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I have a second hand Ricky story. In 1988 a high school teammate of mine got to be a clubhouse boy for the Yankees for a series in Detroit. His dad and Billy Martin were friends, and Martin invited the family down for the weekend. My friend was basically a gofer and picked up dirty towels, but he had the time of his life. The Yankees had their traveling clubhouse guy, and Detroit had their visitor's clubhouse guy who did most of the work but Donnie and another kid got to hang around and do the unwanted jobs. At the end of the series, Donnie asked the players to sign a ball for him. All did without hesitation. Except for Ricky. It is a custom at the end of a series for the visiting team to tip the clubhouse guys. Since Donnie was just there helping for free, he didn't expect anything but a few guys did give him some (not a lot) of money. Except for Ricky. Here is the story: Donnie asked him to sign the team ball, and Ricky said no, but gave him a $100 bill. Which was way, way more then anyone else did. Donnie was shocked, and quite didn't know what to do, so he said, "thank you very much Mr. Henderson, but I really only wanted your autograph." Rickey took the money and Donnie's pen, signed the $100 bill, and said, "there you go". Donnie was in shock, said thank you, and walked away. Other players and Ricky started laughing, and he said he was just joking, and then he signed the baseball. Donnie got to keep the autographed $100 bill and has an awesome story. The postscript to this story is the Tigers swept that series, and Martin was fired for the 5th and final time by Stienbrener the following morning.

No, that's Goldschmidt. Rizzo is burnt toast which you try to scrape off, but you end up throwing it out.

I don't understand why otherwise knowledgeable fans are salivating over the idea of Verlander and/or Scherzer coming back here for 2025. Do they think it's still 2013 and they're still 29? I can name one important person who almost certainly is not doing that.

I'm not sure they understand it will lead to inflation, or even that it's a possibility. I think a high percentage of MAGA politicians, like their constituents, are completely drowning in the kool-aid when it comes to Trump and the economy. They truly, honestly believe wages will skyrocket, prices will plummet, immigrants will disappear, all that,, the day Trump takes office. And when none of that happens, they'll blame the Democrats, the deep state, the media, academia, and who knows, maybe a few new enemies they will identify, like everyday people who would never vote for Trump.

vs. Setting: 12/30/2024 8:15pm EST on ABC & ESPN Site: Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA Weather: 61° High / 44° Low, 7% chance of rain, 8mph wind Opening Spread: Lions -3 All-Time Series Record: 49ers lead, 40-28-1 Last Meeting: 01/28/2024, 49ers won 34-31 (2024 NFC Championship) San Francisco 49ers (6-9) Head Coach: Kyle Shanahan (8th Season: 70-60) Projected Starting QB: Brock Purdy (3rd Season: 23-12) Last Week: 29-17 L @ Miami Dolphins (7-8) Looking Ahead to Week #18: TBD @ Arizona Cardinals (7-8) Playoff Implications: Eliminated Your Detroit Lions (13-2) Head Coach: Dan Campbell (4th Season: 37-28-1) Projected Starting QB: Jared Goff (9th Season: 79-52-1) Last Week: 34-17 W @ Chicago Bears (4-11) Looking Ahead to Week #18: TBD v. Minnesota Vikings (13-2) Playoff Implications: Playoffs Clinched; Clinch Division Championship and #1 Seed with W @ San Francisco and Minnesota Vikings L vs. Green Bay Packers Elsewhere in the NFL Primetime: Seahawks @ Bears (TNF), Falcons @ Commanders (SNF) Christmas Day: Chiefs @ Steelers (1:00), Ravens @ Texans (4:30) Saturday: Chargers @ Patriots (1:00), Broncos @ Bengals (4:30), Cardinals @ Rams (8:15pm) 1:00pm: Colts @ Giants, Jets @ Bills, Titans @ Jaguars, Packers @ Vikings, Raiders @ Saints, Panthers @ Buccaneers 4:25pm: Dolphins @ Browns, Cowboys @ Eagles

Republicans nominated a rapist for president and more voters picked him than the black lady and he wants to appoint rapists and sexual abusers to positions like defense secretary and attorney general so apparantly it’s all ok now. So quit your bitching. You voted for it. You endorsed it.

