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Sec Pete strikes again

Glad I got to see Miguel Cabrera before Trump deports him to the Dominican Republic.

MAGA is madder about a Canadian Goose getting shot in a park than they are about American children getting shot in a park

I just think he's an obnoxious mother-****ing asshole scumbag. The moment he opened his ****ing mouth and started spewing his deuchebag drivel. Which was a long, long, long, looooooong time ago. And he hasn't stopped since.

We can catch the Twinkies. Their remaining schedule is hard and they're not playing well; I see 10 losses for them.

This is really flooding the zone

he did...but despite his horrific crimes he was not an OSU alumn

It was only last week when Hillbilly Vanilli was saying school shootings were a fact of life. Literally more concern over a goose than school children

I like Avila in the booth.

Hurter's being Fascist.

Slow game thread tonight. So is somebody handing out free money on the Internet? Shoot me a link.

Is that why he's in California...? To try and get them voted out of their seats?

It would be a missed opportunity if Duran Duran isn’t handling one of the Star Spangled Banners this weekend.

LOL. No staff could have been dumb enough not to use new signals against M last season could they? In fact to me the reason the whole thing was/is such stupid Kabuki theater is that accusations between multiple teams had been floating around a long time, and both M and M's opponents should have been dealing with it. It just became the vehicle for the expression of a lot of political tensions percolating inside the conference and the general situation that Harbaugh had made himself personna non-grata to the rest of the conference and the NCAA.

Odds on Nick Maton going 12-15 with 4 HRs and 19 RBIs in this series while having the leagues top web gem each game?

Funny thing about the change in the dynamic of the race. The fear of Trump winning had a lot of institutions acting like they had to contend with him so they were tempering their behavior with him. Harris in and Biden out appears to have changed that dynamic a lot. People no longer expect and dread the inevitable Trump win.

This series with Baltimore is where the rubber really meets the road. I’m just looking forward to some good or even hopeful play rather than bad play. But this team has surprised the heck out of me and a lot of us in this recent run and it’s completely legitimate to get excited about a wildcard, although I find it hard to invest too much emotion into it myself. But I want to reiterate how shocked I am by the successes and how entertaining and hopeful this team’s play has been these last few weeks. In my lifetime, we’ve won two World Series which were spectacular and glorious, and we’ve lost two that were really, really painful. So I’ve known great joy, but I’m philosophical about this and it’s sort of like walking to school uphill both to and from and eating the bark off of trees and being grateful. I’m going to be grateful for all the unexpected good signs this season has had to offer and however many more games we win I will be pretty much OK. For fans who haven’t enjoyed these heights I really want this for you. You deserve it. Good luck to us all in however our hopes and dreams may play out. This series will be a signature test.

I said this in another thread I think, maybe this one, but outside of a couple of weeks here and there, the team was always competitive. They were in a lot of games they lost. The season was fun. I didn't expect the playoffs but this is no comparison to what we've had. It's the best season since 2016.

Hinch should get significant consideration as AL manager of the year for the masterful job he has done with this flawed team.

This year is a success if you take into account how we felt around mid-June. From the start of the year I don’t know if I feel it’s that much of a success. Our leadoff hitter and center fielder spent more than half the year in Toledo because he had such an awful start. Torkelson was so bad that we HAD to send him down and had to play utility guys at 1B for over two months. Baez somehow got even worse. Keith’s first couple months were brutal. Third base was just as big of a mess as we thought it’d be heading into the year. Carpenter missed two plus months. Maeda went from savvy depth signing to unplayable. We continuously gave Joey Wentz chances despite constant failures. Mize and Manning haven’t progressed at all. All of this on a team that we thought should solidly contend for the division. Instead, we are only close to sniffing the wild card because Skubal and Flaherty became two of the best starters in baseball, Wenceel Perez and Matt Vierling were unexpectedly valuable, and we’ve somehow managed to turn three months of Skubal/Montero plus Bullpen starts into a good working strategy. If it weren’t for Tyler Holton, Will Vest, Jason Foley and a mishmash of pitchers that no one on here had ever expected to see the big leagues, we’d be in Oakland A’s territory record-wise. Brieske, Faedo, Miller and Chafin certainly weren’t particularly impressive. Credit where it’s due though- Meadows completely turned it around in Toledo and has carried it back to the MLB, Jake Rogers has been elite calling games with a variety of pitchers, Keith kept working and turned it around in a big way, Carp has been a monster when healthy, Vierling/Ibanez/Perez all stepped up big this year, Malloy looks like he will be valuable, and a ton of low level prospects have pitched great with their opportunities. I’m not a Hinch fan, but he and Fetter have navigated the pitching staff health issues quite well. If these guys can go into next year playing with the energy and execution level that they have since the trade deadline- then next year should be a lot of fun. But if all the borderline guys regress and start slow again…….then it’ll be hard for me to say anything more than that these last two months were just a ball club of young players who were playing loose because they had no pressure on them.

