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Also the stereotyping of federal employees... There's a lot of them who aren't in Washington and who do jobs that make our lives more fulfilling. The story I highlighted a few weeks ago about the educators at the Midewin Tallgrass Prairie who this administration whacked is a good example. I really hate the callousness of it. It's like people feel extra license to be terrible on a human level right now.

I love love love this kid. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/03/08/detroit-tigers-score-game-recap-toronto-blue-jays-jackson-jobe/82054509007/ After Saturday's start, Jobe explained why he approached the Guerrero matchup with three consecutive fastballs. "I'm done with trying to dot a gnat's ass," Jobe said. "Just, here's my stuff. If you hit it, good. Odds are, probably not."

Oddly, I think the 'woke' part is the most important - at least as I envision it. Which is why this 'scrubbing' is so insidious. My observation is that one of the biggest impediments in US race relations is that your mainstream average white person looks out at underclass pathology and doesn't understand it, and that makes it really easy for them - almost forces them, to fall back sort of a subliminal global assumption that there must be something wrong with 'those people' otherwise they should have caught up in all these years since de jure racism was outlawed. And this operates completely separately from the way they interact with minorities in person - where they believe and very likely are, being what they regard as 'colorblind'. But the actual blindness is that most whites know nothing about the history of how the US has managed to repeatedly destroy lower class social capital - in particular in black America, which is what the underclass society actual needs to build to pull itself up. - The history of everything from Wilson purging minorities from the Civil Service to HUD helping to engineer white flight that broke urban tax bases, to bank and insurance red-lining, to surburan restrictive deed covenants, to the drug enforcement policies that criminalized urban youth, to urban de-industrialization, gentrification, and ultimately political resource starvation of urban centers in favor of suburbia where more votes had moved. Virtually every generation America does something to devalue whatever social capital the urban underclass manages to build. We keep sleeping on all the ways we have systemically insured the that underclass stays the underclass. For my money, that is what White America needs to understand, that their probably mostly unconscious political decisions made innocently (in the sense that they saw no racial significance ) in their natural political interests have had and continue to have disproportionate consequences on people they may have no particular animus towards but are hurting none-the-less. But the $64 dollar question is how do you bring society to a raised consciousness of how this nation has actually (not)worked for minorities without turning it into an 'it's your fault' game when the people you are talking to don't see or understood how anything *they* have done individaully is wrong, when all they've done is to be nice to the individuals they meet and then politically just do what you are supposed to do, which is vote in the interests of your district? Instead we are often alienating the people we are trying to wake up - whose support is needed to get out of the Groundhog Day we are trapped in on race.

I have no problem with anyone who runs the game thread. I can always “show this post” if I want to see it.

That’s pretty funny. In case you don’t have a Facebook account.

Hopefully Elon...

I’m not going to get into cross thread pollination issues. My opinion is what goes on here in this sub forum stays here. Don’t let it bleed into the sports areas.

New candidate for punchable face.

It's a problem that I have him on ignore, and I'm probably not alone. The ignorant mocking of federal employees a couple weeks ago was the coup de gras.

This has been building up for a long time even before Trump won in 2016. It wasn't called DEI until recently, but it's been around a long time. It is why Trump has been running racist campaigns since 2015. What is now called "woke" used to be called "political correctness" This is not something that Trump invented. It's something of which he took advantage. And ,to be clear, the left is mostly right on these issues, but their messaging has not been good.

I actually agree with both G2 and TB13 here. Aspects of DEI itself are not popular and have fallen short of achieving the goals it set out to make. However, in the context of the campaign, speaking to Ed's Google search screenshot, it was all about creating a bogeyman to distract from other issues where Trump has liabilities. Some of which he is currently acting up on as POTUS. The bigger piece is, recalling an interaction with Holic a day before the inauguration, is the blurring of the lines between the "DEI" bogeyman and the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion in general. This administration in it's actions is overreaching, IMO, because it is acting like concepts like diversity and inclusion are unpopular... Even equity, which is probably the most problematic concept, isn't broadly unpopular. Polling since the election has continually showed it. The American people broadly are not akin to Stephen Miller but they are treating them like they are. I hope there are consequences going forward

Why had I never heard anything about "DEI" until a couple years ago? Just pulled this up on Google Trends. Cut it off in October to cut off some post-election mentions of it. A lot of the searches in the mid 2000's were related to Mater Dei High School.

