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Not directed at you individually, so please don't take this as such.... There is tons of help on the ground in NC....and in VA, and in TN, and in SC, and in GA, and in FL. Any assertion otherwise is complete and total BS. I haven't seen my family in three weeks because I'm on the ground providing support. I know.

No, he has CONCEPTS of a plan.

I should add. Yesterday's visit to Duke was good. Everything is basically stable which is all I can ask for. I'm not on O2, exercising as prescribed 2-3 times a week and my doctors are happy. If anything they are concerned I may have lost too much weight in recent months. It was also a good chat with the head of the transplant team which put things into better perspective. To quote Monty Python "I'm not dead yet"

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I would not mention politics and just have a good discussion about baseball with you. I would only punch you in the face if you wore a Yankees cap.

…. Are some people forgetting (or disputing) that there was a transition of power, by for Christ’s sake, are you going to call what went on as “peaceful”???? And are we going to call the countless lawsuits and inquiries that CHALLENGED perfectly fine votes, and called out election workers, putting their very lives in danger - are you calling that PEACEFUL?? Add to that all the violent rhetoric from the damn CANDIDATE himself every damned day for four years… What of any of this is peaceful?? What of any of this is truthful?? Don’t liars, at some point, deserve to be called out for their behavior?!

I sure miss times like when McCain responded to supporters who said the country would be destroyed if Obama won, by telling them that he was a good, decent man and that their fears were unfounded.

Ignorance, selfishness, lack of empathy, fear mongering, Russian propaganda, toxic masculinity, religious extremism, hate, racism, etc.

this exactly. You can keep working a gig like that when you are old if you are in decent condition, but you have to keep working all the time to stay current like Scully did.

I live on a cul-de-sac, so we get together with the neighbors and all setup in one driveway in the front of the cul-de-sac. When the kids come up, we tell them to take one from each bowl (there's seven or eight bowls). We are all eating, drinking and talking, and so not paying much attention. It was rainy anyway, so there weren't a lot of kids. Anyway, this one kid came back to the table AT LEAST seven times. Always with the same "Trick or treat" and look on his face, like he was there for the first time. It was quite funny. He was probably nine or ten. He had (I assume) his brother with him the first few times, but by the end it was just him. I swear the last couple of times he didn't get more than a house away before he turned around and came back. 🤣

Thanks for the info. Nobody needs to vote now, since it's been determined already. That's disappointing.

As you should. I've been saying that the democrats plans to cap 'scripts to a max of 2k a year is a huge deal. Same as their plan to eliminate medical debt. I heard Biden say nobody should lose their life saving for an illness/surgery. And correct, Trump could care less. Eliminating the ACA would be a disaster for millions of current patients and future people who get sick. Another reason I strongly dislike MAGA.

I’m sorry for your medical issues, but for sure hope that your future medical costs will come under a Democratic administration. I know that my sister & her husband will benefit from the pharmaceutical cap that happens next year for meds they need to survive.

I remember reading someplace that **** Enberg stayed away from baseball announcing for years even though it was his favorite sport to call, precisely because his full plate with other sports meant that he wouldn't be able to do it on more than an occasional basis and baseball is the type of sport you have to be involved in regularly if you want to do it justice.

The ONLY time you see Trump laugh is when he's laughing AT somebody.

The fastest way to get there is to dump Trump.

Evidently Elon is also allowing fake Harris ads on twitter that are intentionally misleading and thus intended to sway people against her. Scary part is I can see why people think they're real.

The nature of text message campaigns is obscene and needs to be regulated, but these are the ones that are really getting under my skin. This is clearly a Trump group posing as a Harris group to rile up the progressives and get them to flip or stay home. It’s false advertising. I’ve gotten three just like it in the two days.

We won 86 games with about a dozen rookies on the roster.

Keeping it real.

Thanks. I hope we can some day get back to a normal country that does not hate each other.

So if you saw me at Tigers game would you punch me in the face? I would buy you a beer, hope you like IPA's.

And near zero rates have even worse results in the corporate world, it removes investment discipline and a lot money gets put into stupid investments - pumps up bubbles that will only burst later, etc.

and frankly interest rates were too low. I'm not an expert, don't pretend to be, so correct me all you want, but when rates are low people buy too much, more than they need. Interest rates are not a refleciton of the economy. They should be just high enough to make you think twice on doing something but not too high to make a necessity prohibitive. 4-6% is fair I think. The near zero rates we saw created a mirage and set expectations out of whack on what should be normal.