Shouldn't it be " Carpe diem , morons " ?

Unacceptable

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI Game Time Forecast: 77 Sunny Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: Bally Sports Det Starters: RHP Zach Eflin ? ———————- What happened to TBD? Did he get traded? As many innings as TBD pitched I bet he’s got arm fatigue.

It is absolutely not Duggan's if he runs. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has outperformed every single Democrat when she's run statewide in 2010, 2018, and 2022. In 2010 when she ran for SOS she lost, but outperformed both the Gubernatorial ticket or Virg Bernero and Brenda Lawrence, as well as the AG candidate in Mark Totton. She out performed Gretchen Whitmer and Garlin Gilchirst both times she ran in 2018 and 2022. Secretary of State Benson will be a formidable candidate and has a shot at starting out as the top candidate.

Story is nuts, man. Who's gonna sign that guy now? I do believe in 2nd chances, but this is ridiculous. Reminds me of that time Crash Davis told the guy what Nuke LaLoosh was going to throw, but he was trying to teach Nuke a lesson. This is different

Six Pac?

Stephen Miller has a MAGA meltdown. At least we know he has a pulse. I wasn't sure before.

I've been youtubing old norm macdonald videos lately. One weekend update joke from 1996. "Donald Trump announced he won 20 million dollars betting on Evander Holyfield. Trump said he went public with his winnings in case there are a few people left who don't hate him."

Harris up by +5 in two post-debate polls - Morning Consult and LPSOS Almost wrote LSPOS in honor of Trump.

Just enjoy the ride, boys. It might not end up with the postseason, but a lot of goodness that we can take away from this season. A bunch of rookies and young guys are playing winning ball.

6.) Give Shelby Miller a one way ticket to Korea

Nothing confusing really - you start knowing you have a major league hitter at about 500 AB, pretty sure one way or the other by 1000, and even then some guys might still go either way (Torkelson).

Despite the odds I think anybody at this point expecting to make the playoffs is setting themselves up for disappointment. Yes, I think it's a success but that's due to the injuries and record despite them. I am disappointed in a few players that brings it down somewhat. But this season, despite a couple of bad weeks here and there in May and June, it's been an enjoyable run. Pretty consistent.

Yes X2 for me.

Sweeney has done enough in the minors to say that he could develop into a viable starter, but he also could be Zach McKinstry who also had a fantastic month in the Majors.

It’s always a mistake when I go on a Tigers-oriented Facebook page and read the blathering idiocy of ordinary fans. It makes me appreciate this place even though we are Morans. Two or three months ago, scores of ordinary fans on a Facebook Tigers page were venting their rage at Verlander claiming that he had left the team in free agency for more money and they could never forgive him. There were so many of them almost no one could be heard over their grunts that simulated reasoned discourse Just now it was white hot rage at the Jack Flaherty trade that anyone with brain tissue knew was inevitable. Even though we are fewer than we once were, I’m glad the few of us who remain are still together.

Going to see Jack White Sunday.............. Radio is not the highest-paying gig, but it does have some cool perks.

Too many Mexicans.

Tua just concussed himself again. (Originally posted this in the wrong thread)