The ‘77-‘78 is what got me into the Wings. In fact I can nail down to the minute the moment I became a Wings fan. Coming home from hockey practice, 9 years old, my dad went into Mac’s Milk to pick up a few things, and left the car running with the radio on with the lowly Wings nursing a 2-1 lead late over the mighty 2-time defending Cup champs Montreal Canadiens. The crowd was into it, Bruce Martyn & Sid Abel were excited, and I suddenly found myself invested in the outcome. The Wings ended up giving up a goal with 16 seconds to go for a tie, but I was hooked. A new coach did seem to be key to the Wings’ bounce that season. Ted Lindsay and his “Aggressive Hockey Is Back In Town” slogan energized the fanbase - I even bought the t-shirt. Bill Lochead’s playoff series winning goal against Atlanta that next spring is the great forgotten goal of Red Wings history. Of course it all went to pot that summer with the Rogie Vachon-Dale McCourt-Marcel Dionne fiasco. https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/197710200DET.html https://bleacherreport.com/articles/250882-the-dale-mccourt-saga-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-team-loyalty

You’re so silly CMR… those aren’t real humans. They were Afghanis. And the other was a Fed. (Also not a real human)

He’s just promoting his pro life catholic beliefs. That should be music to right wingers ears.

There is a desire among right wingers to increase the white birthrate substantially, not only to overcome the population decline that will come with expelling practically all immigrants of color (and, bonus, their American citizen children), but also to attack women's advances in education and employment, doing all they can to force women to stay home and pump out three, four, five, or more babies—just like when America was "great". I know many people here think the confabulating right wing elites we see tweeting fire and brimstone all the time are stupid and ignorant and couldn't plan or strategize their way out of a paper bag, but I do believe they understand that by degrading the educational system, they can create a system in which far, far fewer students move on to college, and far, far more high school graduates (and, just as importantly, dropouts) can make up for the loss of immigrants populating the manual labor jobs. A less-educated workforce is a more blue collar workforce, and the more less-educated people the right wing elites can engineer, the better they can fill those lowest-paying of jobs with American citizens. Couple that with killing off unions for good and repealing labor and minimum wage laws, and we can get back to a country in which something like 88% of the men, women, and children who make up the labor force are manual, industrial, agricultural, domestic, or otherwise unskilled, and the remaining 12%—the educated professional and business class, which the right wing elite brainiacs assume will include themselves—can live very, very well off their backs. You know—Make America Great Again. It'll take time, maybe a couple or three decades, to see the fruit of their efforts, but if they can drive Democrats and other liberals entirely out of the body politic, as they will also seek to do by any means possible, they stand a good chance of achieving this version of the American Dream, at least in part.

On the plus side...we won't have to tolerate any "Buehler...Buehler.." jokes

None of you seem to use my method of security. Being poor. Cant steal things from me if I have nothing.

The problem I can see with this idea is that the red hat faithful believe Elon Musk is a hero. Why? because the RWM is telling them that. How do I know this? From listening to just three minutes of RW radio while driving through the south in late October. That's all it took for me to fear the election was lost.

A large portion still believe in the Trickle Down Fairy. That and they have to bend over for the billionaire donors who demand tax cuts in return. That and the democrats are giving all their money away to those who "don't earn it" or folks who flip hamburgers for a living, while they continue to receive their farm subsidies and disability benefits.

My grandpa, born in 1914, went to Cass Tech. So this would have been late ‘20s, early 1930s. He got a job as a sweeper at Navin Field, cleaning up after the games - all matinees of course back then - finished up. Would take the streetcar after school. He said it was a steady job but was hired basically day to day. Once they knew you, you’d be hired day after day but if you missed a day there was a risk you’d be out of the rotation. So some pressure. He tried to get promoted to clubhouse attendant, and my understanding is he did not get the job but was asked to go into the visitors’ lockerroom a few times to help clean up.

It would feel weird for the SF game to be meaningless, although I agree with those who say it could be. I think it’s one of those games that has been circled on the calendar, after the loss in the NFC championship game. So it would be a perfect setting to wrap up the #1 seed, just need GB to co-operate.

I think network security, like military intelligence, is an oxymoron. You can do everything possible to secure a network, but it can still be unsafe. Anytime data goes from point A to point B, it can be hacked. TCP/IP packets are hackable. Wall Street has been doing it for years. The "cloud" is not safe. Nothing is. The internet is the playground, and we are the victims. Mining our data and selling it is huge money, and big tech owns most of DC. It will only get worse over time. An example I happen to run across today; Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks - Forbes

Really enjoyed that episode.

