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Brewers going with the McCosky All Stars tonight on the mound... Is Rony Garcia next?

Can't be erased.

It would be silly for them to trade him after the draft and go into the season relying on a rookie to be a key contributor on offense. They should compete for a Super Bowl this year, and that move would make them worse not better. I'd rather take a 3rd round pick and trade him in March 2026 than a 2nd round pick and trade him in May 2025.

I just re-read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. A non-fiction book about the American ambassador and his family living in Germany during the rise of Hitler. The parallels to what is happening here in America at this moment are astounding. How regular, ordinary people became enraptured by a beast and all that lead to. Scary times. I never thought I would live to see this in America.

No it was more like this $109 eBay special only not tapered. The gold one. Maybe 4” tall. It’s a treasured memory. I asked for more and mom said if I did I couldn’t go outside to play with beer on my breath. I had another.

😅 I am chasing around an 18-month-old now, but honestly, the beginning of April is just a busy time at work. I usually do updates at the beginning of my workday, but overseas calls are getting in the way. I should be back with your tiger cub updates here shortly.

The Nick Offerman episode is one of the greatest TV episodes ever.

Those guys don't have a punch like a Jack Dempsey or Ali, but they will smack the snot out of you before you even knew what hit you. I have a funny boxing story. Back in 1977 I was working in a local factory in the welding department. They hired a new guy. He was a small black guy, who looked to be in his 30s or 40s. Looked very muscular and fit, but not very big, maybe 150 lbs. He lived in his van in the parking lot. On the spare tire cover on the back of his van it said "there goes so-and-so" from some town in PA, can't remember which one. He was quiet, did his job, didn't bother anyone, and seemed like a drifter going through town. They picked on this guy mercifully, day after day. It wasn't pretty, but he never said anything and went about his business. One day we were alone on the break room and I said "hey, man, these guys are really dicking with you, why don't you haul off and cold cock one of them. That would probably put a stop to it." He just smiled and said, don't worry, I'll be fine. OK, I said. A few days later I was in there again with him alone. He said, "hey, look at this." I walked over and he pulls some pictures out of his lunchbox and shows me a half dozen pictures of him in a boxing ring fighting various people. I said, "wow, what's that all about?" As it turned out, 10 or so years before, he was a professional boxer, or wanted to be. At one time he was the 6th ranked welterweight in the country. He told me he got to spar with the champion and found out he could never beat him, so he chose to do something else, and left the sport. Impressive, nonetheless. The rest of the story; not long after, one of our local company badasses started in on him again. This time it got uglier then normal. Finally the badass took a swipe at him. Of course he missed, and got his nose bloodied after being hit about 4 times before he knew what happened. That was the end of that - he wanted no more - and for good reason. This dude could have kicked the snot out of anyone there - no matter how big. Nobody screwed with the guy after that, and he just went about his business. Quit after 6 months or so and went on to somewhere else. Always wondered what happened to the guy. Probably dead now. But that little incident was funny as hell - and the badass wasn't as bad.

I am not sure what he means by "successful billionaire", but he has never invented anything or performed a unique service which changed the way people live their lives. To me, that is what makes a super wealthy person successful. He inherited his biggest business from his father and he has built everything around that. An inordinate number of his business ventures have failed either because he's a poor businessman or they weren't real businesses or both. His main skill seems to be making deals by bullying and manipulating people. That certainly wouldn't make him unique among billionaires, but I don't think it makes him successful among billonaires either.

Man, I'm old.

The symbolism of JD Vance breaking Ohio State's CFB National Championship trophy is amazing.

Yeah, pretty sure my first beer was a Goebel. My Mom would pour me a small glass as payment for fetching her a beer. Unlike Bert, I was totally corrupted.

It’s Maeda Time!

Perfect Maeda inning brings his ERA all the way down to 9.64.

Musk and other people on his wealth level don't give a **** about tax cuts. Do you think he gives a damn if he pays a top rate of 39% vs 37%? Especially when you consider his compensation is not salary based. They use the idea of tax cuts to fire up the tribes and keep them squabbling about useless stuff. They want control. Control of the regulatory agencies. Control of the agencies that award government contracts. Control of a justice system that will turn a blind eye to their crimes against humanity. Right now, the FAA is testing the possibility of replacing the current air traffic control system with Starlink. That alone would make him more money than any tax cut. How many NASA contracts is he pushing towards SpaceX? Government is going to get into the AI game eventually. Do you think Musk is pushing xAI to get any of that work? How many EV incentives can he push to sell more of his cars? Using government money to lower the price of his cars is free money for him. Think about Musk having sway over agencies that regulate his businesses. What if he could influence those agencies to write favorable regulations towards Tesla. If those regulations equal a 10% cut to the cost of producing a car, how much is that worth to Tesla stock price? How much is that worth to the guy who owns 400 million shares of the stock? What if he gets his fingers in the DOJ pie? How many corners can he start to cut if he knows he faces no real penalties for cutting them? Unfair business practices, mergers that should never be allowed to happen, unsafe work place environments, unsafe products reaching the consumer. Tax cuts are just a distraction these guys are using to occupy us while they pillage the country.