What was wrong with his reaction to the pandemic? Was it because he pretended it was not real? Made jokes about it? Took no responsibility and blamed everybody else? Suggested that people could inject themselves with disinfectant or shine a light up their ass? Gave billions of dollar in stimulus payments to people who didn't need it? That all seems reasonable to me.

Drill, drill and drill. Even though the United States leads the world in oil production. He just tells his base stupid nonsense and they eat it up. Donold's horrible reaction to the pandemic is what caused the worldwide inflation. Joe Biden has brought us back better and stronger. There's still work to be done but he's leaving Harris a much stronger country than Trump left him. And speaking of inflation? The US is in much better shape than every other country, thanks to democrats cleaning up the typical GOP mess. Harris saying "We're not going back" is probably the best campaign slogan in my lifetime, mostly because it's so true.

I think some of you are being a bit dismissive of the rookies as though they aren’t going to take what they’ve learned this year and improve heading into next year. A lot of quick triggers on here just assuming that Jung/Sweeney/Perez/JHM/Dingler are only ever going to provide what they did this year. I’d much rather ride with that group again and instead invest in the pitching staff. if you were expecting a lineup that was 50% rookies every night to be in the top half of the league in offensive numbers, then I assume you also expected a run of 8 straight World Series runs once they collectively all reached their primes. Its exciting that the Tigers had a great year this year, but we have to exercise some patience and some faith in the coaching staff to elevate them more as they grow.

The economy is always a factor. There are always people who are going to get screwed no matter what and others who will do great no matter what. We've been telling that to you Republicans for years! I just don't think it's comparatively bad now. But let's imagine for a moment though that Trump was not a traitor, a fascist and an overall disgraceful person and was actually a legitimate choice for President. What specifically do you think he can do to fix to improve a economy? Eliminate the income tax and pay for everything with tariffs? Deport 16 million immigrants?

They have in the aggregate, actually, but I haven't dived in to look at the caveats. Only saw the top level headlines.

I mean, it's not like there is going to be deflation to bring prices back to 2019 levels.

Can you imagine if this is your daughter? Your wife? Your granddaughter? Is there any woman in your family that this happening would change your mind ? …..Make you realize that this is NOT “God’s will”???

I can't get 3 people to agree on a tee time and these folks get an entire neighborhood to do a choreographed dance.

Now that inflaion is under control, it appears that you are looking for a new economic problem that doesn't really exist.

This was expected because of Helene and Milton.

He’s been saying it for four years, so has been laying that groundwork. But now he has legislative outcomes in many states over the past two or three years that have put people in place to do what they weren’t able to do in 2020. I have a feeling that Biff’s previous statement that Trump was going to win The presidency probably doesn’t (even for him) Have anything to do with Trump actually winning the popular vote, nor the electors, but more to do with he will be put into the presidency by the courts.

There's nostalgia for sure but the last few years when he started working playoff games on MLB Network I wasn't a fan. He lived too much in the past.... he came across as a broadcaster who hasn't done a game in 30 years and assumed his audience hasn't watched a game in 30 years. He'd say things like "the game is a lot more global now" and once made a reference to Albert Belle. He kind of reminded me of Mitch Albom... someone who pops in every once in a while in a sport but doesn't have the recent knowledge that a regular sports writer would. A Lions column written today referencing Scott Mitchell for example.

It would be refreshing if you didn't post here anymore because all you do is post nonsense. The other team gets a first down and you attack Aaron Glenn. The Lions don't get a first down Ben Johnson (the best OC in the NFL) should be fired. It's a total joke. You are as silly as these people that destroy $800 TV because the Cowboys lost a game. I don't know why you watch. Can't be enjoyable for you. The only way you'd be happy is if the Lions scored a TD on every single drive and the Lions held the other team to 0 first downs. They lose one game and you actually think they're a 6-11 team. Your words, not mine. Welp, they didn't go 17-0. Coaches must be fired !!!! Can't wait for your freak outs every time Jordan Love completes a pass Sunday. And my God if they should lose to the 2nd best team in the NFC on the road, you'll probably burn all your Lions swag.

Literally calling for Liz Cheney's death by firing squad should have been a decisive moment. We have to break this movement. To quote Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln: "the moment is NOW!"

Rodgers has 79 yards through 2 1/2 quarters. Who does he think he is, Jared Goff?