Give Reynolds and the sideline Oscars for Best Supporting Actor:

Me too. He taught me. Honest as the day is long - he looked exactly like Ben Hogan. He even wore his hat. Might have hit more golf balls too. He was even on the front page of the local paper when they took a picture of him hitting balls at the local park - which he did every day before he went to the golf course. It was titled "Mr. Chips." That was off the charts cool. He not only taught me how to play golf, and he was a student, he taught me about life. I was a lucky guy. We only got to do one Father/Son tourney. We didn't win, but we were right there. I played in scrambles with my boys, and a league with one. But thanks the gramps, golf was passed down to through the generations. A truly great game. Very humbling, difficult, and cerebral.

I honestly think People don’t realize that changing the time doesn’t increase the amount of daylight.

Yes, when I was a child I also “put away childish things.” I somehow lost my ticket stubs for the fifth game of the 68 World Series and I don’t know if that’s one of those things I can blame my mom for, in all honesty. I think after a while, she asked me what I wanted to keep and since I moved on in life, I pretty much told her “nothing.“ I would only have a sentimental attachment to the things of childhood long after they no longer existed.

Very cool. How would you like to be one of Gary Player's offsprings https://golf.com/lifestyle/gary-player-grandsons-qualifier-pnc-championship/

I think it's hilarious after the Bears fleeced the Panthers in that trade that the Panthers are the better team right now.

How can anybody not like him?

He’s starting to get good at harmless looking drives into the lane that end in a dunk. He had that one finished off with a lefty dunk a couple of games ago. He had a somewhat similar righty dunk in this game. Just looks like he’s going to lay it up or float it and all of a sudden he hammers it home.

The Lions are 3 home wins away from making the Super Bowl: Minnesota, divisional round, conference final.

Washington is only one game behind the Packers and holds the tiebreaker over Green Bay. There is a difference between playing the Eagles on the road vs the NFC East or West leader.

Agree. I was referencing position players.

Toledo is going to win 100 games.

Not a chance. If this years pick is top 10 then that and Holland gets it done. Out of the top 10 I throw in another pick with heavy lottery protections. Utah will be worst than Detroit for the next 5 years in theory. So pick swaps to them probably hold no value.

We really could use a closer who misses bats.

I like the Morgan comp as they both had the hit for power and average and had a lot of speed...they also won pretty much wherever they went

I think the Tigers are being prudent, waiting out players whose price might drop. I also think they don’t want to block young players, like Jung. They need either a RH bat that can play either OF or 3B, with Vierling filling in the other spot. And 1B insurance for Tork. Ideal acquisition is a 1B/3B that hits RH. Frees up Vierling for the OF, where he can fill in in any spot.

I hate to break it to you, but when Mob Queen Marian Ilitch passes Chris Ilitch is going to bulldoze Copa, with taxpayer subsidies, and put up a parking lot. Comerica Park will become Comerica Lot with flex parking rates ranging from $25-$85. If you read the history of Joni Mitchell's song Big Yellow Taxi, you'll know that Mike Ilitch and Chris Ilitch have song writing credits. That song is actually about downtown Detroit.

Who Cade assists and where on the court he assists them.

That list is fluid depending on who misses the playoffs. Who doesn't make as deep a run as they wanted, etc. Ingram - Technically a free agent but the Pistons don't have the cap space so it would have to be a sign and trade. Zion - Most feel a first lands him for 31 games a year. Sabonis - Most feel he is available. Cam Thomas Bam - What is Miami doing if they move Butler? Building around Bam or moving him too? Always quite a few guys available if you want them.

Theyre unserious "right now" lol

Not even January and the Red Hats are mumbling about rebellion.

I bet Trump would like not only like to raise the debt ceiling, but get rid of it which would make it easier for him to do whatever he wants. The DOGE crap commission is not about efficiency and lowering debt, but stealing money and punishing opponents.

Amazing how the possibility of high inflation becomes an acceptable outcome and a pill we all have to swallow the moment Trump became President-elect As I recall, you were singing out of a much different song book (and slinging accusations at others) during 2022 and 2023 over this very issue. Interesting

And the moral is, don't run a woman candidate for president. After all, Jill Stein hasn't won yet, has she?