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I don’t know how to quantify baseball movies to discern if one is better than another. Field of Dreams just resonates with me more deeply than others. I distrust sentimentality because it is so easily exploited by demagogues. But for me Field of Dreams transcends the narrow scar of sentimentality. For me, it’s a recollection of something sewn into the fabric of my childhood that intersects with something deeper and more vibrant than myself. I like being reacquainted with that spring-like purity as often as I can. Other films don’t do that for me, and they are no less worthy of enjoyment because of it. Field of Dreams just makes all eight of my cylinders fire in the perfect sequence. To me it’s like Music.

The thing about smart motherf***ers is they sound like crazy motherf***ers to dumb motherf***ers.

I’ll just preface this post by saying that I really really REALLY hope this is true.

Riley Green is the American League player of the week thanks to his display of home run hitting prowess.

The same folks applauding Trump were the ones appalled at the parody of the Last Supper in Paris last year

He got no due process for attempting a coup though.

Brad's not perfect, but his vision of what to build and how to built that, clearly works, so he gets the benefit of the doubt. Also, the draft ITSELF is a data point, so if Bradyn Swinson, DE, LSU is ranked pre-draft as a 3rd round talent and no team drafts him in the 1st 5 rounds, then your pre-draft ranking looks incorrect. NE got him in the 6th, which might be great value or exactly where he should have been picked.

Franyerber!

Bull Durham is probably at the top of my baseball movie list. Kinsella’s novels are among my favorite baseball reading I need to watch Bang the Drum Slowly sometime soon

Vierling is the DH for Toledo today.

They should absolutely be tempted. Beck is correct by saying you don't want to be Atlanta or Sacramento. But he lists the wrong reason. It has nothing to do with being impatient and everything to do with just making a bad trade. Indiana jumped for Siakam and that has worked well. Boston jumped for Horford, White, and Holiday and won a title. You can even toss KP in even though he was hurt last year. Cleveland went after Mitchell and we'll see how that goes. OKC went after Hartenstein and Caruso. Denver and Aaron Gordon. Minnesota and Gobert. They should be pushing the trade market hard. Just be smart and make good trades.

According to my Yahoo weather app, it will be raining all day tomorrow at least during game time. I am preparing for a doubleheader the next day.

Sorry, unfortunately as a wise man once said “Water always wins”

I get the point but I think Ono had lost the confidence of a lot more than the lunatic fringe. I tend to think the protest policy proposal was a big misstep - I mean the draft could have come from the Nixon White House. Which points to there being two different questions here - one is DEI and one is the larger question of civil society. DEI at UM needed to be fixed but that's one issue in a much larger context. And DEI may not have been the only issue at play if he had lost the Regents - it remains to be seen. In any case, you can't lead unless you give people a belief in where you are going - if what is dribbling out in the local papers is correct, Ono had lost his audience. So maybe he stays and tries to lead them to where he thinks a better place is? It is just as much capitulation to simply duck out? if you are going to turn an institution at all, I guess you have to be a little bit of a visionary and that is certainly not a vibe I ever got from Ono - or Schlissel for that matter. I think they were both more caretakers than movers. Maybe he was just the wrong guy in the wrong place once the political tide had turned. And so we wait to see what if anything leaks out from the Regents. Even if they weren't going to cry about DEI reforms they might applaud in private, he may have stepped on toes there if they ended up being blind sided finding out about the changes on twitter. To be honest, I think that had as much to do with Schlissel's dismissal as anything - him not paying adequate attention to the Regents that is. e.g. he might have survived the personal issues if he wasn't already in the dog house over ignoring/fumbling the Ilitch/Gilbert efforts to build more presence in Detroit.

taking the better ideas from "dei" and moving them under a different organizational umbrella is not "capitulation" to a bad idea. slavishly adhering to the extremes of public policy even after they've been adjudged to be unconstitutional rather than reviewing your policies to see which ones might be worth revisiting and perhaps ending is what leadership really is. caving to university professors (no offense) is no less an abdication of leadership than caving to donald trump. the point of being a president is to lead for the betterment of the entire university now and in the future, not to placate the lunatic fringe of the sociology department for fear they might call you racist, or worse, a jewish sympathizer.

I also want to know how he squares the fact that since 2016, Democrats have over performed every election when it is not head to head with Trump. Democrats won down ballot in five swing states Trump won. It is a cult of Trump. Nobody wants this, they want Trump.

Trump is the Birdbrain of Alcatraz.

We just caught up on Mobland. What a good show.

I mean, Trump didn't win them against Obama's VP, why he win them against Obama?

People can ruin any entertaining movie with that nonsense. Just chill out and enjoy the story (not you, the Realism Police). Yes, Tim Robbins had a HORRIBLE pitching delivery. Robbins grew up playing hockey and basketball

That sounds like something Old Timey would say.

The backlack against Field of Dreams bugs me. It's like suddenly they thought they were being clever by pointing out the 'flaws'. Bashing it became the cool thing to do. "Hey, look how smart I am!"

Bang the Drum Slowly is quite good. For the Love of the Game is a personal favorite for when the Tigers are bad.

approaching Sparky's 40-game checkpoint. getting Vierling, Rogers, Meadows (Margot or Perez) back basically gives them a new player to add every month if ever healthy, this is a deep and versatile line up Dingler/Rogers, Tork/Keith, Torres, Sweeney/Baez, McKinstry/Ibanez, Greene, Meadows, Carpenter/Vierling with Malloy, Jung, Perez, and maybe Nido and Margot at Toledo I assume they are going to be in contention (or 1st) at the trading deadline, but unless he is trading for an elite player, it will be difficult for Harris to improve the position players enough to justify messing with the chemistry. Maybe Ibanez could be replaced. Maybe add at CF or SS. But they have decent internal choices already. On the pitching side, adding a RP who throws serious heat is the one thing they might need.