People want to be nervous. I do think there is a strong possibility of violence if team crybaby doesn't get its way but the overall trends (well outlined above). The only trend you don't mention is the huge, already polled and captured in early voting trends gender gap.

There is not one logical reason Trump will win this election. Breaking away from the eyes glued to the polls that are seemingly changing by the hour, a couple notes: 1. Harris has run a nearly flawless campaign. Better than Biden's in 2020, and head and shoulders above Clinton's in 2016. She has raised millions more than Trump, has inspired the youth vote from the second she became the candidate, and from the very beginning has had the infrastructure, the political operatives, and the political chops on her side to win a major American election. From a political standpoint, she does everything right. The only error I have seen as I became a more active engager in the last month was Biden's boneheaded comment calling Trump supporters garbage. Stupid comment on the same vein as "deplorables" was, but hardly James Comey level October surprise. Lucky for Harris nonetheless, she's on the ticket and not Biden. 2. On the other hand, Trump is a absolute dumpster fire. He's in New Mexico five days before the election. There is no rhyme or reason to anything he's done. Compared to Biden's "garbage" gaffe, Trump's Puerto Rico fiasco was 10x worse. He doesn't know what he's doing, and those around him are either too incompetent or too afraid to speak up and tell him. 3. By every standard that has mattered in modern day elections, Trump is the worst major party political candidate of all time. He doesn't add voters to his base. He doesn't even try. He just relies on his base. The same base of which its most fervent supporters - who traveled to DC and stormed the Capital - are now imprisoned. Can you imagine Trump compromising, or reaching across the aisle, or doing anything other than fear mongering? 4. In a continuation of the above, while I understand that Trump's candidacy has always defied logic, whatever magic he possessed in 2016 has run out. In 2016, it was novel. His schtick, a "successful" businessman with a catchy MAGA phrase who was going to "drain the swamp" and treat the US Government like a business, it all appealed to a lot of everyday people who were disenfranchised with the Democratic Party (particularly the so-called "establishment" that they saw of Hillary Clinton), and who had been told for eight years by the Republican Party that the Democrats were coming for their children and that Obama was a Muslim. In 2020, there was a redemption tour. He was an incumbent president who sold himself as a war time president (COVID) in a time when it was hard for Democrats to vote because of an ongoing pandemic. And he still lost. And then he led an attack on democracy the likes of which have never been seen domestically. In 2024, it's old. People are tired. People want him to go away. 5. People may not like Harris, but they don't hate her. Outside the never growing base of Trump supporters, people legitimately hate Trump. The general public might prefer Biden, or Buttigieg, or Warren, or Obama, or even Haley. But Harris is not Trump and so she is getting votes for that alone. When you talk about motivating the vote, hate for Trump is an easy one in 2024. 6. Turnout is going to be an all time high. There's no pandemic, while early voting and mail-in voting is more accessible than ever before. Turnout has always favored the Democratic party. I can point at polls and fear monger, but the polls don't make sense. There were warning signs in 2016. There are none now. Trump is old, washed up, a disgrace, a felon. He lost in 2020 and has only gotten worse, while the Dems candidate has gotten better. Trump is running only to keep himself out of prison. He won't win.

Good luck with that, Will.

Oh yeah, I saw that guy on Twitter this summer. He was asking for donations for a trip to Detroit to see the Tigers.

Looks like we won’t have Bob Costas to kick around anymore. I still think he was a genuinely great announcer when he was working with Kubek back in the day. http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/mlb/bob-costas-retires.html

I think the only thing I can say with some certainty is that the voting numbers are, for sure, Going to be higher than they were in 2020. Some part of me says substantially higher. And, my gut feeling is just that this plays better for the Harris side of the equation. We’ll see.

I'd be wary of adding a lot of position player veterans unless those veterans were good cultural fits. You can't help but notice that Javy Baez leaving the dugout signaled immediately the surge. Is Alex Bregman that fit? I dunno. Spencer Torkelson would be a cultural fit if he could hit his weight. Will that happen? I dunno. The formula of the '84 Tigers to create a core of young players who all come up together and add via trade (Chet Lemon) and FA (Darrell Evans) those extra pieces seems more robust for our market than the 2006-2013 model of building via the checkbook and trading for pieces from the bottom of the woodpile because only a Dave Dombrowski can do that if he's backed by a hefty Mike Illitch checkbook and Scott Boros is on speed dial.

the number of the counts is 3, and three shall be the number of the count. Neither shall it be 2. 4 is right out.

Except that this time it’s fun.