While the Trump Presidency thread goes deep into his daily activities, I figured a summarized version might help point out the good and bad in his presidency. Obviously I suspect there will be a lot more bad, but IMO he has so much bad, that horrible things he does, tend to drown out the really horrible things he's done. So, I plan on weekly putting the good and bad of the last week here. Others are free to do the same. Note: I'm starting this in part because of all the issues i've had with Trump, the one I mention this week truly got my blood boiling and I felt it was drowed out. The good - blank The bad - His decision to stop sharing Russian intel with Ukraine and forcing that change with other Ukraine allies as well. This does not cost money, this was done to punish Ukraine and nothing else. People died as a result as Russia took advantage and hit Kyiv and other areas harder than they have in quite awhile. Their blood is on his hands. Honorable mention on bad - The search on all things 'gay' and other keywords, in an attempt to rewrite history.

Mike Johnson brought up Gorge Soros today too. Whenever I see "George Soros" mentioned on social media, I know not to take the person seriously. Same with Fauci. When a MAGA brings up his name, I don't take them seriously.

For me it's all about the power numbers with Javy, by this point in his career he is who he is in terms of average and obp but perhaps this surgery can help bring back the power numbers he had pre Tigers. If he can put up 25 HRs with a portion of those coming in high leverage spots he could be of value to us.

Yeah, it's not a big deal in Ahlington.

I really don't care if Holic posts on the Tigers board or not, but the cheering on of federal employees firings, equivocation on past stances on the Russia-Ukraine based on Trump's views, change in views on inflation based on Trump being POTUS, punching down on trans people, it all speaks for itself.

What’s the problem with the ignore list?

Most of you probably know that I've always been interested in the WWII/Nazi GermanyHolocaust era... So it's a bit surprising that I only heard of this book from 2011: In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. I've only just started it, but it looks like it'll be easy to get into.

The ages of some of the cast of the 1950 version were pretty out there... IIRC the mother of the bride actress was only 10 years older than the guy who played the groom.

Unfortunately, it's beginning to look like we're going to have to wait until MAGA has run its course to really delve into this with actual solutions. And I suspect that there will always be a portion of the population that will never come around-they were just drowned out until MAGA woke them up. There have been a lot of really good books about poverty and/or race in recent years-I'm sure you've read some of them (Caste, On Poverty, Evicted, White Trash, etc).

That’s awesome. My wife was watching TV today when that popped on. I’m the same age as you guys. I don’t recall seeing this movie, but I know I watched a bit of Father of the Bride 2 with my wife a month or so ago. So, I guess they were a bit older then. But the age thing does kind of trip me up every once a while. The guy that works for me is about the same age I was when I started at our place of employment. He was in high school after I started working there. Things like that.

3 xbh, 2bb in 14 AB - javy buying himself lots of AB for the rest of ST.

Three-run bomb.

I saw Javi jack a bomb!

We have father of the bride on. I’m 51. My wife is 52. We looked up the ages of the parents in this movie. Keaton and Martin are 45 when they filed this. The other parents were 49.

Why is that a problem? Are MAGAs not allowed to talk baseball with us?

The billonaires are right. There will be pain and it will get better. We'll feel the pain and it will get better for them.

Could someone talk me through updating my VCR clock?

I remember seeing Manning pitch in the minors a few times. He never impressed me. I don't have any scouting skills, but he didn't stand out the way guys like Verlander and Porcello did and his gun readings were always less than I expected. When he came to the Majors, he couldn't strike anybody out. I just never got really excited about him.

September is the end of the "Government Year" also known as the Fiscal Year (FY). The Government Year is from 1 October to 30 September.

THIS GUY HATES CANS ! STAY AWAY FROM THE CANS ! THERE'S CANS IN THERE TOO MORE CANS !

