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I also look forward to people saying things like "save some for John and me" instead of "save some for John and I."

I keep saying it, but we have up to this point been the most powerful country in the world in large part because of our roles internationally. And these guys all just want to slink away and pull back from all of that. They are making us a poorer and weaker country over the long term, and will eventually make us a pariah state if they keep it up.

Unfortunately it's a long way to the midterm election. We can only hope these folks have long memories...

That's what I keep hearing. But we have several guys who can play LF and only a couple of guys who can barely play CF. Hopefully, Parker will be back pretty soon. From the Free Press this morning; "That's the origin of the nerve issue. 'I think it was a freak accident,' Meadows said. 'I think it kind of just stretched the nerve and upset the nerve.' He experienced pain, followed by tingling and now numbness. The good news: Meadows has felt an improvement in his right upper arm over the past week. 'Less tingling in the arm,' said Meadows, who is dealing with numbness across the top of his forearm. 'I'm able to move my arm around without that tingling, painful sensation. The pain is pretty much gone, so we're definitely trending up at this point.'"

I don't think Guantanamo is big enough for all the end-a-sentence-with-a-preposition violators though. Would have to find another place to send them to.

Huh? This is ‘Merica. If I want something, forget John.

Today Jobe looking like the guy everyone has been talking about.

Serial Killer

Rule #5 of BBWAA's Rules for Election stipulates that "[v]oting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played," and while Rose is well-qualified on at least three of these standards, he fails in spectacular fashion on two of them, and quite possibly three. It can be fairly debated whether the Baseball Hall of Fame should even consider attributes such as character and integrity for inclusion while other sports, notably football, have no such requirement. But it can't be seriously debated that as long as the Baseball Hall does require those two characteristics, Pete Rose will always fall very, very short against them. I don't understand what problem they'd be trying to solve by setting all this aside and letting Pete Rose back into Baseball and clearing him for eligibility for the Hall of Fame.

He’s such a charlatan. It shows that the two biggest things you need to become a billionaire is a giant inheritance, and a lot of narcissism.

'Appears'? Methinks Lisa needs a trip to the Optometrist

The media is complicit and in the bag for Trump/Putin. In the above article the NYT referred to the Governor of Maine as "Ms. Mills" and listed her age. The next time the NYT refers to the President as Mr. Trump, 78 will be the first time.

This is also what Zelensky was resisting on Friday. The humiliation he was trying to impose.

Gotta love an athletic big...

In Rose’s day, you could only bet on who won and how many runs. You also needed a bookie to take the bet. Now you are able to bet on just about anything in game or with a specific player. You can literally live bet if someone is going to get a hit while they are at the plate. It’s gotten nuts. This gives so many options for a few bad actors to try to fix a bet. They don’t even have to influence the outcome of a game anymore. It could be one at bat, or pitcher strikeout, or a first inning run. It leaves almost everyone as a possible fixer. It could be a fringe player, base coach, bullpen catcher, or umpire using either advanced knowledge or even doing something minor during the game to rig a bet. This is a dangerous territory for MLB and the only way to protect themselves is to keep these very strict and harsh punishments for gambling.

I understand the difference, but the more MLB encourages gambling, the more likely it is that the gamblng will spill over to players betting on games they are playing in. When you turn the entire sport into a mechanism for gambling, I think it will eventually lead to the outcome we don't want.

MLB put the whole integrity of the sport on the line by partnering with gambling organizations after forbidding any involvement for 100 years. I think that's even worse than what Rose did.

Feels like the Ottawa home and home a few years ago and the ending feels like it will be the same, too

"We'll be respected again," he said lol

Assuming WSJ is the same way it was a few years ago, I would say that the editorial pages are the same as Fox News, but the news pages are nothing like Fox News. They are conservative (as you'd expect from that kind of paper), but informative and fair.

The so called charming Vermont towns are more yuppy than hippy, but I still love it. It is such a beautiful state and the people are very laid back. New Hampshire is closer to me, but Vermont is nicer.

He did it! He also starts the day just 4 off the lead.

I seriously can't take four more years of this insanity. What an embarrassment.

Fun question, very difficult to research. I attempted and got up to 1958 then stopped. Arduous and time consuming, but fun. I did learn of some former Tigers I had never heard of. Bob Hazle was an outfielder who played in 43 games with Detroit in 1958 with no Detroit card. He only had 261 lifetime at-bats and had a career BA of .310 and ops+ of 134. Didn't get much of a chance. Makes me wonder how many players through the decades could have had a decent career but they were on the bubble and didn't get much of a chance? Also saw info on Coot Veal who played infield with the Tigers in the 50s. I have a ton of Tigers cards back to the early 1900s and have never heard of Coot, but he does have Tigers cards. And I saw that Joe Coleman (father of 1970s Tigers pitcher Joe Coleman) pitched in 17 games for Detroit in 1955. No Tigers card.

My dad reached out to family in Poland that he has connected with in recent years. They are understandably on edge.