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I think I saw you on a clear September night, from my back porch in Minneapolis, shooting up amidst the Northern Lights. Or perhaps someone laced my cigar with a psychedelic

I will dispute that McKinstry provides no value to the roster. 0.8 bWAR, 1.1 fWAR last year. Perfectly fine for a role player. This may not show up in the raw batting stats, but he was a plus plus baserunner and plus fielder. And the last time I deep dived WAR metrics, versatility wasn't really factored in. The fact that you can bounce him between 3-4 positions in a single game allows you to maximize matchups elsewhere. I'm not sure if there is a place for him on the 2025 team. The bar could be higher, and his modest raise in arbitration could play a role. But to say he has no value is not true.

5 LOSSES IN A ROW FOR THE JETS !!!!!

Goff benched!!

Fun game. So who are we firing this week?

Yeah..............**** CHRIS CHRISTIE !

How many games in a row have they won?

If Keith’s defense ends up anywhere near average, leave him alone. If you can keep his kind of bat in the middle infield, that’s an advantage.

I think George Carlin was the best comedian ever.

Tell you what, though—for an October where not only do I no longer have any skin in he game, but the teams that are left are two behemoths which is like rooting for Goliath vs. Goliath—this has been a hell of a playoff season.

TBF, 2012 Romad had a much better candidate to vote for. While I didn't vote for McCain or Romney, I wasn't in fear for my country if they won.

He was wide open, lol.

Assuming you and I define the far left similarly, I'm sure you'd agree that the far left is barely even a minuscule fraction of the size of the far right, and with even less of a fraction of the power and influence on the body politic. If I had to venture a guess on the numbers, I'd say the far left makes up maybe two percent of the population, while the far right makes up thirty percent. That's a function of how the far right has completely overrun one of our major political parties. People like to equivocate and claim the far left has similarly overrun the Democratic Party, to which I can reply only, "come on." The Democrats treat the far left as a wild child who goes prodigal a lot. The party sure would like them to fall in come Election Day, but they can't count on the far left not peeling off in a snit and voting for Jill ****ing Stein instead (as if she were going to save Gaza from Israel). Democrats don't cave to the far left because the far left isn't reliable, and besides, most of what animates the far left falls well outside the Party's policy positions, anyway. But Republicans must cave to literally everything the far right demands, because they currently hold the entire party hostage.

Ohtani will play in game #3.

and Aaron Rodgers loses AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL !!!!!!!!!!

I'll be honest, the Arthur Blank endorsement was actually quite heartening. Not every billionaire is a ****heel.

It wouldn't be the first time they made a mistake.

And the 2025 Super Bowl

Goff has 56 yards passing but 3 TDs and more TDs than incompletions.

And I think that turns off a lot of moderates.

I feel seen. My take on the far left is not that it is nearly as bad as the far right these days, but it does fuel the extremists and can lead to a chicken little effect when not properly checked.

By the end of the year, Jack Fox will be throwing a ball to Hogan Hatten. On 2nd and 6.

Bill James is another one...but I forgive him.

28 down, 22 to go. Still 41 minutes to go.

Is that the first DPI against us this season? I can't remember another one off hand.

He didn't have to shout her down though, he simply could have laughed and politely said "OK - give me one example"

This team desperately misses Hutch and they will make some sort of deal.........................

6-11 Here we come !!!!

Decker is an Ohio State guy. You can't trust him.

Lions might score 50 today. This game will be a good chance to get Tim Patrick some reps.

I haven’t see Liz Cheney shill any Democratic Party policies. All I have seen her do is draw the line between a normal candidate and a Hitler-loving fascist who, not for nothing, is not anything like a conservative. She appears to me to be a conservative who is will to put up with Democratic policies instead of allowing the country and its Constitution to collapse into the dustbin of history. Maybe you don’t want her to do so, but I sure do.

Jared Goff chants have been replaced by MVP chants. What a world.