Carpet bomb!

Change the word silly to “downright stupid “ and I agree 100 pct

Come on Buddha, we've been posting here a long time and you've never EVER been guilty of overrating a Detroit team lol. You're quite the opposite actually, lets be honest here. This is not an award, or shouldn't be, for the coach that coached the best team. It should be coach of the year, the coach that did the best job, did the most with least. Again, OKC and Cleveland were already very successful teams while the Pistons were arguably the worst team in league history and the Pistons are solidly a playoff team just like THAT under Bickerstaff. I'm sure you, just like everybody else, thought that 30 wins would be a successful season so lets not pretend like any of this was close to expected then they lose Ivey and even less so. Just about everybody pegged OKC and Cleveland as real contenders coming into the season and, yes, each team took another step forward but there was a base of a title contending core with both. Those coaches did a great job but Bickerstaff took on the much harder job with far less resources and somehow turned it around in one year engineering one of the biggest turnarounds in league history, to reiterate. That's coach of the year to me

Sounds like before when he was presidunce when we borrowed money from china to pay farmers not to sell stuff to china

i've always thought next year was the year to make a big move to strengthen the team, and then use your prospect group as cheap labor as you pay big money for a marner or ehlers or another top offensive player. but the fact that they are stuck with holl, tarasenko and gustaffson for another year tells me other wise. as you said, getting rid of ghost and walman because you didnt have money for seider/raymond extensions BECAUSE you signed the likes of holl and then tarasenko and gustaffson was the first time i really thought....do they have a plan? and i still get why they dealt walman and i still think he's a problem and weak on a good team...but you attached a pick when you could have used waivers and then you signed gustaffson and tarasenko... up until this year he made a lot of nice moves: walman trade, ghost signing, mantha trade (sort of), bertuzzi deal, debrincat trade, perron signing, kane signing, and i understood copp (and i actually think he's been as advertised as a good defensive player and leader and its no coincidence they declined after his injury) and chairot (big physical defenseman who is overmatched on top pair but is an ok second pair and a really good third pair). compher? 5 years? holl? three years? a washed up gustaffson and tarasenko? this last offseason was so brutal it killed any momentum they had. to finish this rambling post, they need more hits from the prospects and they need them now. if not, theyre buffalo.

I am not sure, but I don't hink their payroll is as far ahead of the rest of the league as it used to be. They are certainly not spending like the Dodgers.

I'm worried about that with The Last of Us. And being a Star Wars and Marvel fan with all the TV shows it's hard to keep up.

It sounds more like an excuse to not eat is salary than a role. If they think he can become effective enough to expand his role a bit, then that's another story.

trying not to get too amped about this team, but it's not working! if they ever get healthy, they have a chance to be even better, when they replace Nido, Kreidler, Margot with Jake, Vierling, Meadows that even leaves Malloy, Perez, Jung at Toledo they aren't top heavy like the DD teams, which is both good and bad not having room for all these solid/legit players is a nice problem to have

I much prefer the "one episode a week" cadence. It makes for better viewing and you can absorb things better without moving on to the next one. And I like the anticipation. We've had company since Thursday so haven't had a chance to watch TV yet. Have to catch up on Last of Us and Black Mirror.

good! Michigan and MSU are on the right side of this

3 outta 4 ain't bad. And considering the longer term, its the right 3.

It's certainly not meaningless .... it means about 30-45% higher.

I swear, I'm almost starting to get the nagging suspicion that he just possibly might have not actually been kidding about that "dictator from day one" stuff.

You know what I mean lol

This is the first beer I ever drank. Out of a can exactly like this and probably in 1959. I was watching a baseball game with my dad and I was given a half of a little metal orange juice tumbler of Strohs. And it tasted really good. The funny thing is is that I’ve never been a drinker. So I was not corrupted by this.

Took awhile.

Haase will pitch with the way this one is going.

Keep going. Make this lead Maeda proof

Tigers are playing like they're mad at the world. I love it!

he's going to grab some dark Americans he does not like and ship them to the slave prison, and congress and the courts will do nothing. what a sh\thole country.

It's suddenly going to dawn on John Roberts that since he has sold the credibility of his court for a handful of GOP magic beans there is going to be little outcry from the public that it's being ignored.

Yeah, this is my take on it, too. Feeling like we’ve crossed the boundaries.

The checks and balances in government are donezo. No one can enforce anything to stop them anymore. It’s not going to end here.

There is absolutely no regulation or standard regarding using the word "organic". It's a meaningless word.

Phil went ballistic. Not my mom!

Yes, a blunder. The fact is that with the mad king the best outcome is benign neglect not active hostility.

I’m not too worried about Gretchen going MAGA.