We won’t have a regular season thread for almost three weeks, so I’m posting this here: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/03/09/detroit-tigers-red-wings-to-air-15-games-on-local-tv-in-2025-full-schedule/82065628007/ Ten Tigers games running on channel 2.1, which is full circle for me, since when I first became a fan in 1969, the Tigers aired on channel 2, called by George Kell and Larry Osterman. It does make some business sense to move games to, or at least simulcast some games on, broadcast TV as well. If they place the local team behind a paywall such that no one can ever see them unless they pony up the bucks upfront, then how can they spur interest and create new fans for the game? Except through the gambling, of course, which has been Baseball’s growth strategy for a few years now, and the new people that brings in aren’t really fans of the game. The White Sox will have all their games on broadcast TV here in Big Shoulders, too. Their new Chicago Sports Channel home simulcasts completely on channel 62.2, mainly because they don’t have clearance on Comcast as of yet. Make fun on the White Sox all you like—and we do like—but that won’t hurt their visibility. I wish the Cubs would follow suit with a few games back on GN, too. I would bet most teams will in the next few years.

DEI is something more, maybe even something other, to Trump and the red hats than just specific examples of race-based employment directives. “DEI” is basically a way for them to drop n-bombs without being forced to explain themselves afterwards.

It reminded me of seeing Dodgers-Diamondbacks at Sydney Cricket ground in 2014. This is a picture of us at our seats. You can see the post behind us obstructing the plate.

I didn't see the whole game but the Piston's defense was outstanding from what I saw. There has definitely been a culture shift where all five guys on the court are working hard on defense a lot more than most NBA teams. Stewart and Ausar set the tone. Obviously, the coaches deserve a lot of credit. And having meaningful games is a big part of it also. It's too bad Steph banked in that three late in the game. That was probably the difference.

to a degree, but it's inseparable now because in the US class doesn't distribute evenly by race, plus whites with low resources still have more access to social capital recovery by virtue of being more likely to have successful family or social structures to fall back on or because they still live in areas with better social services (since the country is so segregated.) But either way, I doubt America's blacks would begrudge it if the whole bottom economic quartile of America were to be lifted up.

He did bring back plastic straws though.

No, they don't care...like every big business! I think they do care about losing a years worth of big money though.

So Steph comes over to talk **** and Stew ushers him away from the bench and Stew gets a tech?

Pacers lose. Siakam is all kinds of dumb. Down 3 with 7 seconds left inbounding 94 feet away. He dribbles the length of the court and lays it in for 2 with 1 second left. Good for us.

Thank you. Exactly what I mean.

The Trump people were the ones who lit the fire on DEI, and then bull****ted the rest of us into believing the fire was already burning when they got there.

I've found with classes there is some degree of accountability. Last year I took Pulmonary Rehab for my IPD, it was a good start for me. In the early fall, my wife started water aerobics at the local Y (free thru AARP) both going together allowed me to keep up with the needed aerobics. When she paused for knee replacement surgery and follow up PT, the timing didn't work for me (too short of a waiting period from dropping her off to picking her up) and I fell out of the habit. Now we're back to the Y a couple of days a week.

Because the right needed a new boogeyman after critical race theory got old.

no, it was more than that. You don't get very far telling people they are bad people, especially ordinary people who know perfectly well that they don't harbor any animus toward the minority people they meet on the street and workplace. I think the 'micro-aggression' fixation I saw a lot of that a the 'U' was misdirected - micro-aggression is not the reason there are structural poverty issues in the minority community - and the fixation on that creates a pass for fixing the bigger economic resource issues that don't get addressed because they are harder to address and demand a re-examination of the way we do representative government in a segregated society. That's what is hard to change and why nothing has much changed 70yrs after Brown v BOE. The other is that objectively there was no accountability. DEI had become a cottage industry for a group of singularly unproductive professionals. Ten of millions spent and no actual increase in diversity. If you took the money UM spent on DEI and just gave free rides to a bunch of minority students and even hired each one a personal tutor to deal with the remediation issues, it would have a much bigger impact on actually achieving diversity than any of the constant navel gazing by white people about white people that was going on.

Regarding Tork...

This has been a lot better than I expected.