I was looking at his splits the other day because of the optimism about his 2nd half. It was a feast in August and famine in September, relatively speaking. If he can find a way to get that .419 BABIP in August to apply more consistently throughout the season, that’d be dandy. I’m just not sure it’s going to happen. I agree about a RHH 3B. I’m just not as sold on throwing money at Bregman as others. I don’t know if an under the radar shorter term signing with someone they think they can fix up is the answer or if they’ll have to go the trade route. And I don’t mind Vierling getting occasional time at 3B, but I think he’s more of an OF that can get more playing time than just as a platoon player and would be more effective on the grass.

This is true, and I'd be lying if I said I was completely at ease during those times. Honestly, I first thought of moving to another country in the 80s, but stayed because all of my family was/is here. I regret not going-if for no other reason than that I'm unlikely to get a chance to even travel now. I feel as if every year we're faced with rotting infrastructure, cuts to already struggling transit, never-ending increases in housing, healthcare, and education costs... not to mention cuts to education that causes already struggling parents and often teachers to buy basic supplies every year. And this is in Massachusetts, which is considered true-blue. Lack of pensions, having to save up for healthcare and retirement starting in your 20s, these are just two of the costs that eat into people's paychecks. And while the gains we made in past decades to get cleaner air and water are holding for now, protections that were in place are in danger if not already gone and we're in danger of going back to earlier pollution levels. Trickle-down economics took decades to get us here, and it's going to take time to reverse it. Sigh....

Why did you have to go ruin a great post with those god awful first two sentences.

I think there’s a good chance it’s less that Trump doesn’t remember what happened during whose administration, and more that he totally remembers and he is merely rewriting history on the fly. Because how many times have we seen red hats claim the same lies that Trump does even after clear debunkings? It getting to the point where we don’t even express mild objections anymore because the world is taking a Trump-will-be-Trump attitude to him.

I think I'm kinda ready to say in Harris I trust, and that these issues are likely to work themselves out. I haven't thought that about Tigers leadership since Leyland and DD exited. Still fun to speculate on the changes needed.

I consider Trump to be the enemy just like if we elected Putin. McCain, Romney and even Bush were not even close to Trump in awfulness. I still have hope that enough checks and balances will be in place in America to counter Trump if he wins, but those are eroding too.

I wouldn't have minded Mitt for himself, but by the end of Bush II, I was already soured on the GOP in toto and have been wanting/hoping to see that party crash and burn completely enough so something useful could could re-emerge ever since

You know nothing can ever compare to the strange psychological and emotional cocktail that was flowing through my veins for our last 50 games of the season. I thought the end of this game was interesting, but I never felt my head was going to explode or rainbows would start shooting out of my rear end to propel me into orbit around the Earth like when the Tigers were rampaging this year.

Bad as they were they go into the half with a lead. Kind of shows you had bad MSU is too.

I don't think your view is accurate as a woman who was assaulted as a child. They're men in power, men in your neighborhood, at your church, your coworker, your health care provider, a guy you went to school with, possibly even a family member, or the former President of the United States. Too many have the idea that "they" are these crazy slime balls that hide in the shadows and attack strangers. I'm sure there are those, but many more who blend in to every day life that you'd never suspect. That's how they do what they do. Unfortunately, too many like 1776 who think there's a time limit on it, or that you have to "prove it", or that they're being vulgar or manly or locker room talk.

I didn't realize until recent years how many women have been victims of sexual assualt. We probably all know people who have been through it. The vast majority of men have never sexually assaulted anyone, so most of the attacks have been made by serial predators. Because most men don't do stuff like that, they might find it hard to believe how common it is, so they think the stories are made up.

and I will tell you that as a woman, I didn’t say a word about a sexual assault that happened to me until 50 years after it happened. edited to delete my second paragraph, and to say, the hell with this. Sexual assaults happen. Sometimes with witnesses, more often without… and because you know that the pushback and ridicule you encounter if you dare bring it up, often you just bury it in your own mind.

I believe he thinks if it’s not witnessed or corroborated, then we must assume it never happened. 🙂 … because, you know, proof. ** (** every woman knows what this feels like. Our word means nothing)

When he said on tape he liked to grab them by the pussy. You?