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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.

Thank you for being there!

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.

So the rest of us take one for the team? The argument would be that currently there are externalities adding to building costs which have uncoupled housing prices from direct construction cost, which if removed, would increase market driven construction. The market says the the proper balance of factors creating the value of your house should neither be driven down by the government overbuilding housing sold at below cost nor driven up by government created bottlenecks (regulations or whatever) creating an artificial shortage. But for sure, if you hold an artificially inflated asset of any kind you are always at risk of it coming back to earth whether it be your house, a bitcoin, or an Nvidia share.......😉

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

The fastest way to get there is to dump Trump.

No but they are being fooled by a racist Nazi just like the people of Germany were fooled and they still deeply regret it to this day, as they should. Trump wants to be a gangster like Putin or better yet, a deity like Kim Jong Un. Would you want to live in a country like Russia or North Korea? The only reason you're still in a free country now is because there were people in the government who stood up to him and stopped him from doing whatever he wanted as President.

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.

For a good part of my lifetime, a 6.5% mortgage would have been considered a good deal, and most boomers probably paid at least that on average over the lifetime of their mortgages. The 15 yrs of very low rates sort of masked the fact that without abnormally low mortgage costs, housing prices were rising out of reach of too many people. So the issue for housing costs in the US is less mortgage cost than the price of housing. This is a multifaceted problem that has grown up slowly over the years and it touches on zoning, building codes, transportation policy, urban policy etc. It took a long time to develop and is going to take a while to unwind. To their credit, the Dems are at least talking like they realize housing costs are being driven by shortage, but it's going to take a lot more than down payment subsidies to fix it.

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

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.

Trump has 2 issues. Immigration - which exists because the GOP has refused every effort to pass new legislation for over a dozen years, and inflation, which was world wide and the from which the US has recovered faster and with more growth than any place else. There are lots of reasons why the general public doesn't understand how economics works, and every election that lack of understanding is an issue that can cost a good economic manager (e.g GHWB) an election unfairly. But there is nothing new about that.

Speaking of Scully... I'm pick the off season to start reading basball books. This year I had Joe Posnanski's book "Why we love baseball" on standby. His books are so much more than just a list of what happened. When he discusses Koufax's 4th no hitter he focuses on Scully's PBP of the 9th, verbatim. It's pure poetry. I'll share some screenshots later from my kindle.

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 read people on the net blaming that and the Boeing thing. It doesn't matter, the numbers are what they are. And look at the market reaction - booming stocks today - bad news is good news. JaPo to the rescue. When you have nothing but a printer....

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.

If he in fact loses, one of the many benefits will be the possibility of never hearing "but 2016" ever again

Yeah i hope they threw out the cleats they used in that awful Panthers game lol.

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.

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.

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.

Last year's team loses this game. I lost count of how many we lost against teams without their best player(s) that we "should" have won last year. Stew really was the biggest difference maker in this game on the defensive end. There was a lot of buzz about how the defense is 20 pts better when he's on the court prior to this game and I'm sure that number only improved. The offense has been an issue because he's not good on the roll (stone hands), but JB mentioned before the game that it was his fault and he needs to find a way to get Stew more 3's. JB Also mentioned after the game that if Stew keeps this up, he's going to have to adjust the big man rotation to give him more minutes. I'm happy to hear that...but what does that say about Duren? With all of Weaver's investment in Centers, could it be that we still don't actually have a true starter on the roster? It's nice to see the Ivey that I was so excited about when we drafted him. Monty was a basketball terrorist. Ivey is even showing some nice defensive moments here and there. There was a stretch in the 3rd where he was absolutely wearing Maxey's jersey. We've seen him be streaky before, but hopefully his play can be sustained throughout the year. Tobias and THJ carried them offensively in the 4th. Something that was sorely missing last year and it's the reason you get vets around your youngsters. Harris has had a rough start to the season and even this game, but he put in 18pts and 14 rebs last night, which was nice to see. I know everyone's waiting for THJ to go into a slump to say, "I told you so", so I'm just going to give him his flower now because he's playing pretty well to start the season. I doubt we beat the Knicks, but then you have the Nets, Lakers, Hornets, and Hawks coming up. Could win 2 or 3 of those.

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.