On May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard lifted off on Freedom 7 becoming the first American in space (or as NASA called him in the movie The Right Stuff, the first free man in space). It was only a 15 minute suborbital flight but he still went into "space" as defined. Shepard wanted to fly another mercury mission after Gordon Cooper's flight but was over ruled. He was set to fly the first gemini mission but was grounded with ear issues. He stuck around and finally was cleared to fly and was originally assigned to Apollo 13 but lack of training moved that to Apollo 14 so Al got to walk on the moon, and golf, after all.

This is a good book. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004X7TM14/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title You are right about the racial aspect... from memory places like Baltimore and San Fran and Detroit (I 375 in particular). Get all the white people out of town fast... tear down the black neighborhoods while you are at it. But aside from that it was a fun read, it isn't so serious all the time. One tidbit is I've heard people lament the interstates and speak of the joy of the "back roads"... but that misses the point. That joy on the back roads is because of the interstates. Before the interstates that back road was full of trucks.

Point of order: Lary Riley's CJ Memphis was not the murder victim. That was Adolph Caesar's Sergeant Waters. CJ was the guy who Waters goaded into hitting him, then CJ was sent to the brig where he committed suicide, to Waters' delight. Waters got murdered by private "Pete" Peterson (a movie breakout role for Denzel) in part because Pete hated Waters for what he did to CJ. "A Soldier's Story" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I could watch it over and over. I have, in fact, had "A Soldier's Story" sitting on my DirecTV DVR fro something like five years just so I can flip over and watch it anytime I want.

I have long thought that the Ken Burns enterprise should do a thing on Interstate highways. It's got so many aspects to it that are in his wheelhouse: pictorial and video history; Americana; racial inequality, and an overall sesne of "it's different than you even thought it was". They could get at least four hours out of it, and maybe even six. I have a buddy who's a muckety-muck in the PBS world who has met Burns on several occasions, and I have mentioned to my buddy countless times over the years that he should pitch the idea to Burns. My suggestion doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

the Browns got Shedeur Sanders and therefore an A+ which is something.

The Tigers haven't had this much offensive depth since the mid 1980s.

Badly tired of fighting with the faculty is likely spot on

Field of Dreams is the odd duck though. It isn't really a sports movie. It's 'about' baseball's place in culture, but it's not directly about a baseball player or players or a team or playing baseball. The movie's protagonist is not a baseball player. Baseball is the framework for the movie's ruminations about a lot of other things to hang on. 'The Natural' was a beautiful film, well made in many ways but in the end I didn't thinnk the movie sold its plot premises as believable. Maybe they worked better in the book - which I didn't read. Or maybe Redford was just miscast. He certainly had the physical part - over which such a big deal was made at the time, but he's not the actor to make you believe in a character with the flaws of Roy Hobbes.

What a great, exciting game. A comeback by Winnipeg with under 2 minutes left in the game, a very last second possible goal, and a Double OT thriller with the Jets winning it in the end. That was a fun watch.

That's almost too cute to be believable of the Chinese, but it would be perfect if true.

Holy, the President’s Trophy-winning Jets score two goals in final 2 minutes, including one with 1.6 seconds to go, to force Game 7 to overtime. Look who scored the 3-2 goal.

Reese has looked very good as of late. With Detroit's pitching, I don't foresee any extended losing streaks. Even when the Tigers slump in unison, pitching should keep them in most games

Best record in AL Best DIFF in MLB

The proposed protest policy his office had put out last year was pretty draconian piece of work. In my view it was poorly considered and had no place in any decent institution and the push back across the University was hard. Maybe that was a point where the mismatch between the man and the institution became too obviously big to bridge. And that didn't even have anything to do with DEI.

He has research assistants to do it for him.

If the score holds up the Tigers will have scored the 2nd most runs in the AL while giving up the fewest. Impressive stuff.

Once again, Montero is lined up to be on full rest for a Wednesday doubleheader.

I think Trump is just really lazy and doesn’t care to learn things. Some people just lack the capacity and curiosity to be able to disseminate what is real and what is not. The MS-13 photoshopped tattoo thing was something that stuck out to me as someone with a lazy mind, so he will just go with something someone printed out and told him.

I’ve never seen so many Jake Bates jerseys in my life.

Tiger Rookies opened their season today with a 3-1 win, as they try to defend their Florida Complex League title.

Wanna talk about weird? Insulting and celebrating the demise of all hard working federal employees on the other board. That's weird, and i stand by my response, and regret that I peaked behind the ignore shield here.

if you've ever studied or read up on the creation of the interstate system you know that the prestigious routes are those endingin 0 or 5. Last week I drove to TN to visit family and everytime I hit the 75/70 interchange in OH I get a warm fuzzy feeling. Like it's something special. I don't hit 75/40 because my family lives southwest of here whereas 75 starts to go east, but 40 runs right through the town there and when we cross it while driving around down there it's recessed pretty low from the mainland so it feels like some separate pathway to the rest of the country. "Ooh... if I get on that and go west I can get to Oklahoma City and Flagstaff and Alberqeurque.... should I just go?" and it's been confirmed with my third trip down in a year that KY Interstate drivers are the worst when it comes to hogging the left lane on the interstate. Had so many problems with that all 3 times. In OH, when you are on the stretch from Toledo to Dayton and it's only 2 lanes, everybody knows what to do. Let the trucks do their thing if they have to pass.... no problems. But in KY something switches. But it's a beautfiul state to drive in. The roads are nice and shiny and the scenery is lovely. I had about 30 minutes of intense white knuckle downpour/30 mph/hope the lights in front of me are going the right way driving so I missed some of it. I love 500 mile solitary drives.