserved it at the time.

Deleted - please stop feeding the troll y’all

Not a lot of velocity on that first pitch of the game.

One of the idiots that works for 97.1 said he would have signed Flaherty to a 3 year extension instead of trading him. A couple of bold assumptions here...the Tigers didn't discuss an extension with Flaherty b4 dealing him and Flaherty woukd be interested in a 3 year extension instead of waiting until FA when he'll be able to get an offer for at least 5 or 6 years

LOL - Lots of athletes of both sexes are epic crybabies. Remember John McEnroe for instance? Do you think we are going to get to good social policy based on the over-wrought emotional responses of losing athletes?

My family went to a game in that streak, I believe it was vs the Angels. I tolerated the loss because Tiger Stadium was heaven on earth to me. I swear I could smell wahoo Crawford's urine.....but later I realized it was likely the drunk dude behind me.

Gave the fans a good show. Pretty exciting...

DETwin probability:100.0%(37.2)

There is no audio amusement thread. I saw the race. She is a beast.

I don't get it. I mean, I would get the joke if she was actually a Black woman, but I don't understand this...........

A.I. all your base are belong to us.

He deserves it.

If you were a fan of the Tigers in 1975, you could imagine a team losing 18 games in a row.

Bob Uecker nailed when he said he was a good bacup catcher until he had to play too much.

I feel pretty confident in saying that if Tork was both not producing results AND not putting in perceived effort to try and get better that he would’ve been demoted earlier in the season and they would’ve made an effort to deal him for something at the deadline. The reality is much more likely to be that we promoted him through the system quickly, he doesn’t have experience making a lot of adjustments as a result, struggled with timing and then pitch recognition trying to compensate, and lost confidence. He has since been trying to retool his approach in Toledo and there are obvious positives and some collateral negatives that still need to be ironed out. i wouldn’t give up on Tork at this point, but it would be responsible for the organization to both exercise some patience with him for the rest of this year and also come up with a contingency plan for 1B if he can’t recover to be what we need him to be.

I don't want to see an "evaluation year". They've been doing that for like 7 years now. I want to see a competive team. They can be reasonably competitive and continue to develop young players at the same time. Skubal, Olson, Jobe, another signing like Flaherty/Lorenzon plus Mize makes a solid front five. There are always relievers available, add a couple of secondary bats and try to win. If it's not working at the deadlinem then call it an evaluation season.

Spend when we’re close to winning => we’re never close to winning because we don’t spend => checkmate!

100% in fact: