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I don't agree with that. That's last year. Rosters turnover year to year so they can't claim credit today for what happened with different people.

Doing another family related pet-sitting, this time with our 14-year-old family terrier Dino. Dino was found roaming the streets of Oakland, California 14 years ago and ended up being shipped to the Humane Society in Boise, Idaho, where our family adopted him. We think he’s half blind and he’s 98 years old in dog years bordering on senescence, but he actually takes the time to stop and smell the flowers every day. He just sticks his face in there and sniffs. It’s really quite fetching.

I argued at the time that the Hunter pardon and the preemptive pardons were not onlt justified but were the morallly correct decision. Given how trump has gone after his enemies already, it was obviously the right thing to do.

Last year we witnessed a record breaking season in terms of losses for the modern era of MLB (1901+). The Chicago White Sox lost 121 games. This topped the 1962 Mets who lost 120 games (the previous MLB record) as well as our own 2003 Tigers who lost 119 games (the previous AL record). If we look at winning percentage though the 2024 Sox were only the 5th worst team in the modern era. They finished 41 and 121, giving them a .253 wpct... this was better than the 1904 Senators (.252), the 1962 Mets (.250), the 1935 Braves (.248), and the 1916 Athletics (.235). This year we may be witnessing a season to destroy all those others: The 2025 Colorado Rockies. As of May 28 the Rockies still having broken double digit wins. They are 9 and 47. The '24 White Sox, thru 56 games, were 15-41. The '03 Tigers were 16-40. The Rockies winning percentage right now is .161! More than 70 points LOWER than the worst modern era winning percentage. The Rockies are on pace to win just 26 games. That would be 136 losses. 15 more losses than the White Sox had last year. To avoid topping the record 121 losses the Rockies would need to go 32-74 for the rest of the season. That doesn't seem like it should be that hard but 32-74 is a .302 winning percentage. That's nearly double the pace of winning vs. what they've done so far. Working in their favor, both the '03 Tigers and the '24 Sox had a pretty good last month of the year. Because other bad teams are likely playing younger guys to see what they have and better teams might be resting stars to prepare for playoffs September can be a month to make up some ground. The White Sox went 10-15 in Sept last year, a .400 wpct. The '03 Tigers went 9-18 in September, a .333 wpct. But even a September boost seems unlikely to keep the Rockies from setting a new record in terms of losses and worst wpct of the modern era. A few last notes: The Pythagorean W-L for the Rockies so far is 12-44. This is still a dismal .244 wpct and projects to only 35 wins and 127 losses. The Rockies have already had three 8-game losing streaks. This seems bad but it's actually a bit better than the Tigers did in '03. That year we had two 8-game, two 9-game, a 10-game, and an 11-game losing streaks. The Tigers clumped their wins more than the Rockies have so far. Four times we won back to the back games and we had three 3-game and one 4-game winning streaks. The Rockies have only had back-to-back wins once so far. About two weeks ago the Rockies fired their manager Bud Black, who was 7-33 (.175) on the season. Since then interim manager Warren Schaeffer has gone 2-14 (.125).

This Operation Paperclip special immigrant says hi, JD.

Toledo W 7-4 Workman 2/4 RBI HR K Lee 1/4 2B Jung 0/3 BB K Gipson-Long 5.1IP H ER 5K Manning .2IP 2H ER K Owens 1IP H K Erie GM1 W 7-2 Cruz 2/4 2RBI HR Anderson 0/3 BB K Campos 0/4 2K Montalvo 5IP 5H 2ER BB 5K Erie GM2 W 5-4 Cruz 0/3 Anderson 4/4 2B Campos 2/2 3RBI 2B Melton 6IP 6H ER BB 5K WM W 14-1 Clark 1/6 RBI 2K Briceno 4/4 5RBI 3HR 2B SB Pacheco 2/4 BB K Lakeland GM 1 L 2-0 Rainer 1/3 K Franyerber 0/3 K Strong 0/3 2K Lakeland GM 2 W 3-1 Rainer 0/2 BB Franyerber 1/2 BB SB Strong 0/2 K Sloan 1.1IP BB K FCL W 3-0 Warwick 0/3 K Dickson 0/0 BB Osorio 1/2 BB K 2B Diaz 5IP 2H BB 3K

And just had a double of the top of the wall in right center

Briceno with two homers tonight.

I guess this is the best we could help for.

It’s supposed to be 77° and sunny for this game tonight. That should be nice.

From what I remember, Ryan didn't throw a slider either - at least not early (the AL part) in his career. He started out as mostly fastball/curve, and when he couldn't control the curve (which was most of the time), he walked a lot of guys (career OBP against >300). When he could land the curve, it was a no-hitter waiting to happen. Ryan was 33 and back to the NL before the first time he had a walk rate less than 4/9IP.

I am hoping this is something he could’ve potentially just skipped one start or worked thru. But since we will need to limit his innings anyway and he is so young let’s just set him down for little while and work on some things away from the spotlight.

Just an absolutely piece of **** of a human. Shame on so many “Christians” that idolize this dickwad.

That’s on it true if you think the team that wins the World Series automatically can be called the best team rather than a team that won a 4 week tournament. the national media can say whatever they want but they don’t set the rules. Their opinions are just as valid as anybody here. I grant them no authority.

We will just jettison more and more of the fringe guys if it comes to that.

I love this thread ❤️

I will walk up to the nearest bar and buy a round of drinks the day this despicable POS is finally gone.

Explore path #3.

I copied this from an AI Generator May 30 1922, a 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln, (President Lincoln’s only surviving son) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Robert Todd Lincoln did not deliver remarks but listened with great interest as other speakers paid tribute to his father. Robert took great interest in the memorial as it emerged within Potomac Park and frequently requested that his driver pass the site so that he could observe the progress; he even secured permission once to visit the site in the midst of ongoing construction. Born in Springfield, Illinois in 1843, Robert was the eldest of the four Lincoln sons. He was graduated from Harvard College, and then served briefly with Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, being present at General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House. Robert went on to have a successful career as a lawyer and businessman, and served as Secretary of War under Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur. During Benjamin Harrison’s administration, Robert served as Minister to Great Britain. He died at his home in Vermont in 1926 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery within sight of his father’s memorial.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta laugh, if only to keep from screaming profanities and finding yourself unable to stop.

That's fine because the Federalists needs Trump more than Trump needs them. So bye bye, Leo.

I read about that in Halberstam's book The Fifties. I'll say it again, if you haven't read that, please do. It's a top 5 book for me. I learned so much about so many things.

what a punchline Joni sending seniors in her district out to die sooner or late.

I'm seeing other bsky posts that say he included the Germans who came over. Possibly implying that they were good immigrants because they were fair skinned List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia There is a great story about the scientists in their first forray into a US department store shopping for undergarments for their wives. The US sizes were different from the European sizes they knew so they were conspicuous in their use of their slide rules to do the conversions and the US handlers were flabbergasted at them breaking cover so obviously.

If I had a nickel for every time that DeBoer threw a beloved goalie under the bus I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice!

Congrats, Tommy

Yup, that’s me! We weren’t ready yet!

Lemonade out of lemons: we'll have dual champions.

I question how much Musk is stepping back, but to the extent that he's being forced out and that he's being pushed in front of the bus in the press, nobody should forget who brought him on to the do the damage that he did. I'm going to go ahead and quote Harry Truman's desk: "The buck stops here!" Which means the ultimate responsibility for allowing an unelected mentally deranged drug addict to run roughshod over government lies with Donald Trump. Musk deserves rage, of course, but let's not lose sight of this fact either.

He also stole home.

He is on fire! Lol

Back in 2017, around 112,000 people were reported to law enforcement regarding the 4473 they filed while attempting to purchase a firearm. Of those, only 12 were prosecuted. The only reason Hunter was even prosecuted for the gun was because of his last name so lets stop acting like it was the crime of the century.

Wow!!! Another BOMB... Deep right center...3rd HR

No.

I never like Springsteen when I was younger, outside of the Atlantic City album. As I've gotten older a lot of his songs really resonate with me now. I've been listening to a lot of his music lately.

If Harris had won do we think Biden would have pardoned Hunter? Hard to say. I am open to the idea that he pardoned him because he feared a Trump Justice department would not play fair. I’m also open to the idea that he was an old man who lost a son and had the power to keep his other son around a big longer for the short amount of time he had left. Not justifying it but understanding it and I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same if I had the power. It’s his son. Not some campaign donor.

I think it's fair to say that on an individual basis the Yankees have the better players so in turn are the better team. With that said IDK maybe I just have recency bias and am jaded cause it goes against everything I've believed in for the better part of 20 years but having Hinch and our coaching on our side even things up for us against teams that look superior on paper. I just believe he knows how to maximize his players strengths and in turn get every last run he could squeeze out of them and the team. Where as other teams that have superior players don't always seem to do that in my eyes.

I'm not suggesting all pardons are created equal but the issue is essy and face it... when you pardon someone who was convicted of a crime, then it's going to look bad, unless its part of a mass pardon for something that since diminished as a crime, like pot use and draft dodging. The differences are often of degree, not principal. I just don't think crying about them is going to amount to much in terms of public opinion. How can anything Trump does at this point amount to much? It will make us feel better doing it but we're left in the same place.

The defense was one of the top units in the NFL when it was healthy.

Remember the last time the Tigers and Lions were good at the same time? Yep, the Great Depression. Uh oh.

We can keep this non political. This guy was the subject of great trivia.